Another cold fusion claim

[Hawkmoon]

It was a great movie....but Kilmer's character wasn't the real Saint. If you watch the original Saint TV series (the ONLY thing Roger Moore ever did well), Templar is more of a mystery-solving gentleman con artist....not a high-tech, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-style thief. And Templar isn't the love-sick puppy type, either. Think of a cross b/t REMINGTON STEELE & THE MENTALIST......

Well, I am old enough that I was reading The Saint books by Leslie Charteris decades before television brought us Roger Moore masquerading as The Saint. I'm sorry to have to break this to you, but the movie Saint was much closer to the original character than Roger Moore. Poor old Roger is just too effeminate and too much of a lightweight to ever be The saint, any more than he could effectively be James Bond.

Kilmer wasn't perfect, of course. The book Saint was taller, darker and more physical, as well as being more urbane and sophisticated. He was also more into subterfuge and not as prone to relying on disguises. On the whole, however, I found the movie to be far more satisfying than the television version.

[Tallpine]

Elisabeth Shue

She was the mom in Dreamer, and interestingly enough - played Jennifer (?) in the second and third Back to the Future Movies.  The original actress was not available for the sequels, so they had to re-shoot the Toyota p/u in the garage and Delorean with the Mr Fusion power, using Shue instead.  But mostly all she had to do was lie on the porch swing and sleep through the whole thing.

[Scout26]

Elizabeth Shue and Lea Thompson.

To be a teenage boy in the 80's....

[seeker_two]

Well, I am old enough that I was reading The Saint books by Leslie Charteris decades before television brought us Roger Moore masquerading as The Saint.

Another thing I'll have to buy for my Kindle....thanks, Hawkmoon!....