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[Damo]

You MUST watch Das Boot. I started playing SH3 when my friend threw it out (THE FOOOOOL!!!), and I experienced my first naval sim, having been previously interested only by the air and land campaigns. Then I came here, started messing with mods, found GWX and it's riveting instruction manual (it was a manual???), and then came across many references to Das Boot.

Curiosity made me go out and rent the film (Directors Cut), and it just brought the whole submarine experience home to me, like I was actually there in some parts, and the game just reinforced that experience so much more after watching, it should be a pre-requisite of playing any SH game, at least SH3 anyway.



I remember going out on patrols and at certain times I'd think, 'Oh this is just like that bit in Das Boot'. Then after a while of thinking this a dozen or so times each patrol, I finally realised that at the moment I gun the engines in port to the moment I return home / sink into the abyss screaming 'MUMMY!!' (delete as appropriate), I was IN Das Boot.

Good enough recommendation?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Damo

Good enough recommendation?

Here's another - even for a confessed filmaholic, Das Boot made quite the impression.

I remember when it came out originally and got such a great reception here in the US - but I didn't see it. I remember when it was released into theaters again, and if it played anywhere nearby I (once again) failed to see it.

Nevertheless it remained stuck in my brain as "one of those movies I've got to see some day" and occasionally I'd come across a reference to it and think, oh yeah, that u-boat movie, never did catch that one, did I?

Then for some reason, out of the blue, it popped up in the front of my brain one day for no apparent reason two summers ago, and I thought, hey, I bet I can get that from Netflix, I should do that while I'm thinking about it. So right to the top of my queue it went and in due time I had it and watched it... and watched it... and watched it... and watched it... and after about three weeks and I don't know how many hours of watching it, I realized I could not bear to send the disc back until I had my own copy, so thanks to Amazon I was finally able to return the Netflix copy after a month or so.

I'm not sure how any more but somehow in surfing around the web looking for info on the movie, the real life people the characters were based on, and the u-boat war in general, I came across references to SH3 and not being much of a gamer I didn't think much of it. Then when the obsession didn't go away and I saw how cheap the game was (and how old, meaning I could prolly run it on the system I had then) I bought it. Trying to figure it out led me here.

I'll admit that being a history/military history nut with a preexisting interest in WWII helped, but... u-boats? I never would've guessed. But such is the power of Das Boot, lol. It's not just a great u-boat movie, or great war movie... it's a great movie, period.

If it weren't I wouldn't be here every day hanging out with this motley bunch, I can tell you that much.

[Missing Name]

Years ago, I got the tape from the library. My VCR promptly ripped it to shreds.

Last year, I got the uncut version as a Christmas present to myself. I've already watched it at least two times.