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[IdolEyes787]

I searched for it and the only hit was this thread. I wondered what kind of obscure deep-net literature it was that you were reading nowadays.
Anyway I persevered for the couple of seconds it took for Google to re-jig his surname to Scalzi and, to my surprise and delight, it's sci-fi.

Noice

If you are after specific results, google is not always the best search engine I have found, sadly in the middle of all the 'paid for' results researching literature in particular or obscure media, be it music or movies, the results are often obscured or buried several pages back. For these searches amongst others I use another engine with the truly outlandish name of Duck Duck Go. Since this engine doesn't accept advertising from companies on it's website, it at the moment isn't a corporate mouthpiece. I've always been a fan of the little guy that gives the giant conglomerates the finger and says 'no' I can actually offer the same service at a fraction of the price without all the addon shit that you have piled into the deal: with no advertising, no scanning of your mail, no directed marketing, just the results you were after fast and efficiently without any padding to the results from paid for advertising.

It's communists like you that ruin things for the rest of us.

If people do not support giant corporations then how is money expected to tickle down from the super rich enough so that I can afford to eat?

[clocker]

Quit being such a ninny and stop that eating business forthwith.

[Busyman]

Hey now, every clique deserves an icon.

Until this clip overpowered me with dumbness the last time I found Cruise believable in a fight or even vaguely threatening was in Taps.

Which is going to be a problem because in the books- yes, I've read all of them- about 90% of the time, Reacher just flat out bare knuckle whomps on his adversaries.
Mostly while absurdly outnumbered.
Basically, Reacher doesn't think even knives are personal enough, if he isn't groping your speen, he's phoning it in.
Also, he has no car and hitchhikes everywhere...doesn't even carry clothes, preferring to shop as necessary in hardware and farm supply stores.

Reacher is possessed of the ability to instantly analyze entire communities, identify the bad guys and eliminate them without qualm or backup.
Essentially he is deus ex machina personified in nondescript clothing.

It'd be easy to think of say, Timothy Olyphant in this role.
He has the projected confidence and intelligence to make the character believable but lacks the physical stature as described in the books.
Also, it would be absolutely unbelievable that every female character didn't jump his bones and that never happens in the books.
Reacher is too Zen and driven (although driven by what is always conveniently left unexplained) to attach to any of them girl-things, he has highways to hike and evil to face.
You know, man stuffs.

If Olyphant is out- and I've automatically disenfranchised anyone connected to professional wrestling- I'm not sure who works.
The Statham might except he's also pretty short and doesn't exactly sound like America personified (although I can't think of anything more intrinsically American than the willingness to attach electrodes to your nipples).

Erm, maybe Tom Cruise?

*crickets*

See, this is what's wrong when stars pick projects instead of the other way around.
Tom may drift off at night thinking he's Jack Reacher and wake up with sticky Underoos but not a single other person anywhere shares his vision.
I'll grant his action star credits, he's just not this action star, it's not personal.

It will be interesting to see what this ends up being.

I never read the books so I wouldn't care about any of that while watching the film. I'm probably not going to the movies to see it so it'll probably be a good romp to watch on the PS3.

Plus, there's always the movie hop after I've finished a movie I paid to see.

The last movie hop film for me was.....Battleship. It was worth the money I didn't pay for it.

[clocker]

I never read the books so I wouldn't care about any of that while watching the film.

I understand, you're signing up for generic Tom Cruise action film #7, the source material is irrelevant.
That's fair I suppose but forces the question as to why the producers wanted to tap a franchise yet ignore great heaping chunks of the canon (as it were).

Like casting Peter Dinklage as a rebooted Superman.

[Busyman]

I never read the books so I wouldn't care about any of that while watching the film.

I understand, you're signing up for generic Tom Cruise action film #7, the source material is irrelevant.
That's fair I suppose but forces the question as to why the producers wanted to tap a franchise yet ignore great heaping chunks of the canon (as it were).

Like casting Peter Dinklage as a rebooted Superman.

Hell it's generic action film #7. Tom Cruise is just there for some sort of draw.

The source material is far more interesting. You think the dopes would've kept to that to garner more fanfare.

[clocker]

I never read the books so I wouldn't care about any of that while watching the film.

The source material is far more interesting. You think the dopes would've kept to that to garner more fanfare.

Perhaps you can see why I might be confused....have you read any of these or not?
I'm not judging at all, being illiterate is nothing to be ashamed of.
Why, I once visited Georgia and couldn't read for weeks afterwards.
Had to eat exclusively at Waffle House because they have pictures on the menu so it's basically point and poop.

Life was much simpler then.

[mjmacky]

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
It's like casting Rick Moranis as Darth Vader, so clearly this is supposed to be a spoof film about The Punisher. All commentary preceding this has been invalidated. I don't care for Tom Cruise in any kind of movie, so I'm disappointingly out of watching this spoof.

[Busyman]

The source material is far more interesting. You think the dopes would've kept to that to garner more fanfare.

Perhaps you can see why I might be confused....have you read any of these or not?
I'm not judging at all, being illiterate is nothing to be ashamed of.
Why, I once visited Georgia and couldn't read for weeks afterwards.
Had to eat exclusively at Waffle House because they have pictures on the menu so it's basically point and poop.

Life was much simpler then.

Egad, you've been on this forum a long time.

I'm not judging at all? Being illiterate is nothing to be ashamed of? Got mighty twunty 'round deese parts... I read your post and smacked a bre-ish accent on it.

Anyway, maybe the inclusion of sounds and the exclusion of is would have not scrambled your brain. I mean, you did describe the the books ffs, plus, I clearly said, I have never read the books. Neva hoid uv em, actually, until someone describe them to me at work fairly recently.

To sum it up, the movie looks decent enough for home movie watching and it's not beholden to any expectations of the source material for me since I never read the source material. The source material sounds (dingdingding) great from what you described.

[manker]

I'm not judging at all? Being illiterate is nothing to be ashamed of? Got mighty twunty 'round deese parts... I read your post and smacked a bre-ish accent on it.

Hoi. Being British doesn't mean that a person is completely intolerant of semi-illiterate fuckspastics who write a rather different thing from what they actually intended to convey.
It just means that should such intolerance manifest itself, we're rather better at expressing it.

[Busyman]

I'm not judging at all? Being illiterate is nothing to be ashamed of? Got mighty twunty 'round deese parts... I read your post and smacked a bre-ish accent on it.

Hoi. Being British doesn't mean that a person is completely intolerant of semi-illiterate fuckspastics who write a rather different thing from what they actually intended to convey.
It just means that should such intolerance manifest itself, we're rather better at expressing it.

Agreed....or just comically twunty about it.

Frankly, I'm sure in most instances, one knows what is meant but an opening is seized to be comical. I mean one would have to be an idiot to really be confused.