New submarine movie: TORPEDO U-235
 

Hmmm... new U-boat film, let's see...

• checks several vital PC boxes
• has tense depth charge scene
• fighting between the crew scene
• torpedo skidding along the hull scene
• plus bonus scene of firing AA guns whilst submerging

.... looks like the sequel to U-571 has finally arrived! :Kaleun_Cheers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuwSjRAvwm4

^ It looks interesting and I would watch it. I found that it's available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Torpedo-U-235.../dp/B088JP5ZZD


I found a review for this movie on Amazon. The review is negative and there are of course other reviews as well that are positive.

Quote: This movie is dubbed, and you don't have the option to watch it in its native language with subtitles. I watched it for 15 minutes and find it beyond awful, and the dubbing is mostly the reason, although from what I saw there could be a lot of things wrong with this movies, regardless of what language it's in. I wasted $5.99 but I'm going to try and recover it from Amazon, as they weren't truthful about the audio and the fact that it's really bad. I have to believe these 5-star interviews are faked because there's no way this movie is worth 5-stars.



https://www.amazon.com/Torpedo-U-235.../dp/B088JP5ZZD

Seems to be a nice and pleasant experience to see. :Kaleun_Applaud:

Oh man, I'm going to watch it tonight, this will be epic!

They shoulda called this movie PU-239...because it stinks!

Physics jokes. I love 'em! :yeah:

Oh, man, that was EPIC.

The dubbing was just fine, some excellent dubs, no problem there! This is the kind of movie
that should be filmed in non-English and dubbed, it fundamentally demands it.

Opening credits, I knew this was going to be amazing when one of the producers was listed
as "Tax Shelter for the Belgium Government". Classic!

Someone said this was a hybrid of Inglorious Basterds and U-571, that's really accurate. They
tried to shoehorn in some Das Boot and Hunt for Red October tropes as well, but it didn't make
any sense at all. Don't these filmmakers ever Subsim?

Spoilers: sorry, can't really discuss without, but these are intentionally vague.

So, you can train a small group of guys to manage a submarine with a couple days of bad training?

Another underwater battle between two subs. Hey, in WWII, were any submerged subs
able to torpedo another submerged sub, solely by passive sonar? And I don't mean one was surfaced
and one was at PD, I mean 50m down, no visual bearing, range by sound alone?

Gotta love how the hydrophone operator was so precise, frequently calling out "Torpedo! Range 150 meters!"
I need this guy on my boat in Wolfpack.

So, one things I learned, if you torpedo a submerged U-boat 200m away, the thing explodes like 8 times,
and the shock waves are horrific.

When a woman shoots a rifle and blows up a destroyer, I have to say, women's rights have arrived.

Lots of throwback racist comments, stuff I haven't seen in a movie since the 60s. Of course, it was
appropriate for the time and setting in the film, but I didn't think any modern filmmakers would bring it back.


Specific spoilers: don't read if you want major elements of this soon-to-be cult classic ruined:




Summary: If you thought there couldn't be a movie you loved more than U-571, you're mistaken, my friend. :arrgh!:

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https://www.blitz-videotheek.be/site...cs/torpedo.jpg


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Sounds like a blast! ☺️

Bought it with Original Belgium audio :)

Yep. U-864 sunk by HMS Venturer. February 9 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-864

Probably the best animation out there of the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTMPRvzt79g&t=198s

Re-enactment footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI2PjoLX9Q8

looks more accurate than that tom hanks dross.:har:

@ Neal: Great review :up: I have to see that :D
That's what i thought when i read the first hints about the film..
But then you know..
I managed to kill two carrier groups with a Balao in Silent Service II, and i did not even have any training before. Also i only had to reload 12 times or so (the game, not the torpedoes) to achieve that.
Yes, me in Silent Hunter II, near the virtual Azores! Ok i used external view but hey, you have to manage things with the tools at hand.. :O:

Thanks, have not seen this yet.

Though this IX D.2 (!) was not "sunk by using hydrophones". edit: just reread

U 864 was primarily detected because of the code breaking, and it was the third time the boat was there, having returned two times because of technical problems already. The third time the british sub was able to sink it. U-864 was heading back the third time, this time because of Diesel engine problems.

The british sub knew position and mission of U-864 via the british tapping service, having broken the code already earlier in the war (no, not the US and not U-571 :O:).
So the british "Venturer" may have then heard the german boat via hydrophones, but it was also clearly to be seen running a regular zig-zag course, surfaced.

The english crew was able to foresay the course, and fired four torpedoes from a distance of roughly two kilometers. The fourth torpedo was set to a deeper run, assuming the german boat would dive when it saw the incoming torpedoes, and so it did. The fourth torpedo hit, and U-864 sank.

It was not exactly an "underwater duel"..

That's correct, they used a torpedo :O:

:timeout:


:haha:
ok but it still amazes me how wrong a lot of those war stories and films are.
On the HMS Venturer site they write that U 684 was running zig zag submerged. Not true. It was surfaced and dived when they saw the incoming torpedo. Nothing to do with hydrophones.

I mean propaganda is a difficult task, you have to bedevil others, you have to describe how mean and bad and invincible threat they are, but you have to place confidence in your own people that they can be beaten.
But why repeat this now, spin it further after fifty years, or adding something wrong and even irrelevant?

Ah, yes they were submerged but both were using snorkels/scopes and therefore their surface position was marked.

The British submarine HMS Venturer was sent from the British submarine base at Lerwick. After German radio transmissions regarding U-864 were decrypted, Venturer was rerouted to intercept the U-boat. On 6 February, U-864 passed the Fedje area without being detected, but one of her engines began to misfire and she was ordered to return to Bergen. A signal stated that a new escort would be provided her at Hellisøy on 10 February. She made for there, but on 9 February, Venturer heard U-864's diesel engine noise. Venturer was not using active sonar, (ASDIC), to avoid betraying her position and spotted the U-boat's snorkel.

In an unusually long engagement for a submarine and in a situation for which neither crew had been trained, Venturer waited 45 minutes after making contact before going to action stations, waiting in vain for U-864 to surface and thus present an easier target. Upon realizing they were being followed by the British submarine and that their escort had still not arrived, U-864 began zig-zagging. Each submarine risked raising her periscope. After three hours, Venturer fired all four bow torpedo tubes at the U-boat's predicted position, beginning at 12:12 and at 17 second intervals (taking four minutes[citation needed] to reach their target), then dived suddenly to evade any retaliation from his opponent. U-864 heard the torpedoes coming and also dived deeper and turned away to avoid them, managing to avoid the first three but unknowingly steering into the path of the fourth. Imploding, she split in two, sinking with all hands and coming to rest in over 150 m (490 ft) of water, 2 nmi (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) west of Fedje.[6]

In this movie, both subs were deeper than 20m and neither had a snorkel or scope to use as a reference.

But that U-864 does fit the bill.

Yeah, it's worth watching as long as you know it cannot be taken seriously.

You'll learn that when the Dirty Dozen show up to train on the u-boat, they are told they will have 3 weeks to learn, and that is viewed as "impossible!"

As far as i read U 864 was running surfaced when performing the zig zag course, being observed by the english sub alright.
Only when the english sub had fired its 4 torpedos, U 964 dived to evade at greater depth, but ran into the fourth torpedo. So one can hardly speak of a submerged duel?
There is obviously a fault in some report :hmmm:

Also the U 864 carried the aforementioned parts and plans and mercury, but no uranium or such. This was tried in another boat bound for Japan, with the appropriate hull name of U-234.

I cannot share your enthusiasm on this one. Yeah, the movie was good and these two hours were well spent but calling it a new/old classic its a bit exaggerating.

First of all, the movie lacks chemistry. It's like the director did not decide whether it would be a serious bit or the clinky one and therefore the movie balance in the middle without showing its full potential and character.

Secondary, I liked how they how actors handled the script but some performances were too blend and that's why the overall picture seems too uncertain.

I'll give this movie 7 out of 10 just becaye of that

^ fair enough :haha:

I think Neal wrote it with tongue-in-cheek, but as we all he strives for any U-boat/submarine film that pops up from the deep, whatever it's quality :arrgh!:

Well i have no idea when or if this ever hits the german cinema/TV/Netflix, but i will sure look out for it..