Das Boot on Blu-Ray June 7

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

Take this screenshot from The Longest Day, for example. Anything look not quite right to you folks?

I must be missing what you mean. What's not "right" about this picture.

[Subnuts]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I must be missing what you mean. What's not "right" about this picture.

John Wayne wasn't a wax sculpture in real life, and The Longest Day wasn't intended to look like an impressionist painting.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Subnuts

John Wayne wasn't a wax sculpture in real life

Are you sure about that?

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

@Penguin:

Hey, I just realized you went straight to the dialogue and skipped the opening voice-over!

Edit: Aaaand you forgot the lyrics to the song the Bootsmann is singing. It's okay, I will leave gaps in my running transcript for when you get to it.

Sorry, was some days off the forums. (No, the reality is that I need 6 days for an apropriate reply )
Actually I was hoping to blackmail you to send me a case of your finest breweries, as being drunk helps to understand other drunks - but there's also the scene in the bar - impossible to understand withour french champagne....

Apart from the song: what voiceovers did you mean? The text at the beginning is not dubbed in my version, neither in german, nor english, nor mexican...

Originally Posted by Kaleun Cook

anything to please frau kaleun.

Afaik it's the beginning of "An de Eck steiht ’n Jung mit’n Tüdelband", a song from Hamburg:

thanks, I never knew that. No wonder why I didn't understand the beginning of the song: drunk hamburgerish is not easy if you're no Fischkopp....

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Sorry, was some days off the forums. (No, the reality is that I need 6 days for an apropriate reply )
Actually I was hoping to blackmail you to send me a case of your finest breweries, as being drunk helps to understand other drunks - but there's also the scene in the bar - impossible to understand withour french champagne....

A German in Germany is publicly asking for beer from the US? I think there's a potential blackmail situation here, but the victim will not be me.

Apart from the song: what voiceovers did you mean? The text at the beginning is not dubbed in my version, neither in german, nor english, nor mexican...

Voiceover = Narration

On my DVDs at the beginning when they're driving down the coast road toward the nightclub, there is a voiceover by Werner's character. The English subtitles are something like, "The last night on land... [can't remember these bits]... the aces, there aren't many of them left... Schepke, Kretschmer, lost to the British [or something like that]... and Endrass, with a nervous breakdown [WHICH MAKES ME VERY ANGRY, THEY SHOULD HAVE USED A MADE UP NAME BECAUSE ENDRASS DID *NOT* HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN HE WENT OUT FIGHTING!]..."

I think there is more of Werner narrating in voiceover later on in the movie, for sure there is in the Uncut version but I think in the DC as well.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

A German in Germany is publicly asking for beer from the US? I think there's a potential blackmail situation here, but the victim will not be me.

That's why I asked for fine brews, not the usual "sex in a canoe" beers...
In addition: all my friends know that I have a bad taste - so no blackmail sit here

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Voiceover = Narration

On my DVDs at the beginning when they're driving down the coast road toward the nightclub, there is a voiceover by Werner's character. The English subtitles are something like, "The last night on land... [can't remember these bits]... the aces, there aren't many of them left... Schepke, Kretschmer, lost to the British [or something like that]... and Endrass, with a nervous breakdown [WHICH MAKES ME VERY ANGRY, THEY SHOULD HAVE USED A MADE UP NAME BECAUSE ENDRASS DID *NOT* HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN HE WENT OUT FIGHTING!]..."

I think there is more of Werner narrating in voiceover later on in the movie, for sure there is in the Uncut version but I think in the DC as well.

strange, I checked it out, the narration is included in the European version, but not in the US version of the UC (from Sony) - I checked the later out first....
It certainly does add immersion, especially at the beginning.
Another fun fact, which Peterson mentions in his audio comment: when the first WO talks about his experience with the crew, he says in the english audio that he was initiated- they made him say this for the english tv version. However in the english subs on the euro disc it is correctly translated from the german version: "I was peed on". The rest of the english subs don't seem to differ between the US/Euro versions.

At the time the first scene plays, Endrass is still alive
In the original Werner says, he is "mit den Nerven fertig", which is like a step before a nervous breakdown - something along the lines of emotional distress, or more bold: a nervous wreck.

[Subnuts]

Well, as we sit around waiting for Sony to release Das Boot on blu-ray in the US, I found a website that compares 10 shots from the 1997 DVD with the 2010 German blu-ray. Just click on "1920 x 1080 fullscreen comparison."

http://www.caps-a-holic.com/hd_vergl...leich=das_boot

Wow. A bit like watching the movie with glasses on. I hear Sony is working on a new master, so let's keep our fingers crossed!

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Voiceover = Narration

"... and Endrass, with a nervous breakdown [WHICH MAKES ME VERY ANGRY, THEY SHOULD HAVE USED A MADE UP NAME BECAUSE ENDRASS DID *NOT* HAVE A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN HE WENT OUT FIGHTING!]..."

Or they could have substituted Endrass with Bleichrodt who did have a nervous breakdown whilst at sea in December 1942. Although this might not have fitted in with the timing of the movie, which if I remember rightly, was set in 1941.

Nemo

[Subnuts]

Another new review, this time with full-size screenshots:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-r...ot_blu-ray.htm

The first 15 minutes of the movie has always looked soft and somewhat washed out, but the rest of the movie seems to look a lot better. I've heard that DVD Beaver's screenshots don't always reflect the actual picture quality as good as they should, so take them with a grain of salt. However, it looks like the devil is in the details as always. Looking at these shots, I was startled by little details like Herbert Gronemeyer's crocheted sweater, the hat and breast insignia (you can actually see the swastikas now!), every bead of sweat on the crew's faces, individual drops of condensation on the boat, Jurgen Prochnow's awesome blue eyes, and Erwin Leder's really awful teeth. Nothing really mind-blowing, but when you've seen a movie a dozen times, you start to notice these kind of things.

The old Director's Cut DVD will be 14 years old, and while it looked amazing back then, it looks pretty dated now - check out all the blockiness and pixelation in the underwater shots, iffy black levels, and haloing around flashlight beams and lights in the boat's interior. Still, it's a dark, grainy movie from the early 80s. It's never going to look like an epic nature documentary, but I think this new blu-ray probably depicts Das Boot the way it was meant to be see.

Oh, and a little preview for Frau Kaluen: