It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up this week, in honor of Sean Connery, The Hunt For Red October.
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Elizabeth
Is this a good chat room for the Watch Party? I’ve lost track…
Kathryn
Works for me? Everyone ready?
Hannah
This has mom?
Marian
Sure. I need to turn off the ring. The last time I tried that my phone wound up in my freezer for a day
Elizabeth
hahaha
Hannah
Hold please, DVD firing up its steam
Ok ready
Elizabeth
I love how Amazon Prime’s named it “Part of the Jack Ryan series” when most people didn’t care before the TV series came out.
Kathryn
Almost ready…
Elizabeth
(And only slightly more people care now.)
Kathryn
What was the installment that had Chris Pine?
Elizabeth
Can’t remember, it wasn’t very interesting. (Though Pine was certainly pretty.)
Kathryn
Ready to play now!
Elizabeth
Ready here too!
Hannah
Playing
Elizabeth
Playing!
Kathryn
Playing
Elizabeth
Probably been 15 years or more since I saw this
Nathan
There’s drug use in this movie?
Kathryn
Same
Hannah
Such an Event Horizon opening
Kathryn
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
Hannah
Same SFX I bet
Elizabeth
Sam Neill has it built into his contract
Hannah
Heh
OH HE’S SO HANDSOME
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
And young, damn
Hannah
the sheer size of those boats
Elizabeth
I think Sean Connery stayed the same age for 40 years.
Nathan
He would have been 60 when this was released.
Elizabeth
Holy crap
Hannah
I FORGOT TIM CURRY WAS IN THIS
Nathan
Me too!
Elizabeth
SAME
Hannah
Jeffrey Jones too tbh
Kathryn
I only remembered because of the meme about how you’re defined by what movie you associate Tim Curry with
Nathan
Fred Thompson before he was a Senator, I believe.
Hannah
Vilnius is in Lithuania, and this movie is why I know that
DR …
Crusher
Nathan
YOUNG Alec Baldwin.
Elizabeth
DOCTOR CRUSHER!!!!
Kathryn
YAY
Elizabeth
100 percent forgot she was in this
Nathan
Don’t blink or you’ll miss her!
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
That may be her only scene, I think this is kind of a guy flick.
Hannah
Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin are like our generation’s Hollywood Access of Evil
Elizabeth
Not a fan of him mansplaining turbulence to the flight attendant, but to be fair she was telling a passenger to sleep, so it evens out.
Hannah
Heh, good point
Elizabeth
Also yes on the Gibson, cruise, Baldwin
YAY MUFASA!
Nathan
DARTH VADER!
Elizabeth
What a delicious voice
Kathryn
Didn’t he play the same character for the Harrison Ford installments
Elizabeth
Uh, yes?
Nathan
Yep!
Until they killed him off.
Hannah
1990 is the last time a baby girl was ever named Sally
Elizabeth
Agreed
Hannah
(Until Night Before Christmas probably)
Elizabeth
I know a Sally but she’s 60 if she’s a day.
Hannah
This movie is the lovechild of Indiana Jones and Silence of the Lambs, discuss
Nathan
Elizabeth
Well now I’m going to be on the lookout for THAT connection
Kathryn
I kinda wanna watch Event Horizon now
Hannah
SAME
Elizabeth
Same
Hannah
That sound effect, man, I wonder when that became standard for info-scrawl
Courtney Vance is so good in this
Elizabeth
I always remember Pavarotti/Paginini because of this
CRAWFORD
Kathryn
There we go
Hannah
YA SEE?
Elizabeth
Hahaha
Nathan
Anyone read the book this was based on?
Kathryn
Nope
Elizabeth
Nope
Hannah
OOF MY OVARIES
Elizabeth
hahaha
Nathan
I did, right after the movie was released.
Hannah
… sorry
Nathan
It was good!
Elizabeth
Babyface Sam Neill
Nathan
This is a pretty faithful adaptation.
Hannah
IN UNIFORM
Kathryn
I think Connery looks so much more handsome here than he did as Bond.
Elizabeth
Agreed
Kathryn
(Sorry Mom)
Elizabeth
This came out one year after Last Crusade, I could’ve sworn Crusade was after
Hannah
Heh
Nathan
Great transition here!
Elizabeth
Best Russian-to-English transition ever
Hannah
Trial at Nuremberg is the other movie that does that
Elizabeth
did not know that
Hannah
Took a relistening of Best Pick to find that nugget
Kathryn
I love when directors and cinematographers work with the audience to agree on a polite fiction.
“Don’t worry, they’re still speaking Russian here, move along “
Elizabeth
I was in a theater once where as soon as it became apparent that the whole movie was subtitled, half the audience left.
Getting rid of the subtitles I’m sure was a priority.
Hannah
Well, we don’t need a movie full of Sean Connery trying to speak Russian…
Nathan
With a Scottish accent.
Elizabeth
hahah, agreed
Hannah
No music there
Nathan
James Bond couldn’t have killed that guy more efficiently if he tried.
Elizabeth
SO fast
Kathryn
I remember that sub we toured at the San Diego marina.
Hannah
Isn’t there a scene in Last Crusade where they’re walking along a big Nazi construction like this?
Elizabeth
One in Indiana Jones I think
A ship?
Hannah
Something
Elizabeth
Oh, whatsisbucket from Beetlejuice
Hannah
Jeffery Jones at 1/3 his current size
Elizabeth
Ayup
Nathan
Chekov’s rescue sub!
Elizabeth
Hee
Hannah
Heh
Elizabeth
THERE’s Frankefurter
Hannah
Killed by precipi
…
…
Nathan
Hannah
Tation
Elizabeth
hahah
Hannah
I really wonder what Tim Curry’s agent’s long game was
Kathryn
Be in all the things?
Elizabeth
Not sure, though he’s in the right regarding those keys
Kathryn
Hey Elizabeth, that’s Stick from Daredevil.
Elizabeth
OH, that’s where I recognized him from!
Kathryn
Nathan had to remind me he was in that.
Elizabeth
I mean other than Crawford
Kathryn
He was also very good in The Right Stuff.
Nathan
I forgot he was in that.
Hannah
I love all these eastern European extras under a couple of Gaelic lads
Elizabeth
Hee
Is Neill going for British or quiet Russian there?
Hannah
Haha WE KNOW HE CAN’T DO ACCENTS LEAVE HIM ALONE
Elizabeth
hahha
Hannah
Every time with the Russian anthem at the Olympics, right back here
Elizabeth
That is a long ass anthem.
Hannah
Shit’s got VERSES
(I mean, ours does too but totes racist, so)
Elizabeth
Heh
Bit of a jump scare at that telephone..
Who’s giving the briefing?” “You are.”
Nightmare material right there.
Nathan
No pressure!
Hannah
This has serious Sorkin vibes
At least four years prior to A Few Good Men?
(On Broadway)
Kathryn
Did they say how his wife died?
Nathan
Not yet.
Elizabeth
OH, I forgot Broadway was so much earlier, I was about to say “no, after?”
Kathryn
Shouting something that gets you glared at by a whole room, more nightmare material.
Impressed that he’s not even a little embarrassed.
Elizabeth
I like that giggle Jones has in his voice there
Hannah
Hee yes
Elizabeth
Who’s the actor talking to Ryan here? Very familiar..
Nathan
He played Francis in Logan’s Run.
Elizabeth
I feel like I know him somewhere else, but with a cornpone southern accent
Nathan
Ever see Gettysburg?
Elizabeth
Nope
Hannah
Second act is a go
Elizabeth
Ayup
Nathan
He was also Duncan Idaho in Dune.
Elizabeth
Was JUST typing that, I don’t recognize any of his stuff, so no idea why I kept putting him in House of Cards.
Hannah
Skaarsgard just playing same character as in Good Will Hunting
Elizabeth
Heh, yes
Hannah
His crows feet are my happy place
Elizabeth
heh
Kathryn
Is smoking really a good idea in a sub?
Hannah
I don’t doubt that the Russians did it anyway
Accent coming to you from Moscow by way of Christchurch
Elizabeth
The dude with the candybar needs to get punched in the mouth, just a little.
Kathryn
A discussion of puke is bad at the best of times, BUT SHOUTING IT IN YOUR FACE IS WORSE.
Elizabeth
AND EATING WHILE DOING SO
Jonesy is so familiar but I think it’s just because he’s done a ton of Law & Order.
(I never saw Picket Fences)
Hannah
Him and Don Cheadle and Mahershala Ali and no other straight men in Hollywood for at least six months
Elizabeth
Right?
Hannah
I feel like this is so basic for exposition but it’s so effective
Elizabeth
Very
“You might consider” is a nice phrase if delivered well
Hannah
As if Kelsey Grammer needed an asshole doppelganger
Elizabeth
Heh
Hannah
Also I’m sure they don’t actually get THAT close to rocks
Elizabeth
No but I still wouldn’t want to be that navigator
Kathryn
The delay between the direction from the navigator and them ACTUALLY TURNING makes me twitch.
Hannah
What I love to think about is how there are so many modern tools but soldiers/sailors everywhere are still trained in the essentials
Elizabeth
Good thing too
Hannah
I WILL DREAM OF THAT TIGHT-LIPPED SMILE
Elizabeth
Husband of a friend is a submarine sailor in the Navy. Said when you’re that far down everybody gets very tolerant of everybody’s predilections.
Kathryn
You would have to, damn.
Hannah
No part of me is built for that
Elizabeth
Maybe this is the southern accent I was thinking of?
Nathan
Most likely.
Elizabeth
Yeah dude shut up
Hannah
“Port” full rudder, surely?
Elizabeth
Whooo goosebumps
(and no idea, I never understand how navigation works on boats)
Nathan
Port is left, Starboard is right.
Elizabeth
But didn’t they reverse?
Hannah
Yeah, so “Right full rudder, reverse starboard” doesn’t make sense…?
Unless you command rudder with right and left and engines with port/starboard
… in Russian? Haha
Elizabeth
hahaha
you’re well out of my wheelhouse in any language
Nathan
Mine, too.
Hannah
Reversing the starboard engine makes sense for a right turn
… and with that I’m out of input
Kathryn
I’m really impressed because in someone else’s hands this naval strategy stuff can be REALLY dry.
Elizabeth
“And I will have a pickup truck.” awww
Hannah
Spoiler: He gets to live in Montana for a little while as his wife cheats on him in The Horse Whisperer
Nathan
And this is scene where we knew Borodin wouldn’t live to the end.
Elizabeth
haha
Hannah
Haha yes
Elizabeth
to both those comments, haha
Kathryn
Aw, my favorite scene there.
This bit is so wonderfully eerie
Elizabeth
The music is perfect
Kathryn
So his reason for defecting is because a military career in Russian was just neverending?
Elizabeth
Lost hope after his wife died, figured why not?
Hannah
Yall submariners need contacts, maybe?
Elizabeth
Having worn contacts, I’d go for glasses, contacts are a giant pain in the butt.
The more I learn about boats and helicopters the more I realize how crazy this stunt really is
Nathan
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!
Kathryn
Starbuck here is just fascinated by the helicopter sound effects
Elizabeth
My palms are sweating
Captain is not amused
Hannah
Deadliest Catch has filmed some absolutely perilous rescues in the Bering Sea
Elizabeth
Oh I’ll bet, yow
Kathryn
It’s not just the rough surf, it’s the cold, right?
Elizabeth
And bouncing off a metal hull
Hannah
LYING LIAR
Elizabeth
Hee
Hannah
The cold in the Bering for quick
Not sure if the north Atlantic is the same
Nathan
4 minutes, according to the carrier captain.
Elizabeth
Love that snap
Kathryn
I forgot how effective this was, with the two subs pacing next to each other like panthers.
Hannah
Yeeep
One ping only
Elizabeth
Blink once for yes..
Hannah
(Haha also the first ep of Hector vs the Future, where that sound is the “everything’s okay” alarm)
Elizabeth
Hee
Kathryn
Ballsy
Hannah
THING I’VE NEVER THOUGHT OF BEFORE: these dudes surely aren’t just walking around in their dress unis
Elizabeth
I can never tell with military, maybe they are?
Hannah
Six months underwater like “ALL OF MY MEDALS”
Elizabeth
Dudes, military, I’d believe it 
Kathryn
Especially Russian military
Hannah
I don’t have actual knowledge but I do believe the dress uni is special because not everyday?
Elizabeth
Though like I said, my friend’s submarine sailor husband suggested otherwise..
Probably was just for American audiences, Russian uniforms = Russian
Hannah
Haha yes, I’m sure that’s why and also I never thought of it before
If nothing else, I’m pretty sure they don’t wear medals in combat…
Elizabeth
True, asking for extra shrapnel
“And I, was never here.” One of his best lines.
Kathryn
Quite
Elizabeth
Tiny little boat and someone still gives me a cup of coffee? I’d be impressed.
Nathan
This is the Navy we’re talking about.
Kathryn
After that scene with the submersible in “The Scar” I’d be a big old Nope to any of this, coffee or no.
Elizabeth
Oh yeah, special kind of claustrophobia
All that money in the Navy and you still hit it with a hammer
Nice implication of translation again
Hannah
Skaarsgard about to insult Robin Williams before hitting on an MIT undergrad
Elizabeth
heh
Kathryn
I love how Tim Curry’s character is now the Captain’s cheerleader.
Elizabeth
Sorry Crawford I’d listen to James Bond too
Hannah
WHAT LANGUAGES ARE
Elizabeth
“What books did you write?”
Hannah
Vasily and Josh Lyman shootings pretty much same to my heart
Kathryn
He saved the Captain, bless him.
Elizabeth
Awwwwww
Hannah
I WOULD ALSO HAVE LIKED TO HAVE SEEN MONTANA WITH YOU, SIR
I cannae go any faster, captain
Elizabeth
“Most things in here don’t react too well to bullets”
I feel like that showed up in a later movie too..
Nathan
Elizabeth
Hee, though I could have been remembering his Connery impersonation there
GOOSEBUMPS AGAIN
Kathryn
Literally nailbiting
Elizabeth
Blown up with your own torpedo boom!
Hannah
Goodness, just delightful
Elizabeth
“You’ve lost another submarine?” Hee hee hee.
Kathryn
Eee hee hee
Hannah
Tbh I don’t think most people from Edinburgh sound like this…?
Elizabeth
Cultivated something all his own?
Kathryn
Fantastic, better than I’d remembered
Elizabeth
Holds up extremely well
Hannah
Well that was more fun than it had any right to be
(Also here’s one of the Deadliest Catch rescues…)
Elizabeth
Man that’s a hell of a thing getting a guy out of the water like that
Marian
Yea. That was great!. Liked it better the 2nd time. Last 30 min are chock full of heart stopping moments
Elizabeth
Very!!
Kathryn
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