Top 5... Boating Disaster Movies

I'm off on a cruise tomorrow - only a short one, a family trip to celebrate my Dad's retirement earlier this year - but as I am something of a level 5 pessimist/worst case scenario anticipator, all I can think about is all the films I've seen where unexpecting people come a cropper aboard some vessel or another. So what better way to rationalise my fears than by making a list of the five best films involving boating disasters of some kind or other.

5. The Perfect Storm

Go back and watch this film, and you'll be shocked at how starry the cast has become. Alongside George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as the New England fisherman captain and his friend caught in the mother of all storms, there's John C. Reilly, William Fichtner and John Hawkes amongst the crew, and Karen Allen, Diane Lane, Bob Gunton, Christopher McDonald, Michael Ironside and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio waiting back home, fearfully watching the news reports and expecting the worst. Though the once-stellar special effects may now look a little dated, just watch Die Another Day directly afterwards to remind yourself of just how bad those waves could have been.

Top 5... Movie Fish

It's Richard Jenkins birthday! But as I've seen literally only six movies I remember him being in, it wouldn't be a very fair list, especially seeing as I've yet to get to The Visitor, which is supposed to be one of his best. Apparently he's in The Core, The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty, but I'm guessing they weren't major roles. (5. One Night at McCool's, 4. Step Brothers, 3. There's Something About Mary, 2. Burn After Reading, 1. The Cabin in the Woods, Worst: Hall Pass)

So instead, it's also Alexander Gould's birthday! Who? He voiced Nemo in Finding Nemo, and today he turns 18 (God I feel old). So to celebrate, let's look at some of the movie world's greatest fish, and I'll try not to take them all from Finding Nemo. Warning, this list contains spoilers.