Rented Run Silent, Run Deep about a week ago.. really liked the view point from each captains thinking of what to do next , trying to out think each other

" This guy up there isn't no amature "

You forgot to include Down Periscope in that list. :P :rotfl:

I actually have seen very few sub movies. I saw the one where the US DD harasses the u-boat (I for get the name - is it Run Silent, Run Deep?). I saw U-571 (quite stupid), The Incredible Mister Limpit (A classic - we need that "thrum" in SH3 :rotfl: ). Of course there is The Hunt For Red October. I liked it, but it was WAY different from the book. It seems the only thing the movie and book have in common is the title. :P

I think you're thinking of "The Enemy Below". Good movie, ubt I've seen it with two different endings.

I loved Hunt For Red October, I though they did a good job keeping the "feel" of the book while de-emphasizing much of the technical aspects; it resulted in a movie accessible to the average moviegoer...although the Russian they use in the movie is atrocious!

The special effects in U-571 were pretty good, especially the external shots. Being a later film, they had some effects that Das Boot either couldn't do or couldn't do as well.

If you utterly ignore the stupid plot, and the dialogue, and the characters, and just watch it for the special effects, it's quite a good film.

You have to ignore the German aircraft and German destroyer though, as they are complete bollocks as far as historical 'accuracy' goes. Just the S-boat and U-boat shots, I'm referring to. And the depth charge explosions.

Like in (stock) SHIII, the water in U-571 is too clear to be realistic, but it makes for impressive special effects!

U-571, that one isnt even worth being mentioned in that context, its a history revisionistic PO Hollywood junk..

Money well spent indeed! :ping: I got mine from www.playx.no for those living in Norway... (Btw I see it's not listed anymore. Sold out?)

What was strange was that the first DVD held the first 90 minutes of the movie, while DVD 2 held the remaining 3+ hours, AND the extras... :o Guess the second one is a double-sided or -layered or what terms they use... Still pretty amazing to fit about 4 hours of movie on one DVD.

Das Boot, hands down.

But, I must agree with Duncan regarding Run Silent Run Deep. That was "the" WWII sub movie until Das Boot and is still great even considering it being dated, movie wise.
However, when one thinks about it, that was a little cold war propaganda. It was meant to portray honorable German and American men fighting a fair fight and coming away friends in the then threat of the Evil Empire that sought to ally the German people to the cause of opposing communism
A little funny when one considers that was what many Europeans considered the bigger threat than Nazism.
One Frenchman told me he considered Hitler a temporary evil that would pass, but Soviet domination would destroy France forever
When asked in August 1939, who he feared more, the German or Russians, the President of Poland responded. “With the Germans we will lose our liberty, with the Russians we will lose our sou�l. Thankfully, they found it in the late 80s. Sorry, got OT there!!
Wulfmann

Correct me if am wrong, but wasnt run silent run deep taknig place in the pacfic campaign against japanese shipping, how does that have to do with Cold war propgranda since you never even see any germans and they niether talk about the Altantic or Europe. ITs about fleet boats being lost in the bolgo (sorry not sure the correct speeling) straits, and a capt who lost his boat goes back there. Only to find that the deadly enemy is a Jap Sub not the first suspected destroyer.

Where are 'We Dive at Dawn' or 'The Enemy Below'?

Das Boot is not only the best Sub movie, it is one of the top three War movies ever made.

Both the other two were 'Kelly's Heroes' but you all knew that anyway.....Didn't you? ;)

:D

Bungo Straits you're talking about. I was confused about what he was talking about too.

Egan, I did mention "The Enemy Below"- I seem to remember it having two different endings. One where both the sub and the DD are destroyed as the captains salute one another, and a different one where the US capt helps the German capt evacuate his sub with a wounded sailor. Or am I completely insane?

I'm guessing that the three people who voted for U-571 voted for it because they never saw the other two. :rotfl:

They certainly did mess up on the u-boats interior...an entertaining movie that I could watch with my 6 year old, but one certainly note a 100 errors in that movie and I'm nothing close to being a historian.

My vote: DAS BOOT! :rock:

Although I agee with you and do share the Hollywood PO junk view point, for that matter the community as a whole, I will say that U-571 does have a great beginning of the film, that is the DCing the u-boat takes. It's quite a thrill to jack the volume up on the surround sound and feel them coming. But after that first 5 minutes, it's no longer worth the time.

I agree, the first 5min of that movie was the best, other then it was OK... and thats being polite

There's another old sub movie I haven't seen mentioned here. It's not too bad as I remember it, but it's been many years since I last saw it. Crash Dive, I believe, was it's name.

Anyone remember it? Just looked it up, starred Tyrone Powers, and won an Oscar. I know the Oscar don't count for must in realism, but it must be worth something for entertainment value. If you haven't seen it, look it up.