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The even sadder part is that the young soldier at the end takes the scarf from Paul's corpse but forgets to collect his dog tag, which means that there would be no closure for Paul's family. Paul would just be another one of those soldiers listed as "missing in action".

Shout-out to Felix Kammerer (the actor that played Paul) because that's his first performance on-screen and he delivered! People don't really talk about his performance when talking about All Quiet on the Western Front but it's important to recognize his talent

'This feels like they are just waiting around to die' You almost perfectly summed up WW1.

Reading the book the hardest part to get through is when Paul is trapped in the artillery crater with the French soldier he stabbed and had to listen to him slowly die. Absolutely gut wrenching

This is one of those films that have never had a bad adaptation. From the first released back in the 1930s, then the one made for TV in the 70s, to now. The horrors of war legitimately stand the test of time.

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) will leave you in a state of emotional distress. What the soldiers went through was absolutely absurd yet devastating to a certain degree.

More people need to react to this movie, it’s a masterpiece, no soldiers in history had it worse than those on the Western Front

WWI propaganda had a huge focus on enthusiasm, bravery, patriotism - anything that would get the people to willingly go and fight for their countries. It was almost like brainwash, they truly believed the heroic promise that they were told. This is why reality hit so hard

The sad and one of the most frightening things about that tank scene was that was the first time they saw tanks on the battlefield. I can't imagine the sheer dead cold feeling with fear mixed in being a solider seeing a tank for the first time and have nothing to destroy it.

the only true "Anti-War" film I've seen. Plenty of others show the horror but there's always a side to root for, always a team or group to root for. This felt truly hopeless, chaotic, and random. Like real wars are. There are no heroes, there is no surviving through hope and hard work. Your life is a random one to been taken. Its all luck.

I absolutely loved this movie. The soundtrack always gets me emotional.

The bitter irony is that the cold pressure the French marshal puts on the German negotiators to sign the surrender, to accept full guilt for the entire war even though both sides were equally motivated to start it, was what in the end brought major motivation to Hitler's rise to power.

This film is so emotionally draining and yet so beautiful.

Your reaction to the “soup scene” was exactly how I reacted, I was more concerned with them helping him eat then realizing what was about to transpire, even when he started stabbing himself with the fork I didn’t understand what I was seeing. Movie actually had me in shock.

What's so Erie about it for me is the fact you see all the soldiers ,French and German alike walking around together at the end. Literally one minute before they were killing each other any way they could, the next minute the walked among each other just men trying to get home. I know all wars to some degree are like this ,but of all the wars in history I'd hate to be a part of ww1 the most.

Thanks for the reaction. I‘m from Germany. The brother of my grandmother died as a soldier at the front in world war 2. He was 17 or 18 and happy that he could fight, like the boys in this movie at the beginning. At the end he was killed by a tank in one of the dugouts. I cried so much when I watched this film, because it felt so real and it’s kind of the history of my family too. This movie deserved every single Oscar, that it won. Hopefully many people all over the world will watch this movie now. It’s so important to understand how cruel war and how important peace is.

I've never felt so... empty... at the conclusion of a film.

That's a true war movie - no glorifying of "heroic actions", just the pure pain and craziness that people encounter(ed) in combat

The Film just won 4 Academy Awards! Congratulations, well deserved 🎉

1917 was my favorite film of 2019 and when I saw the trailer for this movie I was so hyped. An incredible movie that might not literally be like the book but when sequences like the negotiation ones with Daniel Bruhl were on screen they made the story more terrifying and sad. Incredible movie.🙏🏻

9:48 The sad part about this is, that he was not only bored but also intelligent enough to calculate their advancements with only limited info about troop movements as well as limited aids. He had to do everything without a calculator or similar, had to know distances and the surfacec area of France in his head.

The original movie was mandatory watching in my german school. There really aren’t war glorifying movies made in Germany I can think of, and we get taught only to not repeat our history (obviously this lands or or less successfully with some people 🙄). Thrilled to see this realistic and magnified POV of a war soldier get international attention, and hoping there are some lessons in here.

Honestly this is probably my favorite of all the best picture nominees. I really loved it

I stayed up waiting for this film to release, I couldn’t sleep after it ended. One of the most horrific/emotional movies I have ever seen, deserves many awards

I live in a area where the most famous battle of ww1 was fought and I still find remains of this cruel war in my backyard

That crater scene is probably the hardest scene to watch in any movie. Gets me every time

I really appreciate how well this movie shows the dehumanization of war. The men eat with such animalistic urgency, partly because they’re starving & party because they’re being hunted at all times. They’re base creatures just trying to survive. And still, so many men died from exposure & disease, let alone from combat. Harrowing.

I kid you not, I finished this movie less than an hour ago. The first 10 minutes kept me tense, and that's a hard thing to do. The movie's constant tension is what makes you anticipate the worst, especially when one scenario keeps repeating and you do not know how it will turn out. Absolutely fantastic movie.

this is one of the most brutal films i've seen in a long time, it's incredibly well done

The soundtrack to this movie is so good. It sounds so aliens and unsettling

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-I believe we are lost.” . When the Nazi's took power, All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first books to be burned. The book was written in 1928 by a German veteran of WW1. It was first serialized in a magazine, then printed as a novel a year later. It was very popular in the US and around the world and sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print - but in his home country of Germany, there were many very angry about it. Especially from members of the emerging Nazi party. in 1930, screenings of the Academy Award-winning film based on the book were met with Nazi-organized protests and mob attacks on both movie theatres and audience members. The author was, in many ways, a spokesman for those survivors "destroyed by war, even though it might have escaped its shells."

The reason they were so stunned by the tanks and kept shooting at them was because that was their first time ever seeing a tank. Most of them didn’t know anything about them. Or that they even existed

1917, They Shall Not Grow Old, and All Quiet on the Western Front are my absolute trifecta of war movies Something just gets to me that no other genre of movie does when I watch stuff like this, the down in the dumps day to day “what’s gonna happen, who’s gonna make it, will we even see the end of this” existentialism

Hey man. This is a fucking brilliant review of the most upsetting film I've ever seen. Was with you all the way. You nailed it when you mentioned the choreography of the scenes near the beginning, and of course the horrendous tragedy of the war was exactly that; a choreographed waste of life. My great-grandfather was an English soldier who fought in WW2. He was one of the subjects of the recent film Operation Anthropoid. His task failed, he was training other soldiers to kill Reinhard Heydrich. But before any of that he was a commander during the first British tank battle of WW1. I was privileged to have met him shortly before he died. This is how to review a film, and you would have made him proud. My very best x

I’m actually very surprised you reacted to this film, but I’m glad that you did. Such a great film with great messages and I think it deserves to be reacted more here on KZfaq.

I first read the book about 20 years ago and then watched the original film. I believe this film did a good job of conveying the central theme of the book, the futility of war. You picking up on that message despite not knowing anything going into the film, demonstrates that success. There has been some pushback on changes made in this film but to me, the most iconic scene, in the crater with Duvall, was present. I felt uncomfortable during that entire scene, which is what I wanted. It is the scene that has stuck with me the most because I take away that these men were not too different, and in many ways were more alike than they were with their respective leaders.

This should have won Best Picture.

This movie gave me an hour long headache afterwards, it was so brutal. Glad you reacted to it, it's the one of the best war movies I've seen in a long time.

20:43 This is not one of the most, it is the most brutal and terrifying scene I have ever seen in movies history!!!

This movie earned the Oscars it won this year. Such a masterful piece of filmmaking in every way.

I've seen this 3 times and I feel like it's the greatest war film of the last 10 years, It's so realistic and convincing that you feel like you're there with them the whole time.

It's insane that, from the 18 month flash-forward to the end of the movie, all of it takes place in 1 week.

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

This movie is amazing. I love it even more than the original. Give this movie all the technical Oscars!

To this is the best War film I’ve ever seen. A true masterpiece.

I am German. I started watching the movie but couldn't finish it. My grandpa, with whom I had a very good relationship, was forced to serve on the front in France during WW2 because he was the oldest son. He was 15 and one of the few young men (or boys) from our village who survived. When the war was over he walked back home. Just thinking about what he and others had to go through breaks my heart. And it still happens today. When will mankind finally learn that there are no winners in war?

YESSS. THANK YOU FOR REACTING TO THIS I"VE BEEN PRAYING YOU WOULD

This is a great movie. That ending though. I was oh wow. I didn’t see that coming.

Great reaction! This movie lingered with me for days after watching it. More people should be reacting to this!

Amazing movie. Could you also react to Argentina 1985? I'm sure it will lose the Oscar to this one, but it's still a great movie and I'm sure you'll love it. For comparison, think of something like Trial of the Chicago 7 meets Spotlight...

Loved this movie.. Just when you thought Paul was gonna make it.!! It was the first movie for the actor playing Paul. He was fabulous..

The watch along i would never have expected but can’t be happier it’s here. My favourite book of all time and a superb movie!!

My granddad was in WW2, he got caught by the Russians in Serbia and then brought to the working camp in Sibiria, where he got tortured, but he managed somehow to survive coming back to Germany weighing 40kg and being psychologically disturbed. It took him about 4 years to become human again. But he was never able to talk about it, as he kept having nightmares until the end of his life.

I watch most of the new movies with you now keep up the good work ! 🔥🤘 cheers from Canada!

When you were saying horrifying at the beginning of the movie I was thinking of the "cutlery" scene

Going to the Oscars tomorrow! Glad you reacted to this just before. Where is Jon?! Love you guys!

This scene in the bomb crater where Paul just starts apologizing to the french soldier after stabbing him to death, just broke me, this was just brutal to watch and at this point I just wanted it to stop. I felt done and burned and kcerall just broken. Great movie an absolute masterpiece but ...what the hell. I'm glad it won at the awards as much as it did Much deserved I hope germany finnaly starts making good movies again.

I know that awards don’t determine a movies worth, but I do want it to win Oscars so that more people watch it.

I highly recommend "Under Sandet - Land of mine" and "Das Boot - Directors Cut"

Great movie, that deserves oscars, but it's the screenwriter, Lesley Paterson's story of getting the movie made, that makes me want her to win one. A story of triathlons, injury, debt and determination.

i was pretty impressed by this one! thanks for reactin! x

Absolutely amazing film. Can definitely see it winning best picture, or at least for costume/sound design. The brutality of the first World War was captured perfectly, and the boom synth score thingy was my favorite part of the film. The fact that in super intense moments, they used that, and in sad scenes, they used a slower, more score-y version but with the same notes is so sick!

Haven't seen it yet but definitely gonna download it and check it out.

When I was a senior in high school 1977, I’d go sit and visit with my elderly great uncle, a WWI veteran. One afternoon he opened about some of his experiences in the trenches of France. The rats, lice, mud, weeks unbathed. I read All Quiet On the Western Front after those talks. This film is incredible. Your reaction to it, treated the subject with the depth and reverence it deserves.

I liked that they used French St-Chamonds tanks instead of the more known Mark IV. 17:48

Reading this book as a teenager alongside the poem 'Dulce et Decorum est' really shook me to my core.

Incredible the difference in movie message and cinematography when the story is written. Hollywood really shows it as one side being the "hero" or "good and bad side" of war. This book was written by a real WW1 German soldier who fought in the eastern front. The way people look at war is different due to the author actually experiencing what hell is and masterfully putting those experiences on paper. Really honest, after watching this movie, other Hollywood movies seems so dull and weird. This one really makes you see the world in another way and it had me thinking about what soldiers went through on those days for a while week.

I saw this in theaters. Such a fantastic movie

It was awesome how today it won during the Oscar’s for best picture and 3 other awards. It really was well deserved

I normally don't cry during movies,they're just movies but when I first saw this it really hit me,I'm glad to see I'm not alone on that

Ohhh nice perfect timing before I go to work I loved this movie really feels original to how war would have been no winners in the end only losss and heartbreak truely a great film looking forward to this reaction !

They are so excited and young and happy in the beginning.. naive kids experiencing the horrors of war, which changes their lives forever. Also, the music and cinematography were amazing. Chefs kiss 🤌🏻

Well that boi at the end, it was Franz

I like the coincedent of wearing the Wonder Woman shirt since her movie also depicts WW1 and some trench warfare, although a bit different

i love the commentary that consists of "uhh", "wow", "damn" and *silence*

If you're interested in more WWI stories I'd suggest "Deadline Gallipoli". It's about the Allied Forces campaign in The Dardanells, Turkey, 1915. Also reveals what journalists went through trying to get accurate information back to their homelands.

Such a good film, so glad to see your reaction on it but this film absolutely broke me such a thoughtprovoking film and the score is just so emotionally driven, a true masterpiece of filmmaking

he author of the novel lay injured in a hospital in my hometown of Duisburg during the First World War, and it is said that he began writing his novel there....

This film is insanely good. Glad you watched it!

Yes! Thank you! I’m so glad more people are watching this movie! Truly one of the best of the year!

you need to see saving private ryan as well!

The " sequel" to the book hit me way harder than "Im Westen nichts neues", it's called "Der Weg zurück" and it explores how soldiers adjusted to normal life again

It just won 4 Oscars yesterday!

Thank you so much for watching it in German❤

Honestly, I love that you are not a historian or a hobby historian and watched this movie. I was curious how you would take the movie as an "average" viewer. What I mean by "average" is someone who isn't familiar with WW1 in general, the book, movies, etc. You reacted in a way that made me content with their choice to deviate from the novel a bit, I am absolutely on board with it. Because YOU felt the dread, you felt the pointless deaths, you understood the message. Well done sir. Well done.

So a point of interest that I am glad this film showed - The Tanks. The First World War was the introduction of Tanks onto a battlefield. These rhombus shaped tanks had never been seen before, and this film captures that horror. This was something unimaginable. A giant metal box, impervious to your bullets, with cannons that could destroy your position and team, and machine guns that could cut you down. An account I read from an allied soldier one time was that he was stationed somewhere in France, and there were giant shapes covered in tarp/cloth. He had asked what was under the tarp and was told simply "tanks." Naturally, he took it to mean supplies for the troops, as in they were tanks of water. That was obviously not the case. This film takes place in 1917, so at this point the Mk1 tank used by the British had been in service for a little under a year at the least, having entered service in 1916 .The MK4 Heavy tanks, which I believe are the ones in the film, were introduced in 1917. Bare in mind that a whole year had passed since the first tank, and it is unlikely many soldiers will have known about them beyond rumours from survivors - tall tales meant to scare younger more vulnerable soldiers. It was also in 1917 that Germany would begin development on their own tank, the A7V Sturmpanzerwagen, but it wouldn't see combat until March 1918. Germany spent a lot of time actually developing anti-tank weaponry rather than their own tanks - and there are rumours of acquiring allied tanks for their own use. Anyway, rant over. This film is phenomenal and this was a good reaction - not a bland "oh wow thats cool i guess." Subbed :)

how are you able to record all quiet on weston front. i have been trying because i want to do a review. i would love some help

The first war movie thst didnt cause me to cry but rather shocked me into silence. Very powerful. Everything about this from beginning to end is....intense.

Thanks for your real reacts. I hope all this type of movies help to end every war someday. What a masterpiece of movie.

Such a good review! This war-movie is the only one i know which does not show heroism. You expressed and captured it so well. Im still kind of trying to process the whole story ... it keeps on having a hold on me.

The German general who commanded the final attack was more like the American General Pershing. It was he who ordered the last attack just before the end of the war. In the last 6 hours of the war, 11,000 soldiers were injured or killed. The last casualty of the war was the US soldier Henry Nicholas Gunther under Pershing's command. Gunther was shot and killed ("officially") at 10:59 am.

It is very interesting to see your reaction to the films Robocop and Robocop 3. This is a cool immortal classic 👍

I played as an extra in this movie and let me tell you, it was really and experience. I saw myself few times (most of the times from a memory where I was standing/running at that time), most notably when Tjaden is handing letter to Kat, and when Tjaden is stabbing himself.

I watched it, the movie is epic. The saddest thing was at the end, when there were 15 minutes left to finish and they went on the attack

Loved the gradual journey and display of youthful naivety to jadedness/ptsd. War is hell.

this hits hard after watching Gravik talking to Talos about the soldiers doing all the killing and the big guys being fat and posing for pictures. damn might watch secret invasion again

What a fantastic movie with incredible cinematography!

When the tanks arrive, from the perspective of the soldiers on the front line…must have been terrifying.

Better than I expected! Cheers! ✌️❤️