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It's also fairly rare to see the French represented in a WWI movie made outside of France. Despite the French representing roughly 85% of the western front in WWI, the Allies are usually shown from the perspective of the British or even the Americans( it's even rarer to see the Russians, the italians and the Romanians- but theyre on different fronts). The crazy losses sufferred here explains why the French would be so unwilling to fight 22 years later. So few Young Frenchmen of 1910's lived on to become fathers that French mentalities evolved to be defensive, Build walls, fortifications, Tanks with loads of armour and small crews, don't do any ambitious attacks, anything to spare lives.

Great reaction! Your dad got the moral of the story, immediately. WWI was so horrific and pointless. Imagine all the good young people killed for absolutely no reason. So sad.

When he tried to help the French soldier in the hole after he stabbed him like 5 times was the hardest part of the movie we are all brothers and sisters and I think he figured that out

“People say war is hell it is not war is war. In hell people deserve to be there. In war even the innocent burn” heard that from. A guy I help in Ukraine he was killed actually 2 days ago

Love the stillness of the nature shots throughout and at the very beginning and at the the very end of the film. Love that you pointed out how the non war scenes are all very controlled camera shots whereas the war scenes were chaotic and shaky. What a beautiful, sobering and tragic film. It will sit with me for a long time, hopefully it will win some Oscar’s.

With the end battle, in reality it was usually the other way around. On November 11th 1918 the Germans remained on the defensive. It was the French, British and American generals who sent their men on attacks, hours or minutes before the end of the war. Many officers ignored those kind of orders, but many also didn't, resulting in 2,738 men dying in the morning hours of November 11th.

You’re both amazing, your dad is such a lovely man. And so are you. Like father like son. You’re both so open minded. Great reaction guys. !

this movie is truly one of the best war movies out there

This movie made me research WW1 and I learned about the social, economic, and political ramifications that led to WW2. Its fascinating but tragic.

I just found your channel and I must say that I’ve never seen such a honest and genuine movie review channel. Feels like sitting with you guys on the couch! 😅 greetings from Germany to Egypt 🇩🇪 🇪🇬

One of those "You're not the same once the credits are rolling" movies, eh?

I could listen to your father speak all day 🙏🏽

I belive the senslessness of any war really comes out in the main character. He survives so many situations where he should have died, he dodged so many bullets and dies within the last 10 seconds of war in a pointless attack and it all was for nothing

In the TV version, Paul (played by Richard Thomas) was in the trenches minutes before the end of the war. They were being shelled by artillery. All of a sudden the bombardment stopped. It became so quiet he could hear birds chirping. Out of curiosity, Paul poked his head above the trench and was shot in the head by a sniper. Then a wire telegram came from the front "eleventh hour, eleventh day, eleventh month... All quiet at the Western Front.".

Great reaction. If you wanna see another really good german war movie I can highly recommend "Das Boot" It´s the real story of a german submarine crew during WWII. Love your reactions, keep them comming. Love from germany

Great commentary! I think one of the most gruesome things is that everytime we are worried for Paul's life when fighting a french soldier the movie could just as well have been made from the perspective of the french soldier

You two have the heart in the right place. Our country, Europe have experienced so many wars. History shows that in the end so many valuable people lost their lives. Today we are in the 21st century and yet wars are being started by leaders, whether nations or religions, to gain even more power. Your feelings in this film show me that we are all brothers.

The scene where he tries to gelp the solfier reminds me on a quoe ive hear a while ago, it goes something like: ".. and in that moment he saw himself in his enemy understood his enemy thus loving him..."

It’s so hard to watch this movie but with your reacts iam on tears…thank you so much for this. It was hard but it’s a sad part being human in reality.

This reaction was very good. This is my first time watching this channel but I think I’ll stick around you guys are great👌

Bro the dad comments and talks about exactly what you want someone too, great reaction

As you are reacting to german anti war movies like this and Downfall, would you consider reacting to "Das Boot"? A true classic

My great grandfather was there. He never allowed anyone to call it a war, because a war is fought by civilized men with rules of engagement. My great grandfather called this a carnage of good fine men, a slaughter of men. He was at the 1st and 3rd Battles of Passchendaele, in addition to others including the Somme campaign. He called Passchendaele alone a sea of human blood. My great grandfather had some very colourful words about Haig and other Generals who sent thousands of men to their deaths as a result of their poor campaign strategies while they sat 25 miles behind the lines. God bless those men who fought, died, and survived this slaughter. As a boy I knew many of them. I met them every Sunday with my grandfather at the local British Legion bar.

World War 1 is an amazing time to portray because there were no good or bad sides...everyone was fighting for survival...and the arrogant nations leading their men and boys to their deaths were all complacent. As someone who's father's side is Italian...and who's mother's side is German and French...it pains me to see so much needless loss of life. And the failure of the German command to protect their soldiers was a breeding ground for hate that led to Hitler's rise. So many dominoes...so many tiny things leading to...this. It's disgusting.

The generals and politicians never face the enemy or muck around in the trenches. It’s easy to send others sons and fathers when you rule from an ivory tower.

Movies like this should be nominated for best motion picture or the highest award possible. I find it insane how it has never hit Theatres... would have been PACKED out. I cry for the losses of these men, woman, kids, families lost during this time period... and for what... a waste of life... we must be better..

Hey its out already ! I actualy played as extra in a few scenes ! it was awesome to work with these people !

Glad you watched it in German so many don't, mistake!

Erich Ludendorff actually played a part in the movement the Hitler was in and was involved in the Beer Hall putsch attempt. (I’m not sure he would be considered a Nazi precisely, but in the Volkisch movement which is similair) He was is also one of the propagators of the stabbed-in-the-back myth that the military hadn’t actually lost and that the politician s signed for peace in treachery. He himself had recognized the military situation would fail and encouraged the politicians to sue for peace previously….

the spit at 26:51, couldnt agree more 😂

What I Iove about the movie: there is no glory in war, though everyone tells you "you'll be a proud hero"

I've always loved the original version (based on the classic novel) from 1930, which is imo one of the greatest anti-war movies ever made (I'd even seen the tv-movie from the late 1970s, with my grandmother. It's not as great, but still impressive, can't really remember that much, besides its great cast, and Paul carrying Kat), but this version also blew me away. Greetings from The Netherlands. I've wonder if you and your dad ever saw ''Un Prophète'' (2009), one of the best prison & (especially) gangster movies ever made.

You guys really need to see the 1981 Das Boot. especially the directors cut that is an absolutely brilliant anti-war film

There is a german made WW2 movie called Stalingrad. It is one of (if not) the most acurate ww2 movies that i know. It think you can even watch it for free on KZfaq with subtitles.

You guys have good and righteous hearts, God bless you.🙏

Love your reactions.

It is a masterpiece. I really enjoyed watching your video with your Father, thank you for this!

I love your channel. It gives me a different perspective, but also confirms what I already knew - we are all the same 👍 from 5000 miles away

16:46 this entire scene between these 2 absolutely destroyed me and had me crying and shaking. its the no.1 reason why i cannot watch this great tough movie a second time..

i strongly recommend das boot from wolfgang petersen, directors cut! it was alredy a classic when it came out 1981. excellent reaction by the way. and do read the book by erich maria remarque. there are topics in the book the movie does not include unfortunatelly.

15:13 you have to imagine - the French Machinegunner was sitting right behind that hatch. The German literally dropped a Grenade onto his lap.

Great Reaction video. Much love to you and your Father. Greetings from Germany. ❤

Great reaction again guys! Cheers from Germany!

great work, love your channel

Amazing reaction video I always,wanted to see a reaction to this movie 😌

I love that father and son do this video together.

Many thanks for your good comments, assessments and views on this film. As a German, I am very proud that this film has been so well received around the world. I read Erich Maria Remarque's novel many times. The german nazis had burned the books of him at the time. This testifies to the explosive power and message of this novel. I was very moved by the novel and the film. The message is that something like this should never happen again from Germany. Believe me, we Germans really understood this and we will do all what we can that never history can ever repeat. Best regards from Berlin to you and your dad......Oliver

Thank you for this reaction. I really appreciate your emotional response and I am glad that it is a sad response. This is a movie about war that should fill us with anger, horror and at the end with grief and sadness. I was with you an your emotional journey the whole time. The underlying novel by Erich Marie remark by the same title was standard input school curriculum back in Germany where I am from. If that movie impressed you you should read the book. It had a lasting impact on my life … in a good way. Kind regards

Many of the soldiers who died on the 11th of November, 1918 had the dates on their graves changed to the 10th because the governments of the countries involved thought it was humiliating that people died on the last day

The injustice at the end broke my heart

I hope it will win lots of oscars

Thats truly an Anti-War Movie, crazy good

Recomend 1960s English/French movie King of Hearts , it's is ww1 but in comical and thinking way. Plot : After all civilians left french town for safety, patients from insane asylum came out and took over the town. 😅

There's a highly-regarded 1979 TV movie version in English that's also very worth seeing, and significantly different to this version.

“1917” is another amazing WWI film that I think you would really enjoy.

I have in my possession two newspapers from 11 November 1918…Both only tell of the German’s signing the armistice while failing to mention the thousands of casualties taken in the last hours of the war. The greatest mistake was to have it end at 11 AM instead of at midnight on the 11th due to the careless generals only interested in their own glory. I’m the final 60 seconds over 3,000 men died for nothing at all…The last being an American who died at 10:59:30…he had 30 seconds to safely go home.

The last soldier to die in WWI was an American who charged a German position at 10:59. Thousands of troops died in the last 6 hours after the signing but before the ceasefire.

I loved the emotions bravo

Read what happened Matthias Erzberger ( Daniel Bruhl's character). So sad. He brought peace and was branded a traitor.

Nice reaction. Thumbs up! :) The mad general and his last attack were both pure fiction. The general never existed. But something similar in a bigger scale was officially planned by the German Navy. They were given the order in the last second of the war to attack the British sea blockade (that was at large parts responsible for the lack of food and clothing in WWI-Germany and at the German side of the front). That planned attack was an insane suicide plan and everybody knew it. Therefore the sailors made a revolution, the Emperor (Kaiser) had to abandon the throne and the German Weimar Republic was born. I agree with the son in this reaction: It would have been a better film if Kat would have died like he died in the book and the two older movie versions. That farm-stealing thing and the death of Kat in that way were ridiculous. I don't like the whole new thing with the mad general and the last minute attack, either. All that was much better solved in the book and the two older movie versions. Everybody still dies there...but in a much more plausible way in the framework of an anti-war movie and historical accuracy. This movie isn't bad, but the older movies and the book had much better story lines and elements. Even the end happens in much better and more grimm way in the book and the title of book and movie is making much more sense in connection with the end in the book and the older movies. But again: This movie is a good movie and did some very own things that added to the story, that were not in the book and the older movies. So it's a mixed bag but it's a good movie. I'm recommending to react to "Das Boot". There are several versions of it. Take at minimum the Directors Cut. If possible, take the even longer TV-miniseries version. And take the German language option with subtitles. Greetings Mega

In the end the kid takes the tissue but forgets to collect Pauls Dogtag.. So his mother will never know where when and how. It will just be another one of those endless nameless graves..

Great reaction, amazing movie , both wars are tragic

If you guys like war movies, I recommend Braveheart. About the true person William Wallace and Scotland’s battle for freedom.

'Is that the guy from Inglorious Basterds?' Ten minutes later... 'Must be historically accurate; you can't play with this stuff!' 🤔🙄🤣

if you haven't watched the original 1930 movie, by all means watch it! it's outstanding, and I don't think any remake is better.

I think it would have been even better if the movie ended before the ending of the war and we see Paul’s uniform get renewed and then worn by another soldier who points his name tag out

Check out 1917 and still waiting for Braveheart .. 2 really good movies.. and also Gladiator is really good and 3 : 10 to YUMA ( 2007 version )

Big bowl of pomegranate 👍🏻👌🏼

And the same thing is going on right now.

this is a great movie but the end kinda goes away from what the name of the movie means. all quiet on the western front, the meaning of the name is that it's just another day, nothing new. and it's during one of these days that the main character should have died, ending with a report coming into the headquarters, all quiet on the western front, nothing new, just more of the same.

I think you might have a similar reaction after watching Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory.

Best anti war movie ever made!

You don't zig zag if you're getting shot at. It'll just make you slower. The best thing to do, if you have no cover, is put as much distance between you and your attacker as quickly as possible.

When its a film about German soldiers its anti war but when its a film abut the British army like 1917 or Dunkirk its a film about the heroic British soldier.

Wenn ich vor 100 Jahren geboren wäre hätte ich kämpfen müssen.

He got PTSD from.the war so he thought he only had one thing towards to commit suicide.

The German soldiers were only given one round of ammunition each, because their superiors knew they would not live long enough to use more than one round of ammunition.

Plz react to Braveheart

The young dude acting like he hasn’t seen it, commenting to his dad about what’s happening next. Also, this is World War One guys. You guys got your timelines wrong at the start. But you’re forgiven😂

Reaction trilogy Of Star Wars Movie Please

I think the allied forces attacked the German lines before the 11am deadline . Totally pointless waste of human life . Battle of Somme , yupes ,the horror of war. .

The main actor is Austrian

Yet, a majority of the German people believed that they would have won had the army not been sold out by the civilian government and forcing a surrender. Within a bare few years, the German army was being reconstituted clandestinely, and by 1938 Germany was already embarked on its second attempt to conquer all of Europe. It was about 20 years, and while the French had had enough, the Germans had not, and the sons and nephews of these men gladly went off to war again.

Also the part where they just throw the young kids into war, the director of the movie is too lazy to do the training part, so they just not included it which makes people like you very confused whether they just throw untrained men into the war or not

And it was all for nothing.

They made the enemy the French. Would have been a much better film the enemy was the English or, God forbid, we Americans.

The endings to the mist and this are so different. One has real life experiences that only a few can speak about, and the other has BUGS that come to town in a mist. Come on. React to ‘Saving Private Ryan’ or ‘The Thin Red Line’ for more education on Film and War

Great reaction guys! Keep up the good work

“A soldier of the European armies is a man who lives in captivity of his enemies, hypnotized by them, working for them for a poor wage and a bad piece of bread. At the same time, soldiers are people whose fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters work and pay huge taxes in order to clothe, arm and feed their children and brothers during their service in the army. And when it becomes so hard for fathers and brothers to live that they "rebel" against their ancestral class enemies, soldiers are obliged to shoot at "rebels". They shoot, - so deep is the degree of idiocy to which they have been fooled.”

15:16 - The mass use of flamethrowers simply didn't happen, they were used to clear out bunkers, not pointlessly kill injured soldiers. You would never have more than one or two units in any raiding party. This entire scene is complete nonsense, and cinematic slander against the french soldiers. Disgraceful. German directors tend to do this sort of thing quite often, as if to say 'Look, the 'good guys' were just as bad as us!'.

Why does Egyptian dad sit like that? He's gonna mess his back up. Tell him to do yoga.

"Gotta blur this out..." wouldve been a more fitting title. I tried to watch...and gave up. Good luck.

Watch the 1979 version, it's much better.

14:55 I can relate.