The Enemy Below
 

Rude but cool Firefox Subsim search trick. Thanks! ( almost as good as the Firefox search box: "subsim.com: search terms" search).

Also, I liked "The Enemy Below" too, it counts, and I forgot to include it.

Happy Hunting!

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Analyzed sufficiently, any submarine or other movie falls apart in absurdities. This is because it just would take way too long to do it right. We'd probably die of boredom in the process. How can you have an action movie if you have to stop and explain everything all the time? Counting rivets is a terrible way to critique a movie.

You can take Das Boot for an example. The sub is beneath the waves and the captain comes up for a look around. He pops up the scope and of course, to build suspense, at first the waves make it very difficult to resolve anything. Then as the vision clears, suddenly looming at great speed is this previously undetected destroyer. ALAAAAAAARRRRRRMMMMM!!!!!! Panic ensues and the viewer is all shook up there.

In real life there is a procedure for raising the scope. Before you do such a thing, you call for your sonar operator to search all around. This may not detect a destroyer at great range due to surface conditions, but it certainly will detect one running down your position at close range at high speed. The sonar operator would merely announce a fast approaching destroyer on the bearing, the captain would go to silent running and get some depth.

But that would mean the great scene could never happen! So what do you do? Withhold some reality to make an impressively moving scene or stick to reality and have no scene at all? Come on! These are movie people! You KNOW what their decision is.:D

Having read the book Das Boot a few times, I would never want to sit through a "faithful" movie of the book

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Best sub movies
 

Hay guys don't forget Crimson Tide.Which is an excellant movie.
Then there a old B&W based on the British X Craft which I believe is called Submarine X. I thought it was an ok show but the real star of the show was the Sub.

This is a good point, and I have to count this in when Judging a movie that is part History/Part Hollywood. The movie is still produced (if it's a story, not a Documentary) for the public. So I definitely factor this in when judging these films. Most of the films (or all) that have been mentioned in this post are really good ones. A little adjustment for personal taste, but great all the same.
I mentioned Run Silent for instance because, when it was made, the public still had not heard a lot about the Submarine war and there are a few scenes that surprised me for it's attention to detail. Even though the story never happened (with the IJN sub surprising everyone), it was written by a navy man.
So, I still pop all these in sometimes while I'm playing, and I'm glad there here and available to watch. I didn't mention "Destination Tokyo" 'cause that one seemed to lack a bit for me anyway. Good stuff.
Happy Hunting.
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Watched grey lady down the other night. Good film. I can see how it would scare the crap outa FNG's on a boat their first tour. The acting was a little hokey, I did enjoy watching the crew intentionally run into things to act like the deck was heaving. What made it cool was the attention to detail, and the use of actual Navy equipment. Not sure on the sub detail (never been on one), but the rest of it was damn good. I'm usually a stickler for details like that, and I enjoyed it.

Also saw Sea Wolves. Story about the RN DF's a Nazi transmitter to an "interned" boat in Gao (Neutral Portugal port in India). And basically hasa bunch of retiree's take it out. Roger moore plays a james bond'esque character in it. Basically, imagine the Navy asking a bunch of subsimmers (us) to go on a special ops misison. Good flick.

Das Boot was the best submarine movie I ever saw, in my book nothing comes close.

Well Sea Wolves based on true events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Light_Horse

I liked the movie too, was a really good one.
Greogory Peck, David Niven, Trevor Howard, Roger Moore great cast.

Yes, that is one of my favorite films. I had always wondered if it was based on any actual events. A forgotten gem.

Thank-you for posting this link. This made my day. :up:



As far as the more traditional, sub movies, I would have to say Das Boot, with Hunt for Red October being a runner up. It has been too long since I've seen the older flicks to fairly rate them.

I vaguely remember one with Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine. Does anyone know the title?

Torpedo Run was the name i think.

Thanks.

Except for U-571, I liked them all for little things they had, even the old WWII propaganda films like Destination Tokyo. The special effects weren't the greatest by today's standards, but the story was good. As long as the story is good, that's what really counts.