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wait, that's a jack ryan movie
why the hell is that a jack ryan movie, he was a marine for like five minutes
please tell me that's just a john clark movie and they made a typo on that poster
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Jack Ryan and the Secret of the Decoder Ring
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Name three people who played Jack Ryan!
Alec Baldwin
Harrison Ford
Ben Affleck
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I don't know if Op Centre was ghost-written or not, but I do admit to liking those books, our library never did have the best selection so I didn't branch out to his other works. And the Splinter Cell games are among my favourite franchises, so I owe that to him in part.
I don't know if Op Centre was ghost-written or not, but I do admit to liking those books, our library never did have the best selection so I didn't branch out to his other works. And the Splinter Cell games are among my favourite franchises, so I owe that to him in part.
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, though the series is actually written by Jeff Rovin.
Man I had no idea there was a long series of Jack Ryan books, he seemed like such a not-spy novel character in Hunt For Red October.
Ryan is portrayed by Alec Baldwin in the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Ben Affleck in the 2002 film The Sum of All Fears.
Never knew those were all the same guy in the books.
Aw man, and I missed the chance for that free R6 Vegas on Gold
I never got to play it but it seemed really interesting
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I liked the early stuff much later than the later stuff, when his Jack Ryan books took a right turn at the corner of plausibility and insanity. But I liked the cold war novels just fine, and the popularity and influence of the Tom Clancy brand extends beyond named products and throughout the videogame, movie, and book entertainment industries, and is very much evident in the move towards gritty-yet-grounded cutting-edge tech that permiates popular culture in everything from CoD: Modern Warfare to the Jason Bourne movies. Which is cool, because I like most of those things.
And while Bear and the Dragon was a bit racisty, I love it for the action sequences once the fighting starts and
America just curbstomps the Chinese
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Bear and the dragon was trash.
Clancy, while writing in specific detail about jack Ryan's breakfast. Included something along the lines of, he ate croissants with butter and jam because, damn his cholesterol.
Tom Clancy ran our of things for Jack Ryan to fight so he fought healthy living.
I think it was his biggest weakness with his books, he wrote some absolute pulp classics. Clear and present danger, without remorse and rainbow six are awesome. If not slightly jingoistic. But by the end of it, Ryan, Clark, the couple that ended up running the CIA were just bulletproof demi-gods. Oh and Ryan's best friend, who was a test fighter pilot, ended up with a couple of general stars and the became Vice President.
I don't know if Op Centre was ghost-written or not, but I do admit to liking those books, our library never did have the best selection so I didn't branch out to his other works. And the Splinter Cell games are among my favourite franchises, so I owe that to him in part.
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, though the series is actually written by Jeff Rovin.
hahaha holy shit Jeff Rovin
that guy wrote the "How To Win at Nintendo Games" books I had as a kid. They were really good, too. He was an adult giving honest assessments of these games and he wouldn't mince words when he thought a game was trash.
I'm reading his (Rovin's) bio on Wikipedia now. I have a lot of admiration for that kind of - what they used to call a "hack" as a compliment. A dude who just sits down and fucking cranks it out on any subject whether he cares about it or not.
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Man I had no idea there was a long series of Jack Ryan books, he seemed like such a not-spy novel character in Hunt For Red October.
he totally isn't a spy or soldier badass in Red October, that's the entire point of the character and part of why this whole JACK RYAN DOUBLE BLACK ELITE thing is so dumb
Jacobkosh on
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Yeah, Ryan was always an analyst who occasionally got caught up in spy craft/wet work.
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Like a couple people in this thread, Clancy was one of the first "adult" authors I ever read, right around the time I was 12 or so. His books had curse words and sex scenes and graphic violence and I had this amazing feeling that I was getting away with something. I'm sitting there in class and reading and nobody knows I'm reading about tits and blood holy shit I can't believe I'm not going to the principal's office right now
and this was 1991, 92, right after the Cold War so this stuff was actually pretty educational for me. His early stuff was really not racist or jingoist; the Russians were not cackling supervillains, they were just kind of dry bureaucrats who were more or less exactly like our guys. I have a feeling that Clancy was one of those guys like Dennis Miller who had something break inside of them after 9/11 and just kind of went around the bend.
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i guess they're going with Ryan because out of the entire clancyverse he's the one with the most name recognition (even though it's been eleven years since the last movie with him in it)
but if you're going to be doing an origin story anyway, why not use the proper character? he's right there. black bag work in post-soviet countries is literally john clark's whole thing! that's what he does!
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Oh man that's right.
I remember 9/11.
For some reason cnn had Clancy in as an "expert commentator" I just wanted to be all. Guys, you know his books weren't real right?
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Jack Ryan: The Most Secret Agent
Jack Ryan: A Spy of Spies
Jack Ryan: Alec Baldwin isn't in this one.
why the hell is that a jack ryan movie, he was a marine for like five minutes
please tell me that's just a john clark movie and they made a typo on that poster
Harrison Ford
Ben Affleck
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Never knew those were all the same guy in the books.
Why have we not had a John Clark movie yet?
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I never got to play it but it seemed really interesting
Clancy consulted with Larry Bond heavily on that book, which if you've ever played Harpoon should not surprise you at all.
Also Red October. And Patriot Games.
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I was 11/12ish and it was kind of one of those loss of innocence moments while sitting in the public library.
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because that would be awesome
RIP Rainbow Six
Willem Dafoe played Clark in Clear and Present Danger, I believe.
Clancy, while writing in specific detail about jack Ryan's breakfast. Included something along the lines of, he ate croissants with butter and jam because, damn his cholesterol.
Tom Clancy ran our of things for Jack Ryan to fight so he fought healthy living.
I think it was his biggest weakness with his books, he wrote some absolute pulp classics. Clear and present danger, without remorse and rainbow six are awesome. If not slightly jingoistic. But by the end of it, Ryan, Clark, the couple that ended up running the CIA were just bulletproof demi-gods. Oh and Ryan's best friend, who was a test fighter pilot, ended up with a couple of general stars and the became Vice President.
Satans..... hints.....
William Dafoe portrayed him in Clear and Present Danger, actually
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
hahaha holy shit Jeff Rovin
that guy wrote the "How To Win at Nintendo Games" books I had as a kid. They were really good, too. He was an adult giving honest assessments of these games and he wouldn't mince words when he thought a game was trash.
I'm reading his (Rovin's) bio on Wikipedia now. I have a lot of admiration for that kind of - what they used to call a "hack" as a compliment. A dude who just sits down and fucking cranks it out on any subject whether he cares about it or not.
he totally isn't a spy or soldier badass in Red October, that's the entire point of the character and part of why this whole JACK RYAN DOUBLE BLACK ELITE thing is so dumb
Satans..... hints.....
and this was 1991, 92, right after the Cold War so this stuff was actually pretty educational for me. His early stuff was really not racist or jingoist; the Russians were not cackling supervillains, they were just kind of dry bureaucrats who were more or less exactly like our guys. I have a feeling that Clancy was one of those guys like Dennis Miller who had something break inside of them after 9/11 and just kind of went around the bend.
but if you're going to be doing an origin story anyway, why not use the proper character? he's right there. black bag work in post-soviet countries is literally john clark's whole thing! that's what he does!
I remember 9/11.
For some reason cnn had Clancy in as an "expert commentator" I just wanted to be all. Guys, you know his books weren't real right?
Satans..... hints.....
I felt like the coolest kid
But the ones I've read have characters really young and then they're back and their kids are in a similar occupation and it's like what did I skip???
But they're good.
"I know this book. Your conclusions were all wrong, Ryan. Hasley acted stupidly."
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