Jack Reacher Trailer (Tom Cruise Vs. Werner Herzog)

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AdrianWerner said:
according to Box Office Mojo it's closing on 100 mln foreign, 174 mln total vs 60 mln budget. So yeah, I think it did good enough, especially since it seems to have pretty long legs and that number will grow further.
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I think if the asian markets are big enough they'll consider it, lets hope the home releases sales and rentals are good enough.
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
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I had no idea rosamund pike was so well endowed. goodness.
 
Just watched this with my dad. Fast, fun, pulpy crap, just like the books. I liked it a lot; he did not. Weird. He said he didn't imagine Reacher as smug as Cruise portrayed him, while I thought he was exactly that sarcastic and assholey. Funny how reading works. We've been into the books for years, and sometimes chat about this or that in the plot, but we never thought that we see the character so differently.

Edit: ah, weird how they got pretty grim with the fingers thing and the neck breaking, but they pussied out on the characterization of Barr. They made his crimes seem morally justified because his victims were rapists. And at the end he had fully atoned and seemed to be cured of his demons. I think in the book he was purposely a bad guy, but maybe I need to reread those parts.
 
The movie turned out well despite the casting being wrong, though maybe had I read the novels I would think differently.
 
AuthenticM said:
This has got to be one of the worst miscast I have ever seen. It's up there with Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47.
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I think Cruise pulled it well. He was belivable in this role and emanated Reacher's personality. Sure, he's much shorter, but that's nowhere near "worst miscasts".

Edit: close to 220m worldwide, even without DVD/Blue-ray sales. I think this means we'll see sequel.
 
Akahige said:
too many lols

edit* comes out the day before my birthday, very cool
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What a terrible, terrible cover.



AdrianWerner said:
I think Cruise pulled it well. He was belivable in this role and emanated Reacher's personality. Sure, he's much shorter, but that's nowhere near "worst miscasts".

Edit: close to 220m worldwide, even without DVD/Blue-ray sales. I think this means we'll see sequel.
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Yeah, I think Tom Cruise did great in this movie. Also sequel? Awesome.
 
Cruise was the best part of it, he has great interactions with Rosamund Pike's cleavage and it kinda make sense to have someone as charismatic as him considering how every male and female character seems to fall for him. Seriously, Old Darryll from the Office, why give him that hat?
 
That is a horrible cover. And it's lazy besides, having to rely on the Blu-ray strip to complete the orange & blue theme. And I don't know if it's the jacket, or the perspective, but Cruise looks tiny.
 
JDSN said:
Cruise was the best part of it, he has great interactions with Rosamund Pike's cleavage and it kinda make sense to have someone as charismatic as him considering how every male and female character seems to fall for him. Seriously, Old Darryll from the Office, why give him that hat?
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It was indeed divine. I was conflicted. On one hand I liked that they didn't go with the cliche romance, on the other hand it meant no nude scene...I'm torn...
 
Just saw this as well. Having not read the books, I liked it a lot. Could have been more violent in terms of blood, but it was very entertaining. Cruise was great as well. Fight scenes looked very good, and none of that shaky-cam BS.
 
I bought the Blu and hadn't watched it since theaters. I still really enjoyed it and went through and watched the bonus features minus the commentary stuff.

I am kind of sad there were no deleted scenes and very little interview stuff aside from Cruise, the director, and an entire feature with the author, but oh well.

Oh, and Rosamund Pike's boobs are still amazing.
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Very, very good movie. On the verge of being great. It might get there on further viewings. I'd say there are a couple of negatives, primarily nitpicks about directorial decisions. The plotting is fine and Tom Cruise sells the hell out of the role. It's a better action character than Ethan Hunt in the last two M:I flicks and the action in this film has definite weight to it. And the plots are much better. Getting to my nitpicks, there were two early jump scares that fall flat on their face. They came across very stilted which is odd since the rest of the movie works so well in moving the plot and action along. The only other negative that comes to mind is the directorial decision for a "reveal" that had no reason to be shot that way. Because of where the story is going at that point, there was no reason to be surprised by who was shown when the camera reaches the end of the dolly's track. It's just a wasted shot.

Other than that, everything was better than expected. I'll be honest that my expectations where tempted by what others had said about Tom Cruise's build not matching that of the character as written in the book. Time and time however, Tom Cruise, regardless of what craziness occurs off camera, he devotes each second a film is point at him to the role he portrays. Whatever height and build Jack Reacher is in the books doesn't matter in this adaptation. Tom is believable and the movies works wonderfully.

Oh, and as shown above, Rosamund Pike remains a beauty. Thank you for capturing that Mr. McQuarrie. ;)
 
Fuck yeah! They're moving on with sequel:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/12/jac...uise-developing-new-bestseller-never-go-back/

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions are moving ahead with a sequel to Jack Reacher, the 2012 film that starred Tom Cruise and is based on Lee Child’s bestselling novel series. A rumor went around that the studio might be trying to squeeze in a Reacher film before Mission: Impossible 5. Paramount has denied that, but I’ve learned it’s trying to fast track another installment. This one will be based on Never Go Back, which was published earlier this fall. In it, Reacher heads back to his old military base in Virginia to take a woman to dinner who is now the commanding officer. By the time he gets there, she has been arrested, and Reacher finds himself being charged with pummeling one guy and fathering a child with a woman. He can’t remember either transgression but gets to the bottom of it with cunning and sometimes brute force.
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I saw this last night and thought it was a pretty good movie. Cruise was believable in the role (I haven't read the books). They obviously framed him a few times to make him look a bit taller (usually against female characters), but they didn't disguise that he was shorter than the men he fought. He convincingly portrayed a nice mix of danger and intelligence.

It was a little distracting noticing the little touch-ups Cruise has seemed to have had done. I didn't understand the scene where the crowd allows him to blend in at the bus stop; I found that pretty unbelievable. Werner Herzog was great. Robert Duvall has "wise old coot" down pat. Rosamund Pike was very attractive, and while I thought a romance plot wasn't needed, they went overboard on "standing way too close to each other."

I'm looking forward to a sequel. It's nice to have a new Cruise franchise that won't rely on peeling off a face mask to advance the plot.
 
How strange, I also saw this last night. Perhaps because it popped up on Netflix. While I enjoyed it for what it was, the reason I kept paying attention was for Rosamund... so beautiful.
 
As amazing as Rosamund Pike's cleavage is, her face is even better. What a beautiful woman.

Also, she was good in the movie. Just throwing that out there to feel less like an objectifying asshole, but it's true. She was also good in The World's End, though I wish she'd been given a bit more to do.
 
Just watched this on blu-ray. It was a relatively well executed terrible movie. The tone of the movie was so strange that by the end it felt like it was taking the piss out of itself. The over-the-top conservative "might makes right" narrative, the horribly written, shallow female characters, scarred foreign bad-guy, the token black character
who ends up being a bad guy for no reason
coupled with the frankly bizarre comedy beats makes me think that bthe entire production crew were having a laugh. It's almost as if someone did their best impression of a David Mamet script whilst lampooning it.

Still the action was for the most part good and Cruise, Pike and Duval were entertaining even if they didn't have much to work with. The fight scenes were decent but too short. Also, it seemed like they were going for a Krav Maga style to the fighting, only completely Hollywoodized and not particularly realistic.

Still, as a blu-ray demo it was fantastic. The picture was great and the audio reference quality. The car chases were very fun.
 
adamsappel said:
I saw this last night and thought it was a pretty good movie. Cruise was believable in the role (I haven't read the books). They obviously framed him a few times to make him look a bit taller (usually against female characters), but they didn't disguise that he was shorter than the men he fought. He convincingly portrayed a nice mix of danger and intelligence.

It was a little distracting noticing the little touch-ups Cruise has seemed to have had done. I didn't understand the scene where the crowd allows him to blend in at the bus stop; I found that pretty unbelievable. Werner Herzog was great. Robert Duvall has "wise old coot" down pat. Rosamund Pike was very attractive, and while I thought a romance plot wasn't needed, they went overboard on "standing way too close to each other."

I'm looking forward to a sequel. It's nice to have a new Cruise franchise that won't rely on peeling off a face mask to advance the plot.
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I totally didn't understand that crowd-blending scene at the bus stop either.

Rosamund Pike's beauty and massive cleavage distracted me throughout the movie. I never mind overly attractive actresses, but this was a bit too much for me to the point that it became absurd.
 
The start is such a mediocre CSI episode I never got to Tom Cruise. Not sure why the director decided to make the start of the movie as boring as possible.
 
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