Thanks for that. It still strikes me as strange that a MP would be used like that. Locating a target, sure. Shooting the target in the head, we have all kinds of people that specialize in that.
I understand that replaced the Spidey trackers he used to use for that. That got expensive after awhile. GPS photos were a game changer. I’ve heard he uses Apple AirTags , but just for personal use, like tracking where Mary Jane is 24 hours a day.
I enjoyed the series but was bummed by the way they changed how the counterfeit operation worked. The book has them simply gathering dollar bills in Georgia and shipping them to SA for processing. That allowed for the great closing scene that had a warehouse piled high with dollar bills and the women slaving to put the pile into boxes for shipment. Huge mountain of cash…
How will they film that, I wondered. Grr, just changed the plot so the cash was mostly already packed in air conditioner boxes. Disappointing but still ok.
I thought they were using chemicals to bleach one dollar bills and then printing $100 bills on the blank 1s, and Venezuela was just the destination of the new bills.
Just started this, on E1. Enjoyed the Tom Cruise movies, have no beef there, and am enjoying this supposedly ‘improved’ version.
Who the hell wears tweed in small town, humid, Georgia?
An actor in Pickering, Ontario.
That is indeed what the movie version says. In the book, the bleaching process was found to destroy all the streams so EPA pounced, causing the company to move that process to SA. Georgia was the focal point for all incoming dollar bills (the work that the bank guy did) but the processing was moved south.
That naval blockade stopped the movement south so Georgia warehouse was overflowing with loose dollar bills. Climactic scene had the women working to ship bills out, Reacher et al interfere, gas seeps into mountain of loose bills. Kablooie! The skies are alive with flaming money!
So screenwriter must have said that would be impossible to film so the process was changed to make it all work. It was still ok, but I wanted to see the big fire!
I see what you mean. I read the book something like 20 years ago and didn’t recall those details.
They also completely ignored the E Pluribus Unum/E Unum Pluribus (from one, many) clue that Joe had left and Reacher figured out. In the books, the empty trucks go out and collect the dollar bills from the cash business handlers, and the Air Conditioner boxes in the garage are filled with 1 dollar bills.
Ha, I mentioned that in another thread, the reason being: E Pluribus Unum is the motto “Adopted in 1776 by the Second Continental Congress,” as Reacher puts it. Joe writes “Operation E Unum Pluribus”, and Finlay mentions that’s backwards. Then Reacher says, “Out of one comes many,” but Finlay (who presumably knows better and would not hesitate to mention such a thing to Reacher) never corrects him [Finlay even says, “It’s a reversal of the U.S. motto. So we can assume it means out of one comes many, right?”]
Why isn’t there another season NOW???
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Personally, I hate it when a character in a movie says, “This isn’t a movie.” It totally destroys my Suspension of Disbelief.
“Yes, it IS!” I shout impotently.
Well, technically it is an episodic series, not a movie.
I’ll see myself out.
Conversely, last night I re-watched Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the line, “This ain’t that kind of movie” still kicks ass.
Now THAT I liked!
I’m not familiar with the books, so I’m not sure how “built” he’s supposed to be (I know he’s tall), but you are right on with this. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people make outlandish comments about needing to live in the gym or have some extreme lifestyle to simply have a well-built body with definition and mass. Yes, all pro bodybuilders juice and plan their lives around meal prep and training (though most have to have day jobs for steady income), but this guy’s not even close to that type of conditioning. And big people can move fast; I’m sure some people here have seen the NFL or NBA or Olympic athletes who aren’t tiny.
I’m sure others have read the books more closer/recently than I, but the main thing is they describe him as just being HUGE. His body is so large as to present a huge target for gunfire, or to make him not even try to sneak around. His hands are the size of catcher’s mitts, with knuckles the size of walnuts. I think the ballpark reference is around 6’5", 250#.
But I don’t recall them EVER talking about him hitting the gym, doing roadwork, etc. Basically, just a genetic freak.
From Tripwire (so still pretty early on; Reacher is of course over 60 by now):
I wonder if Cruise’s Reacher would have been better as Jack Reacher, Jr.
Concoct a back story of Reacher trying to settle down and failing(or getting killed/dying heroically). He’s just a photo on the wall (an aged up Dolph Lundgren would be a good Reacher, Sr.) His mother is petite, thus explaining the size disparity.
Wiki says the actor is actually 6’2" and 235.
I was watching The Rundown last night and thought that The Rock would have been an excellent Reacher. He is 6’5" and 260.
Dave Bautista also would make a good Reacher.
“Like a condom crammed w/ walnuts.”
Pure poetry! 