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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: smirnoff on December 14, 2018, 04:57:56 PM
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Anyone seen the new Das Boot series? It was supposed to be out 23rd Nov but i can't find it anywhere on UK TV
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It's on SBS (for those in Australia). Got some good recommendations from fellow wargamers here, so going to start on it this weekend.
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Anyone seen the new Das Boot series? It was supposed to be out 23rd Nov but i can't find it anywhere on UK TV
It will be on Sky, currently labelled "Coming Soon".
[Edit] Note to self, read thread title. However Sky say it is coming soon, so expect next year.
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It's on Sky Atlantic now, Wednesday 9.00pm uk time.
Also on catch up.
Enjoyed episode 1
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As a german and kid of the '80 I tried it really to like this, but it is so not-boot. It is only a sky production for this time. I saw the oroginal Film, the original 4-Part-long-version and it is still magic. But this? Only a try to be "Das Boot". Like we say in Germany "Schade..."
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I saw the original way back in Chicago when it was released in 1982 not knowing what I was going to watch.
Blew me away. Helped I'd visited U-505 the day before.
I'll see how this develops....
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Yeah - as also a German and kid of the 80s I wanted to love it too. Great look, went all Hollywood quickly. WAY too quickly. The scene in the movie where they're sitting at the bottom is INTENSE. I got none of this in the series.
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It's not hopeless - I think they could have made it a stand alone new series and developed their own thing. Actually, I think if they changed the name it wouldn't carry such expectations.
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Just saw an ad for it on Sky. Seems kind of pointless to me. There are so many stories from WWII that haven't been adapted to the screen and yet they keep remaking the same ones over and over. I noticed there is yet another movie about the assassination of Heydrich coming out. Wasn't the last one only a couple of years ago? - That one with Cillian Murphy, must be the most depressing film I've ever seen, though I thought it was well-made.
Anyway, I'll probably give this a chance, but I'm not exactly optimistic. Nice to see a Sunderland in trailer, though. You don't see many of those in war movies.
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I stumbled across it a week ago on sky and loved it! Well worth giving it a go. Im sorely tempted to buy the empress u boat after watching ;D
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Does anyone know where to find it in the USA?
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3 episodes in.
Do not expect something that matches the brilliance and power of the original film.
It piggybacks the original's name and reputation with no real justification.
However, it's fairly mindless viewing with some nice kit.
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Does anyone know where to find it in the USA?
Hulu apparently:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mipcom-hulu-takes-das-boot-us-1151498
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I binge watched it a couple of weeks ago.
Starts well, looks good, great cast, big budget, and the action sequences are good.
But both the main U-boat storyline and particularly the secondary ‘resistance’ storyline set in La Rochelle, both get very silly and far fetched after about 5 episodes in. Not remotely credible in either case. Ridiculous in fact.
Still quite enjoyable though.
But not a patch on the original movie. Lacking the gallows humour in fact.
Jawohl Herr Kaleun! :)
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Thanks, von Lucky.
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I binge watched it a couple of weeks ago.
Starts well, looks good, great cast, big budget, and the action sequences are good.
But both the main U-boat storyline and particularly the secondary ‘resistance’ storyline set in La Rochelle, both get very silly and far fetched after about 5 episodes in. Not remotely credible in either case. Ridiculous in fact.
Still quite enjoyable though.
But not a patch on the original movie. Lacking the gallows humour in fact.
Jawohl Herr Kaleun! :)
I have to say I was soooo looking forward to it but I have to agree with Capt Blood on this one
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I think it's one of the best things I've watched in a long time - highly recommended.
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I think it's one of the best things I've watched in a long time - highly recommended.
Like I say, I enjoyed it at one level :)
SPOILER ALERT
But in comparison with the original - a gripping and gritty tale of men at war and in terrifying extremis, yet always with a whiff of sardonic black humour – this new ‘Das Boot’ is much more fantasy soap opera.
The U-boat crew casting their captain adrift in a life raft in a mutiny led by a deranged rival U-boat captain plucked from the sea, abetted by the previously ramrod-straight, rules-obeying Prussian second in command? Bonkers.
The glamorous American Spanish Civil War veteran who has somehow taken charge of the French Resistance cell in La Rochelle, despite being a flaky heroin addict who speaks only English to them (while they speak to her only in French)?
And who also happens to be gay and plunges headlong into a lesbian affair with the German female clerk who happens to be a traitor, yet manages to wander around La Rochelle in her time off having all sorts of clandestine meetings – all the while holding the amorous attentions of the town’s (nice) Gestapo chief at arm’s length whilst breaking into the Gestapo’s cells to kill a compromised prisoner, and stealing information from the Gestapo’s office…
It’s fun in parts, and the submarine action sequences are great. But there are so many far-fetched aspects it’s a fantasy ‘on the theme of’, and a very different creature to the original of the same name… Which some people might find a bit disappointing.
The original movie is on Netflix in the UK by the way. Well worth the couple of hours it takes. I recall it has been voted the best war film ever made in assorted polls down the last 30 years...
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But in comparison with the original - a gripping and gritty tale of men at war and in terrifying extremis, yet always with a whiff of sardonic black humour – this new ‘Das Boot’ is much more fantasy soap opera.
The U-boat crew casting their captain adrift in a life raft in a mutiny led by a deranged rival U-boat captain plucked from the sea, abetted by the previously ramrod-straight, rules-obeying Prussian second in command? Bonkers.
The glamorous American Spanish Civil War veteran who has somehow taken charge of the French Resistance cell in La Rochelle, despite being a flaky heroin addict who speaks only English to them (while they speak to her only in French)?
And who also happens to be gay and plunges headlong into a lesbian affair with the German female clerk who happens to be a traitor, yet manages to wander around La Rochelle in her time off having all sorts of clandestine meetings – all the while holding the amorous attentions of the town’s (nice) Gestapo chief at arm’s length whilst breaking into the Gestapo’s cells to kill a compromised prisoner, and stealing information from the Gestapo’s office…
It’s fun in parts, and the submarine action sequences are great. But there are so many far-fetched aspects it’s a fantasy ‘on the theme of’, and a very different creature to the original of the same name… Which some people might find a bit disappointing.
but it does have a Sunderland in it for 15 seconds....:)
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but it does have a Sunderland in it for 15 seconds....:)
That is true, and I too appreciated that at the time :)
Honestly, overall I enjoyed it. It started out so well. Both the main storylines dived off down an implausible, soap shaped rabbit hole halfway through, which turned it into something quite different from the sort of gritty, awful realism central to previous incarnations of the ‘Das Boot’ brand...
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The movie length version of the original series was the first DVD I ever owned. My dad gave it to me and I said, "what the hell is this thing?" I didn't even know what a DVD was at that point. What a thicko.
He said "it will play on your computer", and he was right. Happy times. But even happier times was when the TV series version was shown on the BBC many years before. I once had a computer game set on a U-boat, and you could put your own sound files into the game and play them on the in-game gramophone. So of course, I had to add "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" to it.
Such a good programme. I've loved Jürgen Prochnow ever since. He's one of those actors who is almost always worth watching, even when the thing he is in stinks. And also, German pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer was in it. Anyone remember him? Back in the 90s when in the UK we used to get MTV Europe (before MTV UK was a thing) he was all over it. I loved MTV Europe, it exposed us to lots of European music I wouldn't have known otherwise. Okay, a lot of it was terrible, but there were some gems in there. I would never have known about Les Negresses Vertes without MTV Europe, and I loved that band.
Sorry, rambling on a bit, as is my wont. Incidentally, for the British GLAM veterans, and speaking of Herbert Grönemeyer: He did a song called "Currywurst!" lol
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So of course, I had to add "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" to it.
I live in Stalybridge where the song was first performed and there is a statue of it being written in the town centre. It's also played by the brass band every Remembrance Day.
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I've been to Stalybridge! Went to see Hereford play Stalybridge Celtic once. It was such a lovely sunny day as I've never seen in Lancashire, before or since.
I also got shit-faced on Bacardi Breezers in the pub just by the ground. I don't recall the outcome of the match.
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Blimey. I remember when Stalybridge was still in Cheshire....
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Blimey. I remember when Stalybridge was still in Cheshire....
Still a bloody long way to go to see Hereford play :P
(Furthest I've been is Kington to watch Herefordshire beat Middlesex)
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Oops, Cheshire was it? I apologise. In that case the nicest day I ever saw in Lancashire was at Old Trafford. It was an England vs. South Africa friendly, complete with African dancers before the kick-off.
That was almost as nice a day as the Stalybridge day, though it had slipped my mind when I posted before. I've still to see Wigan, Oldham, Preston, Morecambe, Lancaster or Blackpool on a nice day, mind. :)
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I remember when pubs in Cheshire didn't serve Bacardi Breezers......just sayin lol
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I watched all of the new TV version and while it started out well enough it got kinda lame in the end. I won't create any spoilers but the ending was just plain weak! Plus, the show's producers clearly sought to cover all the demographics rather than focus on the story of a U-Boat crew, like the original. I give it a 6/10 overall...started off more like 8-9/10 but then just fell apart.
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I remember when pubs in Cheshire didn't serve Bacardi Breezers......just sayin lol
Are you telling me there’s pubs that sell Bacardi Breezers....!?
Doug
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Well I quite enjoyed that.
Nothing like the original but since I can't remember much about that I wasn't too bothered. Some fanciful storytelling but nothing worse than any other tv show.
A second series is planned apparently.
(If you liked the onshore storyline and haven't seen Babylon Berlin you might like it too).
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Sorry, rambling on a bit, as is my wont. Incidentally, for the British GLAM veterans, and speaking of Herbert Grönemeyer: He did a song called "Currywurst!" lol
When I was a student I used to eat my curry wurst in Grönemeyer‘s favorites restaurant :)
Was looking very much forward to the Das Boot series and maybe will have a look at it for the fun, but from what I read here it would have been better if they had given it another name.
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Just to explain, some of the British LAFers who went to Germany for a meet-up in 2010 developed a taste for, and something of an obsession about Currywurst. It became quite the "thing" for a short while. :)
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It’s still a thing Dylan - Nick and I periodically meet up for currywurst and chips lol
We also went on a real U-boat at the Labour memorial...
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Just to explain, some of the British LAFers who went to Germany for a meet-up in 2010 developed a taste for, and something of an obsession about Currywurst. It became quite the "thing" for a short while. :)
It’s still a thing Dylan - Nick and I periodically meet up for currywurst and chips lol
We also went on a real U-boat at the Labour memorial...
Give me a call, when you make the next currywurstventure! I’m a well known currywurstologist in the German lands and have studied many great places in the east and west where it is sold!
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That should have been Laboe... predictive text... meh ::)
Give me a call, when you make the next currywurstventure! I’m a well known currywurstologist in the German lands and have studied many great places in the east and west where it is sold!
Florian, you’re on! I’m due a family trip to Berlin some time this year, so I’ll let you know ;)
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That should have been Laboe... predictive text... meh ::)
Florian, you’re on! I’m due a family trip to Berlin some time this year, so I’ll let you know ;)
Sadly i don’t live in Berlin anymore, dear Captain, having found a job near my wife finally. I now reside in the little British kingdom of Hanover (where I work as a museum curator), but maybe we can also plan a trip to Berlin next year. My wife really misses the big city...and at the moment we are very much bound to our home since our daughter was born this January.
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Sadly i don’t live in Berlin anymore, dear Captain, having found a job near my wife finally. I now reside in the little British kingdom of Hanover (where I work as a museum curator), but maybe we can also plan a trip to Berlin next year. My wife really misses the big city...and at the moment we are very much bound to our home since our daughter was born this January.
Well that’s nice :)
I think you’ll find we are the little British kingdom of Hanover on this side of the North Sea... 300 years a proud German monarchy... lol
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Well that’s nice :)
I think you’ll find we are the little British kingdom of Hanover on this side of the North Sea... 300 years a proud German monarchy... lol
Yes, and my current home only broke off, when Victoria became queen...that was only possible in the British part. Really crazy to think about how different European history might have been if northwestern Germany hadn’t joined the Prussians...maybe our little wargaming hobby wouldn’t have its spiritual centre in Nottingham, but on the continent? ??? lol
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I’m a well known currywurstologist in the German lands and have studied many great places in the east and west where it is sold!
If that is true you have to travel to Bavaria to try 180cm of Currywurst laid out in Brezel-shape and served with two mountains of French fries on a wooden plank in the Gasthaus Alpenrose in Eisenärzt near Ruhpolding. You won't talk about any other afterwards... :D
PS: Don't forget to order "ATOMIC HOT" sauce.
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If that is true you have to travel to Bavaria to try 180cm of Currywurst laid out in Brezel-shape and served with two mountains of French fries on a wooden plank in the Gasthaus Alpenrose in Eisenärzt near Ruhpolding. You won't talk about any other afterwards... :D
PS: Don't forget to order "ATOMIC HOT" sauce.
Lol...180cm of Currywurst? I must say I’m more of a puritan when it comes to currywurst, but maybe that’s something we should try as a LAF expedition.
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Lol...180cm of Currywurst? I must say I’m more of a puritan when it comes to currywurst, but maybe that’s something we should try as a LAF expedition.
You should be four male gamers or up to six persons to manage the consumption, I admit. At least if you want to eat all of the chips too.
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Godammit. I was in Salzburg and Berchtesgaden in October. If only I’d known, I could have paid a visit. Ruhpolding is only just up the road... >:D