elbobo Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 I'm watching it right now. I've had to take 3 breaks to get a drink. This is an incredible, horrific, ghastly, NECESSARY movie. I just got to the fork scene and still have 48 minutes to go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 I don't think I've watched a movie where I've thought "omg movie please just stop, you've done enough" like I have with this one. Maximum recency bias here but this might be the most powerful movie I have seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 As an aside, the German film critics ABSOLUTELY DESPISED this movie. German critics pan Oscar-nominated All Quiet On the Western Front | Movies | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Critics accuse film of straying too far from Erich-Maria Remarque’s much-loved 1928 anti-war novel Quote Even the tabloid Bild, hardly known as a haven of art-house snobbery, published a hatchet job. “There are good literary adaptations and there are bad ones, and then there is All Quiet on the Western Front by director Edward Berger,” Bild’s critic wrote. “His version of Erich-Maria Remarque’s classic is a piece of indescribable impudence. It takes a considerable portion of ignorance, disrespect and Oscar-lust to mess up a masterpiece in such a fashion, to pulverise its content and story so mercilessly.” The Best Picture Nominee That Is (Rightly) Making Germany Furious SLATE.COM The Academy loves Netflix’s pandering war porn. Its homeland knows better. Quote So with all of this international hullabaloo, you might think the Germans would, at long last, be visibly impressed by something, namely the first-ever German film production of what was originally called Im Westen nichts Neues. To quote a film that perhaps should have gotten nine Oscar noms instead: Nope. Instead, throughout the culture pages of the venerable German press, Berger’s rather freewheeling rendering of a book every German Schulkind knows by heart has not merely been panned. It’s been—to name a few random examples—machine-gunned, gassed, grenaded, bayoneted, shelled, tank-crushed, blowtorched, suspended as a headless legless torso from a tree—and, at long last, stabbed ineptly in a forgotten crater and left to gurgle itself to a helpless demise for an interminable number of minutes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 So what I'm hearing is that I should not only read the novel but seek out the previous two entries of film adaptation to get a better product? Because I personally loved this film yet without a comparison, I'm not in the know about what was messed up or what was swapped out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 There's some historical inaccuracies, but I don't think they get in the way of the narrative. The Germans were not, under any circumstances, ordering offensives in October/November 1918. They also would have very well known what a fucking tank was. The last soldier to die on the western front in WW1 was actually an American named Henry Gunther. He had gotten demoted/penalized for deserting his post or something, and on the last day of the war he Leroy Jenkins'd a German machine gun nest while everyone around, even the Germans in the nest, were yelling at him to stop. I've never read the book, but the moral of the story is "try telling the boys who fucking died that it was all quiet on the western front," and I think the movie hit it pretty hard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 17 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: As an aside, the German film critics ABSOLUTELY DESPISED this movie. German critics pan Oscar-nominated All Quiet On the Western Front | Movies | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Critics accuse film of straying too far from Erich-Maria Remarque’s much-loved 1928 anti-war novel The Best Picture Nominee That Is (Rightly) Making Germany Furious SLATE.COM The Academy loves Netflix’s pandering war porn. Its homeland knows better. Well damn. I've never read the book, haven't seen the film, nor am I super familiar with German culture, but I wonder why they hated it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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