you'd never guess
I love submarine movies.
What?
I do!
Okay, not Das Boot - that one is too damn sad, but a slew of others, starting with:
Run Silent Run Deep
Clarke Gable and Burt Lancaster. Is the captain crazy? Will they make it through the infamous Bunko Straits? Isn't Bunko some kind of Korean tile game?
U571
Tagline: You won't come up for air until it's over!
Jon Bon Jovi is the chief engineer!
The Hunt For Red October
Sean Connery is great. And, I just have to say, in the Alec Baldwin/Kim Bassinger divorce, I happen to think that it was Kim who was batshit crazy. I like Alec Baldwin and he's great in this movie. I don't get how Russian submarine crews speak English, or what the hell is going on with that terrible blue screen at the end, but it's great.
Crimson Tide
Another crazy captain. Denzel is great, although I am one of the few women on earth who doesn't faint at the sight of him. This one has a lot of good cameos.
Ice Station Zebra
This one doesn't count. Too much action above the water.
What?
I do!
Okay, not Das Boot - that one is too damn sad, but a slew of others, starting with:
Run Silent Run Deep
Clarke Gable and Burt Lancaster. Is the captain crazy? Will they make it through the infamous Bunko Straits? Isn't Bunko some kind of Korean tile game?
U571
Tagline: You won't come up for air until it's over!
Jon Bon Jovi is the chief engineer!
The Hunt For Red October
Sean Connery is great. And, I just have to say, in the Alec Baldwin/Kim Bassinger divorce, I happen to think that it was Kim who was batshit crazy. I like Alec Baldwin and he's great in this movie. I don't get how Russian submarine crews speak English, or what the hell is going on with that terrible blue screen at the end, but it's great.
Crimson Tide
Another crazy captain. Denzel is great, although I am one of the few women on earth who doesn't faint at the sight of him. This one has a lot of good cameos.
Ice Station Zebra
This one doesn't count. Too much action above the water.
Comments
In the bedroom.
I think he was hoping it counted as foreplay.
Ah, No.
I lasted through 20 minutes, then a fierce gotta-go-home headache hit.
cary grant, captain of a sub.
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YELLOW SUBMARINE anyone????!!!!
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Bunco is some bizarre bingo-like game, i thought? My SIL plays it. I think the tile game is mahjong...?
Movie about the first submarine made during the Civil War. Sad but interesting.
I've never thought about submarines as a class of movies before.
just thought i would add that.
the enemy below isn't bad either. fyi
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the site I got the info on Run Silent was WRONG...
World War II United States Navy submarine Commander "Rich" Richardson, (played by Gable) has an obsession with the Japanese destroyer that sank his previous boat. He is single-mindedly training the crew of his new boat, the USS Nerka, to return to the Bungo Straits (Bungo Suido in the book) and sink that destroyer, captained by the crafty ex-sub, now destroyer captain, Bungo Pete. The executive officer, Lieutenant Jim Bledsoe (played by Lancaster), is worried about the safety of his boat and his crew. They are mystified as to how Tokyo Rose can identify the crew of the boat, they later realize the Japanese are collecting their garbage.
Run Silent, Run Deep has a plot similar to Moby-Dick, with Richardson as Ahab and the Japanese destroyer as the whale.
And know, there's a whole league of you. Maybe 20,000 leagues of you...ahahahaha!
the ballistic missile submarine,
Red October.
Who DOESN'T love that movie?
Baldwin should have stuck with the Ryan character. Not that Harrison Ford isn't a good Jack Ryan, but it would have been interesting to see what Baldwin could have done with the two other Ryan movies.
My husband has a fondness for submarine flicks also...he also reccomends The Enemy Below.....
Happy New Year! Hope all is well with Youngest!
A German U-Boat WAS driven to the surface in the the Atlantic in 1941 by three BRITISH warships. "Bulldog" and "Broadway" were two of them. Crews managed to capture an Enigma machine intact, thus enabling the Royal Navy to decipher U-Boat radio transmissions.
This was at least eight months before the USA was bombed into the war at Pearl Harbour....no matter what Hollywood says!