DAS BOOT!! My First TIME VIEW~!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by postalbyke

Does anyone know where one can get the miniseries in english?

As above. It can be watched subtitled or dubbed into English. The German version is better though.

But even that isn't really the miniseries. It's the whole thing, all the footage, but there are no episode breaks. It's presented as a five-hour movie, and the only break is when you have to switch discs.

[Osmium Steele]

SPOILER BELOW!!!

Never play poker with my wife.

She'd never seen Das Boot, so I found it on-demand and we sat down on Sunday to watch it together.

During the run through Gibraltar, she turned to me and said, "They're not all going to die are they? I don't want to watch these men all die."

I said, "Honey, of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats, 30,000 never made it home again... ... but these men make it back to port, yes."

She stared at me for 30 seconds or so... ... then said, "And THEN they die, right?"

I couldn't keep a straight face. I tried, I just couldn't.

She got up, went upstairs, and read a book.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I've just started reading the book. Blu-ray is coming to UK in Sept

[Sailor Steve]

@ Osmium Steele:

But...

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

so I found it on-demand.

YOU DON'T OWN A COPY?!?! I'm embarrassed to even talk to you in public now!

I own three currently: The Theatrical and the Director's Cut on VHS and the Uncut Version on DVD. I had the Director's Cut on DVD but gave it to a deserving older member when I got the long one. I'll have them all soon enough on Blu-Ray, but it won't do me any good until I can afford a new computer.

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

I've just started reading the book.

Even better. Some of the changes to the movie were probably wise for the general public, but not for me.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

@ Osmium Steele:

But...


YOU DON'T OWN A COPY?!?! I'm embarrassed to even talk to you in public now!

I own three currently: The Theatrical and the Director's Cut on VHS and the Uncut Version on DVD. I had the Director's Cut on DVD but gave it to a deserving older member when I got the long one. I'll have them all soon enough on Blu-Ray, but it won't do me any good until I can afford a new computer.


Even better. Some of the changes to the movie were probably wise for the general public, but not for me.

We both 'wizen up' together mate

[logan5]

5 hours??? I thought I had seen the full version and it only ran about 3 hours, I guess I need to re-look into this.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by logan5

5 hours??? I thought I had seen the full version and it only ran about 3 hours, I guess I need to re-look into this.

The 3.5 hour version is the (extended) director's cut of the movie that was produced for release into theaters back in the 90s. The original theatrical release from 1981 was about 1 hour shorter IIRC.

The 5.5 hour cut is the miniseries version that ran on TV in Europe. It's available on DVD and is billed as the "uncut" version of Das Boot.

http://www.amazon.com/Das-Boot-Origi.../dp/B0001XAOLQ

The original production was always intended to provide both a theatrical "one part" movie version of the story, and an episodic miniseries version to run on television. So they filmed enough to do both, and then cut together both versions. But the original movie version was cut *way* down in order to shorten the running time and emphasize the more action-oriented parts of the story. The director's cut remedied that when it came to the movie version... but the uncut version is another thing altogether.

And holy cow it's available for only $9.50 now on Amazon.com... I seem to remember paying at least three times that when I bought it, and that was within the last couple of years. I wonder if the price drop is recent, and could it possibly herald the eventual release of an uncut Blu-ray? Because that would be awesome.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

The original theatrical release from 1981 was about 1 hour shorter IIRC.

URC.

And holy cow it's available for only $9.50 now on Amazon.com... I seem to remember paying at least three times that when I bought it, and that was within the last couple of years.

I think I payed around $40.00, but then I bought it in a store right when it came out.

I wonder if the price drop is recent, and could it possibly herald the eventual release of an uncut Blu-ray? Because that would be awesome.

I see the Blu-Ray version is pretty cheap already. Now if I only had a player...And a television...

[OnePingOnly]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Dont forget to watch it while laid in the bath with some sausages hanging over your head

"FLUUUUUUUUUUTEN!"

I am now wiping the tears that was classic!

[OnePingOnly]

Insofar as the dialogue and some of the acting, this movie was flawless in its representation of what it was like for the boys in the grey tubes. I enjoyed it very much. THE NETFLIX copy , about mid way through was garbled and slowed down then more garble I tried a few things but my equipment is well maintained as i am a tech geek, So WHAT TO DO, I burned both side to a DL DVR+r and then was able to enjoy it.

My wide thinks I have scurvy watching and reading all this submarine material! One thing i learned emphatically, YOU will depth CHARGED, you will miss even with the best of triangulation, and running full bore on the surface is FOR A MAD MAN!

Tonight I am Watching the Mini Series from encore MOBY DICK, then I will Watch The Enemy Below!

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OnePingOnly

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I think I payed around $40.00, but then I bought it in a store right when it came out.

It was still $28.99 on Amazon when I bought it there two years ago.

[Shado]

When I was in Germany back in the early to mid 80's. I saw it in a local theater, we could watch the English version or German one, decided on the German one. It was outstanding. Being in the dark and actually hearing German and having to read the subtitles, was fairly inmersive. After that I was hooked on subs games and learning more. Will have to get a DVD of it and see it again. Hoperully in German with English subtitles.

[Herr-Berbunch]

I recall in either '88 or '89 the mini-series was on TV on a Friday evening, for six weeks I was late going to air cadets!

Tick-tock, UK Blu-ray release soon - and the cover is better than the US one IMO.

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by OnePingOnly

Tonight I am Watching the Mini Series from encore MOBY DICK, then I will Watch The Enemy Below!

Verify Range To Target...
OnePingOnly

I can also suggest :
- U-571
and
- In enemy hands
both "WWII submarine" movies

Have a nice viewing

[Jimbuna]

U-571?

In 2006, screenwriter David Ayer admitted that U-571 distorted history and stated that he would not do it again.[8] Ayer told BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme that he "did not feel good" about suggesting Americans captured the Naval Enigma cipher rather than the British.
“It was a distortion...a mercenary decision...to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience. Both my grandparents were officers in World War II, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements."

Not for accuracy that's for sure