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All Quiet on the Western Front

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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Supernova Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:01 pm

A very powerful movie, even today 81 years later (hard to believe), I can only imagine the impact it had at the time of its premiere back in 1930. For its time and given how limited they were in their effeects, they could certainly make the horrors of war a reality, I'm still blown away by the amputee scenes, that's...I can't even describe it, speechless

Has anyone else seen it?

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Alan Smithee Sat Feb 12, 2011 4:49 pm

Yes. I liked the origianl better than the remake with Richard (John-Boy Walton) Thomas and Ernest (McHale) Borgnine. I got the same sense of stupid loss as I did at the beginning of Gone With the Wind with all the eager young men foolishly wanting to run off to war without a clue as to the horrors that were waiting for them.

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Shale Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:07 pm

alan smithee wrote:... I got the same sense of stupid loss as I did at the beginning of Gone With the Wind with all the eager young men foolishly wanting to run off to war without a clue as to the horrors that were waiting for them.

I think all wars are like that - it's a great sales pitch to get ppl fighting mad.

I remember my grandmother telling me that after Dec. 7, 1941 the good-ol-boys in Mississippi were going to go over and kick some Jap butt before breakfast. Four years of hell later ...

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by Supernova Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:46 pm

Shale wrote:I remember my grandmother telling me that after Dec. 7, 1941 the good-ol-boys in Mississippi were going to go over and kick some Jap butt before breakfast. Four years of hell later ...[/color][/size]

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Supernova Sun May 27, 2012 1:33 pm

A few months ago I was going through the channels one Sunday night (silent Sundays) and on Turner Classic Movies, I saw a SILENT version of this movie...same footage but they had music and they had Paul speaking in title cards as he was explaining to the next batch of wannabe soldiers that they try not to die, some days that's all they do. And it ain't been seen since on Turner Classic Movies, or the regular talkie version either for that matter.

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Tony Marino Mon May 28, 2012 9:41 am

Never saw it.

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by underurvoodoo Mon May 28, 2012 12:55 pm

have seen and loved it would love to read a book though

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Supernova Mon May 28, 2012 1:49 pm

underurvoodoo wrote:have seen and loved it would love to read a book though

I think most libraries should have it. Ours does, which surprises me. And this is one book that, around here anyway, a lot of books you won't find available at any random sale but this one does tend to pop up on the second hand shelves quite a bit.

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Cheaps Tue May 29, 2012 5:06 am

Think I seen this in school, it was probably the re-make Alan briefly mentioned. I really don't remember any part of the movie, but the name of the movie is what struck a chord.

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Re: All Quiet on the Western Front

by Supernova Tue May 29, 2012 10:51 am

Cheaps wrote:Think I seen this in school, it was probably the re-make Alan briefly mentioned. I really don't remember any part of the movie, but the name of the movie is what struck a chord.

I don't know about the remake, but the original is definitely one that once you see it, you won't forget it. For 1930 and having as limited movie effects as they did back then, they excelled at making it raw and gritty and disturbing because it was real, it was all stuff that was actually going on during the war. And they did it without gore and without being excessively bloody like they would today because sabes que 'it's got to look realistic', no, this movie proved less is FAR more.