Movies and Films
This is the forum for Movie and Film discussions. Again, our topic is naval warfare in WWII for the most part.
Re: I am sorry but Daas Boot is boring
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
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Date: July 25, 2002 03:01AM
<HTML>What, you mean German torpedoes didn't have 10,000 pound warheads? Fascinating how U-571's producers spent all that money building a bolt-for-bolt, absolutely accurate replica U-boat, then populated it with the cast of a 1942 propaganda movie.
Sometimes I really think I'd much rather watch Down Periscope. The nice thing about an obvious farce is you don't get nearly as upset when they screw something up.
Of course, if you're going to have fun with a thoroughly silly movie, I still think they missed an opportunity toward the end, with the old "Stingray" being chased on the surface by a 688. The easiest way to upset the approach party might have been to just send someone up to the after part of the bridge and have them start looking aft through the TBT. I'm not sure I'd really want to be dead aft of something with stern tubes. (Or, on a different boat, man the deck gun -- I don't think Pampanito has one aft.)
One friend said his biggest complaint about that film was the female officer wearing dolphins, seeing as she'd never actually served aboard a sub before.
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Sometimes I really think I'd much rather watch Down Periscope. The nice thing about an obvious farce is you don't get nearly as upset when they screw something up.
Of course, if you're going to have fun with a thoroughly silly movie, I still think they missed an opportunity toward the end, with the old "Stingray" being chased on the surface by a 688. The easiest way to upset the approach party might have been to just send someone up to the after part of the bridge and have them start looking aft through the TBT. I'm not sure I'd really want to be dead aft of something with stern tubes. (Or, on a different boat, man the deck gun -- I don't think Pampanito has one aft.)
One friend said his biggest complaint about that film was the female officer wearing dolphins, seeing as she'd never actually served aboard a sub before.
J.T. McDaniel</HTML>
