Tom Clancy's: Without Remorse (2021)

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

Exactly the book was pretty much Death Wish with a Vietnam Era Navy SEAL and a few KGB thrown in.

Popping in a black dude and updating the time frame and tossing in forced diversity strips it of what itty bitty charm it sorta had.

Like a morbid part of me sees the novelty of stalking the ghetto and zapping a pimp with a .22 1911.

Not night vision. Not fancy guns. Just an honest 1911 rechambered to .22 and doing ominous deeds. It’s a pulp novel grittiness and grimness that you can’t do with 4K UHD and CGI.

It’s a late night, VHS grind house affair with light and shadow. They should have stuck to the material.

Other than the tranny porn, you and I seem to have similar taste and expectations for our casual viewing entertainment.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

So, to get their SEAL cred, they needed a water scene early, and all they could put together was a puddle to jump out of....

[davidjinks]

I am not a fan of Clancy’s books. But the movies based off his books have been really good, up until this one. I watched about 15 minutes of it and turned it off. Wasn’t my cup of tea. I watched Patriot Games instead.

I don't know. After the second season of Jack Ryan being a complete turd-show on Prime, I don't know if I trust them. So this would be Clark, right? After they killed of the real Clark in the new Jack Ryan series?

It looks like a good movie. I just don't think any of the Tom Clancy universe movies or books have been worth a crap in the last 20 years.

Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and of course Hunt for Red October. Awesome. Wish they had done a mini-series on Red Storm Rising. Maybe with the 80s nostolgia and the rise of Russia they will do it- but I think they'd screw it up now. Since Ryan became POTUS, it has just lost it at the book level. The books got crappy, the movies (Sum of all Fears) got PC. That Prime Jack Ryan series had a pretty good 1st season, but they absolutely, totally, with no way to redeem themselves- jacked up the second season.


Someone better get put into a decom-pressure chamber, or I'm calling foul in the whole thing...

[pag23]

Was there EVER ANY good in Ritter, book or movie? Henry Czerny did really well opposite Ford portraying him as a meatpipe-smoking POS who shoulda gotten a midnight visit from a sharp knife and Willem Dafoe's Clark...

Really, IMO to do Without Remorse, RSR or Sum of All Fears justice they need to be made as TV miniseries. Clancy was rather a Neocon and Establishment Republican, and his works much like Ian Fleming definitely need to be evaluated in context of their time setting.

They need to counteract this with "Clark"... A really dark thriller with Willem Dafoe or even Tom Hardy playing Clark, where he is just a CIA wet job guy...sometimes he pulls the trigger or commands others to, but it needs to devoid of human emotion except for flashbacks of Without Remorse scenes...

[kaiservontexas]

Already did it with "Sum of All Fears" because it is neo nazis who will want to nuke us.

Sum of All Fears movie is so radically different from the novel as not to be the same work of fiction.

[Five_Point_Five_Six]

Sum of All Fears movie is so radically different from the novel as not to be the same work of fiction.

The Harrison Ford movies weren't close either.

[utahjeepr]

If I even mildly enjoy the book, I know the movie will suck. It's just a good rule of thumb.

Everyone - "They are making xxx into a movie! Yea!!!"

Me - "Crap."

Dune - sucks
Hitchhiker's guide - sucks
The list just goes and goes. Every once in a blue moon they surprise me with a "Hunt for Red October" but not lately.

[Firefly]

The only movies that lived up to the book:

-A Walk to Remember
-Black Hawk Down
-Fight Club

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

This is why I don’t read books.

[Diamondback]

This is why I don’t read books.

And conversely, this is why I DO--they spark curiosity and inspire me to seek new knowledge, in addition to being better entertainment than woke Hollyweird trash. RIP Clive Cussler...