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Jack Reacher
2012 · Film · 130 min
Part of Jack Reacher Collection
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one written note: 'Get Jack Reacher!'. Reacher, an enigmatic ex-Army investigator, believes the authorities have the right man but agrees to help the sniper's defense attorney. However, the more Reacher delves into the case, the less clear-cut it appears. So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
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While I prefer a Bond movie, after seeing how Amazon handled Jack Reacher, they might be able to do some sort of mini-series.
As long as James Bond is a white, British male. You can't change the character after all this time, just for the sake of changing it. If they want to make someone else "007," fine, since someone will get the license Bond retires or gets killed.
And also in the Jack Reacher movie, where I would say he was the best part
Yes, I just viewed it last week. It did languish a while in development, and Christopher McQuarrie reworked Olson's script. In fact, a sequel was made with Tom Cruise as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_(film)
“He is currently adapting One Shot, one of the best-selling Jack Reacher books for Paramount.”
Did he ever finish this? Never heard of this movie.
Don't know about easy to imitate, but Herzog's voice is quite distinct indeed. A couple years ago I was watching a Tom Cruise movie ("Jack Reacher") on German TV and very surprised to hear Herzog as dubbing voice for a supporting role.
Oh, I don't know. My respect for Cruise has gone up quite a bit. The MI series is formulaic but he does put a lot of effort and soul into his work. Top Gun was a slap in the face to formula films. Some of his smaller projects (like Jack Reacher) were fun to watch too. Collateral is an underrated classic though.
> There is only so many times I can watch a mid-level 80 minute movie script be dragged out across 10 hours
Jack Reacher. 80 minutes would have been just right.
Fiction:
* Jack Reacher: I've read all but the latest one. I would recommend it if you liked the story in both movies.
* Discworld: I'm currently on The Truth. These books have been really entertaining and witty.
Non-Fiction:
* The Doors to Perception by Aldous Huxley: The book covers Aldous' thought about his experience while under the influence of mescaline.
edit: formatting
But a police officer can stop your car _right now_ if your passenger-side taillight is broken and then search your vehicle for a variety of things. So many marijuana related arrests have happened exactly this way. With license plate scanners and chips being embedded into cars, the ability to be pervasively tracked in a car is more apparent than ever. In contrast, walking or biking doesn't require registration or licensing by the government.
(As silly as I thought the movie was, the protagonist of the first Jack Reacher movie took the bus everywhere specifically so the government had no records on him, so the idea certainly isn't lost in popular culture either.)
This was the underlying plot of the movie Jack Reacher; shady construction firm that goes from city to city.
Good point, but the James Bond of nowadays (Jack Reacher, john wick, etc...) are all American movies now.
How many people actually care about Rotten Tomatoes ratings though?
I know of plenty of movies that have terrible ratings from professional critics, but got great box office earnings and all my friends who watched it really enjoyed. There's also plenty of movies with great ratings that I disliked.
Outside of your programmer/hacker/related friends, how many actually look at at the Rotten Tomatoes/Metacritic ratings before deciding to view a movie. I know I don't for theater movies.
Take the new Jack Reacher movie, it has mediocre at best ratings, but I really enjoyed it (I must admit I watched it at the cinema for free, and had nothing better to do).
I think that for the average person, exposure is a very effective method of advertising films.
To top it all off, he played the villain in Jack Reacher, a Tom Cruise movie from 2012.
Author Lee Child has written a series of fictional novels which feature Jack Reacher, a former Major in the United States Army Military Police Corps.
Since leaving the Army, Reacher has been a drifter. He wanders throughout the U.S. because he was accustomed to being told where to go, when to go and what to do for every day of his life from military childhood to military adulthood. He also felt he never got to know his own country, having spent much of his youth living overseas on military bases and at West Point. He usually travels by hitchhiking or bus. As a drifter, the only possessions he carries are money, a foldable toothbrush and, after 9/11, an expired passport and an ATM debit card.
He wears his clothing for 2–3 days before discarding it, usually purchasing new clothing cheaply from chain outlets. He has no steady income and lives on savings in his bank account and part-time jobs. Since he has no fixed address, Reacher often eats in diners and other inexpensive restaurants.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_reacher
One of the novels in the series was recently made into a movie starring Tom Cruise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_(film)
I would highly recommend reading the novels to discover how a man can live lightly and travel across the country on very little.
The last Batman films and the last transformer films. I wouldn't say they were stupid, just so predictable that there was almost no point in watching.
I know that Jack Reacher and the Last Stand were not critical successes and yet I enjoyed them immensely. Which is what makes me think that I was probably suffering some form of depression.
Could you give more examples of films in the past you've seen that you considered "stupid"?
I haven't seen "Jack Reacher" or "The Last Stand", but both garnered pretty lukewarm reviews, and at first glance, seem like the typical uncreative blockbuster fare.
How many independent studio films have you seen? How about foreign films? I've always been a fan of Kurosawa flicks, but a lot of Western movies follow in his thematic footsteps. After watching Park Chan-wook's films ("Oldboy" being the most internationally famous), I started to realize how formulaic Western blockbuster films were and have generally stayed away from them.
That said, blockbuster films can still have a predictable end but still be very entertaining. The first three Indiana Jones movies are the best examples of that -- i.e. you know Indiana Jones is not going to die at the end, and yet each (literal) cliffhanger is shot and structured so well that you suspend disbelief.