All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2023-08-20 04:49:58 +0000 UTCComments
The lives of others is incredible...I should rewatch
Elisa Pfau
2023-08-22 17:08:39 +0000 UTCThe moment that really landed with me was near the end of the movie when the commander demands the soldiers all fight in the last 15 minutes of the war, all so that he can feed his megalomania and feel like he's still in control of the outcome of the war. The scene where Paul asks how much longer the war will last, another soldier responds "15 minutes," and the camera pans over the land that has been turned into a hellscape from all the years of war was just...wow. I think that lingering shot of the barren wasteland represented the ashen soul of the German commander. Just a vast stretch of nothing where all these soldiers must be funneled to their slaughter so his ego can be fed for 15 more minutes. I thought the anti-war symbolism in that moment was especially profound. I appreciated the small details in this film--the uselessness of getting water out of the trench with helmets when it's raining, the German commander revealing his shortsightedness when commenting during dinner to his subordinate that he has his future secured because horse saddle business will always be booming...as if locomotion and cars weren't already starting to replace old modes of transportation... Speaking of which, I thought the commander on the French side was no different than the one on the German side--two horrible men with severe tunnel vision who, if they switched places, would act no differently than the other.
Elisa Pfau
2023-08-22 16:53:36 +0000 UTCPeter Jackson made an excellent WW1 documentary called They Shall Not Grow Old
Odd Thomas
2023-08-20 17:48:39 +0000 UTCTwo other excellent WWI films are A Very Long Engagement (2004) and Testament of Youth (2014)
Odd Thomas
2023-08-20 12:20:32 +0000 UTCSo by the end of the war Germany had been starving. Not only the soldiers were starving, but even civilians were dying of starvation. The war was long lost as the head of the German delegation was explaining. However, there was one thing German leadership feared more than defeat at the hands of the allies was revolution at home. Just a year prior, revolution in Russia led to the communists taking over and every leader in Europe was scared to death of that happening to them. So when the bald general talks about the Social Democrats, he's talking about one of the leftist political parties that had gained power in Germany. Anyway, this becomes part of the "Stab-in-the-back" myth where conservatives blamed Germany's loss on the communists and the Jews.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-08-20 07:49:22 +0000 UTCYou've done all the ancient war films I like especially TROY, as far as modern day war movies fury was great, I think just The Alamo for my personal preference is left (regarding war movies) lol another random suggestion that I would love for y'all to react to one day, Carlitos Way, starring Al Pacino, in the same breath that Goodfellas and Scarface were reacted to ,Carlitos way is right up there but Scarface was so good and iconic it overshadowed carlitos ways lol π€¦ but here's to hoping it'll be reacted to one day π₯πΎπ₯π»
dieselbeast
2023-08-20 07:22:14 +0000 UTCThis is certainly one of the best war (or I suppose anti-war) films in many years. In accordance to the comment above, I would highly recommend the German films Wings of Desire (1987) and The Lives of Others (2005, and currently #60 on IMDB's top 250)
kbobravo
2023-08-20 07:09:43 +0000 UTCI don't like war Films, but this one is a really good Film and really hard to watch ... for more great German Films I recommend "Run Lola Run" from 1998 with Franka Potente, "Das Experiment" from 2001 with Moritz Bleibtreu, "Anatomie" from 2000 with Franka Potente, "Free Rainer" from 2007 with Moritz Bleibtreu and "Barfuss" from 2005 with Til Schweiger
Florian Meier
2023-08-20 06:21:55 +0000 UTC
