All Quiet On The Western Front (Netflix)

[DBFlyguy]

This looks INCREDIBLE! Can't wait to check it out, hopefully I'll be able to catch it in a theater instead of streaming....

 

 

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Yes, looks promising.

[Gambit21]

Nice! We canceled our Netflix account a few years ago because…well…they’re evil. I’ll go see in the theater though. ?

 

[Lusekofte]

On 9/26/2022 at 9:33 AM, Gambit21 said:

Nice! We canceled our Netflix account a few years ago because…well…they’re evil. I’ll go see in the theater though. ?

 

Well right now I stream Netflix , HBO , Disney + and Amazon. Latter because of Power of the rings. 

I need to stop some of these. Because I hardly use them

[Gambit21]

Actually after watching the whole trailer...I'm definitely going to skip this.

A little too real for me...I can't watch stuff like this anymore.

[Lusekofte]

On 9/28/2022 at 1:17 AM, Gambit21 said:

Actually after watching the whole trailer...I'm definitely going to skip this.

A little too real for me...I can't watch stuff like this anymore.

I have after this year happenings not much desire to watch authentic warmovies either.

It is all too close

[Chief_Mouser]

Not sure that I need to see this, I still find the 1930 version enough for me. Surprisingly the 1979 version was good too, both films are well-made and powerful. Don't think it needed remaking, no matter how good it might be.

[Trooper117]

I won't bother with this... as someone stated, we have the original film, plus the one from the 70's, both were good, the original by far the better in my view.

[BOO]

Read the book but never seen either earlier film as Im not so refined as to appreciate 1930s or even 1970s cinema without missing the SFX. (shallow -yup)

 

I'll certainly be watching it 

[Chris65]

I was just coming to say that the John Boy version is very well done and holds up very well, I have the DVD.

[CanadaOne]

On 9/27/2022 at 7:17 PM, Gambit21 said:

Actually after watching the whole trailer...I'm definitely going to skip this.

A little too real for me...I can't watch stuff like this anymore.

 

 

If it's just for the sake of adding gore, I'll pass. I love the original.

[Guest deleted@83466]

Goodnight, John Boy.

 

 

Edited October 18, 2022 by SeaSerpent
I sense a mole among us.

[SharpeXB]

SPOILER ALERT

 

 

Oh my god what garbage! The movie has almost nothing to do with the book whatsoever. Missing all the themes of the novel. Introducing this Armistice delegation plot line (a sure hint in the trailer that this would be a fail) that of course isn’t in the book and again misses the whole point. The book is about the men who fought the war, simply to tell their story and in that vein clearly doesn’t have any generals or leader etc. None of the characters are developed, short of including their names from the book. The book I don’t recall mentions exactly how Paul dies actually so there’s some artistic license there but there certainty isn’t this stupid attack made in the last fifteen minutes of the war. I’m amazed Germany would make such an abomination of this classic piece of their own literature. A complete crime against film making. What’s astonishing and expected though is mainstream reviews seem to be positive because we live in an era where most people don’t know how many moons the earth has or could find their own country on a map, so certainly have never read this book or know anything about WWI. 

[SharpeXB]

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[Sokol1]

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The book I don’t recall mentions exactly how Paul dies actually so there’s some artistic license there but there certainty isn’t this stupid attack made in the last fifteen minutes of the war.

 

In the book he was killed by a sniper, on a day of little activity, when the communiqués read "All quiet on the Western Front".

[cardboard_killer]

Spoiler alert man!

[ST_Catchov]

I don't do netflix 'cause I'm a luddite I guess. No it's the money. Nah maybe I'm just lazy. Nope I couldn't be bothered I suppose. Anyway I haven't seen this version. But I have read the book which is a convenient tactile portable object with pages and writing and stuff that you can read with your eyes. 

 

I have seen the original 1930 film however and it is a most poignant moment when Paul is sniped whilst admiring the beauty of a butterfly after all the horrors he had experienced.

[DBFlyguy]

I thought it was a good film.  It should've been advertised as "inspired by" the book to help folks understand it wasn't going to be just another retelling of it.  The acting was good and it definitely doesn't blink with showing the pure horror of war, some parts are hard to watch.  On the last day of the war after the armistice was signed several thousand men died fighting until the armistice took affect at 11AM:

 

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-armistice-last-american-death

 

I think that's what the movie was trying to show with that last battle in the movie. I would recommend checking it out if you have Netflix.  

[Chief_Mouser]

BBC Two - Timewatch, 2008-2009, The Last Day of World War One 

 

If you can find this it is well worth a watch. Far better than a butchering of a classic book.

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Chief_Mouser

[BOO]

2 hours ago, Chief_Mouser said:

BBC Two - Timewatch, 2008-2009, The Last Day of World War One 

 

If you can find this it is well worth a watch. Far better than a butchering of a classic book.

 

Sorry Cat. 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by BOO

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14 hours ago, DBFlyguy said:

I thought it was a good film.  It should've been advertised as "inspired by" the book to help folks understand it wasn't going to be just another retelling of it.  The acting was good and it definitely doesn't blink with showing the pure horror of war, some parts are hard to watch.  On the last day of the war after the armistice was signed several thousand men died fighting until the armistice took affect at 11AM:

 

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-i-armistice-last-american-death

 

I think that's what the movie was trying to show with that last battle in the movie. I would recommend checking it out if you have Netflix.  

 

If WW1 only had an hour to go, and they ordered me into the attack, I think I’d be like F that, seriously.  I never understood how they got young men to die in human waves of cannon fodder at any point, in any war, let alone the very end.  Crazy.

 

Will definitely check out this movie on Netflix.

[BOO]

Its a good movie. "inspired by" would be a good disclaimer though. 

1 hour ago, SeaSerpent said:

I never understood how they got young men to die in human waves of cannon fodder at any point, in any war, let alone the very end.  Crazy.

 

You'll be surprised what a good strong moustache and a monocle will get you. 

[Bremspropeller]

54 minutes ago, BOO said:

You'll be surprised what a good strong moustache and a monocle will get you. 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Bremspropeller

[Irishratticus72]

2 hours ago, SeaSerpent said:

 

 

If WW1 only had an hour to go, and they ordered me into the attack, I think I’d be like F that, seriously.  I never understood how they got young men to die in human waves of cannon fodder at any point, in any war, let alone the very end.  Crazy.

 

Will definitely check out this movie on Netflix.

The scene at the start with the "I've someone else's uniform" really hit hard.

 

[Guest deleted@83466]

Oh man, just finished, so my impressions are raw.  When I see a flick like that, it’s hard to use “good”, because it leaves me disturbed, so let’s say “powerful”.

 

I never saw the 1930 version, or the Richard Thomas version, but I read the book years ago, and understood what it was trying to say.  But those are just words on the page, left to the imagination.  This movie left little to the imagination.  I don’t care if it had deviations from the book and told a bigger picture, it was better off that it did.  Sure doesn’t leave you feeling very high on mankind.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by SeaSerpent
Don’t think I’ll play Hell Let Loose tonight…