All quiet on the western front


I mean the timing… last 15 minutes sort of thing. Judging by the film then there should have been hundreds of German and French soldiers killed in the last 5 to 10 minutes, but a quick google indicates that wasn’t the case. But yes I agree it’s good for showing the futility of it all so for me it didn’t ruin it.
I read a story once about an American company commander who sent a small volunteer force to try and capture a town about an hour before the armistice. He wanted to catch the town because it had a luxury baths in it and the soldiers were eager because they’d seen no action and wanted to return home as heroes. They got slaughtered.

The film - thought it was really good but I couldn’t turn my attention away from the fact it was in German but dubbed English. The only ridiculous part was right at the end when a commander shouts “it’s 11am” in the middle of the hand to hand combat and both sides seem to hear him and go “no bother marra that’s that” and just stop what they’re doing there and then. Seemed a bit daft.
 
Enjoyed the movie. French made ,English dubbed. Reminded me of the Timewatch episode. Michael Palin. The Last Day of WW1. Hundreds of lives were wasted even after the deadline. Major General William M Wright lost 300 men from US 89TH DIVISION, because he wanted his troops to have a bath.Town called Stenay.
 
Great film, never seen any other version but thought this was very good. Sackless bastards the Germans like.
 
I read a story once about an American company commander who sent a small volunteer force to try and capture a town about an hour before the armistice. He wanted to catch the town because it had a luxury baths in it and the soldiers were eager because they’d seen no action and wanted to return home as heroes. They got slaughtered.

The film - thought it was really good but I couldn’t turn my attention away from the fact it was in German but dubbed English. The only ridiculous part was right at the end when a commander shouts “it’s 11am” in the middle of the hand to hand combat and both sides seem to hear him and go “no bother marra that’s that” and just stop what they’re doing there and then. Seemed a bit daft.
You can watch it in German/French with English subtitles, always better than dodgy dubbing.
 
The scenes in the trenches are so grim. It's the most harrowing WWI film I've seen. How the hell those young lads managed to function at all in those circumstances is beyond me.
Didn’t it get to the point nearer the end of the war where it was only 3 days at the front, then 6 days in the reserve line? I think by the end most troops were spending most of their time away from the front line. Not saying that’s any better it will have still been hell, but they dramatically cut down time in the front trench cos it was driving people mental.
 
Watched the other night after waiting ages for it to be released on Netflix. Very well made and obviously highlights the inhumanity of war.
I also liked the undertones of the birth of the nazis, mainly via the nutter general and his wrong belief that Germany were the victims of the armistice and wrongdoing had been committed on the German state by its politicians as well as the allied governments.
There is definitely a sense of foreboding doom to be faced by the main character during the movie.
The tank attack scene was particularly brutal and highlighted the brutality of soldiers during war.
Very good movie, well acted and excellent cinematography.
 
The scenes in the trenches are so grim. It's the most harrowing WWI film I've seen. How the hell those young lads managed to function at all in those circumstances is beyond me.
I often wonder how both sides never mutinied on a big scale. The French did in 1917 but they managed to contain it but surely years after slogging it out, they could see the utter futility of it. They`d have been better off getting out of their trenches, marching back home and overthrowing the rotten governments/monarchies that sent them into that tragic hellhole. I also wonder how many of those that came home were utterly mentally destroyed by their experience and how they managed back in a civilian world.
 
No we wouldn't.
Why not? It was Hitlers biggest misake of the entire war as he had no need to turn on Russia. Us and the Yanks had to resort to Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki WarCrime and Dresden another War Crime imo
Thankfully Putin is no Stallin.
 
Why not? It was Hitlers biggest misake of the entire war as he had no need to turn on Russia. Us and the Yanks had to resort to Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki WarCrime and Dresden another War Crime imo
Thankfully Putin is no Stallin.
Was the blitx a war crime?
 
The scenes in the trenches are so grim. It's the most harrowing WWI film I've seen. How the hell those young lads managed to function at all in those circumstances is beyond me.
I thought the impact of bombardment was actually underplayed . Biggest killer by a long shot shell fire i think .
Also while it must be terrifying to " go over the top " , imagine if you make it your going to fight another bloke to the death with a spade and your teeth
 
Dubbing always seems to be shit. It never quite matches the emotion of the speaker.
Can't stand dubbing

Some of the best films/series I've watched if not the best have been subtitled.

Be watching this on Sunday long film so afternoon watching before dinner
 

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