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Das Boot · Mar 13, 02:17 PM

“with a vivid, terrifying realism”

First, this movie blows out of the water Hunt for Red October, U-571, and every other submarine movie I’ve seen (I have hope for Run Silent, Run Deep). This is the movie those directors compared their own against, secretly despising the American viewing audience and the Hollywood that forces them to pander and pander and pander some more. Second, it stands on its own as a war movie. Worth watching the longest version you can stand; I had my hands on a 3 hour Director’s Cut. The original 6 hour epic is available.

The cinematography does not call attention to itself, but it is top-notch; most of the movie was filmed inside a full-scale replica of a WWII U-boat constructed especially for the movie. You could say Das Boot was set on a U-boat, but that implies an artificiality, which requires a suspension-of-disbelief, which Das Boot needs none of.

Directed: Wolfgang Peterson, director’s cut from 1982.
Summary: Dark, Tense, Heroic, and Epic.

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