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* [[Mildly Military]] - Roughly 95% of the movie is utterly bizarre, implausible, and will reduce real submariners to hysterical laughter. Still fun to watch. Some examples:
** The idea that any captain would order a missile-launching drill while an actual fire had been reported is risible. ''Any'' fire is worrisome on shipboard, and doubly so on submarines (due to concerns about confined spaces and limited oxygen). Drills are NEVER run during an actual casualty.
*** Additionally, once a fire has been reported onboard a warship that fire is treated as still in-progress until ''after'' a) the damage control team has reported to the bridge that the fire is confirmed out and b) the spot where the fire occurred has been kept under "reflash watch" for a period of time after it is extinguished to confirm that the fire hasn't restarted.
** The entire conflict between Ramsey and Hunter prior to the missile launch crisis is artificially inflated for pure rule of drama. In real life, if a CO and an XO have disagreements the absolute last thing either officer will do is air those disagreements anywhere except to each other in private, let alone mutter them to the enlisted men behind each other's backs. They will do these even if they absolutely despise each other, because undermining a senior officer's authority in public indirectly damages every other officer's authority as well -- including their own. Hunter's derogatory comments about Ramsay to both the messcook in the galley and the Chief of the Boat should have had him relieved of his post about two minutes after they were first brought to Ramsay's attention.
** There are at least three separate points in the movie where the submarine sustains damage that would logically require the next scene to be "fade to black, loud crunching noises, roll credits". Of course, this being a movie, the damage is heroically repaired by sailors jiggling the controls and heroically banging on things. In reality? If your engine room is flooded, your sub is dead. If you've lost reactor power, battery power, and the ability to do an emergency blow of your ballast tanks all simultaneously, your sub is dead. If you have water in the people tank in both the rear section and the front section simultaneously, then no matter what else is going on your sub is dead, dead, so very very dead.
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