Das Boot Mystique

[maillemaker]

I'm big into medieval history and reenacting. Every time a "medieval" movie comes out, people cry about how it's hollywhood and not historical.

I don't care. I realize going in that it's not a documentary. I'm in it for the story.

One of my most favorite medieval movies is "Excalibur". Completely ahistorical. But a wonderful telling of the Aurthurian Tale.

I love Das Boot. It's well acted, gritty, and believable. It allows for suspension of belief. That's the best a good fictional work can do.

Steve

[frau kaleun]

Reminds me of a list I saw somewhere after "Gladiator" came out, someone was ranting about how he hated hated HATED the movie and gave as his reason some 200+ alleged historical inaccuracies he had noted in the film.

The question was, how many times did he have to watch this movie he hated so much to come up with that list?

Originally Posted by maillemaker

I'm big into medieval history and reenacting. Every time a "medieval" movie comes out, people cry about how it's hollywhood and not historical.

I don't care. I realize going in that it's not a documentary. I'm in it for the story.

One of my most favorite medieval movies is "Excalibur". Completely ahistorical. But a wonderful telling of the Aurthurian Tale.

I love Das Boot. It's well acted, gritty, and believable. It allows for suspension of belief. That's the best a good fictional work can do.

Steve

I really enjoyed Excalibur as well, in fact me and The Boss watched it back to back with The Queen, sort of a Helen Merrin marathon seeing her morph from young Hottie in Excalibur to... well... the Queen of England!

I can only pick crap movies apart for historical errors, the good ones so should absorb one to the point where such things are easily ignored. So the riveting Das Boot gets a pass and the execrably bad U-571 does not. Gladiator is in the win column in my book as well.