In 1914, a group of German teenagers volunteer for action on the Western Front. Paul Baumer is a sensitive youth, but is persuaded to join up by a war-mongering professor advocating glory for the Fath...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 5, 1999
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January 19, 2009"We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That's all."
Winner of the Best Picture Oscar in 1930, All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the most gritty anti-war films ever made. 79 years later, the impact of thi...( read more) -
November 25, 2008absolutely chilling. one of the greatest war masterpieces of all time. this is the film that did the most for getting me to hate war. while i understand war and feel that it is sometimes necessary to use force to fight evil that rejects the use of reason, i still hate war, and...( read more)
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July 20, 2008It's hard to find a war film that isn't filled with propaganda and anti - German comments. But I may have found the love of my life, in terms of WW1 films, that is.
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (which I bought after searching six months, only to find my gran had be...( read more) -
April 22, 2008"We live in the trenches out there. We fight. We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are. That's all."
Brilliant, relentless and heart-wrenching anti-war drama is still as powerful now as it was when released almost 80 year ago.
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June 26, 2007A cinematic milestone that evokes the horrors of the war, an ill-fated moment that stays for a lifetime.
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November 4, 2009This movie is without a doubt the greatest war movie ever made in history. It shows the horrors and reality of war. Especially since not a whole lot of WWI is talked about this movie shows how life was for a German soldier. You feel his pain, his life, and especially his death. T...( read more)
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October 20, 2009Based on one of my favourite novels, the homonym work by Remarque, this movie was bound to disappoint me in some way.
It's a good movie, a good adaptation , but while the book had a timless feeling about it, this feels a little obsolete.
The story is not complicated, a bunch of ...( read more) -
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October 13, 2009As an anti-war statement, this film still has a lot of impact. Few movie buffs will argue against the power of the final scene. I think the picture would have been even more effective if a prominent lead character was followed through the story, but its study of a large group of ...( read more)
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