Das Boot
And who does not deserve better...? The poor -possibly Norwegian- sailors on the ships they torpedo?LILLEBROR wrote:I have to agree with Caldric.
I dont like the end either. i get sympati for the ship and its crew, they deserve better.
But a Great movie.
Nobody deserves to die in stupid wars, fought by greedy powermongers and corrupt politicians, under the false flags of nationalism and patriotism.
Regards --- Lars
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Youre right Lars. that is why i got sympati for them. they fought against weather and enemy and just when they got back alive,they were killed.And who does not deserve better...? The poor -possibly Norwegian- sailors on the ships they torpedo?
Nobody deserves to die in stupid wars
Just thinking from my military time when we was in longer marches and came into camp again. Just when we thought we was finished, we had to take another round. that feeling is a bad feeling.
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And the sub was fighting a honourable war in my oppinion(a merchant ship wouldn't agree) but they was just as good as the allied bombers who lanched attacks on the german citys. It was thei way of fighting. they also lost nearly every man in the sub fleet. they fought against coastal command. destroyers, planes. All kind of ships try to sink them.
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I think the ending is supposed to be ironic. As touched on before, the sailors braved the weather and were close to death on several occasions, but it was an air attack at port that killed them. I have to say, after watching the film some years ago, I drank Becks beer when I was out as shown in the film. This is not an anacronism, its been around for 250 years. I'm more into the military aspects of WW2, but this film has definately made a big impact on me.
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hehe surfkorps. That is one of my favourite parts to. when everyone is singing ecsept the pro-nazi officer who is rather pissed off by the fact that they sing an English song. another funny part is when the reporter ask for permission to go up on the brigde and is half way up when someone shout ALARM. You then see a sailor running out from the toilet and everything happen very fast. when they got down under the Captainsaid it was only a test. the reporter looked rather nervous then
Hardly so. Out of 3 main parts of war - sea, land, air - sea war would be the least important, costly in terms of lives and material and intense. So, claiming that Das Boat is the best movie about naval warfare is more appropriate.karltrowitz wrote:Yes, probably the best war movie made so far.
I don't see what can you learn about horrors of war from this movie, compare to say Private Ryan, or War and Peace, or German made Stalingrad or BoB. Compare to these movies, Das Boat looks poor.
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