Favorite Tom Clancy movie
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The Hunt for Red October
Halsheey acted shtoop-idly.GrundleStiltzkin said:+
I know thish book!
And I... was never here
I'm talking about that industrial waste puke
... so that a man could walk from Greenland to Iceland to Scotland without getting his feet wet. -
The Hunt for Red OctoberI'm not sure I am comfortable with all the witty movie flirting happening betwixt @GrundleStiltzkin and @Doog_de_Jour
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The Hunt for Red October
Some kewl fun facts about the film...Swaye said:I'm not sure I am comfortable with all the witty movie flirting happening betwixt @GrundleStiltzkin and @Doog_de_Jour
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64931/14-deep-facts-about-hunt-red-october
Do know Swaye what carrier they were on in the movie? I don't know if it's even referenced. -
None of the movies were nearly as good as their respective books, which makes them all minor disappoontments, even H4RO. When Patriot Games came out Clancy was asked in an interview how he felt about the changes they made for the screenplay, and he said that when he first read it he cried. Paramount had a talk with him that evening about how he needed to pimp their films of his work so he'd keep getting paid, and the next day he went out and pimped like they told him to. SAD!
Red October is obviously the best, but even setting aside the changes they made to the story, it still was kinda meh when it came out, because by that time the USSR was well on its way to imploding and it just didn't have the oomph that the book did when it came out in 1984 when we? were less than a year past maximum tension/danger. Plus the special effects looked horrible, as if they were too cheap to pay ILM to do it right.
I'm probably one of the few westerners who read Hunt For Red October behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest, 1985). I felt so subversive -
The Hunt for Red October
Book better than the movie? That never happens.BearsWiin said:None of the movies were nearly as good as their respective books, which makes them all minor disappoontments, even H4RO. When Patriot Games came out Clancy was asked in an interview how he felt about the changes they made for the screenplay, and he said that when he first read it he cried. Paramount had a talk with him that evening about how he needed to pimp their films of his work so he'd keep getting paid, and the next day he went out and pimped like they told him to. SAD!
Red October is obviously the best, but even setting aside the changes they made to the story, it still was kinda meh when it came out, because by that time the USSR was well on its way to imploding and it just didn't have the oomph that the book did when it came out in 1984 when we? were less than a year past maximum tension/danger. Plus the special effects looked horrible, as if they were too cheap to pay ILM to do it right.
I'm probably one of the few westerners who read Hunt For Red October behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest, 1985). I felt so subversive -
The Hunt for Red October
We are damn lucky to have the former Cal oarsman as our resident Cold War expurt.BearsWiin said:None of the movies were nearly as good as their respective books, which makes them all minor disappoontments, even H4RO. When Patriot Games came out Clancy was asked in an interview how he felt about the changes they made for the screenplay, and he said that when he first read it he cried. Paramount had a talk with him that evening about how he needed to pimp their films of his work so he'd keep getting paid, and the next day he went out and pimped like they told him to. SAD!
Red October is obviously the best, but even setting aside the changes they made to the story, it still was kinda meh when it came out, because by that time the USSR was well on its way to imploding and it just didn't have the oomph that the book did when it came out in 1984 when we? were less than a year past maximum tension/danger. Plus the special effects looked horrible, as if they were too cheap to pay ILM to do it right.
I'm probably one of the few westerners who read Hunt For Red October behind the Iron Curtain (Budapest, 1985). I felt so subversive -
Patriot GamesRed October is the best of the books IMO but Patriot Games the movie was pretty solid.
Clear and Present Danger had such good potential as a movie, good source material and just fell flat. -
Did the walk through USNA and surrounding Annapolis neighborhood a few months after seeing Patriot Games (witnessed a Naval wedding with raised sabers, which was pretty cool). Patriot Games did have a young Polly Walker, which is good, but it also had Anne Archer doing her wifey "Just get him, Jack!" bullshit. If I were Tom Clancy, I'd have cried, toosection8 said:Red October is the best of the books IMO but Patriot Games the movie was pretty solid.
Clear and Present Danger had such good potential as a movie, good source material and just fell flat. -
The Hunt for Red OctoberOk, so I've never read a Tom Clancy novel before. I've always been mostly a non-fiction dude. What should I read first? Is Red October the place to start?
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The Hunt for Red OctoberYellowSnow said:
Ok, so I've never read a Tom Clancy novel before. I've always been mostly a non-fiction dude. What should I read first? Is Red October the place to start?
Read em in publication order.Red Storm Rising first. Then Red October onwards in publication order. Stop when Jack Jr. starts.
