[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Das Boot? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/6/2009 3:38:51 PM EDT
| So I have Das Boot in my Netflix queue. It says that it is 3+ hours...is it worth the watching, or will it be another Dances With Wolves? |
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That is the one I was thinking too! The real one is worth watch too. |
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It's a great movie. It won't make you root for the Nazis if that's your DWW reference. In WWII only 1 in 4 German U-Boat men made it home alive. You get a pretty good idea why from this film.
DWW made the US Soldiers the dirty brutal villians while Indians were clean, kind and noble, Das Boot doesn't try to take sides, except maybe against the cruelty of war. |
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You can always watch it directly on the computer (from Netflix), if you don't want to wait for in in the mail. That's how I saw it. And yes, it's worth it. Xbox360 + Live Gold Membership FTW! The "watching on the 'puter" will commence in a few months when I deploy to Iraquistan... 
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My favorite war film by far. Watch it in German with English subtitles, if you don't speak German. Das Boot is the business. +1000. Only watch the full German version, in German, and not the cut version that has been duped into English. The German version makes it all the more authentic, not that it needs it though. You'll be revitted to your TV. I first saw this back in the early 80's when it first come out, and the memory of seeing it still makes my skin crawl with fear. Has to be rated as one of the best.. if not the best war film ever. |
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I am gonna watch it... is it better to watch it in it's pure form in German? Or better in english? I've seen it both ways. Personally, I find having to read the subscripts to be very distracting and it pervents me from "seeing" all the movie. Of course, with others, YMMV. 
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Definatly worth the time. Read the book too.
The movie shows the boredom, claustrophobic conditions and danger living, working and fighting on a WW II submarine. If you like realistic war movies you will love this movie. I could almost smell the diesel fumes during the movie and ducked during the depth charging scenes. If you want to experience the true essence of the movie, as others have suggested, watch it in German with English subtitles. Notice I said boredom.....there are some long parts of the movie, but that's how it was. Every WWII submariner I have spoken to have said this is as close as you can get to actually being there. You might as well save the time and go ahead and buy it. The German sailors singing "Its a Long Way to Tipperary" is classic. MPD165 Editted to add: The book was written from numerous actual accounts from German submariners. |
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It is the most honest submarine novel ever written. It is the closest one can come, in print, to life of a wartime diesel submarine.
I have spent a little time underwater on a diesel boat. I have had some fairly explicit discussions with the WWII guys, including a Kreigsmarine veteran. Is it the best movie on the subject ever made? Hard to say, as that is a matter of taste and outlook. It is, without a doubt, the most accurate and truthful regarding the lifestyle, experience, and feel of that life.  
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