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U-571 is the worst sub movie I have ever scene while the best is Das Boot. The movie I hope someone makes is a one about U-505.

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Originally Posted by Perseus (Post 2091487)

Ugh. Give this one a wide berth: 'Phantom'

Arguably one of the worst submarine movies I've ever had the misfortune of seeing.

I thought 'Yuryeong' aka 'Phantom the Submarine' was pretty silly. Especially the part where they sink a Japanese sub by snagging its prop with the towed array and dragging it down below crush depth.

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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey (Post 2095054)

U-571 is the worst sub movie I have ever scene while the best is Das Boot. The movie I hope someone makes is a one about U-505.

I dislike the needless historical inaccuracies and the dreadful acting of this movie, but I can't agree that it is the worst sub movie ever made. :nope:

It is dreck :yep: but not the worst. :nope:

Now there was this movie with Tyrone in it...... :D

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Originally Posted by Julhelm (Post 2099939)

I thought 'Yuryeong' aka 'Phantom the Submarine' was pretty silly. Especially the part where they sink a Japanese sub by snagging its prop with the towed array and dragging it down below crush depth.

Not totally far fetched as some might think.

Back in the 1980s a Soviet Victor snagged a US Destroyer's towed array and got it wrapped around its prop. The Victor was disabled and forced to surface. They had to send a guy with an ax out on the aft deck to hack it off the screw before they could get underway again.

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2100191)

Don't be a h8tr Platapus. You know you loved seeing those cool S-Boats.:D

http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com/origi...crash-dive.jpg
"I don't understand why this....Platapus hates us? It's a great story!"

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee (Post 2100300)

Don't be a h8tr Platapus. You know you loved seeing those cool S-Boats.:D

"I don't understand why this....Platapus hates us? It's a great story!"

It's okay Crash Dive...I'm here for you! I liked it! :O:

Just think of this....
If Midge and Platapus ever hooked up?:hmmm:

Midge with Das Boot, Platapus with Crash Dive.....
http://entermovietopia.files.wordpre...z-and-zuul.jpg

(not an actual photo of Midge)

Man, A guy makes a few hundred posts slamming Crash Dive and all of a sudden he is branded a "hater". :D

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Originally Posted by S-13 (Post 1892006)

I love submarines, but I haven't seen enough of them to give an "actual worst" since I'm sure there are ones that deserve the title better to the one I'm going to name, which I'm sure alot of people liked.

With that said, I thought Hunt for Red October was pretty terrible, the whole plot about defecting was bad enough, but the idea of the newest ship in the fleet is given to a Captain who while highly decorated as the movie claims but his loyalty to his country isn't insured especially for a nuclear submarine? and rest of the crew would go along? Let alone the fact supposedly the XO of this ship would be a Political Officer?

It's a decent rambo style cold war action movie, but not my idea of a submarine movie.

Evidently you didn't listen to the movie you just watched it.

While I agree it was just a movie and highly unlikely to happen its plot did have credibility.
The XO wasn't the political officer. The XO was Borridan, the XO, the political officer was the guy he took out in his stateroom. Political Officers are highly fanatical like the Nazi SS of WW2 so this guy had to go.
When they were giving the briefing to the president's chief adviser Jack Ryan quoted that Ramius trained most of their top submarine skippers taking out the lead boat in every new class. He was quoted as being called: "The Villneous Schoolmaster". That's why he was on the Red October. It was the shakedown cruise for a new boat design. This also put him in a position to select his own officers, men who would be willing to defect with him. As Jack Ryan also quoted.
For the rest of the crew he created, with help from the chief engineer I'm sure an elaborate radiation scare to get them off the boat. Who wouldn't want to get off a boat being flooded with radiation.
Finally his reason for turning over the boat to the Americans was not for the purpose of defecting or being a traitor to his country. He quoted that "Red October" had but one purpose. To slip thru our eastern seaboard defenses and launch a nuclear attack on our country. "There are those that still believe we should strike first in one massive blow".....stated Ramius.
His reason for stealing the boat was to keep the Russians from having such an upper hand on us they could start world war three. Something any sane man would do anything in his power to avoid.
What about the beginning text? Did this have any credibility or was it just put there for the movie?

Again I realize it was just a movie and what it would take for these steps to happen in this order would be like winning the lottery. But it's not totally implausible.

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Originally Posted by Red October1984 (Post 1921240)

The list goes on..... :nope:

Such a sad thing that people actually watch these movies.

With the exception of Hunt For Red October. That is the only good one discussed in this thread. But the book was a million times better.

Which is exactly the reason I am now reading it.
:yeah::yeah:

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Originally Posted by chopsuey (Post 1931889)

I think without a doubt the movie "Crash Dive" with Michael Dudikoff was the absolute worst submarine movie ever cut and pasted together. I say cut and pasted because, I could identify at least 4 other submarine movies that they took footage from and edited it together to make this submersible turd.

That absolutely drives me crazy when they do that. :Kaleun_Mad::Kaleun_Mad:
Be watching a movie and see a scene from another movie you have already watched. Cheap bastards. If you can't afford to do the movie than don't!!
I watched one hacked up piece of crap once. As soon as I saw the underwater combat scenes were from Crimson Tide I turned it off. Something about that just sets me off!!:stare::stare:

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee (Post 1932197)

Anything on the syfy channel.

I haven't seen any lately and I follow the SyFy channel all of the time. Not for their horrible movies but more for their series.
I don't know how a channel can make such great series but then turn out such garbage movies.
They have to have two totally different staffs, writers, budgets, etc....

You really should read the dates before you respond to things.

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Originally Posted by hunter301 (Post 2181125)

Evidently you didn't listen to the movie you just watched it.

S-13 hasn't even looked at Subsim since last July.

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Originally Posted by hunter301 (Post 2181140)

That absolutely drives me crazy when they do that.

Again you're answering a guy who joined, made one post, and has never looked at Subsim again.

As to the other two, they're both still around and active, but you're responding to something they said six months and eighteen months ago respectively.