History YMMV / DasBoot

* HellIsThatNoise: The [[SensorSuspense ASDIC pings]].
** Not to mention the sound of the hull creaking as the sub dives below maximum safe depth.
** Or the choppy propellor sounds of British destroyers overhead.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The whole score by Klaus Doldinger, the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJv9hwcTTqw "Titel"]] and its declinations in particular. Who knew sonar sounds could be this awesome in a film soundtrack?

* AwardSnub: The film was nominated for ''six'' Oscars (Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Writing), and went home empty-handed.

* HellIsThatNoise: The [[SensorSuspense sonar pings]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The whole soundtrack by Klaus Doldinger, the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJv9hwcTTqw "Titel"]] and its declinations in particular.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Main Theme
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSxBLRs7c-c U96]]. Listening to it ''will'' put you in the mood to go kick some ass.

* MagnumOpus: For Wolfgang Petersen.

* ToughActToFollow: Most of Petersen's later films weren't as good as ''Das Boot''.

* ToughActToFollow: Most of Petersen's later films weren't as good as ''Das Boot''.

* ToughActToFollow: Most of Petersen's later films were as good as ''Das Boot''.

** The English subtitles vary in accuracy between versions. Some lines are different in wording (to improve clarity for English speakers) though the general meaning is the same, but in a few cases the subtitles are just plain wrong compared to the audio.

* HilariousInHindsight: The actor who plays a drunken officer who mocks Hitler in the opening scene would later go on to appear with the man who would play Hitler in ''Film/{{Downfall}}''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The actor who plays a drunken officer who mocks Hitler in the opening scene would later go on to appear with the man who would play Hitler in Film/{{Downfall}}.

** [[ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSxBLRs7c-c U96]]. Listening to it ''will'' put you in the mood to go kick some ass.

** The English subtitles vary in accuracy between versions. Some lines are different in wording (to improve clarity for English speakers) though the general meaning is the same, but in a few cases the subtitles are just plain wrong compared to the audio.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pefS5BD_Bv8 The Main Theme]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This movie can do a pretty good job of making people never, ever want to set foot on a submarine. Ever. The whole situation is basically this in-character for Werner, to boot.
** One particular incident is this ''in-character'' for many of the characters; when U-96 surfaces to behold its handiwork in torpedoing a tanker, they get to see many of the crew on fire and leaping into the sea, where they are guaranteed to drown, and U-96 is under orders not to render any aid (with all the burning petrol it's questionable if they could have gotten close enough to do so anyway - and they didn't have really any extra room or provisions to spare at that). This shakes many of the crew deeply, even though they had intended to revel in their success.

* HilariousInHindsight: The actor who plays a drunken officer who mocks Hitler in the opening scene would later go on to appear with the man who would play Hitler in {{Downfall}}.

* HilariousInHindsight: The actor who plays a drunken officer who mocks Hitler in the opening scene would later go on to play Hitler in {{Downfall}}.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This movie can do a pretty good job of making people never, ever want to set foot on a submarine. [[{{Understatement}} Ever.]] The whole situation is basically this in-character for Werner, to boot.

* HellIsThatNoise: The sonar pings.

* {{Narm}}: A few people claim that [[DownerEnding the ending]] is this, due to how ''perfectly'' '''''everything''''' goes to hell in the last few minutes - if only because you can either laugh at it all, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel or be sent into a hyperdepressive fugue state by it]].
** Quite a few veterans complained about the overdone shouting and hysteria of the movie. Of course the actors had to show these things, whereas in the book you could simply describe how everyone is feeling inside.