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[Nico09]

Anyone watching below?

[oscar19681]

I did.

[kylania]

[TheBlobThing]

It's 4 am here, so that post just seemed very creepy... you know, in the dark

Edit: yay! Post 1-2-3! It's the little things in life that counts... Okay, I'll get some sleep.

[BlackSpot]

Good to see Dadaism is alive and sheep tank

[Nico09]

I quite like the film, obvious but ok all the same http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276816/

[Zedi]

Took my time to watch it now, it's pretty good. Never was interested to see a ww2 american sub interior, but if they were as is in the movie.. hm, that look more than an underwater luxury cruise ship than a battle ship. No wonder that some people demand a wardroom in SH5

Was weird to see a german destroyer to hunt an american sub in the Atlantic Also, was a bit creepy the way he did.. with hooks. Never saw or heard about something like that, this was new for me. Anyway, nice movie, liked it.

[Nico09]

Not sure if they used the hooks in reality. As for the sub interior they made it larger, apparently for ease of filming, although that was the only difference everything else is allegedly realistic.

[Nico71]

Hooks were used in WW1. Not sure about WW2.

[Onkel Neal]

Saw that film a while back, was really impressed with the fleet boat set they built. Now if they would only film a serious WWII sub movie using it, like Thunder Below or Wahoo, we could have an American Das Boot.

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Saw that film a while back, was really impressed with the fleet boat set they built. Now if they would only film a serious WWII sub movie using it, like Thunder Below or Wahoo, we could have an American Das Boot.

That very nearly happened to quote Wikipedia...

"Salerno's first feature screenplay was the World War II submarine thriller 'Thunder Below' for Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Pictures based on the book by Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Eugene B. Fluckey."

Unfortunately although the script was completed the project sadly sunk without trace. Maybe if Spielberg/HBO's "The Pacific" is a success we could hope for a ressurection. Let's hope for a TV series rather than a movie though.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Unfortunately although the script was completed the project sadly sunk without trace.

The rumour, or internet fact is that U-571 was already in production and Dreamworks didn't want to go head to head with another sub movie. So, another reason to dislike U-571 then.

[jerm138]

I liked it a lot. One of my favorite sub movies. I thought the crew acted very realistically. Not like the typical Hollywood submarine garbage. They were dirty, ugly, foul-mouthed... just like the real thing!

Also, anyone using TMO will recognize some of the dialogue.

I also liked...

*possible spoiler here, stop reading if you haven't seen it*

...that they never really confirmed that it was a ghost.... so that a really skeptical person could still believe that it was just a major coincidence spurred by a widespread psychological breakdown. Very cool.

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

The rumour, or internet fact is that U-571 was already in production and Dreamworks didn't want to go head to head with another sub movie. So, another reason to dislike U-571 then.

Ow what a mega fail movie was that. Germans are already used to be threated as retards in every Hollywood movies, but to drag the Enigma success on the american boat even if is a fiction movie, epic fail. Sadly, many americans are very convinced that they were the first to get their hands on the enigma code and when you ask them to prove it, they point out U-571. It's a shame.

[janh]

Originally Posted by Magnum

Ow what a mega fail movie was that. Germans are already used to be threated as retards in every Hollywood movies, but to drag the Enigma success on the american boat even if is a fiction movie, epic fail. Sadly, many americans are very convinced that they were the first to get their hands on the enigma code and when you ask them to prove it, they point out U-571. It's a shame.

But you can't ask an average American about (European) history, especially about a very particular event therein that basically only and expert on this era would know... I have had hilarious experiences with that even at Harvard, and I would have expected my students to be a bit smarter than the average... But on the contrary you can't ask a European about the American Civil War either (though even that seemed to be quite an unkown variable here...).