Jack Reacher

[thepaulo]

Our household is outraged that 5 foot 7 Tom Cruise is playing a well established character from a slew of books. The character is constantly described as 6 foot 5 and 250 pounds.
We are outraged!!!!

[KnoxHarrington]

Who's playing Jack Mehoff?

[thepaulo]

Who's playing Jack Mehoff?

I didn't say Jack Reacharoun.

[thepaulo]

some tall actors

7'2" (2.18 m)
•Richard Kiel

6'9" (2.06 m)
•Ted Cassidy
•Will Sampson

6'8½" (2.04 m)
•Brad Garrett

6'8" (2.03 m)
•Daniel Cudmore

6'7½" (2.02 m)
•Richard Moll

6'7" (2.01 m)
•James Arness
•Abraham Benrubi
•James Cromwell
•'Tiny' Lister
•David Prowse
•Bruce Spence

6'6" (1.98 m)
•Dolph Lundgren
•Ryan Stiles

6'5½" (1.97 m)
•Vincent Schiavelli

6' 5" (1.96 m)
•Craig Bierko
•Chuck Connors
•Michael Clarke Duncan
•Lou Ferrigno
•Kurt Fuller
•Thomas Ian Griffith
•Fred Gwynne
•Shuler Hensley
•Edward Herrmann
•Christopher Lee
•Chi McBride
•Everett McGill
•Alan Napier
•Fess Parker
•Tim Robbins
•Sinbad
•Vince Vaughn
•George Wallace

6'4¾" (1.95 m)
•John Cleese

6'4½" (1.94 m)
•Stephen Fry
•Jeff Goldblum
•Dennis Haysbert
•Jeffrey Jones
•George Kennedy
•Michael Moriarty
•Conan O'Brien
•The Rock
•John Wayne

6' 4" (1.93 m)
•Harry Anderson
•Richard Anderson
•Ed Begley Jr.
•Barry Bostwick
•James Brolin
•Clancy Brown
•Bill Campbell
•Chevy Chase
•John de Lancie
•Michael Dorn
•Rupert Everett
•Jonathan Frakes
•Michael Gross
•David Hasselhoff
•Djimon Hounsou
•Rock Hudson
•Dwayne Johnson
•Howard Keel
•Frank Langella
•John Larroquette
•Harry J. Lennix
•John Lithgow
•John Carroll Lynch
•Liam Neeson
•Vincent Price
•Randy Quaid
•Michael Rapaport
•Rick Rossovich
•Jay O. Sanders
•Steven Seagal
•Jason Segel
•Tom Selleck
•Brad Sherwood
•Alexander Skarsgård
•Stellan Skarsgård
•Daniel Stern
•David Ogden Stiers
•David Thewlis
•Abe Vigoda
•Goran Visnjic
•Jon Voight
•Lyle Waggoner

6'3½" (1.92 m)
•Buddy Ebsen
•Will Ferrell
•Danny Glover
•Delroy Lindo
•Craig T. Nelson
•Oliver Platt
•James Stewart

6'3" (1.91 m)
•Danny Aiello
•Steve Allen
•Joe Don Baker
•Eric Bana
•Patrick Bergin
•Bernie Mac
•Paul Bettany
•Victor Buono
•Jake Busey
•Randall 'Tex' Cobb
•James Coburn
•Gary Cooper
•Peter Coyote
•Charles Dance
•Jeff Daniels
•Robert Davi
•Larry Drake
•Mike Farrell
•Brendan Fraser
•Matt Frewer
•Elliott Gould
•Stewart Granger
•Tom Green
•Peter Greene
•Paul Henreid
•Charlton Heston
•Samuel L. Jackson
•Brion James
•Brad Johnson
•Martin Landau
•Denis Leary
•Matthew Lillard
•Fred MacMurray
•Lee Marvin
•Christopher McDonald
•Matthew Modine
•Miles O'Keeffe
•Peter O'Toole
•Jack Palance
•Jean Reno
•Stellan Skarsgård
•Jimmy Smits
•Kevin Sorbo
•McLean Stevenson
•Conrad Veidt
•Ken Wahl
•Patrick Warburton
•Damon Wayans
•Nicol Williamson
•Lambert Wilson
•Thomas F. Wilson

[disneyspy]

Who's playing Jack Mehoff?

marcia gay hardon

[thepaulo]

Tom Cruise is Jack Reacher.

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[realmenhatelife]

I had never heard of Jack Reacher until the other week and I looked up his books, it sounds like about the dumbest steak eating harley fucking brooks and dunning white mans fantasy I have ever heard.


It sounds like the fantasy of everyone who pretended that one day they may decide not to have health insurance voluntarily, and the new obamalaw really is chafing their ass because of it. I'm just gonna ride around on the bus and get off where the blues music sounds good, and look for injustice. And fuck girls. And eat steak. And beat up pussy criminals.


But I'm also very judgmental.

[HBox]

This is like Falling Down, but with all reality thrown out the window.

[thepaulo]

I had never heard of Jack Reacher until the other week and I looked up his books, it sounds like about the dumbest steak eating harley fucking brooks and dunning white mans fantasy I have ever heard.


It sounds like the fantasy of everyone who pretended that one day they may decide not to have health insurance voluntarily, and the new obamalaw really is chafing their ass because of it. I'm just gonna ride around on the bus and get off where the blues music sounds good, and look for injustice. And fuck girls. And eat steak. And beat up pussy criminals.


But I'm also very judgmental.

I'm all for beating up pussy criminals.

[deliciousV]

some tall actors

7'2" (2.18 m)
•Richard Kiel

6'9" (2.06 m)
•Ted Cassidy
•Will Sampson

6'8½" (2.04 m)
•Brad Garrett

6'8" (2.03 m)
•Daniel Cudmore

6'7½" (2.02 m)
•Richard Moll

6'7" (2.01 m)
•James Arness
•Abraham Benrubi
•James Cromwell
•'Tiny' Lister
•David Prowse
•Bruce Spence

6'6" (1.98 m)
•Dolph Lundgren
•Ryan Stiles

6'5½" (1.97 m)
•Vincent Schiavelli

6' 5" (1.96 m)
•Craig Bierko
•Chuck Connors
•Michael Clarke Duncan
•Lou Ferrigno
•Kurt Fuller
•Thomas Ian Griffith
•Fred Gwynne
•Shuler Hensley
•Edward Herrmann
•Christopher Lee
•Chi McBride
•Everett McGill
•Alan Napier
•Fess Parker
•Tim Robbins
•Sinbad
•Vince Vaughn
•George Wallace

6'4¾" (1.95 m)
•John Cleese

6'4½" (1.94 m)
•Stephen Fry
•Jeff Goldblum
•Dennis Haysbert
•Jeffrey Jones
•George Kennedy
•Michael Moriarty
•Conan O'Brien
•The Rock
•John Wayne

6' 4" (1.93 m)
•Harry Anderson
•Richard Anderson
•Ed Begley Jr.
•Barry Bostwick
•James Brolin
•Clancy Brown
•Bill Campbell
•Chevy Chase
•John de Lancie
•Michael Dorn
•Rupert Everett
•Jonathan Frakes
•Michael Gross
•David Hasselhoff
•Djimon Hounsou
•Rock Hudson
•Dwayne Johnson
•Howard Keel
•Frank Langella
•John Larroquette
•Harry J. Lennix
•John Lithgow
•John Carroll Lynch
•Liam Neeson
•Vincent Price
•Randy Quaid
•Michael Rapaport
•Rick Rossovich
•Jay O. Sanders
•Steven Seagal
•Jason Segel
•Tom Selleck
•Brad Sherwood
•Alexander Skarsgård
•Stellan Skarsgård
•Daniel Stern
•David Ogden Stiers
•David Thewlis
•Abe Vigoda
•Goran Visnjic
•Jon Voight
•Lyle Waggoner

6'3½" (1.92 m)
•Buddy Ebsen
•Will Ferrell
•Danny Glover
•Delroy Lindo
•Craig T. Nelson
•Oliver Platt
•James Stewart

6'3" (1.91 m)
•Danny Aiello
•Steve Allen
•Joe Don Baker
•Eric Bana
•Patrick Bergin
•Bernie Mac
•Paul Bettany
•Victor Buono
•Jake Busey
•Randall 'Tex' Cobb
•James Coburn
•Gary Cooper
•Peter Coyote
•Charles Dance
•Jeff Daniels
•Robert Davi
•Larry Drake
•Mike Farrell
•Brendan Fraser
•Matt Frewer
•Elliott Gould
•Stewart Granger
•Tom Green
•Peter Greene
•Paul Henreid
•Charlton Heston
•Samuel L. Jackson
•Brion James
•Brad Johnson
•Martin Landau
•Denis Leary
•Matthew Lillard
•Fred MacMurray
•Lee Marvin
•Christopher McDonald
•Matthew Modine
•Miles O'Keeffe
•Peter O'Toole
•Jack Palance
•Jean Reno
•Stellan Skarsgård
•Jimmy Smits
•Kevin Sorbo
•McLean Stevenson
•Conrad Veidt
•Ken Wahl
•Patrick Warburton
•Damon Wayans
•Nicol Williamson
•Lambert Wilson
•Thomas F. Wilson

remember when PaulO cared enough to do the research?

[Judge Smails]

remember when PaulO cared enough to do the research?


Do research? I didn't read to whole list but just skimming it I came across the names of Jimmy Stewart and Mclean Stevenson. Yeah, I'd like to see them make another movie. Why not get Shakespeare to write the screenplay and have Edison work the cameras?

[deliciousV]

Do research? I didn't read to whole list but just skimming it I came across the names of Jimmy Stewart and Mclean Stevenson. Yeah, I'd like to see them make another movie. Why not get Shakespeare to write the screenplay and have Edison work the cameras?

no love for Buddy Ebsen? The man can handle a rifle.

[Melk]

Playing a character like Jack Reacher is the reason that Tom Cruise will pretty much never be able to live down the gay rumors.

This sounds like a role for someone like Ron Perlman would play, though he is like 6' 1"

[cougarjake13]

at the end of a preview they have other movie clips and there's a preview for django unchained and it has Jamie Foxx not Will Smith playing the part?

[thepaulo]

do you think Vince Vaughn could play an action hero?

[Melk]

do you think Vince Vaughn could play an action hero?
Yes, but the comedic Vince Vaughn murdered the serious Vince Vaughn. No turning back for him.

[Chigworthy]

Jack Blowjob

[cougarjake13]

do you think Vince Vaughn could play an action hero?



who thought qui-gon culd be an action hero and yet here we are

[IamFogHat]

What the fuck is Jack Reacher?

[Crispy123]

What the fuck is Jack Reacher?

thats what I call the asian girl at the massage parlour.

[Melk]

who thought qui-gon culd be an action hero and yet here we are
Taken is so much fun it is surprising that they hadn't tried sooner.

[cougarjake13]

Taken is so much fun it is surprising that they hadn't tried sooner.



yeh and I by there's some back story like the part was originally intended for an already established action star like Jason statham or if they wanted the older element a Bruce Willis but they turned down the part and for some odd reason they called him

[Melk]

yeh and I by there's some back story like the part was originally intended for an already established action star like Jason statham or if they wanted the older element a Bruce Willis but they turned down the part and for some odd reason they called him
I think the whole appeal of "Taken" is that Liam seems like the absolute last person who would be able to revenge kill a bunch of Eurotrash. Tom Cruise is in better shape and yet he wouldn't have worked in the movie. I wonder how he will work in Jack Me Reacher-Round

[cougarjake13]

I think the whole appeal of "Taken" is that Liam seems like the absolute last person who would be able to revenge kill a bunch of Eurotrash. Tom Cruise is in better shape and yet he wouldn't have worked in the movie. I wonder how he will work in Jack Me Reacher-Round


yeh I get the appeal

just curious how they arrived at him cause I doubt they wrote script with him in mind

[thepaulo]

Here are twenty of Hollywood's finest shorties:


5'0"
Danny Devito


5' 2"
Dudley Moore


5' 3"
David Faustino


5' 4"
Emilio Estevez
Richard Dreyfus
Jason Alexander
James Cagney
Rick Moranis
Seth Green


5' 5"
Michael J Fox
Dustin Hoffman


5' 6"
Jack Black
Daniel Radcliffe
Bob Hoskins
Elijah Wood
Woody Allen


5' 7"
Al Pacino
Ben Stiller
Christian Slater
Tom Cruise





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8577019/Hollywoods-shortest-actors.html

[thepaulo]

yeh and I by there's some back story like the part was originally intended for an already established action star like Jason statham or if they wanted the older element a Bruce Willis but they turned down the part and for some odd reason they called him

Bruce 5'11"
Jason 5'9&1/2"

http://www.celebheights.com/s/S.html

[thepaulo]

Tom Cruise wasn't big enough.

[A.J.]

That's what his ex-wives all said. Hiyyyyyyyyyyyoooh!

[realmenhatelife]

Would you say he over reachered ghee ghee ghee.

[JimBeam]

When I saw this trailer I hoped it would be good and it didn't disappoint.

The premise is silly and w/o knowing about the books I can suspend disbelief enough to deal w/ Cruise as the character.

Having Rosamund Pike in it didn't hurt either.

I thought it was good.

I find Cruise to be silly as a person but for the most part his movies are watchable as a guilty pleasure.

[thepaulo]

When I saw this trailer I hoped it would be good and it didn't disappoint.

The premise is silly and w/o knowing about the books I can suspend disbelief enough to deal w/ Cruise as the character.

Having Rosamund Pike in it didn't hurt either.

I thought it was good.

I find Cruise to be silly as a person but for the most part his movies are watchable as a guilty pleasure.

You can't call Tom Cruise silly. He will sue you.

[thepaulo]

The new book is Never Go Back.

This guy is printing money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher

[SonOfSmeagol]

The new book is Never Go Back.

This guy is printing money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher

He mentally plans his fights using physics in a scientific calculating method. He knows how to break a person's neck with one hand and kill someone with a single punch to the head or chest. In a fight against a 7 ft (2.1 m), 400 lb (180 kg), steroid-using thug, Reacher lifts his opponent into the air and drops him on his head. He once reflected when a fight was about to start that he could defeat his opponent because his foe would be focused on 'the tactical victory [whereas Reacher] lived to piss on the other guy's grave.', Reacher placing greater importance on winning than on how he will win.
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