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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele (Post 1683439)

Sadly, we just lost the Liberty Bell yesterday. She crashed on take-off and miraculously the pilot and 6 passengers walked away... ... then she burned. :wah:

Yep. Sad news. We even have a thread about it.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184528

The best sub movie of all time has got to be Das Boot, not the directors cut, but the full length uncut version.

Does "Run Silent, Run Deep" not warrant even an honorable mention? :O:
Operation Petticoat comes to mind...:DL

Ok, seriously...

The Hunt for Red October is still my favorite, mostly for sentimental reasons.
Das Boot is obvious, though I haven't watched it since video discs were state of the art.
I liked K-19, even if Ford did chew the scenery.
Down Periscope is a guilty pleasure.
Above Us, the Waves and Torpedo Run I'll have to check out.

And don't get me started on U-571 or Crimson Tide.

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Anyhoo... I bumped into a film title the other day, never heard of it before, not even on here, a German U-boat comedy called U-900

Anybody seen it (I'm assuming it's all in German!) Can't find much on it, a few minutes on youtube, an Independant.co.uk write-up (putting the boot into Das Boot), and it's in the imdb. Currently unavailable at Amazon.com, but that was listed with only German subtitles!

I dunno, I kinda like the old Seinfeld standby of "sponge-worthy." :O:

I've never seen Das Boot. A recent user review of it on IMDB doesn't give me a lot of hope:

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Wolfgang Petersen often known for copying English films comes up with a remake of THE LOVE BUG but sadly dehumanizes the submarine too much and adds homo undertones in the sub which is too old fashioned The first half and all the prep scenes are very badly handled, the leg scene of Jürgen Prochnow and the UBoat scene and all his shabby outfits scenes are repulsive and actually don't go with what he says that he will never wear shabby outfits, you know how much they lie? Anywayz the submarine taking revenge part is interesting though filmy and the murder of Lehmann-Willenbrock is nicely handled but the rest murders are badly handled and with the hamming of the villains it's even worse Actually the villains comes across as jokers The handling of the past Schmutt's scenes are too in your face filmy and clichéd Direction is faulty Music is good. The movie reminds of the Buddy Hackett movie The LOVE BUG although the boring parts go on for hours and are more similar to My Dinner With Andre (1987).

The real hero in the film is the sub. Prochnow has just a marginal role in the film and is more likely used as a crowd puller. The story is quite simple and the movie is more likely to aim at the action sequences than presenting an interesting storyline.

Nothing new on the block just a simple Friday night flick, that is if you have nothing else to do.

Is it better than this guy suggests? :06:

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Originally Posted by Subnuts (Post 1684455)

I've never seen Das Boot.

:o You've been here half-a-decade and not seen Das Boot? :hmmm:

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Originally Posted by Subnuts (Post 1684455)

Is it better than this guy suggests? :06:

Marginally. Er, maybe a bit more than that then!

It's like asking 'does this game suit me?' or 'will I like this game?' in the SH5 side of this forum, only you will know if you think it's good or not. :DL

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1684479)

:o You've been here half-a-decade and not seen Das Boot? :hmmm:

Marginally. Er, maybe a bit more than that then!

It's like asking 'does this game suit me?' or 'will I like this game?' in the SH5 side of this forum, only you will know if you think it's good or not. :DL

Methinks you just got pwned. :O:

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1684483)

Methinks you just got pwned. :O:

Hey...show respect, and not shuffling the cards, :DL

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1684483)

Methinks you just got pwned. :O:

I thought that may be the case :nope:

I also thought that by adding the :hmmm: I might get away with it.

Edit - I could just edit that post to look less 'easy'.

Torpedo Run with Glen Ford, good technicolor look inside late war fleet boats even if the plot is dated.

Destination Tokyo: Propaganda for sure, but has a good early war Gato model in it, and nice for context since it was made during the war. It also captures national emotion and feelings during the pacific war and is refreshingly unapologetic.

Ice Station Zebra: Dated, very late 60's, but fun to watch and one of the rare ones set in the cold war.

Bedford Incident: Sidney Poitier, good thriller, cold war, nice suspense being from the destroyer's perspective.

Father Goose: Not so much a sub story till the end when Cary Grant et. Al. get picked up by one, but amusing, good story, and good early WWII setting with the Imperial Japanese, coast watchers, and Trevor Howard and the Royal Australian Navy.

5. We Dive at Dawn

4. The Enemy Below

3. Down Periscope

2. Hunt For Red October

1. Das Boot

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