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brotherdaniel1970 t1_ixtsz5b wrote

Oh is this another movie about Germans getting into another war with a country that wasn't on the offensive again?

Seen hundreds of these.

I'm SO SAD for those German boys who were lied to and died fighting French boys who were just living their fucking lives.

Did I get it right?

(Also, in the original, which did not have to be remade, the older soldier he kills in the trench, where he pulls out the wallet and his identity papers, is a French poet, whom he'd studied in school. Which we find out about through a VO. This movie did not have voice overs so we don't get that he recognized this published poet he studied in school. He murdered one of his favorite poets, in a trench. Not sure if this version pressed that note because I didn't finish it.)

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Hefty_Violinist2498 t1_ixtv8ro wrote

The original is a book. You mean the first adaptation (1930) or the second (1979). To be fair, this is the first German adaptation from the book, which is German and got banned and burned by the Nazi regime in 1933.

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtvv86 wrote

I haven’t watched the other adaptations I only know a bit about one don’t know witch one exactly

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtvgl4 wrote

Yeah a weird reaction I just say he should watch it before he jumps to conclusions and about the point that it shouldn’t have been remade I have to disagree hard the old one is just that old they have a much higher budget which lets them use more practical effects

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtxig0 wrote

Yeah being American and seeing all the war movies being very one sided pushed me from war movies but this one pulled me back in i need to see all the sides every side has different stories some tragic and some victorious

American war movies to me personally just try to make the military seem invincible I’m here for a war movie not propaganda war is tragic American films are the definition of America fuck yeah

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtz2in wrote

Agreed what I think makes saving private Ryan good is that it’s not all about the war it’s setting is WWII but creates a story using elements that really happened like the three brothers and d-day. Overall it’s just a story about saving someone during wwII not one side winning against another don’t get me wrong some American war movies can be entertaining and seeing actual events that happened like black hawk down being made into a movie those are fine cause they are actual stories.

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtzllv wrote

Also if you like war stories that aren’t all about American there’s a YouTube channel called dark docs covers old war stores not just American but other countries military operations

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixtvkal wrote

Also it has color and has actual German actors although the original does have actual German war vets who helped make it more true to what they saw during the war

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixttfpo wrote

(spoilers for beginning scenes)Sort of he joins against his parents wishes and also doesn’t wanna be left behind by his friends and his teacher basically is pushing them to join the war saying there parents would be proud to have a son fighting for the father land but you know how that is and once they get there it’s nothing like what they have thought of

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Impressive-Sea3221 OP t1_ixttp9m wrote

Ik this movie isn’t really like the original there’s definitely some scenes that are completely different or done in a completely different way instead of the hands on the wire fence it’s a dead solder hanging on a tree

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