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Preacher and the film of H2G2.
If we're talking the best then I though the four part TV adaptation of Iain Banks' The Crow Road was absolutely superb and really captured the book very well.pretty much every book I have read is better than its film rendition. Perhaps Eyes Wide Shut stood up to the challenge, and maybe Crash did as well.
God yes, I saw the film in my early teens and it scared the daylights out of me!Surely Salem's Lot should be added to that list of exceptions....
Yes indeed. The central part of the Reacher character in the books is that he's repeatedly described as "6ft 5, 250 pounds" or whatever it is. He's enormous. Then up rocks Tom, all 5 ft 6 of him, weighing 12 stone in a thick jumper. Athletic he may be, but a big scary monster of a man? Never.And don't get me started on Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher...
Surely not this Preacher - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5016504/Preacher
The Dead Zone is one of the better adaptations. Christopher Walken delivers a powerful, and for me, convincing performance. Martin Sheen hams it up a little but this doesn't distract from his portrail as a psychotic President elect. Tom Skerritt is also worth watching.The problem with most of the SK adaptations however is mostly down to pretty bad acting. So no amount of decent story telling is ever going to save them.
I suspect the problem may have been that if they'd cast a 6ft something 250lb monster it would have had a very distinct 80s feel about it reminiscent of Arnie films. Having not read the book(s), I've always thought that a major point of Reacher was that he was a highly skilled trained to kill operative, that didn't look it, i.e. his build often invited "thugs" to have a go, and then he'd woop their arses. I don't think the scene outside the bar where he's followed by 5/6 guys where he says "this is your last chance to walk away" (or words to that effect) would have worked if he was a hulking beast of a man. Nobody would believe that the gang would have hung around to have a go in those circumstances.Yes indeed. The central part of the Reacher character in the books is that he's repeatedly described as "6ft 5, 250 pounds" or whatever it is. He's enormous. Then up rocks Tom, all 5 ft 6 of him, weighing 12 stone in a thick jumper. Athletic he may be, but a big scary monster of a man? Never.
The Reacher series (2 seasons) on Amazon Prime is pretty good. Can’t remember the name of the actor who plays Reacher but he has a formidable physique.I suspect the problem may have been that if they'd cast a 6ft something 250lb monster it would have had a very distinct 80s feel about it reminiscent of Arnie films. Having not read the book(s), I've always thought that a major point of Reacher was that he was a highly skilled trained to kill operative, that didn't look it, i.e. his build often invited "thugs" to have a go, and then he'd woop their arses. I don't think the scene outside the bar where he's followed by 5/6 guys where he says "this is your last chance to walk away" (or words to that effect) would have worked if he was a hulking beast of a man. Nobody would believe that the gang would have hung around to have a go in those circumstances.
The Reacher series (2 seasons) on Amazon Prime is pretty good. Can’t remember the name of the actor who plays Reacher but he has a formidable physique.
I agree, although I wouldn’t dare tell him that to his face!He has indeed. Unfortunately he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.
Yep that one. It's good and well cast, but not a patch on the source material.Surely not this Preacher - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5016504/
Did you read the "source material" (was it a comic or something?) before or after watching the series?Yep that one. It's good and well cast, but not a patch on the source material.
And don't get me started on Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher...
He may not be a great actor but he's a jolly good egg - witness his spats with the Trump MAGA loonies.Mrs Seeker advises me that Alan Ritchson is much closer to how he is described in the books but she would have preferred Jim Caviezel.