An excellent documentary was done on Youtube, The Great War. During 2014-2018 they did a week-by-week update of the war explaining what happened exactly 100 years ago to the day, it is AMAZING!

Here's what happened week-by-week in 1914

Netflix trailer for All Quiet on the Western Front.

Looks awesome. WW1 has always been a source of fascination for me, so this should be great. Thanks for the link.

Watched it in the theater. Absolutely harrowing. The scene in the crater will stay with me for a long time.

Just watched it on Netflix, absolutely harrowing movie, stunning in every regard

Loved loved loved this movie at TIFF.

Indiana Neidell got me through a looong 2015/2016, love that channel.

Just finished it, I absolutely loved it. I read the book after I saw the first trailer and I’m okay with how they adapted it

As a movie it's not bad. But it should have a different title. I'm about an hour and 20 into it and it's similar to World War Z in that it has nothing in common with the book other than the title and names of the characters. And in both cases the movies are massively inferior to the novels.

Both the 1979 and especially the 1930 movies do a much better job of telling the story.

The movie is OK, but it shouldn't be called All Quiet on the Western Front.

Edit: almost done the movie and keeping the same name is an insult to the book.

100% agree. Just finished watching it now…

Almost done. The 1979 movie is better than this, the 1930 movie is better than the 1979 one and the book is better than all 3.

This version has the best battle sequences out of all the three, but it deviated more from the story than the first two. Still showed the nonsensical warfare that is ww1. It has that German touch of somber, cynicism and regret with their movies and tend to be more realistic than romantic in the face of carnage as with the 1930 and 1979 version

All I hope is they keep the ending with the butterfly. One of the best endings of all time.

It did.

But >!every character that died in the film died differently in the book. Characters who lived in the book died in the film, they joined the war 3 years later in the film than the book, there's the random subplot with Daniel Bruhl that wasn't in the book and Paul dies in October 1918 in the book, which is where the title comes from, not some random attack after a bossfight on the last day of the war some officer ordered which has no basis in reality (for the Germans anyway).!<

Are those war sequences on par with Private Ryan's opening?

I agree, its like they are trying more for an historical fiction drama angle trying to contextualise the audiences to the situation of November 1918 rather than putting it on Paul's point of view which is central to the story. But nevertheless, it still captured the most important details of the book, the insanity, the growing resentment, Paul's bitterness from reality after the death of his friends and his tranquil end in the midst of chaos as one of the many who gave for a few. Although not a major part of the book, it's historical authenticity is to be applauded.

I’d say yes

Alright, I'm watching it now, and am I crazy or is the score in the beginning the same score as the end of Annihilation??? (Three unsettling notes over and over, don't know how else to describe it.) It's REALLY good either way. Definitely creates a sense of foreboding.

I think those points are accurate. It's a good WW1 movie. But it's not All Quiet on the Western Front.

I don’t like the score, kinda unmatched with the vintage looking cinematography.

However this is not a movie, but a daunting, excruciating and exhausting experience.

The sheer catastrophic audio and visual bombardment is just stunning.

This is the best war movie I ever feared while watching.

Even the landing scene in saving private Ryan got me a bit of adrenaline pang despite its gore, but this one… this was not enjoyable, almost disgusting, which is good, because it truly showed me the brutality of war.

I just finished it. The set pieces and design were really well done. The muddy fields and dark landscapes really captured the feel of a FWW battle. The whole thing felt very authentic from what you'd expect a modern telling of the war to be like.

When it comes to the story, I think the movie strays a little bit. Aside from the character names and the goose-stealing bit, it doesn't really resemble much of Ramarque's original story. That's not necessarily bad as there are already two other adaptations of All Quiet on the Western Front so did we really need a third? But the opposite of this is that there isn't very much of a story but what seemed more like scenes just happening after each other rather than a plotline.

The actors were amazing and played the characters very well but I feel like we never got to spend enough time with them so their deaths didn't feel as impactful.

Solid movie overall with some very grim moments.

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It's like larping Battlefield 1 intro.

Getting off your phone while watching anything helps with the immersion

Just watched it on my gameboy, absolutely harrowing movie.

Watched it in Germany in the theater and I was so Impressed. I do t have the vocabulary to describe it but I’ll try. The actors were just wow. No unnecessary messaging, no empty talk. Really good character development. The caricature of the politicians was just great. Seeing them compared to the soldiers fighting made me even see more how stupid it is to fight for some weird made up nationalistic cause. Watch it, support it, great Experience. But as it’s long you really must focus. Put your phone away

Honestly the thing that mostly bugged me was >!how Paul's death differed from the original. It's just Paul going "Oh boy here I go killing Frenchmen again!" then die and we get a "It's like poetry, it rhymes" moment. The fact that the title lost it's original meaning is really annoying.!<

Maybe it's because I just finished watching it but it's still a damn good movie. Not a good adaptation but a good standalone movie.

they're obviously not as iconic, but based on quality, accuracy, scale, brutality etc in my opinion the battles scenes in this are better

Love that Indie (no homo).

The caricature of the politicians was just great.

That was not a caricature.

That was a PERFECT depiction of EXACTLY how politicritters and top brass are. REGARDLESS of nation or military.

Here is a recent example...well..more recent that WWI.

Vietnam peace negotiations:

They spent a massive amount of time dithering over...wait for it....

What shape the table should be.

Holy fuck that tank scene! The sheer horror of seeing these hulking machines that you’ve never seen before, just slowly treading towards you. You shoot at it and nothing is stopping it. That’s terrifying

I loved the shot of the person standing in the window of his house as he’s watching this unfold. Completely oblivious to the real nature of war that’s occurring in his backyard. Standing there in a nice warm shelter, safe, and while the real soldiers are getting brutally killed. But that’s the nature of war

An utterly pointless war and it’s even sadder when you know that WW2 was just around the corner.

R.I.P to the brave soldiers that died in this war. I applaud any film that sheds light on this brutal incident war that’s mostly forgotten or overshadowed by the second one.

>The fact that the title lost it's original meaning is really annoying.

Yes. It reminds me of what they did with the ending of I Am Legend.

>Not a good adaptation but a good standalone movie.

100% agree. Good movie, bad adaptation.

lol

Not the same but similar vibe

>this was not enjoyable, almost disgusting, which is good, because it truly showed me the brutality of war.

If you haven't seen it, I can recommend the Soviet anti-war movie Come and See from 1985, about the horrors during WW2. It had the same impact on me.

Thanks for the recommendation and yes I have seen it.

Definitely left a mark on me.

Especially the scene where the boy mindlessly shot hitlers portrait to bring back time… only to find hitler was once also a little innocent boy….that scene just messed with me, so dreadful yet so much empathy there.

I also like the pianist by Darien broody very much. Have you watched that?

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Agreed, Come and See did a great job at depicting the horrors of war as did All Quiet On the Western Front. But I needed a break during All Quiet On the Western Front with about 40 minutes left to go due to the brutality of it.

It's not a random civilian standing at the window of the house, it's the German general, the same one who later orders the final assault for "honor" in the last few hours before the armistice takes effect