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In Reply to: RE: 'Edge of Tomorrow': Ground Hog Day for aliens . . . posted by Billy Wonka on June 06, 2014 at 16:13:25
...middle-aged than young and 'pretty'. (I thought he was VERY good in 'Jack Reacher', based on Lee Child's 'One Shot', the only Jack Reacher novel [of 18] that made it to movie.) Blunt was wonderful, as she has been in the two of her films--'The Adjustment Bureau' and 'Looper'--I've seen. The rest of the cast did well, altho the members of 'J Squad' were more 'colorful' than I thought necessary. Both of us laughed at the very quick die-and-be-back-in-the-morning sequences.
WELL worth your time.
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
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Particularly when Blunt pulled the trigger so cold-heartedly. Great script device. Death as funny.
Older. Like Pitt, he's getting a little patina on that toothy grin. More subtlety and nuance. Both of those guys started so shiny and good looking that viewers couldn't get past that aspect. Now we're seeing beneath the surface. It took awhile.
I liked it very much, too. The older Cruise is better, for my tastes. Cruise seems to project a real decency, and that's rare in Hollywood movies. I liked the Reacher movie enough to listen (on Audible) to all the Reacher novels, which were highly entertaining junk. But it was the Cruise charm that led me there.
> ...which were highly entertaining junk.>Bite your tongue - he's my favorite writer.
My daughter and I look forward to his new book every fall.
Perhaps if you'd read them instead of taking the lazy route, you would have gotten more out of them.
Edits: 06/08/14
I thought One Shot was really good and high time they've finally translated one of his novels into film. Anyway, near the beginning of the film there's a scene in a police station and the cop seated at the desk is Lee Child. Thought that was kinda cool.
Joe
...is Never Go back.
New novel is Personal, available 9/2.
Can hardly had wait for the film or the novel. It may be "for the common masses" but I must say I love both. Thank you for the heads up.
Joe
...I was careless with my description of my reading experience, and meant no offense. I split my reading and listening to suit my available time, and found both formats valuable to my kind of reading. FYI...No disagreement with you...I too thought the audio books were the "lazy" way to ingest novels, until I got hooked during the Reacher experience. Part of the problem was their cheap paperback bindings made it difficult to easily manage the page turning. Every page through the mid-sections were set in a way that forced me to have to spread the book open with my thumbs; 600 page books, generally. The hardback versions would have been better, but oh so costly. Now getting back to the audio books, I discovered that a well narrated novel was tremendous fun. I'd get that same immersive experience when Lee Child would lay out the nuts and bolts of Reacher's operational maneuvers, as if I were sitting in my reading chair, but instead I'd be walking on the running track at our local high school, without the sore hands from wrestling with the binding. I even enjoyed my way through "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and found it to be a valuable read. I am also anxiously awaiting the next Reacher novel. Lee Child might be in the LA area around the Fall arrival, and I'd like to see him speak sometime. He's my favorite, along with Ian Rankin-who I highly recommend. Regards
...just giving you a hard time.Glad you enjoy them.
Hardback $14 at Costco when they come out or Amazon pre-order.
Edits: 06/08/14
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