Hollywood will probably butcher these like it did
The Sum Of All Fears. Not that Clancy cares. He gave up fighting the Hollywoodheads a long time ago and just sits back and cashes their checks, now.
1 posted on
04/03/2004 1:23:27 PM PST by
Long Cut
To: All
To: Long Cut
It figures they'd pick the most simplistic stories to make into movies.
Rainbow Six will probably get torn to shreds...the villains in it are radical environMENTALists.
3 posted on
04/03/2004 1:25:18 PM PST by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Long Cut
I gave up on CLancy years ago. Why read him when you've got Travis McGee and Jeff Head?
4 posted on
04/03/2004 1:25:26 PM PST by
Tijeras_Slim
(Dollar a Day FReeper and PROUD OF IT!)
To: Long Cut
Can't use islamofascists, so lets use a PC hate group - neonazis!
Yeah, we're going to buy that.
5 posted on
04/03/2004 1:25:26 PM PST by
Crazieman
To: Long Cut
His books are much better than the movies, but the movies are good.
6 posted on
04/03/2004 1:26:23 PM PST by
Rams82
To: All
Interestingto see that they decided to make Red Rabbit. While I didn't think it was a great book, the main character does what he does because of his religious faith.
7 posted on
04/03/2004 1:27:44 PM PST by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Poohbah; hchutch; Green Knight; Woahhs; Travis McGee
Tom Clancy BUMP!
14 posted on
04/03/2004 2:15:15 PM PST by
Long Cut
("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)
To: Long Cut
Here's my recollection of the Clancey novels turned into movies,
Hunt for Red October - Good movie, captured the essence of the book.
Patriot Games - Good movie, they played with the ending a bit but it was not too great a departure from the book.
Clear and Present Danger - Completely reworked the book to fit in Harrison Ford and the second half of the movie was a complete fabrication out of thin air. No relation to the book in any real sense.
Sum of All Fears - Changed Islamic extremists into Argentine Nazis. Complete travesty of the book. PC insanity.
The more Clancey movies they make, the worse they seem to become. Unless I hear otherwise, I have no interest to see another Clancey book turned into some ludicrous Hollywood remake.
32 posted on
04/03/2004 5:01:38 PM PST by
Milwaukee_Guy
(The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished!)
To: Pukin Dog
Thought you might like this.
40 posted on
04/04/2004 9:37:57 AM PDT by
Long Cut
(Hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have)
To: Long Cut
WITHOUT REMORSE They might not butcher this one too much. Although I bet they leave out the little pissant left wing Congressional aide (to a character than envokes ,for me anyway, McGovern) that was helping the VC/NVA by passing info to the KGB. "Mr. Clark" took care of that one, and his buddy was "turned" to pass false information to the KGB. (Agent Cassius IIRC). to include them would be even less PC than the nuclear terrorists in "Sum of All Fears" being middle eastern.
45 posted on
04/04/2004 3:17:04 PM PDT by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: Long Cut
" Not that Clancy cares. He gave up fighting the Hollywoodheads a long time ago and just sits back and cashes their checks, now."
Maybe he is smart.
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