New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

[gp100man]

That Ukrainian FOXTROT just won't die.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/10/02/b ... -jude-law/

[gp100man]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=124832

[gp100man]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30267338

[gp100man]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/de ... e-thriller

[tom dougherty]

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Ahhh, yes. The ol' mythical U-boat of sunken gold. Manned by Leprechauns, no doubt.

There are so many good stories that could be based on the Cold War (e.g. read one of the books such as Blind Man's Bluff and base a story on one of its chapters). I am just finishing a semi-fictional book (Operation Ivy Bells) about the saturation divers who deployed from USS Halibut (SSN 587) to tap the undersea cable in the Sea of Okhotsk. Now that would make on hell of a movie, and at least be based on real events!

[southern or]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

Ahhh, yes. The ol' mythical U-boat of sunken gold. Manned by Leprechauns, no doubt.

There are so many good stories that could be based on the Cold War (e.g. read one of the books such as Blind Man's Bluff and base a story on one of its chapters). I am just finishing a semi-fictional book (Operation Ivy Bells) about the saturation divers who deployed from USS Halibut (SSN 587) to tap the undersea cable in the Sea of Okhotsk. Now that would make on hell of a movie, and at least be based on real events!

Fun fact about that, on one of the recovery missions for the tapes the Halibut hit the cable and damaged it. They left the taps in place and when the Soviets went to repair it they found the devices with "MADE IN THE USA" stamped on them.

[gp100man]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/17/new-thrill ... t-era-sub/

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

location of this boat is Rochester, UK

[tom dougherty]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

Fun fact about that, on one of the recovery missions for the tapes the Halibut hit the cable and damaged it. They left the taps in place and when the Soviets went to repair it they found the devices with "MADE IN THE USA" stamped on them.

True fact-it was Seawolf (SSN 575) that hit the cable, not Halibut. How can we be positive of this? Because it happened in 1981 and the Halibut was decommissioned in 1976! The cable was not damaged in any way by Seawolf's mishap of landing one of its skids on the cable. In fact, the Sea of Okhotsk cable tap was disclosed to the Soviets by Ronald Pelton, a disgruntled NSA employee who disclosed the tap in exchange for $35,000. That precipitated the recovery of the plutonium powered tap by the Soviets, not the Seawolf hitting the cable.

There are lots of "fun facts" about Halibut that are also wrong, wrong wrong. For example, you will find numerous references (including the book Blind Man's Bluff) to the Univac 1124 computer in the Halibut's former, revamped missile hanger. Only small problem is there was never any 1124 model Univac computer. From speaking with members of the Halibut crew (I built models for their 2002 Reunion), it was most probably a CP-818A/U, which was briefly designated the Univac 1224. I have the manual, and the CP-818A/U had a 32 Kb memory stack. So another "fun fact" shot to hell.

[jim kerswell]

Re: New Submarine movie coming in January 2015.

Having seen "Black Sea" last Sunday, I would like to post a sort of mini review. This is NOT a submarine movie. This is a movie about human greed and conflict taking place in a confined space, which happens to be a submarine. Jude Law and the cast do a fine job, but this is, essentially, a morality play. I thought that, knowing something about how submarines work, I would enjoy it more, and there are some actions that are easier to understand. However, there are enough lapses in logic and "howlers" that I had to resist the temptation to turn to my wife every few minutes to say, "This is ridiculous, that couldn't happen." I think she enjoyed the performance for the drama that it was, and was willing to discuss the human interactions displayed on screen. When I later pointed out that the newspaper advertisement for the movie showed the silhouette of a post-war nuclear submanine, her reaction seemed to be, "Well, its a submarine isn't it?"

[jefftytoo]

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This is just what I'd expected and EXACTLY why I was in no hurry to see it. Doubt it'll even make the rental list now...

JeffP