Dr. Watson said:
MooreTrucker said:
Dr. Watson said:
So the only terrorists we're allowed to imagine or think about are Muslims? Good grief. Turn on Hannity, make a cup of warm milk, curl up in your Trump Snuggie, and the world will be alright for you. The rest of us can enjoy the movie.
HEY!!! Don't be lumping all of us Trump supporters into the pile with that goob. I have no problem with it being IRA bombers. Where does it say that it happens present day anyway?
Oh, I'm not. I'm well aware that most folks are capable of enjoying a movie with non-Muslim terrorists. And for the record, I thought turning the terrorists in Sum of All Fears (who weren't even all Islamic terrorists in the book) into Nazis was beyond idiotic. It depends on the source material.
Terrorists do in fact come in all creeds, races, etc. Timothy McVeigh could certainly be considered a terrorist although I disagree with calling him a Christian terrorist, as I've seen some describe him to be.
Regarding The Sum of All Fears, that is my favorite of Tom Clancy's novels. Absolutely fantastic book. But Hollywood has never been able to put his book onto the screen in a satisfactory manner. Even The Hunt For Red October, which, while a damn fine movie, left out too much from the book and had some subtle alterations to the Jack Ryan character than Alec Baldwin portrayed. Patriot Games? Harrison Ford was the wrong choice for Jack Ryan, and come on, the movie centers on Ryan identifying a terrorist by her tits seen from a satellite photo, and this particular character was on at most 2 pages of the 400+ page book. Clear and Present Danger right out of the gate changes the gender of the gruff old Coast Guard captain to some young female, and Willem Dafoe as Clark? But The Sum of All Fears, as you point out, takes the cake for bowing to political correctness, let's not offend the Muslims, and make the book's Muslim villains into a white supremacist in Germany setting conditions for a war between the US and USSR. Nice idea, I suppose, but that's not The Sum of All Fears.