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Originally Posted by SPEMack618

Just saw the Jack Ryan trailer. No wonder Tom Clancy died. He was too embarrassed by tgis upcoming monstrosity.

I know. The movie is so not Jack Ryan it's incredible. Here's my nerdrage, reposted from the forum I originally posted it on:

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Did someone forget that Jack Ryan is a New England (Possible Boston) Catholic and very much NOT Chris Pine?

Somebody forget that he was a Marine for a few months (helicopter crash ended that)? That he's fought not-IRA on the streets of London and in his own house? That Cathy knows he's CIA?
That he personally recruited a Medal Of Honor-winning MH-53 pilot and his crew to rescue American black-ops soldiers in Columbia? That he personally manned a Minigun in a hot LZ, providing suppressing fire the whole time? That he promised the dying crew chief he'd send all of his kids to college? And did so?
That he figured out the entire Red October plot in a couple minutes, then made first contact with Raimus? That he shot it out in the missile room with a GRU agent and won? He was driving when Red October rammed the other sub?
That he defused a nuclear crisis (as in, WWIII in five minutes)with the USSR by hijacking the Hot Line to say "Hi" to a Russian he'd met once?

He's killed at least 3 other people in armed, face-to-face shootouts and shot a Minigun at a lot more.

Ryan was never a field agent, he was an analyst who went out in the field a couple times. Once for the Red October, once to help a defector escape, once to get the KGB head to defect. He was there when the Pope was shot, holding a gun on the second gunman.

He's happily married to an eye surgeon and it's a series-long running gag that every time they go on vacation, she get pregnant. "Must be something about strange hotel rooms" The hotel-room gag is deliberately invoked in The Sum Of All Fears.

He's a Marine-trained, very lucky badass who's friends with John Clark, an ex-SEAL with a Navy Cross (later upgraded to the MoH), and Domingo "Ding" Chavez, a light-infantry ninja who joined the CIA after Columbia. The Prince of Whales owns Jack his life, and Robby Jackson is a shotgun-wielding F-14 pilot.

THIS IS A HORRIBLE EXCUSE FOR A JACK RYAN MOVIE!!!

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