Film "Das Boot" Best Version

[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.

[guntherprien]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That's my point. He was not a "real" u-boat sailor, and some (not all) of the men who were there said he got it wrong. Don't mistake me; I love the movie and I love the book. I was only pointing out that some of the criticisms he levelled at the movie were also levelled at his book by some of those he served with.

Yes,you are quite correct,I get your drift now.

[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

[jonmar]

I will be getting this movie in the near future. I really want the Blu-Ray version but I also don't want to miss out on the full length version as I've never seen it.

Not only one of the best war movies ever made but one of the best movies ever made period. It tells a human story unlike any other movie does.

On a slightly related note. There's an insane burning rage within me reserved for overdubbing. I can't stand it. I always watch movies in their original language. It got pretty rough when I was watching Tora, Tora, Tora in Japanese with Norwegian subtitles (I'm Finnish).

[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.

[Miki_Mundi]

I watched this film (one of my all time favourites) the very first time many years ago.
I had an old tv set that soometimes reverted to black and white, so this is how I saw the movie first.
It was german with subtitles.
Years later I saw the film again and was shocked that it was colour, viewing in b/w was soooo much more claustraphobic and tense that I recommend it to everyone.
Should of been filmed that way in first place imo!

[scramasax]

read the book

[Kessner]

Someone has the Das Boot movie on youtube believe it or not, the full length no less, not a bunch of cut edits to build a full length. I mean the whole movie start to end. I have it on my faveriots. When I up to it, I watch it as long it is up there until someone cries about it and has the user pull the video.. In the mean time that is were I watch it....

[Sailor Steve]

If someone "cries about it and has the user pull the video", it will be because it was uploaded illegally. We don't control what YouTube does, or worry if you talk about it, but saying someone pointing out a crime is "crying about it" is a bit of a stretch. If you truly love the movie you will buy a copy.