While that might be correct, much more to the point is that no one born after 1968 gives a rat’s ass if Sinatra was cool or not. It’s not on their radar and they don’t care.
And you’d be the exception. I’d bet the TV watching demographic in the 70’s for those films was your mother and father. You’d watch because you had three stations on your rabbit eared TV or you could go to the movies. No other options. No cable. no internet. No smart phone. I was born in 1962, and 34 year old films for me were made in the 40’s, and my 20 year old self wasn’t into that. At. All.
I was surprised to see that Das Boot was 34 years old. Perhaps you were interested in 34 year old films when you were in your 20s, but that’s not the norm then I’d guess and isn’t now.
If film makers want to show a new audience a 34 year old film with now effects and new actors, that isn’t asking all that much from my perspective.
The trouble with a remake of this movie is, what is the plot of the original, and what will the plot of the reboat be?
The original movie doesn’t really have a story. The movie is all about the journey, surviving day to day, the frustrations and terror and boredom on a U-Boat. If they give the new one the same structure, there’s nothing new worth seeing, and if they give it a whole new story, why don’t they call it something else?
I’m sure there are a lot of good sub stories out there waiting to be told. Film them. Run Silent Run Deep was a great book that was barely explored in the film of the same name. Make that a 6 hour movie!
What are you talking about? They are clearly saying the long O sound, except they’re dragging it out longer, which you do in German. They’re not saying “oo” as in the English word “boot.”
Because, it’s like with Battlestar Galactica. “OOh, I think *Das Boot *was one of the greatest movies of all time!” “What, that hack piece of crap?” “How dare you say that!” and so forth.
I think BG was cheesy good fun. The craptastic cable TV show that shared the name- was a abomination.
Wouldn’t it be sad if there were no good new ideas circulating, and the remakes and reboots were the best ideas currently around?
And this is possible from an investor’s POV. At least there is a history to look at, one that you can use to justify investing in a remake rather than a shot intonew territory.
The Enemy Below is a great movie, but it works because you get both sides. It’s definitely a post-war movie. That’s why it worked in Star Trek as well. It humanizes the enemy. We’re all in the same…er…boat. Following orders, doing our duty, despite what we think of the war or the guy on the other side.
I don’t think Das Boot would be improved by humanizing the enemy. It’s perfect the way it is. A bunch of gung ho kids finding out that the glorious war they thought they signed up for was anything but.
A parallel would be a good miniseries-sized version of The Cruel Sea. The movie was OK, but it skipped a lot of what made TCS similar to DB - the tedium and terror, the fact that the sea was the real enemy (IIRC, In TCS, the ships that the main characters are on sink exactly one sub during the entire war.)
Okay, so maybe it was a slight exaggeration to say it’s just like the English word “boat.” After all, we say “boat” and not “booooooaaaaaat.” But if you say to a German Das Boot (English word “boot”, like what goes on your foot), he or she may not know what you’re talking about. If you say “Das Boat,” it’ll be clear, although they’ll think you have a funny accent.
I would not encourage native English speakers to say the exact long O of the Germans, just like I would not encourage them to roll their Rs for “margarita,” but they should get the basic vowel correct.
(He told me I was “pretty close for someone born in America”)