Just watched Das Boot, just a spectacular movie 10/10. Gripped me from start to finish. The ending kind of made me hate the allies lol.
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It was a bit absurd that they performed a welcome home ceremony in a hot red zone. That area showed obvious signs that it was a hot bed for quite awhile, I even noticed some unmanned AA guns on a couple of buildings too, probably out of ammo I would guess? But if they had the security and resources to perform that ceremony the supply lines are obviously intact! That ceremony just doesn't seem right given the gravity of the situation.
But it was hard to take it in that ending... after all of that, just boom... gone. At least the protagonist survived, but it's very like these movies to have the old weather-beaten captain go down with his ship while the young baby-faced protagonist lives on. That captain was very likable, it was so satisfying when they finally got off the seabed and starting rising, and when he received the good news when the crew finished doing repairs... you can just tell how proud he was of them.