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All Quiet on the Western Front getting rave reviews out of TIFF
Posted on 9/14/22 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 9/14/22 at 3:44 pm
A lot of the reviews I have read said that it is "revolutionary" and is the "ultimate anti-war film." Here's one from Slash Film:
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War is a horrific, futile waste of human life. This is the basic message of Edward Berger's "All Quiet on the Western Front," a war film based on the 1928 German novel of the same name. The film, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, is a powerful condemnation of warfare, presenting audiences with a grueling, wretched depiction of the physical, financial, and psychological toll that The Great War had on the German people. Rather than portray its characters as glorious heroes bravely fighting for their country, or even ending the film on an optimistic note, "All Quiet on the Western Front" is tragic from beginning to end, and is relentlessly, almost unbearably, bleak.
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The original novel, written by Erich Maria Remarque, was a huge hit internationally. It was adapted by universal in 1930 for the highly acclaimed war epic "All Quiet on the Western Front." Berger's film follows the same basic beats as the pre-code film, but is updated for contemporary audiences with awe-inspiring visuals, a haunting, industrial score, and much, much more violence. This is not a film for the weak of heart: Just watching the intense bloodshed and suffering playing out on the big screen is enough to give anyone nightmares. What's even more distressing, though, is remembering how many people actually lived through that. For however grueling the characters' plight appears, most of us will never fully understand what life in the trenches was actually like.
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Posted on 9/14/22 at 3:55 pm to RollTide1987
Anyone that has looked at the history and life in the trenches, or ever just listened to Dan Carlin's podcasts of WWI, it is an absolutely brutal picture.
In all of history, besides maybe the holocaust and few others, I'm not sure there is a worse place you would want to spend time in than the trenches in WW1.
Besides just being a literal meat grinder, you are living in filth, shite, disease, and often sleeping near the rotting corpses of friends that died next to you. And if you have to go over the top? 8 times out of 10 you are dead, or brutally injured and die slowly.
And I really feel like no film has truly captured that horror yet.
In all of history, besides maybe the holocaust and few others, I'm not sure there is a worse place you would want to spend time in than the trenches in WW1.
Besides just being a literal meat grinder, you are living in filth, shite, disease, and often sleeping near the rotting corpses of friends that died next to you. And if you have to go over the top? 8 times out of 10 you are dead, or brutally injured and die slowly.
And I really feel like no film has truly captured that horror yet.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 3:59 pm to RollTide1987
always love me a good war movie...this looks and sounds promising.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:03 pm to Bronc
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And I really feel like no film has truly captured that horror yet.
WW1 seems to largely be forgotten when it comes to war movies due to WW2 being such a fascinating event
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:26 pm to deltaland
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WW1 seems to largely be forgotten when it comes to war movies due to WW2 being such a fascinating event
I think the First World War is just as equally as fascinating as the Second World War. However, the latter was more black and white and easier to understand. It's difficult for modern audiences to really understand what the soldiers of that first conflict were actually fighting for. Even they really didn't know.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:33 pm to RollTide1987
An appalling lack of diversity
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:39 pm to RollTide1987
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I think the First World War is just as equally as fascinating as the Second World War. However, the latter was more black and white and easier to understand. It's difficult for modern audiences to really understand what the soldiers of that first conflict were actually fighting for. Even they really didn't know.
This and the US more limited involvement in WWI are why we see way more WWII movies.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:44 pm to RollTide1987
quote:All of this right here.
I think the First World War is just as equally as fascinating as the Second World War. However, the latter was more black and white and easier to understand. It's difficult for modern audiences to really understand what the soldiers of that first conflict were actually fighting for. Even they really didn't know.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 4:50 pm to RollTide1987
The fact that the original All Quiet on the Western Front was released almost 100 years ago (1930) is mindblowing.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 5:01 pm to RollTide1987
I find WW1 much more fascinating precisely because of how undefined it is. There’s no real good v evil and it was just on the cusp of modern times turning into an insane mess.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 5:27 pm to SammyTiger
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This and the US more limited involvement in WWI are why we see way more WWII movies.
And Hollywood is run by Jews who absolutely loooooove making movies whining about the Holocaust.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 5:55 pm to RollTide1987
That movie sounds terrible.
frick that shite.
frick that shite.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 6:02 pm to deltaland
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WW1 seems to largely be forgotten when it comes to war movies due to WW2 being such a fascinating event
WW2 Also more recent and occurred when movies were more established, “talkies” existed etc
Posted on 9/14/22 at 6:23 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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This and the US more limited involvement in WWI are why we see way more WWII movies.
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And Hollywood is run by Jews who absolutely loooooove making movies whining about the Holocaust.
Wwi has long been a cinematic conundrum. Trenches are hard to do on film. Hollywood was in full swing during WWII, and they made so many movies while it was going on. A tradition of making commercially successful movies set during that war was established. Not to mention WWII had much more easily identified villains.
Also, way to sound like a total shite.
This post was edited on 9/14/22 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 9/14/22 at 6:40 pm to RollTide1987
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I think the First World War is just as equally as fascinating as the Second World War. However, the latter was more black and white and easier to understand. It's difficult for modern audiences to really understand what the soldiers of that first conflict were actually fighting for. Even they really didn't know.
WWI was the direct cause of WWII so you have to understand it to understand WWII.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 7:01 pm to RollTide1987
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War is a horrific, futile waste of human life. This is the basic message of Edward Berger's "All Quiet on the Western Front,"
So it's like every other WWI movie?
Gallipoli, Paths of Glory, etc.
It's strange there's always been such a disparity between WWI movies and WWII movies. WWI appears to have been the first Vietnam cinematically.
Has there ever been a Sands of Iwo Jima rah-rah WWI movie?
Posted on 9/14/22 at 7:02 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Has there ever been a Sands of Iwo Jima rah-rah WWI movie?
Sergeant York?
Posted on 9/14/22 at 7:07 pm to Philzilla2k
Flyboys
Posted on 9/14/22 at 7:22 pm to UASports23
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The fact that the original All Quiet on the Western Front was released almost 100 years ago (1930) is mindblowing.
Its stunning. This scene is the epitome of trench warfare and how futile it was.
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The 1979 remake was disappointing.
Posted on 9/14/22 at 7:36 pm to Fun Bunch
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find WW1 much more fascinating precisely because of how undefined it is. There’s no real good v evil and it was just on the cusp of modern times turning into an insane mess.
Oh. There was a villain alright.
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