tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6431142100442531762..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: "Das Boot"Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90460430744179777312022-08-18T23:33:59.646-05:002022-08-18T23:33:59.646-05:00I saw the dubbed version at the long gone I-80 dri...I saw the dubbed version at the long gone I-80 drive in theater in Tinley Park when I was eleven. It was was the 2nd movie on a double feature with Blade Runner, which was of course what we had paid to see, and well, you can see where this is going. Unsaid among my family but mutually felt was that Blade Runner was a bit of a letdown, so we just decided to stick around for this German flick about a submarine of which we knew almost nothing. Boy were we glad! It was easily the best outdoor movie experience in my life, and it was all due to the serendipity of it being billed with a (highly overrated) sci-fi movie that we went to see. I might never have seen it otherwise. On a barely related note, I saw In the Line of Fire, another Wolfgang Peterson movie, at a different drive in theater (the Cicero Twin in Monee, also long defunct like most other outdoor theaters) eleven years later. It was the 2nd feature on a double bill with Coneheads. Again, one of those movies was more impactful than the other.Bruno McGeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33161749893690041912022-08-18T22:36:28.884-05:002022-08-18T22:36:28.884-05:00Seemed much better and more authentic in German, w...Seemed much better and more authentic in German, with the subtitles. Liked it so much that twenty years later, I nicknamed Schmutzik, my big, stocky tuxedo cat, "Das Schmootz". (Later shortened to just "The Shmoo"). <br /><br />He was too pudgy to look anything like a submarine, but he did have a brown smudge on his black-and-white face. "Schmutzik" (which means "dirty" in both Yiddish and German) sounded so much better than "Smudge." He also had a black splotch under his nose...a Hitler moustache. That made him a Kitler. <br /><br />Kitlers are more common than you might think. The "Cats That Look Like Hitler" website contains thousands of images. My favorite had a meme that read: "I'm in your litter box, invading Pooland..."Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31761239483311283902022-08-18T20:01:19.913-05:002022-08-18T20:01:19.913-05:00I remember seeing Das Boot on the big screen when ...I remember seeing Das Boot on the big screen when it came out. Intense. I used to love ducking into the Studebaker theater in the Fine Arts Building and was excited to learn that Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me has made that theatre their new Chicago home. <br /><br />And now I'll contemplate whether or not I'm living life like it won't last forever.Carenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15948322374348472360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32332807598175000112022-08-18T11:00:03.036-05:002022-08-18T11:00:03.036-05:00The Sam Johnson story has a bit of a twist to it, ...The Sam Johnson story has a bit of a twist to it, it seems. I've been told that Johnson said those memorable words about certain death concentrating the mind when he was accused of ghostwriting the eloquent final testament of the condemned man, who had never hitherto been known to write two coherent sentences in a row.<br /><br />Myself, I would expect the panic you mention; the concentration of mind, not so much.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-6614533429178195012022-08-18T07:57:05.228-05:002022-08-18T07:57:05.228-05:00The Dems have been trying to bust open the radio s...The Dems have been trying to bust open the radio since 2016 and they still can’t find the wire. There’s more than a fortnight before the November elections but if something big doesn’t happen by then the sub stays on the bottom.Lesnoreply@blogger.com