Posted: 1/13/2007 4:57:20 PM EDT
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Something I find kind of interesting, there's a lot of cross-casting between Dogs of War and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Both films were made at roughly the same time. The black guy who played the usurping president was Captain Katanga in Raiders The black guy who played a seaman on the ship to Africa played.....a seaman in Raiders Paul Freeman who was one of Christopher Walken's mercenaries was Belloc in Raiders. |
the movie didn't hold a Bic lighter to the book. I thought that Walken sucked as the lead. Where were the mortars in the movie? I agree that the book was alot darker and darker is where it's at. |
I'd read the book a couple of times by the time the movie came out. I remember skipping out of 9th grade drama practice to get to the theatre in time.  Was a bit disapointed in the movie.The book rocks! One of my all time favorites. It got lost in the move to Colorado 17 yrs ago. 
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That's for sure fosters. I've been reading him since the mid-seventys. But his last couple of books, The Veteran and The Afghan, weren't up to his usual standard. Fine action but that twist at the end that alwasy gets you was missing. I don't think anything compares to his Cold War thrillers though. <end hijack> |