any movie based on Tom Clancy
I said
in another topic that
The Hunt for Red October was the film that made me aware there really is a sort of pro-communist bias in Hollywood.
Copy-pasting my rant from there:
The movie never even tells you Marko Ramius' motive for defection, except for a brief, unexplained mention of his wife. The book talks a lot about how Soviet society works and how Ramius had a lifetime of suffering under it, but this is all excised from the film. All we get to see is... one Soviet leader has a nice-looking office.
Then it adds lines where Ramius and his fellow defectors talk about how they would like to see Montana. This is a complete break: novel-Ramius actually thinks America is just like the Soviet Union, but he's so mad at his home country he doesn't even care that he might be helping a country that's just as bad.
On Jack Ryan's side too, the story becomes a "one man figured out the truth" narrative, which then allows the director to make the Soviets all really proper and intelligent while all the Americans are a bunch of meatbrained hicks (who even attempt to kill Ryan for being the smart one!) It even goes so far as to change a British naval officer to an American one and make him, again, a southern meatbrain.
The whole tenor of the movie is then at odds. It's essentially saying "this Ramius guy is pretty retarded for wanting to leave Soviet utopia for American squalor, isn't he?"
.... Need to emphasize that I'm only criticizing Tom Clancy
movies (and maybe TV/streaming shows). A few video games that have Clancy's name on them have actually been kinda good.
