Crimson Tide 1995 Movie Review | Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- In this video we go back to 1995 and rewatch the action/drama/thriller, Crimson Tide. This film stars Gene Hackman (Ramsey), Denzel WashingtoN (Commander Ron Hunter), Viggo Mortensen (Weps) and James Gandolfini (Lt. Bobby Dougherty). With appearances by Rocky Carroll, Lillo Brancato, Steve Zahn, Marcello Thedford and Ricky Schroder
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Michael Schiffer & Richard P. Henrick
IMDB description: On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
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Really scary thing is that a similar debate to this has happened twice in the real world:
During the Cuban Missile Crisis a Soviet sub armed with nuclear torpedos was detected by the US ships enforcing the blockade/quarantine around Cuba. The Americans launched signalling depth charges to force the sub to surface (so not technically an act of war) and the sub captain thought they were real depth charges. He had no contact with Moscow and ordered the nuclear Torpedos to be fired but his XO Vasily Arkhipov refused to authorise the launch. An argument broke out and he managed to pursuade the captain to surface and get confirmation from Moscow.
The second time was in 1983 when the Soviet early warning radar mistook sunlight reflecting off high altitude cloud for ICBM launches from bases in the US. In this case an officer for the Soviet Air Defence Force, Stanislav Petrov, decided to wait for corroborating evidence before immediately relaying the warning up the chain-of-command (in breach of standing orders). His reasoning was that, if NATO were to launch a first strike, they wouldn't launch just 5 missiles; they'd launch everything.
Hopefully those will be the only two times…but I doubt it. Great information. Thanks for sharing!
100% agree about dogs! I love dogs, cats and all other animals! However, a submarine is no place for pets/animals, women, kids... *** Still, a good movie!
I think only women and kids should fight. Men have taken enough…😂😂
I’m glad y’all reviewed this because this movie is really a classic in my opinion
100%. Classic and still underrated somehow.
I'm not exactly sure how to explain it but I think you missed it here 4:11.
I could immediately feel the racial tension. The whole it was a short list thing.
Hunter's credentials spoke for themselves. So his comment seemed crude and out of taste.
The fire in the galley and his comments about the chief's weight was the second red flag.
So when 29:41 comments about the horses came around came it made perfect sense and didn't surprise me!
Makes sense! Appreciate you commenting!!
People talk about people having an emotional support dog being a weakness but Badass Gene Hackman having one in this movie?…never mentioned.
Yo!! F.A.C.T.S.
I disagree that Hunter was being insubordinate or belligerent towards Ramsay by bringing up the fact that the galley fire could flare up again.
It feels like part of the scene was cut, and Hunter was supposed to press the issue more. That would put the scene in the captain's stateroom into a better context.
But then after Ramsay makes his speech about having a unified chain of command and not questioning each other in front of the crew, he gets on the 1MC and shits on his own XO to the entire crew as a broadcast.
I feel like that sequence of events really undermined the character of Ramsay. It would have been more interesting if the missile drill scene showed Hunter being insubordinate, and also cut the scenes of Ramsay undermining Hunter... and cut the scene with Ramsay holding the gun to the junior officer's head to get one of the senior officers to do his bidding.
Good points. Tough to argue that! Thanks for commenting
This had some very brilliant writing ✍🏾
Totally agree!!
This movie is loosely based on the Humphrey Bogart film ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and also got a ghost written script polish by Quentin Tarantino
That’s interest. Which did you like better?
Great acting on all parts from the cast and the writers of the movie but man, I hated how so many of the officers and crew went against Hunter AFTER taking out a rogue Russian Akula class submarine. They would’ve thought of him as the ultimate badass man
That’s a great point!!
@@KisstheReviews if you really liked this film, maybe you should check out By Dawns Early Light, it’s a similar movie to Crimson Tide according to the plot not to mention the fact that it really is realistic to how the military operates and an extremely scary scenario, even more so than in this movie
Both actors probably are top 5 of all time
Couldn’t argue with that if I wanted!
I've said this before you guys reviews always puts a smile on my face...just got into a huge argument with my asshole of a bf so hopefully this review will give me some laughs and put me in a better mood
Oh no!! Sorry to hear that…but so happy you know where to go! We got your back. 😬
I love this film. Probably my favourite Gene Hackman flick.
Agree!
I forgot to say, I love the score of the film. Very memorable. Btw, last weekend, I saw a 1995 Hong Kong TV show, ‘The King of Gamblers’. It frequently played the aforementioned score. Here’s a ‘proof’. This is the 39th episode. The CT score is played from 00:36:43 onwards. ua-cam.com/video/WMWTX31lFhs/v-deo.html
Incidentally, the Hong Kong TV shows tend to use scores from Hollywood films, seemingly
I love The Simpsons take on this move.
Yes!!
Good evening from chilly Tokyo. This film reminded me a little of ‘Dr. Strangelove: The Man who loved hydrogen bombs’ directed by Stanley Kubrick. Have you seen it?
Oh yeah! Strangelove is one of the best satires ever. “You can’t fight in here. This is the war room”.
@@KisstheReviews I do recall that particular line. Peter Seller was excellent in performing Dr. Strangelove, the US President, and the Royal Air Force officer. To this day, I can believe if three different guys performed respective roles.
Right?! That movie should be shown in history class…although anymore they’d call it a documentary in the States.
Worth it.
You guys are such a great channel. You should review more black hood movies.
Thank you so much! We would love to do more hood films. Throw out anything you’d like to see us review! Appreciate you.
@@KisstheReviews I got 4 ideas. Light it up, save the last dance, Coach carter, and Barbershop.
Great requests!! We will def add them to the list and get them going. Love all of those by the way.
The background music is unnecessary and silly. Otherwise enjoyed the stuff here.
Let’s be honest, this whole show is unnecessary and silly! Thanks for the comment.
@@KisstheReviews You got me there. Yet now im subscribed. 🤪😂
Welcome to the fam! Glad you decided to join in the shenanigans
😂Welcome to the family!