Crash Dive (1943)
Posted by:
Daryl Carpenter
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Date: August 16, 2003 06:48PM
<HTML>Just another 90 minutes of my life I'd like back...
I somehow managed to survive this film when I watched it two months ago. All around pretty bad, huge wooden subs, token black guy, cliche Captain/XO conflict, so on and so forth.
Pretty shocking to see the difference in how this movie and Das Boot handeled certain scenes. In Crash Dive, a German ship explodes in a huge fireball. We're treated to the sight of burning sailors leaping to their deaths, set to loud, bombastic, heroic music. Rather obnoxiously, I kept thinking about how similar the plot was to U-571, trying to decide which movie was the lesser of two evils.
"I'm the only BORN commando!" - Token black guy.</HTML>
I somehow managed to survive this film when I watched it two months ago. All around pretty bad, huge wooden subs, token black guy, cliche Captain/XO conflict, so on and so forth.
Pretty shocking to see the difference in how this movie and Das Boot handeled certain scenes. In Crash Dive, a German ship explodes in a huge fireball. We're treated to the sight of burning sailors leaping to their deaths, set to loud, bombastic, heroic music. Rather obnoxiously, I kept thinking about how similar the plot was to U-571, trying to decide which movie was the lesser of two evils.
"I'm the only BORN commando!" - Token black guy.</HTML>
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Daryl Carpenter | 08/16/2003 06:48PM |
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Dave | 08/18/2003 12:37PM |
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ROBERT M. | 08/19/2003 02:57AM |
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ROBERT M. | 08/17/2003 02:09AM |
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