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Sludge 
"Charlie Don't Serf!"
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 Posted - 08/02/2020 : 21:16:41
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Tom Hanks returns to the European Theatre of WWII. More precisely, commanding a destroyer escorting a supply convoy in the middle of the Atlantic, just beyond air support. His job is to protect the convoy and his own crew from a wolfpack of German U-Boats.
This is on Apple TV+. I'm wondering if any of you have watched it?
I couldn't get through it. There may be a story arc and a good amount of suspense as the sub(s) pull tricks on the radar technician (who's below decks, and we get to see how the whole communication structure was a delayed game of operator from his mouth to Hanks' ear). But I found myself fatigued, in no small measure due to the insulting decision to make the submarine sound like a whale instead of a machine - reminding us in no subtle terms that all depictions of sea battles after Moby Dick are mere rehashes of that story.
Well, thar she blows. |
Edited by - Sludge on 08/02/2020 21:17:42 |
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MguyXXVI 
"X marks the spot"
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Posted - 08/03/2020 : 15:54:56
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Originally posted by Sludge
Tom Hanks returns to the European Theatre of WWII. More precisely, commanding a destroyer escorting a supply convoy in the middle of the Atlantic, just beyond air support. His job is to protect the convoy and his own crew from a wolfpack of German U-Boats.
This is on Apple TV+. I'm wondering if any of you have watched it?
I couldn't get through it. There may be a story arc and a good amount of suspense as the sub(s) pull tricks on the radar technician (who's below decks, and we get to see how the whole communication structure was a delayed game of operator from his mouth to Hanks' ear). But I found myself fatigued, in no small measure due to the insulting decision to make the submarine sound like a whale instead of a machine - reminding us in no subtle terms that all depictions of sea battles after Moby Dick are mere rehashes of that story.
Well, thar she blows.
  Bravo! |
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Greyhound (2020)
