...have I seen the movie? I'm trying to watch all movies from top 250 list, and I've seen the "original uncut version", but can I now cross the movie off my list? This is of course a subject that everybody can have a different opinion about, but that's why I'm asking yours. Is it same enough? Or should I see the short version?
Wait! Does this also mean putting out doesn't get you love?
I have the director's cut movie and the full length series on DVD. The movie's good, but if you have time you get a lot more out of the series.
On your train of thought, I think I just caught the caboose.
That depends.
I'm Danish, and in my collection resides the 1-DVD (216 mins - The Director's Cut) and the 2-DVD (302 mins - The Original Uncut Version) versions. Both films are with German Soundtrack (the DC also has English soundtrack) and subtitled in several languages. And for a fortnight or something like that I thought This Is It. But No-no-no.
In December 2010 I saw (a small part of) a version on Danish TV I had not seen before - and I don't want to see it again! It was set to be about the same runtime as the DC (some 3,5 hours), and the soundtrack was German. But it was a different cut from the 1-DVD version - some shots were left out, some shots were included (but as far as I remember they were all part of the 5 hours version).
All was fine, until I read what Ullman wrote in his letter to Francoise, and Werner in his diary - that was written in English!!!
I'm a bit happy that getting a gun is very difficult here in Denmark or I should have gone to the Danish Radio Corporation to find somebody to shoot ;-)
And furthermore: The subtitles of the DC are based on the English-language soundtrack - which makes listening to the German soundtrack a bit strange - I tell you: it's very close to being two different films!
It was set to be about the same runtime as the DC (some 3,5 hours), and the soundtrack was German. But it was a different cut from the 1-DVD version - some shots were left out, some shots were included (but as far as I remember they were all part of the 5 hours version)
To the OP, YES, you can cross Das Boot off your Top 250 list. The Original Uncut Version is the best and only version to watch.
How do you like that piece of satire?