Best Films set on Submarines

[Sigmund Fraud]

We've been here before but surely Das Boot is the greatest ever submarine flick

 

[Dirty Martini]

It is. Great soundtrack too.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

poster says film is great


another posted agrees

threads a winner!

 

[Dirty Martini]

If only all threads were like this.

 

[sojourner]

We've been here before but surely Das Boot is the greatest ever submarine flick

Quoted cos I like it

It is the best submarine film that I've seen - not that there are that many, mind

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Quoted cos I like it

It is the best submarine film that I've seen - not that there are that many, mind

there are loads man!

 

[alef]

Yellow Submarine is damn fine, probably the best animated film I've seen. Although a bit absurd that it wasn't actually the Beatles voices.

 

[treefrog]

Das Boot. End of.

 

[Allan]

Trivia: "Das" is Klingon for "Boot". True.

 

[Red Faction]

hunt for red october is surely a classic

 

[janeb]

There can be only one

Das Boot

 

[f for fake]

whats that film with jonny bovvie in, now that was a real true story of war time on a sub.

 

[bigben]

Das boot...

In German... as it was supposed to be.

ALARM!!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I liked the Crimson Tide.

 

[brixtonvilla]

I liked the Crimson Tide.

Watched it again the other night - what a big pile of pants! Nice and roomy in that submarine, innit?

 

[jiggajagga]

Above us the waves?

 

[Maggot]

I've never seen Das Boot so am going for the Abyss.

 

[Dubversion]

hunt for red october is surely a classic

<checks official list of classics>

nope, sorry, it's toss

 

[passenger]

the yellow submarine a second vote

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I liked the Crimson Tide.

I think Crimson Tide is my second favourite submarine movie. Its so flipping loaded with testosterone, the Gene Hackman charachter clearly doesn't know whether to fuck or fight Denzel Washington. And then theres the whole Silver Surfer argument

loved it

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well the best is obviously Das Boot, but I have a soft spot for We Dive at Dawn.

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/a_asquith/filmography/023.html

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Watched it again the other night - what a big pile of pants! Nice and roomy in that submarine, innit?

Must admit I watched it yonks ago when I wasn't as discerning about films as now. Perhaps I wouldn't enjoy it as much now...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

<checks official list of classics>

nope, sorry, it's toss

and a bloody boring book. I remember I borrowed it off someone at school in about the year before GCSEs. By the end of A levels I still had it and still hadn't got very far with it...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Das Boot is one of those classics I really ought to have seen but haven't

 

[Macaroni Pony]

Does this one count?

 

[ViolentPanda]

I've never seen Das Boot so am going for the Abyss.

I'd rather let jones'ing crack squirrels chew my arm off than ever watch the humunguous steaming pile of cinematic elephant dung known as "The Abyss" ever again!

 

[weltweit]

Yes Das Boot no question.

The author of the original book, who was a German submarine officer in WW2, just died so they just screened again it (last week I think it was) on German TV and very good it was too.

The original film was apparently 6 hours and they had to cut it a lot to make a normal film about it.

It won an Oscar.

 

[Termite Man]

Does this one count?

Yes

 

[Reno]

Maybe not the greatest ever, but I think the haunted submarine film "Below" is rather good.

 

[han]

I agree, Das Boot is an absolute classic. The score is phenomenal too....

I don't think I've ever seen any other submarine films...