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" It's rare for a story to be remade multiple times and still be great for each iteration, but such is the case with this new Netflix war movie produced over in Germany. The third incarnation of All Quiet on the Western Front, this is a gripping, extremely compelling World War I feature which viscerally illustrates the horrors of war without pulling any punches. The battle scenes throughout the movie are spectacular, illustrating the type of traumatic things that the soldiers went through on the "
"Again, I haven't read the book, but I have seen the classic 1930 film adaptation. This remake is a whole different beast. While Pinocchio brings up the tragedy of war, this movie dives headlong into the brutality of it! The fantastically hard-hitting battle scenes quickly shatter the characters' idealistic view of war. Not only is it intensely bloody, but Paul seems to be perpetually caked with mud. It sags in the middle because the first time jump really threw me off, but the rest readily makes"
"22.11. Lol. This film is so full of historical inaccuracies it's almost too embarrassing to watch. They could've made a dark and surreal film about the horrors of war similar to Come and See from the 80's, but instead went into full cartoon territory with all the over the top horror crap."
"SCREENING: Q&A (James Friend, Volker Bertelmann, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl & Edward Berger) DATE: October 18th CINEMA: Curzon LOCATION: Bloomsbury"