When did you buy Das Boot?

[Tikigod]

Take survey just curious.

[jasondef]

Don't know if I would've gotten into SH3, or SH2 for that matter, if I'd never seen Das Boot. Thankfully, I did

[gdogghenrikson]

I bought it after I watched it with a friend, after I was addicted to SH2

[Oleif]

Checked it out after I bought SH3 this winter break from my university. Then dubbed it.

[STEED]

Watched it years ago on TV, bought the Directors Cut last year before I got SH3 :up:

[andy_311]

Bought it when it was first released on video

[kapitanfred]

Have the 2 CD full uncut version with autographed photos. :cool:

[Dantenoc]

I had seen the movie a couple of times before the game, but never bought it. After buying the game, I went to the store and got it.

[DMarkwick]

I had always heard of it, but for some reason had never seen it, not even seen clips from it. When I got SH3 I thought I should check it out, now it lives as one of my favourite DVDs.

Also, after watching it I changed the ingame voices to German.

[Polak]

I wathed it years ago as steed on TV. I liked it so much that I decided to buy the uncut verion. :D The uncut verion is a must-see!

[Dowly]

I had it as VHS almost after it was released. Last year I bought the 5h 'Original Uncut Version'. :rock:

[Curval]

I bought the DVD before SH3 (Director's Cut). I want to get the full TV series version but until I do I decided to buy a copy of the book to se what I may have missed. The book was purchased POST Sh3.

[The Avon Lady]

After and reading everyone mentioning it on the forums.

[Wolfram]

Saw it before I even played SH2, got my copy as a gift just last year. Still watch it....:D

:lurk:

[Dowly]

I bought the DVD before SH3 (Director's Cut). I want to get the full TV series version but until I do I decided to buy a copy of the book to se what I may have missed. The book was purchased POST Sh3.

The 'Original uncut version' doesnt add any action scenes (if I remember right), but it shows more of the 'living in a submarine' part.

[Curval]

I bought the DVD before SH3 (Director's Cut). I want to get the full TV series version but until I do I decided to buy a copy of the book to se what I may have missed. The book was purchased POST Sh3.

The 'Original uncut version' doesnt add any action scenes (if I remember right), but it shows more of the 'living in a submarine' part.

Which makes sense given that 3/4 of the book is devoted to boredom, bad weather and general malaise.

Did the series show any of the incidents whereupon the sub came across dead sailors in their lifeboats?

[Dowly]

I bought the DVD before SH3 (Director's Cut). I want to get the full TV series version but until I do I decided to buy a copy of the book to se what I may have missed. The book was purchased POST Sh3.

The 'Original uncut version' doesnt add any action scenes (if I remember right), but it shows more of the 'living in a submarine' part.

Which makes sense given that 3/4 of the book is devoted to boredom, bad weather and general malaise.

Did the series show any of the incidents whereupon the sub came across dead sailors in their lifeboats?

Nope. It only shows more from the inside of the uboat. But still, it´s worth to get. :rock:

[Kilamon]

Wikipedia has a huge article on the movies evolution. It would seem that there was a TV miniseries, the original movie, a recut movie, the director's cut and a 5 hour super version of the director's cut. Insane! And I didn't know this, but the model for the boat was in Indiana Jones so now I have to go rent that and see that scene to check the emblem on the conning tower (just cause I want to know if the wiki is right).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

[Dowly]

Wikipedia has a huge article on the movies evolution. It would seem that there was a TV miniseries, the original movie, a recut movie, the director's cut and a 5 hour super version of the director's cut. Insane! And I didn't know this, but the model for the boat was in Indiana Jones so now I have to go rent that and see that scene to check the emblem on the conning tower (just cause I want to know if the wiki is right).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

The 5 hour 'super version' is the miniseries, just that the episodes form a 5 hour movie.

Yeah, I´ve heard about that Indiana Jones thing too. Cool, huh? ;)

From Wiki:

When the film premiered in Germany and in the US, audience members cheered at the pre-title card that stated that thousands of U-boat crews never returned from their mission to starve out England by disrupting shipping lanes in the North Atlantic. Reportedly, audience opinion changed dramatically by the end of the film after they had seen the horrors of living on a U-boat during WWII.

Shows how 'touching' the movie really is. :roll:

[mike_espo]

Saw the movie when it came out in '81 :yep:

Read the book before that...what a shame you can't get the english translation any more :cry:

Book is better than the movie by far! :know:

[CWorth]

Im probably the only one so...

Have not seen it nor do I own it.

Im not much of a TV or movie person so I dont watch either enough to bother with it.I'd rather read a good book or to something else more productive than sit in front of a TV.

[JonZ]

Just rented it for the first time.


Holy Crikey! :o


It was exactly some moments of SH3 I have played.

And after playing SH3 for a good period, I could anticipate alot of some events in the movie . Such when the crew was DCed, and they were getting their first pings, I was like, oh **** ASDIC and right after the crew start saying it was Asdic :huh:

Then when the Captain announced they had to go to La Spezia, I knew it was trouble because I knew they had to go on Gibraltar :D



very good movie, the end kinda sucked tho (for them), all that work for nothing :(

[Torplexed]

Saw the movie when it came out in '81 :yep:

Read the book before that...what a shame you can't get the english translation any more :cry:

Book is better than the movie by far! :know:

I'm pretty sure you can still get an English version of the book. Here is a thread started by two forum members who have recently purchased it.

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=47277

[Curval]

Make that 3...I bought mine in December 2005 at the WH Smiths shop at Gatwick airport in London.

[Kaptan Tommy]

Saw the movie when it first came out (with English sub-titles). Bought the first version (the cut version) years later. Then bought the two VHS tape version, and just recently bought the double DVD 6hr version. I've got a hard copy of the book "The Boat".

I just 'stumbled' on the game one day while cruising the aisle in Best Buy.

Yup, I'm a fan. :D

[Quillan]

I saw the movie back when it was first out on cable. I didn't actually buy my own copy until I got SH3.

[winters]

I saw it years ago, it's one of my favorites movies.

[U-Dog]

I had seen the movie a couple of times before the game, but never bought it. After buying the game, I went to the store and got it.

me too

[Sailor Steve]

I saw the movie in the theater when it came out. It's funny, bit I don't remember anybody cheering when the "30,000 never returned" blurb came on the screen; just thinking "Uh-oh; this can't be good". Bought the dubbed English version on VHS about 1995. Bought the Director's Cut version on VHS then later the DVD version of same. Bought the 5-hour 'Uncut' version a year or two ago. Bought the book a month or two ago and just finished reading it. I put off starting it for a long time, so my actual reading time was not more than a week or two. I was riveted.

Yes, the book is readily available in English, and even if it wasn't you can always find things like that at Advanced Book Exchange
www.abebooks.com

The Wikipedia article is great, though I disagree on one point: they say the movie is heightened by minimal use of external shots. My one complaint was that I thought they used TOO MANY external shots! I thought it would have been much better without one single scene of destroyers roaring overhead or depth-charges exploding right next to the boat (all of them so close that any one of them was within easy 'kill' range).

[Subnuts]

The Wikipedia article is great, though I disagree on one point: they say the movie is heightened by minimal use of external shots. My one complaint was that I thought they used TOO MANY external shots! I thought it would have been much better without one single scene of destroyers roaring overhead or depth-charges exploding right next to the boat (all of them so close that any one of them was within easy 'kill' range).

The author of that article probably meant "comparatively few external shots", at least when compared to "Hunt For Red October" or "U-571". I think it's interesting to note that the "trapped on the bottom" scene in the uncut Das Boot is nearly an hour long, but only has a single, fuzzy, five-second long external shot.

[brackan]

I saw Das Boot in the uk when it was on tv in the 80's. 6 part mini series.

It stuck in my mind over the years and I wasnt surprised when the video/dvd was so popular years later.

I now have the full uncut version on dvd and I think its one of the best films ever made.

[jasondef]

I remember the scene in Indiana Jones, it shows him secretly swimming onto the U-boat that just took the Ark from the ship Indy was on, supposedly he "stowed away" on it back to its base, which given the size of those U-boats, seems impossible to me. Either that or he just clung onto the side of the U-Boat until it sailed all the way back to base, which also seems impossible. Never understood that part. Nevertheless, Indian Jones Raiders remains one of my all time fav movies.

And I got Das Boot director's cut on DVD when it was the only DVD available, then later got the full uncut when it came out. I think the uncut adds much more drama and insight. For example, the scene where Capt. comes up with the plan to sneak through Gibraltar is sort of rushed through and unimportant in the Director's cut, whereas in the uncut version, it comes off as this brilliant plan that gives everyone hope of living through it in an otherwise hopeless, sure-death situation. Just little things like that give it importance.

Anyone else like to have Das Boot playing in the background when they play SH3?

[winters]

Hi Jason,

Is that an endorsement for the full 6 hour version? i watched the directors cut again last night and am thinking about picking up the original mini-series version.

[I-25]

my dad bought das boot so ive had it ever since i can remember

[lostsm]

shortly after getting the game and reading about the movie often on this board, i noticed it was playing on a movie channel (hbo etc). oddly enough, it wasn't one of those movies that are played over and over. anyway i tivo'd it and still have it in memory.

i'll probably end up buying it eventually, really cool movie though

[jasondef]

YES! Buy the original full uncut version, way better than the director's cut!!! Cancel plans for a Saturday, blackout all the windows and doors in the room with draped blankets, get a case of Beck's and some meat that needs a shave, and have at it!!

Winters, BoB is one kick-#ss series! That and Das Boot are probably my top 2 fav war epics, in no particular order. I got the ammo box set used from a friend for $50 a couple years ago, started watching it one morning, and couldn't stop until it was finished. What a marathon!

[winters]

Thanks Jason,

Obviously i enjoyed BOB as well. I wrote to Dick Winters and he wrote me back. I never expected him to, so you could imagine my surprise when i got a letter from him. A while back i heard of a new BOB being planned for the pacific theatre, it was going to focus on a USO troupe as there isnt any one Marine unit that took part in all the major fights like Easy Co. did in Europe. I havent heard anything else about it for a while now.

[Sailor Steve]

I read an article some time ago about Clint Eastwoods two upcoming movies about Iwo Jima, one from each side of the battle. He said that he had talked to Spielberg about not wanting to tread on his (Spielberg's) territory, and Spielberg thought that Eastwood's ideas were top notch; and that he was willing to sit back and see what Clint came up with.

That's the total of what I've heard.

[winters]

I read an article some time ago about Clint Eastwoods two upcoming movies about Iwo Jima, one from each side of the battle. He said that he had talked to Spielberg about not wanting to tread on his (Spielberg's) territory, and Spielberg thought that Eastwood's ideas were top notch; and that he was willing to sit back and see what Clint came up with.

That's the total of what I've heard.

Screw Spielberg, Clint could make whatever he wanted. Im sick and tired of hollywood placing this guy on such a pedestal. Aside from a few movies most of his stuff is mediocre. A.I. and War of the Worlds flat out sucked and what about that total POS movie about Tom hanks stuck in limbo at an airport, that was funny for about 15 minutes, by the end of the movie i was hoping he would turn out to be a terrorist and suicide bomb himself in the main terminal. That would have made the movie mildly entertaining.

[mike_espo]

Wow! I thought I would be one of the only ones who read the book...seeing as it came out 30 years ago :o

I figured I was one of the "oldies" :rotfl: ...

[Dallass_Drake]

I bought Das Boot on DVD about seven months ago (Got SH3 three weeks ago) but I haven't actually watched it yet. Generally buy DVD's en masse and never get round to watching them :down:

But before my mighty reputation on this forum goes straight down the toiletten, I've seen Crimson Tide and Hunt for Red October :up: In many ways more successful in recreating the WW2 Nazi U-Boat experience. Perhaps. If you ignore that Uber Sonar Guy and Denzel Washington

[winters]

At least they are better than a clean shaven Cary Grant surfacing in Tokyo harbor and proceeding to blow the crap out of everything before making his all too easy "heroic" escape.

[jasondef]

Wow, how 'bout Winters writing back to you! That's awesome, that truly is the best generation in my book. My grandpa tells me stories sometimes of being a radar tech shooting down buzz bombs in England. Incredible, I'm way too chicken to imagine going through what they all went through, on both sides of the war for that matter.

And I agree, Terminal sucked, though I thought WoW was okay, despite Tom Cruise being an idiot these days. Spielberg better do something good soon, why is everything all about him? How bout letting some new faces direct more good stuff, like Clint and other more unknowns? Although I did hear that Speilberg, George Lucas, and Harrison Ford are real close to Indiana Jones 4! (holy cow!) I'll let them go ahead with that one, better be good!!!