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susquesus
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 Posted - January 24 2005 : 4:39:37 PM
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Poll Question:
Of the below listed submarine films, which is your favorite? Why? Who is your favorite sub commander? I know I left out some good ones, there are just too many. After you vote let me know about any favorites you would have added to the list. Any votes for WORST sub movie?
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Doc M
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 Posted - January 24 2005 : 6:05:03 PM
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Hunt for Red October definitely!! Loved Sean Connery, Sam Neill,
Scott Glenn, Tim Curry...Alec Baldwin, ehhh. If they had stuck
Harrison Ford in there it would have been perfecto. Also loved
Crimson Tide. I remember touring a submarine -- I think it was at New
London, CT. -- and remember being shocked at how tiny the living
quarters were! Sort of like below decks on the old sailing ships.
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Posted - January 24 2005 : 11:58:53 PM
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Have to concur with Doc M on this one, Red October was a definite hit and the men were lovely!  
I would agree too, that their living quarters were/are definitely claustrophobic! My DH went into a Russian sub that was on display in Chicago and barely made it through because of his size!
On a more somber note, I can't help but think about the pour souls in the Miramack (sp?) I have no idea now how those men did and still stand it! They are brave lads!
Ps. As far as boat movies, I always loved Operation Petticoat
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Fitz Williams
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 02:26:10 AM
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I can't help but think about the pour souls in the Miramack (sp?)
Do you mean the Merrimack? US ship sunk at Hampton Roads? Raised and rebuilt as the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia? |
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Kaylynn44
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 08:05:12 AM
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Altogether now....We all live in a yellow submarine.....
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I liked "Yellow Submarine", but my favorite submarine movie is "The Incredible Mr. Limpet." I love any old Don Knotts movies. 
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| Definitely "The Hunt for Red October" (though with the caveat that I haven't yet seen "Das Boot"). Stunning opening sequence ("cold ... and hard"); great soundtrack; excellent, charismatic performance by Sean Connery (Alec Baldwin was tolerable); good script ("No papers?" "No papers."); and as Doc M points out, a wonderful supporting cast, especially Courtney Vance as Jonesy, the music-loving sonar expert, and Scott Glenn as the officer who fits Captain Ramius's definition of a "buckaroo." My second choice would be "Crimson Tide," which has many of the same strengths as "Red October." I should also point out, in case there are any women reading this who think submarine movies are boring, that it stars Denzel AND Viggo. |
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 08:43:04 AM
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I have to agree totally on "Red October!" That movie is spellbinding and I watch it every chance I get on TV.
Close second... any old (40s - 50s era) WWII movie with submarine action, preferrably with John Wayne in it! 
I, too, have been inside subs several times. I think I have mentioned before that every June the Navy brings some small ships and subs to the Portland, Oregon Rose Festival. They dock along the sea wall on the Willamette River, right in downtown Portland and open for tours. Or if their draft is too deep, they moor out on the mighty Columbia, just a few miles away. My Dad's love of ships took us there every year and I loved it! All those cute sailors, you know!
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 12:28:53 PM
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Originally posted by Fitz Williams
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I can't help but think about the pour souls in the Miramack (sp?)
Do you mean the Merrimack? US ship sunk at Hampton Roads? Raised and rebuilt as the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia?
Yes, I believe so. (I apologize for butchering the spelling) Was that the Civil War sub? I am a bit ignorant about some of these things.  |
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Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
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Doc M
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 12:55:11 PM
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Yellow Submarine!!!! ROFLMAO!! Thanks a lot, Rich! Now I have to wipe
coffee patooies from my monitor!!
I think I can safely say that Yellow Submarine, along with Kubrick's
2001, is one of those movies I've never seen straight...and it should
probably stay that way!
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 2:57:29 PM
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Methinks if'n there weren't so many women here voting for the eye candy, "The Hunt for Red October" wouldn't be doing so well in the poll.
I for one voted for "Das Boot," a movie about ugly ordinary men, fighting extraordinary circomestances. Its ugly and its real, and there's no happy ending!
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Originally posted by caitlinOn a more somber note, I can't help but think about the pour souls in the Miramack (sp?) I have no idea now how those men did and still stand it! They are brave lads!
You might be thinking of the C.S.S. Hunley, the first submarine to successfully sink a ship. It sank twice in its brief career, the second time, on its way back from sinking a Union ship. All hands on board perished. It was recently discovered and raised from the bottom. |
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Doc M
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 3:25:40 PM
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"It's ugly, it's real, and there's no happy ending."
Yep, that would pretty much sum up why it's not a movie I
would revel in during these bleak days of mid-winter, CT!
*snort! snort!* Not "eye candy" I'm enthralled with so much
as the story -- it's an old-fashioned rip-snorter. Same with
Crimson Tide. Oh, and I just remember another WWII movie I
loved ... the Caine Mutiny! Great stuff!!
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 5:20:35 PM
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 7:03:52 PM
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Yellow Submarine!!!! ROFLMAO!! Thanks a lot, Rich! Now I have to wipe
coffee patooies from my monitor!!
Doc,
I think that you have to be a real Beatles fan to have enjoyed Yellow Submarine.
I have never see "Hunt for Red October." I might have to check that out since I love Sean Connery. 
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 7:14:06 PM
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Originally posted by CT•Ranger
You might be thinking of the C.S.S. Hunley, the first submarine to successfully sink a ship. It sank twice in its brief career, the second time, on its way back from sinking a Union ship. All hands on board perished. It was recently discovered and raised from the bottom.
The sub I was thinking of was the Civil War one that they finally found. My husband claimed it was the Merrimack, but now that me pea brain thinks..it may have been the C.S.S. Hunley! Arg, I'll just stop embarrassing myself here..... |
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 9:57:02 PM
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Originally posted by caitlin
Ps. As far as boat movies, I always loved Operation Petticoat
I was wondering where Operation Petticoat was as I looked through the choices (*we all live in a pinkish submarine*... No?). LOL I voted for Red October too, just because I like it best and well, Sean Connery. Second choice from the list would be Destination Tokyo, gotta love a good Cary Grant movie. :D |
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susquesus
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 Posted - January 25 2005 : 11:00:59 PM
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I had to go with "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". I'm a huge Nemo fan. Loved Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre as well. I was also a fan of the Harryhausen film, "The Mysterious Island" which closes the story of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. I'm with WW on the whole 1940's-1950's WW2 sub films, especially anything with John Wayne. |
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Posted - January 25 2005 : 11:18:29 PM
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It definently has to be the Hunt for Red October!
Ah yes, it was candy for the eyes. Do I detect some jealousy CT Ranger? Ha Ha!
I have to say I like the Beatles too. The Yellow Submarine...
what a classic!
Up periscope was funny too. |
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Posted - January 27 2005 : 12:04:23 PM
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Yep, the answer sure is the Hunley, which got dredged up off the bottom of the Charleston harbor a few years ago and now has sparked a mini-war of its own because one of our state senators wants four million $$$$ that the state already doesn't have to build a museum to hold the Hunley, even though it's already in a perfectly decent storage facility...
You know the joke we have in South Carolina about the Hunley?
Q: Know what bumper sticker they found on the Hunley?
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| Well, folks, I now have to concede that CT Ranger is right: Das Boot is the greatest submarine movie ever made. Maybe the greatest WWII movie ever made. Maybe the greatest WAR MOVIE ever made! Absolutely gripping from start to finish; you can never, ever, relax and think you know what's coming next. It's not as unrelentingly bleak as I expected, though; there's a fair amount of humor now and then. (Nor is there a total absence of eye candy -- the captain, played by Jurgen Prochnow, is very nice.) I don't think I could say that it's now my FAVORITE sub movie, in the sense of a movie that you love and watch over and over. That would still be Red October. And I don't know when, if ever, I'll watch Das Boot again. But after seeing it, it will now be very obvious that Red October and the others are just movies -- really good movies, but movies and not life as it was actually lived on a submarine in wartime. Thanks for convincing me to watch it, CT Ranger! |
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Posted - March 02 2005 : 9:52:00 PM
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Originally posted by Bookworm
Well, folks, I now have to concede that CT Ranger is right: Das Boot is the greatest submarine movie ever made. Maybe the greatest WWII movie ever made. Maybe the greatest WAR MOVIE ever made! Absolutely gripping from start to finish; you can never, ever, relax and think you know what's coming next.
I'm with you both, CT Ranger and Bookworm---Das Boot is the best! It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. It's also interesting to see which way the viewer's sympathies go-----do you want the U-Boat men/Nazis to survive, or to get killed? |
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| I loved the Hunt for Red October. Not only was it a great movie but it also reminds me of being a little girl sitting on my daddy's lap and trying my hardest to figure out what was going on in the movie! Needless to say I had to watch it again when I was older hee hee! |
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| Look like the "eye candy" is winning. For me, Das Boot is the best submarine movie, hands down. Interestingly, it was filmed in chronological order, so when the crew looks so ragged,filthy, & hollow-eyed towards the end, it's because they really were! Plus the soundtrack is excellent! |
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Posted - December 13 2006 : 12:13:43 PM
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| Das Boot, - was there another sub movie made somewhere? ... ;) |
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| U-571 I voted for since I have not seen any of the others. Matthew McConaghey was so cute in that one. Talk about eye-candy. Some other cuties too in this one. |
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