Good Sub Movies

[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?

Originally Posted by 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?

In Which We Serve was loosely based on the destroyer service, in the "K" Class HMS Kelly, of then Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King and post-war last Viceroy of India. At the time the movie was made Mountbatten was Commander, Combined Operations. It is doubtful anybody moved up the chain of command as fast as Lord Louis, a junior Captain (D) in 1939 and Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia in 1945. Mountbatten had a huge ego and was often on the set to ensure that everybody knew that the movie reflected his early war career.

Author and the movie's star Noel Coward was a good bud of Lord Louis and between the two of them they cranked out this classic piece of propaganda in early 1942, a time when things did not look too good for the Allies although with America now in the war, the future was brighter than the previous year. If wartime propaganda flicks or the Royal Navy is your thing, In Which We Serve is probably worth a look.

[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.