Most conversations should be some variation of: It’s weird that we talk about literally anything other than this. That one was set during WWII and starred Matthew McConaughey and Jon Bon Jovi. Something to think about, I guess.Īnother submarine movie was U-571. In that case, the weapon would be more of a FriendSaddener or DogConfuser. What if the person it killed was single? It wouldn’t make anyone a widow then. I always found that weird and a little presumptuous. There used to be a lot of weapons called Widowmaker, too. It gets even more confusing because Harrison Ford actually was in a submarine movie a few years later: 2002’s K-19: The Widowmaker, which was based on a true story. My point here is that, with enough manufactured confidence, you could probably convince someone that Harrison Ford was in either The Hunt for Red October or Crimson Tide. And one of the guys, the one played by Alec Baldwin, was Jack Ryan, a character Harrison Ford played in two movies in the 1990s. Somehow, none of those four guys were Harrison Ford or Tommy Lee Jones, despite the fact that the movies were made in 19, a period of time when Harrison Ford played almost every hotshot and Tommy Lee Jones played every gruff and cranky guy. In Crimson Tide, they were Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. In Red October, the hotshot and gruff guy were Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery, respectively. Both were about conspiracies related to Russian military actions and both had the word red or a synonym for red in the title and both featured a hotshot younger guy fighting the system and a gruff and cranky older guy who was in charge of a submarine. The Hunt for Red October was a good submarine movie. There used to be lots of submarine movies. And if they stay long enough for someone to launch a torpedo, even a single torpedo, they’ll be hooked. But I bet when they’re sitting at home on some weekend afternoon, flipping through their cable guide or streaming service of choice, and they stumble across a submarine movie, they’ll at least stop to check it out. They’ll probably say, like, “action movies” or “the Marvel ones” or “literally anything with Keanu Reeves.” That’s fine. They might not come right out and say “I freaking love submarine movies” when you ask what kind of movies they like. There are not enough submarine movies these days.
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