Karl talking about Reacher's weight just reminds me of when i made my current D&D character i said he was 280lbs, thiking that was a good weight, and then later weighed myself upon seeing i was 243lbs and nearly a foot shorter than the character, told my friends "i didnt make Xatheer nearly heavy enough"
Look up athletes of the approximate height and weight for a character you want to create. You will be shocked at how they compare to your height and weight.
For martial classes, find professional wrestlers stats and go from there. Want em big but not Andre the Giant sized? Use Undertaker or Kane. Want 'em lean and mean? Try Rick Flair. Larger than lifer personality and many not the thinest? Dusty Rhodes, bebe! Etc And if anyone thinks, why use a wrestlers? Why not?
@@Jobe00I've never been a fan of using athletes of most sports with the only exception being football for character weigh scale because not only is they're usually a big difference in terms of stature but most athletes only ever really trained one to two parts of their body like a professional soccer player wouldn't really put too much effort towards their upper body and most sports prioritize running speed in some form or another and the easiest way to get really fast at running is just being really light and since the race information for most player races in d&d is so wildly unrealistic that using it out of the question like Goliaths you know the race of people that stand 7 to 8 ft tall made out of pure muscle by d&d standards they should only weigh like 2 to 300 lb for reference Robert Pershing Waldo the tallest human to ever live who stood at 8 ft 11 inches weighed 430 pounds and he was not by any measure bulky or overweight if anything it was the opposite he was quite scrawny and for like the last 2 years of his life he was quite sick human body mass scales very weirdly because of how bone mass is affected by height so realistically speaking of Goliath in full gear what probably way closer to 700 lb than 300
“Reacher” is a hugely entertaining show, especially beloved by guys who have an attitude like Jack but lack the sheer size and mad skills to make the same impact. Which is to say, I can’t get enough of this entertaining and very funny series.
Six years ago my grandfather on a trip put on an audiobook.. I have spent 6 years trying to figure out what that book was with no luck. Today I found out that book was "die trying" a jack reacher book. After all these years, I will finally be able to hear hoe that book ends
About the Marine Corps marksmanship competition: they'll open up competitions to other branches and countries to see what they do and use, and to figure out how to improve their own training and equipment. Edit: Oh crap, I'm one of those guys.
Headbutting a punch *totally works*. I know because I did it once in a fight when I was a teenager; other kid wound up, I just tucked my chin and braced myself. Monday morning comes around and he shows up with a full cast from fingertips to shoulder; he'd broken his wrist punching me in the forehead.
That's also because he had a weak wrist. Biggest reason why you wrap your wrists in any fight. Most common bones that break from punching hard objects are your hand bones (boxing fracture) or a knuckle. My buddy ground and pounded a kid that was stealing from him, one of his punches skipped off dudes forehead and he slammed his fist into the pavement. He kept going, but after we looked at his hand and the middle finger knuckle bone was moved to the center of on top of his hand! Looked like a bubble. Lol
@@DPSFSU Happened to Jim Braddock. He broke a bone in his hand, and it wasn't set correctly. So rather than pay a doctor to rebreak and reset his hand, his manager set up another boxing match so Braddock could do the first part himself.
Chainsaw into a crowd is my new favourite metaphor. lol. Reachers style reminds me a lot of the Bourne style. Fast, efficient, and occasionally brutal. Both either eliminate or take a threat out of the fight quickly. Krav Maga is a good example of this put into practice. As was the old WWI "Combato" method. History is fun. lol.
Im feeling some main character/in a simulation vibes rn. Cause im a huge fact fiend fan. And just got obsessed with Reacher 3 days ago. And here we are lol
Without the need for technology that others seem impressed and burdened by. The first novel came out in the mid-90s, CDs, he didn't want to deal with CDs.
My teenage years had the most intimidating physical presence I've ever experienced. Small UK town the most senior policeman was a sergeant and the one we had was 6'11" and usually went slightly sideways, stooping to go through doors. The drunken fights at the pub of a weekend would end rather quickly by him just arriving and standing still watching - everyone fighting would just stop and look at the blue wall. A hotel I worked in years later held the local policemans ball one year and seated during dinner he was about as tall as average height people standing lol
I'm not shredded down to 4% body fat or anything. But I am 6'5. I currently weigh about 340lbs. And people say I don't look it. Considering how much muscle is on that man, I don't believe for a minute he's under 270.
It's been stated that Tom Cruise, and basically every shorter actor that needs to be taller, uses what they call in the industry a "Man Maker". It's essentially a wooden box painted black that the actor stands on. Movie magic!
I've used to do the same "play back in my head" of music when I didn't have my current at the time portable music player with me. It's not as hard as you think. And as much as he sounds like a superhero on paper, he's more realistic than you would think.
I think what I really find hilarious about the Tom Cruise Reacher films (I like the films, they’re great despite the issues) is that not only is Cruise clearly not the 6’5” mountain of muscle Reacher is in the books BUT they also fudge his height so that he looks taller than both his female co-stars. In the first film you have Rosamund Pike, beautiful British actress…..who is 5’9” tall. Yet in the film 5’7” Tom Cruise in a lot of the shots appears either the same height as her, or a couple of inches taller. Same goes with Cobie Smulders in the second film. She’s 5’8” yet is still dead level with Tom in the film. I dunno if Cruise has some hefty lifts in his shoes or they’re digging trenches for these actress to drop down into! They certainly aren’t wearing heels! 😂
For non moving shots, they use a wooden box, painted black, known in the industry as a "Man Maker". If they're moving, they'll make part of what the actors are on, lifted.
Lets not Forget about the Extended Jack reacher Literary Universe(with premission from lee child) 7 series of novels by 5 different writers Its wild You go from Fedral agents hunting Jack,special investigators series and one about his son looking for him to cloning and time travel
I get your point about the music in your head being something not everyone can do, but I don't think it's that crazy of an ability. I always have music in my head. No song gets stuck cuz I got a catalog up here basically haha
In the first book the first-person narration said that he could change the key of the song and hear it that way. I don't think most people can just say, "I want to raise this song by a fifth and hear how it would go then." Though that does get dropped by like the second book.
@@shanedbunting That could be genetic. The women in my family will wake up 6/7am... no matter what. They could go to sleep at 5am and wake up at 7. Unless they're drunk.
About the "headbutt to the punch", there's and old movie (80's I think) about boxing (barenuckle?= where the trainer tells the lead character "Top of the head. The hardest part in the human body". I think it was called "The Fighter", or "The Warrior", or something like that.
One thing i noticed about the movie and the series is that supporting characters would express how big he was and comment on his massive stature..not so much in the movie. And in the movies some of the antagonists would physically look down on Cruise. That's comedy
I am 6'5" as well and the show shows the tall guy experience really well! I'm nowhere near as buff as him or anything but just fitting into places can be really difficult and finding long enough pants or shirts is a constant struggle.
On the issue of head vs hand, the bone structure of the hand is far more fragile than some parts of the skull, specifically the forehead. The forehead bone is quite dense as there is only one principle function which is to protect the brain mass, while the bones in the hand need to be lighter and flexible to achieve the fine dexterity. We do commonly see hand fractures like the "boxer fracture" where the person punching fractures their 5th or 4th metacarpal as these digits don't align linearly with the direction of the punch. While I certainly don't recommend intentionally headbutting a punch as one can still suffer other injury like a concussion, I do fondly recalling my orthopedic preceptor sardonically commenting that a patient, who injured his hand in a fight, ought not have been so eager to punch his opponent's skull as his hand will always lose.
24:50 It's an _exaggerated_ version, certainly, but the baseline... thing of being able to perfectly replicate songs in your head is a thing people can do. I can. Obviously, there are caveats, it needs to be a song I've heard a lot, it needs to be a song I _like_ listening to and so forth. But the baseline thing of perfect tonal recall is a legit thing that people can do. You might know it by the more common name of "having perfect pitch".
Hearing music inside your head isn't magic. My memory and recall isn't nearly as good a Reacher's but I have a good memory for the music and lyrics, down to the solos and instrumental breaks. I bet there is many more people like that.
I understood what his character was when i saw a clip where he confronted a robber who had a mother and kid as a hostage by walking up to the driver side where the robber is, punching the window and pulls him out and proceeds to beat the shit out of him
Same! Didn't know it was on Amazon, waiting for me. I thought it was on Netflix and figured oh well, probably not that great anyway. Glad to hear otherwise.
Interesting fact, if someone throws a straight punch at ur face and u put ur crown of ur forehead into it most of the time they brake thier hand. It's one of the strongest parts of the human body. Headbutts don't hurt that much if u do it properly, also I'm retarded.
I think in the beginning Lucas was confusing Jack Reacher with Jack Ryan, both are great, long running novel series that are written by very intelligent and informed authors but Jack Ryan is a Spy, his thing is that he's just an analyst at the CIA and isn't supposed to do field work but always winds up in operations somehow (or stopping IRA attacks on the British royal family).
To go with the challenge larger people thing: People try to challenge professional wrestlers all the time and then realize that even though they play "wrestlers" on tv, the men, woman and non binary people who wrestle are hard as rocks and can basically destroy anyone that steps up to them. They all get sick of it because it happens way more than you think it would...
...all of his "super human mental skills" are just kind of what i do when im bored because im autistic, not getting why people listen to certain music, not getting super fancy clothes because why, hes SUPER SUPER technical about details- i know its a trend to be "oH mY gOd, He'S sO AuTiSm!! 🥰😋🤪" but i mean like imma headcannon hes just undiagnosed ASD with a physic of a god.
Well if you study music you can retain more details of the music. Meter, rhythms, melody, intervals. Like you mentioned blues well their are like hundreds of variations, but typically 12 bars and based around 3 four bar measures measures. Chords our 1 4 or 5 chords and elaborated on with back cycling or using a series of 5 chord movements.
Hobos don't "choose to not work", Hobos come from the late 1800s until the 30's, and they were travelling workers. They would hop trains, go to the next town over, and work there. When work was done, they would hop on another train, and repeat the cycle.
wait a second i never heard about this series, but i do play music in my head. I can actually play a song that i hear at least few times in my head . That's not normal ?
Not note perfect to completion, no. Also, Reacher was supposed to be able to change the key of the song he was playing in his head and the entire song would shift to accomodate the key change. Some people have no visual imagination, ask them to picture an apple and no image forms in their mind. There a lots of subtle differences in the ways peoples brains are wired. Most of the time it has no substative impact on their lives.
@@DPSFSU there is a scene where the cop asks the hotel clerk "do you have anyone staying here that could kill someone in one punch" and she immediately thinks Tom Cruise.
It is called the Wimbledon Cup, it is part of a civilian open competition presented by the NRA. Reacher competed because he was available to compete and he one only one event out of the competion. It is one of many details that Childs has gotten wrong throughout the series.
i dunno if its just me, but i think the C and the T on that shirt might be a tiny bit too close... looks like it says something very different at a glance
I had some preconceptions about the Reacher stuff, that it would be part of the genre of jingoistic alpha male military fetishist power fantasy. Please to learn that the character is fairly chill and not just a mouthpiece for some right wing culture war bullshit.
I was pretty surprised as well. I've never read the books, but with how Tom Cruise handled everything, I wasn't exactly looking forward to the TV show, but Amazon really came through on this one dude. I HATE doin this whole "endorsing" schtick but damn, that show is fantastic 😂
I'd say its quite possible to listen to music in your head I do it myself I've got a rough set of 300 songs that I know about 100% of that I like to listen to
He said not everyone can replay songs in their head. You being able to in no way contradicts what Lucas said. Also in that first novel Reacher's inner monolog reveals that he can also change the key of any of the songs that he's heard and listen to the entire song with the appropriate pitch adjustments based on how far up or down he shifts the key. Separately, while most people can picture an object in their head when propted, some 1%-3% of the population could not visualize an apple if asked to do so. There are a lot of sublte differences in the way people's brains are wired, not all of them make for a meaningful difference but some do.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 you say some funny words magic man but, cool and interesting i personally have not read the books or seen any media of jack Reacher but a hear ya and would like reiterate i was basing feat such as replaying music as something that is quite do able not implying in any only certain people merely stating its possible form my own experience if you'd like to explain from my own experience ill glady do that.
@@trizick5379was that pile of word vomit supposed to be legible, let alone coherent? They were just saying how his brain power differs than what most of us have and can do in recollection. They weren't knocking what you can do, albeit most of us can do it too.
It's always funny to me, as someone from the Netherlands, that usually my takeaway from media with someone who's supposed to be a huge impressive man, is that all the other people are very short. 6'5" is pretty normal for a man in my country.
That's Not how Night Works >_< Night is the Period of the day where the Sun is Not Up.... There's three different structures for periods of the day that I know of that include Night as a Definitive Period of the Day... - The Day/Night cycle is self explanatory. - Then there's the Three-Period Day which is a combination of Morning, Afternoon, and Night which would be Morning=4AM(a Farmer's Dawn)-11:59:59AM, Afternoon=Noon-7:59:59PM, and Night=8PM-3:59:59AM - Lastly, there's the Quatered Day which is splitting both day and night into 2 periods each. Morning is 6AM(about Dawn at the Equinox)-11:59:59AM, Afternoon is Noon/Midday-5:59:59PM, Evening is 6PM(about Dusk at the Equinox)-11:59:59PM, & "Night" is Midnight-5:59:59AM; Thus splitting Day into Morning & Afternoon and Night into Evening & "Night" This man is going by the separation of Days to Explain Periods of the Day, which is absolutely Nutter
What in the wide world of sports did you just write?! 24 hours in a day. 12 am, midnight, is the beginning on the DAY. Details matter in police work. That's also why they use military time and the date to covey time lines. 16th Dec, 2023, 00:00hours and so on.
@@DPSFSU Again, that's NOT a Last Night then or a This Morning. Night is a period of the Day, NOT subject to the Switch of Days. If you were going to do that, then go with the TIME or say Yesterday, which is a proper term for the switching over of Days. Do NOT make a Distinguishment between Last Night and This Morning based on a point in time Literally meaning the Middle Point of the Night when Morning is a period of the Daytime >_< If you Notice All 3 of my Models have Midnight as The Middle of the Night Proper, because that is what Midnight Means. Just as the other term for Noon, Midday, means Middle of the Day. If you are going to use Terms that refer to periods of the day and NOT to the Switching of the Day then Don't use Definitions that Refer to the Switching of yesterday to today....
@@durk5331 I swear nobody could follow what you are trying to lay down. You must not be from America, or just highly uneducated, either is fine, but 12:00AM, as well as 00:00, means The Beginning Of a DATE/DAY.
@@DPSFSU I can definitely understand how you're Not understanding the Difference between Days as a Measurement of 24 hours, and Periods of the Day like Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Day, and Night... Days as a Measurement of 24 hrs are an Exacting measure of the revolution of the Earth. Periods of the Day are an abstract based upon the perceived motion of the Sun and Moon caused by said Revolution... aka Day and Night.
@@DPSFSU I understand that you don't understand so I'm going to break it down for you. There is a Difference between The Exacting Measurement of a 24 hr Day based upon the Revolution of the Earth, and Periods of the Day which are a Linguistic Abstract based upon the perceived movement of the Sun and Moon due to the Revolution of the Earth. The character and thusly the Author are Conflating the Two quite Wrongly, as Morning is a Period of the Day that starts at Sunrise aka Dawn, which is exactly where I placed it, whether using Dawn at the Equinox or 6AM for the Quartered Day model, or a Farmer's Dawn aka around the time of day an olden (or possibly even modern) Farmer would have started their day. Morning is the period from sunrise to noon. Afternoon is the time between noon and evening. (In the 3 Period Day I substituted Night for Evening.) Evening is the period of time at the end of the day, usually from about 6 p.m. to bedtime (I abstracted this to midnight). Night is the time between dusk and dawn when there is no sunlight. Daytime is the time of the day between sunrise and sunset. In No Model is Night Ended at 11:59:59 for its Literal Definition is Sunset to Sunrise... Also, “Last night” refers to the time period that started yesterday when night began and ended today in the early morning when it was still dark. But that relates to the fact that "in the early hours" is between 12AM and 4AM, “in the early morning” is between 4AM and 8AM, and “in the late morning” is between 8AM and 12PM.
The new Jack reacher show was actually a very pleasant surprise to me. I expected trash TV, and got a very thoughtful and extremely well made action genre show with a beautiful aesthetic, well developed and fascinating characters, and an absolutely killer soundtrack. I had zero interest in watching it, saw the first episode under protest, and was hooked. I did find the books kind of generic to be honest, as thought they had been written as film scripts and needed to be films to reach their full expression. This isn't really a slam on the author, since its obvious just how good his work is when filmed, I guess I just wouldn't hype the novels to anyone who didn't LOVE the shows. Also, I hate that nasty little manlet Cruise, but he did actually manage to do a good job in the role. A bit too smug and smirking, but within acceptable parameters, and he got good directing and a great supporting cast, and in the end did solid work. Still can't stand the little fucker though. His best work is in the that science fiction movie Edge of Tomorrow.... because the first half of the movie is him being killed in various horrific ways. Loved that.
Child's has stated that he intends for the books to be "Airport Novels". They are meant to be easy, engaging reads for when you have time to kill. While there is a careful continuity to them, most could be read in any order without any issues.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 Yeah, that's a good way of describing them, After reading the first one and then looking into one from later in his career, I concluded that there isn't much there as compared to the filmed stories. Even the Tom Cruis ones (which are absolute hot garbage when set beside the Prime series, IMO) have a lot more depth to them than the novels. I can't be critical of any author who deliberately writes novels to be easy accessible reads, honestly it's more a flaw in me that I don't appreciate them, than it is an objection to the books. But man the show is good, I can't wait to start watching the prime season two, I wonder when the whole thing will be uploaded....
He did pretty damn good in the movies "Cocktail", "The Outsiders" and "Tropic Thunder". Some of the "Mission Impossible" movies are pretty good. I've heard a lot of people liking the movie he's in with Nicole Kidman, "Eyes Wide Shut"? I think. He's a weird dude in real life but he's a very dedicated actor. F scientology lol
watch his 2 interviews with Michael Rosenbaum you will love him more, i believe he said there that he's on TRT because he said that with his age he cannot lift like what he used to when he's on his teenage years and reacher needs to be a hulking mountain man
I don’t get why a 36 yo Major in the army would get out without finishing a retirement term, assuming he was commissioned after graduating college at either 20 or 22 that’s only 4-6 years left till he’s pensioned collecting 50% O4 pay for the rest of his life plus health and dental benefits. Being a hobo with a pension of ~$4000/mo sounds alright
He was a West Point graduate. The earliest books came out and were set during the end of Clinton years. There was a general reduction in the size of the military then. He opted to leave as part of the force reduction. He also would work odd jobs in various places he stopped and was rarely above rolling drug dealers and other criminals when he needed cash. In the third book, Reacher spent around three months in Key West digging out holes for pools where excavating equipment wouldn't fight by day and was a bouncer at a strip club by night. If a PI hadn't tracked him down and subsequently been killed he might have settled in there permanently.
You know, with some if his more eccentric parts of his personality as you've described it, he comes off unintentionally but mildly autistic. At least to me. Has some qualities similar to some of my own but of course unintentionally so.
I find it laughable that someone would be able to keep up that kind of physique while just wandering from city to city. Like how does he fit in time to hit the gym and get the calories/steroids to keep that ridiculous muscle mass?
I mean, that's what street fighting is. It's either you or them. With that mentality though, you might as well say "I'm planning on dying tonight, what are your plans?" in any street fight. If knives get pulled, that's when it really gets sketchy. One poke to the right wrong spot and you bleed out in seconds.
Just saw a tweet yesterday that said how the entire charm of Jack Reacher is that he's "what would happen if Sherlock Holmes had the size, power, and disposition of a noble ogre." --@CentipedeMouse
The show for reacher is so much better in terms of book accurate portrayal plus that actor is great Alan ritchson is great from Blue Mountain onward is a great actor
Karl talking about Reacher's weight just reminds me of when i made my current D&D character i said he was 280lbs, thiking that was a good weight, and then later weighed myself upon seeing i was 243lbs and nearly a foot shorter than the character, told my friends "i didnt make Xatheer nearly heavy enough"
Look up athletes of the approximate height and weight for a character you want to create. You will be shocked at how they compare to your height and weight.
@@Jobe00look up your own bmi that’ll shock most people 😂
For martial classes, find professional wrestlers stats and go from there.
Want em big but not Andre the Giant sized? Use Undertaker or Kane. Want 'em lean and mean? Try Rick Flair.
Larger than lifer personality and many not the thinest? Dusty Rhodes, bebe! Etc
And if anyone thinks, why use a wrestlers? Why not?
@@Blade_291 I'd go with athletes from other sports as the heights and weights of most pro wrestlers aren't usually their actual height and weight.
@@Jobe00I've never been a fan of using athletes of most sports with the only exception being football for character weigh scale because not only is they're usually a big difference in terms of stature but most athletes only ever really trained one to two parts of their body like a professional soccer player wouldn't really put too much effort towards their upper body and most sports prioritize running speed in some form or another and the easiest way to get really fast at running is just being really light and since the race information for most player races in d&d is so wildly unrealistic that using it out of the question like Goliaths you know the race of people that stand 7 to 8 ft tall made out of pure muscle by d&d standards they should only weigh like 2 to 300 lb for reference Robert Pershing Waldo the tallest human to ever live who stood at 8 ft 11 inches weighed 430 pounds and he was not by any measure bulky or overweight if anything it was the opposite he was quite scrawny and for like the last 2 years of his life he was quite sick human body mass scales very weirdly because of how bone mass is affected by height so realistically speaking of Goliath in full gear what probably way closer to 700 lb than 300
“Reacher” is a hugely entertaining show, especially beloved by guys who have an attitude like Jack but lack the sheer size and mad skills to make the same impact. Which is to say, I can’t get enough of this entertaining and very funny series.
Six years ago my grandfather on a trip put on an audiobook.. I have spent 6 years trying to figure out what that book was with no luck. Today I found out that book was "die trying" a jack reacher book. After all these years, I will finally be able to hear hoe that book ends
About the Marine Corps marksmanship competition: they'll open up competitions to other branches and countries to see what they do and use, and to figure out how to improve their own training and equipment.
Edit: Oh crap, I'm one of those guys.
Brock Samson comes to mind as someone that is a walking beacon of "Do not fuck with me"
Same with Brock Lesnar lol. Maybe most Brocks? 😂
Headbutting a punch *totally works*. I know because I did it once in a fight when I was a teenager; other kid wound up, I just tucked my chin and braced myself. Monday morning comes around and he shows up with a full cast from fingertips to shoulder; he'd broken his wrist punching me in the forehead.
That's also because he had a weak wrist. Biggest reason why you wrap your wrists in any fight. Most common bones that break from punching hard objects are your hand bones (boxing fracture) or a knuckle. My buddy ground and pounded a kid that was stealing from him, one of his punches skipped off dudes forehead and he slammed his fist into the pavement. He kept going, but after we looked at his hand and the middle finger knuckle bone was moved to the center of on top of his hand! Looked like a bubble. Lol
@@DPSFSU
Happened to Jim Braddock. He broke a bone in his hand, and it wasn't set correctly. So rather than pay a doctor to rebreak and reset his hand, his manager set up another boxing match so Braddock could do the first part himself.
Fun fact: not only does he have an internal clock, he also has an internal radio.
If you have one, you have the other.
It's an autistic trait.
I have it.
Chainsaw into a crowd is my new favourite metaphor. lol. Reachers style reminds me a lot of the Bourne style. Fast, efficient, and occasionally brutal. Both either eliminate or take a threat out of the fight quickly. Krav Maga is a good example of this put into practice. As was the old WWI "Combato" method. History is fun. lol.
Im feeling some main character/in a simulation vibes rn. Cause im a huge fact fiend fan. And just got obsessed with Reacher 3 days ago. And here we are lol
That Jason Statham thing fucking killed me
Why does it look like he has never been any other age than 35?! I swear he was born looking like that.
Without the need for technology that others seem impressed and burdened by. The first novel came out in the mid-90s, CDs, he didn't want to deal with CDs.
My teenage years had the most intimidating physical presence I've ever experienced. Small UK town the most senior policeman was a sergeant and the one we had was 6'11" and usually went slightly sideways, stooping to go through doors. The drunken fights at the pub of a weekend would end rather quickly by him just arriving and standing still watching - everyone fighting would just stop and look at the blue wall. A hotel I worked in years later held the local policemans ball one year and seated during dinner he was about as tall as average height people standing lol
I'm not shredded down to 4% body fat or anything. But I am 6'5. I currently weigh about 340lbs. And people say I don't look it. Considering how much muscle is on that man, I don't believe for a minute he's under 270.
It's been stated that Tom Cruise, and basically every shorter actor that needs to be taller, uses what they call in the industry a "Man Maker". It's essentially a wooden box painted black that the actor stands on. Movie magic!
I've used to do the same "play back in my head" of music when I didn't have my current at the time portable music player with me. It's not as hard as you think. And as much as he sounds like a superhero on paper, he's more realistic than you would think.
I think what I really find hilarious about the Tom Cruise Reacher films (I like the films, they’re great despite the issues) is that not only is Cruise clearly not the 6’5” mountain of muscle Reacher is in the books BUT they also fudge his height so that he looks taller than both his female co-stars.
In the first film you have Rosamund Pike, beautiful British actress…..who is 5’9” tall. Yet in the film 5’7” Tom Cruise in a lot of the shots appears either the same height as her, or a couple of inches taller. Same goes with Cobie Smulders in the second film. She’s 5’8” yet is still dead level with Tom in the film. I dunno if Cruise has some hefty lifts in his shoes or they’re digging trenches for these actress to drop down into! They certainly aren’t wearing heels! 😂
For non moving shots, they use a wooden box, painted black, known in the industry as a "Man Maker". If they're moving, they'll make part of what the actors are on, lifted.
How does Karl have such a wide net of stuff he follows? It is legitimately impressive and I am kind of jealous.
I think it's what he does for work.
Before he started his own channel, he was a writer for articles, you’d be surprised how many channels have used some of his articles for videos
Lets not Forget about the Extended Jack reacher Literary Universe(with premission from lee child)
7 series of novels by 5 different writers
Its wild
You go from Fedral agents hunting Jack,special investigators series and one about his son looking for him to cloning and time travel
I get your point about the music in your head being something not everyone can do, but I don't think it's that crazy of an ability. I always have music in my head. No song gets stuck cuz I got a catalog up here basically haha
In the first book the first-person narration said that he could change the key of the song and hear it that way.
I don't think most people can just say, "I want to raise this song by a fifth and hear how it would go then." Though that does get dropped by like the second book.
Same with the internal alarm clock . I can do it pretty much on command and I also do it inadvertantly sometimes if I try to use a regular alarm.
Yeah.
That's personal bias.
That you can do it and you're "normal" to you, you must find the ability to be common.
It's not common. It's very unusual.
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That could be genetic.
The women in my family will wake up 6/7am... no matter what.
They could go to sleep at 5am and wake up at 7.
Unless they're drunk.
About the "headbutt to the punch", there's and old movie (80's I think) about boxing (barenuckle?= where the trainer tells the lead character "Top of the head. The hardest part in the human body". I think it was called "The Fighter", or "The Warrior", or something like that.
One thing i noticed about the movie and the series is that supporting characters would express how big he was and comment on his massive stature..not so much in the movie. And in the movies some of the antagonists would physically look down on Cruise. That's comedy
I notice the lack of apostrophes in the don’t walk signs and point it out every time
I am 6'5" as well and the show shows the tall guy experience really well! I'm nowhere near as buff as him or anything but just fitting into places can be really difficult and finding long enough pants or shirts is a constant struggle.
On the issue of head vs hand, the bone structure of the hand is far more fragile than some parts of the skull, specifically the forehead. The forehead bone is quite dense as there is only one principle function which is to protect the brain mass, while the bones in the hand need to be lighter and flexible to achieve the fine dexterity. We do commonly see hand fractures like the "boxer fracture" where the person punching fractures their 5th or 4th metacarpal as these digits don't align linearly with the direction of the punch. While I certainly don't recommend intentionally headbutting a punch as one can still suffer other injury like a concussion, I do fondly recalling my orthopedic preceptor sardonically commenting that a patient, who injured his hand in a fight, ought not have been so eager to punch his opponent's skull as his hand will always lose.
There is a lot of internal monolog from Reacher about how he avoids punching in fights so that he can preserve his manual dexterity as he ages.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 that's a pretty cool detail. Man is smart and thinking the long game.
Regardless of any other opinions on the show. Alan Richson looks like Reacher stepped right off the page, couldn't have been better casting.
In Human Target there is an episode where Chance takes a punch to the top of his head on purpose to break a guy's wrist
Thank you Karl for letting me know the second season is out
Anyone else here do the internal clock thing as well?
24:50 It's an _exaggerated_ version, certainly, but the baseline... thing of being able to perfectly replicate songs in your head is a thing people can do. I can. Obviously, there are caveats, it needs to be a song I've heard a lot, it needs to be a song I _like_ listening to and so forth. But the baseline thing of perfect tonal recall is a legit thing that people can do.
You might know it by the more common name of "having perfect pitch".
Hearing music inside your head isn't magic. My memory and recall isn't nearly as good a Reacher's but I have a good memory for the music and lyrics, down to the solos and instrumental breaks. I bet there is many more people like that.
I understood what his character was when i saw a clip where he confronted a robber who had a mother and kid as a hostage by walking up to the driver side where the robber is, punching the window and pulls him out and proceeds to beat the shit out of him
I always liked wolverine because he's a total bad ass and in the comics he's 5'3"
Welp, I'm starting this up after this.
Same! Didn't know it was on Amazon, waiting for me. I thought it was on Netflix and figured oh well, probably not that great anyway. Glad to hear otherwise.
Interesting fact, if someone throws a straight punch at ur face and u put ur crown of ur forehead into it most of the time they brake thier hand. It's one of the strongest parts of the human body. Headbutts don't hurt that much if u do it properly, also I'm retarded.
I'm 6'8"... I'd kneel to Alan Ritchson
Reacher is Action Man Sherlock with the same observation and memory palace abilities.
Hawk??? I believe that’s Thad Castle sir 😂😂😂
I think in the beginning Lucas was confusing Jack Reacher with Jack Ryan, both are great, long running novel series that are written by very intelligent and informed authors but Jack Ryan is a Spy, his thing is that he's just an analyst at the CIA and isn't supposed to do field work but always winds up in operations somehow (or stopping IRA attacks on the British royal family).
Thank you for this.
The good old internal clock from arrested development:)
Wow, the first episodes from season 2 aired only yesterday. Never seen you guys post a video this close to the release of something before.
Not everyone can replay music in their heads: No memory only math and songs.
To go with the challenge larger people thing: People try to challenge professional wrestlers all the time and then realize that even though they play "wrestlers" on tv, the men, woman and non binary people who wrestle are hard as rocks and can basically destroy anyone that steps up to them. They all get sick of it because it happens way more than you think it would...
Jack reacher is my new favorite show.
...all of his "super human mental skills" are just kind of what i do when im bored because im autistic, not getting why people listen to certain music, not getting super fancy clothes because why, hes SUPER SUPER technical about details- i know its a trend to be "oH mY gOd, He'S sO AuTiSm!! 🥰😋🤪" but i mean like imma headcannon hes just undiagnosed ASD with a physic of a god.
As someone who constantly replays music in their own head without headphones, I thought that was normal...is it not?
Just started but Jack Reacher just wanders around solving problems.... dude thinks hes a member of the Scooby Gang.
Military retirement pension and VA benefits would make it very easy to just roam around.. Comfortably... I've considered it myself. lol
Always thought Alan Ritchson could play a live-action Brock Samson, he just needs a mullet.
Jack Reacher is a lone A-Team!
Well if you study music you can retain more details of the music. Meter, rhythms, melody, intervals. Like you mentioned blues well their are like hundreds of variations, but typically 12 bars and based around 3 four bar measures measures. Chords our 1 4 or 5 chords and elaborated on with back cycling or using a series of 5 chord movements.
Hobos don't "choose to not work", Hobos come from the late 1800s until the 30's, and they were travelling workers. They would hop trains, go to the next town over, and work there. When work was done, they would hop on another train, and repeat the cycle.
wait a second i never heard about this series, but i do play music in my head. I can actually play a song that i hear at least few times in my head . That's not normal ?
Not note perfect to completion, no. Also, Reacher was supposed to be able to change the key of the song he was playing in his head and the entire song would shift to accomodate the key change.
Some people have no visual imagination, ask them to picture an apple and no image forms in their mind.
There a lots of subtle differences in the ways peoples brains are wired. Most of the time it has no substative impact on their lives.
Something funny to do is to watch the movies and notice lines meant for someone larger than Tom Cruise. It is hilarious.
Don't feel like watching the movies right now. Could you give an example please? I can almost hear them but can't think of any.
@@DPSFSU there is a scene where the cop asks the hotel clerk "do you have anyone staying here that could kill someone in one punch" and she immediately thinks Tom Cruise.
@@mindlessmeat4055Yes, that line works really well in the book but fails completely with Cruise.
@4:10 did...did...did he just...damn man...damn... 😂
Most likely the teacher in the marine thing is that he was invited to do training with the Marines. (cross train, his background would warrant it)
It is called the Wimbledon Cup, it is part of a civilian open competition presented by the NRA. Reacher competed because he was available to compete and he one only one event out of the competion. It is one of many details that Childs has gotten wrong throughout the series.
Idk bet the younger ones heads grew and accommodated the gear with a grove.
i dunno if its just me, but i think the C and the T on that shirt might be a tiny bit too close... looks like it says something very different at a glance
I had some preconceptions about the Reacher stuff, that it would be part of the genre of jingoistic alpha male military fetishist power fantasy.
Please to learn that the character is fairly chill and not just a mouthpiece for some right wing culture war bullshit.
I was pretty surprised as well. I've never read the books, but with how Tom Cruise handled everything, I wasn't exactly looking forward to the TV show, but Amazon really came through on this one dude. I HATE doin this whole "endorsing" schtick but damn, that show is fantastic 😂
I am Reacher--size. 6'5" 240.
Cruise is 5'7" in his dreams.
I'd say its quite possible to listen to music in your head I do it myself I've got a rough set of 300 songs that I know about 100% of that I like to listen to
He said not everyone can replay songs in their head. You being able to in no way contradicts what Lucas said.
Also in that first novel Reacher's inner monolog reveals that he can also change the key of any of the songs that he's heard and listen to the entire song with the appropriate pitch adjustments based on how far up or down he shifts the key.
Separately, while most people can picture an object in their head when propted, some 1%-3% of the population could not visualize an apple if asked to do so.
There are a lot of sublte differences in the way people's brains are wired, not all of them make for a meaningful difference but some do.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 you say some funny words magic man but, cool and interesting i personally have not read the books or seen any media of jack Reacher but a hear ya and would like reiterate i was basing feat such as replaying music as something that is quite do able not implying in any only certain people merely stating its possible form my own experience if you'd like to explain from my own experience ill glady do that.
@@trizick5379was that pile of word vomit supposed to be legible, let alone coherent? They were just saying how his brain power differs than what most of us have and can do in recollection. They weren't knocking what you can do, albeit most of us can do it too.
Anyone else think the new Tom Cruise sequel was great. Top Self 2
what about hugh jackman as wolverine
Huge* Jackman
yeah boi@@jamesontheSecond
5:36
But thats the distinction.
A bum wouod take when offered always.
A hobo will seek.
Tom Cruise is 5'7"? Only in 4" heels....
I do like the Tom Cruise movie
It's always funny to me, as someone from the Netherlands, that usually my takeaway from media with someone who's supposed to be a huge impressive man, is that all the other people are very short. 6'5" is pretty normal for a man in my country.
I expected him to be a douche, but I'm pleasantly surprised!
That's Not how Night Works >_< Night is the Period of the day where the Sun is Not Up.... There's three different structures for periods of the day that I know of that include Night as a Definitive Period of the Day...
- The Day/Night cycle is self explanatory.
- Then there's the Three-Period Day which is a combination of Morning, Afternoon, and Night which would be Morning=4AM(a Farmer's Dawn)-11:59:59AM, Afternoon=Noon-7:59:59PM, and Night=8PM-3:59:59AM
- Lastly, there's the Quatered Day which is splitting both day and night into 2 periods each. Morning is 6AM(about Dawn at the Equinox)-11:59:59AM, Afternoon is Noon/Midday-5:59:59PM, Evening is 6PM(about Dusk at the Equinox)-11:59:59PM, & "Night" is Midnight-5:59:59AM; Thus splitting Day into Morning & Afternoon and Night into Evening & "Night"
This man is going by the separation of Days to Explain Periods of the Day, which is absolutely Nutter
What in the wide world of sports did you just write?! 24 hours in a day. 12 am, midnight, is the beginning on the DAY. Details matter in police work. That's also why they use military time and the date to covey time lines. 16th Dec, 2023, 00:00hours and so on.
@@DPSFSU Again, that's NOT a Last Night then or a This Morning. Night is a period of the Day, NOT subject to the Switch of Days. If you were going to do that, then go with the TIME or say Yesterday, which is a proper term for the switching over of Days. Do NOT make a Distinguishment between Last Night and This Morning based on a point in time Literally meaning the Middle Point of the Night when Morning is a period of the Daytime >_<
If you Notice All 3 of my Models have Midnight as The Middle of the Night Proper, because that is what Midnight Means. Just as the other term for Noon, Midday, means Middle of the Day. If you are going to use Terms that refer to periods of the day and NOT to the Switching of the Day then Don't use Definitions that Refer to the Switching of yesterday to today....
@@durk5331 I swear nobody could follow what you are trying to lay down. You must not be from America, or just highly uneducated, either is fine, but 12:00AM, as well as 00:00, means The Beginning Of a DATE/DAY.
@@DPSFSU I can definitely understand how you're Not understanding the Difference between Days as a Measurement of 24 hours, and Periods of the Day like Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Day, and Night... Days as a Measurement of 24 hrs are an Exacting measure of the revolution of the Earth. Periods of the Day are an abstract based upon the perceived motion of the Sun and Moon caused by said Revolution... aka Day and Night.
@@DPSFSU I understand that you don't understand so I'm going to break it down for you. There is a Difference between The Exacting Measurement of a 24 hr Day based upon the Revolution of the Earth, and Periods of the Day which are a Linguistic Abstract based upon the perceived movement of the Sun and Moon due to the Revolution of the Earth.
The character and thusly the Author are Conflating the Two quite Wrongly, as Morning is a Period of the Day that starts at Sunrise aka Dawn, which is exactly where I placed it, whether using Dawn at the Equinox or 6AM for the Quartered Day model, or a Farmer's Dawn aka around the time of day an olden (or possibly even modern) Farmer would have started their day.
Morning is the period from sunrise to noon.
Afternoon is the time between noon and evening. (In the 3 Period Day I substituted Night for Evening.)
Evening is the period of time at the end of the day, usually from about 6 p.m. to bedtime (I abstracted this to midnight).
Night is the time between dusk and dawn when there is no sunlight.
Daytime is the time of the day between sunrise and sunset.
In No Model is Night Ended at 11:59:59 for its Literal Definition is Sunset to Sunrise...
Also, “Last night” refers to the time period that started yesterday when night began and ended today in the early morning when it was still dark.
But that relates to the fact that "in the early hours" is between 12AM and 4AM, “in the early morning” is between 4AM and 8AM, and “in the late morning” is between 8AM and 12PM.
The new Jack reacher show was actually a very pleasant surprise to me. I expected trash TV, and got a very thoughtful and extremely well made action genre show with a beautiful aesthetic, well developed and fascinating characters, and an absolutely killer soundtrack.
I had zero interest in watching it, saw the first episode under protest, and was hooked. I did find the books kind of generic to be honest, as thought they had been written as film scripts and needed to be films to reach their full expression. This isn't really a slam on the author, since its obvious just how good his work is when filmed, I guess I just wouldn't hype the novels to anyone who didn't LOVE the shows.
Also, I hate that nasty little manlet Cruise, but he did actually manage to do a good job in the role. A bit too smug and smirking, but within acceptable parameters, and he got good directing and a great supporting cast, and in the end did solid work. Still can't stand the little fucker though. His best work is in the that science fiction movie Edge of Tomorrow.... because the first half of the movie is him being killed in various horrific ways. Loved that.
Child's has stated that he intends for the books to be "Airport Novels". They are meant to be easy, engaging reads for when you have time to kill. While there is a careful continuity to them, most could be read in any order without any issues.
@@christianboehlefeld5168 Yeah, that's a good way of describing them, After reading the first one and then looking into one from later in his career, I concluded that there isn't much there as compared to the filmed stories. Even the Tom Cruis ones (which are absolute hot garbage when set beside the Prime series, IMO) have a lot more depth to them than the novels.
I can't be critical of any author who deliberately writes novels to be easy accessible reads, honestly it's more a flaw in me that I don't appreciate them, than it is an objection to the books.
But man the show is good, I can't wait to start watching the prime season two, I wonder when the whole thing will be uploaded....
He did pretty damn good in the movies "Cocktail", "The Outsiders" and "Tropic Thunder". Some of the "Mission Impossible" movies are pretty good. I've heard a lot of people liking the movie he's in with Nicole Kidman, "Eyes Wide Shut"? I think. He's a weird dude in real life but he's a very dedicated actor. F scientology lol
Idk why but allen looks bigger in season 2
I think I heard he gained 30 pounds for season 2
watch his 2 interviews with Michael Rosenbaum you will love him more, i believe he said there that he's on TRT because he said that with his age he cannot lift like what he used to when he's on his teenage years and reacher needs to be a hulking mountain man
I don’t get why a 36 yo Major in the army would get out without finishing a retirement term, assuming he was commissioned after graduating college at either 20 or 22 that’s only 4-6 years left till he’s pensioned collecting 50% O4 pay for the rest of his life plus health and dental benefits. Being a hobo with a pension of ~$4000/mo sounds alright
He was a West Point graduate. The earliest books came out and were set during the end of Clinton years. There was a general reduction in the size of the military then. He opted to leave as part of the force reduction.
He also would work odd jobs in various places he stopped and was rarely above rolling drug dealers and other criminals when he needed cash.
In the third book, Reacher spent around three months in Key West digging out holes for pools where excavating equipment wouldn't fight by day and was a bouncer at a strip club by night. If a PI hadn't tracked him down and subsequently been killed he might have settled in there permanently.
So he's a good guy that fights like a villain. I can't knock someone who treats women like people and hates racism.
How are you 210lbs???? That can't be right
It’s incorrect.
I checked today, I’m 222 pounds.
@@factfiendgaming jeez, you wear it well haha
BLACK AND GOLD ALWAYS!! UP UOS
Bond isn't a misogynist, he is a misanthrope.
You know, with some if his more eccentric parts of his personality as you've described it, he comes off unintentionally but mildly autistic. At least to me. Has some qualities similar to some of my own but of course unintentionally so.
I find it laughable that someone would be able to keep up that kind of physique while just wandering from city to city. Like how does he fit in time to hit the gym and get the calories/steroids to keep that ridiculous muscle mass?
Tom Cruise is the world's most famous mid-life crisis.
An US Marine once told me, “A fight for your life is never a fair fight, do what you have to do to survive.”
I mean, that's what street fighting is. It's either you or them. With that mentality though, you might as well say "I'm planning on dying tonight, what are your plans?" in any street fight. If knives get pulled, that's when it really gets sketchy. One poke to the right wrong spot and you bleed out in seconds.
Just saw a tweet yesterday that said how the entire charm of Jack Reacher is that he's "what would happen if Sherlock Holmes had the size, power, and disposition of a noble ogre."
--@CentipedeMouse
The show for reacher is so much better in terms of book accurate portrayal plus that actor is great Alan ritchson is great from Blue Mountain onward is a great actor