Since we're on the topic of TV...anybody else here excited for Better Call Saul S2? :woot:

I am. Enjoyed season 1 very much.:salute:

February 15th I do believe is Season two's premiere

Just watched The Enemy Below (1957)
 

It's on Netflix now and it was a sub movie with Robert Mitchum so I thought "How bad can it be?"

Answer is pretty bad. The film has a night scene aboard a destroyer where the Captain is talking about what they'll do at dawn. One of the hands even has a flashlight with a red filter. Problem is it was filmed in broad daylight.

It was also kinda weird seeing David Hedison as the destroyer's exec rather than aboard the Seaview's "flying sub."

Course the destroyer they're on in WWII has a top speed of 25 knots and the hydrophone guy doesn't have a headset, guess he just listens over the room's speaker.

The 50 something Nazi captain avoids the destroyer by putting her on the bottom (in the south Atlantic) at just over 300 meters.

At that point I was too crushed to watch much more. I checked the IMDb and the reviews were mostly raves, several for the film's reality.

Maybe later.

Yes!

Some of the post War movies are funny in a sense. I laughed at the cliché Nazi stereo type. The torpedo launch countdown was goofy too.:o I think this would be a good movie for a re-make, since Hollywood can't come up with any new ideas.

I thought it was a fairly solid film. I mean, after watching U-571 and some others my evaluating criteria for sub films is in the trash.

I love the idea of a remake though. If they redid that, i'd for sure pre-order tickets to go see it. Of course, it'd need to be done properly...but it's a good script/story idea.

About Enemy Below, for a post-war movie in the 50's, it portrait both captains as fellow officers in opposite sides of the war, and not the normal nazi sub captain that wanted to kill everything.
It has the normal clichés, the "enchanted by the nazi way of things" first officer, life in a WW II german submarine, etc. But it's a fair film of the matter if one can understand the time that it was made.

And inspired one of the greatest episodes of Star Trek :D!

About the remake, yes it should be made, with a proper german sub and crew, with a proper US destroyer and crew, proper special effects and a little change of the script.
Or we can have a U-571 style movie...:damn:

Or they could make a movie about one of the real-life rammings that occurred during the war, especially USS Borie and U-405, or maybe the incident that inspired the movie, USS Buckley against U-66.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Borie_(DD-215)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Buckley_(DE-51)

"Stand by to repel boarders!"

The Enemy Below is fantastic, Mitchum was fantastic as was Jurgens. :up:

Coming back to TV news, some good news for hard science fiction fans, Kim Stanley Robinsons 'Red Mars' is getting a TV adaptation.
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/red-...er-1201656112/

This actually looks really freakin' cool. :rock:

I'll be eagerly awaiting January 2017. By then, I'll be deep into math and science at engineering school....so it'll give me an excuse to watch it. :oops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M

http://i.imgur.com/RG0BS1U.gif

There's also a website:

http://www.warof1996.com/

There's a list of all the cities that were hit by the city destroyers in ID4.

Poor Hiroshima got hit so badly by the aliens that it became part of South Korea:

http://i.imgur.com/xhe6SGq.jpg?1

https://media.giphy.com/media/kq03GWNNDlY4M/giphy.gif

I do like the movie though, don't get me wrong. I just laugh at the 50s, early 60s clichéd Nazi stereotypes.

Why am I not surprised?
This is so embarrassing. :/\\!!