I can't not watch Hunt for Red October

[Bro. Dave]

I have seen it so often that I always think, "I don't need to watch it again." Then my fingers just push the remote and I think "I'll just watch a little."

You guessed it, the next thing you know they are running the credits.

I still can't pin point the reason it catches me up every time!

 

[UncleEd]

You love Sean Connery?

Or is it Alec Baldwin?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Good book + good screenplay + good cast + good acting + good sets + good cinematography + good audio = an enjoyable watch.

 

[Retired W4]

Good book + good screenplay + good cast + good acting + good sets + good cinematography + good audio = an enjoyable watch.

Other than that what could make someone want to watch it again?

 

[CLASSIC12]

I'm with you, I lost count on how many times I watched it

 

[paplinker]

I can't count how many times I saw Hunt for Red October,.

Same goes for Shawshank Redemption.

 

[Retired W4]

I can't count how many times I saw Hunt for Red October,.

Same goes for Shawshank Redemption.

Double like on Redemption.

 

[Rudi]

It is an outstanding film. But several major changes from the book.

 

[vigil617]

I watch it every time just so I can hear the dying Soviet XO's last words, "I would like to have seen Montana."

 

[quikdraw67]

It is an outstanding film. But several major changes from the book.

The book was excellent.

The movie was very good, but the book was better IMHO.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I've never enjoyed a movie if I've read the book it's based on first. I constantly compare the book to the movie, instead of just enjoying the movie.

 

[Onomea]

Yep. A good one. I watched it again a week or so ago after Connery passed on.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Who doesn't know these lines?

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7O398Ubx-Gs[/ame]

 

[Chuck24]

It's one of my favorite and if I doze off I know how it turns out

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Capt. Vasili Borodin : I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me.

 

[Jlpgumbo]

"Oh Andrei, you've lost another submarine!"

 

[LVSteve]

I'm the same with this movie and a few others, even bad (AKA cult) ones.

 

[BC38]

Yeah, I watched it again last night and tonight too.
I'm a movies guy and if I like one I can watch it many MANY times.

 

[STCM(SW)]

When the it came out, I was on a DD in Charleston NC in 1991.
The weapons Dept. officer came to quarter's and said to Fox divison
that the movie was being shown in the theater in town. He said that asked you can not confirm nor deny anything in the movie.
The guy's said "let's see the movie Master Chief!"
So, I went and saw it with them on Friday night.
All I can say is where did the writer get some of his info from.......

 

[STCM(SW)]

BTW, I watch the movie all the time, just can't see only a Second Class
STS being the only sonar man with a SN as the only Sonar personal
on a Fast Attack sub.

 

[Gary Hogstrom]

I will always watch those two but will add "The African Queen" and "HATARI".

 

[Kurusu]

You love Sean Connery?

Or is it Alec Baldwin?

Nah! It's got to be Tim Curry. playing Dr. Yevgeny Petrov.

Or, James Earl jones as Admiral Greer.

Or, Scott Glenn as Commander Bart Mancuso.

Or, Sam Neill as Captain Vasili Borodin.

Or, Joss Ackland as the Soviet Ambassateur Andrey Lysenko.

Yes. I rewatched it the other day too.

 

[vigil617]

"No papers?"
"No papers."

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JW75Lv25k[/ame]

 

[Hair Trigger]

Other than that what could make someone want to watch it again?

More chicks in the movie, maybe?

All I can say is where did the writer get some of his info from.......

When the book was first released, Clancy got that very question from the Navy.

Great film, and I have to see it whenever it airs. A few of the changes made from the book I'm not greatly fond of, but the story has to be made to run in two hours and not have unexplained holes in it.. I think Clancy had a lot to do with the screenwriting on that one to keep it close to the book. Some of his later books---->film had some significant differences that were much worse (The Sum Of All Fears was one of them).

 

[OLDSTER]

Hunt for Red October, IMO, is like Godfather 1 and 2, Casablanca, Unforgiven, and a few others that I can't not watch.

 

[Donn]

"This business will get out of control. It'll get out of control and we'll be lucky to live thru it."

Nah, never saw it.

 

[NYlakesider]

More chicks in the movie, maybe?



When the book was first released, Clancy got that very question from the Navy.

Great film, and I have to see it whenever it airs. A few of the changes made from the book I'm not greatly fond of, but the story has to be made to run in two hours and not have unexplained holes in it.. I think Clancy had a lot to do with the screenwriting on that one to keep it close to the book. Some of his later books---->film had some significant differences that were much worse (The Sum Of All Fears was one of them).

Clancy had serious friends in sort of high places. I saw a interview and he was asked that question and that was his answer.

As others have stated most times the movie is not near as good as the book. Red October is well worth being watched with the shortening changes multiple times The rest of the movies-- yuck!

I have read at least two times every thing he wrote in the Jack Ryan series, up till his death. Those co-written books just did not work for me. Red Storm Rising while not a Ryan and co-written was a serious exception to my rule.

 

[Hair Trigger]

One book of Clancy's that hasn't made it to film yet, that I would love to see as a well-made movie, is Without Remorse. John Kelly became my favorite character after Cardinal Of The Kremlin came out, and if it can be made without a big story change, it could be a really good film. Had they made it ten years ago, I think Matt Damon would have been a good lead. I'd say that Chris Pine would be a good one now, but they've already made him into a young Jack Ryan in another recent film.

 

[kraynky]

The book was excellent.

The movie was very good, but the book was better IMHO.

Agree completely. In fact, I read the book twice before the film came out. I'm due to watch it again now that it's been brought up.

 

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