Directed by a guy who has only directed one other movie.
Doesn't look all that great to me, but it will probably be a big hit with your dad.
Doesn't look all that great to me, but it will probably be a big hit with your dad.
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Trailer for Greyhound. WWII naval movie starring and screenplay by Tom Hanks.
- Thread starter Lionel Mandrake
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Why does the uboat noise sound like a monster.
Normally T Hanks related WW2 productions are pretty good but this looks more like a horror movie.
Normally T Hanks related WW2 productions are pretty good but this looks more like a horror movie.
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Why are all them Subs surfacing directly in front of Destroyers? My Grandpa is turning in his grave as we speak.
I was thinking the same thing. I hope there's a plot element which will have it make sense.
It was supposed to come out March last year but Sony bumped it over a year to May 2020 before settling on the June release date.
Against unarmed freighters to conserve torpedoes. It'd be suicide to use it against a destroyer. "outgunned" doesn't even begin to describe it. They were even initially only armed with small bore guns to discourage attacks with them.
And that one other movie had really great reviews. Weird comment.
The Battleship maneuverDid that Destroyer just do the naval equivalent of this?
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It seems a bit odd to me that this guy who directed a well-reviewed, but largely forgotten low budget drama is being given this big, special effects driven historical blockbuster starring Tom Hanks. I'm just kind of wondering how in charge he actually was.
He's in this and saving private ryan lol (and debatably Captain Phillips, which might be a stretch)
Yeah, and that other movie came out over a decade ago too. But who knows. Maybe this is Hanks' baby but for whatever reason he just needed someone else "steering" as it were.
Let's not forget he was also executive producer in HBO's Band of Brothers.
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Can't help but think of this Onion article from some years back, which always gives me a laugh. lol
https://entertainment.theonion.com/tom-hanks-forces-houseguests-to-play-world-war-ii-with-1819571467
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Still want a tincan movie about the Leyte Gulf battles.
Thats some actual movie stuff. Battleships vs Destroyers.
Thats some actual movie stuff. Battleships vs Destroyers.
Would be neat to see him combine his two favorite genres and make a fictional ww2 movie where he has to retrieve and deliver an astronaut to beat the japanese from launching first into space to set up an apollo something etc etc.
Hanks directed the 'Bastogne' episode of Band of Brothers too.
Why is Tom Hanks so obsessed with World War 2? Also this doesn't look like an accurate depiction of naval warfare at all.
I know that close encounters and even rams happened, but not because a sub suddenly decided to surface in the middle of a convoy.
Been excited for this one for a couple years; his film crew did some preproduction photography, filming of the ocean and environmental backdrops in the atlantic onboard the ship I sailed in (HMCS Montreal, a Canadian frigate) back in January 2018.
Excited to see if I recognize anything, or if it's all just going to be CGI stuff, and they just use the video and images they took over that week or so as reference material to make sure the CGI actually looks realistic.
I gotta hand it to his film crew though; they were literally out on the bridge wing for upwards of 10-12 hours a day for like 8 or 9 days straight in January weather in the ocean off of Nova Scotia. It was miserable, it was cold, snowing, the deck was icing up and there was a decent amount of waves and churn for them to deal with. Super unpleasant, and that team just toughed it out to try and capture as much footage of environmental backdrop stuff as they possibly could.
We also had one afternoon where a couple of our other ships were out that did some high speed turns/manoeuvres, and the surfacing/diving of one of our submarines, so hopefully they captured that stuff and were able to make use of it for realistic ship movement through the water in the actual production
Really pumped to see this one!
Excited to see if I recognize anything, or if it's all just going to be CGI stuff, and they just use the video and images they took over that week or so as reference material to make sure the CGI actually looks realistic.
I gotta hand it to his film crew though; they were literally out on the bridge wing for upwards of 10-12 hours a day for like 8 or 9 days straight in January weather in the ocean off of Nova Scotia. It was miserable, it was cold, snowing, the deck was icing up and there was a decent amount of waves and churn for them to deal with. Super unpleasant, and that team just toughed it out to try and capture as much footage of environmental backdrop stuff as they possibly could.
We also had one afternoon where a couple of our other ships were out that did some high speed turns/manoeuvres, and the surfacing/diving of one of our submarines, so hopefully they captured that stuff and were able to make use of it for realistic ship movement through the water in the actual production
Really pumped to see this one!
