@Clyde85:
Why is it in everyone of these polls Das Boot does so well, its not that great of a movie. Ok I’ll grant you its accurate and is from a very orignal perspective but seriously? Long hours of a bunch of sweaty Germans cramped in a sub is just not an intresting movie. I mean maybe if the movie wasnt so nightmarishly long I wouldnt dislike it so much. Towards the end, I literally started rooting for the movie to sink the boat and kill the damn crew, they were like freakin cockroaches!!
Ya…. its long, but IMO, aside from being suspenseful and well acted, its a masterpiece foreign film about closure for one of histories most triumphant and catastrophic tales of naval warfare. To me its more than a story of one crew, but rather hundreds of U-boat crews that died a whole lot worst deaths than the characters in the film.