Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 (edited) After Tom Cruise soured the role for me by being a wimpy excuse for Reacher my son talked me into checking out the series. Better than Cruise's abomination, but still not worth my time. I was immediately turned off by the music being inappropriate to anything I can imagine and way too loud, and then the story line just plain stinks. Three episodes and I'm done with it. The guy playing Reacher is closer to the books, but he's just plain "wooden" as an actor. Edited December 17, 2024 by Forty Rod SASS 3935 Quote
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 I thought he was just playing a wooden character. 3 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 After hearing about the views of Alan Ritchson in real life I will never watch another episode of Prime’s Reacher. I will just leave it at that. 9 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 1 minute ago, Pat Riot said: After hearing about the views of Alan Ritchson in real life I will never watch another episode of Prime’s Reacher. I will just leave it at that. Right on! I was never crazy about the series anyway so I won't be missing anything! 1 Quote
Dantankerous Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 1 hour ago, Pat Riot said: After hearing about the views of Alan Ritchson in real life I will never watch another episode of Prime’s Reacher. I will just leave it at that. Exactly. Typical hollywood American-hating liberal, who is more than vocal about his disdain for at least half of this country. I will continue to read the book series which are very well done but absolutely no more of the TV crap. 4 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 33 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: The Puller series is better. I am not familiar with that one. Is Puller an actor or a different series all together? Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 1 minute ago, Pat Riot said: I am not familiar with that one. Is Puller an actor or a different series all together? Don't know if there is a film, it is a series of books by David Baldacci. https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/john-puller/ 2 Quote
bgavin Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 (edited) I read that Lee Child was torqued at David Baldacci who plagiarized a bit from the Reacher series. As a consequence, one of the Reacher villains is named "David Baldacci" After Alan Richson spewed his liberal tripe, I also refuse to support the TV shows. The books are great. Edited December 16, 2024 by bgavin 4 Quote
Texas Joker Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 MOST entertainment is provided by people in a certain geographic location with certain political views. You gonna give up on all tv movies magazines newspapers and most written work? Quote
Dantankerous Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 (edited) 7 minutes ago, Texas Joker said: MOST entertainment is provided by people in a certain geographic location with certain political views. You gonna give up on all tv movies magazines newspapers and most written work? We realize most entertainers are liberal. We also realize we don't want to hear their BS and if we do, we don't want to see their faces ever again -especially the ones that seemed to have made it their personal mission to insult and degrade at least half of their viewers. Smart ones keep their mouths shut about their personal politics. Edited December 16, 2024 by Dantankerous 3 2 Quote
Texas Joker Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 @Dantankerous I will have to humbly disagree. They are welcome to their opinions and have every right to share them. Same as I do. I just realize that at the end of the day their opinion is theirs and they get paid to pretend or play. What's that saying: you should never meet your heros? As a dear friend once said to me often when I nitpicked the accuracy of movies: revel in the illusion. 1 Quote
Dantankerous Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 Why would I want to pay them any attention after having to listen them hurl insults and other incredibly demeaning and derogatory comments toward those of us who do not share their opinions? If someone talked to me like that face to face, they might get a knuckle sandwich. I have no interest in continuing to follow somebody who apparently hates me but likes my money. 2 1 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 7 minutes ago, Texas Joker said: MOST entertainment is provided by people in a certain geographic location with certain political views. You gonna give up on all tv movies magazines newspapers and most written work? To add to what my pal @Dantankeroussaid, actors make a living pretending. Most truly are children in adult bodies. If they do a good job entertaining us their actual immaturity can be overlooked, but once they get political and are obviously oblivious it’s time to drop them like hot rocks, in the support sense. I know most actors and many musicians and bands are very liberal. I do not hold that against them. This is America. We have freedoms. But, when actors and musicians use their art as political manipulation it is time to reevaluate their worth to you. 4 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 Why on earth would I pay attention to the opinions of someone who makes their living pretending to be other people? 1 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 8 minutes ago, Texas Joker said: @Dantankerous I will have to humbly disagree. They are welcome to their opinions and have every right to share them. Same as I do. I just realize that at the end of the day their opinion is theirs and they get paid to pretend or play. What's that saying: you should never meet your heros? These people get paid Millions of Dollars to play dress up and make believe, and that's fine. I don't begrudge them any of that. And yes, they are welcome to their opinions and have every right to share them. However, they don't just share them, they try to tell the rest of us that OUR opinions are wrong, and that we should listen to THEM. That's where I draw the line. They, nor anybody else have the right to tell me that their opinions are the ones that matter, just because of who they are . Maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. But that's on ME. I know what I think, and I have no problem telling anybody else what that is, but I'll never tell them WHAT to think. And when somebody that I used to respect does so, (yes I'm referring to Sam Elliot, he made his opinion clear in the 2020 election), I have the right to NOT spend my hard earned money paying them for anything that they do. Of course I understand that 98% of the entertainment world is hardcorps Leftist. But as long as they don't try to use their celebrity to push their Leftist agenda, I don't care. Like the Dixie Twits were told, "Shut up and sing". 2 Quote
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 4 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: But as long as they don't try to use their celebrity to push their Leftist agenda, I don't care. Like the Dixie Twits were told, "Shut up and sing". This^ 1 Quote
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 47 minutes ago, Texas Joker said: MOST entertainment is provided by people in a certain geographic location with certain political views. You gonna give up on all tv movies magazines newspapers and most written work? Sam Elliot also did a voice commercial for Biden in 2020. Him and his wife are big liberals! Quote
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 I hate to break it to you but Lee Child is a big British Liberal and has voiced his disdain for Trump! what ya going to read now? 1 Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted December 16, 2024 Posted December 16, 2024 15 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said: I hate to break it to you but Lee Child is a big British Liberal and has voiced his disdain for Trump! what ya going to read now? He's British. It doesn't matter what they think. We proved that 248 years ago. 3 6 Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted December 17, 2024 Posted December 17, 2024 11 hours ago, Pat Riot said: After hearing about the views of Alan Ritchson in real life I will never watch another episode of Prime’s Reacher. I will just leave it at that. THIS ^^^^ 1 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 17, 2024 Author Posted December 17, 2024 (edited) On 12/16/2024 at 9:22 AM, Texas Joker said: @Dantankerous I will have to humbly disagree. They are welcome to their opinions and have every right to share them. Same as I do. I just realize that at the end of the day their opinion is theirs and they get paid to pretend or play. What's that saying: you should never meet your heros? As a dear friend once said to me often when I nitpicked the accuracy of movies: revel in the illusion. They have a right to express their views and I have a right to express mine. I also have a right to NOT spend a single cent nor a second of my time to support these "artificial people". Edited December 17, 2024 by Forty Rod SASS 3935 1 1 Quote
watab kid Posted December 17, 2024 Posted December 17, 2024 i m a fan , ive liked all of them so far - not all equally but , hey you cant really make sequels and have all of them as good , i like these much better that the TC version that was ok , but not his best work , i do enjoy that we dont all think alike - it feeds thought and discussion , Quote
bgavin Posted December 17, 2024 Posted December 17, 2024 (edited) On 12/16/2024 at 9:23 AM, irish ike, SASS #43615 said: I hate to break it to you but Lee Child is a big British Liberal and has voiced his disdain for Trump! what ya going to read now? I buy all my books second hand at Goodwill. No royalties to the author here. I personally do not understand the reason why somebody is a Liberal today. I find people are Liberals today for one or more reasons: • Sex: infidelity, promiscuity, homosexuality, abortion • Drugs: personal use or family user • Socialism: Big Government to run our entire lives • Hive-Mind Hate: Orange Man Bad Edited December 17, 2024 by bgavin 1 Quote
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 17, 2024 Author Posted December 17, 2024 13 hours ago, watab kid said: i m a fan , ive liked all of them so far - not all equally but , hey you cant really make sequels and have all of them as good , i like these much better that the TC version that was ok , but not his best work , i do enjoy that we dont all think alike - it feeds thought and discussion , Cruise has a "best work"? I've never seen any indication of it. Quote
bgavin Posted December 17, 2024 Posted December 17, 2024 Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow both come to mind. Quote
watab kid Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 7 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Cruise has a "best work"? I've never seen any indication of it. OK = ill give you that cause i cant name his best work , but im sure there must be s0omething better than this one , i liked him better in the mission impossible stuff he did but i dont go out of my way to see anything he does , Quote
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 8 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Cruise has a "best work"? I've never seen any indication of it. 7 hours ago, bgavin said: Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow both come to mind. 38 minutes ago, watab kid said: OK = ill give you that cause i cant name his best work , but im sure there must be s0omething better than this one , i liked him better in the mission impossible stuff he did but i dont go out of my way to see anything he does , "Oblivion" and "Edge of Tomorrow" were both good. But he REALLY kicked butt in "Top Gun Maverick". 1 Quote
bgavin Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 I have a wonderfully high tolerance for movies and a great love of them. Much less so these days for woke actors. We tune into Prime for schlock. They carry all the old 1950s and 60s shclock sci-fi stuff. The rubber monster suits and cheesy high school effects are very amusing. My wife's all time hater is "Forbidden World"... a low budget flick with boobs and a barfing monster. The owner of the boobs screeches like a barn owl. No matter.. it is difficult to be 21 years old and ugly... if so, one REALLY has to work at it. I found it on Blu-Ray in the sale bin, and played it as a surprise one night. Buttery home made popcorn makes even the worst movie very enjoyable. 1 Quote
watab kid Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 22 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: "Oblivion" and "Edge of Tomorrow" were both good. But he REALLY kicked butt in "Top Gun Maverick". OK , top gun had alluded me last evening - its on TV tonight and came back as a better one Quote
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