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Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)

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Re: Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)

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You read the book? I’m curious how all of the operational details and jargon held up to a real sailor.

yes, I read the book before I got to the boat when I was at nuclear reactor prototype training in Idaho. Read it on the long bus rides back and forth to the site. Yes, it was good and pretty operationally accurate. All the sub lingo etc, is accurate. Some of the actors on the bridge of the Dallas were active duty sub sailors at the time.

> the long bus rides back and forth to the site

Did you live in IF or Pokey?

For some reason an image of my small green bus pillow came to mind. I wonder what happened to it.

Re: Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)

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The trick they use to handle the transition from Russian to English dialogue is so cool.

It's so cool that John McTiernan did it again in The 13th Warrior. A worse movie (not as bad as people say), but I think that one scene is extraordinary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVURiaVgG8

Heh, I just watched The Wild Robot with my nephews, and the film uses pretty much this same trick early on.
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