This DVD item from Sony Pictures was reviewed on 11-Dec-2008.
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1) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. The Bottom Line:
Das Boot is a very entertaining and engaging submarine movie that doesn´t feel long even at 200+ minutes; marred only by occasionally-bad special effects, (all the scenes in the conning tower look thoroughly studio-bound) it introduces characters worth caring about and then runs them through a thrilling gauntlet.¤ 2) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. The DVD movie that I bought from Amazon had many parts missing. Some important scenes and dialogues in the original version are not present in the version you sell. I´m really disappointed, and I will not buy anything from Amazon anymore.¤ 3) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. Can you say "useless"? Das Boot is a German movie. This particular cut was the Director´s cut. To see the whole movie, one would have to flip the disc over on its other side. So we did, expecting to have a menu there to choose English subtitles. Side two does not have a menu and therefore does not provide English subtitles for the end of the movie. Surely, Amazon, you know that some of the products you carry and sell to consumers are defective. Why not tell them?¤ 4) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. There have many submarine films but this one is simply the best. Films featuring U.S. submarines invariably depict spacious boats with clean, well-dressed crews.
This film is totally different. A real effort has been made to make the viewer feel the filth, crawling vermin and the compression of men into a very small space. You can almost smell the stink of a tiny ship out on the sea for months at a time.
You can also smell the terror of men forced to the bottom by attacking allied warships. You hear the rivets pop as the ship is pushed to impossible pressure limits. You feel the grief as the dying captain watches his beloved boat sink from the effects of an allied attack on the German sub pens.
The highest praise I can give to this film is that it became the all time favorite of my pre-adolescent sons. They watched it time and again and, even knowing how it would all turn out, shouted warnings to the threatened crew.
One of my sons, no doubt heavily influenced by this film, commanded his own claustrophobic "boat" in the attack on Iraq. He commanded four Marine Corps tanks, went four days without sleep and a month without a bath. He and his brave men, in their own way, do honor to all those submariners and tankers who fought in all the armies and navies.
I must mention the Hunley, the first of all militarily successful submarines. It was a Confederate invention and killed the first three crews during training. A testament to the courage of the Confederate forces, there were no problems in finding volunteers for a third crew. Tiny, it was propelled by a crack shaft operated by eight or nine crewmen. There was barely enough room to move let alone crank. Like most of its submarine successors, it travelled primarily on the surface, but the atmosphere must have been fetid.
It´s "warhead" was an explosive charge in the form of a spear mounted on the bow. In 1864, the Hunley made its first--and last--combat run. She sank a Federal battleship--the first ship sunk by a submarine in history--but her courageous crew never returned. They died in Charlestown harbor.
Ron Braithwaite author of Mexican Conquest novels, "Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"¤ 5) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. This is the best submarine movie ever! The directors cut, even at over three hours, just flys by - you don´t realize you´ve been watching so long. The action grabs you and the tension holds you in the story.
You must watch the German version with subtitles - the English over-dub is terrible, you lose the feeling of being in the sub with the story, which is the best part.
Enjoy!¤ 6) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. These titles have been produced by a team of Sony Pictures Digital Studios video, sound and mastering engineers and comes housed in a special package complete with a 4 page booklet that contains technical information on the Superbit process. By reallocating space on the disc normally used for value-added content, Superbit DVDs can be encoded at double their normal bit rate while maintaining full compatibility with the DVD video format.¤ 7) DVD DVD Das Boot - Director's Cut (Superbit Collection) by Sony Pictures. This is the restored, 209-minute director´s cut of Wolfgang Petersen´s harrowing and claustrophobic U-boat thriller, which was theatrically rereleased in 1997. Originally made as a five-hour miniseries, this version devotes more time to getting to know the crew before they and their stoic captain (Jürgen Prochnow) get aboard their U-boat and find themselves stranded at the bottom of the sea. Das Boot puts you inside that submerged vessel and explores the physical and emotional tensions of the situation with a vivid, terrifying realism that few movies can match. As Petersen tightens the screws and the submerged ship blows bolts, the pressure builds to such unbearable levels that you may be tempted to escape for a nice walk on solid land in the great outdoors--only you wouldn´t dream of looking away from the screen. --Jim Emerson¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 8-Jan-2009, 1404930795043396008786, 700-806-HJB-MVB-H6B-UCB-8 
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