Four Days in October

Four Days in October Review

I DVR'd this when it broadcast, and have watched it a couple of times. I am eagerly ordering it so that I can have it forever. I watched it with my 11 year old son, who remembers that season but was too young to appreciate the magic of those games. Mercifully, he is also too young to know the angst of being a Sox fan prior to 2004. It is not a painstaking play by play documentary of the whole series. Instead, it focuses on the signature moments: Dave Roberts steal, the Bloody Sock, ARod slapping the ball out of Aroyyo's glove, etc. It does a great job a capturing the emotion of the times. As others had said, I could have done less with Simmons and Clarke, although I think they do add something to it. Overall, it does a splendid job of showing the 4 days that changed Red Sox Nation forever. And yes, watching Yankee fans cry does make for great TV!

Four Days in October Overview

When the night of October 6, 2004 came to a merciful end, the Curse of the Bambino was alive and well. The vaunted Yankee lineup, led by ARod, Jeter, and Sheffield, had just extended their ALCS lead to three games to none, pounding out 19 runs against their hated rivals. The next night, in Game 4, the Yankees took a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning, then turned the game over to Mariano Rivera, the best relief pitcher in postseason history, to secure yet another trip to the World Series. But after a walk and a hard-fought stolen base, the cold October winds of change began to blow. Over four consecutive days and nights, this unlikely group of Red Sox miraculously won four straight games to overcome the inevitability of their destiny. Using extensive archive coverage from that week, Major League Baseball Productions brings to life an in-depth look at the 96 hours that brought salvation to Red Sox Nation and made baseball history in the process.

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The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition)

The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition) Review

Only a Scottsman like Sean Connery [AKA James Bond :-) ] could pull off a Russian sub skipper and right from the opening scene and set the pace for this coldwar thriller. When I first actually read the book I was impressed the plot which I was sure could only end up in some war. When I read that the movie was being made I couldn't image who could play this role well enough until I read it was Bond :-) .

I thought that Alex Baldwin did a good job as Jack Ryan, but the acting is over the top at times. Later movies had Harrison Ford in this role and that for me is a better fit...hell he even looks a bit like the pictures of Tom Clancy in shades.

All in all its still a great worth while movie all round.

I give it 4 out of 5 nukes

The Hunt for Red October (Special Collector's Edition) Overview

Based on Tom Clancy's bestseller, directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard) and starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER sweats with high-tech anxiety and the tension of men who hold Doomsday in their hands. A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him, too. The hunt is on!

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Before Harrison Ford assumed the mantle of playing Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan hero in Patriot Games, Alec Baldwin took a swing at the character in this John McTiernan film and hit one to the fence. If less instantly sympathetic than Ford, Baldwin is in some respects more interesting and nuanced as Ryan, and drawing comparisons between both actors' performances can make for some interesting postmovie discussion. That aside, The Hunt for Red October stands alone as a uniquely exciting adventure with a fantastic costar: Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear submarine captain attempting to defect to the West on his ship. Ryan must figure out his true motives for approaching the U.S. McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard) made an exceptionally handsome movie here with action sequences that really do take one's breath away. --Tom Keogh

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