The best Jack Ryan: Baldwin, Ford, or Affleck?

[Kirkman1987]

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Harrison Ford has never repeated himself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GwtRsOYSI

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Ryan Gosling.

When was he Jack Ryan?

 

[butch101]

Baldwin always been Ryan in my mind when I was reading the books. So, he's my first choice. Ford's Ryan was good, but never fitted. He's a terrific actor, yes, but he's not Jack Ryan. And for Affleck's Ryan, I like him. He did a good job to fit in the role. Too bad he might not take another shot for Ryan...

Butch

 

[A beaker full of death]

As the first film in the series, Hunt was excellent.

What makes them a series?

EDIT: I've only seen Hunt.

They all are movies that are lead by the character of Jack Ryan?

That doesn't make them a series, any more than Batman 1966 and Batman 1989 are part of a series.

 

[doubleohfive]

Jonathan Frakes.

(You KNOW that's the only right answer.)

 

[Aragorn]

Ryan Gosling.

When was he Jack Ryan?

He's the rumored favorite to play the part for the new franchise with a hipper, younger Jack Ryan in adventures not based on any of the novels.

 

[BigFoot]

Baldwin

 

[nx1701g]

Every time someone says Jack Ryan I think of Alec Baldwin in the role. It was just so tight a story.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I'd have to go with Baldwin. He was the first, he was good and I was sorry he didn't continue the roll. Ford just got the part because of his star status, and though I really do like him, he was just going through his "Don't you hurt my family you terrorist bastards!!" routine. Afleck? I don't think I saw that one.

 

[Worf2DS9]

Baldwin was the best.

And I'm still not following A beaker full of death's argument...

 

[CorporalClegg]

Jack Ryan is Alec Baldwin.

He gets extra points for the awesome Conneryism.

 

[captcalhoun]

they're a series in the same way James Bond is a series or the Star Trek movies or Spider-Man or Mission: Impossible...

 

[A beaker full of death]

they're a series in the same way James Bond is a series or the Star Trek movies or Spider-Man or Mission: Impossible...

So they have the same casts, crews, writers and producers?

 

[Aragorn]

Patriot Games was the same damn script that Alec Baldwin turned down (probably a money play where he lost, since they simply replaced him with the biggest movie star in the world at the time; though he claims it was to do Streetcar). So if Baldwin had returned, would you then call it a series? Does James Earl Jones being in the first three movies count?

Of the four movies, the only one that doesn't fit in is Sum when they deaged the main character.

 

[rType]

Baldwin, he's how I've always pictured Ryan when reading the books. It doesn't hurt that HFRO is the only decent film in the series either.