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Death Ship

Started by stavner, January 25, 1999, 11:21:50 PM

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John Dashwood

Say what you want. Nazi were damn good cooks! Dressed sharp too.

Barfoclop

Anyone notice that "Nazi" jacket Kennedy was wearing had an Eastern Airlines logo on it?

Wow, was this film bad... but in a good-bad way.

Joe the Destroyer

God help me!  I actually enjoyed this flick!

nooly

now that was a bad movie... sometimes i couldn't believe my eyes... and when i thought i was about to get bored, something funny came up =)

TheDope

**A SPOILER OR TWO**

I got this movie on the basis of your review, Andrew.

Man, you were so right.

I could tell right away the Jack Hill influence in the script - random acts of cruel violence and rampant embarrassment of the women herein.  Anyone who has seen anything with Jack Hill's name in the credits knows what I mean.

The most painful thing about it was that, in spite of every actor's apparent desire to try and act in a plausible movie, the direction, effects and pacing smack them down at every turn.  And then there's the business of the ending where Marshall's wife is locked up by Ashland one moment and then, after Ashland is waylaid and Ashland and his kids ready themselves to leave the ship, Ashland's wife magically appears, out of the locked chamber and offering no explanation as to how she got out.  Amazing.

And what kind of self-respecting cruise ship lets itself get wrecked by a Nazi ship that doesn't even move?

Painful is an overused word to describe movies like this but in the case of Death Ship, it's accurate.


TheDope: bringing the conversation to a grinding halt since 2002.

Harold Alexander

QuoteStuff to Watch For:

13 mins - This is stock footage from "The Poseidon Adventure" or something.

As somebody noted before, the stock footage is taken from THE LAST VOYAGE (1960), whose starring was Robert Stack.

quasar1967

recently watched this and i can honestly say its not the best film nor the worst. its confusing at times, especially towards the end when scenes transition in a confusing way and most of the deaths make no logical sense whatsoever