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B-Boy Bungus's avatar

Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer... seriously...

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Mike Errico's avatar

Operation Petticoat?

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John DeVore's avatar

who doesn't love a submarine comedy? not enough if you ask. me

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Mike Errico's avatar

It’s a genre! Yellow Submarine ?

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John DeVore's avatar

yeah i mean you're not wrong? down pericope? life aquatic (some of it)

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Eli van EK-Veenstra's avatar

Good call love that movie.

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Brian Massman's avatar

These selections are all great, but you're missing one of my favorite submarine movies, which may or may not actually be a submarine movie. But I insist it's a submarine movie! It's Guy Maddin's 2015 opus The Forbidden Room. It starts out as a submarine movie, then warps through various assorted genres, including volcano movies and caged-lunatic-on-a-train movies. Then it flips through several alternative endings taken from the "Book of Climaxes," and ends abruptly. My favorite detail of the "trapped in a submarine" plot is how the submariners eat flapjacks, because the bubbles contain precious oxygen.

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Lance Rosenthal's avatar

I remember a 60s movie called The Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark, and Sidney Poitier that was quite gripping. In fact, I’m not sure if we ever even see the submarine, yet it’s a presence the entire movie.

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Wesley Edits's avatar

Oh man. Das Boot. Soooo good.

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Andy Levy's avatar

“A dear friend disagreed with my classifying The Abyss as a ‘submarine movie’" - your dear friend sounds like an incredibly smart and handsome fellow

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John DeVore's avatar

He is Nemo-like

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Guillaume's avatar

Love this

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2serve4Christ's avatar

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

...no? Why?

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John DeVore's avatar

Look, friend, it's a great movie. A great submarine movie. I like these 5 more.

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2serve4Christ's avatar

👍fair enough.

Although CT > THFRO is subjectively false😉

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Eli van EK-Veenstra's avatar

I think you forgot U-571. Looking through the comments I'm seeing some submarine movies I need to see.

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erniet's avatar

Awesome list...glad you didn't include "The Hunt for Red October" which imo is a cliche-ridden peace of tripe! "Das Boot" is an awesome film!

My dad was a Chief Petty Officer on the USS Patrick Henry...I wonder what his favorite sub movies were?

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George Henderson's avatar

Have you seen morning departure (1950)?

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John DeVore's avatar

no but i will seek it out

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