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The Incomparable Mothership

783: A Submarine Trifle

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7704 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Our Summer of Submarines floats on with “U-571”, a 21st centry-style action movie that manages to hit most of the squares on the submarine bingo card. McConaughey is a disgruntled XO! Depth charges terrify! A surprising twist if you didn’t think about the title! Turns out, submarine movies aren’t a genre—they’re a format that lets filmmakers explore genres....

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0:00.0

The Incomparable, number 783, September 2025.

0:09.0

Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.

0:12.0

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

0:13.0

We are getting toward the end of our summer of submarines.

0:17.0

We've been watching lots of, I originally was like three, and then I added four more at the end of the summer.

0:23.0

So seven submarine movies.

0:24.9

Tune into the incomparables website,

0:27.4

and you can find our brand new topic page called Submarines

0:31.6

that contains all eight submarine movies we've covered

0:34.7

because, of course, we covered Hunt for Red October long

0:37.0

before the summer of Submarines was even a glimmer in my eye.

0:41.0

Joining me on this adventure to discuss 2000s, You-571, are the following wonderful people,

0:50.2

taking a voyage beneath the sea once again, Casey Liss.

0:53.1

Hi, Casey.

0:54.1

Hello, it's so great to be here with you once again.

0:56.3

It is good to have you here. Erica Ensign joins us. She signed up for another trip, another voyage, another tour. Hi, Erica.

1:04.8

How much do I love submarine movies? I watched a Matthew McConaughey movie for you guys.

1:09.4

Yeah, it's true. All right, all right.

1:12.2

Do any women, Erica, do any women speak in this movie?

1:17.3

Very briefly, and they're interrupted.

1:18.9

I don't know.

1:19.4

I mean, it's like less than the other movies where there's a woman character who has a couple of lines.

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