Posted on 05/24/2021 9:21:58 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
Clancy's name is the lead title for some of the greatest video games ever made. Games still hugely popular today. Rainbow Six is the supposed movie sequel to Without Remorse and their still releasing games about it.
Amazon. Without Remorse.
They butchered a great book and turned it into a predictable and boring run of the mill, woke TV show.
They did this without remorse.
This movie is utter garbage.
Without Remorse is my favorite Clancy book and probably on my top ten books of all time. The books I would want to be stuck on an island with.
The character of John Clark is exactly like some of the Vietnam Vets I knew (at least their image of themselves), and his actions toward the drug dealers was the dream of quite a few military men who saw their neighborhoods turn into trash over the years.
Yes. I loved it at the time I read it ('94 or '95).
Tom Clancy was a fan of "Magnum PI" and in the early '90s, he and Tom Selleck were working together to make a series of Magnum feature films. Apparently the two Toms put a lot of work into this, but the studio(s) dragged their feet and the small window of opportunity closed.
I'm guessing Clancy reworked the Magnum screenplays into "Without Remorse".
It was a good fit. John Kelly/Clark is essentially Magnum, a combat veteran who can drift between the civilian world and the military world. And Clark was already an established character in Clancy's novels.
The plot borrows heavily from several Magnum episodes--one in particular called "Distant Relative" seems to be the blueprint Clancy used for the vigilante side of John's story.
Race bothers me now, as I have Negro fatigue...
Ok, I do vaguely remember that one. (Book, for sure, but movie, not so much). Its been awhile :D
I have two Naval Academy Press copies of The Hunt for Red October.
And they just completely destroyed the John Clark character in Without Remorse (movie)
I especially liked the female SEAL team commander who was introduced in the first five minutes.
I agree with you that pushing the race/gender stuff can quickly become distracting, and that I’m now sensitive to it being pushed down my throat. But it’s the “distracting” wokescold part, and not the race/gender that gets me, and in this case, it was the hoary ‘evil defense corporation US government conspiracy’ that triggered the gag reflex.
I’m waiting for Jack Carr’s ‘Terminal List’ to comes out on Amazon. I hope they stick to the book and dont screw it up.
“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 agree. I was an armor officer in the Fulda Gap area in the late ‘70s and a small unit tactical training consultant in the ‘80s.
Loved RED STORM RISING as well as both THE THIRD WORLD WAR books. Also an avid wargamer and reader. We fought NATO paper battles and digital battles many times, ground and naval.
That was the Larry Bond contribution.
I have read it and this movie is only 2% similar. Name and lost loved one.
Written in 1998, Tom Clancy was later died of a heart attack, as was the doctor who performed his autopsy days afterwards.
As most Tom Clancy fans know, the CIA can heart attack those they want out of the way.
Great fiction.
Also, they could never make Without Remorse today because Clark kills drug dealers. Hollywood would make the criminals the heroes.
Not to mention that the Ebola virus was engineered in a lab.
One of the best endings I have ever read.
Thanks for the confirmation!
I was an 81 mortars RO/FO in Vietnam and actually rode an M-48, about 5 clicks from My Lai, though no one had heard of Lt Calley at the time.
Yep, rode that tank right into the center of a minefield. Fun, fun fun!
Later, I got a commission and learned how to “beat the air into submission” with a Sikorsky CH-53D. Never served in Europe, but did war games in Korea, mostly as an Air Liaison Officer with an Arty Battalion.
I really liked Clancy’s books. Too bad Hollywood has to mess up anything they touch.
The book was excellent. This recent film abomination was a pathetic excuse for entertainment. I was very painful to watch.
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