Patriot Games Desert Attack

Control room scene in Patriot Games (Philip Noyce, 1992). Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) witnesses via satellite a special forces raid against the bad guys in the north African desert.

[@starwarsroo2448]

Love how in these older movies, not much effects but because the tension and acting was there the scene holds up.

[@5ilver42]

and James Horner's score too

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

@@5ilver42 Brilliant score.

[@enigma4430]

I agree completely, timeless scene.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Very good.

[@TheWaynos73]

Like the MS Dos hacking war in Clear and Present Danger too. Sooooo 1994. But it’s still amazing.

[@nizloc4118]

Remember how when this movie first came out, this seemed so space age? Now its bread and butter

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

I remember how it cleverly referenced Blade Runner more. This isn't so much SFX quality as it was contemporaneously showcasing modern warfare. Also, there were a lot of goofier Spy/War thrillers using non-existent technology in the 80s so this scene didn't give off the vibe of a James Bond type of movie.

[@starwarsroo2448]

@@Fan_Made_Videos just watched Without Remorse and there was more tension, acting and quality filmmaking in this scene than in the whole of that other movie. No SFX or big action scene here, just Indiana Jones, Darth Vader sitting round a table watching a satellite feed, the tension is really there though, setting the scene

[@hdov9069]

OH ! YEAAAAAAH !

[@nizloc4118]

@@starwarsroo2448 i consider myself a huge fan of this series, and a movie dork ... and i literally never realized it was han solo and darth vader until i read your comment right now

[@starwarsroo2448]

@@nizloc4118 well you got the huge dork bit right

[@davidjamessheets]

When Darth Vader invites Han Solo over for coffee.

[@jonnnyren6245]

Sequel to the supposed meeting on Cloud City after the first meeting was botched because Han fired at Vader first.

[@starwarsroo2448]

And no disintegration, that was nice of hom

[@johnilarde8440]

While watching eddard stark’s IRA camp being attacked..

[@wrongway1100]

"Who has two thumbs and just betrayed his best friend? This guy."

[@TheWaynos73]

And Mace Windu helps Han fight off Boromir at dinner.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

Admiral Grier's “It’s over” perfect combination of finality, relieve, disgust... Always haunted me. Mr. James Earl Jones.

[@BrokenCurtain]

He's just quoting his old teacher. "It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!"

[@robertmayfield8746]

@@BrokenCurtain Multiverse😂

[@wesleymatthews137]

“It’s you who have taken us, Jack” …great line.

[@seaningram3285]

"Into Battle."

[@anthonylewis2080]

The scene here definitely works : the near absence of dialogue and the visual storytelling, really has an impact on the movie - Mr James Earl Jones is a BOSS!.

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

Honestly, it’s shocking how well Hollywood use to film their movies. Incredible.

[@califinn]

All the old masters are dying now, I hope they've taught the next generation something about framing and light.

[@notspacekeeper]

I love early-mid 90s movies for this reason. Even the shit ones, like Sudden Death (the JCVD movie where he's a fire inspector at an ice hockey stadium) have a tangible '90s feeling that brings me back to my childhood. Half a decade after this, everyone was trying to do CGI, then a few years later everyone was trying to ape the Matrix. I was a young man in the early 00s, can't recall liking many films at all in that period, all but stopped watching television because everything became formulaic cliffhanger nonsense that outlasted its welcome.

[@DavidDragonetti]

They still do make films incredibly well.....

[@sarnxero2628]

@@DavidDragonetti No they don't

[@DavidDragonetti]

@@sarnxero2628 Well I saw Civil War a few months ago. That was incredibly well made.. I could give you a whole list of recent well made films......How do you define poorly made?

[@canihazburgers]

Such a great scene. The decisions made in an office thousands of miles away and how this contrasts with the elite SAS team on the ground, carrying out the dirty work on behalf of men in suits watching it on tv. Its too real.

[@TheShootist]

civilian control of the military

[@AKlover]

@@TheShootist As it should be. The quality (Low) of the elected civilian issuing the orders is another problem. Not aware of A "Noble Angelic Junta" ever existing. Academy grad aristocrats whose men can be imprisoned or sanctioned for calling them out should NOT be the ones deciding matters ultimately.

[@AllanFolm]

SAS are a british force, not american.

[@AKlover]

@@AllanFolm Thanks Captain Obvious. What I said almost certainly still applies.

[@AllanFolm]

@@AKlover You're welcome, private Oblivous.

[@TheStuport]

"That is a kill"....that look from Ryan as he hears that agent say it in such a cavalier way.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

That's typical from those who have never seen combat or war up close.

[@thedavescloop]

A lot of dumb comments here about how Jack Ryan needs to grow up. These people don't understand what they are seeing. Ryan is disgusted, not that a terrorist was killed, but that a person could be so cavalier about the taking of human life. Jack will take life when it is necessary as part of a solemn duty, not as a joyful game for bro man-children. Jack is also a former marine who has been around the block and he finds it particularly disgusting coming from a guy like that who is meant to appear as if he has never put himself at personal risk or sacrificed anything. Exactly the kind of guy the rambos of the comments section hate.

[@junlee5633]

Dorvid Well said.

[@AQUAPHREESH193]

betatalk357 you got some good points but I still think the concept of his disgust is still legitimate. Sure he fully understands what’s going on but the “that’s a kill” remark was put in there for a reason. To show how this new age of warfare can be “enjoyed” by twisted pencil pushers who may have never even set foot in a combat zone haha

[@rgmoore2]

Amen

[@2410jrod]

Your right Ryan was disgusted at this you gotta read the book. It’s long but damn it’s good.

[@michaelhaney3388]

Well said, This stuff is real. a lot of this stuff is done in secret without the news knowing anything.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

1:43 Jack Ryan's contempt for the coffee sipping keyboard commando is palpable.

[@Fung43]

That’s what happens when you play the game and start seeing people as nothing numbers, collateral. You can never do that. Because as long as one man exists who sees people as people, there will be Justice in the world

[@gbonkers666]

I don't understand that though. Ryan was a marine. He has killed people before....and then suddenly he grows a conscience. Nope...don't buy it. In the novel, Ryan kills a half of dozen of people.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

@@gbonkers666 The scene had nothing to do with a conscience over killing. It was Ryan’s cynical view of a desk jockey making light of real life violence from thousands of miles away in complete safety.

[@mikebelcher7244]

@@bobbyricigliano2799 Strange though. Everyone here assumes the "agent" in question was a desk jockey. You don't have to be a fobbit to make light of violence being inflicted on an individual who found themselves on the wrong end of a gun barrel. This is especially true given who was being targeted in this instance. Ryan's reaction wasn't contempt, it was shock. His puzzle solving, link analysis and work to identify targets ended up with the death of someone. A few keystrokes, a disseminated report...and death. A sterile, cold process on his end. Not so much for the poor bastards over there.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

@@mikebelcher7244 I don't assume him to be anything other than what I stated in my original comment. But everyone in that SCIF appeared to be either brass or analysts taking the situation with appropriate seriousness. No one else was offering insipid commentary except the guy who wanted to be seen as a tactical edgelord.

[@garyburley1960]

chilling and brilliant as to how the elite SAS are able to silence a camp. and a soldier in the observation room is the only one shocked at this ruthless take down. Death on a Live feed. the absolute irony

[@ctheripper9630]

Some fantastic comments on this video, yours is high up there 👏

[@HKim0072]

Kinda. Ryan was briefly in the Marines. Didn't seem like he saw any action and was a civilian in his early 20s.

[@dchegu]

Wasn't James Earl Jones character an admiral who became CIA head?

[@geoff3103]

That Keyhole technology is 30 years old; I can only imagine what they have now.

[@macelharen]

drones. i wonder if you were thinking of that months after the start of the "special operation"

[@geoff3103]

@@macelharen much better than drones

[@DEP717]

You said it. The way this is done is sheer brilliance. You never had to see all of the shark in Jaws for it to grab your attention. This stuff was so ahead of it's time, too.

[@sharonholcomb9541]

These computers were state-of-the-art technology at the time I doubt any of them would even power up today

[@sharonholcomb9541]

Satellites probably still work but the desktops no

[@TRKizm]

An effective scene doesn't have to be loud and in your face

[@mikek9297]

This is even better. The contrast of guys in suits drinking coffe, watching on monitors as a team of operators methodically murders the camp somewhere in the desert hits harder than most CGI-driven battle scenes.

[@shadowgarr7649]

It does for folks whose lives are entwined with video games.

[@carig121]

Music from the Aliens rescue scene, J.Horner was a great recycler.😊

[@rodyep3136]

You noticed that too huh

[@saberdogface]

​@@rodyep3136 Wasn't that one part also from The Wolfen?

[@ddrennon]

Also 2001: A Space Odyssey

[@AngryToasterOven]

Yep. Not his first time either. Wrath of Khan recycled music from Krull.

[@a6am3mn0n]

Horner got this from Shostakovich's 5th symphony 3rd movement

[@ReviveHF]

Lord Vader and Han Solo are supervising on launching a surprise attack on the insurgency somewhere in the desert.

[@AndyP998]

Harrison Ford was perfect on this role, he showed quick glance to other guy commenting about kill, like how can you say that or how can you be so casual after that.

[@TheThundertaker]

A casual attitude towards the death of someone who'd think nothing of murdering you or your family for no other reason than to further their political or religious cause is about as much as they deserve.

[@imcallingjapan2178]

@@TheThundertaker Grow up.

[@TheThundertaker]

@@imcallingjapan2178 Make me! 😂

[@imcallingjapan2178]

@@TheThundertaker Lol, you've probably said that before, to your parents and your schoolteachers

[@DamianOchramowicz]

This is one of my favourite "war is hell" moments in history of cinema. These well dressed people are just sitting in their comfortable office, and are using state of the art technology to kill people. I can feel that AC-130 mission from COD:MW was inspired by that scene.

[@starwarsroo2448]

I think so

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

I reminds me of Star Wars when Peter Cushing blows up a planet for thrills just to troll Princess Leia

[@JChang0114]

@@starwarsroo2448 This is true with 35F positions in the Army. Do a PowerPoint intel report, have a Whopper for lunch, get off duty an walk around at a suburban US mall, go to sleep. Wake up one day and find the places in your report was just bombed as reported by the morning news.

[@shadownet4597]

Also the mission in Black Ops where you go back and forth from controlling troop positions from a Blackbird, to being the soldier on the ground.

[@johnkruton9708]

The COD game where you went in and had the option to not play……the murdering innocents in the mall…that part was chilling to play but as just a video game it came and went like all the other FPS killings. Real life is not a video game although I think the kids that have grown up with COD from preteen years to older might be more susceptible to being influenced.

[@drgentlewolf]

Observation with a cup of hot coffee,this is a war of 21st Century.

[@JChang0114]

tamaji kent Think the guy has flavored cream in it?

[@englishinba]

20th century

[@bjornervig3795]

This is how war should be waged in the Middle East by Western forces. Just take out the threats and evacuate. Don't waste money trying to stabilize an anarchic region that can't be helped. Petrol is going to be obsolete and hopefully by then, the Sultans invested wisely.

[@GrayFoxROU]

@@bjornervig3795 Ever heard of the Military Industrial Complex?

[@pacificdragon1]

I think Harrison Ford played a better Jack Ryan than Alec Baldwin.

[@gc3k]

Baldwin was closer to the book, but Ford was the best actor (out of all the Jack Ryans)

[@user-yo8ab1ys9e]

Most definitely. I wonder what The Hunt for Red October would’ve been like if we got Harrison Ford instead (I wish we did). At the very least the continuity would’ve been smoother.

[@1987AnimeBoy]

​@@user-yo8ab1ys9e It'll be a good reunion for Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.

[@rimrunz1795]

Agreed

[@JedForge]

@@gc3k Yea, it's kind of funny. When I read Hunt for Red October, Cardinal of the Kremlin and Red Rabbit, Baldwin comes to mind. For all the others, it's Harrison Ford.

[@ForeverBennett]

Brilliant scene. In the book it was French Special Forces who take out the camp, but I like this better. They could have done it as a big, major action piece, but they decided to show it by satellite instead, save a lot of money, and it's arguably more effective.

[@ForeverBennett]

@J That's what Clancy wrote. I guess they had military assets nearby?

[@captaincarl2079]

@@ForeverBennett SAS operated a ton in Africa along with the French so it would certainly be reasonable

[@ForeverBennett]

@@captaincarl2079 totally. I prefer SAS to French Spec Ops. The film did it really well.

[@functionform]

Great music in this scene. If only they still made movies like this.

[@tomarnold7284]

They used the theme from ALIENS

[@RPAS1234]

Years ago I was in the Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan and I was an IT technician (despite being labelled "SF", I was essentially a nerd/geek computer guy). One of my (many) jobs was to ensure the UAV feed from the US stayed up and running in the SF Operations Centre (OPCEN) - large room, no windows with lots of oversized TVs ). It was a glorified payTV optic fibre run but an important information relay nonetheless. 99% of the time the UAV feed was standard "turn and burn" eyes in the sky with nothing happening, however a few times the Australian SF was granted "bird time" to use the platform for "kinetic effects" We used to call the UAV feed "Predator Porn" or also "Kill TV". Anyway, whenever it was time to kill a baddie from the JPEL (Joint Prioritised Effects List), the OPCEN was standing room only. I was told to physically be there in case anything happened to the feed (nothing ever did). Anyway the "excitement" and tension was similar to this YT clip. Most of the military staff were fairly indifferent ie another day at work, however, you'd get the odd civilian with their eyes popping out, especially if it was their first time on deployment. Most attendees were simply glad to see a bad guy they had been tracking for months go out in a big bright black, grey and white thermal flare onscreen (dispatched by a Hellfire missile ( or two)) I was normally glad to see the spectacle finish with everyone leave as I could then give the OPCEN floor a quick sweep as people would track in mud and leave rubbish on the floor and the odd Timmy Hortons disposable coffee cup lying around. Don't miss it though. I now live in the tropics without a care in the world with my beach shack, a friendly dog and a fortnightly military pension.....oh and of course a "John Wick" style hard case under the house with gold bullion, unmarked bills, a bug out bag and various firearms....lol

[@Sercer25]

@Smithy18 Suck it up buttercup. Words been out for a long time that the western nations commit war crimes daily. Obama liked to order hellfires on Syrian hospitals. Sick of pretending the 'West (former shell of what greatness it used to be)' are the good guys.

[@sundaypunch7906]

Great scene. Yeah, Horner reworked a cue he'd used at the beginning of Aliens but who cares. It fits perfectly here. As for the scene itself, it's brilliantly edited with the sound. It conveys Ryan's new reality. No longer out there in the real world but in the big office where executive decisions are made and then carried out thousands of miles away on your orders and the closest you get to it is satellite video images or a report dumped on your desk in the morning. Disconnected physically from the reality of it all but not mentally. At least not yet. It's as if Ryan not only realises that this is all being carried out on his hunch but that the same thing has taken place in that room and others like it probably dozens if not hundreds of times before down through the years. And the scene of the 'crime' so to speak more or less incinerated to cover any tracks as what they are doing is completely illegal so you'll never even know if you were right.

[@gc3k]

Alan Silvestri scores all sound like Back to the Future

[@outpost31mac]

@@gc3k Right. 'Predator' and 'The Abyss'? Yeah they sound just like 'BTTF'!

[@NordicSnowhammer]

Man I wish they'd start making good movies on a constant basis.

[@hanscombe72]

“The SAS can come in from the desert and kill everyone there and be gone before the echo fades”. These scene blew me away when I first saw it!

[@methos-ey9nf]

Just another day at the office for the SAS

[@methos-ey9nf]

@user-sc3ts6lf8r sure, but this is the sort of mission SAS was founded to do.

[@slugdriveruh1]

"That is a Kill" The visual (body Language) Harrison Ford presents is priceless and couldn't be more accurate! The sicking feeling of knowing he personally caused the deaths of other human beings (bad guys) is forever printed on his soul. One of my most favorite scenes ever. The music is great (2001--)but (Gayane Ballet Suite Adagio) would have also been accurate for the scene.

[@Gobbersmack]

False. The film doesn't show his erection.

[@lEGOBOT2565]

He's disgusted at the person who said "That's a kill", not the fact that he caused the deaths

[@sundaypunch7906]

@@lEGOBOT2565 He's clearly shaken by the fact his hunch has led to actual fatalities. It's never even confirmed if they hit the right camp. It's a new reality for him. His shock continues long after the disgust he shows at the indifference of the guy with the coffee.

[@lEGOBOT2565]

@@sundaypunch7906 Pretty much what I said, though more in depth

[@rolandmiller5456]

@@Gobbersmack Most people who kill people don't get erections. Just to let you know. A lot of them have nightmares about it to this very day.

[@Pyle81]

That was "State of the Art Technology" then. Today thats like watching old Black and White reruns of the Andy Griffin show. High definition body cameras on every operator, Even one on the K9 thats used to find the squirters that ran out the back door and hid in a drainage pipe. And the K9 cam is probably the best of them all. They don't give up until there shot dead or there handler manages to pull them off. The use of K9's in direct action combat missions is priceless. There not just a dog, There a team member in fur with 4 feet and nose that can save there human team members lives.

[@AnthonyPenningsPhD]

their

[@JedForge]

The term "Fur Missile" isn't as hyperbolic as some would assume.

[@elkwyre]

Having served in operation Dessert Storm in Afghanistan I can say Helo support would never fire so close to operators during a live mission

[@joshuah5556]

Operation Dessert Storm sounds delicious

[@Eadbhard]

Hey fruitcake, what else did you serve with that dessert?

[@Polostar79]

Dessert Storm? I bet that op was a piece of cake. Waka Waka!

[@JedForge]

@@joshuah5556 hehehe, hoping there's some Cheese Cake in there somewhere (not sure why people ruin a good cheese cake by putting stuff on top).

[@sfcd4757]

The team leader called in a danger close mission 😂😂😂😂

[@carlosavila5156]

This is an underrated scene.Mr.Ford does great work here.But overall it is a chilling look at what the war on terror entails.On the other hand it's easy to forget the toll it takes on those doing the fighting.Jack Ryan knows that he is responsible for what he's watching and it's tearing him up while having to accept it has to be done.Great acting.

[@tumadoireacht]

USA skilled 170,000 Afghanis. Who is the terrorist ? Who really pays the toll ?

[@mhobson2009]

@@tumadoireacht did we now? You sure about that ? The Taliban weren't too particular about causing non-combatant deaths (hey, those dead people are all martyrs) or outright executing civilians for the slightest noncompliance with their demands. There is a horrific video where the Taliban executed a mayor with a 105mm recoilless rifle. Then there were all those women they stoned to death in public in a sports stadium.

[@tumadoireacht]

@@mhobson2009 ugly actions but high altitude carpet bombing and drones win out on the numbers. USA 4 million in Korea. 6 million( familiar figure?) in USA war in Vietnam. Democracy sales are pricey.

[@mhobson2009]

@@tumadoireacht carpet bombing in Afghanistan? Not a thing. But do keep making it up as you go, that's almost amusing.

[@devildogcrewchief3335]

@@tumadoireacht Shut up sand flea...the Taliban did a lot worse.

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Such a deep and unsettling theme, highliting a real sense of danger and doom. After all, James Horner composed this, so what else do we have to expect? Also love his other scores for Aliens (a real classic), Apollo 13 and Deep Impact.

[@TheNecronacht]

Elements from this piece of music sounded familiar from his work on Aliens. No wonder...

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

@@TheNecronacht Borrow here, borrow there...

[@calogerohuygens4430]

@@TheNecronacht that music intro was ripped off by "2001" first scene of discovery.

[@johnbuggy9121]

@@calogerohuygens4430 Yep.

[@tomarnold7284]

@@TheNecronacht I thought he reused it from Aliens

[@boxerwayne6660]

The SAS were doing missions as such by operating in small groups since world war 2. The SAS has been operating in such manner for a very long time way before Delta and Seals were formed.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

yea movie SAS do great stuff

[@64MDW]

Yeah. So what?

[@maxmilernjdmba.9750]

That was in 1992, more than 30 years ago. Technologies shown are from 1980s. I can only imagine what they have now, 40 years later.

[@enigma4430]

Cathartic moment in filming, especially in these times. Love these films.

[@corystereo]

I'd love it if the SAS did this to a camp of ISIS terrorists in Northern Iraq.

[@orangefox1231]

***** Fuck you. Lay off these guys for wishing ISIS was dead. You're the dumb fuck.

[@imp8200]

+MightyJosh1985 if you dumb asses hadn't invaded Iraq we wouldn't have had this problem to begin with. And now your solution is more war? More dollars wasted? Several trillion wasn't enough? Fuck off

[@JLUDE01]

+IMP You have no idea what would have happened if we had stayed out of Iraq. Make no mistake, ISIS exists because Islamic Extremists have been out to kill everyone else for hundreds of years, not because of US forces in Iraq. When we let them to themselves things do not improve. It is a shithole that needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth.

[@Reckall]

+JLUDE01 ISIS is, literally, the fundamentalist Sunni branch of Iraqi islamists. Iraq was (and is) a country with a Shia majority. When Iran overthrew the Shah (who had been put there by the USA in the first place) and became a fundamentalist Shia theocracy, the USA responded by supporting Saddam Hussein, who governed Iraq through the Ba'ath Party - a secular front for the Sunni Iraqi *minority*. Once Saddam was removed by the most stupid war since Vietnam, and the country was left in a mess, the Shia majority regained power. This left the Sunni fundamentalists a bit miffed. Al-Qaeda moved in (basically the 2003 Gulf War end result was to give half of Iraq to Al-Qaeda) and, being it a Sunni fundamentalist organisation, proposed an alliance with them - basically creating the Eastern part of ISIS. So, sorry but yes: the current situation is the result of *decades* of ignorance, hypocrisy and sheer stupidity by the USA. Not all of it, but for sure a good part of it (pro tip: who sent Khomeyni in Iran, after the Shah fell, so to have "an allied religious leader" in the new theocratic state? Exactly).

[@WizzRacing]

+cory stereo Iraq my ass. You have them in your own back yard and off limits to UK police to do anything about it!

[@harryc1971]

Lets not forget how old this movie is, i remember reading about this movie in Empire and Phillip Noyce discussed how they went into great detail to portray accuracy in what real time Satellite feed would show.. You can only imagine what they 30 years later, and who knows how much spent on the forever war!!!

[@bigburd875]

I like how it's not the fact that these people are being killed that tortures Jack, it's the fact that it's on a scree, in just blue and white, as if it's a game, but it's real, and that he did it, but it's do detached

[@efnissien]

01;27 - ah yes, the classic movie 'skyline scene' - all the SAS lined up on the skyline. Just as you'd never do in real life.

[@macelharen]

Silhouette is a french foreign word so obviously hollywood has no conception of the concept either. Freedom Fries!

[@dulls8475]

Shape shine shadow silhouette movement.

[@efnissien]

@@dulls8475 Yup, the old 'S's and of course you could keep adding 'Spacing', 'Suitability' ad infinitum.

[@dulls8475]

@@efnissien Those were the ones that tripped off my old brain.

[@efnissien]

@@dulls8475 I think they're the ones everyone gets taught, then they get added to!

[@AndreInThe416]

It's odd to me this simple part is my favorite scene of the movie.

[@davidsmith385]

The Hunt fo Red October got me started on Tom Clancy, the next two, Patriot games and Clear and present danger were great mpvies.😊

[@TRockett55IRISH]

They do not make movies like this anymore a true CLASSIC.

[@rredhawk]

@slugdriveruh1 Gayane Adagio with a little Shostakovich 5th symphony 3rd movement thrown in for emphasis (at around 1:50). Couldn't agree more. Great use of the music of these two modern contemporaries in this scene.

[@bobcostas5094]

The SAS are Total Badasses

[@sammysinz5560]

Meh

[@Pisca-kk5cs]

I like the Admiral Grier said “It’s over” … not a happy way, not a gung Ho way, no congratulations 🎉,,, just a somber way…

[@gregrock7451]

I think that watching this stuff go down filtered through some satellite-based IR/thermal imaging scope is more unnerving than it would be in clear, hi-def, 1080p video. It gives everything a sort of ghostly, spectral quality. I think the total lack of audio adds an extra layer of "spooky" to the proceedings; no noise, just some ghost-like images of people writhing on the ground tells you what's happening. Kinda fitting, since it's showing a bunch of people in the midst of meeting a violent end.

[@HaragothNAR]

These weren't even huge budget movies, and they blow pretty much anything made today completely out of the water.

[@Ben82077]

Admiral Greer: …SAS can take out any one these camps in under two minutes. LT. Price: Bravo six, going dark.

[@tonkerdog1]

The music was straight out of Aliens.

[@Frankjc3rd]

Ryan really shouldn't be surprised when you sees Greer already in a room that he himself did not know he was going to be in 10 minutes ago. 😮

[@GrayFoxROU]

"Into battle."

[@robbmorris]

Perfect scene for a highly underrated film. Better than Clear and Present Danger by comparison, *despite Willem DaFoe being awesome.

[@mr6johnclark]

this was 1992... it's 2022... This tech is practically off the shelf with Drones and Satelite technology.

[@stevecowder4774]

Jack’s a Boy Scout, as he would be referred to in the sequel, Clear and Present Danger. But that’s cool, he’s the kind of hero people admire.

[@MadMax31577]

Such a great movie when Hollyweird still made great movies

[@imcallingjapan2178]

Grow up

[@Eadbhard]

Yeah, "Look Who's Talking Now" was a great movie too. Idiot.

[@AnthonyPenningsPhD]

Some interesting detail. The Keyhole satellite now owned by Google. The low-earth orbit satellite on a elliplital orbit to get close to the Earth but only for a short time because it is going so fast to avoid being sucked in by the gravity.

[@johnhall3824]

The best Jack Ryan ever. . .

[@RA-gh3gg]

This scene was SO ahead of its time!

[@sambaker1212]

We’re the very best of the best....SAS..🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧go Britain

[@kennethtyree4770]

It was a bushwhack, give me a break. Remember Panama. The SAS that impress me the most were the WW2 variety, North Africa.

[@bigbitehood1353]

More ppl need to contemplate movies without their soundtrack. The score SAVES some movies and really really enhances others. There's almost no dialog but so much of Jack's thought process is conveyed through the score

[@michaelhaney3388]

Can you imagine what technology we have now.

[@haskapaska]

Can you imagine what kind of shitty movies we have now?

[@rolandmiller5456]

Yes. Very easily

[@sammysinz5560]

You mean like ac-130 gunships and the MQ-9 Reaper?

[@alucard624]

The score for this scene was really good, even if it was a reworking of ALIENS in many ways. James did that a lot with his scores.

[@garrygoers8866]

The fine for littering in California is more than the fine for dealing Meth in New Mexico.

[@t.r.campbell6585]

I could never understand why Jack was somewhat upset and depressed at this. This is all good news and he saw terrorists taken out.

[@chantawatchantarapanya8479]

I still alway prefer Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan over John Krainsinski's one. Jack Ryan is supposed to be an intelligence analyst, not a special force.

[@FingerBreakerWu]

And they say we now think of war as a video game...

[@blastradius9136]

Instantly I knew James Horner did the score for this movie. This sounds like Aliens at 0:54

[@osuna3525]

TBT witnessing my first happening on /pol/ was like this.

[@HacksignKT]

rofl

[@hgahsiea]

Be careful what you wish for. Great scene.

[@leecullen7651]

And just think people, this film was out 20 odd years ago, just imagine what the military can do now.

[@Elthenar]

A friendly reminder that the SAS are no joke.

[@slappymcgillicuddy7532]

No Tier 1 unit is, let alone most special operations forces

[@boxerwayne6660]

@@slappymcgillicuddy7532 A reminder that the SAS has been doing such missions since world war 2. Delta was formed in the late 70's modeled after the SAS and the SAS helped beckwith to begin an SAS unit in the US. Navy seals particularly seal team 6 was formed in the 80's using the platform of the SAS as well. The Aus SAS, NZSAS and the UKSAS are all tier 1. Rhodesia SAS was also tier 1 prior to its disbandment.

[@goldmanking7468]

@@boxerwayne6660 And the SAS was modelled on the US Marines' 'four man fire team' which was introduced by Evans Carlson after he served with the PLA, fighting the Japanese Imperial army in 1937. The Chinese fire team comprised three men, but when Carlson returned to the US he expanded it to four men fireteams and its this model that was copied and modelled by Stirling when he devised Britain's version of the PLA fireteam with the SAS.

[@slappymcgillicuddy7532]

@@boxerwayne6660 No kidding? everyone knows that

[@vladtepes97]

jack doesn't know the coffee guy is actually a level 59 argonian war hero known as stormblade.

[@michaelgonos3165]

The scene is almost a sort of loss of his "intelligence virginity" if you will. He's realizing his analysis is directly leading to human deaths and he's seeing it all happening before his eyes. That is a heavy thing, since he has to base his conclusions on probabilities rather than unshakeable facts so much of time.

[@georgekraus9357]

Three letter agencies use drones now ..... satellites are too expensive and limited in time. Drones give more flexibility ... you want 4 + drones, 24/7 coverage? You got it

[@lrbell64]

Surgical strike via satellite feed...awesome! This movie gave the viewers a small slice of the Shadow wars fought everywhere. Ahead of it's time!

[@golfrepcitizen]

Han Solo and Darth Vader in the same room and working together, nice

[@HeavyJ318]

Don't fuck with the SAS!

[@andreweasternman8788]

But why? They're as harmless, as the welcome wagon.😳🙄😁😂

[@fkerpants]

This is a well-edited and well-directed scene, but it's character illogical. Nobody rises to the position Jack Ryan does in the CIA without realizing the nature of what he/she does. It doesn't make any sense for him to have some sudden attack of conscience while these guys are being taken out. By this time, his character has seen this before, many times. I've got to say, James Earl Jones nailed the moment when he says "it's over" at the end. Some of the best line readings slip right by and the man nailed it.

[@SlyRy]

That may be true but I thought the reason he acted this way was because this particular camp was a dice roll as in it wasn't 100% confirmed, right? He is basically watching a what if scenario take place in real time. I don't expect him to be gung ho about this. And we really don't know his history besides Hunt for Red October. Ryan may know what goes on in the CIA dark rooms, heck he was already in a shootout. But this is his first little battle he created so ra essentially his blood on his hands. I don't know, I just don't get why people are hating on his behavior in this scene.

[@JB91710]

+SlyRy Don't forget, he is a Analyst who is in transition to field work. His boss shows how he will be reacting after he gets his feet wet a few times. My gut reaction was, if it's not THE camp he's looking for, it's a camp that needs to be eliminated anyway so it would be a Loose/Win situation. " It's Over" hit's the nail right on the head!

[@SmokeDog1871]

+Push Back I dont know my cousin was in afghanistan calling drone strikes on people planting IED's in a situation similar to this and he said he felt horrible about it. You really cant imagine what it's like to take someone's life until you actually do it. Jack Ryan is also the protagonist from a story pov so the audience needs someone to relate to.

[@Suojeluninja]

Ones feelings and rationale are not the same. One can in the same time hate and loathe something yet understand why it is necessary and has to be done.

[@josepharamaki4745]

that's because the movie continuity is different from the book continuity. In the books, Patriot Games is Jack's first foray with the CIA who recruits him to tap into his desire for revenge after the ULA tries to kill his family.

[@davidanderson4091]

Scene works well with the background music from "Alien".

[@slimj091]

Soap: I can't believe they hit the camp with an air strike while we were in it LT. Ghost: Shut up Johnny.

[@RebelofIreland]

Ah yes Tom Clancy...an uncle Tom if ever there was one. He betrayed his own Irish American heritage.

[@tumadoireacht]

How did he do that exactly ?

[@MM22966]

Except for the lack of drone support and LCD flatscreens instead of CRT, this would be a modern operation in every detail.

[@mgtowbro917]

So much of what we believe is just an illusion.

[@jolicska]

maybe im wrong but the airstrike could be friendly fire if the ground forces are still on target sight, isn't it?

[@menotyou7762]

I like how they leave the nav lights on even though they are attacking someone in dark, i mean like yeah ok this happens

[@philippee946]

Just past the 1 minute mark you see them kill their lights.

[@sfcd4757]

It used to be like that with a window with Sat Feeds. Unlike today with unlimited time

[@aaronkavanagh8640]

Cool! I actually know the guy who uploaded this!

[@Bike52469]

bot

[@andreweasternman8788]

Bip

[@TheWaynos73]

The chilling detachment of the CIA watching: ‘That, is a kill’.

[@arbanasialbanesi]

Disgusting!

[@GrayFoxROU]

It would have been more realistic if they would`ve been used Lynx or Puma helicopters instead of Hueys...But it`s a great scene.

[@Treblaine]

SAS are happy to hitch a ride, especially for plausible deniability.

[@14arma]

+Gray Fox [ROU] This scene likely depicted American CIA's SAS (now called SAD), not British Special Air Service. Not saying British SAS are not capable of such an operation, I'm sure they could do it just as well... I just think due to the fact its a movie concerning the CIA, when they refer to the SAS, its likely their own SAS.

[@canihazburgers]

+Doc G I don't think so. You can clearly hear the SAS guy on the ground has a British accent. It would make sense too as the IRA were a Brit problem, not American.

[@thomassodomizer764]

I thought the same but pricewise too expensive. Remember a movie is a business and it's all about saving money. Which is why you always saw Hueys in war scenes and movies. Nowadays it would be just CGI.

[@itsandy88]

Doc G No they are depicting the British SAS

[@stefanboster5728]

I’m reminded of the ‘short work’ comment Amy Adams made in ‘Arrival’..

[@plissken2156]

James Horner loved to recycle his music. The piece playing during this scene is almost identical to the intro in 1986's Aliens.

[@johnofmalta]

Oh my god. The quarterback is toast!

[@MisterMisc]

Relies too heavily on his Aliens score.

[@enigma4430]

I disagree, it's an appropriate score for this scene.

[@starwarsroo2448]

Swear he throws a bot of that in the end of Die Hard

[@thehedgeknightnc3681]

Would love to see a corresponding scene showing the actual operators in the camp.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

SAS are some truly dangerous operators.

[@spiral83]

was that... was that Alien OST playing over the whole music? I had no idea it had been used for this movie... it fits well though it's hauntingly quite and fitting to the scene.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

Aram Khachaturian (Adagio from "Gayane" Suite) and Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony No. 5, 3rd mvt.)

[@daveb.4268]

"Thank you Sat-1, now position us back over the Playboy mansion...."

[@Fox-One1937]

Old school special op Today's we use Reaper's for this kind of job

[@andreweasternman8788]

Seasons don't fear the Reaper. Nor do the wiiiinnnnnd, the sun and the rain! Come on baaaybay; we can be like they are. And live together in eter a-tee. Come on baybay. Don't Fear the Reaper. Baby, I'm your maaaaaannnn!

[@Fox-One1937]

@@andreweasternman8788 is this the official anthem of US attack drones operators?

[@andreweasternman8788]

Uuummmm... I guess(?)

[@2009worstyearever]

the discipline to shoot 'action' is really missing from today's movies. its just all Harrison Ford's reactions and some pixels.

[@Aesop059]

There's not enough of this going on around the world.