thread for the movie JACK REACHER (cruise, pike, herzog, duvall, dir. christopher mcquarrie)

its fucken badass, peace

remnants of these books will be all that remain when the ashes of america are combed over by the cockroach-lizards, and it will be enough, quite enough

Child also said, "Reacher's size in the books is a metaphor for an unstoppable force, which Cruise portrays in his own way."[5] Of Cruise's relatively small stature, Child said, "With another actor you might get 100% of the height but only 90% of Reacher. With Tom, you'll get 100% of Reacher with 90% of the height."[6]

hell yeah. 100% reacher baby.

Reacher is 6' 5" tall (1.96m) with a 50-inch chest, and weighing between 210 and 250 pounds (100–115 kg). He has ice-blue eyes and dirty blond hair. He has very little body fat, and his muscular physique is completely natural (he reveals in Persuader, he has never been an exercise enthusiast).

stoked 2 c

reviews are shitty, H4A likes it, done

i have free tix for this, will take mother in law (she loves the books)

i like cruise in action movies, have a feeling this will be good

i hear that a lot of Reacher die-hards are pissed that cruise is in this, but they should get over it because he rules in it!

for anyone who's interested in this kind of thing, this is a really awesome man movie/procedural with some of the best action scenes ive seen in years (in particular, the best shootout I've seen probably since No Country For Old Men). the reacher character is totally ridiculous, but the movie knows it and has fun with it. if i have any gripes, it's that it's not rated R and that werner herzog could've used another monologue or two.

reviews are shitty, H4A likes it, will probably see it

http://i.imgur.com/LmdJ1.jpg

h4a seal of approval

interest in this declined a bit when it got a 12A certificate otherwise i'd've been up for it cos i don't give a fuck about the books

My first thought when I saw the trailer was "if this was rated R and starred Jason Statham, I'd be totally on board." Even with Cruise, if it was rated R, I'd still be in. I've read a few of the Reacher books and they're goofy as hell - one step above Mack Bolan novels. But the utterly cold-eyed brutality of the Reacher character is somewhat interesting, so I could see it working. I'll probably catch up to this when it hits Amazon Video.

i'll be seeing this, no prob with cruise as lil reacher

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59895

This is the dumbest and most poorly written review I've ever read, so I at least can thank Jack Reacher for that.

Holy fuck, that was junior-high-school-newspaper level bad writing. The first paragraph almost made my eyes bleed.

i love the books! who knew? i never ever read anything like the lee child books. but they are totally addictive. lil' man is the dumbest thing ever. but even though i hate the cruise i would watch on netflix. i think the books are actually really well-written for the genre. he does minimal so well. they are like 3 steps above mack bolan stuff.

statham would have been an improvement. my dad and i thought someone like liam neeson would have been perfect but he's too old. and after watching the walking dead this year i thought this guy would have been perfect:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/David-Morrissey-The-Governor-The-Walking-Dead-AMC.jpg

i got given a copy of the reacher book the movie is based on. looking forward to reading it - wasnt child involved with the prime suspect tv series at some point iirc?

i know he worked in t.v. but i don't know what he did. makes sense though.

i liked his new york times thing a few weeks back.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/a-simple-way-to-create-suspense/

Grant joined Granada Television, part of the UK's ITV Network, in Manchester as a presentation director. There he was involved with shows including Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. Grant was involved in the transmission of more than 40,000 hours of programming for Granada, writing thousands of commercials, news stories, and trailers.[9] He stayed with Granada 1977-1995[4] and ended his career there with two years as a trade union shop steward.[10]

After being let go from his job because of corporate restructuring, he decided he wanted to start writing novels, stating they are "the purest form of entertainment."[11] In 1997, his first novel, Killing Floor, was published and he moved to the United States in the summer of 1998.[7]

Cruise is really f'n funny when he does the Sherlock Holmes routine. The rest of the movie is nothing that wasn't done better in the NRA "press conference" last week.

reacher books are waaaaaaaaaay into guns. fetishistically. makes and models and everything about them. reacher is an expert. so your mileage may vary as the kids like to say. doesn't bother me. i'm a fiction fan, not a gun fan. i like horror movies too.

you know he doesn't make a big deal about it or anything but reacher WAS the only non-marine to ever win the elite marine sniper competition in the history of the competition. hahaha! i love those books....

killing floor would make a brilliant movie

i think christopher ecclestone in '28 days later' mode woulda made a good reacher

mmm ecclestone

H4A OTM.

This was pretty entertaining, believe it or not.

it's sorta like 'a few good men' with way more assbeatings and car chases

my spidey sense told me it would own because of mcquarrie. way of the gun wasn't a great movie, but the filmmaking approach pushed all my buttons - patient and methodical with a wry, nasty sense of humor and some great visual storytelling moments. that sensibility mostly survives his mainstream debut intact, though obviously JR isn't as bloody or profane as WOTG.

statham would have been an improvement. my dad and i thought someone like liam neeson would have been perfect but he's too old. and after watching the walking dead this year i thought this guy would have been perfect:

noooo, no britishes playing this american he-man. it'd be like burt reynolds as james bond

'way of the gun' was a pretty tight flick, definitely imo better than 'the usual suspects'. super-controlled and methodical, otm, reminded me of johnnie to's 'the mission' a bit.

mcquarrie has his flaws but he's one of those guys who really seems to "get it" and operates within a particular method so well. his own directorial work (based on the single film i've seen, tbqh) is better than his writing for other folks.

reacher is german iirc? or quite a bit german

i tried watching WotG once but the opening 20 mins felt so deliberately pretentious I couldn't stand it

maybe I will give it another try

super-controlled and methodical, otm, reminded me of johnnie to's 'the mission' a bit.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, December 23, 2012 5:38 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sold

"noooo, no britishes playing this american he-man. it'd be like burt reynolds as james bond"

britishers play americans better than americans.

"reacher is german iirc? or quite a bit german"

his mom was french. but the whole nomad thing comes about sfter he leaves the army cuz he wants to see america after living overseas his whole life. (his dad was a career soldier overseas and then he spent 20 years in the army overseas)

ya he was in germany as a kid, is what i'm sayin tho

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/282331192118886400

reviews are shitty, it consumed Newt Gingrich's full attention at the cinema, done

i borrowed this richard brautigan anthology once & on the back there was this quote from a guy from the nyt book review saying "these books are fun to read" & it just seemed like such an impossibly childlike & pure appreciation for a cultural text, one so slight it was hard to imagine someone who reviews books using it to proffer an endorsement, & i didn't think it could be topped until i imagined newt in a suit & tie with a bag of popcorn on his lap, smiling glassily with his head almost uncomfortably raised, like a ventriloquist's dummy, the reflected light of the screen casting dancing shadows on the soft curves of his face, never thinking about anything other than jack reacher for a whole movie

yeah im with you omar. i dont much like Usual Suspects either, but i think of it as a "cold shot" for his shit to come (little ref to the motion picture Jack Reacher, based on the book Jack Reacher, for u guys)

VG - it probably does come off as somewhat affected these days. i havent seen it in a long time. i think theres some good stuff in there if you stick with it though

darragh hes half-french, half-american, 100% reacher. iirc.

jack reacher, cosmopolitan

raised a child of the world

half frog, half yank...all man

called frank

lol

he feels like he doesn't know his country very well. so he's gonna kill his way through it and see the sites. it's pretty poetic.

Ugh, this movie. Almost didn't make it through to the end. Not much fun seeing a guy who is always the smartest and strongest in the room. (And I'm a fan of Haywire, Parker novels, etc.)

a reader of the books suggested Alexander Skarsgaard

yeah it’s a great bit (and a cute kitty!)

Reacher getting briefly sidetracked and aghast due to learning about OnlyFans and sock fetishism.

Yeah the pearl clutching was very funny.

the bowling ball!

That was my favorite bit! The way he flung it so easily like it was a baseball was hilar

between that and the boiled hand, that was a low-key great fight

low-key (gen x) not low-key (gen alpha) meaning that i found it a lackadaisical and funny. this show has magnum p.i. dna.

ooh that’s a good call & I am inclined to agree.

it's always good to see Kathleen Robertson show up, she's great at playing these types of thoroughly enigmatic characters who are seemingly holding something back, warily watchful of everything going on around them.

Really liked the new episode - this story feels very Maltese Falcon. love how the stories from the involved parties keep shifting closer to a truth but they are all skirting/protecting something far bigger

Robertson’s character is obviously up to shit. The entire bit where the possible candidate is like “I don’t even knooooow the CIA!” seems honest but it seems like she is running both him and a kill team lol

my wife is running me as an op (sexy edition)

maybe I should revisit Murder in the First which I mostly remember as “that sexy cop show” because the leads were Robertson and Taye Diggs and I imagine everyone on set was just thinking “wow hot cop show”

Robertson’s character is obviously up to shit.

Yeah, it's not like she's super-famous or anything, but she's not the kind of actress you hire for a nothing "candidate's wife" role. I bet she'll wind up at least a second-tier villain, if not the Big Bad, before the season's over.

that was the second half of that post I made, yes

possibly more likely she jumps in as a last minute ally where she is implicated in the kill team and figures out she’s being set up and spills the beans

Yeah I agree she’s definitely got a whole hand to play, you don’t cast her for no reason

Miles better than S3. Main gripe is the guy playing the small town cop is super annoying. And I wanted to see the knife fight between the 2 Indonesian women and the 4 baddies.

Yeah the sadsack cop is a bit one-note, but I don’t mind him

Good thing trained killers with automatic weapons are skilled enough to miss their targets

That move where he pulled the guy’s head thru the bars?

Roseanne tv show fans know that move as the “DJ Connor” lol (he used to get his head stuck between the stair bannisters a lot)

PS This post will amuse only me

That fall through the glass was fucking STRESSFUL AF

Ugh, Nick Searcy, really?

Aw I like him! Art from Justified

He is not good people.

probably more to do with --

Activity on social media
Searcy is an outspoken conservative; his political and interpersonal behavior on social media, such as Twitter, has been highlighted in several news outlets. Searcy has stated, "I know people have feelings. That's why I try to hurt them."[13]

In 2013, Searcy mocked Sean Penn's political views upon the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, for whom Penn had expressed admiration.[13] Later that year, he responded to professional wrestler Kevin Nash's remarks on the Affordable Healthcare Act by calling him an "ass-kissing statist".[14] In 2014, Searcy responded to several individuals in a discussion of same-sex marriage and incest, during which he mocked individuals and journalists on the basis of their weight, after they had called him and other Republicans "racist."[15] Searcy also routinely ridiculed people because of their weight in 2015, again in response to their charges that those who opposed Democratic policies were "racist".[13] Searcy was also noted for his criticism of Donald Trump in 2016, and reported that friends were angry at him for jokes he made about the presidential candidate at the time. Searcy reported, "I have trouble finding this election anything other than ridiculous."[16] In 2017, he expressed uncertainty over whether he has lost work due to his political views.[17] Searcy attended the January 6 United States Capitol attack but was not charged nor arrested. He has attempted to change the media narrative that it was an insurrection.[18]

Welp okay then

I think the only reason I knew this was seeing his name pop up in one or two articles about Hollywood conservatives, which says something about the scope of the Trumpy wing of Hollywood that they have to pull up Nick Searcy as a name.

At this point I just assume everyone is terrible & hope that when they die the stories about them will surprise & delight me

I thought his acting was pretty bad. Not a huge role, so who cares. Wondered why they even cast him in such an inconsequential role. Maybe he'll end up being in on it.

I do sometimes think they maybe don't go hard on rehearsals in Reacherworld. People can be quite bad on this show. Although I'm pleasantly surprised by Marc Blucas. He looks well, he's doing a good job. Would watch him in something else.

Although, fair play, at least a lot of the time when they're supposed to be outside, they look like they're actually outside, which is more than you can say for a lot of shows nowadays. No, I won't ever shut up about this.

It’s more than you can say for last season of Reacher which had cgi cliffs, cgi ocean, cgi HOUSE it was so darkly lit it was like watching a game walkthru of like, Silent Hill or something

Oh god, yes, I forgot about that.

Those two Indonesian baddies really gave our man Jack a run for his money. I appreciated that I kept forgetting about that CIA guy just enough for him to surprise us and pop up briefly and get mutilated a bit more each time.

the final sequence after the main fight was so insanely goofy. hey, we wrapped all this up!

I mean that in a good way, of course. Reacher is nothing if not comically thorough

Yeah the coda was hella corny

But damn those fight scenes were gnarly
And yeah the Indonesian baddies were nuts! Esp wild turn given how sweet she seemed initially

This season is done now? I was going to wait until all the episodes were out before starting it.

Yep finale went up yesterday

it was a fun season, it's just a peak smart-dumb show.

smart-dumb is a good description. i had to lol at the surprises after reacher collapsed in the street.

Agnez Mo and Anggun (playing Lila and Amisha, respectively) are enormous stars in Indonesia and elsewhere, it's probably a bit like getting Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung for an American show in the mid 90s.

I was thinking last night that Reacher is very much like a higher production value Silk Stalkings or Renegade with it’s b-grade plotting & dialogue. it very much scratches my 90’s late night tv action/detective show itch

Not as great or lightly-prestige as Banshee, somewhere below that.

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the NEAGLEY spinoff is fun y’all

I am really enjoying cheering on Keno the street kid through his journey as “the human quarter” lol

Keno is a fun character- props to the writers and the actor. Neagley was much better than recent seasons of Reacher. They were clearly setting up another season, hope they get the green light

I watched the first ep of Neagley & had a good time, looking forward to the rest

Finished up Neagley last night. Gotta say, the show is surprisingly good with a shockingly effective core cast of sad loners who coalesce into a family of sorts, in a way that’s actually kind of moving by the end, and more effective considering where the characters begin. Would have been vv easy to make Neagley’s trio of allies really true stick characters who stick to the type they initially come off as, but for example Keno isn’t a pathetic street snitch and Renee isn’t a bitchy interferer. And the villains are extremely good, Damon Herriman has the market cornered on cult leader roles, and he’s such a piece of shit in this.

Confirmed to be coming back for another season, too.

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