If you hate them for that, you might hate them for the wrong reason, and love the U-96 crew for an equally wrong reason. And reveal a deep, Pervitin induced rupture in their souls. Those guys don't overcome the terror of war with their comradery. In comparisson, morale on the U-612 is always low. It is an anti-war movie in showing this terror, but at the same time it glorifies the sailors who stick together to overcome it. You all know exactly what I mean by "emotional baggage", but let me spell it out for you: In the 1981 movie, Wolfgang Petersen tells a story of comradery in the face of the terror of war. But first you will have to leave your emotional baggage behind. I would give this edit perhaps 10 stars.Ī good quality production, solid cast, and intriguing story will allow you to enjoy this series for what it is. What I really whish? A second season that only takes place on a submarine and a fan-edit of the first season that cuts out all of this resistance-plot. By telling these 2 parallel stories, there is no time to introduce the crew of the submarine suficiantly or getting into more details about their characters. ![]() This is what prevents the show to be nearly as good as the original. ![]() Right when you get the right feeling, they throw you out of the atmosphere of the submarine and continue with the story of this resistant group. Watching this great sequel unfortunately you will never get this claustrophobic feeling as in the original. By telling 2 parallel stories they automatically killed whatever made the original "Das Boot" such a great success. They shouldn't have made this two parallel plot thing between the story of the crew of the submarine and this useless resistance story. The 2018 sequel of the monumental "Das Boot" from 1981 would be great if the makers hadn't made one big mistake. Please, can I remove the one star I gave it and change to a solid 0/10? It is absolute RUBBISH! PS, I ended watching it complete (must be the masochist in me). Go read the book or watch the 1981 movie -again better yet the original German TV 6 episode series (subbed of course unless you understan German fluently). Save yourselves some irreplaceable **TIME** and skip this one outright. I guess his descendants or whoever owns the rights to his works must be *extremely* pressed for money to sell that masterpiece to the butchers that produced this. Should Lothar-Günther Buchheim be still alive he would never have permitted this travesty. The script, direction, acting, photography and in general, quality is appalling. Halfway through S1E5 I'm about to pull the plug on the 7 day trial, lest they start billing my card. Amazon lured me with this series to try their new extra channels scheme for 7 days. ![]() Having really admired both the original movie (theater and director versions) as well as the 6 episode German miniseries that was never aired in America, all of which I've watched several times and enjoyed them more and more with every repass, I truly find this a bait-switch scheme.
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