I know there's a lot of Hollywood in it but I just like sub flicks. Trying to pick a night to go.
BTW if you've never seen Crimson Tide, you should.
BTW if you've never seen Crimson Tide, you should.
Watching the preview would clear up a lot of your confusion!Watched it today. Rather, I had a poor copy playing while I worked. It was probably decent, but I didn't pay enough attention to really know what the ground action was about. And I missed them getting the Soviet Captain (I think that was his rank?) into the sub...just looked up and he was there one time.
Yep. I hadn't even heard of the movie until I saw this topic...and then the trailer was on the YT home page yesterday.Watching the preview would clear up a lot of your confusion!
BTW if you've never seen Crimson Tide, you should.
Still an awesome movie. I didn't get the feeling that the captain was racist. I thought the acting was excellent and the whole concept of the mutiny and the division of the crew was realistic and highly entertaining.I hope we can still be friends after this post, but this sailor thought Crimson Tide was not only the worst sub movie ever, it was probably one of the worst military movies ever made. A ballistic missile submarine gets a message to launch missiles. But before they can execute, they are attacked and it damages the radio, just as a second message is coming in, but before they can decipher it. Captain Gene Hackman wants to follow protocol just as they have been trained, which is to execute the last received order. But the XO, Denzel, somehow just knows that the second message was going to tell them that the President had changed his mind and didn't want to vaporize the Soviet Union after all. So we get about an hour of mutiny, etc., then we discover that Denzel was right, the white guy was not only a genocidal maniac but--gasp!--a racist! Before it was filmed, the Navy read the script and said they didn't want anything to do with it, so the movie was made without any scenes of real ships or sailors. I had to watch Hunt for Red October again just to wash the Crimson Tide out of my mind.
Still an awesome movie. I didn't get the feeling that the captain was racist. I thought the acting was excellent and the whole concept of the mutiny and the division of the crew was realistic and highly entertaining.
A quick look at user reviews from actual submariners shows me that you are not alone. Pretty much every former submariner felt personally offended in the way that Hollywood portrayed the crew, and that that could never happen on a real nuclear sub.
I hope we can still be friends after this post, but this sailor thought Crimson Tide was not only the worst sub movie ever, it was probably one of the worst military movies ever made. A ballistic missile submarine gets a message to launch missiles. But before they can execute, they are attacked and it damages the radio, just as a second message is coming in, but before they can decipher it. Captain Gene Hackman wants to follow protocol just as they have been trained, which is to execute the last received order. But the XO, Denzel, somehow just knows that the second message was going to tell them that the President had changed his mind and didn't want to vaporize the Soviet Union after all. So we get about an hour of mutiny, etc., then we discover that Denzel was right, the white guy was not only a genocidal maniac but--gasp!--a racist! Before it was filmed, the Navy read the script and said they didn't want anything to do with it, so the movie was made without any scenes of real ships or sailors. I had to watch Hunt for Red October again just to wash the Crimson Tide out of my mind.