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Old 02-08-17, 02:52 PM   #1
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Default Tom Hanks' new convoy war movie: Greyhound

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A naval war movie for a change, set aboard a destroyer... perhaps an updating of "The Cruel Sea"?
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A naval war movie for a change, set aboard a destroyer... perhaps an updating of "The Cruel Sea"?
Or even "The Enemy Below" although perfection is difficult to update.
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Old 02-08-17, 04:35 PM   #3
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Or even "The Enemy Below" although perfection is difficult to update.
Still my favourite, too
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It will be great to see this movie when it opens. Tom Hanks is an excellent actor who can play anything .
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Will be interesting to see if the ship depicted will be a US Navy destroyer or the real-life HMS Greyhound.
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I hope we also get submarine-interior drama as in "The Enemy Below"
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Will be interesting to see if the ship depicted will be a US Navy destroyer or the real-life HMS Greyhound.

Jim, this is a US made movie, so no RN. Royal Navy in WW2? lolz


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A naval war movie for a change, set aboard a destroyer... perhaps an updating of "The Cruel Sea"?
Since Hollywood is too lazy to open a history book and finds it much easier to just re-make old films, I would totally go for a remake of "The Cruel Sea" or "Sink the Bismarck."


If I were a millionaire, I'd love to make a naval movie the old school way, with the miniature models and giant pool (See Toho). I hate the over use of CGI.

How about a movie about Jutland?
The Tang's final patrol?
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Jutland............ Now that would be cool !
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Howzabout The Caine Mutiny? Plenty of inner demons, seafaring and court room drama
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Jutland............ Now that would be cool !

ditto.


I wish they would do October Fury as a movie, about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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ditto.


I wish they would do October Fury as a movie, about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I'll always go back to The Missiles Of October.
Or, as I sometimes call it, The Revenge Of The Character Actors.

Sure, William Devane had to learn to talk like JFK and he deserved top billing, but (a young) Martin Sheen delivers as Bobby and that guy, what's his name?, he always played the high school principal.., well, you get the idea.

While shot for TV in a TV studio (I think it was Lorimar?) on a TV budget, Missiles still holds up. Khrushchev comes off as almost campy in the Three Minute Egg scene and this is the closest I've seen to the REAL Gen. LeMay.

(To paraphrase-)

"Mr. President, just give the order and SAC will reply in full.."
"Against Cuber? Wouldn't that be over kill?"
"Nooo.. Not against Cuba.."




So, great performances across the board AND done on a fairly low budget.
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If I were a millionaire, I'd love to make a naval movie the old school way, with the miniature models and giant pool (See Toho). I hate the over use of CGI.
The giant pool makes a brief appearance in Shin Godzilla when it’s filled with mud and composited over a live action shot. Long live the giant pool.

No rubber suit though
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I would like to see a nice movie about Karl Muller and the Emden.

The problem is that if they made it true to life, no one would believe it.
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The giant pool makes a brief appearance in Shin Godzilla when it’s filled with mud and composited over a live action shot. Long live the giant pool.

No rubber suit though

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