[Movies] Why do i think "Das Boot" is the best wars film of all times

[WNYIRISHGUY]

I am watching Das Boot on satellite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

And i can express how much i love this movies and i know there are other WW2 movies some were moving and emotional and there were other that are dull and stupid and just destroyed the who movies, But when it come to this movies this is what it like on the high sea in WW2 and sea of pure hell and Wolfgang Petersen can projected into a movies that is not more that greatness............

best scene in das boot
Das Boot (1981) - Convoy attack - English subtitles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUw_JnmYQ0

Das Boot - best movie scene ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUInWKK8ROc

Das boot ending+credits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzbYQeCtEw

Das Boot-Alarm!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suY06PVK_bI

Das Boot (1981) official trailer HD HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS7nez1nRpM

[Fuzzzie]

It's definitely good. I haven't watched it in about 15 years though. Maybe I'll check it out again, have the VHS somewhere.

If you're into war movies, check out Paths of Glory. Early Kubrick film about WW1. Stars Kirk Douglas and is one of my favourites.

[WNYIRISHGUY]

Another good on but the remake DESTROYED it tora tora tora but they remake it and rename it 2001 pearl harbor and another good one is 1971 a bridge too far

[WackyWombat]

The ending to Das Boot ruined everything great about the rest of the movie imo.

[WNYIRISHGUY]

The ending to Das Boot ruined everything great about the rest of the movie imo.

your kidding..........

that ending was perfect they made it back to germany port nice and safe and when they leaving the u-boat they got attack by a plane and shot up everything and drop some bomb, And it was all over the captain look over and see his men hurt and the dead and sinking of his ship and is was perfect..............

---------- Post added 2012-03-18 at 09:22 PM ----------

Also one of the actor was hurt and Petersen caught on tape when " jan fredder " lost his footing and fell while the camera was rolling and another actor save him, Peterson thought is was a good and ask him to do it again but he didn't realized that he was bad hurt and that scene made into the movies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Fedder

---------- Post added 2012-03-18 at 09:30 PM ----------

Das Boot - Trailer und Interview "in german"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He-4YupIphs

[Paleolf]

You didn't answer your own query... Why do you think "Das Boot" is the best war films of all times?
I think it is one of the best, and here are my reasons.
Petersen captures the range of emotions solo and shared by the men "trapped" in the sub for their tour. The surface race through the North Atlantic swell became thrilling for even landlubbers; the tenseness and helplessness when running silent kept watchers glued to their seats in silence. Terror subdued by frenzied activity when "ALARM" was screamed are the sequences I remember best, though.
The plot was simple: one tour of duty. But the futility of their action was a metaphor for the futility of war... returning from the ordeal, only to find glitz and glamour was merely a patina. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Well, maybe not. Since they lived, it was only to find other ways to die.
Fabulous movie, with great effects, such as the camera running through bulwarks, and an excellent cast. Jurgen Prochnow was top notch, and was well supported.
Those are some of the reasons it is one of the best war movies ever. Apocolypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and Lawrence of Arabia are 3 others that I believe are some of the best as well.

[Jon]

My favorite war film is probably The Bridge on the River Kwai.

[WNYIRISHGUY]

i got 2 more

Doctor Zhivago : WW1/Russian civil wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_%28film%29

Downfall : the last day of hitlet and WW2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_%28film%29

[Mkalafut]

lol I thought you were talking about this..

[WNYIRISHGUY]

Another example of stereotype " very wrong "