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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1751969320828104723?s=20 Here we go.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:23
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, and Ramius says his books are terrible, saying his conclusions are all wrong. Baldwin wasn't bad, that's true. Matt Damon and the doofus from the office are just so bad, though.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:33
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Is anyone else watching Expats? Lulu Wang is directing the absolute living poo poo out of her script. It's not just that it looks gorgeous (it does look pretty good) but also the construction of scenes feels a step above a lot of other television. I've only seen the first episode but I'm a fan.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:39
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IRQ posted:Baldwin wasn't bad, that's true. lol I think you mean Ben Affleck?
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Jan 29, 2024 15:40
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I could go for a H. Jon Benjamin Jack Ryan. One episode/film he plays it as Archer Jack Ryan. The next he does Bob from Bob's Burgers Jack Ryan. And finally he does something new entirely that's nothing like the books or previous movies but is actually more toned down and serious. Speaking of silly things, when I want to start a new show I sometimes watch the opening to SE03 EP01 of Weeds. It gets me pumped up and also gives me a standard I should measure against.
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Jan 29, 2024 15:57
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EricBauman posted:lol I think you mean Ben Affleck? Lol I can't tell them apart apparently, I know they don't even look the same. One of them was Batman too, and I genuinely couldn't tell you which.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:14
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Confusedslight posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1751969320828104723?s=20 Every time someone posts in the Severance thread I expect it will be a notice that she second season has been cancelled, so this is good to see.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:21
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Oasx posted:Every time someone posts in the Severance thread I expect it will be a notice that she second season has been cancelled, so this is good to see. Still plenty of time between the moment the show finishes post-production and the moment it’s supposed to air.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:23
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thrawn527 posted:Yeah, and Ramius says his books are terrible, saying his conclusions are all wrong. Somethings don't react well to bullet. Yah, stunt performers.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:25
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Bright Bart posted:I listen to more touching stories every week irl That must be exhausting
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Jan 29, 2024 16:30
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IRQ posted:Lol I can't tell them apart apparently, I know they don't even look the same. One of them was Batman too, and I genuinely couldn't tell you which. Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo. Matt Damon was the one who played Jason Bourne, famous for using the music from The Genius tv series.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:41
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Of the Jacks I think Skellington is still the most powerful.
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Jan 29, 2024 16:42
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bagrada posted:Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo. Matt Damon was the one who played Jason Bourne, famous for using the music from The Genius tv series. 
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Jan 29, 2024 16:58
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Khanstant posted:Of the Jacks I think Skellington is still the most powerful. Its clearly Donaghy. Are we doing this? Are we having a good old fashioned Jack Off right now?
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Jan 29, 2024 16:59
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Did no one watch the Chris Pine Jack Ryan movie or have we all collectively agreed to pretend it didn't exist since it's so incredibly dire?
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Jan 29, 2024 17:42
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I promise you I don't actually remember any Jack Ryans and would never watch them. I've done my part.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:54
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Khanstant posted:I promise you I don't actually remember any Jack Ryans and would never watch them. I've done my part.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:55
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Don't trust anyone with two first names.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:56
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I watched the first two episodes of In the Know, the new partly stop-motion, partly live-action NPR talk show parody on Peacock, and thought it was pretty good so far. Zach Woods is great in the segments where he interviews real-life people as his NPR persona. For context, I did have a mother who would play NPR constantly and as an eight year old I got super excited to listen to Prairie Home Companion during car rides, so that maybe makes me a bit predisposed to be its target audience, but I think even if you've never heard a single episode of Car Talk or Wait Wait, you would still find it funny. Sirotan posted:Did no one watch the Chris Pine Jack Ryan movie or have we all collectively agreed to pretend it didn't exist since it's so incredibly dire? It is kind of funny that Kenneth Branagh clearly just recycled his Russian villain character from that movie for Tenet. On a Branagh tangent, my wife was watching the Harry Potter movie he did in the background, and I honestly think Gilderoy Lockhart is Branagh's best role.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:57
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GreenNight posted:Don't trust anyone with two first names. drat straight, they’re often Facebook scammers.
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Jan 29, 2024 18:20
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EricBauman posted:Jack Ryan is also a history professor, but only the Harrison Ford version, not the four others The Jack Ryan franchise is really weird. It feel like a bootleg of the James Bond franchise.
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Jan 29, 2024 18:28
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Bright Bart posted:That scene that everyone says makes the show a masterpiece from that point onwards? Where he breaks down and finally talks about his brother? How he loved and hated him? Is glad to be rid of the mess he makes in everybody's life but would give anything to have him back? Please tell everyone here your favorite show so we can watch it in the dumbest way possible
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Jan 29, 2024 18:30
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Chairman Capone posted:I honestly think Gilderoy Lockhart is Branagh's best role. 
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Jan 29, 2024 18:35
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Sirotan posted:Did no one watch the Chris Pine Jack Ryan movie or have we all collectively agreed to pretend it didn't exist since it's so incredibly dire? Holy poo poo, I completely forgot that movie existed. And no, I never saw it. From the trailers, it just looked like a generic action movie, not a Jack Ryan movie at all, and from what I understand, wasn't based on any book. I also haven't bothered with the Amazon show, because it also looks boring as hell.
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Jan 29, 2024 18:42
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Tia Carrere
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Jan 29, 2024 18:49
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Tia & Tamera, when the walls fell
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Jan 29, 2024 18:54
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thrawn527 posted:From the trailers, it just looked like a generic action movie Is that not what the books are? I've always assumed they're the epitome of bland airport fiction
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Jan 29, 2024 19:03
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Chairman Capone posted:I watched the first two episodes of In the Know, the new partly stop-motion, partly live-action NPR talk show parody on Peacock, and thought it was pretty good so far. Zach Woods is great in the segments where he interviews real-life people as his NPR persona. For context, I did have a mother who would play NPR constantly and as an eight year old I got super excited to listen to Prairie Home Companion during car rides, so that maybe makes me a bit predisposed to be its target audience, but I think even if you've never heard a single episode of Car Talk or Wait Wait, you would still find it funny. Thanks for this rec, checking it out. Garbage rear end peacock site doesn't feature it at all, had to go type it in to find it.
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Jan 29, 2024 19:05
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feedmyleg posted:Is that not what the books are? I've always assumed they're the epitome of bland airport fiction They're mostly espionage and very low on action. In the early ones (except Patriot Games), Jack Ryan isn't even really THE main character, just a connective tissue. They're quite slow, and not in a bad way (again, the early ones, the later books are terrible). I think Clear and Present Danger comes the closest to nailing the tone of the books, though it is definitely more actiony and about Jack Ryan than most books. But even there, one of the most tense scenes is Jack Ryan trying to print a file before someone else can delete it. In the early books most of the movies are based on, he really is an analyst doing an analyst job, and other people do the hard work, until he has to. (I mean, he eventually becomes President after someone flies a plane into the Capitol Building and he's the designated survivor. And this book came out before 9/11, so way to go, Tom Clancy. That book series got wild after a while.) Rainbow Six is the dumb action book. And Jack Ryan isn't in that one, just a couple characters from Clear and Present Danger. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 19:12
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Chairman Capone posted:
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Jan 29, 2024 19:24
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thrawn527 posted:They're mostly espionage and very low on action. In the early ones (except Patriot Games), Jack Ryan isn't even really THE main character, just a connective tissue. They're quite slow, and not in a bad way (again, the early ones, the later books are terrible). I think Clear and Present Danger comes the closest to nailing the tone of the books, though it is definitely more actiony and about Jack Ryan than most books. But even there, one of the most tense scenes is Jack Ryan trying to print a file before someone else can delete it. It's been forever since I've seen the film, but thinking about it, Sum of All Fears actually was a pretty good adaptation of the spirit of the book, despite changing just about everything about the plot.
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Jan 29, 2024 19:31
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Harrison should come back for old man Jack Ryan.
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Jan 29, 2024 19:34
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howe_sam posted:It's been forever since I've seen the film, but thinking about it, Sum of All Fears actually was a pretty good adaptation of the spirit of the book, despite changing just about everything about the plot. Yeah, the book was about terrorists and not Nazis, if I remember correctly, and had a huge subplot about Jack Ryan and his wife having a hard time conceiving which they thankfully cut out by making it be about a young Jack who was still dating, but was mostly in line. And the ending is resolved with a conversation, and not a huge action set piece, I think (I haven't seen it in forever).
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Jan 29, 2024 19:37
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I liked Sum of All Fears. Affleck's Ryan isn't really an action dude at all. Releasing it after 9/11 was wild.
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Jan 29, 2024 20:54
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:I liked Sum of All Fears. Affleck's Ryan isn't really an action dude at all. Releasing it after 9/11 was wild. That's why they changed the villains from Middle Eastern terrorists (I forget which country, but I think they were Palestinian?) to Nazis. They figured making them Nazis would be way less topical. Give it a few years, I guess. But I remember liking the movie, too. The nuclear explosion scene was especially impactful. Movies usually defuse the bomb, but nope, they straight up nuked Baltimore. The movie was also where I went on my first date with who eventually became my wife. Thankfully she gave me a mulligan on date location choices. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 21:02
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thrawn527 posted:That's why they changed the villains from Middle Eastern terrorists (I forget which country, but I think they were Palestinian?) to Nazis. They figured making them Nazis would be way less topical. The bomb makers were Palestinians annoyed that Jack Ryan solved the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and bankrolled by Iran. I want to say there were other terrorists from like the Red Army Faction involved who were similarly mad that the West won the Cold War. The book is loving wild.
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Jan 29, 2024 21:37
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Tom Clancy novels got progressively more insane as they went on. Eventually, Jack Ryan just gets to be president because Japan 9/11s the capitol building.
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Jan 29, 2024 21:56
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IRQ posted:Tom Clancy novels got progressively more insane as they went on. Eventually, Jack Ryan just gets to be president because Japan 9/11s the capitol building. Yeah, and as I mentioned earlier, that book came out before 9/11. In 1994. Though I think it was one pilot for a Japanese airline acting alone, and not an official act by the country of Japan? thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Jan 29, 2024 22:02
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Japan is like full on attacking the US because their economy imploded, and got nukes. I forget how all that was the US's fault. That book was bananas. Actually that all got resolved before the 9/11ing at the end of the book, so maybe you're right.
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Jan 29, 2024 22:20
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IRQ posted:Japan is like full on attacking the US because their economy imploded, and got nukes. For a moment I thought this was the USPOL thread and was super confused and slightly worried.
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