All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front

Lew Ayres

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  read more... )erland. Paul and his friends are trained under Himmelstoss, a kindly postmaster turned brutal corporal, and then sent to the front lines to taste battle, blood and death.

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  • DerekA101
    January 19, 2009
    DerekA101
    "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)s film is still relevant today. Very few films capture the heart-wrenching reality of the effects of war on soldiers as this dated gem. This film perfectly illustrates the innocence that is lost in a pointless war.

    Not enough can be said about the cinematography of this film. It was absolutely brilliant for it's time. There were moments that I felt like I was watching a modern film. The war scenes were amazingly shot for 1930. Gripping and real...

    The acting was a bit exaggerated and the editing was very choppy. It was also a bit longer than it needed to be.

    This film was on the original AFI top 100 list, and deservingly so. It will often be overlooked because of it's age, but this is truly one of the greatest classic war films with a tragically beautiful conclusion.
  • sanjurosamurai
    November 25, 2008
    sanjurosamurai
    absolutely 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) this is the most moving anti-war film ever made. nearly 80 years since its release it holds up incredibly well. the acting is a little weak at points, but the war scenes are haunting and the psychological effect of war on those that participate in it is presented powerfully. one of the great films of all time.
  • BiologyBabe2012
    July 20, 2008
    BiologyBabe2012
    It'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)en in possession of the German copy for thirty years. C'est la vie), it follows a group of young German soldiers as they face the terrors of war and personal loss.

    Naturally, it's black and white, but somehow, it becomes even more gripping through it's lack of colour. There's no need to distract the audience - this is pure, raw emotion and consequences of human action. It's historically accurate without seeming like a history lesson.

    The ending scene may well be the most beautiful shot in cinematic history. Wait for it.
  • pier007
    June 26, 2007
    pier007
    A cinematic milestone that evokes the horrors of the war, an ill-fated moment that stays for a lifetime.
  • Collegekid
    December 31, 2006
    Collegekid
    Pretty good movie
  • jjnxn
    November 29, 2009
    jjnxn
    Still strong indictment on the futility of war. Easy to see how this won Best Picture, fine directtion an involving story and at the core a wonderful performance by Lew Ayres. Very sad but worthwhile.
  • Yelverton
    November 8, 2009
    Yelverton
    Big anti-war film, but artfully done.
  • jpdd751
    November 4, 2009
    jpdd751
    This 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)his movie is a necessity to watch for every war/ action movie lover. The action scenes are beast even though it was made in 1930.
  • gultenreiz
    October 20, 2009
    gultenreiz
    Based 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) inexperienced but enthusiastic boys go to war only to find out that life in the trenches in anything but what they had in mind.
    The movie doesn't recapture the complexity of the book, yes, that woud be tricky even today. Also even if Lew Ayres is likeable as Paul Baumer, I don't think he was up to the task of portraying the character.
    The war scenes are good, and as entire piece of cinema the movie still holds strong, just didn't succed in convincing me. The movie suffers more then one occasion because of poor sound and image.
    The last scene, with the butterfly is very beautiful, moving, emblematic.
    "(...) you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put 'em in the center dressed in their underpants, and let 'em fight it out with clubs. The best country wins (....)"
  • ghettoqueen747
    October 19, 2009
    ghettoqueen747
    read the book in High School would not mind seeing the movie
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