DAS BOOT (1981) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

Most realistic, most haunting and perfectly acted war movie ever. Rip Wolfgang Petersen

"I'm gonna be watching the director's cut. Original with subtitles." This is the way!

I served 20 yrs in the US Navy Submarine Service, on 4 different subs. Das Boot was by far the crew's favorite submarine movie on all 4 of the boats I served on.

Every great "war movie" turns out to be an "anti-war movie" when it is done right. "Das Boot" is the best example.

I saw "Das Boot" for the first time at a midnight showing, in German with English subtitles. I was with my father, who was a US diesel submarine officer. I was worried that I would fall asleep because of the late start time. Just the opposite, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Afterwards, my father told me just how accurate the movie was, from food stored in every possible space, to all hands running to the forward compartments during crash dives. One of my best memories of my father from my teen years.

This movie had the greatest acting I’ve ever seen

I had a film professor in college who was German, and who had relatives who worked on this film. They built a full-sized U-Boat replica, fully enclosed (no cutaway walls) and filmed with hand-held cameras to accurately capture the claustrophobic feeling of life aboard a WWII submarine.

As a submariner, Das Boot is so good. The boredom of the patrol, the excitement of the hunt, the terror of being hunted, the joy of fresh food... The writing is top notch and the performance of the actors was amazing.

My late father was an actor who used to work with some of the actors in this movie and I know some of them personally. This is one of the greatest German movies ever made. A masterpiece.

Great reaction. I've said it once, I'll say it a hundred times; You've never seen a war movie, until you've seen Das Boot.