Lack of motivation, the director's cut

....so I popped "Das Boot" in the DVD player last night. Select German, select English subtitles, because a Unterseeboot crew singing "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" at the top of their lungs just does not have the same impact if you're watching the English dub. I stopped at the end of side one and watched side two this morning. I am so glad I fished this out of a remainder stack and bought it. It's a terrific movie in all it's bearded, grimy, claustrophobic, ultimately hopeless glory.  I remember seeing this one in a theater and finding myself breathing shallow during the sequence in which U-96 is bottomed in the strait of Gibraltar, leaking copiously and all seems lost. I also remember discovering that the U-96 was real and that the film was inspired by the time spent aboard by Lothar Gunter Buchheim, who went on to publish the novel the film is based on, and severalphoto-essays. I did get a look at a copy of U-Boot Krieg (U-Boat War) not long after the film was originally released and it was obvious Wolfgang Petersen relied on Buchheim's photos in the composition of a number of shots and scenes in the film.

EDIT: And then my body said, "Unmotivated, huh?  Have a headache, bitch!" I'm wondering if I picked up the summer cold Dad was complaining of, because it feels like a sinus thing, not migraine.