#4426329 - 06/15/18 08:27 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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I had a collection of Clancy novels back home and Red October was one of my favorites. Both the book and the movie In fact, I watched the movie when I was younger and it's what got me interested in playing Silent Hunter.
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#4426473 - 06/17/18 12:10 AM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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There are, yes, as I can remember thinking that, but not very much IIRC. Either way, both are quite good!
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#4432512 - 08/01/18 05:24 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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Been years since I read it, but I enjoyed it. Seems like he movie was fairly faithful, as movies go, but cut out a lot of the excess filler and unnecessary characters. Not like the near total rewrite that C&PD was. I wish they’d stuck with Baldwin for the movies, I thought he was better than Ford.
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#4432517 - 08/01/18 06:00 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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I wish they’d stuck with Baldwin for the movies, I thought he was better than Ford. It was Baldwin's choice to not continue as Ryan. Got this from IMDB concerning "Patriot Games": Alec Baldwin bowed out of this film when production was pushed back from 1991 to 1992. He had already committed to doing a revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway, and told then Paramount President Brandon Tartikof to either work around him, or find someone else to play Ryan. Ford was then approached to play Ryan in this movie after having turned down the role in The Hunt for Red October (1990), because he felt the script was more focused on Captain Ramius, than on Jack Ryan.
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#4432537 - 08/01/18 09:20 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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Wow, I didn't know that Ford was approached to play Ryan in Red October. Personally, I like them both as Jack Ryan.
And although I like Ben Affleck, I didn't like him in "Sum of All Fears." I am also somewhat skeptical about John Krasinski in this new Jack Ryan iteration coming out on Amazon, but I will try to be open-minded.
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#4432863 - 08/03/18 10:46 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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Mishtuh Ryan, be carefuhl of wut you shhoot at, hmm? Shome thingsh in here don't react well to bulletsh.
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#4433085 - 08/05/18 08:56 AM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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Mishtuh Ryan, be carefuhl of wut you shhoot at, hmm? Shome thingsh in here don't react well to bulletsh. And then Baldwin does that hilarious impression of Connery!
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#4433365 - 08/07/18 01:32 AM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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When it comes to submarine films, the holy trinity for me is HFRO, Das Boot and The Enemy Below. Is the enemy below the Richard Widmark one?
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#4433397 - 08/07/18 10:37 AM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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When it comes to submarine films, the holy trinity for me is HFRO, Das Boot and The Enemy Below. Is the enemy below the Richard Widmark one? No. Robert Mitchum and Curd Jurgens.
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#4433497 - 08/07/18 11:33 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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#4433644 - 08/08/18 10:57 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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Feather merchant! Great flick, HFRO before it existed. I had to look that term up, first time I’d heard that one. Worth owning.
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#4433864 - 08/10/18 06:23 PM
Re: I'm reading "The Hunt for Red October."
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"That one is The Bedford Incident , 1965 with Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, and Eric Portman."
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