The shoe; Jezus your German is so sub par....

3:02 william afton

Great review of the film - thank you very much for the insightful comments and hints! I can only recommend also watching the TV version of the film in the form of a mini-series. This has a total running time of 308 minutes and was released on Blu-ray in 2014 in remastered picture and sound quality. The cinema version as a single feature film, on the other hand, has ‘only’ 149 minutes or 200 minutes (director's cut). The additional scenes are not ‘pointless’ filler material, but emphasise life on board even better and allow even more glimpses into life on board.

just imagine tge tragedy if this happened at open sea instead of close to shore

you asked for is it such a good movie from the 80's well there did not have all the bells and whistles of modern movies so the story has to be good

Best reaction! 👍

Literally every time. You test those doors every week, maintain them, make sure theyre always working... And then when you finally need them THATS when they decide to not work.

Wow, I'm really impressed by your comments to the movie and it was very pleasing to watch, thank you! But I think there is one thing that might got lost in translation or was not part of your video. The captain of the supply ship welcoming the wrong person as their guest is there to show his ignorance and just plain stupidity. He behaves like a complete prick in this scene and that's all part of it.

Did you realy take the distance (14:20) at the circle of latitude instead of longitude? 🧐 But beside this I am very impressed about the comments you made 👍 And yes, this was an excellent movie. You can visit the Boot in Munich at a museum and walk through. Gives you a hint about how narrow that was. One of your last sentences summed the whole WWII up: All this for nothing.

Only the Germans can make a movie that seems realistic, about a portrayal of something that happened in Germany during WW2. I was stationed in Germany in the 70s. A German woman who lived through the Third Reich said that everyone knew the war was over in 1943. She said everyone listened to the BBC. It was illegal to do so. She said that German radio news broadcasts were always reporting that Germany was winning the war and victory is just around the corner. The BBC was always 100% accurate and would report on the war even when things were not going well for the Allies. For instance the BBC reported how the Bismarck was wreaking havoc on the British Navy and how things were not always going well in South Africa. She said that the reports were all confirmed by wounded soldiers coming back from the Russian Front, minus an arm or leg(s). They would tell people that the Germany no matter what they do can not stop the advancing Russian army and it's just a a matter of time. Another guy told me that everyone was astonished when he beat France. The French were forced to sign the surrender document in a train car that was a national monument. It was the train car that the Germans signed the surrender treaty in WW1. Hitler was there on the train when the French signed the document. It was filmed. The film was played in all movie theaters, before the actual film was shown all across Germany. The train car was confiscated and brought to Berlin and made into a national German monument. As the Russians were advancing on Berlin, the train car was destroyed so that the Russians could not get their hands on it. There was one German sub that towards the end of the war on it's way to Japan to deliver uranium to make an atomic bomb. The war ended. Donitz radioed the sub and told them Germany surrendered and the war is over. That they should surrender to the Canadians. The sub commander thought it would be better to surrender to the Americans so he high tailed to the states. The sailors became POWs and they were treated very well. Some say the uranium was used for Little Boy.

Also, with the scene about being whalers, they would often pretend to be men of war to deter pirates, painting port holes for cannons along their side, and they would butcher the whales at sea when weather permitted. The doctor also fought due to how outnumbered they were for this particular battle, 3 to 1

Highly recommend the Master and Commander audio book series read by Patrick Tull, the author was a nautical genius who was very well versed in the history of the navel battles and protocols, and it is a life changing piece of literature! With your knowledge, you above almost any other reader would deeply appreciate the intricacies of the books. I think you'd be hooked in a few pages, so if you don't mind accepting a gift from a stranger, I'd enjoy gifting you the first book on Audible! I'm just a big fan and love to share the enjoyment!

WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS GUY????

I'm pretty sure you're oblivious of the fact this movie is set DURING WW2 and most of the men depicted are CONSCRIPTS, meaning they were drafted. I would get drunk as well after getting to port safely, especially considering what dangers they faced in the Atlantic...American Destroyers, depth charges. Death in a metal tube, 200 meters underwater.

i just saw it on amazon prime. I rented it. and all the translation mistakes I see stated, are actually corrected to what the posts are wishing to which they were corrected.

"Wait, it's in German?" Omfg, this guy. 🤦

If you are in Munich by any chance (not just for the Octoberfest), go visit the Bavaria Film Studios (Bavaria Movie Studios). There you can book a tour and walk through some of the sets they used in the past, including the set of "Das Boot". There you can walk through the interior of U-96, and feel for yourself how cramped it is inside the belly of a german type VIIC submarine... Four fun facts concerning the making of the movie: The camera man wore a helmet and body protection like a football player, and really ran through the inside of the submarine at full speed. Toughest camera job, ever! They build the interior of a complete type VIIC submarine on a moveable platform, and simulated rough seas and depth charges by tilting and shaking the whole plattform. When actors and 'stuff' fly around, they really do fly. For the storm scenes they rushed hundreds of gallons of water down a ramp and onto the "bridge", over and over again. And in the scene "man overboard" one actor (Tauber, playing O.Strm. Kriechbaum) broke two rips, so it was _really_ dangerous. During filming (which took the better part of one year) the actors where not allowed to go out into the sun, so that over time they would look more and more pale. In addition to the moveable plattform the actors do not just look more exhausted over time, they _are_ exhausted. Kuddos to the actors, the film crew and the director for producing such an excellent, and eerily realistic movie!

Please learn to pronounce Das Boot correctly.

i know this is old and y0u probably do not care. two points. i think you should check on your statement about lifeboats on WW2 cargo ships. i think you will find ships had lifeboats in the forties. second point. a captain rank is 4 stripes on sleeve and/or a silver eagle for US navy for captain rank. ANY naval officer in charge of a ship is the captain OF THAT SHIP and he is called captain no matter what his actual rank is. a 4 striper rank captain would never be commanding one sub or ship. in fact, in WW 2 very often a sub commander was a lieutenant, a two striper like the guy mistakenly greeted as captain. it was NOT inattention by the welcoming party. being a supply ship it is almost a certainty they had seen many lieutenants in command of a U boat.

23:58 fun fact the man overboard scene was not in the script. The actor was actually washed off the set by the wave machine and actually injured (broken ankle iirc) but nobody knew this and so they reacted in charicter. The footage was so good it made the final cut

There is a YUUGE difference in a peacetime navy and a group of people not sure they will ever return...

The actor who played the 2/O told a story, when they promoted the movie in the US back in the 80ies: The US audiences were clapping and cheering in the beginning of the film, when it said, that 30,000 out of 40,000 German U-Boat sailors died. Cos until then, German were only portrait as the villains. But two and a half hours later, the cinemas were dead silent, until slowly but surely the audiences giving standing ovations. The audiences completely changed their attitudes.

Thank you for your service... Coast Guard eh? Did you go thru New London and the academy? I had managed to get in the summer program between my junior/senior years of HS(back in 1976). Didn't get the appt to actually attend tho...

It's fiction. Stop being so pedantic

The most terrifying thing on earth is the sea. She's a beautiful unforgiving bitch.

Wait, this isn't the Act man.

43:03 Yeah... well... it's still war after all. Why be shocked? Unsurprisingly, *that's what war does* (duh), as soon as some supposedly very very smart people decide it's relevant to do it and as long as others agree, for whatever fucked up reason. Next time, build a scientific submarine and go study marine life instead. What, no next time? Well... yeah, right, it's quite over. Weren't you told about such detail?

5:04 Security measures under the Third Reich, while being happy to kill millions until being killed yourself. Yes, sure... who does't care about risk and hazards and doing dangerous stuff, right ? So cute.

Honestly, seeing the pain in Vinces eyes at the post destruction state of the ship, that is haunting. Vince isnt just some person reacting, hes a sailor, hes worked with ships before. Anyone who gets familiar in any field with their tools/vehicles grows fond of them and sees them for what they are/can be. The pain in Vinces eyes conveys that perfectly; a fine cruise ship, a marvel of nautical engineering, reduced to a shallow pathetic husk, in a situation that was perfectly avoidable due to the incompetence of its crew. It just hurts to see it in his eyes, man Great breakdown and video, dude

4:51 one point here is that this isn’t an open water wave, it’s breaking over the bar. Interestingly enough, Bernie Webber (the Coastie that Chris Pine is playing) supposedly ended up with fragments of the boat’s shattered windshield embedded in his face when they cleared the bar - that’s how violent it was. Per a book that was written by a gentleman who interviewed the real Bernie and many survivors, the movie actually UNDERstated how bad conditions were getting over the bar. The book is called Two Tankers Down and I’m partially through it - highly recommend, it’s excellent so far.

its one of greatest movies of all time.. 11/10. hands down

13:59 Aubrey said that their Whaling Fleet was stationed in the Galapagos

cant give a "like" ! you review that movie from perspective of a "modern" officer! the rules was different in that days! (i think) ... And Petersen even interviewed a couple of Submarine Vets to make the movie as real as possible! He even had a 100% equal Copy of the Sub , and let it stink like a WW2 Sub! the actors still complain , lol ! i think what we see in Battle is 99% REAL , for the Parties & so i give a shit! (a bit pimped for Hollywood) ..... It is a classic and no one that did not serve in WW2 should touch it!

In the film The Acheron is indeed American build, but, supposedley, captured by the French. Thus renamed

"After all, no ship should go down without her captain." - Kahn Noonien Singh

I think it's my favorite movie of all time. Good review.

no question, one of the best movies ever made

With all due respect there was no health and safety in those days

Love his pause at the end. When the KZbinr is speechless - that’s bad.

an emergency is certainly the appropriate time to start chugging coffee

What a bad video.

Who made this subtitles? They translated the German word "Gefechtsstation" (Battlestation) into "Fish station"?! Well done! Professionals.

Reminds me of the SS Atlantic Sinking. Just not as tragic.

@5:40 The US did donate the USS America to France at the end of the Revolutionary War. It was a 74 gun ship built in Maine.

This video is bullshit.

During the Vietnam war, I was stationed on a sub based in Guam. My submarine, which I will not identify, had an odd “competition”. 32:00 new crewman was subjected to a humiliating “smallest dick on the boat”competition. We once had a young seaman come aboard, and he was promptly taken to the torpedo room, held down by his shipmates, where his pants were ripped down, and the length of his penis was unceremoniously measured with a Stanley tape measure! This poor kid was crowned the new “Smallest Dick on the Boat”. The previous SDotB winner feigned anger that he was displaced by the new #1! I am 6’5”so my appropriate name was “Horse Cock”. I doubt that the Navy allows this behavior anymore!

Translates "battle stations" to "fish stations"...😅😅😅😅

I think, you look at it from a much more modern perspective. You should take in consideration that those were other times. The safety regulations change over time... But still good job and nice review