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Post by billhammond on Feb 4, 2016 19:58:31 GMT -5
It's on one of my cable channels right now, and once again, I cannot resist its tractor beam and I am enjoying every minute of it. Maybe it's not one of the best films ever made, but like the Godfather, I cannot resist its allure. Every time I see it, I notice some other little genius element.
Am I alone here?
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Post by epaul on Feb 4, 2016 20:04:34 GMT -5
I have asked that question while watching "A Nightmare on Elm Street", but never while watching "The Hunt for Red October."
(it's just the wind)
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2016 20:09:14 GMT -5
I remember thinking it quite smart and thrilling. My fave submarine film is Das Boot which somehow makes tedium gripping.
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Post by billhammond on Feb 4, 2016 20:13:43 GMT -5
Oh, man, Das Boot is grueling and heartbreaking, but yeah, a fine film.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 21:52:14 GMT -5
I loved the book, and the next one Clancy wrote, Red Storm Rising, was right in my wheelhouse as a tank officer in late Cold War Germany. I think he became increasingly enamored with tech gadgetry and gee wizardry at the expense of plot as his books progressed.
As for the movie, I like it, except for the fact that I generally get the urge to vomit when I see Alec Baldwin.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 22:22:25 GMT -5
As a avid Clancy reader I think Red Storm Rising was my favorite followed by the Hunt for Red October. The Sum of All Fears was getting pretty out there tech wise and I only needed to read one Ops Center book to figure out the old Clancy was gone.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Feb 4, 2016 22:28:49 GMT -5
I enjoyed Hunt for... but, as is often the case, like the book more than the movie.
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Post by RickW on Feb 4, 2016 23:19:14 GMT -5
It was a great movie, and a great book. I love submarine movies, and it was one of the best. Loved Das Boot, too, but it's a hard one to watch.
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Post by kenlarsson on Feb 5, 2016 0:06:49 GMT -5
The Hunt for Red October came out during one of my tours of duty teaching at the Sonar school in San Diego. Needless to say it was a huge hit in the Sonarman community. We had all read the book and went en mass to the movie. Clancy did a good job in the book of presenting the broad picture of what Sonar analysis is without going into the classified aspects of what it's all about. The film left a lot out, there's a hell of a lot more equipment and tech than a guy sitting at the sonar stack listening through headphones but that could not be shown.................... Additionally there'd be a team of Sonarmen doing the tracking and analysis, not just one 2nd class petty officer doing the whole thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 7:33:48 GMT -5
As a avid Clancy reader I think Red Storm Rising was my favorite followed by the Hunt for Red October. The Sum of All Fears was getting pretty out there tech wise and I only needed to read one Ops Center book to figure out the old Clancy was gone. I liked everything Clancy wrote before the Ops Center junk, but he wasn't writing those anyway. From Wikipedia: Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, though the series is actually written by Jeff Rovin, although the series reboot from 2014 are written by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi. I've probably seen "Hunt for Red October" a dozen times and was watching last night until I had to go to bed.
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Post by Marshall on Feb 5, 2016 9:19:28 GMT -5
I'm sure you heard the story about Sean Connery's first day on set. The director was telling it on some interview show. Connery walks on set and immediately starts berating some lowly tech about the conditions of the dressing room and this and that. The Director things, "Geeze. I've got some prima dona trouble maker here." Then the first scene they filmed is when Connery steps on the bridge and everyone snaps to attention. And the Director realized Connery was just setting up the whole set for the scene. You can't act respect. Authority and respect are seen by how people react to you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 17:45:41 GMT -5
I reckon if Connery didn't get the respect he wanted, he could have always smacked somebody...
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Post by Greg B on Feb 5, 2016 18:12:13 GMT -5
The Hunt for Red October came out during one of my tours of duty teaching at the Sonar school in San Diego. Needless to say it was a huge hit in the Sonarman community. We had all read the book and went en mass to the movie. Clancy did a good job in the book of presenting the broad picture of what Sonar analysis is without going into the classified aspects of what it's all about. The film left a lot out, there's a hell of a lot more equipment and tech than a guy sitting at the sonar stack listening through headphones but that could not be shown.................... Additionally there'd be a team of Sonarmen doing the tracking and analysis, not just one 2nd class petty officer doing the whole thing. You must have been teaching at the ASW base then (Anti Submarine Warfare to everyone else). Or were you out at NOSC on Point Loma? (Navel Ocean Systems Center. The military do love their acronyms) I was living in San Diego at the same time and I worked fixing copiers on all of those bases. Later on when I became a software engineer I wrote code for battle simulation software and often ended up going back to the same part of town where I use to work as a "grunt". Were in SD were you living at the time?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 19:18:29 GMT -5
Hunt and Das Boot are both fantastic in their own right. Nothing like a claustrophobic sub movie! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Enemy Below. Run Silent, Run Deep. Operation Petticoat. Ice Station Zebra. On the Beach.
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Post by kenlarsson on Feb 5, 2016 22:28:09 GMT -5
The Hunt for Red October came out during one of my tours of duty teaching at the Sonar school in San Diego. Needless to say it was a huge hit in the Sonarman community. We had all read the book and went en mass to the movie. Clancy did a good job in the book of presenting the broad picture of what Sonar analysis is without going into the classified aspects of what it's all about. The film left a lot out, there's a hell of a lot more equipment and tech than a guy sitting at the sonar stack listening through headphones but that could not be shown.................... Additionally there'd be a team of Sonarmen doing the tracking and analysis, not just one 2nd class petty officer doing the whole thing. You must have been teaching at the ASW base then (Anti Submarine Warfare to everyone else). Or were you out at NOSC on Point Loma? (Navel Ocean Systems Center. The military do love their acronyms) I was living in San Diego at the same time and I worked fixing copiers on all of those bases. Later on when I became a software engineer I wrote code for battle simulation software and often ended up going back to the same part of town where I use to work as a "grunt". Were in SD were you living at the time? I was stationed at FLEASWTRACENPAC (Fleet Anti Submarine Warfare Training Center, Pacific) and had a condo in San Carlos, corner of Lake Murray Blvd and Navajo Rd. Loved San Diego.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2016 9:07:42 GMT -5
Other movies that I'll watch, when I'm surfing through channels, no matter when they come on or at what point in the movie, they're at. Casablanca, Groundhog Day, Dr. Strangelove, The Fugitive, Being There and anything by Monty Python or Hitchcock. Among others, of course.
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Post by Doug on Feb 6, 2016 10:19:35 GMT -5
I watched Eye of the Needle the other night. Sutherland makes such a good villain.
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