Seeing as this was originally a German TV mini-series, it is wrong to expect the pacing of a movie, much less an action movie. I saw the 209-minute version, and on it's own merits Das Boot is a superb teleplay.
I really liked the film, but it is such a bummer that the voices are all dubbed. Each time I noticed this, it pulled me out of the boat and in front of the screen.
Das Boot (The Boat, in German) is surely the gold standard of submarine movies. Where other films might show you what it's like to be on a submarine (or U-boat, same difference), Das Boot goes further and makes you feel like you're THERE. The way the camera glides from compartment to compartment, it never lets you forget the environment's claustrophobia, and the character of a war correspondent helps the procedural come alive and make sense, but also makes it very personal. We get to know the submariners well enough that we care what happens to them, especially as the film moves from war film to disaster movie in the third act. Not until the end do we find out if this is to be a story of triumph or tragedy, though we hope for the former and dread the latter throughout. Das Boot is on the long side, and structurally, features two distinct missions (which does work as a dichotomy and pushed the docu-drama part of it), but it does a lot more than you'd expect even with that running time. It's claim to the title of best submarine movie ever made seems secure.
Amazing. I expected another testosterone war movie, but this is so, so much more.
Perfect in every possible way, and as someone wrote, "more like an event than just a movie".
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rwj
I don't what people see in this movie... For me it was 3+ hours of nothing happening... boring boring boring!George Bailey
Yeah it was boring.. Have to watch it again!The_Comatorium
Valar Morghulisgeorge4mon
nice ending but overall it dragged i feel its length wasn't justifiedStigAnder
It has a lot of good things going for it, but sadly my overall impression is that it's long.samlowery
Seeing as this was originally a German TV mini-series, it is wrong to expect the pacing of a movie, much less an action movie. I saw the 209-minute version, and on it's own merits Das Boot is a superb teleplay.Joris B.
@ rwjLuckily the original version of the film is only 149 minutes long...
mfmopdenkamp
I really liked the film, but it is such a bummer that the voices are all dubbed. Each time I noticed this, it pulled me out of the boat and in front of the screen.san tonio
herbert grönemeyer ftw. i still found it captivating.Beingtaki
Johan: Keep going and get us back.The engines:
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Das Boot (The Boat, in German) is surely the gold standard of submarine movies. Where other films might show you what it's like to be on a submarine (or U-boat, same difference), Das Boot goes further and makes you feel like you're THERE. The way the camera glides from compartment to compartment, it never lets you forget the environment's claustrophobia, and the character of a war correspondent helps the procedural come alive and make sense, but also makes it very personal. We get to know the submariners well enough that we care what happens to them, especially as the film moves from war film to disaster movie in the third act. Not until the end do we find out if this is to be a story of triumph or tragedy, though we hope for the former and dread the latter throughout. Das Boot is on the long side, and structurally, features two distinct missions (which does work as a dichotomy and pushed the docu-drama part of it), but it does a lot more than you'd expect even with that running time. It's claim to the title of best submarine movie ever made seems secure.pallmallandcoke
amazing soundtrackBig A2
@samlowery: Where did you read that? I don't think Das Boot was ever a TV mini-series or ever intended to be.keivhendet
Amazing. I expected another testosterone war movie, but this is so, so much more.Perfect in every possible way, and as someone wrote, "more like an event than just a movie".
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