The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Dowly

For Hollywood, it was good. So many members of this forum have major griefs with it's accuracy,but forget that its a general public Hollywood movie, since when have you expected a great deal of accuracy? I went into the movie with no expectation of that "Das boot" realistic feeling and came out slightly impressed with how Hollywood manged to get some things correct, even if the whole premise was totally false (obviously it was the british who first captured an enigma, and the film acknowledges that at the end.)

It was an action movie, and for that it wasn't that bad. AFAIK there hasnt been a decent modern naval warfare movie since, not counting Master and Commander. The thing i do hate about U-571 was the whole "Woo! Go America!" type of patriotic bull that hollywood decides to snuff so many films with. I was never into that sense of hyper-nationalism and neither were many of the men serving in the war. It was your average action flick, and while not being terrible for it's action scenes, it was full of inaccuracies and demonization of the average kriegsmarine sailor.