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"U-571"

On tonight. I'm going to watch it. 8.15pm on BBC 1. However, Romeo Must Die is on at 9.30 on ITV or Channel 4. Another great film. I'm going to go for U-571 though, as I haven't seen it before, whereas I have seen Romeo Must Die. And, yes, I am aware of the controversy surrounding U-571 for excluding the British and saying the Americans found the Enigma machine. Cheek.

U-571 twas poor I thought. Romeo Must Die was cool. I have a DVD of it on my windowsill. Not mine, don't know whose it is. But I'm gonna keep it.

British Empire never seems to exist in my generations minds anymore. I know its nothing (if anything) to what it was, but the fact that Britain once had the largest empire ever in history, and that in fact it did a lot of good things (as well as bad - as with any empire) is seemingly forgotten. By my generation anyway.

I can't see the point of making a flim based on a true event and then changing it completely to suit the America's egotistical obsession. Us Brits don't get enough credit for being one of the greatest nations of all time, who stood alone for years against the fascists. Yetfilm makers have the audacity to change history, again.

At least Norway respects us by sending over a Christmas tree each year; the Americans just take our history from us.

I bet in ten years time they'll claim that we made them go to war with Iraq.

Das Boot.

Anything else is pantywaist ignorance.
U571...please...

There's a fantastic film called Das Boot (the Boat).
It's the story of a German U-Boat on patrol during the second world war.
The tension and realism in this German classic beats films like U-571 to a bloody pulp.

It was originally shown as a T.V mini series in the eighties,and is based on actual events in the north Atlantic,I can't recommend it highly enough for anybody who's never seen it.

the only good submarine flick is the hunt for red october

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> Give me Hunt for Red October any day.

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Indeed.

I have Red October, Crimson Tide, K-19 and Das Boot. Still need to watch Das Boot... but anyway, U-571 was a decent film. Bill Paxton was in it for a few minutes, which was good.

Apart from re-writing history (I remember arguing with an American who'd seen it and thought we had nothing to do with it) it was pretty good. You know the bit at the end where they say who actually got the Enigma machines? That was added after the outcry from non-Americans.

Yep u571 was 'living on a prayer', but they were 'always' gonna make it.

All credit to jon he said "someday i'll be on, on saturday night' and it was true

Keitel is always great. He is supreme in every film. Even the ones he's not in.

The first time I watched U-571 I thought it was all right, the second time I saw it, it bored me half to death. Some nice action scenes here and there, but not much else.

The characters where pretty unspectacular as well, the loud moth cowboy type who isn't afraid to voice his mind to the skipper, the token black guy who was only there because he was the only token black guy in the film and a German prisoner who served no purpose in the story whatsoever.

Like I said, some nice action scenes including the sub on sub action near the beginning, and Keitel was great I thought, but a good film this is not.

Romeo must die - Punch, kick, spinning punch, spinning kick.

It was good.