Favorite Tom Clancy movie

Quite easily. Patriot Games was solid, Clear & Present decent. Sum was a PC sell out shitshow

One of my favorite things to quote in a crisis situation:

https://youtu.be/0-JA1ffd5Ms

Doog_de_Jour said:

ThomasFremont said:

Look, Red October is gonna win in a landslide and we all know it. The submarine movie is such a strong genre it’s almost unfair to the rest. Add in Sean Connery and I don’t even care if Alex Baldwin kinda sucks.

BUT...Patriot Games is fucking excellent. A dive into international terrorism before we? Americans really cared. The spycraft elements are fun. And the exploration of fringe rebel groups should appeal to the crowd here. Also the church says wearing a rubber is a sin.

I probably watched Clear and Present Danger 100x on VHS growing up. It’s the only movie with Clark (fuck that Ben Aflec POS version, doesn’t count) so we get a dive into covert special ops, the failed drug war, cocaine, and probably one of the coolest shootout car action scenes ever (RIP white Suburbans). We also get Chavez, a pure fucking bad ass.

I’d rewatch all 3 to this day.

Patriot Games is damn good. While I felt Harrison Ford was too old to play Jack Ryan, he did a stellar job.

And his Clear and Present Danger stuff contributed largely to this funny supercut:

https://youtu.be/K4Rqx9TvtlM

Bingo. I’d love Harry Ford but that was the wrong casting. Dafoe as John Clark was worse but whatever.

I’ve been known to wave a paper, hamburger, beer, whatever in front of someone’s face and ask, “You don’t have one of these, do you, Jack?” I even once whilst corching youth football and watching film slurped from a cup and softly said, “That is a kill,” gesturing at the screen during a big hit. One other guy got it. It was a big moment for me.

Still, “one ping only” is the shit. And “Shum shings in this ruom don’t react well to boolletts.”

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

ThomasFremont said:

Look, Red October is gonna win in a landslide and we all know it. The submarine movie is such a strong genre it’s almost unfair to the rest. Add in Sean Connery and I don’t even care if Alex Baldwin kinda sucks.

BUT...Patriot Games is fucking excellent. A dive into international terrorism before we? Americans really cared. The spycraft elements are fun. And the exploration of fringe rebel groups should appeal to the crowd here. Also the church says wearing a rubber is a sin.

I probably watched Clear and Present Danger 100x on VHS growing up. It’s the only movie with Clark (fuck that Ben Aflec POS version, doesn’t count) so we get a dive into covert special ops, the failed drug war, cocaine, and probably one of the coolest shootout car action scenes ever (RIP white Suburbans). We also get Chavez, a pure fucking bad ass.

I’d rewatch all 3 to this day.

Patriot Games is damn good. While I felt Harrison Ford was too old to play Jack Ryan, he did a stellar job.

And his Clear and Present Danger stuff contributed largely to this funny supercut:

https://youtu.be/K4Rqx9TvtlM

Bingo. I’d love Harry Ford but that was the wrong casting. Dafoe as John Clark was worse but whatever.

I’ve been known to wave a paper, hamburger, beer, whatever in front of someone’s face and ask, “You don’t have one of these, do you, Jack?” I even once whilst corching youth football and watching film slurped from a cup and softly said, “That is a kill,” gesturing at the screen during a big hit. One other guy got it. It was a big moment for me.

Still, “one ping only” is the shit. And “Shum shings in this ruom don’t react well to boolletts.”

Heh. At work when someone fucks up multiple times I say this in my head:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Doog_de_Jour said:

ThomasFremont said:

Look, Red October is gonna win in a landslide and we all know it. The submarine movie is such a strong genre it’s almost unfair to the rest. Add in Sean Connery and I don’t even care if Alex Baldwin kinda sucks.

BUT...Patriot Games is fucking excellent. A dive into international terrorism before we? Americans really cared. The spycraft elements are fun. And the exploration of fringe rebel groups should appeal to the crowd here. Also the church says wearing a rubber is a sin.

I probably watched Clear and Present Danger 100x on VHS growing up. It’s the only movie with Clark (fuck that Ben Aflec POS version, doesn’t count) so we get a dive into covert special ops, the failed drug war, cocaine, and probably one of the coolest shootout car action scenes ever (RIP white Suburbans). We also get Chavez, a pure fucking bad ass.

I’d rewatch all 3 to this day.

Patriot Games is damn good. While I felt Harrison Ford was too old to play Jack Ryan, he did a stellar job.

And his Clear and Present Danger stuff contributed largely to this funny supercut:

https://youtu.be/K4Rqx9TvtlM

Bingo. I’d love Harry Ford but that was the wrong casting. Dafoe as John Clark was worse but whatever.

I’ve been known to wave a paper, hamburger, beer, whatever in front of someone’s face and ask, “You don’t have one of these, do you, Jack?” I even once whilst corching youth football and watching film slurped from a cup and softly said, “That is a kill,” gesturing at the screen during a big hit. One other guy got it. It was a big moment for me.

Still, “one ping only” is the shit. And “Shum shings in this ruom don’t react well to boolletts.”

Heh. At work when someone fucks up multiple times I say this in my head:

But do you rub the bridge of your nose?

Sure do. It’s the new Face Palm.

seatownfunk said:

Why didn't Cardinal in the Kremlin ever get made?

Good call. I've always been hoping for the hot Ed & Mary Pat sex scene.

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

section8 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.

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, too

YellowSnow 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.