775: Herring Salad

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We remain submerged for a very long time to watch a very long film, 1981’s “Das Boot.” This certifiable classic is certainly long and German, encompassing almost everything you might expect in the genre. There’s action, suspense, a lot of character moments, and long periods of tedium spent listening for bad sounds, punctuated by moments of terror as the boat goes to eleven (and beyond)....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 775, July 2025.
0:10.3	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.2	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.4	The summer of submarines continues.
0:17.2	We're not going to, the whole summer, we were just clearing this up before we started.
0:20.6	Not every episode this summer is going to be the summer of submarines just clearing this up before we started not every episode
0:21.3	this summer is going to be the summer of submarines but we did three we might come back and do
0:25.0	some right resurface blow all the tanks come back up up bubble and reach periscope depth at which
0:30.8	point we might do some more later this summer but for those who are asking no calcy gramer's
0:36.3	comedy down periscope will never ever ever ever ever, ever, ever, ever be covered on the incomparable.
0:41.0	You have my guarantee.
0:44.1	So, anyway, now that that's out of the way,
0:46.5	we're going to watch a movie that is probably generally considered better than down periscope.
0:53.3	Wow, what a bar.
0:54.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:56.7	This is 1981's Das Boat, directed by Wolfgang Peterson, starring Juergen Prochno and others.
1:07.8	This is a story of a crew sent out in a U-boat from Germany during World War II and
1:16.4	their harrowing adventures. Let me introduce my panel who watched the director's cut, which
1:24.2	means all three plus hours of dust boat.
1:28.6	Here they are.
1:29.3	Brian Warren.
1:30.4	Hello.
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