History YMMV / TheHuntForRedOctober

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Hymn to Red October, written by Music/BasilPoledouris.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Hymn to Red October, written by Basil Poledouris.

** You can see the bluescreened landscape through Alec Baldwin's hair at the end of the film.

* TechnologyMarchesOn. Inverted. The crew of the Red October is shown to be using flat-screen and touchscreen displays (note the absence of valves and keyboards) that are more than 30-years more advanced than almost all of what was possible when the film was made, and some of which is barely possible today (2015).

* GeniusBonus: "I have become Death, destroyer of worlds", an "ancient Hindu text", was also uttered by Oppenheimer during the explosion of the atomic bomb.

** Not as much, at least in the movie, since Ramius follows up by mentioning it was quoted by an American who helped create the atomic bomb. He doesn't specify that it's Oppenheimer directly, though.

* SpecialEffectFailure: You can see the bluescreened landscape through Alec Baldwin's hair at the end of the film.

** Also, the missiles are all-too-obviously animated. Which just goes to show that even IndustrialLightAndMagic can have an off day.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The movie seems to imply that the real reason for Ramius defecting was less anger of his wife's death and more [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight concern]] over the fact that the Red October's primary purpose would be to start a nuclear war due to its stealth. In that context, Ryan's [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication comments]] about Ramius's wife are more that he no longer has any reason to go back home.

* FirstInstallmentWins: Widely regarded as the best novel in the Ryan-verse, if not Clancy's best (in contest with his second published novel, ''Literature/RedStormRising'')

* HilariousInHindsight: The Soviet [[ThePoliticalOfficer political officer]] who is named ''[[UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin Putin]]''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The Soviet [[ThePoliticalOfficer political officer]] who is named ''[[VladimirPutin Putin]]''.

** Ryan sees the saboteur and remarks "The cook. It's the Goddamned cook!" is funny because just two years later there was [[Film/UnderSeige a major naval movie where the saboteur military cook was the good guy]].

** [[spoiler: [[{{Retirony}} "I would like to have seen Montana."]]]] A few movies later, [[Film/JurassicPark he did.]]

** [[spoiler: [[{{Retirony}} "I would like to have seen Montana."]]]] A few movies later, [[JurassicPark he did.]]

* "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it."
* "Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please."

* AdaptationDistillation: TheMovie mostly follows the plot of the book, takes out a few characters who aren't really important anyway (mostly the Brits), and condenses the sabotage plot while also introducing an exciting and meaningful sequence while the sub is running Red Route One. In many aspects, it can be considered to make the story better.

** [[{{Retirony}} "I would like to have seen Montana."]] A few movies later, [[JurassicPark he did.]]