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Focus on my Focus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
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Hey All,
Can anyone here suggest some classic good submarine movies? Currently my list stands at: - Crimson Tide - Hunt for Red October - K-19 - Das Boot - Down Periscope (not a classic but funny none the less) - U-571 Any other classic's I'm missing?
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 6,197
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- Yellow Submarine (1968)
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Mr Impulsive
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Perth NOR.
Posts: 1,309
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U-571 had potential but was let down by the hollywood sausage factory.
Das Boot is excellent but I would of loved some more action (ie torpedoing ships)
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Walking with God
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Haven't got any to add to the list, but The Hunt for Red October is the best submarine movie ever made. Awesome!
Crimson tide was also good, but not as good! K-19 was okay. GK
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V8 Powaah
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Sunshine Coast, QLD
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That about covers it. Though i saw a cool one on SBS like 2 months ago it was South Korean, but suprisingly good.
There are a couple of old black and white ones WW2 vintage British ones you see on ABC from time to time- "Above Us the Waves" was pretty good with the mining of the Tirpitz. "Run Silent, Run Deep" was an American one from the 50s, that I could really get into. I also remember one about the Dutch submarine during WW2, cant remember the name but it was from the 40s.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Vic/NSW
Posts: 2,687
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Don't watch Das Boot until you have read the book.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 104
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How about Under Siege?
It made me laugh so hard. If you watch all the shots of Steven Seagal, they only show him from the chest up, or he constantly has something covering up his big gut ![]() qs |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sunnyvale - Housing Commission.
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What about this classic...The enemy Below.
Robert Mitchum and Kurt Jurgens. (spelling?) Classic US Escort Destroyer vs U-Boat. You got Crimson Tide at the top of yr list there, and they talked about this movie on the bus before boarding the sub. Read the book for Das Boot, thats well worth it and watch the remastered digital version in german with subs on if you need em. You really get a feel for the movie, especially when watched in its native language. This film was made in German and dubbed to english. Its long as hell, but is much more realistic as to how life really was for them back then. It wasnt all sinkin destroyers an freighters an gettin depth charged etc. The Atlantic is a huge ocean, and convoys were sent as clandestinly as possible so u-boats had to find convoys first. No satellite radars etc then. The best they had was primitive low band ground/sea level based radar for close up action and the radio for longer range action.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Perth
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Das Boot is the best, but another goody is Murphys War with Peter O'Toole.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Kirrawee NSW
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Everything about subs fascinates me.....especially Cold War and later nuclear subs.......
I was watching a doco on the dismantling of an old Russian Typhoon class a few nights ago (at 173 meters in length, and 4 storeys high with TWO nuclear reactors.... the biggest ever built).....man...what a job :yeees: Did anybody see the doco "Titanic's Nuclear secrets" with Robert Ballard telling how he had to search the wrecks of 2 sunken US subs?...... ![]()
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Focus on my Focus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
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Hmm... Didn't even know Das Boot was a book made into a movie. Thats another thing I'll have to read now. lol.
Yeah subs are fascinating to me and I've had the chance to look around the Collins Class subs a couple of times. It's certainly tempting me to move to Perth and join the Sub Squadron.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Country Victoria
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Gray Lady Down, 1978- Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Ronny Cox
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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I've seen it 17 times my friend Guido Hatzis anyone?
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www.argonautica.com.au
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Das Boot (original German edit) is the best.
(Impressive list of movies though)
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Regular Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Das Boot is still used by Audio Specialists to demonstrate 5.1 sound.
You can hear the rivets popping and bouncing around the room. |
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BF XR6, oh yeah!!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Melton, Vic
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The Hunt for Red October would have to be the best in my opinion, and Crimson Tide is pretty good as well.
Ooooh oooh, and that episode of The Simpsons where Homer is in charge of the sub, that was pretty cool too. Although maybe not quite in the same league.
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Tribal Elder
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Yarrambat
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They tell me Linda Lovelace once went down on a submarine, but thats a different story................
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Mandurah W.A.
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Its not a movie but google U534. If you like subs you will like this.
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If you dont mind Black and White try "Above us the Waves" although this one is about midget subs in WW2
(My Dad was in the Royal Navy so I had to watch it when I was a little tacker ![]()
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Pity the fool
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Wait Awhile
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You guys have all failed to pick up Operation Petticoat.
THE most hilarious sub movie. Set in WW2, involved a buggered diesel submarine painted pink. Had Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in it. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth W.A
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Submerged.
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What about Going Under where the Sub Standard was made part out of a 57 chevvy??
That was another waccy one.
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Then there's the Sci Fi TV series:
Seaquest DSV and the Thunderbird Puppets in Stingray. ![]()
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Focus on my Focus
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
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Wow... so sad to see those subs like that.
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