Best Training Movie for "Saturday Night at Sea"

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DM

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One of the recent traditions of the Royal Navy whilst at sea is settling down in the wardroom ona Saturday night with a pint or two of beer and some ice cream to watch a film. The old black and white naval war films (and one or two WAFU exceptions like "The Dambusters") are fondly referred to as training movies (required viewing for the younger officers!) They do also serve as a very good introduction to the naval environment for the ab initio naval wargamer :)

Do you have any favourite "training movies"?

Mine is, I think, "In Which We Serve", followed very closely by "Battle of the River Plate".
 
DM said:
One of the recent traditions of the Royal Navy whilst at sea is settling down in the wardroom ona Saturday night with a pint or two of beer and some ice cream to watch a film. The old black and white naval war films (and one or two WAFU exceptions like "The Dambusters") are fondly referred to as training movies (required viewing for the younger officers!) They do also serve as a very good introduction to the naval environment for the ab initio naval wargamer :)

Do you have any favourite "training movies"?

Mine is, I think, "In Which We Serve", followed very closely by "Battle of the River Plate".
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Well I strongly recommend/suggest/coerce my students into watching any naval films. But my favourites would have to be "Battle of the River Plate" and “Hunt for the Red October”.
 
DM said:
Do you have any favourite "training movies"?

Mine is, I think, "In Which We Serve", followed very closely by "Battle of the River Plate".
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Slightly off-topic, but at a SF convention in Glasgow many years ago, they showed some Open University broadcasts late at night, on a variety of subjects such as "3-dimensional vector plotting", "Treatment and diagnosis of vacuum effects", etc. Most people ignored them as a bit too technical. They made a mistake.

Someone had taped Babylon 5 episodes in the US and we got to see them about 6 weeks early :lol: :twisted:

Wulf
 
Jellicoe said:
Reaverman said:
Which is neither Black'n White, or anything historical :P
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Absolutely not :D , but it has some good scenes and classic lines.
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Yeah. There are so many good lines in that:-

"Dmitri, you are afraid of our fleet? Well you should be. Personally i give us one chance in three." 8)



Surprised nobody has added "The Cruel Sea" to the list yet-

snorkers good-oh!
 
Lord David the Denied said:
U-571 (if memory serves that's the right number) was a pretty decent naval yarn. They even credited the people who really captured Enigma materials at the end.
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I hope you are being sarcastic dude!
 
Lord David the Denied said:
U-571 (if memory serves that's the right number) was a pretty decent naval yarn. They even credited the people who really captured Enigma materials at the end.
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:shock: :shock: oooooooh deary, deary me. That movie was just about the biggest load of <expletive deleted> I think I have ever seen. And the biggest example of america making up a load of crap in an attempt to claim they pretty much won WWII on their own... I dont care if they mentioned the truth in the credits, might it not have been an idea to, oh I don't know, do the movie with a british sub?

Sigh.

On another note, Red October is indeed a superb movie but I would suggest it wouldnt really count as a 'traning movie' in the sense implied here.

U-357 on the other hand doesnt even count as a movie. It counts as a pile of arse.
 
Locutus9956 said:
:shock: :shock: oooooooh deary, deary me. That movie was just about the biggest load of <expletive deleted> I think I have ever seen. And the biggest example of america making up a load of crap in an attempt to claim they pretty much won WWII on their own... I dont care if they mentioned the truth in the credits, might it not have been an idea to, oh I don't know, do the movie with a british sub?

Sigh.

On another note, Red October is indeed a superb movie but I would suggest it wouldnt really count as a 'traning movie' in the sense implied here.

U-357 on the other hand doesnt even count as a movie. It counts as a pile of arse.
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Why would there have been a British submarine in the film? It was about a US Navy crew who captured a German U-Boat and a load of Enigma materials. As a piece of historic fiction it wasn't bad. Totally fabricated, not based on real events, etc, with proper historical notes at the end. What more do you want?
 
Lord David the Denied said:
Locutus9956 said:
:shock: :shock: oooooooh deary, deary me. That movie was just about the biggest load of <expletive deleted> I think I have ever seen. And the biggest example of america making up a load of crap in an attempt to claim they pretty much won WWII on their own... I dont care if they mentioned the truth in the credits, might it not have been an idea to, oh I don't know, do the movie with a british sub?

Sigh.

On another note, Red October is indeed a superb movie but I would suggest it wouldnt really count as a 'traning movie' in the sense implied here.

U-357 on the other hand doesnt even count as a movie. It counts as a pile of arse.
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Why would there have been a British submarine in the film? It was about a US Navy crew who captured a German U-Boat and a load of Enigma materials. As a piece of historic fiction it wasn't bad. Totally fabricated, not based on real events, etc, with proper historical notes at the end. What more do you want?
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LDTD, it was based on a British Sub crew. Who captured the first Enigma machine, and the American producers wanted it re-written so that the Sub was manned by Americans!

Amercans have captured a U-Boat, but it was a lot later and the Brits by then had broken the enigma.
 
Red October sounds....hours of fun!

U-571....oh dearie me. Reminds me of Ben Affleck singlehandedly winning the Battle of Britain in Pearl Harbour.
Though Pearl Harbour was generally poor the actual attack sequences by the IJN on the fleet in the Harbour are worth including as well as the film Tora,Tora,Tora!

Battle of the River Plate is well worthy despite the errors.

I have never seen Sink the Bismarck or Cruel Sea but on the recommendations of fellow forum users I think I will have to seek these out.

I want them to do a movie about Jutland (more Bang for your Buck).

oggie

P.S Didn't they do a movie about Midway?
 
Reaverman said:
LDTD, it was based on a British Sub crew. Who captured the first Enigma machine, and the American producers wanted it re-written so that the Sub was manned by Americans!

Amercans have captured a U-Boat, but it was a lot later and the Brits by then had broken the enigma.
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I did not know that... those wretches... :x
 
I tend to ignore the historical arguments about U-571 (after all Hollywierd had already shown its keenness to stick to vaguely historical "facts" with Braveheart and The Patriot (tghe latter including a scene of mass civilian execution based not on British activities during the AWI but instead on the SS in occupied France in the 1940s - but as the director said it made agood story!)

No, I find U-571 laughable on so many levels to the point where its so bad its actually good, especially after a few beers. The scenes where the German "destroyer" makes its appearance and (presumably nuclear fuelled) exit have me rolling on the floor most times :)

Other good films in my collection:

Battle of Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Cruel Sea
Sink the Bismarck
Above Us The Waves
They Were Expendable
Away All Boats
We Dive at Dawn

I thought Pearl Harbor was OK (ish) if you missed out the first hour and the last 45 minutes. But only worth watching if its a rainy Sunday afternoon and you ahve absolutely nothing better to do
 
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