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09-11-12, 08:54 AM | #31 |
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I may be mistaken, but I believe they actually built a fully functioning (or possibly just surface running) U-boat for Das Boot. Along with a scale model for many of the submerged scenes. At least I think that's what I saw in the special features section on my copy.
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09-11-12, 09:17 AM | #32 |
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09-11-12, 10:38 AM | #33 | ||
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Another film was shooting at the same time as Das Boot - Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lucas convinced Petersen's team to lend the floating deck and conning tower, and it can be seen in that film. In the process of filming, they actually managed to successfully break it and it sank in its dock. The Das Boot crew patched it up just barely enough to float for the final scene, in which it sinks. So if anyone asks, the film's U-96 was actually sunk by Indiana Jones and Steven Spielberg edit: from Wikipedia - Quote:
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09-11-12, 02:26 PM | #34 |
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I remember seeing a b-movie on tv a while ago call akula. The (new) russian submarine that went rouge and a scantly clad nurse who was captured took up arm with her super strong body-builder rescuer and spent 90 minutes killing russians on a near sci-fi sub.... the sub even had windows with light blue water outside....
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09-11-12, 03:28 PM | #35 |
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Hey! You leave Dolph outta this!
The Swedes will riot.
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09-11-12, 03:41 PM | #36 |
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What kills me is the fact that 90% of sub movies have the subs going around with their active sonar constantly blaring. Every time there's a scene with them inside the sub, there's ALWAYS that *Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping!*
Yet they still manage to be stealthy somehow.
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09-11-12, 05:10 PM | #38 |
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Excellent observation.
But the pinging, and tensed faces, as they stare to the sky, makes for great drama for the movie watching rubes, but makes anyone who knows anything cringe. You have to remember, we are simmers. We strive for a game, where you die on your first patrol. We strive for a game to get harder as time passes, not easier as you upgrade past your enemies. We are realists, and feel slighted when things are not represented properly. (U571? America found the Enigma? lulz) So barring the subsimmers bible, (Das Boot) there is very few good sub movies. Alot of us try to compare all sub flicks to that, and it is kinda unfair.
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09-11-12, 05:15 PM | #39 | |
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09-11-12, 06:12 PM | #40 | |
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09-11-12, 08:51 PM | #41 | |
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09-11-12, 09:30 PM | #42 |
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I have to agree, being an avid Tom Clancy reader, this movie was not done well, too little background character development, and the movie gave an entirely different vibe from the book. It seemed to hurry the plot too much IMHO. The movie telegraphed the plot twist at the end, while it blindsided you in the book. But the worse? Nah, I would put this as one of the better, though nowhere near the best.
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Personally, I think "The Hunt For Red October" (the film), is probably one of the most overrated subfilms of all time. Not to mention that I'm not too fond of Alec Baldwin. Quote:
I guess you got to cut them some slack, it's a low budget film. They probably only could get access to a WWII SSK at best. But yeah, electric motors on a 688i? And a depth charge? That's just inexcusable. Quote:
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09-12-12, 01:40 PM | #44 |
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Worst U boat film: Das Boot 2, about a (???!!!) Monsun boat, a type XXI (or so...), in Pacific waters, with japanese and german crew...Agh!
"A few weeks before the end of the war Lieutenant Commander Gerber has been ordered to sail to Japan carrying a load of Uranium oxide, which is one of the key components to build an atomic bomb, Gerber will also have to take passengers, amongst them two japanese navy officers, a fanatical military judge, and a man who is involved in the conspiracy to assasin Hitler. To make the journey even more dangerous a spy in the U-boat´s base in Kristiansand, Norway has sent a message warning the British about the U-boat." (from IMDB). The story of the LTC Gerber´s boat is based on the true story of Wolfgang Hirschfeld´s book "U-boat Diary" although much dramatized. Regards. Fitzcarraldo
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09-12-12, 04:20 PM | #45 |
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I Never heard of that movie Full Fathom five...
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