Das Boot (DVD)

...to dust-off my DVD of Das Boot (Director’s Cut) and give it another look. In the past, this movie has been seen in several formats. Serialised on BBC2 and in standard movie length being two of them. The DVD version runs for 200 minutes – and that’s just the movie! I suspect that this is closer in length to the TV mini-series in content than the normal movie. The advantage of the DVD format, is that you can hear the soundtrack ...
...Perfect Storm. However, in making Das Boot, he set himself the almost impossible standard to better. It must rank as one of the most exciting, tense and intelligent war films ever made. The film stars Jürgen Prochnow as “The Old Man” – (i.e. he was about 30 years old amongst a crew of mostly callow-faced youths.) otherwise known as Herr Ka’leun. (You don’t have time to say Herr Kapitän-Leutnant when you’re up ...

BNibbles 07.02.2001 (08.04.2001) · Read full review
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...Academy Awards and an Oscar. Das Boot is a German made film and is about the German crew of a U-Boat who patrolled the Atlantic during World War 2. In most American or British World War 2 films the Germans tend to be dehumanised and looked upon as cold and evil, because Das Boot is German you get to see how normal most of the Germans really were. The characters on board the U-Boat are presented as people who are doing their military service, trying ...
...including Hitler and Churchill. Das Boot has been extremely well directed and put together by film director Wolfgang Petersen he uses certain shots in the film with great effect in helping to involve the audience. The extras in the DVD include being able to watch the film with directors commentary so you can see what Petersen was trying to achieve with certain techniques used in the film. A great effort has been made to make the film as realistic ...

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Without question Das Boot (The Boat) is the best U-boat film of all time. forget the pap and factual inaccuracies of "U571" & humdrum "Saving Private Ryan", if you want the realities of war track down The Boat. I was fortunate to view & tape all 6 hourly episodes when it was broadcast on the BBC 10 years ago, and even though the sound quality back then was very basic stereo you don't really need all this pro-logic & DVD kit to "feel" the claustrophobia ...
...the Director's Cut, and the dubbed DVD version and although good they don't do the film justice. It's typical of the Germans to take an objective view of their part in the war. There is no sterotypes here, no jackbooted thickos waving their arms in the air. Just ordinary young men serving their country for an ideal they do/don't support and suffering the nightmares of either being blown out of the water by depth charges or crushed by water pressure ...

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Das Boot is one of the most emotionally involving movies I have ever seen. The characters are developed richly, without those awkward moments in movies when you realize that the director is doing so. You sympathize with the crew, and FEEL their plight as they struggle, cramped in a rickety U-boat against the odds. At times the movie grows slow and drawn out, but that is intentional- to make you feel like you are trapped in an underwater coffin with ...

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...tension and then there is Das Boot. This is the Director's cut version which runs an extra hour longer than the theatrical cut. Picture = 10 WOW!!! The sharpness and the colours on this disc are amazing. Presented in anamorphic widescreen at the original aspect ratio. The real triumph for the transfer is that the contrast is perfectly maintained even in the murky submarine. Sound = 9 The sound is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 in both English ...
...quality of the sound presentation. The noises coming from all around the room make this a very tense experience. Extras = 8 Commentary by Wolfgang Peterson running the entire 3 hours 20 minutes of the movie. There is also a short making of documentary. Theatrical trailer is also present. Overall There are not many better releases than this for picture and sound. note: Get the Region 2 because the American disc requires it to be flipped mid-movie, ...

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What can I say about this classic Wolfgang Petersen film? Well, I have to admit that knowing a smattering of German does help: it is subtitled, but you miss out on a lot by following that, since not every word is included. But don't let that put you off, this is *the* submarine film of all time. Forget 'U-571', forget 'Red October' or any of the others, Petersen's film gives the other side's view of WW2. Yes, all the creaking, the diving beyond maximum ...

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Das Boot is one of the best war/naval film titles to be produced in recent years, and once viewed will remain in the memory for years to come. Comparisons to this film may come from titles such as Crimson Tide, however Das Boot captures the claustrophobic atmosphere so much better than Crimson Tide which, to me, is too Americanized. As an example of this the actors in Das Boot were made to live on the set so as to produce the effect of pale skin ...
...time underwater without even seeing the sun. The DVD itself has about an hour of extra footage and a superb making of documentary, the documentary almost being worth the price of the DVD alone! The story is one of the most tense and harrowing you will ever see, and the atmosphere of the title will leave you feeling claustrophobic and trapped yourself! ...

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I first saw this movie in the theatre about 20 years ago, and the feeling throughout was one of dread and doom. It was eerie, nobody wanted to whisper, or rustle sweet wrappers or anything, because you were just so engrossed in this movie and even when you swallowed, it was like a gulp that echoed, such was the intensity of the silence. I think you definitely feel as if you are in the vaccum, sitting on the bottom of the sea, and knowing death comes ...
...and is now rearing it's head for a second round of popularity. It is a LONG movie, and I think intentionally done, so as to make you realise how long time can be in a situation like this. How it would feel to be in that situation. And let's face it - this REALLY happened to hundreds of men on both sides during WWII. What a harrowing experience. And again, recently, to the Russian submarine, the Kursk. Recently this was on cable and I saw it again. ...

poet831 20.01.2001 · Read full review
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...step-dad brought his copy of Das Boot – the directors cut on DVD. He then preceded to tell me about the various versions of Das Boot there are, (surprisingly there are quite a few), yet this is one of the great versions as it is in it’s entirety and lasts for around three and a half hours. The film is situated on a U-97 and the crew that man it. There is nothing else you can say about the story-line really. There are depth charges surrounding ...
...extra features (oh joy more Das Boot stuff!!), these include a Cinema Trailer (which somehow makes the movie look interesting), a directors commentary (these are on most DVD’s somewhere nowadays) and the usual making off featurette. To sum it up, unless you really enjoy U-boot movies and know enough about the war and U-boots to understand exactly what is happening in the movie then you may get something out of this film, otherwise you will ...

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This is every bit as good as Crimson Tide & Hunt For Red October yet it was filmed 20 years earlier. The film charts a german sub crew on a mission to bomb the british in the atlantic, finding out however that the british have stopped making mistakes. The suspense is excellent, and with the soundtrack and a surround sound setup you would swear you were on the sub with them. The DVD makes the most of a good sound system. There are 3 language options: ...

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