Best Training Movie for "Saturday Night at Sea"

No one's mentioned Das Boot yet! It might be the other side of the coin but well worth watching with a pint in hand :D
 
I recently watched Away All Boats and They Were Expendable, both very good. My favorite has to be Midway. The Caine Mutiny is also very good and I can't remember the title but there is this one where Robert Mitchum plays a destroyer captian playing cat-and-mouse with a german u-boat. Anyone know the name?
 
Oh yes, I'd forgotten both of those (how could I forget Das Boot? Inexcusable!) I remember the destroyer movie but can't remember the title.

"Bedford Incident" is another good one, but post war (Cold War)
 
Sgt. Brassones said:
I recently watched Away All Boats and They Were Expendable, both very good. My favorite has to be Midway. The Caine Mutiny is also very good and I can't remember the title but there is this one where Robert Mitchum plays a destroyer captian playing cat-and-mouse with a german u-boat. Anyone know the name?
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The Enemy Below, guys... :wink: Good movie. I recommend it.
 
In fact the capture of the Enigma codes had nothing to do with allied submarines at all. It wasn't even a deliberate mission.

A British destroyer forced a U-Boat to the surface and the U-Boat captain failed to carry out the proper protacol and destroy his Enigma machine and code books.

Overall it doesn't actually make much of action movie. Which is the problem that most historical events don't make very exciting action movies without some embelishment. Personally I just assume that there are gonna be lots of historical inaccuracies and just enjoy the film for what it is (unless of course it doesn't deliver on that count either) a piece of group entertainment.

If I wanted historical accuracy I would watch a documentary not a holywood movie...

Nick
 
BuShips said:
Sgt. Brassones said:
I recently watched Away All Boats and They Were Expendable, both very good. My favorite has to be Midway. The Caine Mutiny is also very good and I can't remember the title but there is this one where Robert Mitchum plays a destroyer captian playing cat-and-mouse with a german u-boat. Anyone know the name?
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The Enemy Below, guys... :wink: Good movie. I recommend it.
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Thanks Bu, I just added it to my Netflix queue.
 
Sgt. Brassones said:
BuShips said:
Sgt. Brassones said:
I recently watched Away All Boats and They Were Expendable, both very good. My favorite has to be Midway. The Caine Mutiny is also very good and I can't remember the title but there is this one where Robert Mitchum plays a destroyer captian playing cat-and-mouse with a german u-boat. Anyone know the name?
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The Enemy Below, guys... :wink: Good movie. I recommend it.
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Thanks Bu, I just added it to my Netflix queue.
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You'll like the end :wink: . It also has Kurt Jurgens (did I mess up his name?) as the u-boat commander. For a real kick in the old ass, watch this movie, and then right after it watch the old Star Trek episode Balance of Terror. Then come back here and we'll talk about it :) .
 
BuShips said:
Sgt. Brassones said:
BuShips said:
The Enemy Below, guys... :wink: Good movie. I recommend it.
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Thanks Bu, I just added it to my Netflix queue.
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You'll like the end :wink: . It also has Kurt Jurgens (did I mess up his name?) as the u-boat commander. For a real kick in the old ass, watch this movie, and then right after it watch the old Star Trek episode Balance of Terror. Then come back here and we'll talk about it :) .
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:D "Balance of Terror" is my favorite ST:ToS episode. :D Now I can't wait for "The Enemy Below".
 
Sgt. Brassones said:
:D "Balance of Terror" is my favorite ST:ToS episode. :D Now I can't wait for "The Enemy Below".
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Me too. Remember now, The Enemy Below first, then Balance of Terror, OK? Then report back here.
 
Lord David the Denied said:
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
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Well in that case all is forgiven, if you didnt know that part then I can understand you not minding the film as a cheesy action movie ;) But I take it you can understand some of the reactions to it now :)

And also Id like to second K-19 as a REALLY good sub movie (though as noted Harriosn Ford really really shouldnt be allowed to play a russian ever again....)
 
Eisho said:
Do you guys know about Yamato?

I started a thread on the 'What's next?' forum prior to the VaS one being set up. Check it out here:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21877

Well worth watching.

My fave naval war movie though is Midway. I also loved the action sequences in Pearl Harbour.

Cheers,

Eisho
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I know about Yamato in the widersense, but have not seen it. The shots of the ship and the battle sequences look pretty amazing though in the clip of the film.
 
Eisho said:
Do you guys know about Yamato?

I started a thread on the 'What's next?' forum prior to the VaS one being set up. Check it out here:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21877

Well worth watching.

My fave naval war movie though is Midway. I also loved the action sequences in Pearl Harbour.

Cheers,

Eisho
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(wry mode ON)-
My theory is that the Japanese are using the concept from the Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) series where they built a spaceship from the old hull of the sunken ship. Now, under the guise of making a movie about a few sailors on leave and a girl (oh, come on now- like I believe that!) they manage to construct a "movie set" (outside no less) of what just happens to be a full-scale mockup of the greatest naval ship the world has ever seen. Hmm, but just maybe the Japanese are really building a Battleship that they say is a movie prop! I don't know, but North Korea had just better shape up or that movie prop might just pay them a little visit, you know? For those that don't think a Battleship along a coastal nation can do much harm, the USS New Jersey during the Vietnam War used downsized sabot 8" self-propelled projectiles which were shot out of the 16" guns. They were able to reach fully 80% of the surface area of the country, and unlike aircraft cannot be shot down or intercepted. (wry mode OFF)

:lol:
 
Gray Lady Down really scared the crap out of me as a kid. Sad movie.

On my ship they always showed "Final Countdown" the night before we put to sea...

Overall, I think History Channel has the better programming if you're looking for historical accuracy, they often have a segment called "History vs. Hollywood" but what I often do is to see the movie, and have fun while being entertained, and then read up or watch the history channel program on the show. They often time their events around movie premiers, they recently had a lot of shows about Iwo Jima (for Flags of our Fathers)

Chern
 
Another one of my favourites, especally the dogfighting. The bit where the F14 stalls always has my heart in my mouth (reminds me of spin recoveries in our old Blanik and K-13s!)

PS apologies for crap spelling but have been dined out by Czec h and Dutch colleagues tonight and am a bit worse for wear!
 
Wing Commander said:
Operation Petticoat! Best WW2 sub movie ever 8)
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Yup, great movie. One might think seeing this that it was all made up, but the US sub Balao while in the southwest Pacific was indeed pink and for the same reasons stated in the movie :shock: . The toilet paper event happened to the sub Skipjack. A major gaff that is a major piece of movie trivia is that when the Admiral's children greet him at the boat at the movie's end, they don't say "Father", they say "Mr. Grant" (the actor's real name- Cary Grant)! It was missed in editing and left in. Watch for it :wink: .
 
Yes, I was on the Nimitz, affectionately known as the "mobile chernobyl"
The movie was filimed on the nimitz, though the Nimitz is impersonated by the Kitty Hawk in a couple scenes.

Chern
 
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