1990 Directed by John McTiernan
A new, technologically-superior Soviet sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it — because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too.
Sean Connery Alec Baldwin Scott Glenn Sam Neill James Earl Jones Joss Ackland Richard Jordan Peter Firth Tim Curry Courtney B. Vance Stellan Skarsgård Jeffrey Jones Timothy Carhart Larry Ferguson Fred Dalton Thompson Daniel Davis Ned Vaughn Anthony Peck Mark Draxton Tom Fisher Pete Antico Ronald Guttman Tomas Arana Michael George Benko Anatoli Davydov Ivan G'Vera Artur Cybulski Sven-Ole Thorsen Michael Welden Show All…
John Benson Juno J. Ellis Richard Bryce Goodman David Lee Fein Richard Overton Ken Dufva Cecelia Hall George Watters II Kevin F. Cleary Greg Curda Bruce Fortune Frank Howard F. Hudson Miller Victoria Martin
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a.k.a. "How to Be So Badass Nobody Will Give a Shit That Your Lithuanian Accent Sounds Distinctly Scottish."
This business will get out of control! Holy shit, this looks like it was shot by Vittorio Storraro and Bertolucci compared to most of the shit we have to sit through these days.
McTiernan constantly reorients you in a three-dimensional space by pulling focus rather than cutting or moving along the axis, opening and closing distances at will. if a submarine movie (or actually just operating a submarine) is about anything it's about quickly and precisely locating obstacles on a constant basis.
Discussed on a bonus episode of The Suspense is Killing Us for Patreon subscribers.
Incredibly suspenseful, well-acted, and deliberately paced, but soooooo dense. I can tell it was written by/for someone with an extreme understanding of naval procedure... but honestly, I wish it was just a little dumber and less specific in its execution.
And once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess, against our old adversary...the American Navy. For years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today, the game is different. We have the advantage...
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. IT’S THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER, JACK RYAN. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD, MAKING WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME RED BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED THE OCEAN’S MOST DANGEROUS SUBMARINE. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUT LOUD EVERY DAY TO PEOPLE IN MY QUARTERS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN MY QUARTERS CAN BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY BUNK LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNING. THEN I LIFT.
„Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.“
(Sean Connery as Marco Ramius, original quote by Robert Oppenheimer out of the Hindu Bhagavad Gita)
Hi everybody, it’s time for another film from „Our 222 favorite movies list“. And this one goes deep. Probably the best submarine film of all time and one of the finest thrillers I have ever seen.
A Cold War thriller about a defecting Russian u-boat Captain and the attempt to save or kill him.
„You're afraid of our fleet? Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three...“
(Marco Ramius)
Tom Clancy, author of the „Jack Ryan“ series, created a phenomenal book series. The Polit thrillers are about a C. I. A.…
Man könnte jetzt ewig darüber schwärmen, wie spannend, wie clever, wie witzig, wie ideenreich ("Crazy Ivan!") und vor allem wie genial besetzt dieser Film ist...
Oder ihn als "Star Trek unter Wasser" bezeichnen. Oder ab jetzt Star Trek nur noch "U-Boot-Duell im Weltall" nennen.
Oder aber sich das Essay des YouTubers Patrick H. Willems geben, der so fantastisch analysiert, wie in diesem Film Sprache mit Frieden und Feindseligkeit zusammenhängt.
Oder weshalb auch deswegen John McTiernan (Stirb langsam) der bedeutendste, amerikanische Action-Regisseur ist.
Oder man sieht "Jagd auf Roter Oktober" einfach als die unerreichbar beste Jack-Ryan-Verfilmung.
So oder so besser als ein Irrer Ivan!
Recently rewatched this for my new podcast with my friend John Ganz. It’s called “Unclear and Present Danger,” we watch 1990s political and military thrillers (and, in time, some other stuff too) and then talk about them. Here’s the Apple Podcasts link, and you can find it on Spotify and Stitcher as well. It will be on Google Podcasts soon enough.
Tom Clancy's thrilling everyman hero Jack Ryan makes his big-screen debut in one hell of a submarine movie.
"Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage."
So much awesomeness comes to mind when I beginning thinking about The Hunt for Red October, so let's jump right into (Spoiler Quick Hits) to get it all covered:
- What a great opening with that green computer text and the sound it makes coming across the screen, giving us the feeling like we are…
