This is why she is an expert:


:haha:

The quotable Midge. Now available at Amazon.

[/QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]

Well said Sir. :up::salute:

Done.:salute:

She was dam sure Misinformed about reality..
Anyhow id Love to see the Movie done just like that but only an US Navy sub and crew. I can only imagine the antics that went on.

I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't tried to beat it, but I'm also glad they haven't tried as they don't usually turn out very good.

In defense of one of my favorite movies, Das Boot does not glorify war, rather it is anti-war, in the portrayal of the futile loss of life on both sides. Since I played football in High School, my service in the Coast Guard and service as a Deputy Sheriff for twenty years, I've enjoyed teamwork and working outdoors. Das Boot reminds me of the esprit de corps, shared by men and women, world-wide, who serve their countries in armed forces.

"Then we have a redheaded actor with constant filthy, idiotic comments, obviously British descent who clearly belongs on Monty Python."

This made me laugh.

You have to take into consideration that the book author really influenced the work of the film crew. He successfully prevented that the story got sold to hollywood and while producing the film he also prevented the producers from changing the story too much. He wanted it to be exactly like he witnessed it, not how it would have the biggest success.
In the end the author was disappointed by the film because the producers did make some changes to the story.

A review is never objective, always subjective.

This article however is the same reason why "comedy" movies never get a high rating. Because people compare them to non-comedy.
In fact, a comedy can be a 8/10 easily.

In this case of the woman reviewing das boot, she has a fixed idea on how that kind of movie should look. I was glad she was disappointed.

The word "movie" comes from "moving picture".

So das boot is a movie for sure. Good or bad is determined on the content, in this case i feel it is good.

What people do wrong is taking the "classic" idea of a movie, romance, violence, dialogue and such.
A movie does not always have to have "love" in it to make it good movie. Although hollywood will likely disagree.

Not true.

My GF and I watched the Das Boot miniseries version when we started dating, the whole 5-hours version I might add. She was thrilled by it, and she far from a history buff. Now when she hears a ping in any movie she immediately remembers how tense was Das Boot, and that it was real life story. She understood very well the drama of these poor sods and the tension of living in such squalor, where you could drown and die at each depth charge.


Wait, wait, wait. What the Hell?


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This lady has posted 150 reviews on Amazon. Rarely can you find one that's positive. She seems to have a complaint about everything.

I pity her husband/boyfriend. I'd probably rush to the recruiter and sign up for sub duty right away just to get away from her.

:)

It is interesting at how much power and influence Midge has over some members of this forum. Some of you guys are FOCUSED on her. Wow.

I am pretty sure there are millions of people out there who also don't like Das Boot and millions more that have no desire to ever see it.

Other than political figures, I don't think we have had such an "outsider" like Midge have so much effect over people here. :haha:

And now we are starting ad hominem attacks against someone we don't know, who just exercised her right to post an opinion on a website.

Yikes! Why allow this woman to be that important to you? :nope:

Because our lives are just as empty as hers and we don't have anything else to talk about. Don't you understand interwebseese?

I just noticed this thread.

So you all are saying Operation Petticoat wasn't the real thing back then? I've got to back up Midge on this. As it seems much more likely than Das Boot. Though I did find it a bit too much on the pornographic side though.

pornographic really? where at all is it pornographic?

"FC's" review of Shattered Sword borders on being as bad as Midge's review of Das Boot. I've read the book three times and literally nothing in his review is true. It's the kind of over-the-top hyperbole that makes so many contrarian Amazon reviews so hilarious and frustrating to read.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R35HHAA...=&nodeID=&tag=

'WAR is HELL'- W.T. Sherman; 'They don't call 'em pigboats for nuthin'-Tony Curtis...nuff said, great flick.:Kaleun_Party:

Wife and I just finished the long mini series version .. SO much better with all the scenes! ... Wife enjoyed it too .... That girls review is horrific and couldn't be further from the truth!

I doubt your alone in that assumption.