Best Films containing Boat Action Sequences

[wakeup]

Ok so we've all got to sit out yet another UK winter waiting for the spring to arrive so we can get our boating adrenalin fixes.

For those of you that ski you may be familliar with a chap called Warren Miller who makes extreme ski films. These films have kept away the ski blues which usually start 3 weeks before the season and last until about a month after.

Firstly is there a Warren Miller equivalent for the MoBo world?

Secondly what are the best films containing adrenalin pumping mobo sequences in your oppinioons. The bond films are the obvious ones but if we were to compile of a list of must see boating sequences from movies what would they be and from which film. Film doesn't need to be good but the seuqnece does.

Seems like there could be a market opportunity here for anyone with a Camcorder, just imagine TCM filiming from his lepoard whilst being chased by Coliholic on a jet rib through entrance to the old port in Antibes....



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[KevL]

I can just imagine it ...

After a long car chase through crowded streets TCM screeches his 360 Modena to a halt Magnum style and jumps aboard the Lepoard. The lepoards mighty engines complete with gold plated rocker covers fire up just as Cuteyholic handbrakes the Diablo to a stop on the quay. As the Lepoard moves off Cuteyholic realises that he can't make the Jump aboard but spys a rib and within seconds has leaped from the quay into it. With a seemingly effortless single tug of pull cord the engine fires into life, TCM nervously looks over his sholder as Cuteyholic is gaining on him and ......Oh ........Cuteyholic has fallen in........

KevL

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[wakeup]

MoBo Productions has a script writer! nm

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[ari]

Re: MoBo Productions has a script writer! nm

James Bond, especially "The World Is Not Enough" is as stated the obvious one, but wasn't there a film some time back called "The French Connection" I think, featuring a pretty spectacular speedboat chase with Shakespeares I think.

Also some good stuff on Miami Vice of course, oh we're back to TCM again!! :-D

 

[ccscott49]

Re: MoBo Productions has a script writer! nm

Some good ones in that other bond film, set in louisiana, alligators and all that stuff. And another, moonraker was it.

 

[ari]

Re: MoBo Productions has a script writer! nm

You are thinking of "Live And Let Die", absolutely fantastic, Bond in a Glastron with Evinrude outboard. You remember the bit where he runs out of river, hits the bank, clears the police car and lands on the other side and keeps going? That was a "real" jump, not trick filming and it actually appeared in "The Guiness Book of Records" as the longest powerboat jump.

There was a boat chase in Moonraker, but nothing like as spectacular.

Now, where me anorak!

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: cripes

everytime i saw coverage of the Volve Ocean race it was all stuff in port and no stuff out in the wilds. the only good bits i saw were snippetts at LBS

i think when clare francis did the whitbread there where some good southern ocean sequences on the tv.
challenge also have a vid of their round the world stuff
some excellent southern ocean foredeck action there.

the film stuff is all faked so i never really go for it. much prefer the documentary type stuff, tho there is precious little.

or there was always howards way
Jack Rolf building wooden boats in the mermaid boatyard
a hard drinking madman obsessed with wood and boats

now who could have inspired that??????????????????

oh and the slimy ken masters in his sharp pastel jumpers slip on shoes with a chestnut vtan and big motor boat????????????

cripes
YBW boards immitating art or vice versa?

i am sure i could script something.


Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[ari]

Re: cripes

With the "The World Is Not Enough" DVD there is a program attached which is a documentory on the making of the Powerboat chase intro.

Some of it is fake, but some of it is scarily real!! Not sure if those stunt guys are very very brave or very very stupid!

 

[ccscott49]

Re: MoBo Productions has a script writer! nm

I've just bought a boxed set of 19 james bond movies on Ebay, I am a fanatic myself, real chewing gum for the brain, a real flight of fancy, I love them.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: cripes

mm donot have a video or dvd so have not seen it
i was thinking more of sailing scenes in stroms
it is all done in a set with a rocking deck being pulled up and down iun front of camera as buckets of water are being chucked at them

my cinematic knowledge extends only to films shown on one of the four terrestrial channells on the odd time i watch the magic lantern.
last film i saw at the cinema was top gun.

Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[wakeup]

Re: cripes

Right, I'm off to buy this then asap.

Any other receommendations...

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[tome]

Re: cripes

Perfect Storm had some pretty realistic scenes (based on experience) but crap story line. Apparently the book is much better

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: cripes

Cannot comment as have not scene
was that george clooney in the fishing boat??
all the fisherman i know look they have fallen out the ugly tree.

I read a book last year called Isaac's storm about the flooding of Galveston

now that would have made a good film.
big part of town washed away

there was an article in the S Times yesterday about a strom that hit britain in 1703, part promo for a new book
sounded a good read.

Come on brain.get this over and i can go back to killing you with beer

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

There's the obvious one 'Apocalypse Now' in which a moody Martin Sheen goes ploughing up some Vietnamese river in a US Navy motorboat in search of a corpulent Marlon Brando - plenty of zooming about at planing speed in this one but funnily enough no complaints from the VC about wash
But my absolute fave rave film boating sequence is in that underrated masterpiece 'Caddyshack' in which Rodney Dangerfield causes mayhem in a fabulously gross Hatteras type cruiser culminating in the boat stopping inches short of the Yacht Club Commodore's newly launched wooden sailing yacht only for Dangerfield to inadvertently hit the electric anchor winch control dropping the anchor through the deck of the yacht and sinking it - an absolute hoot for we MoBo types but maybe not for our yottie friends who might not see the funny side of it

 

[burgundyben]

From Russia with Love.

Bloody heathens the lot of ya, Bond makes his getaway with hot totty in a Huntress with extra fuel drums and lets fuel drums go in water and lights them with a flare to kill the baddies who are in pursuit in two Hunstman 28s and two Huntress.

Cant beleive you lot never mentioned it.



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[wakeup]

A great example, I been wracking my brains to think of some but couldn't, that's why I posed the question.

You're right Apocolypse Now was amazing, planing speeds up a river no less with huge through hull exhausts. How did they ever expect to take the VC by suprise.

Caddy Shack, I am sure I've seen the film but can't remember that scene.

I would have to nominate Charlies Angels (Re-make) for the scene with the Donzi..

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[wakeup]

Boats Mentioned So Far

Sunseeker Superhawk in 'The world is not enough'
I think that there was a Princess in this film also but maybe wrong.

Glastron in 'Live and let die'

Some sad old raggies stuff the Sailbad is going on about.

A US Navy boat in 'apocalypes now'

A sad old fisher trawler in 'perfect storm'

A hattera in 'Caddy shack'

Huntress and Huntsman in 'From Russia with Love'

Surely there must be lots more out there apart from the Bondy films?

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[ari]

Hey, there was Donzi's in Spy Kids now you come to mention it! I'm sure you've all seen Spy Kids haven't you....??? :-D

 

[ari]

Re: Boats Mentioned So Far

Princess 40 in World Is Not Enough., there was a little sign next to it at Earls Court boatshow that year, "As seen in..."

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

The whole premise of Apocalypse Now is a bit wierd, apparently loosely based on a true story though. Caddyshack is worth catching though even if you're not interested in golf