Das Boot - The Director's Cut

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Customer Reviews:

best submarine movie ever [Posted on 2008-06-02]
This is the best submarine movie ever! The directors cut, even at over three hours, just flys by - you don't realize you've been watching so long. The action grabs you and the tension holds you in the story.

You must watch the German version with subtitles - the English over-dub is terrible, you lose the feeling of being in the sub with the story, which is the best part.

Enjoy!

Claustrophobia [Posted on 2008-06-19]
There have many submarine films but this one is simply the best. Films featuring U.S. submarines invariably depict spacious boats with clean, well-dressed crews.

This film is totally different. A real effort has been made to make the viewer feel the filth, crawling vermin and the compression of men into a very small space. You can almost smell the stink of a tiny ship out on the sea for months at a time.

You can also smell the terror of men forced to the bottom by attacking allied warships. You hear the rivets pop as the ship is pushed to impossible pressure limits. You feel the grief as the dying captain watches his beloved boat sink from the effects of an allied attack on the German sub pens.

The highest praise I can give to this film is that it became the all time favorite of my pre-adolescent sons. They watched it time and again and, even knowing how it would all turn out, shouted warnings to the threatened crew.

One of my sons, no doubt heavily influenced by this film, commanded his own claustrophobic "boat" in the attack on Iraq. He commanded four Marine Corps tanks, went four days without sleep and a month without a bath. He and his brave men, in their own way, do honor to all those submariners and tankers who fought in all the armies and navies.

I must mention the Hunley, the first of all militarily successful submarines. It was a Confederate invention and killed the first three crews during training. A testament to the courage of the Confederate forces, there were no problems in finding volunteers for a third crew. Tiny, it was propelled by a crack shaft operated by eight or nine crewmen. There was barely enough room to move let alone crank. Like most of its submarine successors, it travelled primarily on the surface, but the atmosphere must have been fetid.

It's "warhead" was an explosive charge in the form of a spear mounted on the bow. In 1864, the Hunley made its first--and last--combat run. She sank a Federal battleship--the first ship sunk by a submarine in history--but her courageous crew never returned. They died in Charlestown harbor.

Ron Braithwaite author of Mexican Conquest novels, "Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"

Das Boot [Posted on 2008-09-05]
Can you say "useless"? Das Boot is a German movie. This particular cut was the Director's cut. To see the whole movie, one would have to flip the disc over on its other side. So we did, expecting to have a menu there to choose English subtitles. Side two does not have a menu and therefore does not provide English subtitles for the end of the movie. Surely, Amazon, you know that some of the products you carry and sell to consumers are defective. Why not tell them?

Disappointed [Posted on 2008-11-18]
The DVD movie that I bought from Amazon had many parts missing. Some important scenes and dialogues in the original version are not present in the version you sell. I'm really disappointed, and I will not buy anything from Amazon anymore.

3.5 stars out of 4 [Posted on 2008-12-18]
The Bottom Line:

Das Boot is a very entertaining and engaging submarine movie that doesn't feel long even at 200+ minutes; marred only by occasionally-bad special effects, (all the scenes in the conning tower look thoroughly studio-bound) it introduces characters worth caring about and then runs them through a thrilling gauntlet.

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