I adore this movie. I saw this very young and it was my first exposure to a lot of more mature subject matter. I’m so glad it’s getting some play in the reactor scene. Despite his Jurassic Park fame, Sam Neill will forever and always be “I would like to have seen Montana.”
Loved your reaction to this! I initially did not think you would enjoy it, since it doesn't fit your genre, but you most definitely did enjoy it, genuinely, and I'm grateful for it! Another submarine film that you might enjoy is U-571 with Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, even Bon Jovi is in it. It's my favorite submarine movie ever!
One thing that doesn’t make sense in the movie is that Jonesy was initially says he can hear the plant noise and it sounds like a Typhoon class submarine. Even with the caterpillar, he’d still be able to hear the nuclear plant on the submarine. What else would power the caterpillar?
In fact, some torpedoes can be controlled remotely, just like TOW antitank missiles, via a thin cable connecting the projectile with the firing platform
Little late. The movie wasn't quite based on a true story, but it absolutely had inspirations. *There are real typhoon subs, six total, but today there is only one. *Real hunts for ships really happened, there was the battleship Bismarck, where a sizable portion of the British Fleet and some American assets were dispatched to sink Germany's largest warship after it destroyed in quick fashion Britain's most famous warship the Hood. *There was apparently a disillusioned Russian captain in command of a high tech surface vessel that mutilated against high command and was taken down with repeated attacks, supposedly this particular story influenced Tom Clancy the most in writing Red October. Glad you enjoyed it. Not a fancy full out action flick like the Bourne Identity, but absolutely a must watch for a glimpse at the Cold War era.
The Soviets had one of the largest submarine in the world, which is this one you see it called Typhoon class by NATO. It also has a sauna and a swimming pool inside the sub.
The Russian Captain is played by the greatest James Bond ever.Sean Connery,The CIA official is played by another great actor.James Earl Jones.the voice of Darth Vader,many great movies and Theatre actor.The cast has many wonderful actors,,the great Fred Thompson who was a U.S.senator from Tennessee, left to become an actor and then went back to the senate."jonesy" another great actor ,and Scott Glenn,the captain of the Dallas. This is a great movie with many,many great actors. Enjoy!...... The movie was cut in many important places. Yes it's a great movie.
@@soulreaperiix_x8477 I thought his last movie was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Which I was very excited for but when I saw the beginning and the editing they had to do in his first fight...it took me out of the movie and never won me back. Shame. If Connery would have been a few years younger, that might have worked.
The transition from Russian to English is actually quite brilliant. Since the word "Armageddon" is the same in both languages, it makes sense to have that be the point where the switch takes place.
Agreed. The political officer reading from the Book of Revelations hits ... kind of close to the bone right now. Especially when you know what his name is.
@@Freakears Give me a break! What would the USA do if China built missile bases in Mexico or Canada? Putin just did the exact same thing that the USA would do if China flexed its muscles like NATO has been doing in Ukraine. Putin did nothing while Trump was in office, because he knew that Rump wouldn;t let him get away with it, just like he didn’t let Kim Jong whatsisname get away with threatening war either. The reason Putin wnet into Ukraine is because the US President of today is Joe Biden, one of the most corrupt and dishonest people in US politics and now a senile liability. The VP is a train-wreck waiting to happen and anyone with any sense would be terrified at that prospect, foreign leaders especially. No wonder Putin invaded Ukraine! If China was to do in Mexico what NATO is doing in Ukraine, the USA would invade Mexico in a heartbeat! It would be the only sensible thing to do! Putin does that and he’s the bad guy. According to the media who told us all that the vaccines are safe and will kill the virus. Why do people still take theeir word for anything?
Let me tell you, I LOVED your reaction to this movie. There is no way my daughter would sit down, watch this movie and enjoy it. For fathers everywhere, “you made us happy.”
I remember being able to see directly after my honorable discharge, at one of the last drive-in theaters in the country. Wow, what an experience in 1990.
One of my favorite little unsung scenes in this movie is the part where Admiral Padorin is walking into his office that morning, and everything his orderly says to him is met with "Ya ya" as if Padorin just doesn't care at all. He's in a completely zoned out mood. But then his orderly tells him that there's a letter from Ramius for him, and when he finds the letter, his entire demeanor changse immediately, and suddenly it's "Ahh! Marco!" It's so subtle, but it really does so much to show how fond of Ramius he is, and how much he misses him... which makes it all the more powerful when he realizes what Ramius is up to, and the spilled tea. Such a good movie overall though. The moment I saw you had it in your list, I had to check out your reaction immediately! Scott Glenn got to spend time on an actual Navy submarine shadowing the captain to research his role as American Captain Bart Mancuso of the USS Dallas. He said he mostly just imitated the captain he was shadowing as the character, and he comes off so well in the role. I like Scott Glenn anyway, but this is one of my favorite roles of his, especially in his scene where Jonesie is playing the tape of the Red October for him and suggesting he's headed for Red Route One. (Courtney B. Vance is great as Jonesie too!)
He was in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! :O Sad that was his last live action role, but even sadder that he kind of faded away for an entire generation once he retired. I even liked him in this indie film called Playing by Heart from around....1998?
@@CaturdayNite haha "faded away". He was cancelled by the moron mob that is twitter for something he said nearly 50 years ago. That's the world we live in now.
Sam Neil is incredible actor: Dead Calm with Nicole Kidman, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Event Horizon, Jurassic Park, he replaced sir Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder, and lot more roles. He even appears in Peaky Blinders.
27:00 To "scuttle" a ship means to deliberately sink her, either by opening valves to let seawater in, or setting off small explosive charges that blow holes in the hull.
Two times I felt physical pain while watching this: when she said she only knew Sean Connery from the SNL skit and when she asked if James Earl Jones was "the Sandlot Guy."
@@chadbattman6677 Celebrity Jeopardy. Will Ferrell plays Alex Trebek. One of many Celebrity Jeopardy skits. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ImaYMoTi2g8.html
I give her a break for not knowing a lot. We have a whole generation who never knew a world with Cold War. The movie was based on the Tom Clancy book of the same name. Clancy in turn based ot upon an incident in 1975 where a Soviet frigate tried to initiate a revolution to overthrow the Soviet government. The political officer of the frigate felt that Breshinev had betrayed the ideals of the revolution. A combined fleet of Russian Naval and air forces stopped the ship before it reached its destination. The political officer was executed and other officers served prison terms for their participation in the incident. Clancy ended up being debfiered by the Pentagon and CIA because his book was so close to real operational details. However, all of his sources were open sources available to the public, so he ended up starting a revolution in publishing and wrote the Jack Ryan series of books.
This was Tom Clancy's first book, and the start (not chronologically) of the Jack Ryan series. It was so well researched and detailed that the US government called him in to find out what he actually knew. He started the techno-thriller genre, and was one of the best authors of the 20th century, in my opinion. Great reaction!
Get this: The Red October is a modified Typhoon class submarine. (It's somewhat larger than a standard of the class) That class is the largest submarine type ever built, so if Red October were real, it would hold the record for being THE largest submarine ever built.
It's funny because according to the plot, Red October is bigger than other typhoons (3 meters wider and 26 meters longer). But Its film version is 30% smaller than real ships of this class and therefore almost 40% smaller than the described Tk-210.
I've read some of the Jack Ryan series and kind of.... got the impression that Tom Clancy secretly wants to be Jack. Lol. I mean the guy becomes president. The Rock is awesome. I dont even like Nicholas Cage but it's one movie that I'll always watch if i see it on.
Great review. Fun Fact I was on the USS Enterprise when they filmed this. There is scene at 19:52 - 20:04 of which most was cut, where a plane crashes on the Flight Deck which was actual old footage, they used a smoke generator to simulate the fire, ironically the smoke generator actually caught on fire and we had a real fire on the flight deck which was put out quickly.
The smoke machine caught fire... That's ironic! In the book, they were on the Kennedy (CV-67), and the guy who "crashed" was actually Jack's friend Robbie (who survived), but neither knew the other was on board. I'm not sure why they chose to film on the Enterprise. "Yours, Mine, and Ours, Star Trek IV, Top Gun, Hunt for Red October, and a few others I don't remember off the top of my head. Big-E always gets the screen time for some reason.
Also funnily enough that wasn't the Enterprise in Top Gun... It was super to be... But they used another ship for filming, the Ranger I think? I'll have to ask my buddy who was on it at the time.
Yes it was the Enterprise as VA-22 was assigned to it and I have a friend who was in it at the end when they Land he was a brown shirt with 3P on helmet. In the crowd.
‘Scuttling’ means intentionally sinking a ship, usually a warship, to prevent it falling into the hands of an enemy although it’s also used at the end of a ship’s service life, to, for instance, allow the hulk to become the basis for a new coral reef.
The greatest 1day loss of naval power in history was on 21 June 1919 when 54 ships of the German Imperial navy were deliberately scuttled by their own crews at the British navy base of Scapa Flow. They were being held there by the Royal Navy awaiting the signing of the final peace treaty that ended World War I. Fun facts: While most of the ships were salvaged over the past 100 years, there are still a few at the bottom. These are not only popular locations for scuba divers but a rare source of uncontaminated metal since they were made of high grade steel and sank before the first atomic bomb. This makes their hulls one of the few sources in the world of steel with no exposure to nuclear radiation.
@@Surfbird11 The demand for pre-nuclear steel isn't actually that high, which suppresses the value. What's being stripped in the past few years has mostly been the brass, which generally means cutting off the props (commonly 15 tonnes apiece on a battleship) and blasting into the engineering spaces.
I remember seeing a video documentry they did as a us carrier was scuttled to create a new reef and to later be used as a public diving training site. The preparations and removal of everything that could have caused harm to the sea and later be dangerous to future divers was enormous. Somehow they also managed to sink it pretty mutch straight down and have it sit almost perfectly upright on the ocean floor. They even hade cameras left inside the carrier as they sunk it to capture the water rushing in to diffrent parts of the ship.
Shiftry If you enjoyed that there’s a Discovery Channel special about sinking a Canadian missile cruiser at the end of its service life. Different branches took turns shooting at it. Another cruiser or destroyer used its main guns. 2 Canadian F/A 18s gave it a pass or two. An American sub was waiting confidently in the wings guaranteeing its torpedoes would break the proud ships back. It was sunk in an area where a reef was desirable. Crewmen who had served aboard the old ship saluted her as she slipped beneath the waves and it never failed to bring a tear to my eye, but the American cruiser unfurled an absolutely massive Stars and Stripes Battle Ensign to show respect. The thing was affixed amidships and the ends almost touched the water off the stern past the helicopter pad. I thought it was an absolutely classy move. It’s on YT, search ‘Discovery Canadian Cruiser,’ should pop up.
When this movie came out my father was home on leave. One of the very few times I saw him. He was on submarines in the Navy. We went to see this and I was wearing a USS Atlanta SSN 712 hat. The Dallas hats in the movie are SSN 700 and upon walking out people kept asking where I got the movie hat. I told them from him, pointing to my father in his uniform. Good times.
I saw this with my dad, who was a Navy vet who served on the very first nuclear powered boomers. Admiral Rickover personally interviewed every single officer who put in for the nuclear-powered boats. All my dad ever said was, when he left Rickover's office, the petty officer serving as the Admiral's yeoman asked "How did it go, Sir?" My Dad, a Lieutenant, answered, "I don't think he likes me very much." The yeoman smiled. "I wouldn't worry, Sir. Yesterday a Lieutenant Commander left here in tears." My father loved this movie, grumbling a bit about the unrealistic amount of space there was on the sets. We both laughed hardest when Van Pelt, Secretary of State, I guess? Defense Secretary? Anyway, he tells the Soviet ambassador "You've lost *another* submarine?" And the ambassador just sits looking like a kid telling his mom he lost his jacket *again*.
And Tim freaking Curry, one of the best comic actors ever, in possibly the only straight role he's ever done. No mischievous grin, no one liners, no comedy whatsoever. I thought I was in the freaking Twilight Zone when I saw that. :-o
@@jayeisenhardt1337 I had forgotten that role, though I haven't seen Legend since it first came out on video so that's been a while ago, and it didn't stick in my mind since I thought it was a meh movie. I also haven't seen 'It' as David references above, so almost all my experiences with Tim Curry's characters are him being comedic. Even in his dark turn as Cardinal Richeleu in The Three Musketeers there was still some of the well recognized comedic antics in his portrayal.
I served in the Navy, on submarines, in San\ Diego, where this movie was largely filmed. My watch station was helmsman...means I actually drove the sub. Just watching you watch this is nostalgic for me.
Hey! Me Too! I was stationed in San Diego on the USS DRUM (SSN 677) and I was also a helmsman. We used to watch this movie all the time while out at sea, plus Das Boot of course.
Sean Connery didn't do accents Sean Connery just played Sean Connery in every movie he was in and the movie adapted to fit him he was so legendary that it didn't matter, to have his name on your movie was a licence to print money
October is the 'month' of the Russian revolution, hence 'Red October' The 'sandlot guy' is the voice of Darth Vader 'Scuttle' is to deliberately let water into the boat to make it sink. Submarines are called boats Ryan's wife was played by Gates McFadden; she plays Dr Crusher in Star Trek Next generation
I get a kick out the name “October Revolution” Russia was using an older calendar system that was behind the time. So the “October Revolution” actually happened in November for the rest of the world. Later Russia updated to the western calendar.
And submarines were invented in Ireland. Not many people know that (see also, hot air balloons, rippable stamps, hypodermic needles, flavoured crisps/chips, and many other things).
The officer in the helicopter telling Ryan what to do on the way to get him on the Dallas was David Graf, who played the gun-loving Tackleberry in the "Police Academy" films.
@@oldfrend I'm definitely younger than Mrs. Popcorn, and I'm not a native English speaker - but I know the word "defect". It's not a generational thing, it's a timeless word. I've never known anyone that has ever defected, during a war or otherwise, but it's just a word you know. If nothing else, you should have heard the word several times in school during history classes. But now that Mrs. Popcorn is seeing this many war/military movies and tv shows, her "war vocabulary" is surely increasing, lol.
For apparently not having seen very many films, Cassie is very intuned. I have seen a lot of films and I can predict quite a lot of the story and even complete writer's sentences. Film class in college was a breeze, for example. I hadn't met someone else as good at it until this channel. She asks good questions, connects the dots well, catches the important details. She is very good at this.
Haha. Red October has always been the ultimate Dad flick. Serious, important men, having serious, important discussion about serious, important things... and gunfights... and explosions. Long-time favorite of mine, filled with a lot of great character actors. And you not really knowing anything about Connery made me feel very, VERY old...
My dad was definitely into Red October, and he got me (female) into Tom Clancy through this movie. It was the first action/war/spy type movie I ever enjoyed. I read the book, and Patriot Games, some years later, but it was only a considerable few years later that I read most of the others. Tom Clancy and John Le Carre together got me into the whole Cold War spy/thriller/technothriller genre(s), including such writers as Forsyth, MacLean, MacInnes, and Michael Crichton. Thanks, Dad.
Well, now that you've heard Sean Connery as a Russian with a Scottish accent, it's time to hear him as an Ancient Egyptian who became Spanish with a Scottish accent playing opposite a Frenchman playing a Scotsman with no effort by either of them to do an accent properly. You need to watch Highlander.
Yes!! And she will get to watch two and a half love stories. "From the dawn of time we came... No one has ever known we were among you.......until now.
@@3Rayfire She does movies, but perhaps we could suggest a few TV episodes. Perhaps the comedy caper - "Stone of Scone" or the touching - "Saving Grace", or the adventure "Patient Number 7", or a moral dilemma one like "The Valkyrie."
On the language switching scene it showed them speaking Russian. Then it zoomed in to the actor's mouth and switched to English and zoomed back out. You're too assume they're still speaking Russian but for us watching the movie and made it English so we could understand it easier.
@@cardiac19 I've heard that apparently their Russian speaking was the equivalent of saying a word backwards, and then playing it in reverse. If you speak Russian, how good or bad was their Russian?
The Caterpillar drive is a theory. It is called The MHD drive and uses superconducting magnets to accelerate water passing through it using a magnetic field, which is similar to how a caterpillar moves. The drive is often described as a jet engine for water that has no moving parts, making it very quiet. But it is not yet possible. We simply need stronger magnets and a TON more electricity.
"Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please." I think the Soviets should have twigged that Ramius would defect because both his Russian and his English carried a noticeable Scottish accent.
I've watched a couple of other reactions to red October, the thing they all have in common is how upset everyone gets when Sam Neals character dies, he just wanted a pickup truck and to live in Montana, so sad
@@kenkonwick6660 that casino royal guy hadly counts , and if we are going all the way back what about the radio bond . He wasn't even British in that jimmy bond .no way
When the book came out Ronald Reagan said that it was the greatest book he’s ever read. So they put that little homage in the movie because obviously they were his favorite.
@@JonNo86 It is an outstanding book. There was a dog eared copy of it in our breakroom back in the mid 1980s. I started reading it on break and had to take it home. Don't worry, it was back in the break room in just a couple of days.
Some things kinda hurt though..."I only know him from (a parody) SNL". I mean...ouch? No 007? No Rock? Nothing? I mean, yeah, it happens but still. You are right though, at least the reactions are genuine and entertaining.
The cast of this movie is so good. My favorite scene is James Earl Jones flipping his badge….’and I was never here.’ Also…’you lost another one?’ The unspoken snark! They both know what’s going on. Two diplomatic/spy masters budding heads.
In the book, we get vital backstory. Ryan had been in the military and had received back injury (and extensives operations) from an air crash. For him to sleep, in the closing credits, means TOTAL exhaustion.
Sorry for your loss. I learned the song, too, and used to sing it semi-regularly HYMN TO RED OCTOBER Words and Music by Basil Poledouris Russian Translation by Herman Sinitzen ------------------------------------------------- Holodna hmoora Eemruchnoh v'doosheh Kak mohg znat ya shtoh tee oomriosh? >> Cold, hard, empty >>Light that has left me >>How could I know that you would die? Do svidonia, byehreg rodnoy Kak nam troodnag pridstahvit shtoh eto nyeh sohn Rodina, dom radnoy Do svidonia Rodina >>Farewell again, our dear land >>So hard for us to imagine that it's real, and not a dream >>Motherland, native home >>Farewell, our Motherland Ay. Avepakhod, avepakhod, nass val nahmarskaya zhdyot nyehdazh dyotsyah >>Let's go; the sea is waiting for us Nass zah vootmarskaya dah, ee preeboy! >>The vastness of the sea is calling to us, and the tides! Salute otsam ee nashem dedum Zahvietum eekh fsigdah vierney Tepierre nichtoh, nee astanoivit, Pabiedney shark, radnoy straney >>Hail to our fathers and forefathers >>We are faithful to the covenant made with the past. >>Now nothing can stop >>Our Motherland's victorious march. Tiy pliyvee, pliyvee bestrashna, Gordest say viernykh marieye. Revoluytziye nadezhdah sgoostk vierif sekh luydeye. >>Sail on fearlessly, >>Pride of the Northern Seas. >>Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people. Tiy pliyvee, pliyvee bestrashna, Gordest say viernykh marieye. Revoluytziye nadezhdah sgoostk vierif sekh luydeye. >>Sail on fearlessly, >>Pride of the Northern Seas. >>Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people. Salute otsam ee nashem dedum Zahvietum eekh fsigdah vierney. Tepierre nichtoh, nee astanoivit, Pabiedney shark, radnoy straney. >>Hail to our fathers and forefathers. >>We are faithful to the covenant made with the past. >>Now nothing can stop >>Our Motherland's victorious march. Tiy pliyvee, pliyvee bestrashna, Gordest say viernykh marieye. Revoluytziye nadezhdah sgoostk vierif sekh luydeye. >>Sail on fearlessly, >>Pride of the Northern Seas. >>Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people. V'oktyabreh, v'oktyabreh, Rahpar tu ium miy nashe pabiediy. V'oktyabreh, v'oktyabreh, Novie meeir fahli numnashy dehidiy. >> In October, in October, >>We report our victories to you, our Revolution. >> In October, in October, >>And to the heritage left by you for us Tiy pliyvee, pliyvee bestrashna, Gordest say viernykh marieye. Revoluytziye nadezhdah sgoostk vierif sekh luydeye. >>Sail on fearlessly, >>Pride of the Northern Seas. >>Hope of the Revolution, you are the burst of faith of the people. Salute otsam ee nashem dedum Zahvietum eekh fsigdah vierney. Tepierre nichtoh, nee astanoivit, Pabiedney shark, radnoy straney. >>Hail to our fathers and forefathers. >>We are faithful to the covenant made with the past. >>Now nothing can stop >>Our Motherland's victorious march. V'oktyabreh, v'oktyabreh, Rahpar tu ium miy nashe pabiediy. V'oktyabreh, novie meeir . . . >> In October, in October, >>We report our victories to you, our Revolution. >> In October, a new peace . . ..
This book by Clancy, that this movie is based from, was so well researched by Tom that the FBI questioned him about where he got his info. Caterpillar drive is real.
I think the was the best adaption of a book to a movie I've seen. The combined a character and dropped a bit about maintaining the ruse that Red October sunk, but it works great. A former boss of mine said he knew somebody who's work in the Navy was classified and he could not talk about it. After the book came out, he told people who asked which page of the book to read.
Scott Glenn who played the Captain of the Dallas played Alan Shepherd in "The Right Stuff". He was the astronaut who did the impression of Jose Jimenez.
Can't believe I had to scroll so far for this comment. Das Boot is the submarine-film to watch, HfRO is the Hollywood massacre of the submarine war film.
As a German I second this comment. You should take the time for the directors cut. I consider a must-see movie for any movie-enthusiast's bucket list :)
There is also Crimson Tide. In that same vein with Jame Earl Jones and Powers Boothe, By Dawns Early Light. Those all about when ya trained to kill, how it takes on an entirely different meaning when it's just the button to end the world. Do you press it or not even if ya been trained to take that order. Like how Sean Connery had both keys, just trying to understand what "all the power" as she said actually means.
It's funny. I've seen this movie so many times that I genuinely forgot that it wasn't self-evident that Ramius is defecting. But watching it through Cassie's eyes, I gained a renewed appreciation for the suspense.
I grew up falling asleep to this movie so many times, I'm surprised the VHS didn't wear out. Don't ask why a kid wanted to watch a submarine movie, but I loved it.
I read the book a few months before starting Law School and realy enjoyed it. Once I started class there was no time for pleasure reading. The pressure gets pretty high in grad school and the week before quarterly finals my nerves were shot so I tooks some time to relax with a book, Red October. I did well that quarter and continued the reading policy. Law students become somewhat suspicious and don`t want to make any changes in their routines so I read R.O. again. I continued that practice for the next 3 years. I got to where I could speed read the book in one evening. b
The movie is based on Tom Clancy's first book, Jack Ryan is the protagonist of most of his books. There are a few other movies based on Clancy's books and an amazon series "Jack Ryan". Tom Clancy was probably the most known political thriller novelists.
As mentioned is this an adaptation of Tom Clancys book. There are others as well with various actors portraying Jack Ryan: *Clear and present danger* (Harrison Ford) *Patriot Games* (Harrison Ford) *The sum of all fears* (Ben Affleck) *Shadow Recruit* (Chris Pine) It is arguably a matter of taste whether or not one would like these films. Personally I find Red october an Sum of all fears, to be the best of them. I’m sure others will disagree.
@@muhest It think both Ford movies are equal. I wish they continued making them with Ford. The Amazon streaming show, and With Out Remorse movie is limp. They just use the IP to old onto the rights.
Hunt for Red October was huge when it came out. Big enough to spawn more Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan movies as well as a TV show. Harrison Ford takes over the role of Jack Ryan in the second film Patriot Games . We should do a live twitch stream of Jack Ryan on Amazon.
Clear & Present Danger, Patriot Games are MUST watches if you enjoyed this one... Alex Baldwin was great but Harrison Ford has an intensity that really suits the material.
I also loved when Alan Bates (the Austrian neo-nazi) in The Sum of All Fears quotes "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" from "We don't get fooled again"
The other Jack Ryan films are "Patriot Games", " Clear and Present Danger" and "Sum of All Fears" Harrison ford plays jack in Patriot games and Clear and present danger and Ben Afleck plays jack in the last one. There is another movie called Jack Ryan Shadow recruit that was ok and There is a series on Amazon Prime called Jack Ryan with John Krazinski as Jack that is great.
All the comments above mine show that all of this is so very subjective. I'm going to recommend *Patriot Games* and *Clear and Present Danger.* Not primarily because of what I think of the films, but rather her love for *Harrison Ford,* and the atypical action hero. *Edit:* I swear talk-to-text can be a real pain in the ass sometimes. Interpreting _plural_ as _possessive_ as a default is ridiculous. And has anyone else encountered that random _"oh"_ inserted after a comma?
Patriot Games is both an awesome movie and book. Clear And Present Danger is an awesome book, but a feeble movie. I felt as cheated by Hollywood with C&PD as I did by their version of John Grisham’s The Firm and Bryce Courtenay’s The Power Of One. Incredible books with awful film adaptations.
@JSB Question of taste. It's like making a comparison of the Sean Connery's James Bond movies with the Pierce Brosnan's James Bond movies. Patriot Games and Clear And Present Danger might be good books, the movies were OK and it lets the viewer to know more about Ryans family, but the IRA and drug Cartels theme bores the hell of me. I prefer spy movies with global conspirations.
Sadly, Hollywood never made a lot of movies like this. They never had the time. For example they have averaged 10 Robin Hood movies a decade since 1940.
Ahhh Cassie your lack of movie history is really cute. To not know Sean Connery one of the most famous actors in Hollywood history. It's quite comical. Sean Connery is only the most iconic James Bond and he took the franchise into cinematic history.
"Defect" means abandoning your own country without warning and going to live in another one. Back in the day, it was forbidden for a citizen of the Soviet Union to leave the country. But some of their best musicians and dancers "defected" when they went on tour in the USA ... they simply stayed in the USA, and were given asylum.
Which is why the sub had a "political officer" on board to prevent that very thing, and also why the captain had to get rid of him. What do you call the Stalingrad Symphony Orchestra after a world tour? The Stalingrad String Quartet.
Is it really Enterprise? Often they used any CV that was handy and just slapped the Enterprise hull number on it. Same way they used the Ranger in Star Trek 4.
20:00: "Did he eject in time?" That's actual footage of an F9F Panther piloted by Cdr. George Duncan crashing on the USS Midway in June, 1951. Cdr. Duncan did not eject but did survive the crash (the cockpit section remained intact), going on to be promoted to Captain in the Navy and becoming a lawyer following his retirement from service.
Scott Glenn the actor modeled his character, Bart Mancuso, after the Navy sub captain he observed for a week. The US Navy allowed Scott Glenn to observe as preparation for the movie.
As an ex-sub sailor i can tell you that Crimson Tide is by far one of the worst submarine movies ever. The very pretext of the movie could not and would not ever happen. There is a reason the USN did not assist with the production of the movie but they did with Red October.
I am 53 and when you first started mentioning your dad's favorite movies. I felt a stab in heart. They are all my favorite movies!! What I can tell you is trust your dad's list. You're in for a lot of fun. I think you mentioned Lethal Weapon. Good movie. You dad clearly has a great list and you're in for a lot of fun, action and just plain old awesome!! I did roll my eyes when you said you hadn't heard of Sean Connery. It seems unbelievable to us... ahem.... older people. But then I realize that my 20 year old kids don't know either. Enjoy the fact you're young. I have subscribed, so go and watch some old classics and I'll be back.
Cassie, Harrison Ford took over the Jack Ryan role in two subsequent movies, “Patriot Games” and “Clear and Present Danger.” Good thrillers, you would enjoy.
I actually find it underrated.. And I know some people hated the updating.. But I thought Affleck was a good mash up of Baldwin and Ford.. plus one of the greatest "Sneakers" gags in "The Sum of All Fears". I'd skip "Shadow Recruit" though.
I'm not a huge fan of Alec Baldwin, but he did a great job in this movie. What's funny is that even though I've seen this film a half-dozen times, I always remember Harrison Ford in the role until I'm a few minutes in (Mandela-effect) due to the follow-up movies with him in the title role.
OMG, please do Romancing the Stone! You’d love that movie. It’s right up your alley. It has a happy ending. Lol. :) As for this one…it’s a Cold War movie, just like Top Gun. But more serious, and a LOT more realistic. Sean Connery played the greatest Soviet submarine commander with a Scottish accent in history. Lol. Also, when they talk about “defecting” and mention that Ramius is not a Russian, but a Lithuanian, that’s a clue to his motivations. Lithuania was a part of the Soviet Union, but it had been forcibly conquered by the Russians decades prior. The Lithuanians (and other people in the Baltic countries) had no love for the Russians whatsoever. Also, both the United States and Russia still field fleets of submarines armed with nuclear missiles that are deployed across the globe to this day. Something to think about…
In the book Ramius was motivated by the fact that his wife died from a botched surgery because the doctor operated drunk. But the doctor couldn’t be punished because he was the son of a party official.Ramius felt like the Soviet system let him and the entire country down.
@@TamadorStoneskin, which it did. I think the movie wanted to be more generically anti-Soviet because of the time period and the fact that it’s an American movie. I’ve read the book, too, and you can’t get all the nuance and complexity in a character on film as you can in a book. When this movie came out, it was meant to be a Cold War movie with an American bent. The fact that Soviet military officers and seamen were depicted on screen with ANY level of sympathy and understanding was new and completely foreign. It had not been that way before. They had generally been treated the same way as Nazis on screen in American cinema (as ironic as that is).
Cassie, I would really like to see your reaction to "Das Boot" (Directors Cut) in German with English subtitles. It is probably the best (Anti)-War-Film, or at least THE best submarine film (IMO and according to comments from most commenters on other submarine movie reactions). The majority of the scenes were filmed in a 1:1 mock up of the interiors of an original German WW2 submarine Typ VII C. For these scenes they had to use a hand held camera modified with gyroscopes because the set was too cramped for a steadicam. Just imagine the fears of 48 sailors trapped in a narrow tube of steel hunted by British destroyers with depth charges. Throughout the filming, the actors were forbidden to go out in sunlight, to create the pallor of men who seldom saw the sun during their missions. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing) but won none (which I never understood). Wikipedia says: "To this day, Das Boot holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a German film."
THE best submarine movie ever made is Das Boot. Germany's WWII submarine fleet almost won the war for the Axis. This film even in German is captivating and was heavily nominated for Academy Awards.
True, but this movie is also extremely good. The great performances make it appealing for people not ready for a long, hard war movie. This could be the perfect gateway to a later Das Boot viewing!
"To Defect": when a member of a hostile nation wants to leave an opposing nation and come to the U.S. it is referred to as "Defecting". Usually made in by those who will have valuable intelligence.
Alexander Gudonov didn't have any valuable intelligence: he just wanted the f#$k out, as did many others, and we kept the welcome mat out for anybody that escaped communist countries. There's video abound of East Germans trying to flee into West Germany: many made it, many were executed before making it over the second wall.
@@Britcarjunkie You may be right. But bear in mind that Godunov was enough of a celebrity to make a media splash. Others were famous enough in Soviet Union (Savely Kramarov for example was one of top Comedy stars) to possibly make a psychological impact.
