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"Harrison Ford plays "Jack Ryan" for the final time in the movie based on the the novel of the same name. This time, he is involved in the war on drugs eith one major complication -- the murdered friend of the President of the United States was a money launderer for the Columbian drug lords. This is not a shoot-em-up movie at all. It is more a mystery which moves quite slow at times, with more suspense than there is action. Even though the film is slow, it moves at a good pace that doesn't make the viewer lose interest. There is some gunplay, with maybe one or two good gun battles. There are also a few good explosions. However, they don't carry the film. Although there is violence in this film, blood is kept to a minimum. What does carry the film is the performances and the writing. Although the characters are not developed well, except maybe those who appeared in the previous films. I felt many of the characters were pretty much one-dimensional. The soundtrack really didn't impress ... "
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"Clear and Present Danger is basically a drama that pretends to be an action movie. It as if the director, Phillip Noyce, wanted to make a film about ideas and was forced by the studio to add action sequences to dumb down the movie and make it more commercial. I don't really know why, without the need to be a summer blockbuster this might have been a Christmas Oscar contender. The movie is a quasi-sequel to Patriot Games, which was an even more quasi- sequel to The Hunt for Red October. All films are based on novels by Tom Clancy concerning his signature character, Jack Ryan. Although the plotlines don't continue into the new films, the characters do, sort of. All three pictures feature James Earl Jones as Ryan's mentor, Admiral Greer, but in October Ryan is played by Alec Baldwin. The continuity is a bit greater between the second and third pictures- both are directed by Noyce and both feature Harrison Ford as Ryan, Anne Archer as his wife, and Thora Birch as his daughter b ... "
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"Over 30 reviews behind! This time, I'm blaming Facebook and all it's addictive applications. So the reviews will be short and sometimes sweet, but I'm going to try to catch up a bit today.Billy Liar was the last of the flimspotting Angry Young Men marathon. A young man with dreams of becoming a screenwriter fantasizes his way through a day of his humdrum existence. Again, though I can respect the quality of the filmmaking, I just did not understand the character motivations. I'm starting to think it's because we don't really have a class system in America and so I can't really grasp the pain of the working class in Britain.Sean Penn ("All the King's Men") totally deserved the Oscar for his turn in Milk. He transforms into Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to hold elected office. The film doesn't show Milk's entire life, but begins when he moves to San Francisco. And though it focuses on the politics, it's also a bit of a love story, showing how Milk's relationships were affecte ... "
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"Forget about Don Cheadle replacing Terence Howard as James Rhodes / War Machine in Iron Man II, which smells a lot like the “we’ll threaten to replace Tobey Maguire with Jake Gyllenhaal” tactic that Sony used for Spider-Man II –– Hollywood has been doing this for years. It was bad enough back in the days of television with Dick Sargent replacing Dick York in Bewitched, but now it’s becoming pretty commonplace for producers to replace actors in iconic roles. Although now it’s more common due to monetary concerns, which seems to be what has taken Howard out of the War Machine suit, it’s also common to see an actor ankle a role because they don’t like the source material, or the direction the character is taking. We’ve put together several different re-castings, which all happened for a variety of reasons: money, dissatisfaction with the script, test audience reactions, and actors just growing tired of playing the same character. Check them out after the break. "
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"YouTube user Flineo re-edits the movie trailer for the 1994 political thriller Clear and Present Danger, re-casting Sen. Barack Obama as the enemy of the "enemy from within," given his associations with William Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Tony Rezko, and Saul Alinsk.This is a more overt example of the way race is operating negatively in the race. It certainly is an attempt to use comments from individuals connected to (sometimes very loosely) to Sen. Obama to make whites uneasy about the prospect of an Obama presidency.Although I'm generally a fan of Flineo's videos, and believe the topics covered will certainly be a part of any Republican strategy in the fall, I prefer those YouTube videos which call out Sen. Obama on his real shortcomings, and not faults imagined or created.(h/t Liberal Rapture) Originally posted on:
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"After reading the news that Paramount has tapped Sam Raimi to revive the Jack Ryan franchise (The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears), I had one thought: who could have predicted this? And then I quickly had another thought: didn’t Paramount already attempt to youngify this character? Regarding my first thought, I believe the Fark.com subby snarked it best by presuming “Jack Ryan might be wielding a chainsaw in his next film.” Sure, the joke is a bit obvious, and a bit outdated now that Raimi has done three very tame Spider-Man flicks, but the guy did manage to slip a chainsaw in the second (aka the best) installment with that terrific horror-homaging surgery sequence. So, perhaps it’s not even a joke; maybe Ryan will wield a chainsaw. The better — because it’s less plausible — jo "
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