Escape to the Movies: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

[Soxafloppin]

Jonny Depp as Strange....hhhmm..I'd prefer Little Finger from GoT.

 

[drschplatt]

Oh good, Bob doesn't like it. That means it's actually good. I need to hurry out and go see this.

 

[MrBaskerville]

I figured the movie would be forgetable after i saw the title and poster, Jack Ryan has to be the most generic name for a hero and yet they chose to throw it on the poster front and center.

 

[cerebus23]

The only Jack Ryan movie I ever really LOVED was The Hunt for Red October.

Now, I've watched all the other ones and agree that if you want to make an action movie out of the Clancy-verse just drop Ryan into the background and make the John Clark movie. He was far and away the best part of The Sum of All Fears, and I loved him as slightly unhinged in Clear and Present Danger.

This clark was the muscle guy the killer, ryan was not the main action guy in the books outside a bit here and there and generally when he had no other choice of doing anything else.

Red october was the only good clancy movie. hated ford in the the role, clancy hated ford in the role.

trying to make jack ryan into jack bauer, or jack reacher or jason bourne is just so mind numbingly not what the books were like.

 

[spwatkins]

Don't forget Anna Karenina.

Lol, I was just talking to someone in another thread (the Movie Bob review of this I think). Is it always a mistake to give the movie a title that is just a character's name. No, I think not. Except maybe in this case (Jack Ryan coming on the heels of Jack Reacher). I actually had to jog my memory about that one.

I'll have to check Anna Karenina out too if you suggest it.

I know that Chris Pine isnt that great but he was good in Smokin Aces so at least lets give him some credit to that.

This scene is a bit on the spoiler side but its the best one I can find on Youtube

Yeah, he was hardly recognizable in that, and the single most memorable character for me.

This little movie, Carriers (2009) was very good, very interesting. Not a horror movie but a character study and he was fine in it.

"Recommend" would be too strong for Anna Karenina - I was just trying to fill out the list of recent movies in which she has acted. The movie was kind of artsy and stilted but the sets were very pretty.

 

[Strain42]

When did Johnny Depp go from one of the greatest actors of our generation to "Oh god, no. Depp will ruin everything!?" Based on some of the reactions I've seen to him POSSIBLY playing Dr. Strange you'd think he'd written, directed and starred in a film of just him in a chair giving us the finger and making fart noises for two hours (which should be called InDeppth Analysis)

I remember him being really really good, then Pirates of the Coffee Bean came out and he was still considered good there for his wacky, energetic, and likable performance...

So I guess it just came sometime after that with all the Tim Burton movies and stupid hats and over the top characters, people just forgot that Depp could still play engaging, interesting, and serious characters. From Hell is a pretty good example of this (not the best movie out there, but he was good in it) or a post Jack Sparrow role I'd like to point to Public Enemies.

I love Dr. Strange, and I'm not going to be saying Johnny Depp is like the perfect actor to play him or anything, but as long as he plays the character the way the character is supposed to be, I think he'd be really good in the role. It helps that he already looks a lot like him.