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Originally Posted by BigWalleye
Understood.
I had a rant left over from last month and wanted to use it before it expired.
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Originally Posted by Joefour
The only version I have been able to see is the Director's Cut. Is the 5 hour version the mini series in Germany I've read about? Any idea where one could get access to it?
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Yes, it's the mini-series with all the credits removed from the middle episodes to make on very long movie. I wish they would release a version with the episodes intact. As it is I usually try to watch it in 48-minute lumps.
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Originally Posted by vanjast
I have the 5 hour uncut, AFAIK, although the cover is different.
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That's the best version, in my opinion.
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Maybe I worded the first post incorrectly - There's not that much difference between book and film... just a few 'minor' things I noticed.
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I have several complaints about the movie, but the interior of the boat is so good to look at I mostly ignore them.
As for the "anti-war" aspect, my feeling is that it's German - you know, opera and all that - so of course it's going to end the way it does. On the other hand the ending in the book is no ending at all. There were two sequels, after all. Books, of course, though I've never read them, since they've never been translated into English.