windypoint
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Just saw this today and enjoyed it. A few of the upper level admirals were over played but good effects and lots of suspense. Worth a watch.
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muddocktor
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I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I will hold out until some of our "Bubblehead" members who are ex-submariners here respond on how realistic their submarine scenes and scenarios are. If it is typical Hollyweird, they wil have stuff in it that is totally unlike reality of running a nuclear powered submarine. I know that Hollyweird really put in a bunch of BS into the movie "Deepwater Horizon", which is something I do know quite a bit about as I have worked in the oil drilling industry since the mid 70's and most of that time on offshore rigs. Total unrealistic BS added into what was actually spectacular enough in it's own right without putting fallacies into the movie.
I guess I am just turning into an old curmudgeon since I require a little bit of research into my movie subject if they want to get my money at the theater.
I guess I am just turning into an old curmudgeon since I require a little bit of research into my movie subject if they want to get my money at the theater.
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windypoint
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It is definitely "Hollywooded " up, but still fun.
BillyMagg
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Hunter Killer
They won't be impressed, BUT, like the brother, I REALLY LIKED IT! (its a helluva lot better than sitting though "A Star is Born") I recruited the "Honey Badger's Sister" to attend that movie with her, while I myself loved Hunter Killer, yes its hokey, like Top Gun, but hokey in a good way, they sink three subs, two Soviet Akulas and an LA class in the first three minutes, so its off with a "BANG", and we love "Bangs" here on the S&W forum!
Go see it and enjoy, underwater scenes are CG, but surface pictures are actual "nuke boats"!
They won't be impressed, BUT, like the brother, I REALLY LIKED IT! (its a helluva lot better than sitting though "A Star is Born") I recruited the "Honey Badger's Sister" to attend that movie with her, while I myself loved Hunter Killer, yes its hokey, like Top Gun, but hokey in a good way, they sink three subs, two Soviet Akulas and an LA class in the first three minutes, so its off with a "BANG", and we love "Bangs" here on the S&W forum!
Go see it and enjoy, underwater scenes are CG, but surface pictures are actual "nuke boats"!
I haven't seen it but I have surfaced a USSR sub in the blockade of Cuba...
jeffsmith
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"Pinged???"
BillyMagg
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I'm going to assume a diesel USSR boat?? or tell me I'm wrong, were you on a destroyer or nuke boat? tell us, we'd love to hear this story, much better than an overhyped movie...
I had a chance to go aboard a diesel boat at the harbor on Naha, but I was five and afraid to cross the catwalk.... my Dad was an IP in the C-130, and one of his buds was the Captain on that diesel boat, he invited the old man on a short shake down cruise?? only time I ever saw the old man decline an invite like that??? LOL
my Dad and my little brother enjoyed their tour of that boat, looked through the periscope and all?? 57 years later, I'm still living in shame, LOL
Pray for my brother Jim, he was just diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer,,, but he's still a brave little turkey!
shouldazagged
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All I'll say is is the Adm. sent to the CO of the sub was "Bang, your dead!"
cougar14
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Input from some Navy Nukes
Yeah I noticed that too. Found it hard to believe the sub would go that vertical; crew would literally be standing on the bulkheads. Condensers would be fouled all to beck with all the sediment it sucked up.
No ****ery with the hot rock in this movie. Which was nice. No order to go to 150% power, no opening the reactor and shoving freshly extruded plutonium rods into the core like James Bond, no fighting over an EAM to shoot ballistic missiles, no bringing little ankle biters on board.
They tried even using some of the correct commands when shooting torpedoes.
It was a fun movie and I only laughed out loud maybe a dozen times at **** that was dead wrong (but the uninformed audience wouldnt know better about).
I was entertained. Disregard the submarine physics though. I know I was a topside nuke but when the sub is doing 40 deg down bubble at flank speed and then doesn't pull up until 40 feet off the ocean floor, that sub is buried in real life.
The above is some input from some of my fellow Nuke Navy guys, on the Nuke Navy facebook page. Since most of it is directed at fellow operatives, it's not really directed towards a full critique. But you get the idea.
Yeah I noticed that too. Found it hard to believe the sub would go that vertical; crew would literally be standing on the bulkheads. Condensers would be fouled all to beck with all the sediment it sucked up.
No ****ery with the hot rock in this movie. Which was nice. No order to go to 150% power, no opening the reactor and shoving freshly extruded plutonium rods into the core like James Bond, no fighting over an EAM to shoot ballistic missiles, no bringing little ankle biters on board.
They tried even using some of the correct commands when shooting torpedoes.
It was a fun movie and I only laughed out loud maybe a dozen times at **** that was dead wrong (but the uninformed audience wouldnt know better about).
I was entertained. Disregard the submarine physics though. I know I was a topside nuke but when the sub is doing 40 deg down bubble at flank speed and then doesn't pull up until 40 feet off the ocean floor, that sub is buried in real life.
The above is some input from some of my fellow Nuke Navy guys, on the Nuke Navy facebook page. Since most of it is directed at fellow operatives, it's not really directed towards a full critique. But you get the idea.
We enjoyed the movie and it was hollywooded up but that's what made it interesting. what were we gunna do see another Friday the 13th movie
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No Mister Scott?
"She's givin it all shes got captain! We've got no dilitheum crystals!"
Cardboard_killer
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I've only seen bad reviews of it from my history nut friends. It's hard to do a sub movie as submarines are mostly "blind" when fighting. Hunt for Red October was the only one I've seen that was worth it, IMO.
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Seriously? Must never have seen “Run Silent, Run Deep”, “The Enemy Below”, or “Das Boot”.
Cardboard_killer
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I forgot Das Boot (the remake is coming out next year I think). Enemy Below was good, but that was more about the US destroyer escort, not the German sub. Run Silent, Run Deep has not held up well at all. Indeed, I'd call it unwatchable now, and I used to love it as a kid.
HOUSTON RICK
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Spock: We have no dilitheum crystals, but we (just happened to) have these subcutaneous transponders injected by Bones that are made from crystals. If we cut them out of our wrists there is a possibility that they will, if properly secured in the warp drive, reverse the polarity of our crystals in the reactor and start them to regenerate.
Glad the movie ia at least good.
New film "Hunter Killer"
They are remaking Das Boot? Good lord!!!
I hope they dont mess this up, let me guess Channing Tatum is gonna be the Captain???
The Hunt for Red October was a great movie but I think Crimson Tide is my all time favorite Submarine flick.
Zombie is not happy about this!!!
They are remaking Das Boot? Good lord!!!
I hope they dont mess this up, let me guess Channing Tatum is gonna be the Captain???
The Hunt for Red October was a great movie but I think Crimson Tide is my all time favorite Submarine flick.
Zombie is not happy about this!!!
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