Dahopafilms
Well-known member
Top 3:
1. Up Periscope (because I read the book as a kid and loved it and then saw the movie and it was "special")
2. The Hunt for Red October (lotsa buzz about Clancy "guessing" and getting the top secret technology right)
3. Crimson Tide (because I love any film where the two main characters are at odds and neither one is totally right and neither one totally wrong)
Worst of the worst:
1. U-571 (if only because the insulting historical treatment of real events in this film - the British capture of U-110 - would be akin to a U.K. production company making a film about how all of the heroic police and firefighters in NYC on 9/11 were British - and I so love historical revisionists, and those who start to believe the crap they put on the screen is reality. For an accurate summary of the true story of U-110, see: http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/u571/u571_ch1.htm)
Ahhh ... I feel so much better now ...
1. Up Periscope (because I read the book as a kid and loved it and then saw the movie and it was "special")
2. The Hunt for Red October (lotsa buzz about Clancy "guessing" and getting the top secret technology right)
3. Crimson Tide (because I love any film where the two main characters are at odds and neither one is totally right and neither one totally wrong)
Worst of the worst:
1. U-571 (if only because the insulting historical treatment of real events in this film - the British capture of U-110 - would be akin to a U.K. production company making a film about how all of the heroic police and firefighters in NYC on 9/11 were British - and I so love historical revisionists, and those who start to believe the crap they put on the screen is reality. For an accurate summary of the true story of U-110, see: http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/u571/u571_ch1.htm)
Ahhh ... I feel so much better now ...
