Subj : Re: Any Reccomendations?
To   : Commodore Clifford
From : Atari8Guy
Date : Fri Jan 20 2023 00:46:56

On 15 Jan 23  23:30:48 Commodore Clifford wrote...

CC> On 15 Jan 23  11:21:56 Atari8Guy wrote...
CC> 
CC> AA> To which Atari8Guy replies...
CC> AA> 
CC> AA> Yeah, that sucks, as much as I like Harrison Ford, Baldwin's Jack
CC> AA> Ryan was so much better than Ford's....Pine and Affleck were
CC> AA> something less than both of them.  
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CC> To which Commodore Clifford replies...
CC> 
CC> I think that for me, it was how Jack Ryan was first presented to me
CC> (or any character for that matter).
CC> 
CC> My first "Jack Ryan" experience was Hunt for Red October... and while
CC> he was a main character, he wasn't really the main main in my
CC> eyes.... It was the Russian Captain.
CC> 
CC> I never saw that movie as a Franchise (even if it was) so to me, that
CC> character really never became something like a "James Bond" or
CC> anything like that.
CC> 
CC> But I guess in a way, that means that in my mind he's the only "REAL"
CC> Jack Ryan.
CC> 
CC> I suppose you get a different perspective if you don't read the books
CC> though.
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To which Atari8Guy replies...

I don't know anything of why the switched to Harrison Ford, or if the
part was even offered to Baldwin going forward.  But Hunt for Red October
was soooooo good, with Connery and the rest of the ensemble cast the bar
was probably set too high.  That movie is one of the very few I'd rate as
better than the book - and the book was great.  I should maybe reread
some of the Clancy novels, I was a teen/early 20 when I read most of
them, I read every spy novel I could get my hands on.

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