Haven't yet gotten the long version, the 5 + hr version that is the best one but saw it from television a couple of times.
I do have some gripes with the film, not that they in any way shake the significant position this film has as the most worth while sub movie. For example the Tipperary song scene, for some reason I don't think the real German submariners were that keen about that song, to me it kinda sends a strange, mixed message. It's as if they were supposed to be real happy to sing that british song.
I guess it's really difficult to make a war film and to convey both the realism of war and at the same time give a sobering "war is hell" - type message. I guess the factual books manage to come closest to this. Das Boot IMO manages both and has a good cast, direction, etc. but it still leaves me with some minor gripes.
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