Tango01 | 02 Nov 2022 9:52 p.m. PST |
…. "All Quiet on the Western Front" "A new spin on an old story is doing well- a rare sight when it comes to TV adaptations and reboots in the 2020s.
All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War One drama told from the perspective of an Imperial German infantryman, stars Felix Kammerer as the main character, Paul Bäumer.
Despite volunteering for combat, Bäumer quickly learns the front lines are not all they're cracked up to be in legend and song, quickly aging and becoming disillusioned with the Great War…"
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jdpintex | 03 Nov 2022 5:52 a.m. PST |
It is a very well done film. |
Duncan Adams | 03 Nov 2022 6:32 a.m. PST |
I was disappointed. I thought it would have been a much better film if they stayed closer to the book. Yea, I know. Everybody always says "the book was better." But in this case the movie barely follows the book at all. Like the book, the movie is about naive, enthusiastic young men colliding with the reality of war, and they kept some of the character names. Other than that they went off on their own. In the few cases where the movie included a story from the book it seemed that the writers didn't understand the point of the original. It was a good movie, but it could have been much much better. Duncan |
Arjuna | 03 Nov 2022 7:41 a.m. PST |
I always prefered Ernst Jünger's book 'Storm of Steel' (In Stahlgewittern). I heard Paul Bäumer doesn't die in the Netflix version. If true, do they plan a sequel, 'Quiet Days in Weimar…? |
Grattan54 | 03 Nov 2022 9:52 a.m. PST |
I did not care for it. It was slow with little action. It was nothing like the book. Very disappointed as I wanted my World War One class to watch but now I think I will just stick with the book. |
Duncan Adams | 03 Nov 2022 9:55 a.m. PST |
SPOLIER ALERT **** In the Netflix movie Paul dies at 10:59 on Nov 11, 1918 – killed in hand to hand combat during a raid ordered by a mad general. Thus, a literary masterpiece is replaced with Hollywood tropes. Duncan |
PaulB | 03 Nov 2022 10:36 a.m. PST |
In the other two film versions we got to know the characters much more, in the school and while they were training. So it was much more moving to see them die one by one. And I agree the death a minute before armistice was very contrived. |
Major Mike | 03 Nov 2022 2:41 p.m. PST |
If there is one thing Hollywood has been able to do in the last 30 years, it is to take a great real/fictional story and turn it into some directors' "dream" of how it should have really been. So many great old movies that they use to steal the plot and then craft it to fit their agenda. Rather sad and I've not got the money or skill to do it right. So, I'll settle with my mini's which have had some epic battles won and lost. |
Tango01 | 03 Nov 2022 3:35 p.m. PST |
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HMS Exeter | 03 Nov 2022 9:56 p.m. PST |
I've only seen the trailer, but it seemed like they were portraying the war as long periods of terror, punctuated by short periods of boredom. Maybe they loaded the trailer with lots of the spfx stuff for splash. I was wondering if the story would have been more compelling with the protagonist surviving as a hollowed out shell unable to reintegrate to peacetime life. Millions never came home at all. How many came home but never found their way back? |
Arjuna | 04 Nov 2022 1:13 a.m. PST |
Now this is interesting. I wonder if the moment a work of art comes with a spoiler warning, does it cease to be a work of art and merely become entertainment? Of course, entertainment and art don't have to be mutually exclusive, on the contrary. The interesting thing is what actually happened when a work of art becomes just a commercial product. I really need to get back to Walter Benjamin. Thank you. Still probably won't watch it. |
Bobgnar | 24 Nov 2022 11:43 p.m. PST |
I just saw this last night on the TV. I had just read the original book, in English however. This movie seems to be based on a different version of the book. Some of the same things happened but not in the same order. In the book I read there was no long-term negotiations going on in the infamous railway car, and no last ditch assault by the Germans on the French occupying German trenches. Quite a few of the most interesting vignettes in the book didn't appear in this version of the movie. The ground in the trenches were always muddy, but it never seems to rain. The assault by the French in their tanks and flamethrowers was quite exciting. I would recommend people watch the film as an interesting movie about the great war. I would not recommend watching it if you want to bypass reading the book Which is an excellent book about the war as viewed by the narrator. The movie gave me new insights into how to paint figures in the great war at least towards the end. You can barely tell the French from the Germans as they're all covered in mud; the faces are covered in mud. Only the officers are clean. I much prefer, Westfront 1918, Wooden Crosses, the original AQOTWF , The Big Parade, older films, but some newer ones are good "warhorse," "1917" Paths of Glory. If you really want to know about All Quiet, read the book. |