Good Sub Movies

[Highbury]

Unfortunately a thread of this type will exhaust all of the movies that are actually good within a few posts, so since it was not mentioned I thought I would throw in an awful one, In Enemy Hands

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316824/

Plot: At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

Yes, it is as bad as the plot sounds.

[Capt.Warner]

My Top 3
1.Das Boot 4-5 Hour version
2.Crimson Tide
3.U-571(-Pretty Good)
Worst One Ive Seen
1.Below(Very Dumb)

[Kloef]

Hmm,the Das Boot (1985) miniseries is my favourite..

Run silent run deep (1958) is a good movie,but i'm a sucker for 50's movies..

Destination Tokyo (1943) is worth the watch,great story.

Icestation Zebra (1968)....very good classic cold war movie.

Crimson tide (1995),good story but i wanna see some fighting darnit!

U-571 ....avoid at all costs,ruins the genre

Hell and high water (1954)...will surprise you with the captivating story.

Down periscope (1996) great comic with the Pampanito..love this one.

Operation Pacific (1951)...John Wayne...need i say more?

Operation Petticoat (1959)..who says sub movies have to be serious?

The Atomic Submarine (1959)...mmm a b-movie...but i like it i guess.

The enemy Below (1957)...fight between u-boat and destroyer,not bad.

The Hunt for Red October (1990) ,great movie!

We Dive at Dawn (1943) war-time production,pretty entertaining.

There are more out there,i'm still looking for some old ones..

@Soundman....nice sig,know the aircraft well..first one-piece fabricated boxdesign,frontrunner for the f-14 and years ahead of its time..too early out of service..

[u-168]

Originally Posted by eljeffo41

Das Boot is a good one. The directors cut runs 209 min,so you really need some time to enjoy it!

Ya i got the directors cut i was sat there for 3 and a bit hours i was thinking do i need more than 1 disk for this movie

U-168

[papa_smurf]

My favourite sub films are:

• We Dive at Dawn
• Above the Waves
• Das Boot

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Capt.Warner

My Top 3
1.Das Boot 4-5 Hour version
2.Crimson Tide
3.U-571(-Pretty Good)
Worst One Ive Seen
1.Below(Very Dumb)

We don't like your kind around these parts, Pilgrim.



I have read many words to describe U-571. Some of them can't be repeated on this forum. But "pretty good" is not one of the more common ones.

[Walter Wolff]

Originally Posted by Highbury

Unfortunately a thread of this type will exhaust all of the movies that are actually good within a few posts, so since it was not mentioned I thought I would throw in an awful one, In Enemy Hands

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316824/

Plot: At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.

Yes, it is as bad as the plot sounds.

I dont get this one is it in ww2 or what? The picture shows a modern boat. Your right looks pretty stupid but William H. Macy is awesome.

Das Boot is the best war movie of all time. submarine or no submarine its the best.

[papa_smurf]

3.U-571(-Pretty Good)

Pretty good?!?!?! I'm shocked that you can compare this to Das Boot

[Sailor Steve]

I'm shocked that people are railing against a post made more than a year-and-a-half ago.

[nikimcbee]

Anybody like "Torpedo Run?" I haven't seen that since high school.

[Platapus]

Torpedo Run is pretty good. There is the hokey plot about him being forced to torpedo a ship with his wife aboard. But if you can get past that, it is not bad.

I thought Glen Ford was a bit over acting but that was his character.

[artao]

I'll have to look up Torpedo Run now

Re: a couple other movies commented on herein ...

U-571 -- c'mon, it's not all that bad. sure, they take SERIOUS liberties with history, but aside from that it's a well-done movie.

Below -- I rather enjoyed this one, tho I wouldn't say it's a "good" movie. Sure, it's not particularly accurate, but then it's not a "straight" sub movie. It's REALLY a horror/thriller that just so happens to take place on a sub. A naval ghost story, if you will, and IMHO it does that rather well.

In Enemy Hands -- OK, this one certainly IS a stinker. W.H.Macy's performance even gets dragged down by those around him. The plot itself has potential I think -- I mean, an outbreak of meningitis on a submarine? Yeah, there's potential there. Utterly fails in acting and directing tho. I couldn't finish it, but I sure tried.

YAY movies

[Kaye T. Bai]

Does the 1990s remake of Godzilla count?

For those of you who haven't watched it, in the movie, a pair of Ohio-class SSBNs chase Godzilla throughout the Hudson River in New York City. Guess who wins?

[krashkart]

I've only watched one older submarine movie so far, and it was Operation Bikini. It might have been better without the singing.


Sort of related; there is a classic movie showing this week called In Which We Serve. Looks like it might be worth a watch. Has anybody seen it?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by artao

U-571 -- c'mon, it's not all that bad. sure, they take SERIOUS liberties with history

And procedure, and reality. It probably is a fine action movie, but as someone who has been in the navy, it's just too much to take. The older WW2 movies may be hokey, but they are ernest, and tell a story as best they can. That movie doesn't even try to get it right, and that's what grates.