That's because it's a proper movie - a true suspense thriller Proper movies never age. They, instead, become the bar that all other movies must aspire to reach.
It's a well researched and accurate book. And Russians are the bad guys again, a role that they seem to enjoy while lying to their people that they are the good guys. I once had a short convo with a recent immigrant to the U.S. from Russia. Very interesting, on both sides I hope.
Richard Jordan really chewed the scenery in this one. I've watched several films of note he's worked in such as Logan's Run, Dune, The Secret to my Success to name a few.
Good call out. Jordan was pretty good in Secret to my Success but I never noticed how much work acting as the "bad guy" can be. Also...he was the original Duncan Idaho...eat your heart out, Jason Momoa.
Richard Jordan is very underrated. He made a couple of films in the 1970's opposite the great Robert Mitchum that are well worth a watch, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973) & "The Yakuza" (1974). Tarantino is such a fan of "Eddie Coyle", he borrowed a character name from it to name the titular heroine of his film "Jackie Brown".
Love, love, love this movie! As for Sam Neill’s character, I use the mental retcon that he survives, and the next time you see him, he’s digging up raptor bones in… Montana! 😂
I'm a retired U.S. navy submariner and I served 17 years in the submarine force. I've ridden the Dallas and a few more subs in her class for inspections. I was lucky enough to serve on both fast attack and ballistic missile subs. For training exercises, we used to do emergency blows from test depth which was fun. I love this movie but the quintessential submarine movie for me is Das Boat.
Das Boot you mean? I am just a german, have no navy expirence other than old sailing ships, but its also for me the best submarine movie, I'm just always stunned that it even works so well in english, without all the small german easteregs of daly live, dialect etc.
The accents may be all over the place, but very interesting fact: "Armageddon" is one of, or the only, word pronounced the same and with the same meaning as between English and Russian, so it is the word that acts as a pivot between the part of the film wherein the Russians speak exclusively in Russian amongst themselves and that part of the film wherein the Russians speak English amongst themselves. Very cool touch by the director, in my opinion, at least.
The accents in the Russian sub only matter when we hear them speaking Russian. When we hear English, that is meant to be Russian, it doesn't matter really.
In the book (which I read once a year) Borodin lives. Don't know if he moves to Montana. Kamarov the Navigator dies. And what happens to Lt. Williams RN?
I was so sad when Sam Neill died, but when a character expresses such lovable and relatable motives, it's often a plot device to get the audience invested in a character who's going to die to remind them that the stakes are real.
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Other post-Bond Connery classics worth checking out: • _Outland_ (1981) - Space Western set in the _Alien_ / _Blade Runner_ "universe". One of Connery's best performances. • _The Untouchables_ (1987) - a perfect film. Essential. • _The Man Who Would Be King_ (1975) - one of the greatest Adventure films ever made. Also starring Michael Caine.
Sean Connery recommendations: The Wind and the Lion (1975) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Sub movie recommendations: Crimson Tide (1996?) Ice Station Zebra (1968?) On The Beach (1959?)
I actually talked with someone that was aboard the submarine that did that for the filming.... a US Navy Los Angeles class sub. That was the third take, after the director asked them twice if they could "do it again, only higher this time". Well, that third take was the money... they also broke quite a bit of minor systems on that sub on that take. They're not designed to come out of the water like that!
@@spaghetti9845 You can refuse to believe all you want... the guy I talked to was wearing dolphins on his uniform. The Navy was REALLY interested in helping with HFRO... Also, according to him, it was an emergency surface... which they did NOT to on the first two takes. They definitely got it on the the third take. You're free to not believe it if you prefer.
@@spaghetti9845 I'm with you on that. This could also be stock footage from the U.S. Navy itself. It seems very implausible to me that the U.S. Navy would go through such ministrations for a movie, not to mention the fact that the camera just so happened to be pointing at the right spot, and focused on the correct field of view. I'm leaning towards stock U.S. Navy footage.
Yeah, submariners do not like having to surface with high pressure air. Under normal circumstances they run awash and then draw in ocean air through the sail in order to blow out the ballast tanks. Using the air out of your high-pressure flasks means having to refill those flasks with a compressor-- a process made even slower considering you have to take all the moisture out of the air before compressing it, too.
I like how they handle the language in this movie they start speaking in Russian with subtitles then zoom out transitioning to speaking in english. This way the actors can concentrate on their roles and we can enjoy Sean Connery's Scottish accent. Btw, this movie is based one in a series of famous post cold war thrillers novels by Tom Clancy. Jack Ryan is played by Harrison Ford in the other adaptations that you might enjoy.
I always appreciated that language transition. This and Patriot Games though we’re not post Cold War thrillers, they were right at its peak and when Clancy was at his best. Sadly I found his writing suffered as he became more famous and able to blow off editors.
I've also seen people saying that there is no 'Soviet' accent. Russia is massive, the Soviet Union was even bigger. Ramius wasn't even Russian, he was Lithuanian, so having actors with very different accents was actually fairly accurate.
@@CChissel Dascha of Russia reviewed this movie and her assessment of the quality of the Russian matches yours. She considered it bad but intelligible.
Small world here. I was the helmsman driving the boat used for the Morse code flashing. It was actually a cook (MS3) doing the code; he had bad seasickness and couldn’t continue as a signalman on a destroyer.
Scott Glen is Fantastic in this!!!His character gave me goose-bumps during the dialogue exchange between him and Jack Ryan.Their scenes together were Lessons in Acting!!!
@@jenmurrayxo Very few people (only TBR Schmitt maybe?) have reacted to Das Boot, but it is the best submarine movie ever IMO. And the most realistic. The theatrical cut (149 minutes) and the "original uncut version (293 minutes) should be avoided. The best version is the director's cut (208 minutes).
@@TomH2681 Are you kidding me with the uncut version, i.e. the original mini series? It is the one and only version to be seen, all the movie cuts are not worth it because they cut out so much of what's necessary to create the atmosphere and build the characters.
I love the "you lost another sub" line... and many others. The whole movie is... murky, you never know until the end who was up to what. Enjoyed your reaction as always.
The 'ping' they are talking about is a burst of active sonar. Passive sonar is about just listening and seeing what you can hear, like they do most of the time in the movie. Active sonar is when you send out a massive burst of sound, and then listen as it bounces off things. That way you can determine range and with multiple pings you can also determine course and speed. The trick is other guy can hear the sound as well, and so you give yourself away if you are trying to be stealthy. Great reaction, by the way. One of my favorite movies.
In the blink-and-you’ll-miss-her role of Caroline Ryan, Jack’s wife, is Gates McFadden, known everywhere else as Dr. Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation. 8:15 “Sonar” is using sound to find someone, but there are two kinds: “Active sonar” is when the sub (or whoever) sends out “pings” and they determine where something is by listening to it bounce off it. “Passive sonar” is what Jonesy is doing: figuring out what things are and where they are just by listening to the sounds they make.
The reason Ramius wanted to get through the underwater canyons so quickly, was a tactical decision. He likely knew that there would be other Soviet submarines hunting for him, as they left their ports heading at top speed. Had Ramius decided to go slow through the canyons as the plans were designed, it's likely those hunter subs would be waiting for him when he came out the otherside, where they would have the advantage.
I see it differently - he tested the resolve and professionalism of his crew, i.e. can they keep their nerves in a tense crisis situation and quickly react and adapt on the fly. The torpedo was an unnecessary element but he used it in his test. Ramius wanted to know the mettle of his crew because he needs to know if he can rely on them if it came to combat.
Hey Jen !! The next Jack Ryan movie is "Patriot Games" which is also very good !! My favorite is the one after that, "Clear and Present Danger"!! You should react to BOTH of the next 2 !! (Oh.. don't forget about "The Towering Inferno" !!! It's an ALL-TIME CLASSIC !!
Fun video! As for recco's, "Patriot Games" is another good Clancy novel, moviefied in 1992, with Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. And someone else mentioned "Das Boot" - I'll second that as one of the most realistic depictions of submarine life and warfare in a film. It's on a WWII era German sub, though. So it has the additional aspect of a confined, claustrophic feeling that really comes across as you watch.
Yo Jen.. seeing as you're doing the Connery comeback phase... Check out 'The Name of the Rose' in which he plays a kind of Monk detective in the middle ages who speaks with Scottish accent in Italy. It's tense, bleak and scary. Also, 'The Untouchables' in which he plays an Irish cop in 1930's Chicago who speaks with a kind of Irish accent that keeps turning Scottish. He gets away with it because he's Sean, obviously. Both films are really good.
Great reaction! Here is some real historical background on the story which isn't commonly known. Tom Clancy probably based The Hunt for Red October in part on the true story of Chester M. "Whitey" Mack (1931-2008, Penn State class of '53), who was the first commander of the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Lapon in the late 1960s. (His nickname isn't a racial thing, but a reference to his hair color, just to be clear.) When the Russians launched their new Yankee-Class nuclear missile submarines in 1969, the US Navy had no idea of their capabilities. Along with other subs, Whitey Mack and the Lapon headed for the Barents Sea with orders to learn what they could about the Yankee-Class boats. The Lapon found a Yankee on the sonar, lost track of it, estimated where it would be, found it again, and then followed it for 47 days straight. They learned everything the US Navy wanted to know about the boat and its practices, even recognizing when different officers were running the sub. While they were tailing it, a New York Times story leaked the juicy news that the US Navy was actively shadowing a Soviet sub, and for 24 hours afterwards the Soviet skipper went nuts, doing every kind of possible maneuver to make sure nobody was following him, but he never detected the Lapon. The term "Crazy Ivan" didn't appear until a year later, but it refers to a sub making abrupt turns in order to see whether anyone is behind it, as that sub did with the Lapon. When the Lapon finally broke off to return home, the Navy sent a message to all subs in the Atlantic: "Get out of the way. Whitey's coming through." On returning home to Norfolk, the Lapon was awarded the Presidential Unit Commendation for extraordinary heroism, and Mack received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest peace-time award the Navy had.
Sean Connery, the only man that could get away with playing a Russian with a Scottish accent. Being from and seeing this at a theatre in Montana, I remember the cheer that went up when Sam Neills character said he wanted to live there.
You need to watch Das Boot (1981) Directors Cut , its hailed as the most historically accurate and realistic submarine movie in existence, and is also either nominated or won 6 academy awards and is an outright masterpiece.
I have students that are submariners in US Navy. They consider Red October to be a comedy; on the other hand they say Das Boot is the best submarine movie ever. Suggest that you watch it in German with English subtitles.
And it brought Wolfgang Petersen to Hollywood. Best Submarine movie ever - but make sure to watch with subtitles. They're not always good but much better than the Dub.
I saw this in the theater with a friend who was missile chief of a US Navy "boomer" sub. I worked on the construction of three classes of submarines from '90 to '94. Those contributed to my interest in this subject. The living environment has some parallels to space travel.
@@ronmaximilian6953 Yes. Superstructures, Ohio class bows, 688 sterns, and some internal structure for the first two Seawolfs. Those were barged north from SC for assembly. Our final assembly building was 235 feet high. It had three 195 foot high doorways on each long side and an 80 foot high door at each end. I caught and relocated a dozen cottonmouths from that building while working there. After closing, that site was used for filming Die Hard 3 and Ace Ventura 2.
As others have suggested, Das Boot is the ultimate submarine movie and well worth a watch (any version, but the director's cut in German is 🙌) For something more accessible to American audiences - U-571, with Mathew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel (among others) For a submarine comedy - Down Periscope, with Kelsey Grammer
I got another military movie for you to react to. The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th 1941. Filmed on the Nimitz. One of my favorites.
Another fun fact, Admiral Painter, the Skipper of the carrier, was Fred D. Thompson, who happened to have another job as a US Senator from the State of Tennessee from 1994 - 2003. He played in several other movies as well.
@@jenmurrayxo I would like to say "always start at the beginning", so with the Classic Show from the 60's but you could just watch the movies if it gets to much for you otherwise.
@@jenmurrayxo Yep, the original _Star Trek_ movies (particularly the even numbered ones) are essential. If you're a newbie, maybe dive into a few classic eps like "Space Seed" (the prequel to _Star Trek II),_ "City On The Edge Of Forever", "Balance Of Terror" (the submarine battle in space episode) or "The Trouble With Tribbles" - then jump into _ST: The Motion Picture._ Fun awaits.
If you remember in the pilot episode of Firefly, while they are being chased by Reavers, they say they are going to pull an "Ivan." Wash says "Here's something you can't do." and flips one of the engines around making Serenity instantly spin around.
20:27 In the novel, Jack Ryan was supposed to be just a liason between the US government and the Royal Navy group helping out with the hunt. The CIA was flying out a team who were going to be the experts handling the defection, but their helicopter crashed on the way out to the fleet. Ryan got pulled into the operation because he was the only guy they had left.
What I really liked about Alex Baldwin's version of Jack Ryan was that while Harrison Ford would mostly play him as action hero(which was great fun), Red October gave us the analyst. It helped that in life I had a father(USAF Major Wallace Zimmerman, of beloved memory)who was military intelligence(from the early years of our involvement in Vietnam through to his retirement in the mid 70s).
I LOVE this movie. And while I love Harrison Ford in the next 2 Jack Ryan films, I REALLY wish Alec Baldwin had a chance to reprise his role as Jack. (And yes, I'm aware that Ford was always the first choice for Jack Ryan) Jen, if you enjoyed this film, please follow up with the series, it gets a bit more exciting, and a bit more "actiony" while still being a smart thrilling series. And Harrison Ford is great, too (it's just a different style Jack Ryan than Alec Baldwin).
submarines operate with two types of sonar, active and passive. active sonar sends out an audio pulse "pinging" and it will bounce off anything in the area, telling them exactly where any other ships are. passive is listening only. you can manually set the the active sonar to emit only a single ping. the high-low "bell sound" of the torpedoes is active sonar.
I served on a U.S. Navy anti-submarine Frigate at the time this movie is set in. Some things to know: 1) U.S. submarines are extremely quiet with everything being insulated against sound making them incredibly difficult to detect. 2) Soviet submarines(now Russian of course) are not nearly as quiet and therefore easily detectable. 3) There are two types of sonar, passive and active. Passive sonar uses hydrophones to listen for sounds. That is what Jonesy is using. Active sonar is sending out a sound wave and then listening for the echo off a steel hull. This is referred to as pinging because of the distinctive sound. Active sonar can give you the bearing and distance to target but it also can be used by the target to get your bearing and distance from them. One unrealistic thing about this movie is the speed at which the Naval ships are deployed. For the ship I was on it took 2 days to build up enough pressure in the boilers to get underway. Overall though a good movie that was pretty faithful to the source material.
The Soviets though did have all the titanium they could ever need and allowed them to cast entire submarine hulls out of it. As I understood it MAD gear was not regularly effective against Soviet hills due to the titanium.
@@kennethfharkin But when The Alpha Classes use to drop the Hammer we could hear those guys all the way out in the Pacific, Noisy suckers they were at high speed.
Magnetohydrodynamic drives are a real thing. The only catch is that they are very inefficient, i.e. slow. It also creates a huge magnetic field that would be very easy to detect from an airplane flying overhead. But still, you have to love Sean Connery with his fake Lithuanian accent. lol.
This is one of those movies I think I've probably seen 100+ times in my life. It used to be on TV 2-3 times a week and my mom loved Sean Connery, and my dad loved the whole espionage submarine thing. So it was always on. I dunno, there's a strange comfort to this movie for me.
The "don't respond well to bullets" line reminds me of volume one of Jim Steranko's book "The History of Comics" saying that shooting a gun in a space ship would have disastrous consequences and that it justified the use of hand to hand combat including elegant, swashbuckling scenes of sword fighting depicted on the covers of pulp science fiction books and magazines and the classic Flash Gordon comic strip.
Setting things on fire also seems like a bad idea. Particularly when it's unnecessary -- Ramius could have just stuck the paper out of sight somewhere.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but this is the one Tom Clancy movie that is better than the book. Fun fact about Tom Clancy: he was respected as a de facto submarine historian even though his profession before becoming an author was as an insurance salesman.
Hey Jen. Glad you like Red October. It was intense as most Clancy stories are. If you liked this suspense-filled submarine movie, perhaps you’ll give “Crimson Tide” a shot. It stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, as well as supporting cast members like James Gandolfini and Viggo Mortensen to name a few. Another intense submarine thriller.
The actor who plays the captain on the Dallas, Scott Glenn, was allowed on a real US sub to observe the a real captain. Glenn was so impressed with the relaxed way the real captain operated that he just copied the real captain for his role on the Dallas.
I was a SONAR tech like Jonsey aboard the 637 class nuclear submarine USS Pargo. It is not loud aboard the boat(they are called boats and not subs) . Most of the SONAR stuff they did in the movie is not even close to true. It was an interesting six years though.
The first 3 Jack Ryan movies are all a great watch, I'm shocked the poll is so one sided but I guess Red October is the stand out. Hope you consider these as well as the Bourne movies which you also seemed to enjoy. Great reaction as always Jen.
Incredible movie that should be seen on the big screen. Watched it at least six times in the theater. The underwater scenes and the sweeping music... Alec was a good Jack Ryan, but Harrison cemented the role.
Fun fact : Soviet subs are painted green on the inside - more soothing for the crew - not kidding either. Production designers decided on a dark scheme so the audience could distinguish one side from the other.
@@jenmurrayxo BIG thumbs up for both movies! Das Boot is just a GREAT movie, Crimson Tide will make you uncomfortable with moral dilemma's.... AND is a great movie.
Great film, great series, of course, not as good as the books but still brilliant. As regards Putin and Loganov, every soviet unit / warship has a political commissar ( Zampoilt ) responsible for " unit moral " and "political education", in reality they were a layer of control for the communist party, investigating the crew and giving pro party propaganda, much like the SS and secret police in 1940's Germany, Socialist communist govt wouldn't give a vehicle with the power and freedom of a missile boat to anyone without more control, leading to Loganov ( the cook ) was a KGB agent, a lot of high value/ high freedom assets had many, for want of a better term, "Secret Agents" who would be responsible for keeping track of the crew ( reporting any anti govt sentiments ) and in extreme cases doing whatever was necessary to stop defections, rebellions and the like. While this is a gross oversimplification, it is covered in the books with more finesse.
I love submarine movies. I highly recommend two fun comedy submarine movies. Operation Petticoat 1959 Cary Grant & Tony Curtis ----- Down Periscope 1996 Kelsey Grammer and numerous others you would recognize
Clancy was the master of the Cold War thrillers. “Patriot Games,” and “Clear And Present Danger” also have the Jack Ryan character played by Harrison Ford. They are both worth watching. Ben Afleck played him in “The Sum of All Fears,” but it’s a weak script. Skip the Netflix series; while based on the character, it doesn’t follow the books. The book (and movie) has the best definition of a politician I’ve ever heard: “If I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollipops.” RIP Richard Jordan! Ronald Reagan’s fondness for jelly beans was legend, so everyone in government during his terms had jellybeans around. It was a cool detail in the movie. Some other sub movies: “Crimson Tide,” “Das Boot,” and “The Bedford Incident.”
Saddest line? " I would like to have seen Montana ". Tons of great sub movies out there Jen. Lots of Capt Nemo. Gene Hackman has Crimson tide. Harrison Ford has K19. Cary Grant has Operation petticoat. WWI, WWII, cold war and some sci-fi. The H L Hunley, US Civil War, first successful sub attack. Sank USS Housatonic. Based on true story.
Loved your reaction @Jen Murray, thanks so much for the effort, was really great imho, and something different to all those music video reactions for once /heart smileys x10 shame we probably never can watch a movie together, am not even on the same continent, could be so much fun though. N-E-wayz , keep it up!!! :)
Alec Baldwin does really excellent impressions!!All the episodes of SNL when he first Hosted have All been nominated for Emmys.I've seen him do an Al Pacino Scarface-like impression,Marlon Brando and various accents and characterizations.He's just remarkable.Love his Sean Connery!!!
Another great Harrison Ford movie is Witness (1985) He plays a police Capt that has to protect a young boy that is a witness to a murder. Has beautiful farm scenery from Lancaster, PA. Amish country. Hope you can see that one really soon. Really good thriller. Has Kelly Mcgillis from Top Gun & Danny Glover too (Lethal Weapon movies).
Even though its actually a movie with Sean Connery as just one minor character in a huge ensemble cast, I would love to see you react to "The Longest Day" which is about the D-Day invasion. It's pretty spectacular.
The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancy's best novel and was made into the best of the Tom Clancy movies. The rest devolved into action flicks with a ton of jingoism.
IMO, this was the best of the Jack Ryan movies. But I'd read the books for the others before seeing the movie versions so I was mostly just upset that they changed things from the book. To be fair, they changed a lot in this one from the book, but I think it really improved the story and tightened up the pacing. This was the movie that started me reading the books - I saw it in the theater when it came out. Yeah, great tense story, good characters, so many lines I like to quote. Fun watching you watch it!
When Scott Glenn's character hands Ramius his gun and he takes it.Did you catch the very slight wink Sean Connery gives him.That wasn't in the script.That's acting!!!
I just realized that this is a science fiction movie. Magnetohydrodynamics is a real thing, and is a factor involved in trying to create a productive fusion generator, but is impractical (so far as we know) for propulsion of anything as big as a submarine. This movie is built on the premise that someone found a way to make it work. So, it's science fiction.
I LOVE this movie! I like watching people react to it because it has a lot of moving parts so reactors have to pay attention to keep up with the plot. You did a really good job of that.
A very underrated Sean Connery film that I recommend more people need to watch is _The Man Who Would Be King_ (1975) -- also costarring a young Michael Cain.
The Hunt for Red October is a novel by Tom Clancy. The idea for the novel started with was the attempt of Soviet enlisted sailors to steal their navy ship and sail it to Norway while their officers were on other duty ashore. The ship was intercepted and the enlisted sailors were arrested. Tom Clancy took this true story as the starting point for a story in which the captain of a Soviet submarine stole his sub and took it to the west. The Hunt for Red October is fiction, but one of Tom Clancy's best novels.
Now that you’ve seen the movie, the novel of the same name is a great entrance into the world of Tom Clancy, even though chronologically it’s not the first one. In it, Ramius becomes a friend of the family to the Ryans, and ‘Uncle Marco’ to the little girl, if memory serves (been a long time since I read it in the 80s, but I think that’s right). Great reaction and I hope you find great enjoyment in the books.
This is one of my favorite movies! I’ve lost count of how many times I have watched it. “One ping only.” Can’t say that without doing Sean Connery’s accent. 😂
A ping is a sonar ping. Its a sounding that gives range to a hard object that resonates from metal. Its acrive sonar that whennyou do it your hunting a target. But you guve away your position.
My favorite Tom Clancy novel is "Red Storm Rising," but since the Soviet Union and East and West Germany as separate nations are no longer a thing, there will probably never be a movie adaptation. It really wouldn't take that much to adapt the plot to modern geopolitics, but it seems like modern Hollywood screenwriting isn't that good at making creative changes without screwing up the plot and characters. Just look at the dreadful remake of "Red Dawn."
Yes, sadly, the days when Red Storm Rising could be made into a movie are past now... It was still a possibility until the early 90's. It would take three movies, like Lord of the Rings, to really do that book right, though. To much going on, in too many places, to film it in one 3 hour movie. I STILL want to go to Iceland because of that book....
Heck, a fully faithful adaptation of _The Hunt For Red October_ would be miniseries-worthy material. Add in the spy stuff, the airplane stuff, and the VCR tape of _E.T._
This movie has aged amazingly well.
That's because it's a proper movie - a true suspense thriller
Proper movies never age. They, instead, become the bar that all other movies must aspire to reach.
Except for Alec
It's a well researched and accurate book. And Russians are the bad guys again, a role that they seem to enjoy while lying to their people that they are the good guys. I once had a short convo with a recent immigrant to the U.S. from Russia. Very interesting, on both sides I hope.
"I'm a politician which means I'm a cheat and a liar. When I'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops."
Best line in the movie.
You lost another submarine? His delivery 10/10.
Richard Jordan really chewed the scenery in this one. I've watched several films of note he's worked in such as Logan's Run, Dune, The Secret to my Success to name a few.
@@terrylandess6072 Richard Jordan is really an underrated actor by a lot of people. RIP
Good call out. Jordan was pretty good in Secret to my Success but I never noticed how much work acting as the "bad guy" can be.
Also...he was the original Duncan Idaho...eat your heart out, Jason Momoa.
Richard Jordan is very underrated. He made a couple of films in the 1970's opposite the great Robert Mitchum that are well worth a watch, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" (1973) & "The Yakuza" (1974). Tarantino is such a fan of "Eddie Coyle", he borrowed a character name from it to name the titular heroine of his film "Jackie Brown".
"Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties"
Such a great line to sum up the cold war
Love, love, love this movie! As for Sam Neill’s character, I use the mental retcon that he survives, and the next time you see him, he’s digging up raptor bones in… Montana! 😂
I'm a retired U.S. navy submariner and I served 17 years in the submarine force. I've ridden the Dallas and a few more subs in her class for inspections. I was lucky enough to serve on both fast attack and ballistic missile subs. For training exercises, we used to do emergency blows from test depth which was fun. I love this movie but the quintessential submarine movie for me is Das Boat.
@@hepchaos Oops, I think it could be one or the other. I should read over my comments before I post, thanks.
Fun? I'd be terrified thinking about how USS Squalus and USS Thresher sunk.
@@ronmaximilian6953 The USS Scorpion in 1968 also.
Das Boot you mean? I am just a german, have no navy expirence other than old sailing ships, but its also for me the best submarine movie, I'm just always stunned that it even works so well in english, without all the small german easteregs of daly live, dialect etc.
I joined RN because of this film
Das Boot would have made me join the RAf if I had seen it before I joined
The cast in this movie is outrageous, top to bottom. So good.
But who would go to sea with Pennywise on board?
@@rcrawford42 Haha!
@@rcrawford42 or Frank N. Furter.
Was this Baldwin's first shot at a big role?
@@hebber1961 I think Beetlejuice was earlier. Not sure what other good roles he had in his early career.
"I would liked to have seen Montana." The saddest seven words ever spoken in a movie.
The accents may be all over the place, but very interesting fact: "Armageddon" is one of, or the only, word pronounced the same and with the same meaning as between English and Russian, so it is the word that acts as a pivot between the part of the film wherein the Russians speak exclusively in Russian amongst themselves and that part of the film wherein the Russians speak English amongst themselves. Very cool touch by the director, in my opinion, at least.
It's a borrow from hebrew.
@@qbasicmichael cool.
The choice was between Armageddon and cat.
Armageddon is a real place, Har Meggido, or today Tel Meggido
The accents in the Russian sub only matter when we hear them speaking Russian. When we hear English, that is meant to be Russian, it doesn't matter really.
Every time a lovable sidekick dies in any movie, my mother and father look at each other and one of them says "I would have liked to see Montana."
I love that 💙
In the book (which I read once a year) Borodin lives.
Don't know if he moves to Montana.
Kamarov the Navigator dies.
And what happens to Lt. Williams RN?
I was so sad when Sam Neill died, but when a character expresses such lovable and relatable motives, it's often a plot device to get the audience invested in a character who's going to die to remind them that the stakes are real.
Don't worry. He actually survived and did indeed get to live in Montana. He retained as a Palaeontologist and changed his name to Alan... ;)
wait sam neill is fucking dead?
When a character like that appeared in a movie my mother would say
"Well he's marked for death".
I hated that Sam Neill's character because I love Sam Neill! does a great Elrond!
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Other post-Bond Connery classics worth checking out:
• _Outland_ (1981) - Space Western set in the _Alien_ / _Blade Runner_ "universe". One of Connery's best performances.
• _The Untouchables_ (1987) - a perfect film. Essential.
• _The Man Who Would Be King_ (1975) - one of the greatest Adventure films ever made. Also starring Michael Caine.
I like your video and you cut
Das Boot and Crimson Tide are two other good submarine movies.
I liked it before it even started :D
Sean Connery recommendations:
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Sub movie recommendations:
Crimson Tide (1996?)
Ice Station Zebra (1968?)
On The Beach (1959?)
The shot of the sub breaching the surface in the final sub battle is one of my favorite film shots ever. It's just so epic.
I actually talked with someone that was aboard the submarine that did that for the filming.... a US Navy Los Angeles class sub. That was the third take, after the director asked them twice if they could "do it again, only higher this time". Well, that third take was the money... they also broke quite a bit of minor systems on that sub on that take. They're not designed to come out of the water like that!
@@spaghetti9845 You can refuse to believe all you want... the guy I talked to was wearing dolphins on his uniform. The Navy was REALLY interested in helping with HFRO... Also, according to him, it was an emergency surface... which they did NOT to on the first two takes. They definitely got it on the the third take.
You're free to not believe it if you prefer.
@@spaghetti9845 I'm with you on that. This could also be stock footage from the U.S. Navy itself. It seems very implausible to me that the U.S. Navy would go through such ministrations for a movie, not to mention the fact that the camera just so happened to be pointing at the right spot, and focused on the correct field of view. I'm leaning towards stock U.S. Navy footage.
Yeah, submariners do not like having to surface with high pressure air. Under normal circumstances they run awash and then draw in ocean air through the sail in order to blow out the ballast tanks. Using the air out of your high-pressure flasks means having to refill those flasks with a compressor-- a process made even slower considering you have to take all the moisture out of the air before compressing it, too.
That's why it's been reused in JAG ;)
I like how they handle the language in this movie they start speaking in Russian with subtitles then zoom out transitioning to speaking in english. This way the actors can concentrate on their roles and we can enjoy Sean Connery's Scottish accent. Btw, this movie is based one in a series of famous post cold war thrillers novels by Tom Clancy. Jack Ryan is played by Harrison Ford in the other adaptations that you might enjoy.
True, it is a nice touch and probably for the best, the Russian was atrocious lol
I always appreciated that language transition.
This and Patriot Games though we’re not post Cold War thrillers, they were right at its peak and when Clancy was at his best. Sadly I found his writing suffered as he became more famous and able to blow off editors.
I've also seen people saying that there is no 'Soviet' accent. Russia is massive, the Soviet Union was even bigger. Ramius wasn't even Russian, he was Lithuanian, so having actors with very different accents was actually fairly accurate.
@@CChissel Dascha of Russia reviewed this movie and her assessment of the quality of the Russian matches yours. She considered it bad but intelligible.
One of the greatest lines in cinema history: "You arrogant ass! You've killed us!"
One of my absolute favorite lines in this movie. Very quotable too
I served in the Navy and worked on the helicopter that dropped the torpedo late in the movie. I love this movie.
Small world here. I was the helmsman driving the boat used for the Morse code flashing. It was actually a cook (MS3) doing the code; he had bad seasickness and couldn’t continue as a signalman on a destroyer.
Cool!
Scott Glen is Fantastic in this!!!His character gave me goose-bumps during the dialogue exchange between him and Jack Ryan.Their scenes together were Lessons in Acting!!!
Glenn was also great in the original "Man On Fire."
And The Right Stuff@@billolsen4360
I highly recommend "Das Boot" from 1981.
Oh I'd like to see that!
@@jenmurrayxo Very few people (only TBR Schmitt maybe?) have reacted to Das Boot, but it is the best submarine movie ever IMO.
And the most realistic.
The theatrical cut (149 minutes) and the "original uncut version (293 minutes) should be avoided.
The best version is the director's cut (208 minutes).
Ohhh man, I kinda hate when there's a bunch of cuts of movies. Then there's always someone who thinks I watched the wrong one 😂
well just stick to the directors cut and enjoy the best submarine movie there is :)
@@TomH2681 Are you kidding me with the uncut version, i.e. the original mini series? It is the one and only version to be seen, all the movie cuts are not worth it because they cut out so much of what's necessary to create the atmosphere and build the characters.
I love the "you lost another sub" line... and many others.
The whole movie is... murky, you never know until the end who was up to what.
Enjoyed your reaction as always.
The 'ping' they are talking about is a burst of active sonar. Passive sonar is about just listening and seeing what you can hear, like they do most of the time in the movie. Active sonar is when you send out a massive burst of sound, and then listen as it bounces off things. That way you can determine range and with multiple pings you can also determine course and speed. The trick is other guy can hear the sound as well, and so you give yourself away if you are trying to be stealthy.
Great reaction, by the way. One of my favorite movies.
Thank you for this explanation!! 👌🤓
This term is also used with computers. You can “ping” another device, router, etc. through the command window.
In the blink-and-you’ll-miss-her role of Caroline Ryan, Jack’s wife, is Gates McFadden, known everywhere else as Dr. Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
8:15 “Sonar” is using sound to find someone, but there are two kinds: “Active sonar” is when the sub (or whoever) sends out “pings” and they determine where something is by listening to it bounce off it. “Passive sonar” is what Jonesy is doing: figuring out what things are and where they are just by listening to the sounds they make.
The reason Ramius wanted to get through the underwater canyons so quickly, was a tactical decision. He likely knew that there would be other Soviet submarines hunting for him, as they left their ports heading at top speed. Had Ramius decided to go slow through the canyons as the plans were designed, it's likely those hunter subs would be waiting for him when he came out the otherside, where they would have the advantage.
Makes sense 👌
I see it differently - he tested the resolve and professionalism of his crew, i.e. can they keep their nerves in a tense crisis situation and quickly react and adapt on the fly. The torpedo was an unnecessary element but he used it in his test.
Ramius wanted to know the mettle of his crew because he needs to know if he can rely on them if it came to combat.
Hey Jen !! The next Jack Ryan movie is "Patriot Games" which is also very good !! My favorite is the one after that, "Clear and Present Danger"!! You should react to BOTH of the next 2 !! (Oh.. don't forget about "The Towering Inferno" !!! It's an ALL-TIME CLASSIC !!
"Games" and "Danger" both have Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan, who gives the character a little more of both a dramatic and a comic touch than Baldwin.
Fun video! As for recco's, "Patriot Games" is another good Clancy novel, moviefied in 1992, with Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. And someone else mentioned "Das Boot" - I'll second that as one of the most realistic depictions of submarine life and warfare in a film. It's on a WWII era German sub, though. So it has the additional aspect of a confined, claustrophic feeling that really comes across as you watch.
Yo Jen.. seeing as you're doing the Connery comeback phase... Check out 'The Name of the Rose' in which he plays a kind of Monk detective in the middle ages who speaks with Scottish accent in Italy. It's tense, bleak and scary. Also, 'The Untouchables' in which he plays an Irish cop in 1930's Chicago who speaks with a kind of Irish accent that keeps turning Scottish. He gets away with it because he's Sean, obviously. Both films are really good.
Two of my favorite Connery films.
Great reaction! Here is some real historical background on the story which isn't commonly known.
Tom Clancy probably based The Hunt for Red October in part on the true story of Chester M. "Whitey" Mack (1931-2008, Penn State class of '53), who was the first commander of the Sturgeon-class attack submarine USS Lapon in the late 1960s. (His nickname isn't a racial thing, but a reference to his hair color, just to be clear.) When the Russians launched their new Yankee-Class nuclear missile submarines in 1969, the US Navy had no idea of their capabilities. Along with other subs, Whitey Mack and the Lapon headed for the Barents Sea with orders to learn what they could about the Yankee-Class boats. The Lapon found a Yankee on the sonar, lost track of it, estimated where it would be, found it again, and then followed it for 47 days straight. They learned everything the US Navy wanted to know about the boat and its practices, even recognizing when different officers were running the sub. While they were tailing it, a New York Times story leaked the juicy news that the US Navy was actively shadowing a Soviet sub, and for 24 hours afterwards the Soviet skipper went nuts, doing every kind of possible maneuver to make sure nobody was following him, but he never detected the Lapon. The term "Crazy Ivan" didn't appear until a year later, but it refers to a sub making abrupt turns in order to see whether anyone is behind it, as that sub did with the Lapon. When the Lapon finally broke off to return home, the Navy sent a message to all subs in the Atlantic: "Get out of the way. Whitey's coming through." On returning home to Norfolk, the Lapon was awarded the Presidential Unit Commendation for extraordinary heroism, and Mack received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest peace-time award the Navy had.
Sean Connery, the only man that could get away with playing a Russian with a Scottish accent. Being from and seeing this at a theatre in Montana, I remember the cheer that went up when Sam Neills character said he wanted to live there.
"He's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman." That is a Lithuanian fisherman accent, obviously.
@@peterk7931, ha, you got me there. My bad. :-)
@@brom00 We should talk again when Jen watches The Highlander (1986)
@@peterk7931 Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez's accent? Or Connor MacCloud's? 🤣🤣🤣
Sam Neill made it to Montana and dug dinosaur fossils.
Oh man, this is one of my favorite films of all time -- thank you for reacting to this film! Connery and Baldwin here are legends!
You need to watch Das Boot (1981) Directors Cut , its hailed as the most historically accurate and realistic submarine movie in existence, and is also either nominated or won 6 academy awards and is an outright masterpiece.
Agreed. And the performance by Jürgen Prochnow is fantastic.
I have students that are submariners in US Navy. They consider Red October to be a comedy; on the other hand they say Das Boot is the best submarine movie ever. Suggest that you watch it in German with English subtitles.
Completely agreed! Claustrophobic and suspenseful as hell. Sonar has never been as nerve wrecking as in "Das Boot".
Dos Boat, it doesn't get more real than this movie inside of submarine during world war II under attack
And it brought Wolfgang Petersen to Hollywood. Best Submarine movie ever - but make sure to watch with subtitles. They're not always good but much better than the Dub.
I saw this in the theater with a friend who was missile chief of a US Navy "boomer" sub. I worked on the construction of three classes of submarines from '90 to '94. Those contributed to my interest in this subject. The living environment has some parallels to space travel.
Three classes of submarines?
688i Improved Los Angeles class, Ohio class ballistic missile submarine, and Seawolf class ?
@@ronmaximilian6953 Yes. Superstructures, Ohio class bows, 688 sterns, and some internal structure for the first two Seawolfs. Those were barged north from SC for assembly. Our final assembly building was 235 feet high. It had three 195 foot high doorways on each long side and an 80 foot high door at each end. I caught and relocated a dozen cottonmouths from that building while working there. After closing, that site was used for filming Die Hard 3 and Ace Ventura 2.
As others have suggested, Das Boot is the ultimate submarine movie and well worth a watch (any version, but the director's cut in German is 🙌)
For something more accessible to American audiences - U-571, with Mathew McConaughey and Harvey Keitel (among others)
For a submarine comedy - Down Periscope, with Kelsey Grammer
Another great comedy- Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.
If you want to see a different kind of sub movie I recommend Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis
Good comic relief after Cary Grant's first submarine movie, "Destination Tokyo," was more deadly serious.
"Admiral, someone has given a loaded pistol to Alec Baldwin!"
"Mother of God"
I got another military movie for you to react to. The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th 1941. Filmed on the Nimitz. One of my favorites.
Also one of my favorites, I watch it every year on or near the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Absolutely!!! One of my Favorites!
Ooh yeah that's a great one
I was gonna say that! 😎
The Philadelphia Experiment, also
Another submarine movie to consider is _Crimson Tide_ starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. The tension is also similar. Cheers 🍻
I'd really like to see that! 👍
Yes, definitely a tense thriller! I also enjoyed U-571.
Don't forget Das Boot.
YES, another sub movie that was the bomb!
There are only two parts of Crimson Tide that are accurate. The guy being duct taped to a chair is one
Another fun fact, Admiral Painter, the Skipper of the carrier, was Fred D. Thompson, who happened to have another job as a US Senator from the State of Tennessee from 1994 - 2003. He played in several other movies as well.
I hope You will give STAR TREK a chance! 🖖
Show or movies?
@@jenmurrayxo I would like to say "always start at the beginning", so with the Classic Show from the 60's but you could just watch the movies if it gets to much for you otherwise.
@@jenmurrayxo Maybe you should watch a few select episodes to get the essence of Star Trek before starting the films!?
@@jenmurrayxo Yep, the original _Star Trek_ movies (particularly the even numbered ones) are essential. If you're a newbie, maybe dive into a few classic eps like "Space Seed" (the prequel to _Star Trek II),_ "City On The Edge Of Forever", "Balance Of Terror" (the submarine battle in space episode) or "The Trouble With Tribbles" - then jump into _ST: The Motion Picture._ Fun awaits.
Star Trek : yes!
You are the perfect analytical intelligent person to review this movie at its best.
Oh thanks 🤓👍
If you remember in the pilot episode of Firefly, while they are being chased by Reavers, they say they are going to pull an "Ivan." Wash says "Here's something you can't do." and flips one of the engines around making Serenity instantly spin around.
12:55 --- You missed that because it was so subtle... Basically Ramius is threatening them with the same fate as Putin..
20:27 In the novel, Jack Ryan was supposed to be just a liason between the US government and the Royal Navy group helping out with the hunt. The CIA was flying out a team who were going to be the experts handling the defection, but their helicopter crashed on the way out to the fleet. Ryan got pulled into the operation because he was the only guy they had left.
What I really liked about Alex Baldwin's version of Jack Ryan was that while Harrison Ford would mostly play him as action hero(which was great fun), Red October gave us the analyst. It helped that in life I had a father(USAF Major Wallace Zimmerman, of beloved memory)who was military intelligence(from the early years of our involvement in Vietnam through to his retirement in the mid 70s).
Remember at the beginning of the movie... he said he couldn't sleep on the plane... at the end he was sleeping like a baby...
I LOVE this movie. And while I love Harrison Ford in the next 2 Jack Ryan films, I REALLY wish Alec Baldwin had a chance to reprise his role as Jack. (And yes, I'm aware that Ford was always the first choice for Jack Ryan)
Jen, if you enjoyed this film, please follow up with the series, it gets a bit more exciting, and a bit more "actiony" while still being a smart thrilling series. And Harrison Ford is great, too (it's just a different style Jack Ryan than Alec Baldwin).
submarines operate with two types of sonar, active and passive. active sonar sends out an audio pulse "pinging" and it will bounce off anything in the area, telling them exactly where any other ships are. passive is listening only. you can manually set the the active sonar to emit only a single ping. the high-low "bell sound" of the torpedoes is active sonar.
I served on a U.S. Navy anti-submarine Frigate at the time this movie is set in. Some things to know: 1) U.S. submarines are extremely quiet with everything being insulated against sound making them incredibly difficult to detect. 2) Soviet submarines(now Russian of course) are not nearly as quiet and therefore easily detectable. 3) There are two types of sonar, passive and active. Passive sonar uses hydrophones to listen for sounds. That is what Jonesy is using. Active sonar is sending out a sound wave and then listening for the echo off a steel hull. This is referred to as pinging because of the distinctive sound. Active sonar can give you the bearing and distance to target but it also can be used by the target to get your bearing and distance from them. One unrealistic thing about this movie is the speed at which the Naval ships are deployed. For the ship I was on it took 2 days to build up enough pressure in the boilers to get underway. Overall though a good movie that was pretty faithful to the source material.
The Soviets though did have all the titanium they could ever need and allowed them to cast entire submarine hulls out of it. As I understood it MAD gear was not regularly effective against Soviet hills due to the titanium.
@@kennethfharkin But when The Alpha Classes use to drop the Hammer we could hear those guys all the way out in the Pacific, Noisy suckers they were at high speed.
@@billignaczak3851 but FAST!
Magnetohydrodynamic drives are a real thing. The only catch is that they are very inefficient, i.e. slow. It also creates a huge magnetic field that would be very easy to detect from an airplane flying overhead. But still, you have to love Sean Connery with his fake Lithuanian accent. lol.
This is one of those movies I think I've probably seen 100+ times in my life. It used to be on TV 2-3 times a week and my mom loved Sean Connery, and my dad loved the whole espionage submarine thing. So it was always on.
I dunno, there's a strange comfort to this movie for me.
The "don't respond well to bullets" line reminds me of volume one of Jim Steranko's book "The History of Comics" saying that shooting a gun in a space ship would have disastrous consequences and that it justified the use of hand to hand combat including elegant, swashbuckling scenes of sword fighting depicted on the covers of pulp science fiction books and magazines and the classic Flash Gordon comic strip.
I concur!
Setting things on fire also seems like a bad idea. Particularly when it's unnecessary -- Ramius could have just stuck the paper out of sight somewhere.
Sam Neill's character's last words "I would like to have seen Montana" and then his character's opening scene in Jurisic Park, is in Montana
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but this is the one Tom Clancy movie that is better than the book. Fun fact about Tom Clancy: he was respected as a de facto submarine historian even though his profession before becoming an author was as an insurance salesman.
That torpedo didnt self destruct. You heard it impact the hull. I was never here ... This is not the sub you're looking for.
The President at this time, Ronald Regan was known to love jelly beans. And he distributed them to everyone in his cabinet.
Hey Jen. Glad you like Red October. It was intense as most Clancy stories are. If you liked this suspense-filled submarine movie, perhaps you’ll give “Crimson Tide” a shot. It stars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, as well as supporting cast members like James Gandolfini and Viggo Mortensen to name a few. Another intense submarine thriller.
Try The Rocketeer. Under rated movie.
The Dallas is a Los Angeles class attack sub, one of the three types I worked in constructing.
_"I love a good wall safe."_ - Never thought I'd hear that in my life. But can't disagree.
The actor who plays the captain on the Dallas, Scott Glenn, was allowed on a real US sub to observe the a real captain. Glenn was so impressed with the relaxed way the real captain operated that he just copied the real captain for his role on the Dallas.
I was a SONAR tech like Jonsey aboard the 637 class nuclear submarine USS Pargo. It is not loud aboard the boat(they are called boats and not subs) . Most of the SONAR stuff they did in the movie is not even close to true. It was an interesting six years though.
The first 3 Jack Ryan movies are all a great watch, I'm shocked the poll is so one sided but I guess Red October is the stand out. Hope you consider these as well as the Bourne movies which you also seemed to enjoy. Great reaction as always Jen.
Bourne Supremacy coming next week! 👍
Great premiere and reactions to The Hunt for Red October, Jen!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Definitely one of my favorite films with an older Sean Connery.
Thanks Mike!! 👍
I love this movie. Really glad you’re watching it. Great reaction as per usual
Incredible movie that should be seen on the big screen. Watched it at least six times in the theater. The underwater scenes and the sweeping music... Alec was a good Jack Ryan, but Harrison cemented the role.
I was pleased that the 'other' Ryans had decent actors even if the films were less than this or the Ford versions.
Jack Ryan series is probably my favorite non-fantasy/scifi book series
Fun fact : Soviet subs are painted green on the inside - more soothing for the crew - not kidding either.
Production designers decided on a dark scheme so the audience could distinguish one side from the other.
The production design and cinematography of the movie is mindblowing. From the lighting, you always know which sub is onscreen.
Your reactions are mint..."Yikes", and "dah, dah, dahhh!"
Obligatory recommendation of Das Boot and Crimson Tide for more submarine movies
I'd like to see those! 👍
@@jenmurrayxo BIG thumbs up for both movies! Das Boot is just a GREAT movie, Crimson Tide will make you uncomfortable with moral dilemma's.... AND is a great movie.
Great film, great series, of course, not as good as the books but still brilliant. As regards Putin and Loganov, every soviet unit / warship has a political commissar ( Zampoilt ) responsible for " unit moral " and "political education", in reality they were a layer of control for the communist party, investigating the crew and giving pro party propaganda, much like the SS and secret police in 1940's Germany, Socialist communist govt wouldn't give a vehicle with the power and freedom of a missile boat to anyone without more control, leading to Loganov ( the cook ) was a KGB agent, a lot of high value/ high freedom assets had many, for want of a better term, "Secret Agents" who would be responsible for keeping track of the crew ( reporting any anti govt sentiments ) and in extreme cases doing whatever was necessary to stop defections, rebellions and the like. While this is a gross oversimplification, it is covered in the books with more finesse.
I love submarine movies.
I highly recommend two fun comedy submarine movies.
Operation Petticoat 1959
Cary Grant & Tony Curtis
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Down Periscope 1996
Kelsey Grammer and numerous others you would recognize
Clancy was the master of the Cold War thrillers. “Patriot Games,” and “Clear And Present Danger” also have the Jack Ryan character played by Harrison Ford. They are both worth watching. Ben Afleck played him in “The Sum of All Fears,” but it’s a weak script. Skip the Netflix series; while based on the character, it doesn’t follow the books. The book (and movie) has the best definition of a politician I’ve ever heard: “If I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollipops.” RIP Richard Jordan! Ronald Reagan’s fondness for jelly beans was legend, so everyone in government during his terms had jellybeans around. It was a cool detail in the movie. Some other sub movies: “Crimson Tide,” “Das Boot,” and “The Bedford Incident.”
Saddest line? " I would like to have seen Montana ". Tons of great sub movies out there Jen. Lots of Capt Nemo. Gene Hackman has Crimson tide. Harrison Ford has K19. Cary Grant has Operation petticoat. WWI, WWII, cold war and some sci-fi. The H L Hunley, US Civil War, first successful sub attack. Sank USS Housatonic. Based on true story.
Loved your reaction @Jen Murray, thanks so much for the effort, was really great imho, and something different to all those music video reactions for once /heart smileys x10 shame we probably never can watch a movie together, am not even on the same continent, could be so much fun though. N-E-wayz , keep it up!!! :)
I'm former Navy and the rumor is that something very similar happened in 1986
Interesting!
Alec Baldwin does really excellent impressions!!All the episodes of SNL when he first Hosted have All been nominated for Emmys.I've seen him do an Al Pacino Scarface-like impression,Marlon Brando and various accents and characterizations.He's just remarkable.Love his Sean Connery!!!
Another great Harrison Ford movie is Witness (1985) He plays a police Capt that has to protect a young boy that is a witness to a murder. Has beautiful farm scenery from Lancaster, PA. Amish country. Hope you can see that one really soon. Really good thriller. Has Kelly Mcgillis from Top Gun & Danny Glover too (Lethal Weapon movies).
Crimson tide is another submarine movie with Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington
I've seen every sub movie ever made even going back to 1940 WW II films. Crimson Tide is my favorite with Red October a close second.
Even though its actually a movie with Sean Connery as just one minor character in a huge ensemble cast, I would love to see you react to "The Longest Day" which is about the D-Day invasion. It's pretty spectacular.
Yes this. The whole opening of Saving Private Ryan was cribbed from this movie. And THAT was truly an "all star cast".
@@paulwagner688 And I haven't seen any RUclipsr react to it. It's a shame.
Ok not only is Dr Crusher the wife but around 19m we see professor Moriarty 😂😂😂 TNG represent
Low key MVP for me was the Sonar Operator, without his skills they would have never found the Red October.
The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancy's best novel and was made into the best of the Tom Clancy movies. The rest devolved into action flicks with a ton of jingoism.
IMO, this was the best of the Jack Ryan movies. But I'd read the books for the others before seeing the movie versions so I was mostly just upset that they changed things from the book. To be fair, they changed a lot in this one from the book, but I think it really improved the story and tightened up the pacing. This was the movie that started me reading the books - I saw it in the theater when it came out. Yeah, great tense story, good characters, so many lines I like to quote. Fun watching you watch it!
Das Boot is another Sub film to watch..... German Uboat wartime movie.
I'd like to see that one! 👍
One of my all time favorite movies! I can still quote huge parts of it off the top of my head.
In the book, it's made a bit clearer that the cook's assistant was actually an undercover GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) agent.
Tom Clancy based his novel on the real-life attempted defection of a soviet frigate, the Storozhevoy which happened in 1975.
When Scott Glenn's character hands Ramius his gun and he takes it.Did you catch the very slight wink Sean Connery gives him.That wasn't in the script.That's acting!!!
Great movie!! Great reaction jen!! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!!...👍👍👍
I just realized that this is a science fiction movie. Magnetohydrodynamics is a real thing, and is a factor involved in trying to create a productive fusion generator, but is impractical (so far as we know) for propulsion of anything as big as a submarine. This movie is built on the premise that someone found a way to make it work. So, it's science fiction.
I LOVE this movie! I like watching people react to it because it has a lot of moving parts so reactors have to pay attention to keep up with the plot. You did a really good job of that.
There ish nutshing wrong witsh the accshents in thish movie.
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The Hunt for Red October - the second best submarine movie after Das Boot (The Boat) from 1981.
A very underrated Sean Connery film that I recommend more people need to watch is _The Man Who Would Be King_ (1975) -- also costarring a young Michael Cain.
Love this movie growing up, an James Bond spy like adventure on a submarine
I loved Tim Curry's character.
btw, he was the "star" of Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Hunt for Red October is a novel by Tom Clancy. The idea for the novel started with was the attempt of Soviet enlisted sailors to steal their navy ship and sail it to Norway while their officers were on other duty ashore. The ship was intercepted and the enlisted sailors were arrested. Tom Clancy took this true story as the starting point for a story in which the captain of a Soviet submarine stole his sub and took it to the west. The Hunt for Red October is fiction, but one of Tom Clancy's best novels.
Now that you’ve seen the movie, the novel of the same name is a great entrance into the world of Tom Clancy, even though chronologically it’s not the first one. In it, Ramius becomes a friend of the family to the Ryans, and ‘Uncle Marco’ to the little girl, if memory serves (been a long time since I read it in the 80s, but I think that’s right). Great reaction and I hope you find great enjoyment in the books.
This is one of my favorite movies! I’ve lost count of how many times I have watched it. “One ping only.” Can’t say that without doing Sean Connery’s accent. 😂
This is the shortest and most focused of Tom Clancy's works, do yourself a favor read the book. It is better than the movie, lol.
A ping is a sonar ping. Its a sounding that gives range to a hard object that resonates from metal. Its acrive sonar that whennyou do it your hunting a target. But you guve away your position.
My favorite Tom Clancy novel is "Red Storm Rising," but since the Soviet Union and East and West Germany as separate nations are no longer a thing, there will probably never be a movie adaptation. It really wouldn't take that much to adapt the plot to modern geopolitics, but it seems like modern Hollywood screenwriting isn't that good at making creative changes without screwing up the plot and characters. Just look at the dreadful remake of "Red Dawn."
Oh I never saw that
Yes, sadly, the days when Red Storm Rising could be made into a movie are past now... It was still a possibility until the early 90's. It would take three movies, like Lord of the Rings, to really do that book right, though. To much going on, in too many places, to film it in one 3 hour movie. I STILL want to go to Iceland because of that book....
@@jenmurrayxo You might enjoy the original "Red Dawn." It's ridiculous, but it's a good action movie with some memorable characters.
Heck, a fully faithful adaptation of _The Hunt For Red October_ would be miniseries-worthy material. Add in the spy stuff, the airplane stuff, and the VCR tape of _E.T._
If you like submarine movies, Das Boot (the director's cut) is a must watch
Playing for the algorithm. I want to watch your full length on Patreon sometime. 💜