FIRST TIME WATCHING: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) REACTION (Movie Commentary)

[@elzjpeg]

Thank god you watched the movie in its original language with subtitles, you made the right choice. Good reaction!

[@hezer3436]

Fr It makes the film much more authentic

[@Thorium_Th]

@@hezer3436 Although the subtitles are wrong sometimes.

[@3k2168]

@@hezer3436not really if u want it to be authentic you watch the original remake of the first movie this like the 2nd remake

[@sandragruber4596]

I've seen the movie in a lokal cinema... It had a limited run to qualify for the oscars. When the credits rolled, no one in the audiance said a word. We left the cinema in silence. It was one of the most impressive moive experiences of my life...

[@jonathanrichwine1996]

Did you notice at the end when that new soldier is collecting dog tags, he gets distracted by the scarf Paul had and completely forgot to grab his dog tag? So Paul would never be identified, his family would never have closure, and he’d be one of countless soldiers left unidentified in WWI.

[@Mrminion25]

I thought it was franz😂

[@fenrisulfur842]

just like so many...

[@chriswerth918]

One thing I really appreciate about this movie is the age of the actors. The four friends, at the start, are just seventeen y o kids. There are so many war movies, which show soldiers who are played by 30 and 40 y o actors. Sure, there are older soldiers, as well. But the reality - especially of those wars - was different. Most soldiers were young men in their late teens or early twenties. And they displayed this very well, in this film.

[@Lezduit1]

No they are all 24 - 28 years old

[@Keyndoriel]

@@Lezduit1 Netflix says they're 17 in the description. Youre wroooooooooooooong

[@Lezduit1]

@@Keyndoriel Well that's their supposed age in the movie then lol, not the age of the actors.

[@Keyndoriel]

@@Lezduit1 ... Obviously.

[@feelingsfeelings.2848]

​@@Keyndoriel You're*🤓☝️ (I'm not sorry)

[@reservoirdude92]

When Paul is killing the soldier in the ditch.. I've rarely come across a more harrowing and heartbreaking sequence in a modern film. This film is brutally beautiful and utterly devastating. And that score...

[@honorandspite]

The novel was banned in Germany during the 1930s. The Nazi party considered it "anti-German" and was included in the books to be burned. Great review. Thanks for posting it.

[@winterknight4421]

This is based off of a book by the same name, the author was a German imperial soldier in WW1, while Paul's story is fictional, the lifestyle he lives is 1 for 1 what the author and his friends experienced and felt. This book was actually banned by the Nazis for being "anti war propaganda" and had all copies they could find burned, they also called for the author to turn himself in for his "crime" however he had already fled the country so the Nazis behdead his sister and sent him the execution bill. Sad all the way around. I love this book.

[@gonzalodavidvazquezgonzale5796]

Theres a little known sequel called the road back, characters are different but is implied they belong to the same regiment or company as the frist book, it even features tjaden, the lone survivor of the first book first batch. It is even more fatalist and pessimistic than the first one as soldiers struggle to reincorporate the civilian life and their views against society that according to them "put them through hell and they dont even seem to regret it"

[@JamesASharp]

This film actually impressed me. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿

[@angelagraves865]

It's historically been easy to get young men riled up and excited to go to war because they don't know they're not invincible yet.

[@LalaDepala_00]

Still holds true to this day

[@angelagraves865]

@@LalaDepala_00 It does. I think in general people are less inclined to want to fight than we were in past eras. There are now a lot more constructive ways to avail oneself of that quality of invincibility.

[@gello8518]

It’s an evolutionary trait. Young men need that invincibility complex to defend the country/village.

[@beatnik6806]

Also, you don't always even need that when it comes to it. You either go, get forcefully drafted or go to prison. And when it's for defending your home boys and men ofc go to war without needing to get them riled up.

[@meicox3924]

Hope you're doing well bro. A little sign of life would be reassuring. Take care.

[@Proletenpoet]

Thanks for your empathetic reaction. I hadn´t seen parts of this film before but I knew about it. I wonder how anybody could still not realize, not deeply feel the message of this film, especially here in Germany, or actually in any other country that had been involved in any kind of war, so that means about almost every country. In diesem Sinne: Nie wieder Krieg, die Waffen nieder!

[@VladimirGerasimenko80]

“Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting” ― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

[@fenrisulfur842]

The Novel was written by WWI Survivor Erich Maria Remarque and was first published in 1929 under the original title "Im Westen nichts neues". It still is a mandatory Lecture in West Point and for participants of the US Army NCO School (at least it was in 2004, when I had a conversation with a just promoted Sgt.)

[@isabelsilva62023]

Another brilliant WWI movie is Stanley Kubrick's 1957 "Paths of Glory", ( a true story) if you don't mind films being black and white it really is worth watching. I want to say thank you for choosing the german original, I read the book when I was 17 (that was in the previous century🙂)and have seen both the other 2 movies of it, was great to see the way you followed the story and your comments.

[@ryanb3486]

Where have you been?

[@mandalorian23]

Such an amazing film. You really do go through all kinds of emotions while watching this masterpiece.

[@JH-lo9ut]

Erich Maria Remarque wrote "all quiet" about his own experiences of the war. If you want to understand what the invalids went through, read "johnny got his gun" by Dalton Trumbo. Look up the paintings by Otto Dix. For more contemporary fiction dealing with veterans of this war, watch the first couple of seasons of "Boardwalk empire"

[@Entspannungskatze]

Thank you for this reaction! This movie is so well done and so heartbreaking.

[@_lynx_8632]

Would sugest "Das Boot" if you want to give another German perspective a try Awesome Movie On par with All Quiet

[@photomod3]

Yo, CI, been a while since you've uploaded. Hope you're doing good and staying healthy! Excited for the return whenever you're ready. Peace.

[@Suremane]

He was an Ai bot

[@Arturas1244]

17 mil dead and all those war years front never moved, like soldiers where killing in same place for years, its like a football field, you win the trench and another side takes beck , they take your trench you take beck and all this time in same shitty place

[@puniopenetrante]

Beyond the carnage represented in this movie, that i believe it must have been millions time worse, the moment of this movie that hits me the most is at 10:46, the contrast between the innocence of them being just 17 years old or less kids and the hard soldier life they had to live because of other, makes me cry everytime.

[@2104dogface]

You should also look into watching the original 1930's version in B&W they did a remake in 1970's made for TV but very well done. For other WW1 movies "Gallipoli" (1981) w/ Mel Gibson / "The Lighthorsemen" (1987) the final charge at the end of the movie is a masterpiece of filmmaking / "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) / "1917" (2023) & Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" w/ the 30 min making of doc.

[@evancodsworth2]

I love the friendship between the soldiers portrayed in this film.

[@antoinemozart243]

"as long as men will hide their animal nature behind words , there will be wars and destruction". Henry Laborit ( Eulogy of flight)

[@mhomho1979]

Where are you Caped Informer? MIA

[@donnyboy6848]

Miss you good sir and I hope your doing well our friend

[@Suremane]

He was an Ai bot

[@archangelgabriel5316]

All wars are hell...but wwi was ....something else. 1917 is a great wwi movie

[@Peter_Cetera]

It´s a masterpiece!

[@LEF3133]

The Water Diviner is an Australian movie worth watching, based on true events after the war. Beneath Hill 60, Before Dawn, Gallipoli are some other Aussie WW1 movies.

[@DeathCrow501]

Remember all the ww1 german veterans were send back to fight again in ww2 a worst war so i think paul had a good ending

[@AbsurdityViewer]

the final scene hides a special theme: 'the stab in the back' is symbolically evoked... i don't know if that was intentional but clearly the director changed the ending for some reason... the two soldiers equally matched standing in stalemate and suddenly out of the 'shadows' the stab in the back happens 'unfairly' defeating the German soldier... the 'scent' of this betrayal is passed on to the new soldier symbolically with the 'panties' he takes off the body.

[@tbrown3243]

Where did you go

[@Suremane]

He been an AI bot this whole time

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The farmer's position is understandable. The Germans both invade his country and rob his home, and his family has probably gone hungry many times because of the war. They basically took food out of that kid's mouth, and he does not look well-fed. Maybe he lost a member of his family too, either in the war or from deprivation.

[@peterdawson7198]

Hi Caped Informer, thanks for your reaction. Maybe try Das Boot. Oh by the way , 'Back to the Future' Part 3 please 🙂

[@Tateorsomething]

Welp. Another reactor just vanishes without a word. I wonder if there is a reactor serial killer afoot...

[@YoureMrLebowski]

😆

[@gptd7178]

Hope you're doing good man

[@tannogueti]

thanks to you man...watching this movie..we learn i hope

[@timurban4493]

Wo bist du warum kommt nichts neues von dir?😢

[@outerbanksfishingm2700]

It means war is war no day gets better when he says “it’s the same every day”

[@Oddfellow100]

Where the Sopranos reactions @ ?!

[@Kleen6288]

I know right, I worried that he might have giving up on it😢😔

[@DanielVeglison]

I can imagin that the Boy in the end of the Movie( the Boy who Took the dog tag from paul).i beleave that he is the writer of the Book

[@chrisdolan9579]

Check out the 1979 version, it's a lot longer and goes a lot deeper into the group of friends.

[@barblessable]

Good to see it in the original German , the dubbed version loses authenticity sub titles are best, I want to hear how those young troops spoke ,keeping to the realism, this is a very fine anti-war film ,heart breaking and horrifically beautiful , all the actors did a great job .Enjoyed your insightful comments ,thanks CI .

[@RicardoZuñiga-g3n]

Where are you man? Did you stop posting?

[@Suremane]

He was an AI bot

[@morcellemorcelle618]

I know this movie differs ALOT from the book, and has been criticized for it, but alone, unconnected to the source material, it's one of the best war movies in modern days. (I haven't read the book in 20 years, so I dont remember all the details, I just remember the context regarding Pauls death has been changed).

[@freddiefreihofer7716]

The book doesn't describe in detail Paul's death. It just says he fell on a day for which the official German war report was, "Im Westen nichts neues". In literal English, "In the West nothing new".

[@Misitheus]

I've studied the history of WW 1....first lesson....it was a meat grinder. Peace!

[@djcease1996]

Is this dude good??

[@ebbakerttu]

Where are you

[@Suremane]

He was an AI bot this whole time

[@ianstotts8853]

Producers: we need to make the most disgusting, horrific war movie ever made. It needs to be nothing but, mud, lead and pointless carnage. WWI: Don’t worry, I got you. I recommend Warhorse 1917 Paths of glory In regard to the statistics there at the end- nobody really knows how many died in that war. Estimates are all over the place. Here are some (extremely rough) Casualty figures Verdun: 700,000 - 1,000,000 Spring off: 1,500,000 Somme I: 1,000,000 - 1,300,000 Gorlice Tarnow Off: 1,100,000 Paschendale: 500,000-1,000,000 100 days Off, 1,800,000- 2,300,000 Brusilov Off: 1,200,000-2,000,000

[@rubenlopez3364]

The Red Baron and Flyboys are great WW1 movies about the first air combat

[@Meowl-21]

you should watch Das Boot (1981) its very realist represation how was life on german submarine in ww2

[@Stand4Righteousness]

Bro it's been a few months let us know u OK? We worried about u man

[@Suremane]

He dead

[@Stand4Righteousness]

@@Suremane nah I'm sure "he alive" he seems to be going through some difficulties at the moment

[@Suremane]

He a dead AI bot

[@Stand4Righteousness]

@@Suremane huh? U think I'm a bot?

[@andreasklabis7706]

😊👍🇩🇪 Meine Empfehlung an Filmen aus Deutschland: "Das Boot" (1981/Anti-Kriegsfilm),"Die Brücke" (1959/Anti-Kriegsfilm ), "Die Welle" (2008/Drama), "Der bewegte Mann" (1994/Komödie), "Wie die Karnickel" (2002/Komödie), "Der Wixxer" (2004/Teil1/Komödie).

[@clavididk1236]

Another good one is a ww2 movie called come and see and it takes place as a russian kid turned soldier. He is similar to the protagonist here but is russian instead.

[@tomfowler381]

“Come and See”. It stays with you long after you watch it.

[@clavididk1236]

@@tomfowler381 yea I'd say it's even more fucked up Than this movie and the older all quiet on the western front. When the German solders put a pistol to his head like holy shit id shit my pants.

[@clavididk1236]

It's also free on KZbin atm 😉 😉 that's usually how the reviewers of movies watch it.

[@clavididk1236]

@@tomfowler381 he already watched it. It's a brutal one.

[@zay__954]

you good bro?

[@Suremane]

He dead

[@zay__954]

@@Suremane nawwww

[@jh5131]

Hope he's doing alright

[@Suremane]

He a dead AI bot

[@bigmikem1578]

It’s not exactly new it’s based on the very famous and influential book “all quiet on the western front” Most war books and films were influenced by it. It was one of the first super popular books that showed people war from a soldier’s perspective. The hellish of war on a human being. And there was an old previous film based on it also.

[@thomasmanning2939]

Some important context for WWI is most Europeans hadn't gone to war since the Napoleonic days prior. The "wars" they had were with Africans or Asian countries, who couldn't do much against them. As such military service became something you did to seek adventure and glory. It was a fun game and no one actually died. European powers believed fighting each other would be as easy as those other wars. The reality didn't set in until it was already too late

[@chriswerth918]

The best and most important war movie I have ever seen is Charlie Chaplin's the Great Dictator, from 1940. It's actually not directly a war film. But it is definitely a must watch movie for... for everybody.

[@juancarlosgarciamartinez8786]

Caped Informed is dead or alive?

[@aka99]

Give it a try and watch some episodes of Babylon Berlin.

[@Shisul-s6e]

Is bro alive

[@blackstone3668]

Heyy you definitely gotta check out philadelphia . It’s another amazing film starring Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks. Its great film depicting a dark time in history that shows the hysteria surrounding AIDS/HIV crises

[@geirholte1222]

The book is superb.

[@ThePauseMenuVlog]

Caped Informer, Would you consider this to be one of the most gruesome movies youve ever watched on this channel and life? Im curious what youd say is higher on the list.

[@CapedInformer]

Probably the movie, Come and See

[@ThePauseMenuVlog]

@@CapedInformer yes, that was a hard watch.

[@Reedc16]

Als ich diesen Film sah, wurde ich weggeblasen was Paul im Krieg durchgemacht hat

[@Hongobogologomo]

A muddy slaughterhouse under an open sky.

[@ReaderOfThreads]

Bro, you got to check out Battle of Britain (1969) Its about the German air attack on Britain, and they use REAL ww2 planes unlike every other movie. They have real WW2 air force veterans and real ww2 air planes. Its a masterpiece, and there will never ever be another movie like this ever made again.

[@freddiefreihofer7716]

Actually a lot of those airplanes are model airplanes.

[@ripvanwinkle428]

German Cinema is top tier

[@managementconsulting5505]

Caped informer, never forget these German guys are on an invaded country, never ever forget that

[@LalaDepala_00]

The special thing about WW1 is that it was old and new warfare meeting. Horses were still being used while tanks were rolling in.

[@tripletrouble7345]

Millions of horses were used in the Second World War. Btw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_II?wprov=sfla1

[@CyberFas]

You ever watched the original movie 🤔🤔🤔

[@SadieKay1]

I'd love you to react to Michael Collins or The Wind that Shakes the Barley

[@jacobjohns6047]

These kids were so easily manipulated into going because to them their fathers gen all fought in the german revolutions through the 1800s where as many soldier would die in an whole war that would die in a single battle in ww1 they started ww1 with horses swords bright red uniforms ready to march in columns they ended the war with creeping barrage artillary tanks planes and troop carrier trucks officers werent even expecting the casualties of battle and would often take their own lives

[@robertchargualaf6818]

You should do a video of "The legend of drunken Master" 1994 version

[@ondrejskk]

Great reaction now you can move on Das Boot another jewel of german war cinematography.

[@indiefan92]

I'd appreciate it if you watch anything directed by OR just starring Edward Burns My top 3 suggestions: CONFIDENCE SHE'S THE ONE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

You should do a reaction on the Front Line (Korean War Movie) if you thought this was good you have to check it out.

[@Lordsandwich.]

You need to watch heneral luna and heneral luna is a real general on the Philippine american war its a true story please watch it

[@JohnBelcher-v7z]

Now listen to War Pigs

[@schmidtchristian1401]

👋👋👋 from Germany. . Please dont leave Ukraine alone 😞😞😞😞.

[@speelangs7161]

Another German masterpiece.

[@TheMasterbennett]

You should look at the film 1917 great film

[@RantaHun]

"Иди и смотри " (1985 ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5zOe42tmr6Ugqs

[@Eduardo-yj5cd]

The Expendables 2... please. Thank's!!

[@terrenceellis9301]

Can you please please do a reaction on What’s love got to do with it? Please if haven’t seen that movie and I probably know you had watched it do a reaction on it

[@Ronfost89]

So is this a dead channel now?

[@aarongaspard5123]

Blindspotting please

[@SSgtRobertMorris]

There was this certain German corporal.......

[@rubenlopez3364]

Went and conquered France in one month

[@SSgtRobertMorris]

@@rubenlopez3364 yep

[@donaldshotts4429]

Of course he survived multiple years of that s storm. Unbelievable

[@icewinddale2675]

This is about the 100 Days Offensive, where Britain and France finally broke Imperial Germany's back in the last month's of WW1 in 1918. It sucks most movies focus on WW2 and Hitler, when it's WW1 that is a much more of a poignant tragedy and really set the modern world in its course.

[@NicholasIrvin]

Hey would you be interested in reacting to this movie maximum overdrive I will tell you now though songs that are in the soundtrack that this movie are incredible and you'll definitely like the movie and everything about it

[@SWOLEX_1]

Did sopranos... Fail?

[@Suremane]

Sopranos has always been failed. Mid ass soap opera at best

[@SWOLEX_1]

@@Suremane media.tenor.com/iBy1lw4OZ_wAAAAM/big-lebowski-the-dude.gif

[@frontgamet.v1892]

Fun fact: The Germans never had slavery or slave markets. What the British and French achieved in 100 years with enormous slavery, Germans did in 40 years with hard work. Yes the Germans had colonies but unlike the British and French the Germans invested in these colonies because they were a base to protect our trade. Which was absolutely unthinkable at the time as everyone else in Africa was just letting hell loose. You can also look at the comparison between the British Empire and the German Empire in terms of economy. We were almost on par with the British even though we didn't even had nearly as many colonies. In addition, the British colonies contributed much more to their economy than Great Britain itself. For us it was exactly the opposite... Germany contributed 70% of the economy. The German Empire was truly an absolute high. From 1871 to 1923, the Germans were also responsible for *90* percent of ALL scientific and medical advances in the world with incredible inventions like the car, motorcycle, camera, etc. Before the British started World War I because they were jealous of us, it was actually the best 40 years ever here in Germany. Of course, based on today's technology, less so, but for the time... Absolutely unbelievable. At this time the first health insurance company was even introduced here in Germany by Otto von Bismarck. They still don't exist in the US today. Furthermore, German workers under Wilhelm II were the best paid workers in Europe. Some German inventions: - Light bulbs (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - Dynamoelectric principle, tram, busbar, founder of modern electronics (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during National Socialism - 1938) - The chip card or microprocessor card (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The record player, record - (Emil Berliner 1887) - Aspirin - which all great athletes use to relieve pain and which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Tea bags (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines, jet propulsion, first war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First Rocket General (Hans von Ohain) - The Helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With Honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - Fanta (Yes Fanta during Nazi era, Wolfgang Schetelig 1940) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US bought thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) - The first printing press (which was probably the best invention of all time because now people could start printing books, Johannes Gutenberg - 1440) - Motorcycle (Gottlieb Daimler 1885) - Birth control pill (Schering AG 1961) - the trigger of the gold rush (Johann August Sutter was Swiss, but actually German since he was born in Germany, but Swiss and German are one blood anyway, who started the gold rush in America. Not an inventor, but cool fact - 1848) - Diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel 1897) - Adidas (Adolf Dassler 1949) - Puma (Rudolf Dassler 1948) Germany, the land of poets and thinkers. that's what they called it. Today the land of complete idiots and deluded people.

[@lifeof_the_p-party]

Caped watch robot dreams

[@marco.2053]

Please react to “the Irishman” by scorsese❤

[@chucknorris2266]

This is a crazy movie. Sad 😢

[@NicholasArreola-w9n]

Everybody in here, I know you have pain Jesus can take that pain away, repent and turn to him

[@Tommybrewstew]

100

[@AlexC-ou4ju]

can't beleive you belittled the kid living under occupation and being regularly stolen from.

[@fasttruckman]

The Germans were blamed for starting WW1, but in truth, the russians started WW1. The russians intervened in an Austria-Hungary internal affair and declared war on Austria-Hungary, Germany then got involved. This was a regional war between russia Austria-Hungary and Germany but then the Uk and France declared war on Germany and a world war was started. The UK and France are responsible for starting WW1 and WW2

[@emaze8965]

Good thing they did...

[@fasttruckman]

@ernestasmazeika6245 millions of men, women and children died because the UK and France started two world wars, and your ok with it.