Okay I've figured out why Das Boot is such a great movie and why it eclipses every other movie of its kind despite its shortcomings. I say its because it is primarily about characters. Its about the men who are on the boat and not about some conveluted story about ending the war with heroic deeds. It is a real story. Whatever details were changed the story of Das Boot is what those men felt and the lengths they went to do their duty while it appeared to be a lost cause. And that is why it is still a better movie than one with more money and better graphics and big name actors. It's an intrinsically human story that has more to do with human beings than WW2.
Alnother reason it works so well is because its based off of real events and not a story invented by a writer who took the time to google a famous battle and some military terminology. I mean they make so many ficticious stories about wars which makes little sense to me simply because there are millions of incredible stories in WW2 and WW1 and everything inbetween and since all of which are way better than the crap they invent in Hollywood. I swear a movie about my grandfather in WW2 would be perfect. Being a Commando and meeting Churchill, being behind the lines in France, Norway, Malta, North Africa, being a Tank Commander on D-Day, filling his comnpany's water truck up with beer from a french brewery and meeting Patton and mouthing off to him when he's being a dick saying bad **** about the Canadian Army. Plus all those disgusting horror stories inbetween where young men die crying for their moms.
Please Hollywood we don't need anymore armchair fiction about WW2. Just call up a few vets and get their stories.
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