I just wanted to read the stories of the first time people got to sit and watch this film and what they liked about it. I enjoy hearing about the tales of first time viewings of someone's favorite flick!
" Go ahead Cornelius, you can cry "
I read review on bloody disgusting, then dicided to watch it. In general I liked it, but I hated some cheap scares is parts (open the curtain and there is... nothing!)
shareWell, actually... when he opens the curtains, you can clearly see the ghost of the late captain fading off to the left... look again, and you'll see :)
Well, actually... when he opens the curtains, you can clearly see the ghost of the late captain fading off to the left... look again, and you'll see :)
'Female'...???
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Hey, lathe-of-heaven, it looks like you're having PPP (Pampered People Problems).
There are people starving to death and being murdered every day in the world and you to choose to focus on the fact that I didn't hunt down the name of a character in a movie for a quick throwaway post? That's pretty sad. There are more important things in life than remembering the names of every character in every movie you have seen.
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Okay, okay, OKAY...!
GEEZ mate, I was just teasing you not because you didn't use the character's name, but that it just struck me as funny for a person to say 'The Female' rather than the woman or something less formal. It just made me smile a little; it almost sounded like you have an aversion to women (not really, just gave that funny impression - you know, like 'That female!' It could very well be too, something I didn't think about until just this moment, that English may not be your first language, and therefore you might not catch a subtlety like that (Or, I could just simply be an annoying @sshole who has absolutely nothing better to do! )
No serious criticism meant at all.
Cheers!
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No serious criticism meant at all.
Interesting Screen name BTW...
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I can't believe you actually apologized to that wanker. "There are dead people in the world... No joking is allowed, whaaaa!"
shareFinding nothing behind the current isn't a cheap scare. It's not a scare at all. It's building tension then having an anti-climatic result.
And THAT is where babies come from.
To be honest, I think a lot of folks just don't understand this is NOT a 'submarine' movie; it is in fact a mystery, yeah, on a sub, but not a sub movie, during war but not a war movie, possibly a ghost involved but not really a 'ghost' story. When Claire picks up the shakespeare book it is open to 'MACBETH', that tells us what the story is really about: GUILT and JUSTICE. It is a shame many others just wanted a 'submarine gets depth-charged and sinks enemy ship' movie, 'Below' is a thinking persons mystery.
shareI really liked this, and I don't like ghost stories. Creepy and nice twist at the end.
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Below was/is a great movie...the IMDB credits show USA produced but I thought from watching it, it was British???
shareA few years back, it was shown on BBC1 late at night. I noticed it in the tv listings and it sounded interesting, the kind of thing that would pique my attention. It said something like "a WW2 submarine experiences supernatural happenings" or something like that, fairly short summary but enough to make me tune in.
Watched it, really enjoyed it. Went to Amazon and found a DVD copy, ordered it up and watched it again. Then watched it a third time with the (hugely entertaing) audio commentary on.
In the years since then, I've seen it probably another three times or so, including with two different groups that each enjoyed it as well. The film is quality, pure and simple.
Well, I watched the film with some friend and liked the first part of it. Then I fell asleep, while the others watched it to the end. When I woke up the DVD was broken and the only answer I got from my friends about what happened with the DVD and in the film was that the movie sucked.
Now, more than a year later, I came again across this DVD and remembered that I've only seen the first part of it. I bought it again, watched the whole film and... yes, it's a pretty good movie.
I agree and liked it too. Are those 'hook' things the ship above used for real? Did or do they really have those things? If you can snag a boat they seem to work well.
shareI think so, but I believe they weren't used for the purpose shown in the film, those looked like what minesweepers would use to hook a mine anchor and pull it out of the fleets path (thus the name obviously).
shareA great movie but bad casting on the part of Weird Wally. If Zach Galifianakis was unwilling to cut his beard to be a crew member, I'm someone else would have made the part more believable.
shareIf I recall, however, it is a navy tradition that certain classes of rank DO in fact wear beards....I can't remember, now....midshipman or bosen's mate or something; in any case, even if his character were allowed a beard, it would probably have to be trimmed and neat.
But I agree about the casting flaws....still like the film, though.
Actually it was just recently say the 90's the submariners had to be clean shaven. Saw a pic of my ex husband's uncle who sereved aboard a submarine during Vietnam era and he had a beard as bushy as Zac Galifianakis :)
shareIn WWII if the captain approved it, the crew could grow beards during a voyage. Some did, some didn't. I just watched Destination Tokyo again today, and noted that fact, being brought up.
shareI loved the horror filled, freaky, going crazy atmosphere of What Lies Beneath, The Shining, The Ring, etc. and the underwater special effects (esp. the bomb/tin drums falling/exploding, the long chain claws dragging and the demon sub) of Deep Blue Sea.
shareI love horror movies, and I really like WWII submarine movies, so you'd think this novie would be one of my favorites.
The story is good, and you just don't see a lot of WWII submarine ghost stories, so it has that going for it. The execution could have been a lot better though.
Suspense and a bit of spookiness and a mystery (that you can pretty well figure out three quarters through) with very good acting. Liked it for one other reason -- thankfully something different!!!
share I first watched this flick while "channel-hopping" late one night (or very early one morning, as all insomniacs will understand) ... and actually considered it a "stumbled-upon" pearl. It was entertaining, had some decent actors, and I'm ALWAYS a sucker for a ghost story! I think everyone should see this movie (at least) once.
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Has grown on me with each subsequent viewing. The effects people should have been nominated at least for an Oscar on the basis of the lighting alone. My watching "Below" engenders a real sense of claustrophobia. Great dramatic turn, an heroic beard too, by Zach Galifianakis. This man's an 'onion'.
shareI just saw the film yesterday and really only watched it since I kind of like submarine movies but also really like Bruce Greenwood. I thought it was incredible which was great since I wasn't expecting much. Even if I had been expecting a lot the film would have delivered. I especially like how well they captured the era of pre-digital machines, with solid brass levers everywhere and people having to rely on brute strength to move everything. They had to really understand how the submarine worked in order to run it. The growing paranoia and realization that the captain wasn't really the captain and that he was in fact the worst person to have been put in authority while being under pressure to excel translates so well even to today's world where expectations sometimes run high from birth but the raw materials just aren't there to make anything than an average person.
shareJust got done watching it, and I enjoyed it. Not the best "horror film" I've ever seen but certainly not the worst. I was surprised at the ending twist...didn't see it coming.
It worked for me.
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I really liked this movie. Yes, yes it has factual errors but that isn't the point of the movie. No one seems to complain that the Bounty II was built 1/3 larger than the original to accommodate the cameras in "Mutiny on the Bounty" or that the Neptune (Spanish Galleon) in Roman Polanski's "Pirates" was freaking HUGE. Besides most sub movies are way off in their depictions of the subs (The Hunt for Red October, Enemy Below, or Crimson Tide anyone?)
I have to credit the set designers because while the interior is larger, it still has the look of a period submarine, right down to all the fixtures, fittings and details. The filmmakers also managed to subtly and artfully work in the workings of a submarine. Things like looking at water temperature layers, the Christmas tree light changing to indicate someone snuck out, showing the bow planes deploy... the little things like that make up for some of the intentional mistakes for a sub movie fan like me.
I found the movie to be a great mix of many genres: war film, thriller, horror movie, mystery, character drama... the list goes on. Also, many fail to mention that it is finally a good horror film for skeptics. Everything that happens has a perfectly reasonable (and not supernatural) cause. Record players can malfunction (naturally a Benny Goodman record would be on board if Captain Winters was a fan), the Germans are able to track them by oil not a curse, the rudder was hit by the grappling hooks before it malfunctioned, people see patterns like Morse code where none exist all the time and hallucinate especially when deprived of oxygen, backtracking could be a coincidence. The movie is a supernatural horror movie, where maybe nothing is supernatural after all- as evidenced by the closing conversation. I prefer movies like this, where it is a tough call on what actually happened rather than being obviously supernatural.
All and all great set design, great story (even if it relies a bit too much on factual inaccuracies), great acting (especially by Bruce Greenwood), and great direction. Under-rated in my book and it is a shame it was never properly marketed.
I liked it... I mean it wasn't the best horror film ever, nor was it the best submarine movie ever, but it's the only "haunted sub" film that I know of, and that makes it very original. It's totally a "B" movie, in every sense of the word, but it's a VERY cool movie for what it is.
I must add stars stars for the fact that I got this movie in an eight movie box set for 5 bucks!
Can't beat that.
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My, you're nosey, aren't you?
but it's the only "haunted sub" film that I know of
Just thought you might like to know that there is another: Ghostboat starring David Jason
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