10/10 ending? or 0/10 ending?
>>217040004>watching the mini seriesew, no
>>217039971I don't hate the idea of an unhappy ending, it just comes out of nowhere after they already seem like they're all going to diefeels like some bait & switch for a shock endingguess he wanted to make some point about war with it
>>21703997110/10 for me>>217040110>guess he wanted to make some point about war with itand he succeeded It shows how merciless air power is. And historically many uboats were killed by planes. War is random and arbitrary.
>novelist Lothar-Günther Buchheim expressed disappointment with Petersen's adaptation in a film review published in 1981, describing Petersen's film as converting his clearly anti-war novel into a blend of a "cheap, shallow American action flick" and a "contemporary German propaganda newsreel from World War II".maybe he should've waited for the director's cut
>>217039971>medic is also in charge of the hydrophone, and of playing music throughout the ship>chief engineer also has to order the pilot guysthey had like a 20+ crew, only 3 or 4 guys did anything
>>2170399715/10
>>217040179>War is random and arbitrary.I suppose that's valid, just seems like them never coming back up after gibraltar would have been a much stronger ending, for a movie
>>217040270I can see that.I suppose the ending is more realistic, in that you don't always die while out doing your job. Sometimes you just get fucked by some other guy doing his job.
them sinking to their doom in a boat filled with bananas was really funny
>boat starts taking water>turn a few valves, tighten a few screws>all good
>>2170399710/10 endingThe novel was based on an actual U-boat crew that survived the war. The director apparently only wrote that ending based on his wife's idea- not sure if that's true, it's what I read.If they wanted the air raid scene at the end, they should have just had them destroy the U-Boat but keep the crew alive.
>>217040836a lot of the crew does survive
>>21703997110/10 - it's much more dramatic and the music fits the curtain fall perfectly in the Director's Cut.
Stupid ending. They were killed just because they were nazi. Cuck ending.
>>217040043>miniseriesYou haven't watche das boot unless you saw it in one sitting
>>217040270I mean, isn't that the point? All the work they put in, all the comraderie, all for nothing. 75% casualty rate or something.
>>217041686it just feels cheap and left field, for some shock valuefor a movieespecially because the longer they're at the bottom of the mediterranean the more you expect them to come up because movie logicdying down there is as pointless and wasteful as them dying afterwards and especially for the time is enough of a subversion as is, since you don't expect it from where it's already leading you
>>217039971it ruined the whole film and made me very salty. Still consider it 9/10 and rewatch it once a year.
I guess it gives the captain something, since not all of them got killed, but even he kind of dies arbitrarily, like he's supposed to so just does
>>217039971>go through hell and back>only to be killed in what is essentially the comfort of your own homekino, the finest kino
>>217040836I read so many eastern front memoires and people survived the most extreme and unlikely situations that would seem unrealistic in a movie, just to be randomly killed by a sniper, blown up or shot in some small engagement. I don't think it's that out of place.
>>217042070>people survived the most extreme and unlikely situations that would seem unrealistic in a moviedidn't they have to scale back Audie Murphy's actual record to be believable>5' 5" "manlet" too
>>217042070This.I often think about the helicopter assault in Apocalypse Now. As soon as they land troops on the ground, there are wounded men. You don't see anyone get shot, it just happens off screen. Not every casualty can be dramatic or meaningful, most aren't.
>>217042401>Not every casualty can be dramatic or meaningful, most aren't.this I can agree with, but you have to admit it's kind of weird when they're main characters
it's a 10/10 ending if you aren't retarded
it's a 0/10 ending if you aren't retarded
it's a lulrandom ending and I may be retarded but that's irrelevant
10/10 movie thoughbeyond the black rainbow's end was way worse, contextually
did anyone watch the recent television series? I only made it a few episodes since more than half the run time of each episode was on land following some lesbian resistance womanit was awful, and I went in with low expectations
>>217042624Yeah I definitely get why someone would give it a 0/10. It is controversial, no denying that. But for me it was a 10. Why? I couldn't say. Perhaps it's because I know a thing or two about the Battle of Atlantic, so when those planes showed up I was thinking "ah that makes sense" and not this is some random gut punch.
>>217039971>0/10 ending
>>217042848one of those ones you can tell exactly how much they fucked it up from the poster alone
>>217042848My dad and I somehow ended up randomly watching the whole thing and it was terrible
The ending comes across as cheap way to avoid "glorifying" the Germans by killing them off, afraid that a good ending will make them sympathetic.
>>217040225a navy medic mostly hands out penicillin
>>217041946>mediterraneanthat was on the other side of Gibraltar
>>217042848if you remake the movie and you cut to a scene anywhere other than on the boat, you really fucking missed the entire point of the original
>>217043959no happy ending would've made sense.at best they had to put in a major implication that most of those guys weren't going to survive the war, anyway
>actors lost around 30 pounds during filming>one almost drowned>another developed claustrophobia>nobody wanted to quit because Germany wasn't making any other big moviesthey don't make them like they used to
I think I need to watch it again, with better subtiltles.The ones I had resorted to [SPEAKING GERMAN] several times.
>>217043959>>217044409The ending was a great.They survived multiple instances where they should have been killed, one where the odds were heavily against them, only to be killed in a relatively mundane manner back in the "safety" of home port.It's like a lot of people who survived the war only to be killed in pretty much simple situations in peacetime. Schnaufer is a great example.
