Posted on 05/24/2021 9:21:58 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
I never read a Tom Clancy novel from beginning to end...I read some pages...
“one last mission” is how they are going to start a franchise?
okaaaaay
A negro John Clark is a non-starter.
Other than for the millennial “woke” mob, at least.
After watching the movie, she said the only thing similar to the book was the title.
I still have a Naval Academy Press edition of The Hunt for Red October. Was written like a screen play, but one of the most riveting books I ever read.
A fairly dark story. Dude messes up one of the bad guys by rapid air release from a decompression chamber. Sort of a middle class Rambo frenzy.
Race doesn't bother me. What did bother me was the old "the evil defense corporations conspire with the SecDef to restart the Cold War" cliched leftism. So I stopped watching it at that point.
I watched it Sunday.
Sucked big time, culminating in the team flying right into a very obvious trap before another very obvious plot conclusion.
Very dumb. Not recommended.
I read the book when it first came out. Liked it.. I’m a big John Clark (and ‘Ding’ Chavez) fan in general. I knew a a few real life near analogues to them ‘back in the day’.
Read all the Clancy novels as soon as they came out, but none since his death; I never liked the authors riding on the corpses of great writers (Although Brandon Sanderson taking over for ‘Robert Jordan’ to finish the “Wheel of Time” series did OK).
I can’t imagine that a movie made today about John Clark, especially by leftist Amazon would be worth its weight in popped corn.
That was true in one James Bond film...THE SPY WHO LOVED ME...
In the novel, Bond deals with a bunch of gangsters in upstate New York...The movie is totally different...
Just sick of this pushing the cancel culture down our throats.
A matter of time until Ryan comes out as a faggot.
What was unrealistic for you? As a USMC officer in the 1970's I studied the stopping of massive Soviet tank forces coming through the Fulda Gap, and other scenarios portrayed in the book. I found Red Storm Rising VERY realistic. And an enjoyable read.
I did watch the movie...But, I did not read the book...
Sean Connery was in the film...And Alec Baldwin...I thought the movie was fine...
I read a few pages of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER...I gave up...Too many technical details...Too much for me...
Accurate casting is a sore point for books I know well.
Much as I dislike him, I thought Baldwin was a better match for the Ryan book character. Ford was a bit too much a swashbuckler for Clancy's book character.
Sort of like Sean Connery (may he RIP) and the weak follow-on Bonds. Some are just better suited.
I have read that entire series several times over. Without remorse, at least 5 times.. and from what I’ve seen and read about this new movie, it completely destroyed the real Tom Clancy story (from every angle).
I think James Earl Jones did the best job of playing James Greer.
(When did Samuel ‘racist’ Jackson play?)
Patriot Games, Ryan’s buddy Robbie.
Without Remorse was boring and the acting was disengaging.
Of all the Clancy novels ‘Red Storm Rising’ was the most realistic.
That book stands out. When I read it (it was new) I was stunned to see mention of so many sites where I myself had actually been to. It literally was about the EUSAREUR strategy for containing the USSR if they were to invade into our western Allies lands.
No other Clancy book was quite like it.
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