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Originally Posted by Damo
Good enough recommendation?
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Here's another - even for a confessed filmaholic,
Das Boot made quite the impression.
I remember when it came out originally and got such a great reception here in the US - but I didn't see it. I remember when it was released into theaters again, and if it played anywhere nearby I (once again) failed to see it.
Nevertheless it remained stuck in my brain as "one of those movies I've got to see some day" and occasionally I'd come across a reference to it and think, oh yeah, that u-boat movie, never did catch that one, did I?
Then for some reason, out of the blue, it popped up in the front of my brain one day for no apparent reason two summers ago, and I thought, hey, I bet I can get that from Netflix, I should do that while I'm thinking about it. So right to the top of my queue it went and in due time I had it and watched it... and watched it... and watched it... and watched it... and after about three weeks and I don't know how many hours of watching it, I realized I could not bear to send the disc back until I had my own copy, so thanks to Amazon I was finally able to return the Netflix copy after a month or so.
I'm not sure how any more but somehow in surfing around the web looking for info on the movie, the real life people the characters were based on, and the u-boat war in general, I came across references to SH3 and not being much of a gamer I didn't think much of it. Then when the obsession didn't go away and I saw how cheap the game was (and how old, meaning I could prolly run it on the system I had then) I bought it. Trying to figure it out led me here.
I'll admit that being a history/military history nut with a preexisting interest in WWII helped, but... u-boats? I never would've guessed. But such is the power of
Das Boot, lol. It's not just a great u-boat movie, or great war movie... it's a great movie, period.
If it weren't I wouldn't be here every day hanging out with this motley bunch, I can tell you that much.
