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War movies are one of the oldest
movie genres, but they are truly
a dying breed. Hollywood used to
crank out those three-hour extravaganzas
with John Wayne, Frank
Sinatra, Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin
and the rest.
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October is the first one of its kind
in a long time. Why are the bigbudget,
star-studded war movies so
rare?
One reason classic war movies
have declined is that movie-goers
after Vietnam have come to the
conclusion that wars are actually
pretty bad.
Those war movies that did succeed
in the '80s were a new breed
where a one-man army goes to a
foreign locale and kills lots of bad
guys personally. Real war movies
were replaced by the goofy egogratification
movies of Sylvester
Stallone and Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
At the other end of the scale are
the realistic war movies that can't
even be called war movies without
detracting from them. The Deer
Hunter and Apocalypse Now back
in 1979 effectively started this
genre.
These movies show war in all of
its futility and horror. Those and
more recent movies like Platoon,
Full Metal Jacket and Born on the
Fourth of July turn the war movie
genre on its end.
The movies in the middle
ground have disappeared. You
know, the type that weren't totally
unrealistic, but glorified war and
made all of the Americans look
like heroes: movies like The
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Besides the fact that war has
lost its luster, we have run out of
enemies. World War II was great
because the justness of the Allied
cause was unquestionable.
Well, World War II is a little
long in the tooth now. John Wayne
is dead, and another big war is
more unlikely than ever. What are
Hollywood war-mongers to do?
The makers of The Hunt for Red
October had a good idea: use a
story written by Tom Clancy set in
the pre-Gorbachev era (with the
Cold War going strong). How long
can the Soviets be used as the bad
guys? We haven't really gone to
war with them, anyway.
Long ago, producer/director/
screenwriter James Cameron had a
great idea for a war movie. He
made a large budget, large cast
movie with lots of gore and violence.
It was an excellent revival
of some classic war movie ideas
without glorifying the brutality and
senselessness of conflict.
The heroes were outnumbered
by a vastly superior force, but
triumphed in the end. The bad
guys weren't Nazis or Commies,
however. They had acid for blood
and three-inch teeth. The movie
was Aliens.
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The Hunt for Red October is an
old-fashioned war movie (even if it
is the Cold War). It's a lot like the
old days of Hollywood war movies,
when one could see all the
big stars battling it out with the
Nazis and the Japanese.
While the movie is oldfashioned,
it is not unentertaining.
It is certainly one of the better action
thrillers of the year so far. Director
John McTiernan (who also
did the excellent Die Hard) is really
proving to be a major talent.
McTiernan uses all kinds of
weird camera angles and close-ups
to show the claustrophobia and intensity
of submarine warfare. He
knows how to make an audience
sweat out a torpedo attack right
along with the crew of the
October.
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movie is about a renegade Soviet
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United States.
The October's commander is
played by Sean Connery, who has
made a few films over the years.
He makes his Captain Ramius
seem like a real person (that just
happens to have made a decision
that could start World War III).
Alec Baldwin (Talk Radio, Beetlejuice)
plays CIA agent Jack
Ryan, who believes that Ramius is
trying to defect. He is an analyst
who is thrust into action when his
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