My gosh guys. I’ve been a smaller channel for over 2 years now and for some reason this video explodes starting august 8th. Of course it was decently popular on April 30th too. I just can’t thank you all enough. I will certainly start reviews on greyhound. That’s if you guys want more that is. But hey let me know what kind of video you guys would like to see next in the comments! Again thank you guys so much for this! I never imagined my channel would blow up like this!!!
Now THIS is how CGI really adds to a film. It is not there to wow the audience, but to add realism to an environment that would be impossible to duplicate physically.
It could have been. Unfortunately, scenes like this one aren't realistic at all. It's just like most Hollywood war movies : Fury, Midway, Pearl Harbor, etc. Lot's of action and fun to watch, but realistic ? : No.
@@fletsepopje This movie is entertainment first. And meant to make a profit. That being said I think it is the most realistic Atlantic convoy movie I have seen. Since none of us commenting have served on a destroyer in the Atlantic in the Second World War we can’t speak from direct experience. But for me I have enjoyed it many times in spite of it’s irritations at times.
My father in law joined the Navy on 12/8/41 at 16. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet doing convoy duty in the North Atlantic. He made 37 trips through the Panama Canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & pacific theaters. I never asked him to talk just waited & hoped he would. When he finally did his stories made the hair on the back of my neck stand up we miss you Brownie. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
I'M a f----r and a fighter I'm a Tin Can Rider !! Having been a Tin Can sailor in the Navy for the bulk of my career and My father being in the Pacific during WWII I really enjoyed this movie. The equipment and cramped quarters of the ship were done very well. CGI or not at least it was done extremely well. Tom Hanks, is there anyone better? Thanks for the short video
Scenes like this make you appreciate just how much firepower a destroyer back in those days could bring to bear on a target. Up to something like 5 or 6 5" guns and maybe a dozen or more 40mm cannons blazing away at one target
Fleet destroyers like the ones portrayed here were generally reserved for other duties rather than convoy escort. The British Tribal, US Fletcher and Polish Grom were all armed to the teeth and therefore sent to protect battleships and carriers, as well as engage enemy warships directly. Smaller warships were generally preferred to fight against the U-boats, most notably the British Flower class corvettes. They had half the displacement of the Fletchers and Tribals, half the speed and only one 4 inch gun. As a result, they were cheap and easy to build, so the British built a lot. I mean really, a LOT. The British built more Flowers than the US built Fletchers, while the Canadians built a hundred more. The Flowers had the second highest production run of any warship (not counting the Mark VII U-boat) in WW2. Those small ships with their dinky little 4 inch gun are a significant part of why the Allies won the Battle of the Atlantic.
@@Cailus3542 Yea.. Fletchers were the "Big ship guards"... quite literal floating AA batteries with main guns that could still bite a ship 3x their size.
@@treystroeder5506 Well they were technically 'destroyers' (i believe?) so 3 steps up from them are essentially heavy-cruisers.. Wasnt 100% sure if any Fletcher tried to 1v1 tangle with a Battleship or not :P
The thing the book nails and the film misses is just how utterly exhausted the captain is. He dare not take a shite in case he falls asleep on the head. His feet are swollen up so he has to wear his slippers. He’s been awake for literally three days straight. Forester really makes you feel for the guy.
I loved that they made a thing of the slippers. I work on drilling rigs and I know exactly how that feels. My record without sleep is 54hrs, and as you pointed out after 36 you can pretty much sleep standing up.
I felt like the movie did portray that, but probably not as directly, the clues were more subtle and sprinkled around, and only as we reached the end of the film, where he finally let’s himself relax do we get a glimpse of the physical exhaustion, and all the other moments throughout the movie suddenly add up and make sense. Then again I’ve never read the book so I could be totally wrong and reading way to much into it 😅
British actor Sir Noel Coward made a very good destroyer movie in 1943 "In Which We Serve", that bears watching. Other movies include "Destroyer", a 1943 film starring Edward G Robinson and Glenn Ford; and" The Enemy Below" with Curt Jurgens and Robert Mitchum, which is probably the definitive work on anti-submarine warfare.
Most of family is USN ANTI-submarine people (dad was a VS (fixed wing ASW guy for 20+ years (47 total), brother was an HSL (LIGHT helicopter ASW guy (SH-60 series helos (started on B-last aircraft were Romeo's) for 27 years, I was an ENLISTED tin can (destroyer) sailor for 6 years. When this came out we all had to compare notes and turns out that we had several copies of the book (some of the 15 years old), and like Hanks Screenplay immensely!
When I was growing up in Far Rockaway NYC, I heard stories that during the war people would go to the board walk and look out towards the ocean. Every once in awhile, they would see explosions and a cry and pray would go up for the victims of U boat attacks.
This movie shows the crew of a Destroyer's side of what it was like during WW2 very well. To see the crew of a U-boat's side equally well, watch "Das Boot".
Covid made that deal when it stopped them from showing it in theatres. Studio needed to recoup and Apple were the only ones offering enough for the streaming rights at the time
It must have been terrifying in those submarines. Yes, the Germans were able to use them effectively in a certain time period and then they were absolutely terrifying. Later when that period was over because the Allies had sufficient technology to counter and huge amount of ships the death rate spiked up to the highest in the german forces. Once you hit and there is to much water coming in it's over. You're not getting out of there.
If you want a good idea of what it was like for the U-Boats, and a bit more realistic, Das Boot - preferably the directors or 'miniseries' cuts. They shorten the sometimes hours long attacks they had to endure - but you see the crew slowly breaking down, including one man nearly shot by the captain (using a special gun that was I believed compressed air both for silence and reduction of collateral damage) just to keep him quiet so they aren't found while being depth charged.
The big thing that I love about this movie is the level of communication the destroyers crew. I hope/pray they make a Movie about the David vs Goliath Battle off Samar and the valiant stand of TAFFY 3
Such a good film we need more war movies like this, no story telling or statement about war, just a visceral war experience that makes you feel like you're there.
Like how the bofors was brought to bear even though it's an AA gun. Happened a fair amount actually. Destroyers in the Atlantic probably still would have had 1.1 x 5 AA guns though in 1942.
Remember there was an war crimes complaint files against the Chief Boatswain's Mate of U.S.S. Reuben James, after she rammed and SANK the U-boat she was dealing with, the Executive officer of the boat had to be transported to medical aboard James due to the fact that there was a JACK-KNIFE stuck in side of his neck! (came from the Boatswain's Mate Chief!). You know if you annoy a tin can (and I WAS a tin can sailor in the 80's) they will hit you with EVERYTHING they FIND to do damage to your ship! When you get close enough that someone can THROW a jackknife at you then that is pretty up close and personal range!
@@justinebautista1383 According to Wikipedia (so take it with a grain of salt) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-class_destroyer did not enter commission until 4 June 42......
U-Boats weren’t any more armoured than a destroyer of the time. 40mm Bofors with flak rounds is going to pepper the hull like buckshot with a good hit. Very effective against something that requires complete hull integrity to operate
It was called a "talker helmet"... a lot of shipboard communication was via voice telephone and the big helmet gave the telephone talker some combat protection while fitting over his headphones. I'll bet the original "Star Wars" production designer saw it in WWII movies...
I love how ALL the armchair quarterbacks on here comment on all the inaccuracies about the movie, "this wouldn't have happened in real life, that's all wrong" etc etc, it's an effen movie people, enjoy it for what it is, a MOVIE!
Greyhound has a great script and spectacular visuals. The only real thing that bugged me was the U-boat captains taking insane risks that they would never do. At the kind of distances portrayed here, I would expect those U-boats to dive deep and attempt slip away at slow/silent speed. Going to head to head with a destroyer is a death wish plan(in most cases). Their top speed on the surface is over 30 knots, a submerged U-boat can only do 8 knots at full/loud speed. It would be absolute madness to attack any destroyer with a U-boats popgun deck decoration, let alone a very well armed Fletcher class. The U-boat captain getting on their radio frequency to give a an evil speech was kinda immersion breaking, but i forgive it.
@@pth4545I think the speech, the cavalier tactics and all the other stuff is really the point of the film. The Grey Wolf and the other U-Boats in the Wolfpack are clearly experienced. They’ve had enough combat experience to mark their kills, paint artwork on their conning towers and clearly know how to operate as a group. My head canon for this is that the U-Boat pack leader felt invincible, being a massively successful group of merchant raiders. Being 1942, the year the Fletcher was introduced, they were massively overconfident expecting Flower class corvettes and similar ships to deal with, and thought they could just throw their weight around and get off easy. So when they ended up going toe to toe with a fully armed fletcher class they ended up biting off more than they could chew. Still not necessarily realistic, but the radio and the charging tactics make more sense if you picture a seasoned U-Boat captain used to dealing with lightly armed corvettes and Q-Ships
Mostly realistic with one huge difference, in the battle of the Atlantic all of the action was at night, the uboats would follow in the day and attack at night. Cool movie
A Uboat would never take on a destroyer like these two, they were no match for the destroyers speed and manoeuvrability. they would have dived for the bottom and hoped for the best
I would love to see a movie on Operation Rheinübung done like this. Keep it sensible. Keep it accurate. Don't turn it into a 'Midway' or 'Pearl Harbor'.
@@Thomas-lq1jw Midway was dreadful. Greyhound was far more realistic - which is too bad considering Miday was supposed to be documented on historical fact and Greyhound was a ficticious convoy escort mission.
@@Thomas-lq1jw No less rediculous than Douglas SBD's dragging their bellies through the water after releasing their bombs. In fact, radio propaganda was very prevalent during WW2, however I doubt submariners would betray their positions accordingly.
I actually asked Drachinifel -- a UK naval historian with an EXCELLENT UA-cam channel (under his name...look it up) about that and while I don't remember the exact answer I DO remember he said it was somewhat based on the culture of the Navy involved, and that for the US, saying right or left was normal. And let's face it, it takes less time to say "right" then "starboard," and in combat, seconds count.
See….. in the Royal Navy it would have been “we’ll ram that U-Boat first and foremost even if we’ve got a perfectly good shot at it because we’re the RN and we bloody love to ram stuff!”
Hard not to feel sorry for sub crews in this war in a couple respects: If they were hit they were forced to the surface, where they became sitting ducks. A surface vessel could keep fighting even after being hit, depending on where the damage was. Not so with a sub. And they had no way to signal a surrender in time to avoid being blown out of the water. Surface vessels could strike their colors to indicate surrender, but subs and U boats had no colors to strike, and there would be no time to send a crewman topside to hoist a white flag. Under the laws of war, it was legal to keep firing at a vessel until they had signaled surrender....meaning that subs that were hit even once were likely doomed, along with their entire crews.
Having only 12-14 torpedoes onboard, did a U-boat ever do more than "snipe" (i.e. shoot one and dive) at a Fletcher-class? They were out there to sink CARGO, and AVOID sub-hunters. But hey, it's Hollyweird.
They seem to in a Tom Hanks movie; remember "Saving Private Ryan"? Machine gun bullets seemed to be able to go through several feet of water and still kill.
@@MikeRoberts1964 The movie Cast Away with Hanks..... The Turbo fan engine floating on the surface and still operating trying to suck Hanks to his death..
They were basically fighting for 48h at this point , the scene right after this shows the Captains foot all bloody from all the running around he was doing.
I would think befote cheering and congradulating themselves, that they wouldn wait for debris to appear, a sure sign that they did blow up the enemy sub.
Why are the boys cheering? They are not going to get a kill painted on the conning tower- The Cat tagged that boy with two bombs! The first one, yeah, they poured the coal into that sub, blowing the tower off and smacking the conn with several 5 inchers before it blew.
They are cheering because they aren't going to get any torpedoes down their throat. That second sub had them if it wasn't for the Cat dropping those bombs.
One day they will make a film about a chap called Johnnie Walker… a real war hero who probably did more than any other person to combat the U boat threat in WW2…
The CGI effects are very good and the film is entertaining enough- but the plot is pure Hollywood and the film is riddled with inaccuracies. That U-Boat was forced to the surface because it's commander chose to take on a convoy escort- something which U-Boat skippers in WW2 avoided like the plague. Until early 1943, the Germans didn't even have a torpedo which could engage destroyers. The Germans had a torpedo fiasco which almost rivaled ours; in its aftermath, the depth settings of their torpedoes were such that they were unable to target destroyers. Not that they wanted to, however; tankers and freighters were priority targets in the German Navy's "tonnage war" and much easier to hit. Even that class of U.S. destroyer (the Fletcher class) wasn't in service in the time frame of the film. That it was used anyway reflects either sloppiness or apathy. In fact, the allied warships which predominated in the Battle of the Atlantic were 'not' destroyers. Without taking anything away from DDs, corvettes and destroyer escorts were far more numerous and made a far greater contribution toward defeating the U- Boat menace. Tom Hanks is a truly exceptional actor- but he's far too old to be portraying a destroyer skipper; they were young men. Lastly- the bit of the U-Boat skipper taunting the Americans is laughable. Such a thing never took place- not even once- during the entire war I understand that the first priority for a film is entertainment and profit. It has to be. That said, this film could have been far more historically accurate while not losing one iota of entertainment value and could have turned a greater profit at the box office. Those who made this film put together a mediocre item (reflected by its approval ratings) and relied primarily on Tom Hanks and CGI eye candy in the name of sensationalism- and the mediocrity shows.
The plot is that of a Novel written in 1955 called The Good Shepherd written by one C. S. Forester, the same bloke who wrote the Hornblower books. Of course, they couldn't call the Film the same name as the Novel as there was already a film called the Good Shepherd, starring Tom Hanks.
U-Boats ruled the waves, especially in the North Atlantic, early in the war. Not so much later on as we got better at detection and tactics. Last year of the war with Germany it was a death sentence to go to sea in one.
While this movie maybe be a good one. What is bullshit is that Tom Hanks is not in battle dress, i.e. helmet and life preserver. Mr. Hanks stays in Dress Blues while underway, that’s incorrect as well he would have been in khakis. The uniform of an officer at work. He is not at the pentagon. Just shows how inaccurate Hollywood is true to factual information.
If I recall, the captain had just conducted a burial at sea rite for sailors killed in an earlier action. He dressed for the occasion. This attack sequence happened right after that. The captain didn't have time to change into proper battle dress.
@@jonpetering7121 Plus it's a movie and they probably wanted everyone to be able to keep track of Hanks. Dress him like everyone else and the audience might lose him. Being in blue really stands out against everything and everyone else on that ship.
If you're an assassin moving alone, you should not go face to face with your enemy. Your mission is to hide yourself and give your enemy a fatal strike at an unpredictable time and place. Even if you are going to die, don't let your enemy know. You die quietly in a secret place, and your enemies will still fear you and guard against you. That's what a submarine should do.
I disagree. The USS Harder took at least four destroyers down before falling afoul of a lucky depth charge. Sam Dealey would face the enemy and fire torpedoes directly into the destroyer's bow. My grand uncle died on that courageous ship. They did not slink away. They died grinning in the face of death.
My gosh guys. I’ve been a smaller channel for over 2 years now and for some reason this video explodes starting august 8th. Of course it was decently popular on April 30th too. I just can’t thank you all enough. I will certainly start reviews on greyhound. That’s if you guys want more that is. But hey let me know what kind of video you guys would like to see next in the comments! Again thank you guys so much for this! I never imagined my channel would blow up like this!!!
keep uploading clips in HD
@@elgitano5329 just did!
Its neat how the U-Tube algorithm can surprise you.
If you are seeking viewer reviews of Greyhound, I would be glad to provide one.
@@johntechwriter Sure!
Now THIS is how CGI really adds to a film. It is not there to wow the audience, but to add realism to an environment that would be impossible to duplicate physically.
Exactly.
Correct.
It could have been. Unfortunately, scenes like this one aren't realistic at all. It's just like most Hollywood war movies : Fury, Midway, Pearl Harbor, etc. Lot's of action and fun to watch, but realistic ? : No.
@@fletsepopje This movie is entertainment first. And meant to make a profit. That being said I think it is the most realistic Atlantic convoy movie I have seen. Since none of us commenting have served on a destroyer in the Atlantic in the Second World War we can’t speak from direct experience. But for me I have enjoyed it many times in spite of it’s irritations at times.
Spot-on.
My father in law joined the Navy on 12/8/41 at 16. By early 1942 he was a torpedo man in the destroyer escort fleet doing convoy duty in the North Atlantic. He made 37 trips through the Panama Canal seeing Naval combat in both the Atlantic & pacific theaters. I never asked him to talk just waited & hoped he would. When he finally did his stories made the hair on the back of my neck stand up we miss you Brownie. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!
Those serving now only serve corporate interests. Your father in law was one of the ones that actually served.
@@shade9272 Bull Scat!!! R U Russian or Chinese paid?
@@shade9272 General Butler said the same thing before WW1
I'M a f----r and a fighter I'm a Tin Can Rider !! Having been a Tin Can sailor in the Navy for the bulk of my career and My father being in the Pacific during WWII I really enjoyed this movie. The equipment and cramped quarters of the ship were done very well. CGI or not at least it was done extremely well. Tom Hanks, is there anyone better? Thanks for the short video
Greyhound acts like a good sheepdog to keep the wolves at bay. Watching this clip with my sheltie at my side. Great to have Catalina air support too!
Tom Hanks lost me a long time ago
Scenes like this make you appreciate just how much firepower a destroyer back in those days could bring to bear on a target. Up to something like 5 or 6 5" guns and maybe a dozen or more 40mm cannons blazing away at one target
Fleet destroyers like the ones portrayed here were generally reserved for other duties rather than convoy escort. The British Tribal, US Fletcher and Polish Grom were all armed to the teeth and therefore sent to protect battleships and carriers, as well as engage enemy warships directly. Smaller warships were generally preferred to fight against the U-boats, most notably the British Flower class corvettes. They had half the displacement of the Fletchers and Tribals, half the speed and only one 4 inch gun. As a result, they were cheap and easy to build, so the British built a lot.
I mean really, a LOT. The British built more Flowers than the US built Fletchers, while the Canadians built a hundred more. The Flowers had the second highest production run of any warship (not counting the Mark VII U-boat) in WW2. Those small ships with their dinky little 4 inch gun are a significant part of why the Allies won the Battle of the Atlantic.
@@Cailus3542 Yea.. Fletchers were the "Big ship guards"... quite literal floating AA batteries with main guns that could still bite a ship 3x their size.
Destroyers are far more powerful now. A Royal Navy 'Daring Class' destroyer could deal with the entirety of the Argentine airforce on its own.
@@Gwydion_Wolf3x isn’t high enough. Trying 4x at minimum.
@@treystroeder5506 Well they were technically 'destroyers' (i believe?) so 3 steps up from them are essentially heavy-cruisers.. Wasnt 100% sure if any Fletcher tried to 1v1 tangle with a Battleship or not :P
The thing the book nails and the film misses is just how utterly exhausted the captain is. He dare not take a shite in case he falls asleep on the head. His feet are swollen up so he has to wear his slippers. He’s been awake for literally three days straight. Forester really makes you feel for the guy.
I loved that they made a thing of the slippers. I work on drilling rigs and I know exactly how that feels. My record without sleep is 54hrs, and as you pointed out after 36 you can pretty much sleep standing up.
I felt like the movie did portray that, but probably not as directly, the clues were more subtle and sprinkled around, and only as we reached the end of the film, where he finally let’s himself relax do we get a glimpse of the physical exhaustion, and all the other moments throughout the movie suddenly add up and make sense.
Then again I’ve never read the book so I could be totally wrong and reading way to much into it 😅
British actor Sir Noel Coward made a very good destroyer movie in 1943 "In Which We Serve", that bears watching. Other movies include "Destroyer", a 1943 film starring Edward G Robinson and Glenn Ford; and" The Enemy Below" with Curt Jurgens and Robert Mitchum, which is probably the definitive work on anti-submarine warfare.
Most of family is USN ANTI-submarine people (dad was a VS (fixed wing ASW guy for 20+ years (47 total), brother was an HSL (LIGHT helicopter ASW guy (SH-60 series helos (started on B-last aircraft were Romeo's) for 27 years, I was an ENLISTED tin can (destroyer) sailor for 6 years. When this came out we all had to compare notes and turns out that we had several copies of the book (some of the 15 years old), and like Hanks Screenplay immensely!
The Cruel Sea.
@@jeffpotipco736 Thanks I'll have to look that one up
Thanks
@@ThePyramidone British film. Black and white. 1952? , 53?
When I was growing up in Far Rockaway NYC, I heard stories that during the war people would go to the board walk and look out towards the ocean. Every once in awhile, they would see explosions and a cry and pray would go up for the victims of U boat attacks.
This movie shows the crew of a Destroyer's side of what it was like during WW2 very well. To see the crew of a U-boat's side equally well, watch "Das Boot".
Nah. That's garbage.too dated
@@jonnyblayze5149it's like saying novels from that era is garbage because "Too dated"
@@jonnyblayze5149 they had actual u-boat servicemen to help make the movie. the further away from ww2 the harder it gets to make accurate ww2 movies
There is no way a destroyer would have a captain that old.
@@edenbreckhouse I belive he was the commander of all the warships attached to the convoy, and was in the largest of the ships.
Probably would have been a really popular film if not only available on AppleTV... Well done, whoever made that deal
Covid made that deal when it stopped them from showing it in theatres. Studio needed to recoup and Apple were the only ones offering enough for the streaming rights at the time
It must have been terrifying in those submarines. Yes, the Germans were able to use them effectively in a certain time period and then they were absolutely terrifying. Later when that period was over because the Allies had sufficient technology to counter and huge amount of ships the death rate spiked up to the highest in the german forces. Once you hit and there is to much water coming in it's over. You're not getting out of there.
The U-boat corps casualty rates were only surpassed by the japanese Kamikaze units
If you want a good idea of what it was like for the U-Boats, and a bit more realistic, Das Boot - preferably the directors or 'miniseries' cuts. They shorten the sometimes hours long attacks they had to endure - but you see the crew slowly breaking down, including one man nearly shot by the captain (using a special gun that was I believed compressed air both for silence and reduction of collateral damage) just to keep him quiet so they aren't found while being depth charged.
Now they need to do one about the Battle of Samar. It'd be awesone seeing a Fletcher going up against the Yamato and her escorts.
absolutely fabulous movie! Hanks excelled beyond imagination!. Brave German sailors!.
The big thing that I love about this movie is the level of communication the destroyers crew. I hope/pray they make a Movie about the David vs Goliath Battle off Samar and the valiant stand of TAFFY 3
Okay...somehow I missed this one when it came out. Now it's a must-see for me!
Never made the theatre because of Covid.
Such a good film we need more war movies like this, no story telling or statement about war, just a visceral war experience that makes you feel like you're there.
Another Tom fake as non-real americian action flick. to think some people would find most of this action was real. Go fig.
@@paulfixx1140 Waa. Do you need a little time to yourself?
@@jaimeosbourn3616 For what?
@@paulfixx1140 So you can deal with the stress of believing that you know what you are talking about.
@@jaimeosbourn3616 Do you?
Like how the bofors was brought to bear even though it's an AA gun. Happened a fair amount actually. Destroyers in the Atlantic probably still would have had 1.1 x 5 AA guns though in 1942.
Remember there was an war crimes complaint files against the Chief Boatswain's Mate of U.S.S. Reuben James, after she rammed and SANK the U-boat she was dealing with, the Executive officer of the boat had to be transported to medical aboard James due to the fact that there was a JACK-KNIFE stuck in side of his neck! (came from the Boatswain's Mate Chief!). You know if you annoy a tin can (and I WAS a tin can sailor in the 80's) they will hit you with EVERYTHING they FIND to do damage to your ship! When you get close enough that someone can THROW a jackknife at you then that is pretty up close and personal range!
except there were no Fletcher-class destroyers in service at that time
It depends what time in 1942 this is if its june or July there are already a few Fletcher's in service
@@justinebautista1383 According to Wikipedia (so take it with a grain of salt) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher-class_destroyer did not enter commission until 4 June 42......
U-Boats weren’t any more armoured than a destroyer of the time. 40mm Bofors with flak rounds is going to pepper the hull like buckshot with a good hit. Very effective against something that requires complete hull integrity to operate
It also seems this is the 3rd most viewed video of the final scene of greyhound now!!! Thanks so much guys!!!
Love how they made the sea cap look.
Fire control guy looks like Darth helmet.
It was called a "talker helmet"... a lot of shipboard communication was via voice telephone and the big helmet gave the telephone talker some combat protection while fitting over his headphones. I'll bet the original "Star Wars" production designer saw it in WWII movies...
Dad was transferred off of the USS Spence DD512 just days before Halsey ran into Typhoon Cobra. 790 souls lost to bad weather...damn.
absolutely fabulous movie! Hanks excelled beyond imagination!
And that’s why he’s my favorite actor!
1:10 -- That moment when a ship full of sailors get the chance to let out an entire crossing's worth of anger and frustraition.
I really really wish this movie can be on the big screen!
nah
A more exciting ending than the novel.
@David McLay, it took a long time to finish the book after watching the movie.
Surprisingly (to me) there are more movies about u-boats in WWII than there were actual u-boats in service during the war.
I love how ALL the armchair quarterbacks on here comment on all the inaccuracies about the movie, "this wouldn't have happened in real life, that's all wrong" etc etc, it's an effen movie people, enjoy it for what it is, a MOVIE!
Greyhound has a great script and spectacular visuals.
The only real thing that bugged me was the U-boat captains taking insane risks that they would never do. At the kind of distances portrayed here, I would expect those U-boats to dive deep and attempt slip away at slow/silent speed. Going to head to head with a destroyer is a death wish plan(in most cases). Their top speed on the surface is over 30 knots, a submerged U-boat can only do 8 knots at full/loud speed.
It would be absolute madness to attack any destroyer with a U-boats popgun deck decoration, let alone a very well armed Fletcher class.
The U-boat captain getting on their radio frequency to give a an evil speech was kinda immersion breaking, but i forgive it.
@@pth4545I think the speech, the cavalier tactics and all the other stuff is really the point of the film.
The Grey Wolf and the other U-Boats in the Wolfpack are clearly experienced. They’ve had enough combat experience to mark their kills, paint artwork on their conning towers and clearly know how to operate as a group.
My head canon for this is that the U-Boat pack leader felt invincible, being a massively successful group of merchant raiders.
Being 1942, the year the Fletcher was introduced, they were massively overconfident expecting Flower class corvettes and similar ships to deal with, and thought they could just throw their weight around and get off easy. So when they ended up going toe to toe with a fully armed fletcher class they ended up biting off more than they could chew.
Still not necessarily realistic, but the radio and the charging tactics make more sense if you picture a seasoned U-Boat captain used to dealing with lightly armed corvettes and Q-Ships
That's called the greatest Generation right there people..
Hell yeah.
Yep. Our generation is a disgrace compared to those heros
Because of the struggle …
A generation that killed millions and millions of innocent people. What a lovely period to be alive in.
The mighty Fletcher class at work!
absolutely fabulous movie! Hanks excelled beyond imagination!. I really really wish this movie can be on the big screen!.
My great-grandfather was there operating the cannons that fired at the sub.
Bullshit - the film is fiction
Cool story bro.
Mostly realistic with one huge difference, in the battle of the Atlantic all of the action was at night, the uboats would follow in the day and attack at night. Cool movie
I hate seeing these movies lost in a rabbit hole, will it even ever come out on Bluray?
Imagine a lone destroyer fighting on the sea filled with silent wolf packs, that is stupidly intense
God I wish this was a movie that could have been watched in cinema
And that folks is why as a U-boat you don’t tango with a DD unless you know you can kill it or run away if abd when your luck runs out
I just want to see Tom Hanks play a villain or lose one time. The man us the same in everything.
Captain Walker is who the movie should have been about. He destroyed more boats than anyone.
The ending of the movie is much more climactic than the book.
You know what. I almost wish they did this picture in black-and-white
A Uboat would never take on a destroyer like these two, they were no match for the destroyers speed and manoeuvrability. they would have dived for the bottom and hoped for the best
If a UBoat is forced to the surface they either fight it out or surrender.
Ya it’s suicidal for the u boats and I don’t understand why
Well, they had to follow the script.
@@chaichokpang5754 A five inch shell from Greyhound struck the conning tower as it was attempting to dive forcing them to surface.
You miss context of the movie, by not seeing the movie, then blame them for something you're naive of.
Okay. Dude!
Gute Effekte, aber mit der Kanone das Boot unterwasser zu treffen,geht leider nicht. 😊
I would love to see a movie on Operation Rheinübung done like this. Keep it sensible. Keep it accurate. Don't turn it into a 'Midway' or 'Pearl Harbor'.
But 'Midway' is actually pretty realistic?
Uhm, that Greyhound movie is a lot of things, but not accurate or realistic. It's just for entertainment.
Midway is way more accurate and realistic
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Midway was dreadful. Greyhound was far more realistic - which is too bad considering Miday was supposed to be documented on historical fact and Greyhound was a ficticious convoy escort mission.
@@raynus1160 Sure, because german submarine were talking to the escorts, keep dreaming
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No less rediculous than Douglas SBD's dragging their bellies through the water after releasing their bombs. In fact, radio propaganda was very prevalent during WW2, however I doubt submariners would betray their positions accordingly.
I hope to watch the full movie on one of the pay to view channels one day.
Great movie.
Imagine if this went to theater if COVID didn't happen (yet). Imagine the box office sales.
Those 40mms Will trash a ww2 submarine *just fine.*
I can never find this thing anywhere...any suggestions?
一人で全ての責任を背負い過ぎる艦長でしたね。
Excellent movie.
So they are shooting at the sub so the plane can follow the trail?
Wait, he did not jumped into the sea and finished the U off with his magic Tiger-killing Thompson? disappointing i say !
Actually a 1911 killed that tiger
The best movie of battleship of the IIWW
Awesome movie
Hollywood aside, could those antiaircraft guns on Fletcher-class destroyers traverse that low?
Where's this movie ??? All I ever see is this teaser ..
OK, cool scene, but a captain saying "full left" rather than "hard to port," not likely. Small details matter.
I actually asked Drachinifel -- a UK naval historian with an EXCELLENT UA-cam channel (under his name...look it up) about that and while I don't remember the exact answer I DO remember he said it was somewhat based on the culture of the Navy involved, and that for the US, saying right or left was normal. And let's face it, it takes less time to say "right" then "starboard," and in combat, seconds count.
See….. in the Royal Navy it would have been “we’ll ram that U-Boat first and foremost even if we’ve got a perfectly good shot at it because we’re the RN and we bloody love to ram stuff!”
Hard not to feel sorry for sub crews in this war in a couple respects: If they were hit they were forced to the surface, where they became sitting ducks. A surface vessel could keep fighting even after being hit, depending on where the damage was. Not so with a sub. And they had no way to signal a surrender in time to avoid being blown out of the water. Surface vessels could strike their colors to indicate surrender, but subs and U boats had no colors to strike, and there would be no time to send a crewman topside to hoist a white flag. Under the laws of war, it was legal to keep firing at a vessel until they had signaled surrender....meaning that subs that were hit even once were likely doomed, along with their entire crews.
the cruel sea is only film worth watching on this subject
what movie is this wtf .... never heard of it
Love me some combined arms...
So… this was a world of warship advertisement for the new sub game mode right ?
No no jk.
The captain in a dress uniform, no helmet, while under fire?
Having only 12-14 torpedoes onboard, did a U-boat ever do more than "snipe" (i.e. shoot one and dive) at a Fletcher-class? They were out there to sink CARGO, and AVOID sub-hunters. But hey, it's Hollyweird.
Read the book this is based on, only seen various scenes from the movie. I already like the movie better.
請問這部影片的片名是什麼？
Rounds do not travel that distance in the water.
They seem to in a Tom Hanks movie; remember "Saving Private Ryan"? Machine gun bullets seemed to be able to go through several feet of water and still kill.
@@MikeRoberts1964 Yes. Lol. I remember that..
@@MikeRoberts1964 The producers don't seem to realize that water is very dence.
@@MikeRoberts1964 The movie Cast Away with Hanks..... The Turbo fan engine floating on the surface and still operating trying to suck Hanks to his death..
@@MikeRoberts1964 Myth Busters put that one to rest. But a five inch round fired at a barely submerged UBooat, I'm not so sure it's not impossible.
super realism!!! BOOM BOOM BOOM!! army talk bearing this sir! TOM HANKS!! NAVY MOVIE! boom boom wahhooohh!
Wird der Unsinn immer noch eingestellt?
Why is the ship's Captain wearing his dress blue uniform ... at sea ... during a battle?
They were basically fighting for 48h at this point , the scene right after this shows the Captains foot all bloody from all the running around he was doing.
Fighting non-stop but also in terms of the movie so it's easy for the audience to keep track of Tom Hanks.
Nice cut scene. What game is it from?
not a game its a movie
I would think befote cheering and congradulating themselves, that they wouldn wait for debris to appear, a sure sign that they did blow up the enemy sub.
Brave German sailors!. Excellent movie..
Dead German sailors. God bless America
Tom Hanks should b the captain of the HBO movie hit em harder!.
Catalina's for the win . . .
0:23 Nunca um comandante de submarino ia disparar um torpedo com o alvo voltado de frente para ele. A chance de acerto seria 0,00001% Truco!!!!
I guess this is the fallback career when the Polar Express doesn't work out.
Germany lost the war for Hitler could not see the submarines potential. He was just a short minded sergeant with a huge power of destruction.
Why are the boys cheering? They are not going to get a kill painted on the conning tower- The Cat tagged that boy with two bombs! The first one, yeah, they poured the coal into that sub, blowing the tower off and smacking the conn with several 5 inchers before it blew.
They are cheering because they aren't going to get any torpedoes down their throat. That second sub had them if it wasn't for the Cat dropping those bombs.
this is Fury in Warships movies
One day they will make a film about a chap called Johnnie Walker… a real war hero who probably did more than any other person to combat the U boat threat in WW2…
were ships really this inaccurate at such a close range?
YOU try shooting a moving target when your own platform is moving forward, bobbing up & down, and heeling side to side.
Tom Hanks needs gloves.
Don’t they know you can never outrun a destroyer, look like a suicidal to me
they weren't trying to out run it, they were trying to torpedo it from two different angles at once so the destroyer couldn't avoid them.
too frenetic a scene by far. two u-boats, overly chatty skipper, air cover... ayiyi
The CGI effects are very good and the film is entertaining enough- but the plot is pure Hollywood and the film is riddled with inaccuracies. That U-Boat was forced to the surface because it's commander chose to take on a convoy escort- something which U-Boat skippers in WW2 avoided like the plague. Until early 1943, the Germans didn't even have a torpedo which could engage destroyers. The Germans had a torpedo fiasco which almost rivaled ours; in its aftermath, the depth settings of their torpedoes were such that they were unable to target destroyers. Not that they wanted to, however; tankers and freighters were priority targets in the German Navy's "tonnage war" and much easier to hit.
Even that class of U.S. destroyer (the Fletcher class) wasn't in service in the time frame of the film. That it was used anyway reflects either sloppiness or apathy. In fact, the allied warships which predominated in the Battle of the Atlantic were 'not' destroyers. Without taking anything away from DDs, corvettes and destroyer escorts were far more numerous and made a far greater contribution toward defeating the U- Boat menace. Tom Hanks is a truly exceptional actor- but he's far too old to be portraying a destroyer skipper; they were young men. Lastly- the bit of the U-Boat skipper taunting the Americans is laughable. Such a thing never took place- not even once- during the entire war
I understand that the first priority for a film is entertainment and profit. It has to be. That said, this film could have been far more historically accurate while not losing one iota of entertainment value and could have turned a greater profit at the box office. Those who made this film put together a mediocre item (reflected by its approval ratings) and relied primarily on Tom Hanks and CGI eye candy in the name of sensationalism- and the mediocrity shows.
The plot is that of a Novel written in 1955 called The Good Shepherd written by one C. S. Forester, the same bloke who wrote the Hornblower books. Of course, they couldn't call the Film the same name as the Novel as there was already a film called the Good Shepherd, starring Tom Hanks.
This video against Nazis?
Yes
Well, there's an anti-OC hates me...
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@@greywolfgaming5300 Das Boot (Director's Cut), German U-Boat adventure epic, (Anti - Nazi also) worn-out U-boat crew struggle, worth checking out.
U-Boats ruled the waves, especially in the North Atlantic, early in the war.
Not so much later on as we got better at detection and tactics. Last year of the war with Germany it was a death sentence to go to sea in one.
my guy reuploaded this from youtube lmao
While this movie maybe be a good one. What is bullshit is that Tom Hanks is not in battle dress, i.e. helmet and life preserver. Mr. Hanks stays in Dress Blues while underway, that’s incorrect as well he would have been in khakis. The uniform of an officer at work. He is not at the pentagon. Just shows how inaccurate Hollywood is true to factual information.
If I recall, the captain had just conducted a burial at sea rite for sailors killed in an earlier action. He dressed for the occasion. This attack sequence happened right after that. The captain didn't have time to change into proper battle dress.
@@jonpetering7121 Plus it's a movie and they probably wanted everyone to be able to keep track of Hanks. Dress him like everyone else and the audience might lose him. Being in blue really stands out against everything and everyone else on that ship.
almost believable except that theres not a drop of spray hitting Tom Hanks.
Target hit 0:41-1:23 -1:27
So sleek so fast
Read the novel.
The Good Shepherd
If you're an assassin moving alone, you should not go face to face with your enemy. Your mission is to hide yourself and give your enemy a fatal strike at an unpredictable time and place. Even if you are going to die, don't let your enemy know. You die quietly in a secret place, and your enemies will still fear you and guard against you. That's what a submarine should do.
I disagree. The USS Harder took at least four destroyers down before falling afoul of a lucky depth charge. Sam Dealey would face the enemy and fire torpedoes directly into the destroyer's bow. My grand uncle died on that courageous ship. They did not slink away. They died grinning in the face of death.
Final battle one zero zero Torpedo launched by submarine realistic scene
those stupid Awooooo of that Nazi U-boat make em look even more dumb after they got destroyed
That was my only problem with the movie, the U-boat making contact with the convoy just to give someone to root against.
You meant "German U-boat"? - there is no Nazi nation
In daylight 2 submarines fight with 2 fucking destroyers and anti sub plane in surface :DD I believe this actually happen :D
I have watched the movie, nothing really happened, it was just a movie..