It's one of those films which is so bad you just have to keep watching. It's beyond ridiculous. I know what you mean about the last bit. I've spent the past decade going through all the classics from the 80's and 90's with my kids. What an era of cinema that was.
Odd things. Black Adam.... can anyone explain the plot. Utterly rambling. And Film 4 had rat race on couple days ago. Whoever wrote and whoever directed that were off their face the entire time.
Very Oirish, very miserable, but great acting from the leads as always. 6.5/10. Animal Kingdom is gash. Formula ****. 4/10. They all want destroying
I found the film really funny. Everyone keeps telling me it's miserable. Perhaps a donkey choking on a severed finger isn't funny to everyone? Dunno.
Dwarf donkey, you nasty twat. Grey, rainy and depressing. Full of archetypal paddies and small-mindedness
We sort of figured out He was the champion But then some league of amateurish hero's led by a guy who could see the future but never the right one decided he was a villian But some kid or other's mum found a crown and some other dude unrelated to the hero wanted it and so hilarity ensued. Later black Adam revealed he was actually the champions father and then said ****ed it is off the bed and I gave up.
I thought season 2 better than ending of season 1. I'm liking season 3 but you do have to utterly suspend all thoughts that they should really bloody get the geo political stuff somewhat, even the tiniest bit right. yanks really haven't a ****ing clue.
S2 was much better than S1 for me. Watching S3 now. As someone who read pretty much all the Tom Clancy books, I'm slightly annoyed by the series, as the whole point is that Ryan is an analyst and not an operative who accidentally gets mixed up in things. In this series, its all action.
I get what you are saying. I watched it through and they have made him into james bond in effect in this one. S1, i liked it but it was utterly unrealistic at the end, like the last two were thrown together to end the story after having massive plot twists and great build up. It was utterly unrealistic ending for the bad guy to turn up in usa and be doing whatever. S2: really liked it, enjoyed the story and the action. s3: its cowboy CIA 101 isn't it? Its very good but as you say he's supposed to be harrison ford in patriot games or clear and present danger. we start with action and he continues on doing action like a field agent and it get ever more action orientated (very good though) james greer does more of what jack ryan should be doing if anything.
Currently rewatching all of the Rockford Files. ****ing love the whole thing including the theme music. James Garner truly a great and a top bloke by all accounts. Married to the same woman until he died - in Hollywood
i think that showed up on something last week for me, my mates dodgy box amazon firestick he brought over for the leicester game maybe? anyway I just had to make them listen on the theme tune. it was before my time but i saw reruns and its the best theme tune of the lot. Support your local sheriff. the great escape. classics.
I haven't read the books... But there is only one book that I can think of where the film was better than the book (Forest Gump... Book was awful... Truly awful, can't think who read the book and thought "this would make a good film" but they're visionaries.... It did help they changed 90% of the story).... Every other film from book I've seen the film has been vastly inferior. I guess film makers really wanted to capitalize on success of Jack Ryan books but didn't think an analyst not getting into action sequences would appeal to audiences.
I'm rewatching along came a spider and watch the girls? (think that's it) Alex Cross played by Morgan freeman. not sure but I think they got that pretty right though freeman was a bit old for the role we had prime do jack reacher as well and overall it was good as frankly reacher is ridiculous in some written scenarios and needed taking down a notcglh to make it more realistic on TV. I still think they didn't get the actor right. looks too young and muscle bound Arnie rather than 6 foot 5 rock hard ugly scruff who has lived a bit. it's very hard get the perfect actor for the role that's so established in the descriptions and minds of readers and then it's as hard bring the atmosphere of a book to the screen. film I think is harder and has to be action. streaming series gets what is in effect 10 hours to tell a books story so really ought to hit the spot.
