Originally Posted by
BoringGuy45
I actually thought Patriot Games was an excellent movie, and it was in fact better than the book. I thought Harrison Ford was an excellent Jack Ryan too. Admittedly, Baldwin probably played his Ryan a bit closer to the source material; Ryan is supposed to be laid back, intellectual, and a bit introverted, but a bit more glib and sarcastic than Ford played him. Ford played him as stoic and almost silent, and never emotional unless others really pushed him. The book, however, like most of Clancy's works, was too long and too slow, and I thought the movie did well by cutting out a lot of unnecessary characters and scenes. I liked that they changed Sean Miller's motives for going after Ryan to one of a blood feud for killing Miller's brother; I also thought the ending was a lot better. The book ending was more realistic, but a bit anticlimactic compared to the movie's boat chase scene.
I have no intention of seeing Without Remorse or Rainbow Six, as much as I love the games. R6 is no doubt going to change the ultra-environmentalist bad guys to American patriotic conservative Christians who want to wipe out black people, LGBTQ, and Muslims.
I'm with you, I actually enjoyed Harrison Ford in both Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger. I guess Baldwin played an acceptable Ryan in The Hunt for Red October but I think I'd have preferred Harrison Ford. And of course Afleck killed the franchise.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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