Tagged: submarine

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2010s / Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller

The Meg (2018)

Jon Turteltaub (Last Vegas, National Treasure: Book of Secrets) directs this big action and mild horror flick, seemingly pulled out of the 1990s adolescent-minded blockbuster cycle, about a megalodon, a massive 75-foot shark long thought...

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1980s

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Roger Moore (The Cannonball Run, The Spy Who Loved Me) stars in his fifth turn (of seven) as British super-agent James Bond, in a respectable but not-altogether-exciting adventure.  007 is called in to investigate a...

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1980s / Science Fiction / Thriller

The Abyss (1989)

Despite never experiencing the ocean growing up, Cameron became fascinated with marine science after ravenously watching TV documentaries by Jacques Cousteau, getting dive certified at the age of seventeen. He attended weekly lectures at...

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1970s / Comedy / War

1941 (1979)

The Japanese didn’t plan an assault on Hollywood, Spielberg did. One of his few misfires, but it’s a big one, 1941 sees director Steven Spielberg having fun playing with a “sky’s the limit” budget and...

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1990s / Comedy / War

Down Periscope (1996)

Down Periscope is a comedy without laughs.  It’s goofy, light, and amiable, but it’s just not funny.  It’s so unfunny, it is actually painful to see just how hard they try to be funny and...

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1980s / Comedy / Musical / War

Top Secret! (1984)

Top Secret! is another laugh-a-minute screwball comedy from the comic minds of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the trio that brought you Airplane!  This time out, they skewer a variety of targets, predominantly war films (World War II, generally), musicals, and...

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2000s / Horror / Thriller

Below (2002)

Although I found this submarine thriller to be ultimately lacking in its story, as a horror flick it’s still a cut above many in the genre in the last few years.  Much of the...

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2000s / Action / War

U-571 (2000)

There’s always a lot of natural tension when a movie takes place in a submarine. There’s the fact that what little air and space the men on board have is precious, and any of...

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1990s / Thriller / War

Crimson Tide (1995)

While I’ve never been a huge fan of director Tony Scott’s (True Romance, Days of Thunder) dark and claustrophobic style, where else would this be a natural fit than on a submarine?  Hell, even shot...

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1970s / Action / Thriller

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Some submarines end up missing from both the British and the Russians. The British send James Bond to investigate, teaming him up with his beautiful Russian spy counterpart, agent XXX, who is determined to...