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Bill Nichols 07-14-10 06:18 AM

Das Boot redeux (?)
 
In case you didn't see this on the Subsim News page:

http://www.adrants.com/2010/07/torpe...anger-to-a.php

:-j

Moeceefus 07-14-10 06:27 AM

:haha::har::haha:

UnderseaLcpl 07-14-10 07:39 AM

:haha::haha::haha::up:

Oberon 07-14-10 08:04 AM

:har::har::har::har::har::haha::up::yeah::rock:

Jimbuna 07-14-10 09:09 AM

Nice one Bill http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Snestorm 07-14-10 09:13 AM

I didn't get it.

frau kaleun 07-14-10 09:24 AM

Snestorm, I think the joke is that the whale should've gone to Specsavers for glasses, because he mistook a u-boat for another whale and was trying to mate with it.

Also: :rotfl2: to the ad, very clever. Was this ad made for English-speaking audiences, and with German dialogue and subtitles to underscore the "Das Boot" parody aspect even further? Because that's awesome.

Also: I was so relieved this turned out to NOT be a newsblurb saying that someone is remaking "Das Boot," because NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!11!

Jimbuna 07-14-10 10:13 AM

We have a Specsavers in the High St. of our town and they put up largeish cardboard advertising depicting the whale on top of the submarine (it isn't even a U-boat) which helped nobody realise the theme/meaning...it flopped and was replaced with the usual mundane advertising boards pretty quickly :DL

Herr-Berbunch 07-14-10 10:22 AM

Even their ads that aren't supposed to be funny end up that way... :rotfl2:

http://nessymon.files.wordpress.com/...-bus-crash.jpg

August 07-14-10 11:32 AM

Jürgen Prochnow spoofed his own Das Boot role in the Comedy "Beer Fest".

"I start to feel all cooped up in these U-Boats; I had a bad experience once"

Snestorm 07-14-10 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1443996)
Snestorm, I think the joke is that the whale should've gone to Specsavers for glasses, because he mistook a u-boat for another whale and was trying to mate with it.

Also: :rotfl2: to the ad, very clever. Was this ad made for English-speaking audiences, and with German dialogue and subtitles to underscore the "Das Boot" parody aspect even further? Because that's awesome.

Also: I was so relieved this turned out to NOT be a newsblurb saying that someone is remaking "Das Boot," because NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!11!

Thank you.

Had no idé what Specsavers was.

Jimbuna 07-14-10 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snestorm (Post 1444123)
Thank you.

Had no idé what Specsavers was.

A bit of a rip off merchant, they advertise low prices but the hidden add-ons for lens protection etc. soon hike the price up.

My wife fell for it twice and now goes to an independant optician and gets an almost identical product for a little over half the price.

Schroeder 07-14-10 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1443996)
Also: :rotfl2: to the ad, very clever. Was this ad made for English-speaking audiences, and with German dialogue and subtitles to underscore the "Das Boot" parody aspect even further? Because that's awesome.

It was definitely not for a German speaking audience as the actors had strange accents when talking German.;)

TLAM Strike 07-14-10 08:25 PM

:o:haha:

I noticed they borrowed the pressure squeezing hull sound from SCS's sims. :hmmm:;)

krashkart 07-14-10 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1443996)
Also: I was so relieved this turned out to NOT be a newsblurb saying that someone is remaking "Das Boot," because NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!11!


Why not? :hmmm:

I'm sure Ben Affleck would be happy to... :o


Yea, you're probably right. :dead:


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