Posted by steve butabi at p638.as1.limerick1.eircom.net on January 04, 2003 at 19:49:17:
In Reply to: Releasing or re-releasing RAIDERS would be tricky. posted by t o m on January 04, 2003 at 19:40:29:
: Think about it.
: TRUE LIES would be dodgy too, but it would have more of a chance to be released now than RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
: I wonder what Cameron plans to do with TRUE LIES 2. Even in Ben Affleck's THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, the villains were changed from Clancy's Muslim extremists to European white supremacists.
: On the other hand, I caught the original John Walker Lindh story, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on the big screen for the first time about six weeks ago. Of course, a film as perfect and even-tempered as that never stoops to playing a scene of a white man shooting an out-matched Arab swordsman in the street for laughs (with all the locals cheering the FUCKING WHITE GUY!!).
As i said tom,the irish have suffered with tom clancy (irish descent by the way) in patroit games an american falls foul of an I.R.A. attack and his family then become targets-ergo-the I.R.A. hates americans as well asthe english,an obvious swipe at the I.R.A.'s support base in the U.S.