All Quiet on the Western Front

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Summary: WHOA
Review: BEST WORLD WAR 2 FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN

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Summary: One of the True Greatest Movies, but for a 15 year old?
Review: When i First saw the 1978 version of this movie i ran right out and read the book. The book was so much better that the movie. After finishing the book i bought the 1930 version. I basically went head over heels at how acurate this movie was to the book. For everything that i couldn't understand in the book this movie brought it to life. If anybody wants a really good true to the last detail of the horrors and experiences that young men found during WWI this movie is it. This is a definate classic and will be cherished for years to come.

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Summary: If you love war avoid this one by all means.
Review: I first saw this film after it was re-released in 1939 as an anti-Nazi epic. I had tried to read the book but could not stand the gore and inhumanity young men were subjected to in that needless war which forever changed Western Civilization forever. The later peace treaty guaranteed another war would be fought when Hitler's gang exploited that flawed document. The Nazis disrupted the showing in Germany at every opportunity on the grounds that its message was defeatest. Ironicallly, the movie was later withdrawn in the U.S. during WW2 because of fear that it would create anti-war sentiments in this nation then being weaned on a diet of John Wayne heroics which never did convey the true nature of warfare. I later served in WW2 and still think this 1930 version still resonates with anyone knowing that war is much more than parades, flag waving and bellicose speeches from the folks on the home front.

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Summary: i want to give it 4 1/2
Review: when i bought this dvd i thoouht that it was 1979 color remake. they should put both movies on the dvd. i like the remake more not that it is in color and not black and wight but the story moves smother throught the remake. but i must say that the people should see both of them befor making a picking a favort. the sound was a little bad but seeing that is from 1930 and it is now 1999 i think that it was good. the movies point is true and to the point. and also is good at showing the true nature of people and also the ingnores. i think that it should be a book and move that is requred to read and see in schools. if the book dosen't talk to people the movie should

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Summary: Who would guess that 15 year-olds would like it?
Review: Third quarter of Sophomore world cultures is devoted to WWI. As a teacher, the high point of the entire school year is tying the book, events, and movie together. The movie is so tightly scripted that it becomes easy for my students to follow each chapter as we look at it through the eyes of the camara. Black and white and poor sound did not take away from the incredible story; my students were pinned to their seats. All were awestruck when the French advanced on the German trenches, and several cried when Paul died. I've seen this movie dozens of times, yet it still moves me.

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Summary: A True Classic
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is a true classic. This movie shows the change in a group of German teens as they enlist in the army and go through WWI. Lew Ayers turns in a great performance as Paul. Even though sound in movies just came into use three years before the movie was made it doesn't show it. This movie is superior to it's 1979 remake and is still a great film tody.

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Summary: Is it really quiet
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is a really great movie. I saw it in school in my Western Civ. class. I have seen both the color and the black and white versions. I liked the color version better, but both were really good. In the original film, I liked the part about the boots and how everyone who wore them was "cursed" on the battlefield. Every soldier who wore the boots died on the Western Front.

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Summary: A good WW1 movie through the enemy's eyes!
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front, is the story of a young German boy, Paul, who is eager to go towar, but he slowly comes to the realization that war is not as heroic as it has been portrayed. Paul ends up surviving the war until a few days before the armistace, when he shot by a sniper. Since the orginal film was made in 1930, the sound is poor in parts. Depite the poor sound, it is an interesting WW1 film from the "enemy's" point of view.

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Summary: Unbelievable...
Review: This is truly amazing.. in our generation of lazy people that we have to see a movie about this classic book. You can never recreate the emotion and all out carnage of this book, not if you had the best director and actors on earth. You CANT fell what it is like to spend weeks in a rotting trench, having to fight off the rats even more so then the enemy. You CANT recreate what it is like to see men die choking deaths while coughing up their lungs, and seeing raw flesh from real men splattered on the ground. The book is the real thing. That's how you get the experience.. you have to know their thoughts and fears, and you have to imagine them, not see them.

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Summary: A great film
Review: This was a very gripping movie about the events in a young German soldier's life. It starts out with the student being very eager to join the war movement with his friends. His attitude changed throughout the movie, though, when the true horrors of war started occuring. I enjoyed this movie very much because it was very realistic. I recommend this movie for all the big military movie buffs.