![]() I guarantee that you will not be disappointed. I want everyone to get out of their seats this weekend and go rent this movie. ![]() I think it IS the best war film ever released (that I have seen). I have not been this entertained for a long time. That is what America teaches us, fight for what we believe in.doesn't it? I could talk about this for hours, but instead I am going to sit back, relax, and tell you how wonderful Das Boot was to watch. Das Boot ( 'The Boat' in German) is a 1981 West German war film ( based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim) about the perils-ridden patrol of a World War II German submarine, the U-96, in the Atlantic Ocean. They had families, they had pasts, they had homes that they left to become a part of history. The Germans are human being also, who fought for their country just as valiantly as our soldiers did during WWII. This film humanizes the German's conditions during the war. We learn about them as a statistic, and never put these heroes on a human level. In history class we didn't learn about the casualties of the Germans in WWII. Now don't get me wrong, these are fun sometimes, but I love to see a different angle. So many years I have watched war movie after war movie that show the victorious American's beating the classic "evil-doers". Finally, I am also a fan of films that tell a different angle on the story. I think that during one of the bombing scenes I broke a sweat because of what was happening on screen. Peterson perfectly portrays a feeling of crampness and claustrophobia wrapped together as one. With his direction, I felt that I was on this U-Boat with the crew. You can see their fear, their excitement, their sadness, and their power by just the way that Peterson directs them. While not much dialogue happens in this film, you can see everyone's expressions on their faces, and those expressions tell better stories than words. Director Wolfgang Peterson gives us some great characters. So many times we have seen wars play out on land, and while there is only so much you can show with a land fight, the war field on the open sea allows for so much more creativity. The ocean is almost like fighting in another world. I think it has to do somewhat with my passion for sci-fi. I don't know why I love this genre so much. Both of them rank as my top action films. I loved The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide. Everyone needs to realize that I have a fascination with submarine films. Like Christopher Nolans triptych timeline suspenser Dunkirk, both quarry and hunter/guardians of the Allied Atlantic. If I had the time to take this movie door-to-door and sit down with everyone in America to watch this film, I would.
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