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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Is any one of these movies less than five years old? One of them is over fifty! Anybody who hasn't seen them by now deserves to get spoiled
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You never know, someone might have missed one of these (born after the times, or mere lack of interest until this point.) and I did not want the plot spoiled for them. So I try to avoid adding spoilers on things like these at all costs. (unless you catch me doing a full on review, then I'll spoil away.)
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
For some reason I didn't pick up on that. I guess I was too busy banging my head over the
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I believe this can be traced to one scene, and I quote.
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The movie portrays a scene in which the U-boat sailors kill the Allied merchant crewmen who have survived their ship's sinking, in compliance with naval policy and so that the survivors do not report the U-boat position. Out of several thousand sinkings of merchant ships in World War II, there is only one documented case of a U-boat crew deliberately attacking the ship's survivors: that of the U-852, whose crew attacked survivors of the Greek ship Peleus.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_%28film%29#Critical_receptio
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Well, in a submarine or a fighter squadron, I guess 30 is considered "aging".
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I mainly called him aging because he said himself that he felt ancient next to the rest of his crew members.
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Probably because it stunk so bad. I loved the concept but the execution? Way, way WAY too much melodrama.
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What can I say? I like a little drama.
This was actually one of those movies I came to with extremely low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised by it. It actually inspired me enough to do a boatload of research on The C.S.S Hunley herself.
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Actually that's what they didn't. They used a real destroyer escort and did real things like dropping real depth-charges, but I'm pretty sure there was no stock war footage used at all.
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Thanks for the correction. Didn't know that one at all, kind of makes me like this movie even more, they went out of their way to get a real destroyer to drop some depth charges. That's devotion you don't see much of anymore, what with everything moving to computer graphics and all that jazz.
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I'll be sure to check that one out, it looks interesting from the screen shots.
I enjoyed this response immensely, good show SS, good show.
(you don't mind if I call you SS do you?)