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I was a nuclear power plant operator on the USS Bremerton (SSN-698), which is the same class as the USS Dallas (SSN-700). This movie is the closest depiction of what we used to do with the Russians. We would follow them for weeks without them knowing we were there.

Cold War American submariner here. I was on a Boomer out of Rotten Groton, and played the game with the Russians. This is an incredibly accurate movie, based on an even more accurate book. As part of Groton, I got to see the advance screening of this movie, sans any civilian employees or dependants, the same day our counterparts in San Diego did. The very few inaccuracies were called out, but there was basically unanimous laughter when Alec Baldwin asked the question, "How do you get a crew to want to get off a nuclear sub?". Everyone knows the answer is simple: open the hatch.

Biss, Sean Connery always has his native Scottish accent whether he's playing British secret agent James Bond or an Irish cop in New York or even a Russian submarine captain, it was too strong to overcome.

There are two types of Sonar, "Passive" where the Sub just listens and stays undetectable. The second is "Active" sonar which sends out sound waves and gives away the senders position... 99% of the time they just use Passive.

26:08 love this moment. The Admiral is letting the Captain know that Ryan is not just a spy but one of them. They are both graduates of the Naval Academy who have spent their entire adult lives in uniformed service to country. However, because of Ryan’s injury he didn’t get the chance to do what they did. But despite his injuries Ryan is still trying to service and do his part.

The “see through” shots are not mistakes. It’s how they did green screen shots, where the foreground film is made slightly transparent compared to the background film. This softens the edges to make it look more believable, otherwise the outline would stick out and it would look horrible. The downside is you can slightly see through it if you pay attention. Star Wars used this technique in many of the spaceship shots and you can slightly see through cockpit metal props.

21:58 "So you cannot turn back." Ah. Biss, you got it. You hit the nail _squarely_ on the head. I'm impressed. I've seen reactors stumped by that as _well._ Yes. Ramius knew, when he was drawing _up_ this plan and choosing prospective _loyalists_ that there would be those with second _thoughts._ That kind of division in the ranks, he knew would produce _complications;_ the kinds of complications prospective _defectors_ have no business _having._ He understood, if the _Red October_ and its officers were to successfully defect, they would have to be looking straight _ahead._

Hey Biss, this is a good movie and glad you liked it. Can’t believe half way through, you said “It’s the cook.” 😂 You really do have an uncanny ability with predicting that stuff

"Boomer" is a word used for a military submarine that is used as a nuclear missile platform first. Larger subs usually are meant for this, a first strike weapon in case of a war as they carry nukes. They can of course use torpedoes in naval combat as well, but that is not their primary function. The smaller submarine from the other Russian captain that was hunting the Red October was the hunter type, smaller and leaner, meant for direct combat with other submarines and boats.

The actor who plays the Russian captain is Sean Connery. One of the most famous actors out of Great Britain and the actor who plays Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones) also did the voice for Darth Vader.

Keep in mind this movie was made in 1990 :D. The technology for good green screen technology that would prevent the transparent issues at the end you noticed was in its infancy. It got a lot better and a lot more affordable over the next few years. Great reaction and fun movie. Thanks!

Dunno if you recognized the actor, Tomas Arana, who played the cook or not, but you HAVE seen him at least once before. He played Quintus, Maximus' second in command in Germania, the guy who ordered Maximus' execution.

A berth is a place to dock ships. A WIDE berth would be a place dock with a lot of space. So if you are giving someone a wide berth you are giving them a lot of space or distance.

One of my favorite movies. I'm very impressed with how well you kept up with this complicated plot and all of its moving parts. Well done!

The way I always get around the lack of a Russian accent is to suspend disbelief just a little further and decide that their accent is being pretend-translated into English for me just like their words. Also, we’re meant to imagine that they’re continuing to speak Russian amongst themselves, so they wouldn’t hear much of an accent at all.

There are several ways an aircraft can detect a submarine apart from visually on the surface.. As you mentioned they do have sonar buoys they drop and listen to but some also have a magnetic anomaly detector which can detact the disturbance in the earth's magnetic field caused by the mass of steel of the hull of the submarine. Also when they referred to a "boomer out of the barn" they are discussing a ballistic missile submarine leaving Murmansk (Main submarine base of Russia's Northern Fleet) rather than a hunter killer like the Dallas. Hope that helps :)

First film in the Jack Ryan saga (with Alec Baldwin as the first actor to play him). This was followed by Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger (played by Harrison Ford), The Sum of All Fears (played by Ben Affleck), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (played by Chris Pine) and the Amazon series Jack Ryan (played by by John Krasinki).

A "berth" in terms of ships is the place at the dock where the ship ties up. To give a wide berth is to give plenty of room between the ship and the dock, so they don't hit. It means to keep plenty of room from the object you will give a "wide berth" to. Colloquially, it's often used as "to stay away from" generally. For example, you could say you will give another person a "wide berth" which will generally mean you will avoid them.

I watched this in theaters with my father, a member of the Rickover fleet, serving on boomers. He laughed so hard when Van Pelt asked the Siviet Ambassadir "You"ve lost *anither* submarine?" Rickover personally interviewed every single officer put forth to serve aboard 'his' boats, and he was not a nice man. Apparently the officer who had the interview slot before dad's left almost in tears. Dad said because there was so much secrecy around the first nuclear powered subs the escape hatches were actually welded shut after the boat left home port. That made it impossible for anyone to exit the boat except through the hstch at the top of the sail, and that was readily available and heavily guarded whenever the boat made port calls. Nobody left unless authorized and in a group. Any nuke boat ssilor by himself would be a prime catch for Soviet espionage. Even the lowest ranked enlusted sailor had to know how every single xystem worked and be able to explain every system in detail, passing multiple tests to earn his badge. There was nobody who only knew one job.

Note: "Boomer" refers to a missile-launching sub, as opposed to a "Hunter-Killer" or attack sub meant to go after other ships.

I like the way the accents were generally handled in this movie. For the bulk of the film the crew of the Red October are all speaking Russian, and we hear the English translation, without Russian accents. Sean Connery’s Scottish accent substitutes for Ramius’s Lithuanian accent, etc. When we get to parts of the movie where the Russian characters are speaking English, we get accents (though Ramius still has his Scottish accent.)

Scott Glen, the Dallas captain, is great in everything. Try the Western Silverado if you haven't seen it.

Fun fact, the actor who played the 2nd in command on the Red October, Sam Neil, his last words were "I would love to have seen Montana", the same actor played in Jurassic Park, where his character is introduced at a dig site in Montana

Several of the actors who Played the Russians were defectors and were actual Russians and did have a Russian accent when speaking English. And a “boomer” submarine means a nuclear missile boat, not an old one!!!

In the on screen introduction at the beginning, when it said "it never happened", it doesn't mean "fictional", it means "classified, top secret".

The admiral on the carrier is played by the late actor who was an actual senator from Tennessee Fred Thompson. He was in a lot of movies including Days of Thunder with Tom Cruise.

Biss, I love, really love your sense of humor. You're a born communicator, and it's always a treat to watch your reactions.

Sam Neill talking about Montana and the simple freedoms of living in America is such a powerfully understated way to damn the USSR and its failure to the people who sacrified for the red revolution.

Great reaction Biss! You were spot on with your analysis of the plot! Luv it! A good Scott Glen movie is backdraft about Chicago firefighters. Luv ya biss❤💛

A "buckaroo" or "cowboy", in this context, means an aggressive captain who is looking for a fight.

Hi Biss, Chernobyl is an excellent series, full of dramatic and desperate moments. It's a series with few episodes that leaves anyone looking forward to the next event.

This is perhaps one of the best submarine movies, alongside Crimson Tide. Well done Biss for accurately guessing/predicting many of the plot details like the cook being the saboteur; the evac plan for the Red October crew etc. The scene where the National Security Advisor says "Andrei. You've lost another submarine!" and the Russian ambassador's reaction always gets me 🤣🤣. And yes, Alec Baldwin is the actor that accidentally shot a gun on set during the filming of the film "Rust", it killed a crew member (cinematographer), and wounded another (I believe it was the Director).

"Let's give this American a wide berth." Berth means to give the American enough space so they don't shoot at them.

One of my favourite movies, thank you for the reaction. You cracked me up with your "I have a lot of hair" comment Haha!!

Great reaction Biss! There are 2 basic types of sonar, active and passive. Put simply, passive sonar is microphone that gives a general idea of the position of an oject. Active sonar works like radar in that it sends out an active sound "ping" which can be used to trace the exact location of an object based on the sound reflections bouncing back. The downside is active sonar exposes your exact position to the enemy. Passive sonar is less exact, but stealthy.

About the language. They wanted Sean Connery as lead and he couldn't do a Russian accent so they came up with that neat transition. This allowed Sean Connery to be comfortable and concentrate on his acting instead of his accent. It works because you still believe he is Russian despite his obvious Scottish accent because he is a great actor. These are the concessions that movies have to make.

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The Sonar "ping" goes in all directions. Sound travels far in water. When the sound wave encounters and object, it is reflected, (echoes) back and is picked up by the sending ship. The closer to an object, the closer the pings will be together (active sonar). The ship's receiver microphones can detect from which direction the echo is coming, thus giving a position. The speed of the echo is then used to determine distance.

Check out Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) starring pretty much everyone, but in particular Gary Oldman as Dracula himself :) One of my favorite movies ever!

I think you'd really enjoy.... "Sneakers" (Great cast, entertaining and intriguing story with a bit of comedy mixed in.) and "Red Heat" (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Arnold). Russian Cop teams up with American Cop to bust some international drug smugglers.

I would recommend the German movie Das Boot (preferably the Director’s Cut), which is about a German submarine in WWII. It’s a great movie from an unusual perspective, and I'd be curious to see you react to a German movie.

Hey biss. I've watched a lot of channels a lot of reactors. I discovered you about a month ago. And you are really rising to the top of people I don't know watch. The reason why. You are so smart. I was a theater and film student. Many years ago I don't work in the industry. But I know theater TV and film. You figured this movie out so early, and nailed it. It's so much fun to watch a reactor who gets what they're watching. And it's even more fun to watch a film and think ahead. That's the way I watch film and TV. You're so enjoyable. You're awesome ❤️💚☘️🇺🇦

Yup. My understanding is that Alec Baldwin deliberately aimed and fired at someone, because it was supposed to be loaded with blanks, but for some unknown reason, it had live ammo in it. There wasn't even supposed to be live ammo anywhere on set. AFAIK, it's still a mystery.

You're right to question the sonar in the movie. In reality the subs would never get that close to each other. They do have blind spots, typically directly behind in a small arc. Sonar is either active or passive. The 'ping ping' is active sonar, the way the Dallas is spotting the Red October is passive sonar. The passive sonar works differently at different depths and sea conditions and always has distances where it detects optimally and other distances where it is partially blind, due to thermal and other variations in the way sound waves move through water. Typically these subs would be miles apart, not 1000s of meters.

@29:40 Anti-submarine aircraft typically rely on two main tools for detecting submarines. 1) Magnetic anomaly detectors (which sense magnetic field changes caused by a submarine's hull, engines, etc; 2) And then sonar buoys they can drop down to the surface of the water and which then relay information back to the aircraft.

A lot of famous names here. Sean Connery (the first James Bond), James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader), Fred Thompson (Played a D.A. on Law & Order, but also was a U.S. Senator for the state of Tennessee), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show & Clue) - that's just a few of the most famous.

Technical note: the torpedo tubes on an attack submarine are on the sides and can be fired in any direction. Being side-by-side actually makes it easier to attack another sub.

The Russian sailor who started singing in the sub is the actor who played Tigris in Gladiator. The gladiator who came out of retirement to fight Maximus. Big guy for a sub.

"He slipped on tea (*winks*)." Oh, Biss. 😆

I was in a submarine 22 years ago. It was a decommissioned boat in NYC called the USS Growler. It was built in the 1960s and was diesel-powered. 40 years later, you could still smell the diesel. Submarines are very cramped. There were even bunks (very narrow ones) between the torpedo tubes! It takes a special person to be a submariner. My neighbor was one. He said the sleeping quarters were so tight, he could recognize someone in the dark...by the way they smelled! Submariners also "hot bunk." That means when your shift is over and it is time for bed, the mattress, sheets, and pillow are still warm from the submariner who just got up and out of it to start his shift. Those are some reasons why they get the best food in the Navy.

"We must give this American a wide berth." "I don't know what a 'berth' is . . ." In this context, the berth is kind of like the "personal space" of the vessel. "Giving someone/something a wide berth" means to give it plenty of room. Aside from in this specific phrase, "berth" is more generally a nautical term describing a resting place (like a sailor's bed or the place where a ship is tied up at a wharf or dock).

Madalina - KEEP making Your Comments throughout your reaction ! ! We enjoy that YOU are both SMART and HEARTFELT -- Give the American submarine a wide birth // BERTH (noun) enough space for a boat to maneuver --a small bed in a boat or train -- Buckaroo is an old fashioned word meaning COWBOY

And yes, Bisscute. It's true. We know more about our moon than our oceans. Look out for Krakens!😉

If you love underwater so much you should definitely watch “The Abyss”

Dear BissFlix: You guessed every single hidden plot exactly (the plan to evacuate the submarine, the cook as the saboteur, the role of the Doctor, the strategies of the ships...). I have never seen any reactor being able to guess all of this!!!! My congratulations!!! Regarding severa of your questions: ** ? "giving a wide berth" - It means to avoid something, giving it as much space as possible. ** 14:00 That is indeed the Soviet Union Anthem. It was in use until 1991. After that, following the disentegration of the USSR, this was replaced by the Russian Anthem. ** 46:30 + 1 yard = 0,91 meters. One can usually make a 1-1 correspondence between yards and meters, without much error. + 1 Mile (US land) = 1,602 kilometers. HOWEVER, do not confuse it with a NAUTICAL mile, which is used universally for ships of all nations: + 1 Nautical Mile = 1852 meters = 1,852 kilometers + 1 feet = 0,304 meter. Also, 3 feet = 1 yard. One can also consider 3 feet = 1 meter without much error. ** 53:35 "They just attracted the torpedo...?" They did that indeed! Great observation!

Greetings Ms. BissFlix! Another enjoyable and honest reaction from you to another work of Classic Cinema... never curtail your honesty milady! It is fun to see you theorize about certain plot points in these films, and even more fun when you see you were right! I'm also glad you were able to follow along easily on the intricacies of this plot... I am a long time fan of the books by Tom Clancy, and have enjoyed most of Hollywood's translations to film, as well as some of his books inspiring Video Games like the RAINBOW SIX series! Thank you again for sharing the experience, it has been more than 20 years since I last viewed this film with my Dad and brother... 🙏😚

The actor playing Marko Ramius Is Sean Connery, he is Scottish. Most know as James Bond 007 and Professor Henry Jones as Indiana's Father.

"I don't think he is... his Russian doesn't sound like native Russian." - Bisscute talking about Sean Connery 🤣

Biss: I was a submariner back in the before fore times, and we used to do the string trick. We'd tie a string across the widest part in the engine room, and dive. And then watch the string droop as the hull was compressed. It ends up way more slack than you'd think. :) (I'm writing this as you're talking about how you wouldn't be caught alive on a submarine)

Sean Connery got this role on the basis of being a megastar. But he got a lot of criticism at the time for not even trying to hide his Scottish accent. I think Hollywood believes that there are only two accents: American and Foreign.

I love how your answer to lots of action scenes is "parkour" LOL

Best line in the entire movie “more tea anyone” you are the only person I have watched that got that!!! 😂

Not only that, but there's an entire layer of water, under the Earth's crust, that has five times the water in all the oceans, and another entire submerged continent!😮😮😮

In regards to the sub that was lost diving on the Titanic, all of the experts seem to agree they should never have built the sub out of composites. If I understand correctly, composites are weak against pressure that runs perpendicular to the grain. Pressure on the hull is precisely that.

My brother served on the USS Alabama during the Gulf War. All I know of what he did is that he manned the ELF radio

Subs have two types of SONAR, active SONAR and passive SONAR. Active SONAR is mounted in the sub but has less range/accuracy. Passive SONAR is generally achieved by dragging antenna leads behind the sub to generate longer range/more accuracy.

Recommend: The 1992 movie The Last of the Mohicans. Great musical score and wonderful film.😊

Sean Connery is Scottish and was the first James Bond in the 60's. The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea.

That little sub that imploded was a commercial enterprise. The owner didn't want to pay the fees involved with getting it CERTIFIED safe by experts. He died with his clients. Greed kills. Yes, Alec Baldwin shot his cinematographer on set in New Mexico, about an hour from me in Albuquerque. The charges were dropped but the "armourer" -- the 24yo woman in charge of guns on set -- is subject to charges. It was her job to ensure the rounds inside the gun were blanks. How a live round got in there will be debated forever. Rumor says it was sabotage against the armourer, who is a local. I've lived here 11 years, and apparently, NM has a history of people holding grudges. But it's also possible that crew members took some guns during a break to shoot cans, and the guns weren't rechecked (so says Wikipedia). To me, there's shouldn't have been live rounds within 5 miles of the set. I've been to Los Alamos NM a few times. It's a great little town in the mountains. My brother's friend works at the Lab. He lives on Oppenheimer Way! Two things about that town. It has the highest per capita income in the US. And you can drive on the public road by the Lab, but your car will be stopped, and a guard will look at your license. The same thing happens if you approach from the west. I've never seen that anywhere else. If you have a NM license, no sweat. If you don't, I assume they ask more questions.

regarding sonar; many submarines have several sonar; in the nose of the vessel called the conal sonar, sonar down the sides called the conformal sonar (but because of the noise of the ocean along the sides, its practically useless...), and finally the towed sonar array, the most sensitive sonar that can hear from much further away from a target and its range of hearing is much cleaner than the others. in the movie, the Russians used a maneuver called Crazy Ivan; turning 360 degrees to see if anyone would be behind them. in reality, the towed sonar array makes it so that that kind of maneuver would by pointless as it wouldn't be needed.

the reason the actors are not speaking with a Russian accent is the characters aren't meant to be "speaking" English, they are in fact speaking Russin and the movie is just translating for the English speaking audience.

When you hear "yards" you can think meters. They're very similar. A yard is three feet. When you hear "feet", you can divide by three and think of that in meters.

Military submarines fall into 2 main categories - “Fast attacks” - which are subs designed to hunt other subs. “boomer” means a missile submarine - capable of launching nuclear weapons.

Your question about how the anti-sub aircraft can find a sub, they can look for magnetic anomalies if the plane has the right radars. When it detects a magnetic anomaly it would then drop the sonar buoys to confirm and/or mark where it was detected

An aircraft can use a Magnetic Anomaly Detector to find a submarine, A large metal submerged object can deflect the Earths magnetic field enough to be detected.

A sub moving through salt water with it's coating generates an electric field that could, in certain circumstances, be dangerous.

It wasn't fake news. What they were implying is that this story could be true, or not. But it's a secret. This was during the cold war when the US and Soviet Russia played a lot of cat and mouse games with each other, A boomer is a nickname for a very large submarine. The captain is Sean Connery. Very famous actor who played James Bond. He's Scottish, and rumor has it that he refused to do a fake Russian accent, so they let him keep his Scottish accent. There were actually quite a few real Russian actors in there too, so their accents were good, but the Americans had so-so accents. But Sean Connery knew he would get a lot of criticism if his accent was not good, so he said no. The US Navy actually has DSRV rescue subs. I was in the Navy and used to repair subs and worked on one of those DSRV's. As far as the "mistakes, this movie's special effects were considered to be very good at the time. There was no CGI, so the subs were actually miniatures and the the underwater scenes were filmed in a room full of smoke to make it look like water. Thanks for this reaction. You're smart and figured a lot of things out, and it's one of the reasons I like your channel

FYI: a yard is 36 inches, a metre is 39.37 inches, so roughly the same distance. If you're being precise, 12 metres is around 13 yards.

A boomer in naval slang is a ballistic missile submarine, typically capable of launching nuclear missiles.

Great reaction! Thank you for doing this love this movie, also /Hanks for true detective also. Love and your reactions!

I love your face, I love your laugh, and I love your reactions! 😊

The Captain, when addressing the Crew did not say he would attack the US. He said "Carry out missile exercises""

One clarification but the crew didn't think they were going to nuke an American city. He told them their orders were to get near the American coast and conduct missile DRILLS. To practice but not actually launch nukes. The false orders were a "training mission" one that gave a plausible reason for why the sub was going so close to American so the captain could setup the defection.

22:24 - He didn't have a problem with war in general. He had a problem with the sub being designed for a nuclear first strike.

You can watch the sequels to this film - Patriot Games, and Clear & Present Danger. In those, Harrison Ford plays the character who Alex Baldwin is playing in this movie.

As always, your reactions are a welcomed distraction and entertaining!

Biss, while you are correct we haven't discovered everything that's in the ocean and it's huge.. keep in mind the water pressure as you go down further. creatures that live down there wouldn't survive up here, just as we can't survive down there not just because of air, but because the water pressure is so massive. There's no telling what's down there, but a squid would have a hard time with a submarine like that one. that's a big submarine, and it's made of strong metal designed for the water pressure. the squid is made of flesh.

The late Sean Connery is a legend (being the original actor to play James Bond) and is probably most famous for the fact that he rarely, if ever, changed his natural accent for a role. It was just his way.

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Just an FYI, the Submarine predates the airplane by 127 years. The first functioning Submarine used in battle was on September 6, 1776. The Wright Brothers did not fly until December 17, 1903.

In the movie all the Russians they gave British accents, probably because the star was Sean Connery, and all the Americans had American accents. That is how you were supposed to instantly know what side they were on.

Yes, aircraft back then used sonar dropped buoys to detect submarines. They also had these things sticking out of the back of the plane that would detect the magnetic signature of the submarine. Even it at that distance thousands of tons of metal and the onboard electronics give off just enough magnetic disturbance to be picked up if your sensors are sensitive enough. Magnetic Anomaly Detectors. That dont use MAD's much anymore, but now theoretically you can detect submarines by satellite. They supposedly can detect the very minor disturbances in the surface water even when the sub is at depth. Supposedly.

Impressed you zeroed in on the cook, not many people picked up on that when this first came out!!

29:25 "How would an anti-submarine aircraft find a submarine when they're underwater so deep?" Sonar. Sonar sends a soundwave out through the water. If that wave hits something like a submarine for example, it bounces back to the sonar receiver. For sonar to work properly, the signal must be sent and received in the water. So aircraft like this one drop lots of "sonobuoys" that float on the surface, send sonar signals into the water, detect whatever bounces back, then radio the results to the aircraft.

You're understanding and intelligence is really remarkable in all your videos.

It's totally cool to try to figure out the plot of a film, especially when mysteries are involved. Intelligent audiences should be doing that. 👍👍

Hello Bisscute, remember when boating: always wear your life preserver.

29:36 they can drop a sonar set into the water and listen for the boat. On submarines, we consider high altitude aircraft that do ASW to be a joke, lmao. You see, the Navy uses ASW = anti-submarine warfare. But on a submarine it means auxiliary seawater, one of the mechanical systems on the submarine. So when a surface guy says he is in asw, we say, "oh, so you're a machinist mate who works on the auxiliary seawater system?" lmao. 🙂

I served aboard a U.S. Navy Frigate, similar to the surface ship that is seen picking up the crew of the Red October, during the time that the movie is set. We were an anti sub warfare ship. We played the game with the Soviet subs in the North Atlantic. The North Atlantic is unofficially considered U.S. Navy territory because we have so many naval assets in the waters of the North Atlantic. Fun fact, at that time Frigates and their bigger brothers Destroyers used oil fired boilers as their main power systems. The Frigate I was aboard required two days to build up steam for her to get underway. I know because we had to take one of our sister ship's missions last minute and we couldn't get underway for two days.