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Das Boot (1981)

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Elster88 Jan 10 2006 10:28 AM

Haven't seen this yet, but it is first on my list of rentals. I understand the re-release in 1997 included an additional hour. Edit: 65 minutes, to be exact. Please specify when rating.

sharpie Jan 10 2006 10:48 AM

Haven't seen it. I was surprised, however, to read that it was the highest-grossing foreign film in the US until, I believe, "Life Is Beautiful" beat it out.

Edgy MD Jan 10 2006 11:02 AM

More likely the highest grossing foreign language film. I imagine Like Water for Chocolate topped it first, though.

sharpie Jan 10 2006 11:08 AM

Yes, that is what I meant of course. Maybe it was Like Water For Chocolate that beat it, but I'm pretty sure Life Is Beautiful is the current champeen.

Vic Sage Jan 10 2006 03:52 PM

terrific movie. submarine movies are usually hard to screw up because of the inherent tension in the scenario... men in confined space, deep below the sea, under pressure (both actual and metaphorical).

Vic Sage Jan 11 2006 02:12 PM

Top 10 submarine war movies to see: BEDFORD INCIDENT DAS BOOT CRIMSON TIDE DESTINATION TOKYO ENEMY BELOW GRAY LADY DOWN HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER ICE STATION ZEBRA RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP TORPEDO RUN fantasy/sf sub movies: 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA FANTASTIC VOYAGE THE ABYSS YELLOW SUBMARINE comedy sub movies: HELLO DOWN THERE OPERATION PETTICOAT DOWN PERISCOPE

Elster88 Jan 11 2006 02:15 PM

I was thinking of making a seperate thread about submarine movies.

Edgy MD Jan 11 2006 02:23 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 17 2006 11:04 AM

Top of my head: Mr. Roberts Das Boot Periscope Up/Down/Whatever Yellow Submarine Operation Petticoat That Soviet Sub Movie with Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson Crimson Tide That McConaghy/BonJovi movie. Abyss 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea Star Wars: Visting the Gunduns

Willets Point Jan 11 2006 02:25 PM

I saw the A&E Biography of Tony Curtis and the thing that sticks with me is how he really wanted to make "a service comedy with Cary Grant" (and when he said this he mimed Cary Grant looking in a periscope). Curtis was at the height as an A-list actor and was able to get that movie made and thus "Operation Petticoat."

Elster88 Jan 11 2006 02:26 PM

K-19 was Ford/Neeson. Pretty darn good, I thought. U-571 was the McConaHEY one, I think.

RealityChuck Jan 17 2006 10:57 AM

Top 10 submarine war movies to see: BEDFORD INCIDENT DAS BOOT Nice choice, but "The Bedford Incident" was set on a destroyer, not a sub (Though there was a Russian sub in it). Das Boot is probably the best submarine movie out there (well, technically, it was a TV miniseries cut down to feature length). It was pretty daring for showing everything from the German point of view, and some of the scenes are the perfect definition of "suspense."

Edgy MD Jan 17 2006 11:09 AM

Well, it was a German production. I guess the surprise is that it got a chance among British and American distributor's and audiences.

Elster88 Jan 17 2006 11:56 AM

I liked it. Four U-boats. The only critic I read is Roger Ebert (his archives is a great site). He made an interesting point. A scene, in which the survivors on the American boat are swimming for the sub, shows the U-boat captain sadly (actually, angrily, that the Americans did not rescue these men in the past few hours since the boat was attacked) ordering the boat to be backed away. Perfectly legitimate, IMO. The U-boat is not the type of ship that should be rescuing enemy survivors. Ebert wonders if an American film would have shown an American crew doing the same, or would show some heroic (read: bullshit) rescue. He thinks the latter.

cooby Jul 03 2007 06:50 PM

I was going to start a thread on this and happily discovered that one already exists. I see I also already voted on it, probably one of the fives. We watched this one night over the weekend, I believe Saturday, on AMC and they will probably repeat it so if anybody has missed it or would like to see it again, please take the opportunity. It's very very long, but again please, watch it to the end. This movie gets me every time.

cooby Jul 06 2007 05:38 PM

I checked and this is on AMC again next week if any one wants to see it