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EastPeak Slim

You'll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Kate.

Damon Bruce

I love Sam Neil in this. I first watched this movie with my cousin Chris who, at the time, was a US Navy nuclear technician onboard an Ohio Class ballistic missile submarine. He was kind enough wait until afterwards to point out some of the inaccuracies in the story (to be honest there aren't many) so as not to ruin it for me but he still loved it. This movie also was responsible for my becoming a Tom Clancy fan. The book is better than the movie but the film is still one of my all time favorites. "Mosht things in heah don't react too well to bulletsh." 😄

Jonathan Spahn

One of favorite Sean Connery movies! I'm very sad about Sam Neill's passing 😢 I really appreciated his acting. Everyone references his part in Jurassic Park, but I remember him in the 3rd part of the Omen trilogy of movies as the adult version of Damien, The Final Conflict I think. He will be missed for sure. 🥰

Dan M

I loved the homage you paid to Sam Neill at the beginning of the YouTube edit, Kate. It was a really nice touch. I’ll be watching your YouTube reactions to both this movie and Jurassic Park tonight as my own personal tribute to Sir Sam.

J

That actor you weren’t sure of is Scott Glenn playing the US submarine commander, Bart Mancuso. Scott was the FBI boss in Silence of The Lambs.

Bob McFadden

Wonderful tribute to Sam Neill, Kate. It’s very sad when we lose artists whose work we admire but, in reality, we never really lose them because the nature of their work allows us to revisit them whenever we want. You’re so right about his first dinosaur scene in Jurassic Park. It’s one of a handful of scenes that always retain that original sense of wonder and emotion from seeing it on the big screen. I was in Virginia Beach a few years after it opened, watching a fireworks show a few blocks away, when the soundtrack began playing that memorable theme. I couldn’t help but feel that surge of emotion swelling up inside. One of the reasons I love movies so much. Tom Clancy became a phenomenon in the 1980s with The Hunt for Red October. You mentioned the detail and research this film took and it’s even more remarkable considering its source. Clancy worked in the insurance industry, had never served in the military but was an enthusiastic student of military history. He wrote the book based on his research on submarine warfare and operations. The Navy was none too pleased by his book because they felt he had revealed secrets and began an investigation. Turns out all of Clancy’s material came from publicly available sources. The Navy was a little red-faced that things they wanted to keep quiet were available to anybody with a library card. He was all over TV and print publications at the time. He gave lectures at the Pentagon and practically had an open invitation to see anything the U.S. military was doing (within limits). A stream of books and multimedia adaptations even put him in a position to buy a surplus tank to decorate his front yard. Not bad for a guy with a library card.