Quick! Send her the smellavision version! She needs to see it!

This is hilarious! :har:

Front page news - www.subsim.com/index.php :har:

Oh man this made my day!!! Reading some of her other reviews, this does not surprise me at all. :woot:

Wow, people here are getting spun up over one person's opinion.

Personally, this person's opinion is not important enough to me to make me to get upset.

Thought it was a joke at first. Now i got to find me the 5 hour version of the film.

I've just given it a 5 Star rating, because there isn't a 6 Star option.:)
My review is called "J'attendrai". Only buffs 'verstehen werden'.

http://www.amazon.com/Das-Boot-Origi...words=das+boot

don't forget to use the subsim amazon so we get a percentage of the sale.

But the unfortunate part of all of this is Midge does think her opinion matters, and no matter how many people tell her she is stupid, she will never realize it. So she will continue forth with the many other denizens who think that Snooki and reality TV are the top end of entertainment. She will continue on thinking her opinion is the high point of culture, her and those of her that bitch because the $4000 fur coat doesn't look like the one that Sue Ellen wore on Dallas 30 year ago. She will continue to live in her delusional world where she thinks that The Real Housewives of Orange county is how the rest of us live. It is sad to think that this is considered the high point of human evolution by some. :Kaleun_Sick:

I just spent 17 years of my life protecting a country full of idiots like her. Its not just one persons opinion. Awhole butt load of so called Americans think like that idiot so ya, it gets me worked up. I cant stand what the citizenry in my country are turning into. A bunch of overfed, soft, educated idiots. She probably has a degree but she cant think beyond the end of her nose.

Well evolution is a 2 way street you will have some that go down and some that go up. Though it seems the human race is destined to decline on the evolutionary tree.

Have you ever laughed so hard that your jaws hurt? It just happened to me, after reading "Midge's" review of one of my favorite movies.
Hilarious!

I didn't like Das Boot either. So what?

There are good movies I don't like, and movies I do like that I admit are bad.

The point here isn't her dislike of the movie. It's the way in which she expressed it.

People may be saying the same thing about your opinions too.

No one can make their opinion matter to anyone else unless they consent to it.

I would say that most people, if they bothered to even care, disagree with a lot of my opinions.

The only thing more worthless about an opinion is an opinion about someone else's opinion. :D

Me, I would rather ignore Midge's opinion. She has her opinion, I have mine. Each opinion is worth exactly the same as the other -- squat. :D

I think the worst thing about Midge is the fact she admitted only writing reviews for film she found either very good or very bad.

And she's appropriately named after an annoying little insect.

Well, that is just it; I would argue that Das Boot is actually a very bad movie dressed up with a degree of historical realism. As a dramatic work, it simply fails due to the fact that it does not achieve the fundamental requirement of attaching the audience to any of the figures within the film. As such, scenes that had the potential to be magnificent and emotionally-charged fell flat.

Werner's offer to deliver Ulmann's letters, The Chief first being made to leave the boat to see his sick wife, and later having that revoked, Johann's freakout followed by his eventual pardon by Der Alte, the desperate struggle at the bottom and the eventual death of a large portion of the crew at the end were meaningless because we simply didn't care about these people. Why should we? Less than a minute of token exposition is given to Ulmann's story in the complete series, and none at all in either the regular film version nor the director's cut. The others receive only a one-line mention; "oh, he has a sick wife", "he's a true-believer", "this guy is a lovable scamp".

It is the same problem with Gladiator. Maximus and Der Alte (along with the rest of the cast) are wooden, two dimensional figures. Their presence is an excuse for stuff to happen, whether it be unrealistic as in Gladiator or relatively realistic as in Das Boot. Regardless of either, the effect is the same. With whom are we supposed to identify? The answer ends up being no one. For Maximus, it is all about getting him into that ring as soon as possible. For Der Alte, it is all about the boat.

In regards to this reviewer, if she didn't like the humor (I didn't like it either) or the gross-out elements, then that is fine. I am not sure that makes her small-minded nor calls for an all out assault on learning, but those are things I have seen as the norm here on SubSim. Sometimes you have to be big enough to let people have opinions that you think are silly. If I had posted every time I saw something small-minded or ignorant around here I wouldn't have time to do anything else.

Fair points, and nothing I can argue with without seeming defensive about "my" movie. :sunny:

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Separated at birth?:hmmm: