Even the boldest Gen Y’er won’t stay in water when they can’t see the bottom with that music playing. As a part time dive boat skipper in the late ‘90s it was a standing joke to play the theme song anytime we had trouble getting punters back on the boat at the end of a day’s work. Jaws – this 1975 thriller sets the standard for movies that keep people out of the water. Interestingly the director Wolfgang Peterson also wrote and directed Das Boot could he be the best boat film director of all time? As a seafarer it is easy to be picky about some of the scenes that are unlikely to have been possible – such as the one where George Clooney is hanging on to the end of an outrigger with a gas torch cutting the stabilizing bird loose in a force 10 gale – but those details aside it’s one helluva story. In 2000 when this film was released I was working on a swordfishing boat and so was very familiar with much of the content. ![]() The Perfect Storm – based on a true story of the Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts, that foundered with all souls during a 1991 storm of enormous magnitude. Few could argue that any big screen presentation has done a better job of depicting the tedium, excitement, and bone chilling fear of life aboard a submarine at war. I remember watching it with my grandfather, a WWII veteran, and being fascinated but deeply chilled at the same time. A 1981 epic war flick and one of the most expensive German movies ever made. So instead, possibly motivated by Melbourne’s weather which is doing a great job of keeping me off the water, I thought a list of my favourite flicks afloat for your critical analysis was appropriate.ĭas Boot (The Boat) – the classic German U-boat movie. ![]() I was going to talk about important topics like the Australian Marine Reserves Network proposal but for some reason – no it is not apathy – I just can’t be as*ed to climb on my soap box this month.
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