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Film
FilmPG-131996
Down Periscope
Directed by David S. Ward
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2… From TMDB
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Down Periscope is a 1996 comedy film, directed by David S. Ward, starring Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly and Rob Schneider.
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60 of 144 · most liked firstAmazon Prime was like, "Hey you wanna watch Down Periscope?" and I was like, "Do I!" But I'd forgotten that the movie was made before women served aboard USN subs. Want to know more? The Navy has a story about that. Or *had* a story about that. www.navy.mil/Press-Office...
neutral · AI labelView post →New commission: a Muppet version of the film DOWN PERISCOPE featuring Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, Scooter, and Dr. Teeth! Mixed media on 9 X 12" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday
neutral · AI labelView post →Zootopia was an instant classic and Mando & Grogu was tons of fun. I always love revisiting the best film about the U.S. Navy with Down Periscope. Y2K was just okay. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday 🟠🟢🔵 letterboxd.com/nattieboop
positive · AI labelView post →It's still astounding that really happened and wasn't just the plot of a "Down Periscope" type movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I first heard about Kelsey Grammer's dick tattoo I was like, wow... this is just like in the 1996 film Down Periscope, where his character did that
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Down Periscope - light military comedy. Not bad. Strangers on a Train - Hitchcock classic The Mummy - Why Universal’s Dark Universe didn’t use this as a film as a model is beyond me. Dust Bunny - A cozy horror version of The Professional.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying to present the perfect balance of sad that my family will let me watch an old comfort film without trying to force Down Periscope on me again.
negative · AI labelView post →(I have been a Navy spouse for over a decade and can confirm that Down Periscope captures the general vibes better than the majority of the Serious Military Film Canon.)
positive · AI labelView post →I used to work with a dude who was on fast attack subs his whole career. Went into the DIB as a lot of nucs do. He told me the most accurate submarine film is “Down Periscope” and I think about that a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →"You screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong." May 16, 1986: the U.S. Navy is gifted with what might still rank as its best-ever recruiting film, eclipsing such classics as McHale's Navy, The Hunt for Red October, and even Down Periscope.
neutral · AI labelView post →I gotta say the guy whose favorite thing is the movie Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammar and Rob Schneider has other problems.
negative · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Mel Brooks offered Kelsey Grammer $3 million to play Dracula in the film. Grammer declined and opted to headline ‘Down Periscope’ instead to the tune of $2.2 million. (Wikipedia) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Is this from Down Periscope? I haven't seen that in years, I don't think I even knew who Patton Oswalt was last time I saw that movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →* Naked Gun * Airplane! * Men in Tights * Down Periscope * La Soupe aux choux (Cabbage Soup from Louis de Funes) * Oscar Yeah, the last one is oddly popular in my country. No clue why. Must be something in the water.
neutral · AI labelView post →Heard many times, from probably actual submariners, that the most accurate submarine movie of all time is “Down Periscope”
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge Submarine in a film Down Periscope (1996) "With no disrespect to the USS Rust-oleum here but I'd be better off in the Merrimack!"
neutral · AI labelView post →The Hunt For Red October A Few Good Men Apollo 13 A League of Their Own MST3K: The Movie Down Periscope The Blues Brothers
neutral · AI labelView post →So you're saying Down Periscope is the most accurate submarine movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from every decade in your life? 80s: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 90s: Down Periscope 00s: Speed Racer 10s: Knives Out 20s: Superman ...I am a simple man.
positive · AI labelView post →#Augustmoviechallenge 8/3 Submarine in a movie. Down Periscope (1996) #moviechallenge #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Process shots of my recent commission featuring a Muppet version of the film DOWN PERISCOPE: pencils, inks, and watercolors/mixed media.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Down Periscope awhile back, while it's not a great movie, it has it moments. I forgot he was in it, but it's his best role. He plays an incredibly unlikable toad of a character that gets beat up a lot and then disappears and forgotten about halfway into the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. Saw it in the drive in theater. It was a double feature with Down Periscope. It was the first Trek movie I saw in the theater.
neutral · AI labelView post →My #LastFourWatched. I thought I was in the mood for more Frasier humor, but Down Periscope was not it. Three Men and a Baby i remembered liking as a kid. Frozen I didn't remember and my friend wanted me to watch it. The Looney Tunes movie was really fun, in the spirit of my childhood cartoons.
negative · AI labelView post →Down Periscope is a way more entertaining movie than it has any right to be
positive · AI labelView post →Down Periscope. It is the best and most accurate submarine movie in existence.
positive · AI labelView post →One of my "I will die on this hill" movie opinions is that Down Periscope contains one of the few truly *great* fart jokes ever committed to film.
positive · AI labelView post →The OG Judge Dredd film, one of two movies I can think of in which Rob Schneider's presence materially improves the film (the other one is DOWN PERISCOPE). "Eat recycled food! It's good for the environment and OK for you."
positive · AI labelView post →Clue Titan A.E. Clerks 2 Addams Family Mortal Kombat Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Mad Max Fury Road Batman (any of them) Young Guns Back to the Future (1&3) Indiana Jones The Last Crusade The Untouchables Down Periscope Sinners D&D Honor Among Thieves Bob's Burgers Movie Into the Spider-Verse
neutral · AI labelView post →I am mentally unable to separate this movie from Down Periscope
neutral · AI labelView post →Down Periscope is a way better movie than Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Feel free to drop your own questionable movies that are way better than Zack Snyder’s Justice League
positive · AI labelView post →My list: Honorable Mention: K-19 Widowmaker (if we can forgive Sean Connery his Russian accent we can forgive Harrison Ford) 3: Run Silent, Run Deep (the granddaddy of sub films) 2: Down Periscope (more fact than fiction) 1: The Hunt For Red October (honestly the movie that started it all for me)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten movies to get to know me: Ghostbusters Real Genius The Blues Brothers Demolition Man Mission: Impossible MST3K: The Movie Anchorman Down Periscope Chasing Amy Margin Call
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching a video about the nuclear sub USS Toledo and not only is the “big pizza movie night” the worst looking pizza ever, they’re watching Down Periscope with the cursor still visible on the screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →sitting behind her in the movie theater yelling “DOWN PERISCOPE”
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Down Periscope dearly because it was a movie my grandpa showed me when he wasn't supposed to when I was way too young to see it, but I will say it is doing the other films more than a little dirty to say they are equivalent. But god it was so funny to me then.
positive · AI labelView post →It took nearly 30 years but it looks like we're getting a sequel to "Down Periscope"
neutral · AI labelView post →I want a realistic hacking movie, and I know how it should be done: In plot, it needs to be an ensemble cast heist movie a la Ocean's Eleven. But it should have a "this isn't serious" tone similar to Down Periscope. Because it's about a penetration testing company. They're hired to do a full physical and digital security audit on some large company, so then we follow the crew of law abiding computer nerds and burglars as they plan and perpetrate a series of hacks and attacks on this…
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Down Periscope, but in Starfleet, which I realize is about 50% of the premise for Star Trek: Lower Decks.
neutral · AI labelView post →Or, wait, which movie was Down Periscope and which one was the 90's McHale's Navy? Is this an Armageddon/Deep Impact situation? Or a Dante's Peak/Volcano? Or Anaconda/Lake Placid?
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't go to theaters enough to see entire audiences laughing, but I laughed.. I laughed uncontrollably at the climax/ending of Dark City at a friend's birthday party. It was his favorite movie at the time. He wasn't amused. I think the fact that he took the movie SO seriously, and that it ended in such an embarrassing schlocky way, was just too much for my poor system. ::: spoiler the ending spoiler It turns into a Dragonball-z fan film, with energy beams meeting in the middle and one guy…
neutral · AI labelView post →I will add - I understand Down Periscope is a 3 star movie at best. But I grew up next to a Navy base and uh... well, it's endearing and nostalgic for me.
neutral · AI labelView post →“I wish somebody had taken me seriously enough to cast me in a war movie that wasn’t ’Down Periscope’ and now I’m angry about it and think my Fraiser persona should catapult me into public office”
neutral · AI labelView post →The Blues Brothers Hot Fuzz Pride & Prejudice (2005) Any Knives Out movie Down Periscope
neutral · AI labelView post →I probably haven’t watch this in 25+ years but I recall enjoying it while knowing it was bad. Dollar store Down Periscope ass movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I LOVE the movie "Down Periscope" (1996), despite two of the leads being pieces of shit - Kelsey Grammer is a climate-change denying, Putin-loving, Trump-supporting, asshole Yet Rob Schnieder is SUCH a colossal pile of human garbage that he *almost* makes Grammer look decent by comparison.
positive · AI labelView post →Spoke with the great Kelsey Grammer about his new movie Turbulence, memories of Down Periscope, and Avengers: Doomsday. www.comingsoon.net/movies/featu...
neutral · AI labelView post →Down Periscope is the most true to life submarine movie ever made.
positive · AI labelView post →No one makes the movie Down Periscope starring Kelsey Grammar anymore
neutral · AI labelView post →Down Periscope is THE navy movie for engineering rates.
positive · AI labelView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? The two Most Accurate submarine movies: Das Boot (1981) and Down Periscope (1996).
neutral · AI labelView post →Down Periscope, if only because Patton Oswalt’s film debut is also a shared credit with Harry Dean Stanton
neutral · AI labelView post →Of all the silly 90s movie to hold up decently well, I wasn't expecting one of them to be Down Periscope.
positive · AI labelView post →Down Periscope is a funnier movie than Stripes.
positive · AI labelView post →If you want another submarine movie, might I suggest Down Periscope?
neutral · AI labelView post →Gives me the vibes of "Down Periscope" is submariners favorite submarine movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →He’s always been a performative conservative piece of shit despite Down Periscope being arguably the best movie of all time
positive · AI labelView post →It's the 30th Anniversary of the film Down Periscope which has the great @pattonoswalt.bsky.social and Toby Huss in the cast. I really hope @vidiots.bsky.social does a screening of it and can get those two great actors out to talk about that movie which is a fun one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Agreed. Didn't know about the rebuff from the Navy. It's a movie. Good grief. I wonder what they think of 'Down Periscope', the submarine spoof with Kelsy Grammer and Lauen Holly!?? Also a wonderful MOVIE!
neutral · AI labelView post →My knowledge of submarines is limited to the film Down Periscope, but it was enough to get me through this one lol. This book is dark and violent and stressful, and very entertaining. I would like the film version now please. #100FathomsBelow #NicholasKaufmann #StevenLKent #Horror #Suspense #Booksky
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