Prob the worst submarine movie I've seen....

Bubblehead1980 · 12-07-10, 08:27 PM

Last night I was browsing the movie channels for war movies and noticed a few, mostly the usual but noticed on TCM that a movie called "Submarine Raider" was on, plot sounded ok, so I set the DVR to record it.Watched it a little while ago.

I LOL'd at parts of it, movie was very corny, story highly unrealistic.Add in things like a lone IJN carrier, no escorts or other ships.Single in line engine fighters(Japanese Navy certainly didnt deploy carrier based in line fighters in 1941 or ever.I know the IJAAF had the "Tony" but not the Nacy and esp in 41.The son of the Admiral failed to sink the ship, so he sent out a pilot who failed to, who then committed suicide in a lomost comical manner.The guy did like a joyful leap off the side of the ship, it was pretty corny.I know the movie was made in 42 and all but man, it was bad even for the time.Other comical scenes were the use of a lone 50 cal machine gun to fend off a plane attack.The manner in which the Captain ordered a "crash dive" lol The way the crew talked to one another etc lacked realism.Movie was hollywood, can tell the Navy prob had little or nothing to do with this movie.

Prob the interesting part was the sub was supposed to be an S-boat.The exterior scenes were obviously models but it looked like an S-Boat.The interior may have been real, looked like an S boat mostly.

anyone else seen this movie?

A plot description from IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035391/plotsummary

12-07-10, 08:27 PM	#1
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,100 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	Prob the worst submarine movie I've seen.... Last night I was browsing the movie channels for war movies and noticed a few, mostly the usual but noticed on TCM that a movie called "Submarine Raider" was on, plot sounded ok, so I set the DVR to record it.Watched it a little while ago. I LOL'd at parts of it, movie was very corny, story highly unrealistic.Add in things like a lone IJN carrier, no escorts or other ships.Single in line engine fighters(Japanese Navy certainly didnt deploy carrier based in line fighters in 1941 or ever.I know the IJAAF had the "Tony" but not the Nacy and esp in 41.The son of the Admiral failed to sink the ship, so he sent out a pilot who failed to, who then committed suicide in a lomost comical manner.The guy did like a joyful leap off the side of the ship, it was pretty corny.I know the movie was made in 42 and all but man, it was bad even for the time.Other comical scenes were the use of a lone 50 cal machine gun to fend off a plane attack.The manner in which the Captain ordered a "crash dive" lol The way the crew talked to one another etc lacked realism.Movie was hollywood, can tell the Navy prob had little or nothing to do with this movie. Prob the interesting part was the sub was supposed to be an S-boat.The exterior scenes were obviously models but it looked like an S-Boat.The interior may have been real, looked like an S boat mostly. anyone else seen this movie? A plot description from IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035391/plotsummary