VLOG - All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)

Finally wrapping up 2022 with the latest film adaptation of Remarque's classic novel. Does it live up to its predecessors?
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[@jacobbelow4136]

It’s like ‘Schindler’s List’ or ‘Grave of the Fireflies’. Not a fun watch, but a very important one to help us get a good understanding of the brutality of the by-gone times.

[@MedicineMundy]

All of them are really good! The story is moving and most importantly, a great way to learn your history! I'd recommend it 10/10

[@BrandonCroker]

That title alone…. Perfection!

[@kobemarion1137]

You barely scratched the surface of 2022 films you need to make up for.

[@brose2323]

I like the 1979 version with that guy from The Waltons.

[@Randomvideos3200]

I know you said this is the last of 2022, but you should really do a Vlog on Puss In Boots: The Last Wish It is seriously fantastic, I think it's my favorite movie I saw in 2022 and is the best animated movie since Spiderverse imo (although I have yet to see Del Toro's Pinocchio)

[@animeotaku307]

Pinocchio was really good, too. Animation was beautiful and, alongside the theme of imperfect families and cautioning against blind obedience, it also went into the subject of death a mortality. Mainly in the “death is what makes us all human and the briefness of life makes it all the more beautiful.” While I think it will win the Oscar over Puss in Boots (and it would deserve it), I did enjoy Puss more, though. Pinocchio gets pretty dark and would be difficult for a rewatch.

[@MetFanMac]

Fighting pointlessly right up until the armistice took effect is straight out of real life. In fact, the man presumed to be the last death of WWI, American Henry Gunther, didn't even have to be ordered to his death -- he charged the Germans at 10:59 of his own accord to try and earn some glory to reverse his recent demotion. Which he accomplished... posthumously. All told, the last day of the war saw about 11,000 soldiers killed or wounded, primarily due to the refusal of France's Marshal Foch to declare a ceasefire or truce while the armistice negotiations were ongoing.

[@markwilliams2620]

Sad and horrific. The cinematography was excellent. The pacing was great. The battle scenes ...well...as good as SPR....on a shoestring budget. The details didn't miss a beat. I can't recommend it enough, not that it matters. Edit: Do not watch with children younger than 12. I make that age break because the 12+ that the military is going to recruit need to see it. Kids younger will have nightmares.

[@eidgenossenarkebuse]

For me the 1930 Movie is still the Best Version.

[@grapeshot]

I remember we had to read this book when I was in 11th grade English.

[@gageperuti5519]

I just watched this last night. I'm not a big fan of war films, but I really liked this one.

[@TylerSkylionChilders]

I read it when I was 12, in 1983.....

[@171QA]

Good video.

[@henrygvidonas9573]

Matthias Erzberger, the man who was tasked with signing the armistice for Germany in November 1918 to end the unwinnable static trench war, was murdered by rightwing terrorists of an organisation (O.C. or "Organisation Consul"), that was one of the building blocks for the Nazi SA and SS later on, in 1921. Not even three years after he put ink to paper. They considered him a "traitor". In 1922, they also murdered the German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and attempted to murder Phillipp Scheidemann, the first President of the Weimar Republic, the man who proclaimed the first republic and true democracy on German soil and the removal of the German Emperor from power in November 1918. Like Erzberger, he was villified as a "November criminal" in the stab-in-the-back myth - German rightwingers, antisemites and ultranationalists' blatant lie that Germany could have won World War I if "cowards and traitors" hadn't "ended the war prematurely" and "when victory was just around the corner". It was the Big Lie of that era, promoted as relentlessly by rightwing propaganda outlets through all available channels, as Trump's "election fraud" claims today. The O.C. domestic terrorists were the equivalent of the Michael Flynns in America today. The January 6 terrorists wanted to hang the Vice President of the United States , murder the Speaker of the House, and do unspeakable things to certain Members of Congress they despise. Current American fascism, white nationalism, and ultranationalism isn't in any way new or original. All of it has happend before in other countries. And just because American (MAGA) fascists seem to be significantly dumber than their German, Italian, or Spanish equivalents of the 1920s and early 1930s, doesn't make them any less dangerous. Lots of Germans underestimated Hitler as a ridiculous loudmouthed carnival barker and political clown, until the established older right and far-right decided to "make him their useful idiot". You all learned in school what happened after that, I hope! Just like I hope you learned that a lot of the Nazis' ethnonationalist political agenda and subsequent legislation was based on American Jim Crow laws.

[@gooner7331]

Damn dude. That is far too much of a thought provoking statement for it to be a comment on KZbin. It deserves to be read in by so many more people than will see it

[@cremetangerine82]

I’m usually averse to remakes of classic movies (why not remake movies that could be improved?) This this is beginning so much praise that I will definitely be watching this movie. I read this book on my own volition when I was a teenager, and it was so powerful, it really hard in my stance against war unless not then unless not in defense first. I haven’t watch the 1930s Oscar-winning movie, but I will after I watch this one. I definitely think it’s going to be a lock for Best International Feature Film, since it’s already nominated at the Oscars for Best Picture. However, I don’t think it’ll win Best picture. I can see the Academy Awards not wanting to give another film that’s not in English Best Picture (congrats to “Parasite” and sorry to “Roma”). But it’s definitely not going to win Best Picture (I’m rooting for “Everything Everywhere All At Once). I say that it should be watched by everyone, because I’ve learned some about American history ironically through international students! Germany has a very strenuous and stressful history classes that definitely tell kids in unflinching detail how awful World War II was and never repeat it again. If any smart-ass Americans think they can teach Germans about their history, how much of our history is being erased in classes right now?

[@cristinawilligs]

the one made in the 30s is great, even for modern standarts

[@Happymali10]

I know I'm biased as hell, being German, but I feel like "we" have handled our past relatively alright in recent years.

[@westernstudios2484]

Sabaton has a new Album war to end wars

[@mgrzx3367]

I've see both of previous movies. My idk if he is great uncle Charles "Buddy" Rogers was in the 1930 film. I do know my Grandmother was sent to the USA because her parents figured out what the Kaiser was doing. Her parents got out before WW1 also. I will watch this cause your review is so good. It says it's not enjoyable, and not meant to be. The book was good too. Arigatou gozaimasu sensei. Red Dwarf guy.

[@erikbihari3625]

Gotta go fast, adds are pest, never leave me any rest!

[@korance2808]

What about Elvis? Or Triangle of Sadness? Or Aftersun? Or The Banshees of Inisherin? Or The Fabelmans? Or White Noise? Or Tár? Or Puss in Boots: The Last Wish? Or Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio? You're missin' out on a lot of great titles, man.

[@kobemarion1137]

Don't forget: X Pearl Barbarian

[@thecinematicmind]

All The Beauty and The Bloodshed and Fire of Love

[@tylerfish2701]

My Father's Dragon, Rosaline and Wendell and Wild.

[@absinthefandubs9130]

Really I can't make any honest judgment on this movie. Since it only vaguely references a few scenes from the book and its characters share their names with a small portion of the book characters I think it should be treated as a standalone work, and as that I think it works, but in relation to All Quiet..., I just can't say I'll accept it. There were some weird narrative decisions too, like why condense everything into the last four days of the war and pretend this was the first time they saw tanks (in November 1918 mind you) but then within five minutes they know how to disable them? Let's pretend it wasn't their first time, but then the cinematography becomes weird, like, why hype them up so much? They may not be routine at that point but they're used to them, no need to keep focusing on this ominous treadthreat. Aside from that, probably a good movie if they'd just given it another name and tagged it as "based upon". I disagree about the training and homefront scenes. Those were absolutely core points in the book and their omission takes away what All Quiet was actually about. The moral of the story wasn't WAR BAD because duh, everybody knows that WAR BAD and it wasn't the first publication that made this point, not even the first German interwar publication. It was about the futility of patriotism, the lie that your fatherland is somehow bigger than you as if it were an actual person with hopes and feelings that aren't just an amorphous pool of those of the people living in it. This movie seemed to intentionally avoid that point and with the current political climate I can't help but feel there's more to that than just the screenwriter's personal preference.

[@MurtonFeygor]

THIS!! THANK you...I was beginning to feel like I´m the only one who felt that way...

[@MyKharli]

The native language version is far better as they nearly universally are.

[@cristinawilligs]

even the adaptation of the 30s is better than the German, I'm not saying the German is bad but is not better than its predecessors, the thing I like about the German is of course it is in German, and it shows the corpses and pieces of human here and there because it is the fkn WWI, not just for free

[@the_regular_dinosaurus_rex]

imho the 30s adaptation is the best one. because it rarely leavea the trenches you really feel claustrophobic after a while

[@cristinawilligs]

@@the_regular_dinosaurus_rex despite the acting and the opening titles, which prevented me from watching it for years, is great, i can't believe it was done right before the silent era, the director has to be adored in a shrine

[@pbh9195]

There's only 2 problems I have with the movie. It changed the starting timeline when the boys enlisted to late 1917 instead of 1914. I don't think considering these schoolboys would be marching with patrioticness when the war is starting to effect home, just ask today's Russian "mobilization troops" The second I didn't like was this constant bass that the soundtrack keeps throwing when ever something forboading happens. It kinda takes you out of the film. Imagine a sudden rock bass in saving private Ryan

[@unholyperiodza5442]

Have you seen M3GAN yet?

[@migmit]

Yeah, in today's world authorities tell you "Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War" is bad and you should not read it. And guess what...

[@animeotaku307]

Well, it’s more people who have read it and telling you either “don’t read it it’s awful” or “you gotta read this insane book and see how far down the rabbit hole it goes.”

[@brianculham1180]

Not diverse enough!!👧🏿