Film "Das Boot" Best Version

[RustySubmarine]

I have quite a few versions of the film "Das Boot" both in English and German with subtitles. But the best one in my opinion is the Digitally Re-mastered , Original Uncut Version of the 6 part Mini Series presented as One complete feature length uncut version. running time 4hrs 48 mins. (English speaking). Also got the same version, German speaking with English subtitles, which can be turned off. I play this sometimes, but not understanding German, I can't pick up most of the dialogue, but it seems more realistic in one sense.

I watch this film about once every three months, which I never seem to tire of. It sparks up some enthusiasm to playing SH3. Must have seen it over 100 times since it's release. Best ever Submarine film ever made. Might watch it again tonight, yes I think I will!

[Johnfb]

Just bought the blu ray version.... Now have three versions and a version on my hard drive....how sad is that?
Anyway, the blu ray is cool

[RustySubmarine]

I too have got the Blue Ray version as well, got this one last year and it is better than the standard version.

[DesertGhost]

I ordered the (Original) Uncut Version a few days ago. Still waiting for it to arrive but can't wait to see this awesome movie again!

[ninja turtle]

Hey guys

I have "Das Boot" on video (what's a video? ) and was contemplating replacing it for a DVD so this was a useful thread. Is a Blu Ray version worth the extra pennies as it's pre-Blu Ray?

[RustySubmarine]

The Blue Ray version is the Directors Cut version and doesn't cover the whole feature length of the Mini Series Version. which is the best version of all. As far as quality is concerned the Blue Ray version is not that much better. Take my advice and go for the Full Length Min Series. You can order it from Amazon for about £8 now I think. Just watched it again tonight and I enjoyed it just as much as I have always done. This film must rate as one of the best war films ever made.

[sladoledar]

Removed per rules. Please, no linking to torrents or illegal downloads.

[flag4]

...are those ladies also in Das Boot ?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by sladoledar

best one in my opinion!

Will you be kind enough to delete the link before further action results as a consequence?

[RustySubmarine]

Thank you Jimbuana. I reported this! Not the sort of thing we should be encouraging.

Whilst on the topic of the film Das Boot, have a look at this review postyed on Amazon. What a plonker, if he doesn't know what to expect of submariners when ashore and cooked up in a sub for weeks on end, what does he expect. If it disgusted him so much, then why did he watch it all the way through in the first place!

Worst movie ever. Literally Nauseating!, April 2, 2013
By
Midge



This review is from: Das Boot - The Director's Cut (DVD)
Nothing but every kind of gross use of body fluids & disgusting behavior & sickening comments throughout entire movie. Quite literally peeing on each other, puking, flicking gross nose contents at each other with constant sickening comments about toe jam, poop & everything else gross & filthy imaginable filling every moment of the first entire hour. It is bad enough to make the audience retch. I am not exaggerating in the least. This disgusting behavior & gross dialogue is nonstop for at least 1.5 hour of the first side of the movie with only 10 minutes of shaking, rattling & spraying water onto this sty. Then you discover there is nearly another 1.5 hour of movie remaining on the other side.

I have never in my entire life heard or saw such a disgusting display. Even Ren & Stimpy aren't this bad. Close; but this movie is worse. It makes you hope for an early sinking to stop the audiences suffering. I've managed outside plant cable crews; some of the raunchiest you've ever met... but they couldn't hold a candle to the gross, disgusting behavior & dialogue on this movie which is nonstop from the very onset.

After a brief moment of deep diving, they returned to their previous disgusting, putrid behavior. Including naked short arm inspections with crawling crabs (rear view only), drinking soured milk, eating hairy meat, flinging gross body debris, etc. Puking, sharing bunks & complaining about the nasty details of body sweat, feet & oils from their bunkmate (& I'm not close to using the dialogue on this film which is nonstop nauseating to purposely make you ill). Things so sickening, nonstop throughout the entire movie; too awful to list on here.

Then we have a redheaded actor with constant filthy, idiotic comments, obviously British descent who clearly belongs on Monty Python. Can't act & talks like a moronic swishy feminine throughout (this is a behavior description, not a sex preference issue); in any language you choose to watch. He clearly looks & sounds like a joke on a German U-boat. A Harpo Marx (Lucille Ball) type. Constantly talking about passing gas in public. Animal House was better behaved than this tripe.

This is beyond wanting your money back. The audience should sue for pain & suffering the indignities. This movie made every effort to make the audience retch. I can't think of bad enough things to say about it. It is quite literally the worst movie ever made.

At 2/3rds through the movie, you are convinced the movie could only improve by sinking the sub & ending the movie.

The music is even worse like some Lone Ranger episode or spaghetti western. Cheap & corny. Only 10 minutes of the first 1.5 hours on side one give you a break from the filthy behavior & dialogue with shaking & rattling at the end of side one. Then to your horror, you discover there is nearly another 1.5 hours on side 2.

You might be better off to skip side one entirely. I can't believe any studio actually approved money for this script. Side one is a complete disgusting waste with no redeemable footages.

Side 2 starts off with crew insanity & even more violent shaking for 10 minutes; wasting a torpedo on a burning wreck; stranding survivors; guilt & depression; back to filthy behavior again; a ridiculous feast & pompous over actors at port; dragging slowly through every scene uneventfully until 45 minutes into side 2; Blood & Sub damage until they gloriously hit the bottom. But even then, we are not spared further misery as it sits on the bottom where it should have imploded. We are forced to endure 30 minutes of watching them flounder aimlessly in depression waiting to die on the bottom until the last 15 minutes of the movie when it finally rises to the surface. Then we are back to loud parties & a deteriorating officer; arriving at base to pompous band ceremonies & a surprise air assault.

At long last, most of the filthy crew is battered, raving & wiped out on the docks as the sub sinks from the Bombings. It is the only highlight after being subjected to such a horrible 3 hours.

I cannot imagine how anyone could enjoy this movie. Truly, the only way to watch it would be to skip side one entirely, read the overview online for character reference then watch side 2 with the fast forward & chapter skip buttons. Out of 3 hours, there are only 30 minutes of watchable footage which is all on side 2. But even that is a crawling waste of time. The director & writer should be banned for life.

Do Not let children or teenagers watch this movie. Also not recommended for those easily offended by smut.

If you still insist... Rent. Don't buy. But if you can't tolerate Ren & Stimpy, you will not be able to tolerate this movie

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by RustySubmarine

Whilst on the topic of the film Das Boot, have a look at this review postyed on Amazon.

Subnuts posted a thread about this very review yesterday.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=203503

Since then she's responded to the response.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by RustySubmarine

What do you expect coming from a woman.

Since one of the women here also made fun of Midge, and we have several female members who love Silent Hunter and Das Boot, maybe you should think twice before making insulting and demeaning comments based on gender, or on anything else.

[Hinrich Schwab]

Originally Posted by RustySubmarine

Thank you Jimbuana. I reported this! Not the sort of thing we should be encouraging.

Whilst on the topic of the film Das Boot, have a look at this review postyed on Amazon. What a plonker, if he doesn't know what to expect of submariners when ashore and cooked up in a sub for weeks on end, what does he expect. If it disgusted him so much, then why did he watch it all the way through in the first place!

(review omitted for brevity)

Apparently she did not like the recommendations for creative uses for corks and violin strings.

After reading her responses, it is apparent that she is completely ignorant of how things actually occur in military service and is only sold on the pomp and circumstance that exists in the modern "politically correct" military. I would love to see her reaction to the book where The Old Man and the LI constantly try to one-up each other in a "freak out contest" throughout the patrol (This explains the reaction to the 2WO's U-Boat cocktail better than the movie does. The 2WO got them both). We know it is a good movie, 99.99999999999999999999 ad infinitum percent of people who watch the movie say it is good. ONE whiny Emily Post wannabe is not going to change that fact. I had thought about leaving a comment, but I remembered one of my old axioms; one cannot reason with fanatics. Let this person believe that military folk do not engage in "boonie rant" when on duty. It does not change the fact that it does occur.

[ninja turtle]

Whilst I believe that everyone has a right to their opinion, in this case surely it is wise to read the other reviews and perhaps rethink whether the proposed review is unjust to the product?

[Johnfb]

Originally Posted by RustySubmarine

I have quite a few versions of the film "Das Boot" both in English and German with subtitles. But the best one in my opinion is the Digitally Re-mastered , Original Uncut Version of the 6 part Mini Series presented as One complete feature length uncut version. running time 4hrs 48 mins. (English speaking). Also got the same version, German speaking with English subtitles, which can be turned off. I play this sometimes, but not understanding German, I can't pick up most of the dialogue, but it seems more realistic in one sense.

I watch this film about once every three months, which I never seem to tire of. It sparks up some enthusiasm to playing SH3. Must have seen it over 100 times since it's release. Best ever Submarine film ever made. Might watch it again tonight, yes I think I will!

I watched this version recently...all 3 parts are here