Movie All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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Brutal and tough to watch, but really well done.
 
Agreed.

If you like that, watch My Boy Jack. Same exact description.

I challenge you to watch it and not cry.
 
Excellent movie, it's a must watch.
 
Best war since in a very long time. Much better than the 1917 WW1 movie from a few years ago.
 
Might be the best movie of the year actually. I want to watch it again and probably will at some point in the next 2 weeks. It's up there with Top Gun for best movie of the year.
 
Should have shot that bitchass General on the balcony.
 
I watched it yesterday and I liked it. It seemed to move rather quickly through the story but I am probably basing that on my bias towards the book
 
RememberTheKoy said:
Might be the best movie of the year actually. I want to watch it again and probably will at some point in the next 2 weeks. It's up there with Top Gun for best movie of the year.
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I only regret not trying to find it in theaters.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
It was all so silly from the scene with milking the cow onward after that.
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Eh, the final scene when he made it to the front was dramatic although predictable. The cinematography was amazing throughout
 
PeoplesChicken said:
Eh, the final scene when he made it to the front was dramatic although predictable. The cinematography was amazing throughout
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I thought Children of Men 15 years earlier pulled off the long takes thing better.



 
PeoplesChicken said:
Dude we are talking about a movie on WWI. These are apples and oranges
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No not really when you are talking specifically about cinematography and not the plot. That whole movie was a cinematography gimmick that was first really utilized, and really well done so, in Children of Men. So the use of that "long take" throughout the whole movie was not as impressive to me.


The plot of 1917 and how that story just gets more and more unrealistic as the movie goes on was just silly to me.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
No not really when you are talking specifically about cinematography and not the plot. That whole movie was a cinematography gimmick that was first really utilized, and really well done so, in Children of Men. So the use of that "long take" throughout the whole movie was not as impressive to me.


The plot of 1917 and how that story just gets more and more unrealistic as the movie goes on was just silly to me.
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I am looking at it from a historical perspective. Creating scenes from over 100 years ago is an impressive feat. IMO WWI has never been adequately depicted on screen the way WWII or even the Civil War have been
 
PeoplesChicken said:
I am looking at it from a historical perspective. Creating scenes from over 100 years ago is an impressive feat. IMO WWI has never been adequately depicted on screen the way WWII or even the Civil War have been
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If you want to look at a movie from a historical perspective and depicting on screen than All Quiet on the Western Front did a much better job of that. The one take gimmick of 1917 made the whole movie feel like a gimmick and just turns into a very silly one about half way because it had to keep up with this gimmick for the entire movie. In the end it seemed like more of an amusement park style movie where you are "riding it" like the movie Gravity instead of being an actual well constructed movie.
 
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
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While beautifully shot and paced, it’s a bit tropesy and not very compelling.
 
PeoplesChicken said:
I am looking at it from a historical perspective. Creating scenes from over 100 years ago is an impressive feat. IMO WWI has never been adequately depicted on screen the way WWII or even the Civil War have been
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I think some of it may be because WWII is the classic Goodies vs Baddies with the good guys eventually prevailing. Patriotic stories of victory in the face of defeat write themselves.

WWI is a terrible slog with impossible casualty numbers that mostly results in a stalemate on the field. It's one of the ultimate cases of military technology developing faster than military tactics. Whole companies mowed down while charging into the teeth of machinegun fire. The disgusting reality of trench warfare and horrible tactics used to try to win that stalemate (gas). Any WW1 film can't help but be an anti-war film if it's true in any way to the reality of the battlefield.
 
I was really interested in it but it looks like I have to watch the whole movie in subtitles?
 
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