The Hunt for Red October (1990) Movie Reaction! FIRST TIME WATCHING! Movie Review | Movie Commentary

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  5. 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.

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  12. On a re-watch, there's a couple innocent seeming shots that become a "oh hey!" moment about the GRU mole. Both times, he shoots a "that's odd" look. First is when Ramius has him witness taking Putins missile key. And the second is when Ramius addresses the ship and tells them their fake orders. First time they just seem like reasonable reactions, but on a re-watch, he knows somethings seriously wrong.

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  16. 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.

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  18. 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!

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  25. I love submarine movies.
    I highly recommend two fun comedy submarine movies.
    Operation Petticoat 1959
    Cary Grant & Tony Curtis
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    Down Periscope 1996
    Kelsey Grammer and numerous others you would recognize

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  27. The book was apparently inspired by a Russian Destroyer that attempted to defect, but the USSR did lose a sub, the K-129 that the US covertly recovered. While it was a ballistic missile sub, it was Diesel powered.

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  31. If you enjoy Sean Connery films I highly recommend, if you can find it I for one have not been able to watch this film online for some reason of which im frustratingly annoyed but if you can the film The Name of the Rose good luck ❤🇬🇧😊😊😊

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  34. Haven't read all the comments so I don't know if other have suggested The Untouchables? That was the movie for which Connery won the Oscar. Set in old Chicago, with Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness and Robert de Niro as Al Capone; it's a good reaction movie!

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