I don’t think I’ve seen a single Tatum picture. He seems boring to me, everything you say.
Pine is far from Shatner, (probably the finest example of that “hammy” style of acting) but I thought he was decent in NuTrek, he was far from the biggest problem. I think the character they did best with was McCoy. Great action, very watchable films (especially the first one, Alice Eve’s t*ts are easily the best thing about the 2nd one) but many many problems.
It would be hard not to do better than George Lucas did with the putrid prequels I but I gotta worry about what JJ Abrams will do to Star Wars, can’t say I’m a fan of his.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfBH-XFdSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B22Uy7SBe4
Have you seen these “Honest Trailers”? They have them for a lot of movies, hilarious.
If you're familiar with Tom Clancy's political leanings and his writing, that scene sounds like pretty much like a slap in the face to the late author, and 180 degrees away from how he'd want Jack Ryan written. Clancy was a staunch Reagan guy and got in numerous clashes with Harrison Ford during film because liberal Harrison Ford didn't like the way the script ended or the fact it portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light.
I've seen worse though. One person who would be spinning in his grave if he saw the movie "based on" his work is Harold Gray of the Little Orphan Annie fame. The musical "Annie" features FDR as a heroic figure that Annie and Daddy Warbucks look up and meet during the story (I think they even have a perky musical number together and sing a duet of "Tomorrow"), whereas Gray's original comics were vehemently AGAINST the New Deal and portrayed FDR's socialist policies as causing misery and ruining Daddy Warbucks.
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