I just wanted to say that regardless of the quality of the USS Seaviper movie, I hope we can all support this movie in some fashion. It will showcase the interior of the USS Drum and may perhaps bring more attention to the Drum as well as other museum subs. Tom Bowser, the guy that works with the Drum daily, has invested much time with the cast and crew of the movie just being a nice guy. The Drum is only going to get a donation *IF* this movie turns a profit!

And who knows, perhaps positive promotion and reactions to this film could produce more, higher quality WW2 submarine movies!

UPDATE
 

Just wanted to repost this little update about the USS Seaviper movie. This is from Tom Bowser who posted this info on another BBS:

"...filming to start around the end of march and will be done entirely on board the Drum, no studio submarine shoots and will be done at night so we don't have to close the boat to visitors. It is hoped to be in the theaters in the fall.

The same company is filming a documentry on the Drum for tv, don't know when it will be released..."

A documentary on the Drum sounds pretty cool!

Good and bad
 

The subs name is pure hollywood, the story idea isnt bad actually, what bugs me is (correct me if im wrong) the captain leaves his ship to go on a mission???um that would never happen.

Does strike me as odd... I don't recall Fluckey wandering up on shore to blow up trains.

The name is, ehhh a little TopGun-ish... but it's not entirely outside of reason. There was a Seasnake I believe. I had posted a list of all the names some time ago... maybe it was on the Ubi-forums. I remember having a hard time coming up with even one or two new gamefish names.

Agreed :up:

Well, you turned off one of the best movies made in the last ten years. Your loss.

Me, I'm with Schlippittz; I'll watch it in the original language every time, just for the feel. Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashamon, and of course Das Boot. I have a copy of Elektra (1962), with Irene Papas, based on the ancient play by Eurypides. Irene Papas had a wonderful, sultry, deep voice even as a teen. The voice actress who dubbed her into English at the time sounded like a schoolgirl. Not even close.

...:shifty:

Tora! Tora! Tora!
They Were Expendable
Midway
Sands of Iwo Jima

just to name a few...

You may like "Musa, the Warrior" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275083/

It is not a reality flick, but it is a damn good foreign film (Korean). Subtitled naturaly.

It seems to start a little slow, but you soon realise the depth of the story and characters.

As for dub over... :dead: Watching a guy/gal who's lips dont function correctly is worse than any reading required. And the accents you can get.... At least with the original language you get a lot of expression common to all human nature. This can be completely lost in dubs. Although I do not mind foreign films who's actors actually speak english and do their OWN dubs somethimes. There are some rare exceptions. That said, I could not imagine watching "Ong Bak" in english.

The Best War Movie of all time was....(drum roll)......U-571!

Yes! Who could deny the fact that it WAS the Americans who captured the Enigma Code! Who could deny the ladies Matthew McConaughey. Or even Jon Bon Jovi who looked like he could belt out Livin' On A Prayer at anytime in the movie!

You guys have no tastes whatsoever.:rotfl::rotfl:

And to think I actually had respect for you once upon a time.:p

Hee hee! Did I tell you at the movies the front row guys started cussing? The movie was that bad. It was hilarious!:yep:

Hey check out the photo line-up of the actors in the SeaViper film. One 'em is named Onions.:rotfl:

A trailer for USS Seaviper is now online:

http://www.seaviper.net/preview

OK, that's the worst trailer I have ever seen...

The whole movie could be a hoax given that as evidence of any actual movie footage. Good grief, I coulda done that myself after a 10 min vid-cam tour of the Drum.

Damn right Bro! Boring walkthrough of a shiny new sub. I think I'll place the director, producer and the pizza guy in tubes 1, 2 and 3. Fire!:yep: This movie is sinking faster than a lead zepplin.

Given that filming for the movie hasn't really started yet, I'd say it's a decent teaser trailer. :)