Anything on the syfy channel.

I always thought U-571 took the cake.

Jon Bon-Jovi was the highlight of that film, what does that say?

(I dig Jon, but the fact his 2 lines was the best part of the film, ugh!)

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Has anyone seen Ghost Boat the movie? The book was great not so sure on the movie as it goes from a US Fleetboat in 1943 to a english sub which looks like a german uboat.

JeffG

I have to say the worst I've seen is "Time under Fire"

Synopsis:
A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.

yeah...

Without any doubt what so ever U-571

worst one ive seen is "BELOW" with Bruce Greenwood and Olivia Williams, but the best three in my list is:
1. Das Boot--Jürgen Prochnow
2. Enemy Below---Robert Mitchum/Curd Jürgens
3. Crimson Tide---Gene Hackman/Denzel Washington

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Thank you. :salute:

So yeah, probably U-571 is my 1st worst pick followed up by "Grey lady down". Which was a 1970's movie about a ohio class that got rammed by a freighter and sank. "What the hell would a missle boat be doing that close to the surface in open ocean in the 1st place".
I have to totally agree with CSA FA on his hit list of best sub movie's though. I have one question that maybe someone could answer for me. Was Das Boot actually filmed on a U-boat and if it was where was it?

If it has Dolph Lundgen in it, you know its bad.

I may be mistaken, but I believe they actually built a fully functioning (or possibly just surface running) U-boat for Das Boot. Along with a scale model for many of the submerged scenes. At least I think that's what I saw in the special features section on my copy.

The Atomic Submarine:dead:

By far the worst ever made submarine movie of all times..

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...rineposter.jpg

There was a mockup of the deck and conning tower at La Rochelle, which was mostly used in the port scenes, another conning tower built inside a studio that was used for most of the surface scenes, a full U-boat interior built inside a studio (which is now a museum), and several scale models - which are what you mostly see both in the surfaced and submerged scenes, actually.

Another film was shooting at the same time as Das Boot - Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lucas convinced Petersen's team to lend the floating deck and conning tower, and it can be seen in that film. In the process of filming, they actually managed to successfully break it and it sank in its dock. The Das Boot crew patched it up just barely enough to float for the final scene, in which it sinks. So if anyone asks, the film's U-96 was actually sunk by Indiana Jones and Steven Spielberg :haha:

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I remember seeing a b-movie on tv a while ago call akula. The (new) russian submarine that went rouge and a scantly clad nurse who was captured took up arm with her super strong body-builder rescuer and spent 90 minutes killing russians on a near sci-fi sub.... the sub even had windows with light blue water outside....

Hey! You leave Dolph outta this!

The Swedes will riot.

What kills me is the fact that 90% of sub movies have the subs going around with their active sonar constantly blaring. Every time there's a scene with them inside the sub, there's ALWAYS that *Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping!*
Yet they still manage to be stealthy somehow. :)

90% of sub movies in the underwater setting has that ping. even just regular movies with subs. Ping-ping-ping...

It makes me want to throw a brick through my TV. :stare:

Excellent observation.

But the pinging, and tensed faces, as they stare to the sky, makes for great drama for the movie watching rubes, but makes anyone who knows anything cringe.

You have to remember, we are simmers.

We strive for a game, where you die on your first patrol. We strive for a game to get harder as time passes, not easier as you upgrade past your enemies.

We are realists, and feel slighted when things are not represented properly. (U571? America found the Enigma? lulz)

So barring the subsimmers bible, (Das Boot) there is very few good sub movies.

Alot of us try to compare all sub flicks to that, and it is kinda unfair.:)

i actually liked "Grey Lady Down" good cast:
Charlton Heston
Ronny Cox
Stacy Keach
Christopher Reeve

Yeah I was watching an episode of the British sci-fi series Primeval, and it began with a submarine pinging away so hard that they could have run over that guy from the hunt for red october's daughter's stereo without hearing it! ( the episode then instantly redeems itself by having a genuine sub class in it [Upholder class diesel electric sub] and the line, " Well, I've seen all the movies, y'know, Das Boot and all that...)