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Post by Merlot Joe on Feb 6, 2012 0:37:26 GMT -6
I am sure there is a review started someplace for this movie but the search wouldn't pull anything up for me. So here's mine.
Saturday evening Denice and I watched Das Boat. This is the first time we have seen it. Good movie. I thought the stage set for the Sub was excellent. The close quarter, no privacy, rotten food hanging all around the ship, and you couldn't smell but you could almost see the stink in the Sub just hanging there.
There is no way in hell that I would have gotten into one of those ships. I just can't imagine for the life of me how they lived in those condition for over what seemed to be months.
As the movie continued and as they keep trying to sink the English Fleet, you found yourself pulling for the Germans, not wanting them to get sunk, and that you pulled for every torpedo they shot to hit it's mark.
Good film and if for some reason you have not seen it, I highly recommend it.
You can watch it in English or listen to it in German and read the Sub-titles. We watched it in English.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 6, 2012 0:41:34 GMT -6
I saw it in the theater back in 1981 when it came out. Excellent film; gripping, claustrophobic, and deeply affecting. I can't remember if I saw it with English dialogue or with subtitles, but I remember being very shaken by it. Good choice!  Not to be confused with...  |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 6, 2012 5:31:51 GMT -6
Likewise saw it way back when. I saw it with the subtitles, which probably added to the overall sensory effect. Key word Jake from Jakes comments.. "claustrophobic", even the theater seemed to be closing in by the end of it. Have to watch it again.
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Post by Alice on Feb 6, 2012 6:57:14 GMT -6
Gary and I saw this in 1982 when he was in power school in Orlando. He and my brother had volunteered for subs and my brother didn't want his now wife to see it. I wonder if my son currently in power school and volunteering for subs has seen it.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 6, 2012 14:52:31 GMT -6
I was wondering if Garito had seen it or not. What did he think?
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Post by Tex on Feb 6, 2012 21:02:49 GMT -6
I saw the movie years ago and came away with no desire to be on a submarine.
My dad told me that the most fear he felt during WW2 were several times that he had to ride a British sub from Scapa Flow to the coast of France. He didn't like cramped quarters and said the sub smelled like a sewer.
Like Joe, I ended up feeling bad for the Germans.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Feb 6, 2012 21:21:28 GMT -6
Put me down as another one who saw it many years ago -- not in the theaters, I rented the VHS. Great flick.
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Post by Alice on Feb 7, 2012 8:27:06 GMT -6
Jake, Gary liked it. I did get the opportunity to tour the sub he was on when it was brought back to the states. Lots of ladders, and open floored walkways (catwalks). The smell was similar to a locker room that had been sprayed with diesel then sprayed with lysol.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Feb 7, 2012 10:54:29 GMT -6
Just think how in our WWII Sub movies, they always looked bigger than the one in "Das Boat". The Captain always had his own private quarters, bridge looked bigger, engine Room bigger, etc.
I wounder if that was really true.
I don't care how large the Sub is I still would not have wanted to been on one of them.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Feb 7, 2012 14:36:41 GMT -6
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Post by Tex on Feb 7, 2012 18:47:16 GMT -6
The UBoat exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industy is cool. We also liked the steam locomotive that set the 1890s speed record of over 100 MPH. Interesting place.
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Post by Merlot Joe on Feb 7, 2012 21:37:17 GMT -6
I toured the one at Pearl Harbor 30 years ago and don't remember much about it, except that it was rather small.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Feb 8, 2012 5:29:15 GMT -6
I always figured that Illinois was building a Navy over there. Indiana beware. |
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Post by Tex on Feb 8, 2012 8:59:36 GMT -6
I went through American WW2 subs in Galveston and Mobile. Looked liked tough duty. Smell a lot of farts then die.
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