You can get a bit exhausted, sometimes, by the complexity of real life: the weight of people’s experiences and difficulties, and the way that absolutely everything, globally speaking, seems to be speeding towards disaster.
This is genius: “So you end up with either the scuttling Tom Cruise in the movies, giving us Reacher as a surprisingly violent figure-skater; or the massive, baffled Alan Ritchson in Amazon’s TV adaptation, giving us Reacher as Scooby-Doo.)”
Deserved! But let’s not overlook the counterweight that gives that sentence such force: Cruise’s “figure skater”—one of two bizarre yet irrefutable renditions of Hollywood’s apparent action-hero binary—which then lands on the befuddled squint of the befuddled cartoon Great Dane. SO good.
This is genius: “So you end up with either the scuttling Tom Cruise in the movies, giving us Reacher as a surprisingly violent figure-skater; or the massive, baffled Alan Ritchson in Amazon’s TV adaptation, giving us Reacher as Scooby-Doo.)”
Working out what Ritchson reminded me of was a personal high point, although I also feel a bit mean. He seems like a nice guy.
Deserved! But let’s not overlook the counterweight that gives that sentence such force: Cruise’s “figure skater”—one of two bizarre yet irrefutable renditions of Hollywood’s apparent action-hero binary—which then lands on the befuddled squint of the befuddled cartoon Great Dane. SO good.
I also particularly enjoyed this sentence!
Great, except for calling Child "it" at one point. Love the characterisation of Tom Cruise in this role.