#jack reacher 2012

[driftershunt]

HELLO GUYS long time no arting. have some jack reacher

[nade2308]

Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, USN, Naval Aviator, "Top Gun", 1986

Lieutenant Junior Grade Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps, "A Few Good Men", 1992

Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Geman Army, "Valkyrie", 2008

Roy Miller/Matthew Knight, CIA operative, "Knight and Day", 2010

Ethan Hunt, IMF agent in disguise as General Anatoly Fedorov, Russian Army, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol", 2011

Jack Reacher, ex-Major and investigator for the 110th Military Police Special Investigation Unit, US Army, "Jack Reacher", 2012

William Cage, public affairs officer and Major, US Army, "Edge of Tomorrow", 2014

Jack Reacher, ex-Major and investigator for the 110th Military Police Special Investigation Unit, US Army, "Jack Reacher: Never go back", 2016

Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, USN, Naval Aviator, test pilot and flight instructor for the Navy, "Top Gun: Maverick", 2022

Barry Seal, airline commercial pilot for TWA, "American Made", 2017

"A man becomes the creature of his uniform."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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[sdrose93]

His little smile 🥰

[maverickcalf]

Tom's Jack Reacher and Bill's Barry Berkman are two sides of the same coin. In this essay I will...

[thethistlegirl]

"Take It Easy" - by The Eagles

Another one of the songs I associated with Jack even before seeing the movies just based on @nade2308 screeching book facts at me...

@malewifebillcage

Character Playlists Masterpost

"Mercury" - by Sleeping at Last

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@thethistlegirl @nade2308 you’ll both enjoy this I think

I just watched the Reacher movies and man I dont care what ppl say, Tom is awesome in them and does quiet brooding so well. I totally get the ppl who read the books and had someone else in mind, but I really have no idea why the second movie gets so much shit as a movie, I kinda preferred it. I especially love the scene on the plane when the girl is talking about her father and his face when he's listening to it.

Hey anon,

Glad to hear you enjoyed them. I do think both films are underrated, and if Tom Cruise had been playing a similar character with any other name, Reacher (2012) would get a lot more props for being a solid grown-up film of the thriller/action genre. It’s quietly stylish and beautiful, with a focus on making the action clear to the audience, which means no shaky cam to hide poorly laid-out action sequences or excessive editing to add tension where none exists or to get your main character over a fence. From the opening sequence, through music and action, it lays out the tone and style of the film so succinctly while immediately immersing you in the story.

I understand why fans of the books were unhappy with Tom Cruise being cast, despite the blessing of the author, Lee Child. Every reader will have an image of a character in their heads, and it can be hard to see certain actors in certain roles. Unsurprisingly, the biggest complaint against Tom Cruise being cast was to do with his height, as he very much does not fit the description of "extremely tall, extremely broad, long-armed, and long-legged" with "hands the size of dinner plates." Now I've never read the books, and while I understand why fans were unhappy, I think Christopher McQuarrie utilizes Tom really well in the first movie and uses his physique as an advantage.

For the type of thriller that the first film is, it leans more toward noir than straight up crime action; a character over 6' would have storytelling pitfalls. What works in a book can translate to the screen very differently. That doesn’t mean that a Reacher who is more faithful to the books in terms of height and build couldn’t work. The new Amazon Prime series has been very popular, but any man who is as big and as imposing as Reacher is described is going to stand out, and you would have to actively address the fact that he would be someone who is hard to take down in a fight. Instead, with the casting of Tom Cruise, the film shows how people underestimate him, such as the guys in the bar who think they can take him out with little hassle. 

Then there’s the fact that the character of Reacher is a drifter, someone who slips in and out of town, leaving no trace. Well, if a guy is 6 feet whatever and built, people are going to remember him, and it will make it a little harder for him to slip away unnoticed. But not a Reacher who is built like Tom, and Christopher McQuarrie shows this brilliantly with the escape on the bus at the end of the car chase. It actively plays into the character being a drifter; he just disappears into a crowd.

The second film, Never Go Back, is a more typical thriller/action film with a family road trip added in that I like because Reacher is being forced into a situation he usually avoids, having to work with others. Never Go Back is well balanced, with Turner and Reacher both being highly capable and highly motivated individuals. When Turner expresses to Reacher that she wants to get these guys more than him, we see that he took this on board during the interrogation scene because he leaves it to Turner. I wish his falling into an assistive role had continued with Turner fully solving the mystery that they're smuggling drugs, I feel she deserved to solve it. But at the end of the day it is a Jack Reacher movie.

I also like how both films handle the potential romantic dynamic. With Helen there is a hint that if he were to stay, he could very much have a life with her, but the film knows not to force it, and I like that there’s no kiss. Despite the chemistry between them, it really hasn’t been earned, and any kiss would have felt forced and more like the film doing it because of the type of movie it is rather than it coming from the characters. With Turner, we see how similar they are. Yes, at the start there was some mild flirting and intrigue about each other over the phone, but their connection is one where they’re better as friends, and that's okay. In the end, it's the potential of the father-daughter relationship with Sam that leaves a bigger impact on Reacher than the romantic one, which we also saw a little of in the first film with Sandy. His interactions with her, especially in the office scene, were more paternal, and he never really tried romantic charm to get information out of her.

Ultimately, I think both films have more merit than people give them credit for. Neither is perfect, and I don’t know if either one would be in my top ten Tom Cruise movies, but if you can look past the casting issue of Tom as Reacher because of the height thing, each of them is a rewarding watch.

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*taps the mic on* *COUGH COUGH*

[huntmavs]

action film icons!

[germanicusgirl]

you think i’m a hero? i’m not a hero. i’m a drifter with nothing to lose.

[nade2308]

@thethistlegirl a dose of Jack

[driftershunt]

God I hate him (Said with incredible amounts of affection)

[nade2308]

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[sdrose93]

😍😍

[pterrorgrine]

i could interpret this a lot of ways but i'm going with harry potter x half-life 2 just so i can cast the wizards as the combine and reinterpret the whole thing as the "avada kedavra, meet avtomat kalishnikova" greentext

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

[maverickcalf]

k, o, p for hte fandom asks

K -Say something nice about someone in any of your fandoms

@snovyda has a lot of passion for the character of benji and i always enjoy all of her insights into not only benthan but other movies as well. :D

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

Uhhh i guess Take me away by Fefe Debson, I guess this most reminds me the most of Ilsa. Not so much a ship just more like her wants?

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

Barry HBO crossover with Jack Reacher 2012. So like an au where Barry and Jack knew each other before Barry went to Afghanistan. And while Jack makes sure Barry gets jail time, he notices that someone keeps trying to pull some strings to get him out. So after a while Jack Reacher decides to let him go to see what this person wants. But it becomes harder as Barry drops off the grid. Because that's what Fuches wants.

Anyway the only other plot point i have is Barry very much is aware of Jack and that's why he is extra stubborn about not killing a marine. I also think Barry would leave to LA sooner.

This idea was drawn from the end of Jack Reacher and I dunno they had similar vibes. Sorry for rambling, I just thought of it this week and had to get it out.

[rosamundpkes]

ROSAMUND PIKE as Helen Rodin in Jack Reacher (2012)