Upcoming WW2 Sub Movie "USS Seaviper" - Page 3

SteamWake · 02-14-08, 01:25 PM

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Besides Schindler's List name one american WWII movie that was actually a good movie? I'll watch Das Boot for the 100th time.

"Run Silent Run Deep", "Midway", "Tora Tora Tora" (USA/Japan?), "Patton", "Battle of the Bulge", "Guns of Navarone", "Saving Private Ryan" (I liked it), and a few others I can't remember the names of were all, IMO, good movies.

Bridge over the river Kwai, Dirty dozen, Whats the one with clint eastwood, Dom Delouise, and others ?

"Kelly's Heros"?

Or are you thinking of another one? I can't remember if Dom was in KH.

There are quite a few good U.S. WWII movies people have mentioned. I couldn't even think of them all.

IIRC, "Battle Hell" was another good one.

Yes Kellys heros while extremly far fetched was a good movie with rich charecters.

I still recall the german soldier in the tank "Gasolinas all over zee place"

SteamWake · 02-14-08, 01:26 PM

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the plot sounds OK, until you get to the "lost brother" drama. what a crock!

and if you think there was a good minute in the film "Pearl Habor," let alone an entire hour, I have some land I want to sell you. almost nothing about that film was accurate.

Tora Tora Tora on the other hand was pretty good.

NefariousKoel · 02-14-08, 01:47 PM

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Another movie I never see talked about, but I thought was brilliant was a movie called 'When Trumpets Fade'. It's more drama than action, but damn this was a great film. It follows an American infantryman who is treated like a coward for being the only survivor of his platoon... but the truth is vastly different.

Great flick!

I tracked it down at TigerDirect & bought it a couple years ago. Great movie set in the Hurtgen Forest & very gritty. Not much Hollywood BS in it at all. It was made back in the 90s, I believe. Oddly, a lot of the credits include a good number of eastern europeans. HBO movie. Highly recommended.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135706/

howler93 · 02-14-08, 03:30 PM

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Besides Schindler's List name one american WWII movie that was actually a good movie? I'll watch Das Boot for the 100th time.

I'd recommend Letters From Iwo Jima, directed by Clint Eastwood. Far better than its counterpart, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima tells the story of the battle from the Japanese point of view. It's gripping to the end. One scene that will forever be etched in my mind: A Japanese soldier emerges from his cave after the days of being barraged and looks out to sea. As far as the eye can see, the ocean is completely FILLED with American ships. I can't imagine that terror...

Howler

Schlippittz · 02-14-08, 06:06 PM

Hey, I just got assigned to a new boat in game, and it's the USS Drum.

AkbarGulag · 02-14-08, 09:44 PM

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One I saw recently on DVD was When Trumpets Fade. I gagged at what a German bullet did to a US soldier's lower jaw.

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I tracked it down at TigerDirect & bought it a couple years ago

TigerDirect... okies.. I couldn't find it at ANY video stores here in NZ. Thanks for the heads up Nefarious.

SurfnSea · 02-14-08, 10:20 PM

Kelly's Heroes did not have Dom Deluise in it; you might be thinking of Don Rickles (Crapgame). I like the movie especially Donald Sutherland's Oddball a 60's wasted hippie like character; that would be the perfect sub commander ("Always with the nega-tive waves..."). The movie had a ton of well known actors in it.

Captain Vlad · 02-16-08, 05:53 PM

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. I like the movie especially Donald Sutherland's Oddball a 60's wasted hippie like character; that would be the perfect sub commander ("Always with the nega-tive waves...").

Man...now I wanna see a sub movie like that...

*torpedoes whang harmlessly off the side of a 10,000 ton tanker*
"Who was thinking the bad thoughts? Who was sending out all the negative waves?!?"

Nisgeis · 02-18-08, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by walrusbomb

the plot sounds OK, until you get to the "lost brother" drama. what a crock!

and if you think there was a good minute in the film "Pearl Habor," let alone an entire hour, I have some land I want to sell you. almost nothing about that film was accurate.

Ben Affleck's charachter crashes his Spitfire during the day and then half way through the film you see what happened to him. He swims up and breaks the surface when it's night time. You've got to respect someone that can stay under water for that long and not drown.

Honkas · 02-18-08, 07:38 AM

"The Bridge on the River Kwai" is actually a british/UK film - but still awesome!

XLjedi · 02-18-08, 08:56 AM

AMC played Letters from Iwo Jima the other night without commercial interruption... it was excellent!

jetthelooter · 02-19-08, 12:30 PM

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AMC played Letters from Iwo Jima the other night without commercial interruption... it was excellent!

i started watching it, might have been a good movie if i didnt have to read it. i despise movies i have to read the subtitles to know whats going on.

as for this new sub movie sounds like another over dramaticized pile of poo like the latest pearl harbor remake. looks from the description of the plot every bad hollywood cliche there has ever been.

why not just tell the true story of WHAT HAPPENED!!! real life in WW2 during the battles was enough!!

Schlippittz · 02-19-08, 01:54 PM

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i started watching it, might have been a good movie if i didnt have to read it. i despise movies i have to read the subtitles to know whats going on.

I'm the opposite. I'd so much rather have subtitles than dubbing. If I tuned in to Stalingrad and they started speaking English, I'd just turn it right off.

Ivan Putski · 02-19-08, 02:27 PM

"Between Heaven, and Hell" Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen, Terry Moore. "A Helmet for my pillow" was another good one. "Beach Red",

399nkov · 02-19-08, 09:16 PM

The Enemy Below, Torpedo Run, and Up Periscope are a few I remember seeing in the early 60's. They were good at that point in time.

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Schlippittz Mate Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 53 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hey, I just got assigned to a new boat in game, and it's the USS Drum. __________________

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XLjedi Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Palm Beach, Florida Posts: 1,243 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 8	AMC played Letters from Iwo Jima the other night without commercial interruption... it was excellent! __________________

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Ivan Putski Captain Join Date: May 2005 Location: Memphis, Tn. U.S.A. Posts: 548 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	"Between Heaven, and Hell" Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen, Terry Moore. "A Helmet for my pillow" was another good one. "Beach Red", __________________ " Is He?..........Yeah..........Nothing Moving, But His Watch."

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SurfnSea Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 137 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Kelly's Heroes did not have Dom Deluise in it; you might be thinking of Don Rickles (Crapgame). I like the movie especially Donald Sutherland's Oddball a 60's wasted hippie like character; that would be the perfect sub commander ("Always with the nega-tive waves..."). The movie had a ton of well known actors in it.

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Honkas Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 9 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	"The Bridge on the River Kwai" is actually a british/UK film - but still awesome!

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399nkov Bosun Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manvel Texas Posts: 62 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	The Enemy Below, Torpedo Run, and Up Periscope are a few I remember seeing in the early 60's. They were good at that point in time.