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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

if you have it on dvd, i think it's got to be either the director's cut theatrical re-release or the miniseries extended version. iirc the original shorter theatrical version never came out on dvd. i could be wrong though.

i think the director's cut clocks in at around 3 1/2 hours, one disc that you have to turn over midway through. extended cut is closer to 5 hours on two disks. (at least the region 1 versions i have.)

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

i think i had to go back at first and make sure he really said it in english too, because i've had a couple of dvds of foreign films (okay they were old hong kong chop socky flicks but still) where the one and only audio track contained both original language and dubbed english dialogue, first one and then the other, all the way through. didn't think a 'das boot' dvd would be as haphazardly put together as that, but you never know.

whether or not it was intentional on anybody's part, other than the fine actor playing Thomsen, is another question i don't know the answer to. everything i've heard about his performance including petersen's own comments suggests that he was at least a couple sheets to the wind when they filmed those scenes. what was in the script and what he improvised - well, i'd love to know. he doesn't get much screen time but he sure makes the most of it!

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

i haven't seen it, and nothing i've heard about it so far has made me want to.

i do really like 'hunt for red october' and i saw 'crimson tide' (if that's even the right title - gene hackman, denzel washington, that one) when it was in the theaters. and saw the old one with... er... clark gable and william holden? is that 'run silent, run deep'? with an ex-boyfriend years ago.

obviously, i'm not a submovie connoisseur by any means, lol. but i do love a really well-made film and 'das boot' certainly qualifies in every respect IMO. didn't realize it would jumpstart so many new and interesting things for me to get into, but i'm certainly having a good time with all of it.

i messed around with learning a little german years ago and have started trying to pick some up again - just my luck a german family now living here in the states just joined up at my dojo so i have the little girl in my kid's class and the dad's been coming to our adult classes as well. gives me chance to use (and not forget) what little german i have, although i must say the opportunities to yell 'anblasen' are, sadly, few and far between in that context.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

*sigh*

well now i think i will have to go and watch Das Boot again, or at least as much of it as i can fit in between now and bedtime.

what a tragedy, i don't know how i'll survive it.

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