*THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER* First Time Watching MOVIE REACTION

[@Jarsia]

"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

[@twylanaythias]

"I would liked to have seen Montana." The saddest seven words ever spoken in a movie.

[@budhalbr]

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.

[@budhalbr]

@@hepchaos Oops, I think it could be one or the other. I should read over my comments before I post, thanks.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Fun? I'd be terrified thinking about how USS Squalus and USS Thresher sunk.

[@budhalbr]

@@ronmaximilian6953 The USS Scorpion in 1968 also.

[@Tarnatos14]

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.

[@jamiebrooks3864]

I joined RN because of this film Das Boot would have made me join the RAf if I had seen it before I joined

[@archersfriend5900]

This movie has aged amazingly well.

[@jazzx251]

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.

[@billolsen4360]

Except for Alec

[@joelwillems4081]

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.

[@tysoncromwell2684]

I served in the Navy and worked on the helicopter that dropped the torpedo late in the movie. I love this movie.

[@vaughncollar8014]

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.

[@ralphtijtgat3233]

Cool!

[@maxducoudray]

The cast in this movie is outrageous, top to bottom. So good.

[@rcrawford42]

But who would go to sea with Pennywise on board?

[@nonamenola33]

@@rcrawford42 Haha!

[@jasonremy1627]

@@rcrawford42 or Frank N. Furter.

[@hebber1961]

Was this Baldwin's first shot at a big role?

[@maxducoudray]

@@hebber1961 I think Beetlejuice was earlier. Not sure what other good roles he had in his early career.

[@Steve_Blackwood]

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! 😂

[@FlankerB3]

in the book he does survive, the navigator dies

[@peterk7931]

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."

[@jenmurrayxo]

I love that 💙

[@OnASeasideMission]

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?

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@OnASeasideMissionWilliams (the Royal Navy translator) was taken off the boat on a stretcher at the end with the prognosis he was going to survive.

[@OnASeasideMission]

@@BogeyTheBear Er, rhetorical question? Lieutenant Owen Williams (possibly Welsh)(AND by pure coincidence, the same name as a very, very, very minor character who dies in a house fire in 'Red Rabbit', another Jack Ryan story set months before Red October) didn't die, is my point. He was simply written out. Honestly, as soon as Clancy put words in his mouth, he came across as a bit of a supercilious know-it-all. It should have been his job to head count the men leaving the submarine. He didn't.

[@SirChaosS]

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.

[@richarddefortuna2252]

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.

[@qbasicmichael]

It's a borrow from hebrew.

[@richarddefortuna2252]

@@qbasicmichael cool.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

The choice was between Armageddon and cat. Armageddon is a real place, Har Meggido, or today Tel Meggido

[@andrewchapman4267]

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.

[@waterbeauty85]

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.

[@majbloodnok]

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... ;)

[@fernandocast435]

wait sam neill is fucking dead?

[@WillCamx]

When a character like that appeared in a movie my mother would say "Well he's marked for death".

[@laurelg9586]

I hated that Sam Neill's character because I love Sam Neill! does a great Elrond!

[@bekindandrewind1422]

12:55 --- You missed that because it was so subtle... Basically Ramius is threatening them with the same fate as Putin..

[@BogeyTheBear]

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.

[@ClutchSituation]

One of the greatest lines in cinema history: "You arrogant ass! You've killed us!"

[@vidhead85]

One of my absolute favorite lines in this movie. Very quotable too

[@zmarko]

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.

[@paulfeist]

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!

[@paulfeist]

@@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.

[@operator0]

@@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.

[@BogeyTheBear]

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.

[@arnaudgerard1971]

That's why it's been reused in JAG ;)

[@rockinrichardsmoviereviews1901]

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!!!

[@billolsen4360]

Glenn was also great in the original "Man On Fire."

[@hafeya]

And The Right Stuff@@billolsen4360

[@FlankerB3]

@@billolsen4360 Yes!!!

[@jeffburnham6611]

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.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Makes sense 👌

[@FPAlpha]

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.

[@mayorjimmy]

"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.

[@yohanespaskal9352]

You lost another submarine? His delivery 10/10.

[@terrylandess6072]

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.

[@rrmemphis427]

@@terrylandess6072 Richard Jordan is really an underrated actor by a lot of people. RIP

[@crewchief5144]

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.

[@zenarcher9633]

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".

[@jenmurrayxo]

** LIKE the video 👍if you want to see more Sean Connery or submarine movies!! ** FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE coming this week + be sure to check out THE ROCK + DR NO on my channel!

[@bigneon_glitter]

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.

[@williamsmith5340]

I like your video and you cut

[@jeffthompson9622]

Das Boot and Crimson Tide are two other good submarine movies.

[@MusicalBox]

I liked it before it even started :D

[@TheTcwalton]

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?)

[@petercofrancesco9812]

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.

[@CChissel]

True, it is a nice touch and probably for the best, the Russian was atrocious lol

[@kennethfharkin]

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.

[@keysersoze8110]

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.

[@servantofmelian9966]

@@CChissel Dascha of Russia reviewed this movie and her assessment of the quality of the Russian matches yours. She considered it bad but intelligible.

[@zatornagirroc7175]

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.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Thank you for this explanation!! 👌🤓

[@takeoutartist]

This term is also used with computers. You can “ping” another device, router, etc. through the command window.

[@FlankerB3]

@@takeoutartist It was also a method of cheating in early network games (like Duke Nukem 3d) - pinging some other players computer causing it to drop out from the match.

[@gerstelb]

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.

[@michellepeters7066]

I highly recommend "Das Boot" from 1981.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Oh I'd like to see that!

[@TomH2681]

@@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).

[@jenmurrayxo]

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 😂

[@ArinmarDeKaldenoc]

well just stick to the directors cut and enjoy the best submarine movie there is :)

[@FPAlpha]

@@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.

[@principals16842]

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.

[@darrellschoppa8467]

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. 😂

[@pkx_phant0m456]

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.

[@wadeduffy9101]

Agreed. And the performance by Jürgen Prochnow is fantastic.

[@alanholck7995]

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.

[@brozy5720]

Completely agreed! Claustrophobic and suspenseful as hell. Sonar has never been as nerve wrecking as in "Das Boot".

[@Deb-ex9st]

Dos Boat, it doesn't get more real than this movie inside of submarine during world war II under attack

[@xxJOKeR75xx]

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.

[@indetigersscifireview4360]

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.

[@kennethfharkin]

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.

[@billignaczak3851]

@@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.

[@kennethfharkin]

@@billignaczak3851 but FAST!

[@brom00]

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.

[@peterk7931]

"He's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman." That is a Lithuanian fisherman accent, obviously.

[@brom00]

@@peterk7931, ha, you got me there. My bad. :-)

[@peterk7931]

@@brom00 We should talk again when Jen watches The Highlander (1986)

[@LordVolkov]

@@peterk7931 Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez's accent? Or Connor MacCloud's? 🤣🤣🤣

[@saltytrey]

Sam Neill made it to Montana and dug dinosaur fossils.

[@mobyworm]

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.

[@canadianicedragon2412]

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.

[@nicknewman7848]

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.

[@MiriOhki]

Two of my favorite Connery films.

[@frozenharold]

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.

[@arctan2010]

Another submarine movie to consider is _Crimson Tide_ starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. The tension is also similar. Cheers 🍻

[@jenmurrayxo]

I'd really like to see that! 👍

[@davidtstravels8939]

Yes, definitely a tense thriller! I also enjoyed U-571.

[@asterix7842]

Don't forget Das Boot.

[@w41duvernay]

YES, another sub movie that was the bomb!

[@MarkusCrassus]

There are only two parts of Crimson Tide that are accurate. The guy being duct taped to a chair is one

[@geraldrhodes4114]

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.

[@FlankerB3]

Die Hard 2 - he was the boss in the control tower at Dulles

[@attorneyrobert]

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!

[@MackerelCat]

Ok not only is Dr Crusher the wife but around 19m we see professor Moriarty 😂😂😂 TNG represent

[@TheNightBadger]

_"I love a good wall safe."_ - Never thought I'd hear that in my life. But can't disagree.

[@eyesofisabelofficial]

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.

[@fruzsimih7214]

The production design and cinematography of the movie is mindblowing. From the lighting, you always know which sub is onscreen.

[@jeffthompson9622]

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]

Three classes of submarines? 688i Improved Los Angeles class, Ohio class ballistic missile submarine, and Seawolf class ?

[@jeffthompson9622]

@@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.

[@regould221]

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.

[@waterbeauty85]

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.

[@flashgordon6238]

I concur!

[@wwoods66]

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.

[@LordVolkov]

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

[@asterix7842]

Another great comedy- Operation Petticoat (1959) with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis.

[@johanlaurasia]

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...

[@craigm3353]

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.

[@bryancurtis220]

Also one of my favorites, I watch it every year on or near the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@dbstake9120]

Absolutely!!! One of my Favorites!

[@BackstageAtTheSmith]

Ooh yeah that's a great one

[@jamielandis4308]

I was gonna say that! 😎

[@jjkcharlie]

The Philadelphia Experiment, also

[@josephsearles1111]

If you want to see a different kind of sub movie I recommend Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant and Tony Curtis

[@billolsen4360]

Good comic relief after Cary Grant's first submarine movie, "Destination Tokyo," was more deadly serious.

[@waynezimmerman1950]

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).

[@robertholmes6906]

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 !!

[@billolsen4360]

"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.

[@FlankerB3]

@@billolsen4360 And Affleck in The Sum of All Fears was also a good Jack Ryan (underrated movie). And the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan tv series (John Krasinsky) also. I only didn't like Chris Pine as Jack Ryan (he is better as Jame T. Kirk)

[@jeffsherk7056]

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.

[@gaittr]

You are the perfect analytical intelligent person to review this movie at its best.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Oh thanks 🤓👍

[@TweedSuit]

14:49 - Niles from The Nanny.

[@kidsafe]

Let me show you this miniature rescue submarine that totally won’t be crucial later in the film.

[@jeffthompson9622]

The Dallas is a Los Angeles class attack sub, one of the three types I worked in constructing.

[@michaelproctor8100]

Tom Clancy based his novel on the real-life attempted defection of a soviet frigate, the Storozhevoy which happened in 1975.

[@rockinrichardsmoviereviews1901]

Even Jeffery Jones' speech about being able to park 100 warheads on the white house lawn was Bone-chilling.The screenplay to this Film was Impeccable and Thought-Provoking and Intelligent.

[@BogeyTheBear]

A ballistic missile normally works by kicking the warhead bus out of the atmosphere and letting it coast along, gravity being the primary force conspiring to pull it back to Earth. Parking two dozen submarine missiles less than a hundred miles from the target allows you to make a depressed-trajectory attack instead of a ballistic attack: Basically, the missile expends all its fuel going sideways through the atmosphere rather than up-and-over through space. It hits the target in a few minutes rather than a half-hour, but you need to be close to do it.

[@artembentsionov]

Stellan Skarsgård looks so young here. Good catch on him playing another Russian on Chernobyl. And, of course, he’s also known for Pirates of the Caribbean and the MCU

[@MST3Killa]

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.

[@teambanzai9491]

In the novel, which this film is based on, Ryan pretty much rules out that Marko Ramius is out to launch against the US quite early in the story, given that he could launch any time and didn't need to be off the coast to do so. Highly recommend you read the book to understand more about how modern submarine warfare works. Tom Clancy also wrote SSN, a non-fiction work and an inside look at US nuclear attack submarines. The recent trend in submarine design is looking at sonar stealth designs as opposed to just silent running. The next film, Patriot Games, is the origin story of Jack Ryan (but played by Harrison Ford). It is also the second book in the Jack Ryan series begun by The Hunt for Red October. Probably the best submarine film is Das Boot (1981), which takes place on a German U-boat (U-96) during 1941. A more recent TV series (2018) by the same name is a sequel to the film. This time it is U-616 during 1942. A fourth season was recently greenlit.

[@humanvideosponge4529]

I saw this movie at the theater when it first came out. Loved it and still do.

[@mccollumparkfarmersmarket7836]

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.

[@GF_Baltar]

"Admiral, someone has given a loaded pistol to Alec Baldwin!" "Mother of God"

[@karlsmith2570]

Fun Fact for you, Jen: The actor who who plays the COB(Chief Of the Boat), the guy who was telling seaman Beaumont the story about Jones' love of classical music, that's Larry Ferguson who, in addition to to playing the COB on-board the USS Dallas, was also one of the screenwriters on this movie

[@falcychead8198]

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.

[@blacktronlego]

If you enjoy this, consider watching 'Crimson Tide'. 15:23 'He went down in a chopper accident' That's why he hates turbulence. 25:35 'I don't know what a ping is' modern sonar is passive, they are listening for the sound of submarines, that is why a silent one is so terrifying. Old style sonar used echolocation, making a noise and analysing the echo reflected back. That noise was called a 'Ping'.

[@adamskeans2515]

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

[@rockinrichardsmoviereviews1901]

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!!!

[@karlsmith2570]

13:28 "That's Some Turbulence" Well, Jen, he's flying in an AWACS plane, and because of that sensor dish on top of the fuselage, any kind of crosswind would toss you around like you're in a clothes dryer

[@patmurray9730]

To scare you a little more. This book came out during the Reagan administration, 1984 if I remember right. Supposedly after he read the book he yelled, paraphrased, WHO CLEARED THIS??

[@benediktcz]

Jack Ryan series is probably my favorite non-fantasy/scifi book series

[@SkullAngel002]

30:17 - No, the torpedo collided with the Red October but did not detonate (what you see are torpedo parts and debris). Torpedoes are designed to "arm itself" at the last few seconds before impact and within close proximity to its target. The reason is because you don't want to risk premature detonation if, for example, the torpedo is traveling under commercial ships or underwater rocks, etc. Since Ramius moved the Red October closer to the torpedo, it didn't have a chance to arm itself before smacking into the Red October.

[@jamesweible5357]

Low key MVP for me was the Sonar Operator, without his skills they would have never found the Red October.

[@corumhayes8178]

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.

[@kermitcook8498]

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.

[@danh8804]

Red October was still damaged by the torpedo attack because of the force of the water displaced when the torpedo struck the side of the canyon. Torpedoes fit fit really well in that "almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" axiom. I don't know why, but watching Red October's crew see the battle unfold beneath them kinda gets me. There's a couple comedy beats, but watching their moment of grief is poignant when you think about what they *think* just happened - their captain and officers saved them from a deadly radiation dose and then submerged to give up their lives to keep the ship from being captured by the US Navy, decided to make a fight of it and gave the Americans hell before being sunk. It's touching watching them all take off their caps. That was the last great Cold War thriller to be made while still under the shadow of the Cold War (or Cold War One as we should probably call it).

[@jamielandis4308]

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.”

[@allenporter6586]

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.

[@doubleubee7523]

At 32:55, the jelly beans was a President Reagan reference. The book was published in 1984. Reagan loved jelly beans. Eating jelly beans in front of a Soviet official was a slight insult.

[@GrumpyOldGuy534]

Two other Jack Ryan movies are "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger", both with Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. Another Jack Ryan movie was "The Sum of all Fears" with Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman. All are great movies

[@flashgordon6238]

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.

[@terrylandess6072]

I was pleased that the 'other' Ryans had decent actors even if the films were less than this or the Ford versions.

[@bundoksaint6888]

Being a former Squid (US Navy sailor) myself, love me some "Red October." I read the book before the movie came out, and was surprised how faithfully it was adapted. You need to do a reaction to "A Few Good Men." Another Navy related film with a great ensemble cast that was on regular rotation while we were underway on deployments.

[@technofilejr3401]

22:22 Yo tell em Marine!! Jack never got to serve but he still knows how to bark orders.

[@louf1025]

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.

[@JohnSipe-jt7bm]

The sonar man saying he heard singing is a callback to Enemy Below. 9:20

[@jamesroseii]

Also, Star Trek II and Down Periscope

[@erictaylor5462]

The President at this time, Ronald Regan was known to love jelly beans. And he distributed them to everyone in his cabinet.

[@karlsmith2570]

15:48 "That's Super Fast, Isn't It?" For a submarine as big as Red October and in such a tight space that they're in, it is super fast. A submarine that's the size of the Red October is nearly impossible to maneuver at such high speeds in such close quarters

[@rockinrichardsmoviereviews1901]

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!!!

[@HH-hd7nd]

The Hunt for Red October - the second best submarine movie after Das Boot (The Boat) from 1981.

[@michaelodonnell824]

People forget just how tense the Nuclear situation was in the early to mid 1980s. A couple of Pop cultural examples include Sting's "If the Russians love their Children too" and Nena's "99 (Red) Luftballons". Reagan called the USSR "an Evil Empire" and joked about starting a Nuclear War. This movie was conceived and planned during that time...

[@ExUSSailor]

One of my all time favorite movies! I can still quote huge parts of it off the top of my head.

[@ExUSSailor]

In the book, it's made a bit clearer that the cook's assistant was actually an undercover GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) agent.

[@PaulLoh]

I was a submarine sonar technician. The submarine's baffles are the region of the 360 degree display that is taken up by the submarine itself. I was on an Ohio class submarine. We had a blind spot that we remedied by using "towed arrays". Those are listening devices that are towed behind the submarine, to listen to the baffle region. The only problem is that their placement prevented us knowing the direction of any sound. If we needed to figure out where a sound was coming from, we had to "check our baffles". That entailed maneuvering the submarine at least 30 degrees either port (left), or starboard (right). That way, if we moved closer to or farther from the sound, we knew where it was. None of what I told you is classified information. I did have a Secret clearance while I served, and to this day, I have never divulged any information that would compromise the security of the nation I served. Oh, and you wondered how loud it would be on board a submarine. We had to be as quiet as possible because stealth was our number one priority. That's why they call us the silent service.

[@PamJernigan]

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!

[@MartinBeerbom]

Just before the final torpedo hits the Konovalov, there's a single frame shot of the tip of the torpedo with a red Soviet star on it.

[@valeriefields7902]

Tupelo's torpedo came back to his own boat & blew it up.

[@pleutron]

loved it. Sir Sean Connery is believable as any nationality, just with a Scottish accent 🤪 In the movie Highlander, Connery plays an immortal from Egypt with, I think, a Spanish name, Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez, because, per the movie, he's spent time in Japan and Spain during his immortal years... and of course, speaks with his signature Scottish accent 😂 He is beyond cool in everything that he does 👍 I think that the only movies where he's played the same character in more than one movie is James Bond and The Highlander.

[@shadxwslash44]

I never expected to hear Darth Vader say "That torpedo did not self destruct, and I was never here."

[@vidhead85]

Absolutely one of my favorite movies. I've read the book and was in the edge of my seat. The screenwriter definitely captured the spirit of the book while tightening the narrative a bit.

[@waterbeauty85]

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.

[@paulwagner688]

Yes this. The whole opening of Saving Private Ryan was cribbed from this movie. And THAT was truly an "all star cast".

[@waterbeauty85]

@@paulwagner688 And I haven't seen any KZbinr react to it. It's a shame.

[@grimreaper-qh2zn]

I loved the on screen subtitles. At lunch the Officer says to Connery displayed as "He didn't sleep on his teeth did he?" 🤣

[@erictaylor5462]

When they show "Hunt for Red October" in Russian, a Russian told me that "October" is misspelled.

[@ricbarrett9424]

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.

[@jenmurrayxo]

Bourne Supremacy coming next week! 👍