WW-Inspired Question

Because the trenches suck.

Downton Abbey had a season that dealt with the homefront and touched on the desperation of the trenches.

They'll never do it, but a Steve Trevor prequel would be awesome. DC has some amazing WWI characters with Enemy Ace and Balloon Buster. But I'm guessing they're done with WWI.

WW1 has a lot of issues, when it comes to making a movie about it.

Like has been posted before- trench warfare really has no glamour or excitement to it. People living in a muddy ditch, no advancing, worried about snipers (the "3 men on a match" issue), with the occasional gas attacks and shelling... it's very dehumanizing.
Plus, nobody "wins", they just agree to quit fighting and sign the armistice. I think I read somewhere that there was a net gain of maybe 1 mile of territory gained, if that. Nothing was achieved, other then a lot of death.

So right there, you get the lack of dramatic climax, most stories are simply a matter of endurance if you survive. No daring raids etc.

Add to that, the politics didn't work, and you end up with the major nations going back to war within a couple of decades.

The WW1 aerial battles are the stuff of romantic adventure, but outside that area, the "action" would just be very somber and glum, and without much moral point to the tale.

Just looking at a movie involving boring trench warfare type of fighting with biochemical weapons mixed in, that if the participants or combatants I should say weren't wearing gas masks made for god awful ghastly death scenes just didn't make for thrilling action imo. Throw in the always bad gloomy weather conditions it seemed like and other crazy shite going on in those days, and that should give you an ideal as to why WWI wasn't much of an era in terms of making motion picture success happen.

And you're right, the Nazi's were just better villains that everybody loved to hate.

already touched on, but i think the main thing is there are no bad guys in WWI. just alliances gone wrong.

WWII has a clear villain that 99% of the world can look at today and call them the bad guys.

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already touched on, but i think the main thing is there are no bad guys in WWI. just alliances gone wrong.

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This little gem is getting tiresome. No... the German Army is not the same army that mechanized human extinction to the level it rose to during WW2- but the German Army's march of death through Belgium, decimating entire villages of men, women, and children, was a shocking crime even in times of War. They were far from innocent and Ludendorff was already sowing the seeds of fascism and extinction.

Our World War is pretty good. Seen that?

World War One is the most depressing single event in world history. Not much of a subject.