Subj : Re: Any Reccomendations?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Atari8Guy
Date : Sun Jan 15 2023 11:21:56

On 12 Jan 23  06:29:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

PF> -=> Atari8Guy wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=- 
PF> 
PF>  At> Really enjoyed season 1, season 2 was blah, season 3 has hit the
PF>  At> mark again, really good - the parallel with current events is
PF>  At> spooky considering it was probably written before the
PF>  At> Ukraine-Russia thing. 
PF> 
PF>  At> Am somewhat missing the more nerdy stuff that Jack Ryan had in
PF>  At> the books. 
PF> 
PF> I felt the same way about the series. There's a movie, "Jack Ryan:
PF> Shadow Recruit" that's pretty good. It stars Chris Pine and (I think)
PF> Morgan Freeman as Greer.
PF> 
PF> At this point there's almost as many actors playing Jack Ryan as
PF> Batman. Odd to think that Alec Baldwin could have locked down the
PF> role, but he had some conflict with one of the people who was
PF> involved with the franchise and didn't want to have to butt heads
PF> with that person over the course of a couple of movies.
PF> 
PF> 
PF> 
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To which Atari8Guy replies...

Yeah, that sucks, as much as I like Harrison Ford, Baldwin's Jack Ryan
was so much better than Ford's....Pine and Affleck were something less
than both of them.  

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