This is the best Netflix movie, hands down

This what old veterans experienced death, violence, hate, and destruction, and even *genocide.*

Unless you present war as fundamentally misandrist, don't make that film. Those who send men to die by the thousands, to die by the millions are not men, not women. They're psychopaths whose murderous appetites transcend gender.

@@johnstrawb3521 “war does not make you a man it makes you kind of man you are.”

I love so much to watch behind the scene this movie.

Exactly. Hollywood never shows what the other side thinks and does

@@resireg they also do not focus on the decades long nightmare that was life under Stalin. Like 10 million Ukrainians maybe more, wiped out in the most horrific ways.

@@deanpd3402 there is an excellent movie with Peter Sarsgaard called MR Jones. It covers the Holodomor in Ukraine and how the Western Media (chiefly the New York Times) covered it up in order to portray Stalin as a Democrat and a friend of USA. Also Dr. Jivago is a classic, Death of Stalin is a dark comedy, but it is very critical of him.

getting recognition from an hollywood point of view. Come to france and you will see in every single village everywhere in the territority a monument to the dead of the village, there are sometimes more name on the memorial than people living in the village.

The German plundered and raped their way trough Belgium when they cowardly invaded it

If you haven't watched "They Shall Not Grow Old", I'd highly recommend it. There's a scene where a British veteran describes them taking water from a shell hole to make tea 🤢

It's that, or risk drinking water that's had bodies decaying in it for years.

I am one year older than you. I read the book too. It was one of the few that I didn’t blow off. It changed me forever. I can’t wait to watch this.

And the guy running on his leg stomps after his feet are blown off

Well this is on Netflix & you're gonna get the Netflix version of this novel. Be prepared for this to be woke-anized, anti white-anized, pro destruction of whites & their ideas-anized.

I just watched it and was blown away! Best film ive seen

It was fantastic

Was about to say this, usually I pass on subtitled movies but when I watched the trailer there was no way I was missing it. One of the best war movies I've ever seen

you haven't seen many then.

@@tonymoto1188 I’d say you are loads of fun at parties

Could you clarify what you mean by auf Deutsch? Is it a specific dialect of that era?

@@StephanAndreMusic It simply means "in German"

Were you expecting germans to speak english with other germans or what

You mean like „Barbaren“? Where the Romans speak Latin?

I don't lol I'd rather just hear ppl speaking the language I speak if I wanna read 2hrs I'd get a book 😂

Yeah that's impressive . I am French but it must be the same in Germany, every single village has a monument to the dead, with all the names of the dead coming from these villages. It's amazing how many there are. From my small village of 500 inhabitants, there are almost 100 names written.

That…..is an amazing teacher.

USA 🇺🇸

What a great anecdote, cheers for sharing!

What a great way to teach history, so impactful and not boring (just memorizing years and who's who).

Take it a step further, my civilian friend, and contemplate what *you* are capable of when the authorities you submit your will to command you to do something.

Read Good-Bye To All That, Graves just dishes it out to a point that makes you want to hate humanity.

Those blind to history are bound to repeat it.

@@drewskij2175 I will pick this up at the library, thank you.

Not even in the span of a lifetime humans forgot the horrors of war and unleashed war like the world had never seen before. Those who got through to 1918 called it the War to End All War. How wrong they were.

Anti-war movie, no kidding. This movie was probably the first movie to make me feel absolutely sick. A lot of "...why?" feelings. But that sums up WW1 perfectly. I don't think it'll ever truly hit me that real people, not so long ago, really did go through this.

@Michael I mean, can you blame them? 1918 must have seemed apocalyptic - the war going on in full-force with tens of thousands dying every single week, the Spanish flu going around the entire globe and killing not anyone but the youngest and most energetic people, and many parts of the world completely starving. You had all 4 horsemen of the apocalypse there, and I would argue that at times it seemed more apocalyptic than even WW2.

If you enjoyed this you check out the WW1 documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old.” It’s a masterpiece as well

First film to make you feel for the enemy, it showed the logistical nightmare, re using uniform and helmets. It showed him realising its another man with a life and family that he has killed. It was more detailed and realistic with how it did it. Incredible film

@@samg1879 EXACTLY. It's difficult to comprehend that the things in this movie happened everyday during the war. I recall the German general talking about how they lost over 40,000 soldiers every week. That's insane. It's really an eye opener.

I’m 71. A dear friend of mine had a grandfather who eventually succumbed to the effects of mustard gas on him during WW1.

I hope you meant "horrors of the First WW should occupy the minds..." , instead of "should not".

Nazis also killed his sister.

@@ktom5262 clicked on the responses to find this comment or write it if I had too.

What's even more horrifying is that Remarque's sister was executed because she remained in Germany in the 1940s. I believe the judge presiding over her trial said to Remarque's sister "He [Erich Remarque] may be outside of our grasp (Remarque was in America at the time I believe), but we can still capture you" or something along those lines. Genuinely harrowing to know that Remarque had to go through that just because he expressed his views on WWI and the nature of war.

Totally agreed

I don´t know if there is an english version but you have to read "Heeresbericht" by Edlef Köppen. "The Storm of Steel" by Ernst Jünger is even better, its not a novel but a true story so its even more terrifying. "johnny got his gun" is also very interesting.

read a forgotten soldier by guy sajer you never read something like that .. i like "all quiet" i really like this book too but the forgotten soldier is litteraly soul crushing .. you understand human realm after that beyond german beyond american russian ...

“To start a war is always wrong”? What does that even mean?

@@lk_UU Jünger is great! Also the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence (the book Lawrence of Arabia was based on) Strange how WWI resulted in so much brilliant war literature isn't it?

Even more difficult when you realize this was just a prelude to what would happen two decades later

@@Blazers04 yep, an even more devastating war. It's as if it was futile, which it definitely was.

Every war was utter hell for the people fighting in it.

With all due respect, I strongly doubt that any soldier ever fought for peace. At most this claim was part of the propaganda to lure people into all of these horrible bloodsheds. In reality these soldiers fought for the geopolitical and economical interests of people in power and to serve the military industrial complex that in the case of WWI was just established. WWI is also known as the first industrialised war and the is a word in German that is describing the experience of these soldiers - Stahlgewitter, which can be translated as steel thunder. On top of the newly established and in this war heavily financed steel industry, the petro chemical industry made huge profits as well because this was also the first war, establishing chemical warfare. I truly think humankind as a whole has to start understanding what wars are for and who's benefitting from them, instead of glorifying anything about it. It sounds nice to claim that anyone is fighting for peace. But just at this day, there are more than 100 armed conflicts (the nicer word for warfare) globally, so claiming anyone in power of decision about these things is interested in peace is just dust in the eyes. If it would be for peace then there would be peace and we are far, really far from peace but the military industrial complex is making big bank and there's no interest in ever stopping that.With all due respect, I strongly doubt that any soldier ever fought for peace. At most this claim was part of the propaganda to lure people into all of these horrible bloodsheds. In reality these soldiers fought for the geopolitical and economical interests of people in power and to serve the military industrial complex that in the case of WWI was just established. WWI is also known as the first industrialised war and the is a word in German that is describing the experience of these soldiers - Stahlgewitter, which can be translated as steel thunder. On top of the newly established and in this war heavily financed steel industry, the petro chemical industry made huge profits as well because this was also the first war, establishing chemical warfare. I truly think humankind as a whole has to start understanding what wars are for and who's benefitting from them, instead of glorifying anything about it. It sounds nice to claim that anyone is fighting for peace. But just at this day, there are more than 100 armed conflicts (the nicer word for warfare) globally, so claiming anyone in power of decision about these things is interested in peace is just dust in the eyes. If it would be for peace then there would be peace and we are far, really far from peace but the military industrial complex is making big bank and there's no interest in ever stopping that.

Ever heard about the 1930 one ? Way better

@@ViquelOoste Of course. Have not sat down to view it yet.

@@ViquelOoste Crazy to think pretty soon all that groundbreaking movie will be a century old

@@ViquelOoste The only downside of that version is that they should've nerf that shovel dude before he single handedly wipe the entire French armee.

Its remake of originál film with samé name but i belive they will make from main characters gay or something

I almost wish the news would show the true horrors of war so that people try to avoid it at all cost

The misleaders don't care.

It was remade in 1979 already. How many remakes can these unimaginative filmmakers keep making. They should do the work, research and come up with their own movies instead of riding on previous coattails.

Ok but all quiet on the western front is a timeless story, and if anything just as relevant now since it was released. This gives people who would have otherwise never have sought out this story the chance to experience and learn from it. Plus it’s cool to see this story portrayed not only by real Germans (unlike the last two adaptations) but also with modern film technology.

Agreed.

@@DEEPAKPATEL-qm4ku well, right now I partly agree. My government should focus on negotiations and reaching a peace deal, but not promoting total war. Ukraine will lose if war continues the way which it is going right now.

Each one reliaze the thing occurs to them .. all fine untill they feel the heat .. my prayers to stop war continues ...

​@@DEEPAKPATEL-qm4ku that sounded pretty insensitive for a person sharing his experience during a war.

Well said. I hate it when people advocate or glorify war in any way. Id love to have them be exposed to visions of their loved ones being brutally tortured, just so they can have a small glimpse of the horror that war causes, and so they understand that it is to be avoided at all costs. We should focus on diplomacy, always. There is no need to have innocent people die. What is worth having your sons die? Not even the soldiers who just defend their country are spared. They will have to live with having been forced into becoming monsters. It's been established a long time ago, that the glory of war is just a lie, a myth. There is only horror.

dear Ukrainians 🇺🇦 my heart is torn 💔 apart seeing photos of the war . feeling sorry for all of u, war is never about winning or losing...its abt souls, lives generations to come suffering from one stupid decision ... it's not an easy one to make guys.. plz save lives 🙏 stop the war...some people r still paying for the ww1 ,2 hadn't we seen, had enough

What the filmmakers managed to do with a budget of only € 16 million is incredible! 1917 cost 6 times as much and can't hold a candle to All Quiet on the Western Front!

@@ruhri0411 its because Hollywood Films are expensive because the Actors swallow almost half of the budget and earn millions. German actors dosnt get millions so that makes it cheaper for sure. ;-) i guess the same move would cost at least 50 million in the US.

tank scene was incredible

yes if you look at a WW i movies, it is great. If you look at it as a adaptation of the book, it completely missees the mark.

@@Rob2000 for an "adaption" its good. its not an 1:1 conversion of the book nor a remake of the old films. It just "adapts".

I have a photo-postcard that one of my great uncles sent his mother before leaving for Europe in WWI. He's in his new uniform, and on the back it says, 'I'm the boy that's going to get the Kaiser!' He never came home. If you ever look at the German Expressionist artists, following the war; you'll see many depictions of what they experienced and how profoundly it influenced their work.

Watch the movie My Boy Jack it sums up the evil idiocy of death in battle!

@@nolickspittle4753 It is a very good film, I agree. I also think of the various poets, like Wilfred Owen, who wrote of the reality of what that war was, as opposed to all the jingoistic nonsense about 'glory' or even 'honor'. It was a nasty, brutish event, that only made WWII all but inevitable. Someone described the period between 1914 and 1945 as 'the great European Civil War; one that took a 20yr. break, in order to grow a new generation with which to fight it'.

Yes and then came woke... Pissing on all they fought for!

My granddad fought the Japanese in WW2. On his last days, he was delirious. He would physically attack all of us because he believes he was still in the jungle fighting the enemy. One day he asked for his gun, he would not stop shouting until he gets it. So we decided to give him a water gun. He would shoot us with water everyday.

@Chain God Get a load of this guy...

To acknowledge those things you would have to know the opposite exists.

Times of peace are best valued after having witnessed times of war.

@@sternleiche Thru the study of history and a perceptive mind, much can be learned. To imagine the horror is enough. While it will never replace the experience, no fool in his right mind would want to experience it.

@Chain God tell me, what war did you fight in?

agreed

The Netflix version and 1979 are one of my favorites, but the Netflix one has awesome soundtrack and even the acting is good.

My grandpa who had dementia was a german prisoner of war in soviet russia. He only ever told of the horrors when he was daydreaming. Else he never lost a single word about what he experienced...

My grand grandfather died in galipolli canakkale

Beautifully put sir.

Should read storm of steel then

@@SafavidAfsharid3197 Ive been meaning to read that book as well, how was it like when you read it?

This book is the book that started a fascination with ww1 history for me and turned me into a pacifist

@@magistrate3343 It's the story of a soldier who did find the war to be a great adventure

The one that changed me is The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. I have never read such an intense book. It is set on the eastern front during WW2. I never understood how bad it was until I read this book

Yep... And even though a masterpiece it really could use some visual modernization. Just don't mess with the story and it should be amazing.

nice to see a movie where the whole budget isnt blown on one or two A listers as well

Gotta say, I was skeptical at first. I saw the original All Quiet on the Western Front many years ago. After seeing this trailer, this trailer might actually be better than the original. Love WWI movies like this.

Yes it was and I can’t wait to watch this version of it also

I think “for once” is a bit harsh, The Forgotten Battle is a fantastic film too

It's rubbish nothing to do with the book

Can you suggest some good movies that you have seen and books that you have read related to war ?

@@komeshjethwani1120 I replied to this with a list of books/movies, was it deleted? If it was I’ll write it again

​@@IvyInceptionIt was deleted

​@@albie7581The story is differend but that does not make the movie bad

1979 version is so insanely good. 1930 is incredibly scary.

I’ve read the book and watched the 79’ version so this trailer is a welcome surprise

Indeed true

@@Rr-sn7hp same here

True

I think this movie is needed now more then ever to show people the horrors of war. Maybe even politicians will realize how bad it is.

@@Skeletoncross politicians already know how bad war is, that’s why they push people to the battlefield to fight for them

@@Skeletoncross Lmao

@@Skeletoncross That’ll never happen. But I am very pleased that this book will finally get its recognition once again. The book is one of my favorites and I absolutely loved the 1930’s film adaptation. I’m glad we’re getting another adaptation of one of the most important stories in all of modern humanity. An unforgiving truth to the ugly madness of war.

Lol how bad our situation is right now? Life is amazing for just about everyone. Turn ur tv off bud

​@@tonygaertner8863Not if you are Ukrainian

@@tonygaertner8863 oh so it’s okay to see ur father not to look after his family and sending off to war leaving the mother to do all the crap?

Gertrude Stein called this generation the “Lost Generation”

Netflix hey? I wonder where the black German, Czech, Spanish soldiers, and more European collaborators are...

1917 pave the way.. 🙏🏼

Yessir‼️

@@BruceWayne_87 and Battlefield 1 too

@@BruceWayne_87 1917 is one of the most incredible media creations I have ever seen full stop. I think I might watch that again tonight. Every aspect of it is absolute god tier.

Social conditioning for the next big one.

Not to take away from ALL war, but WW1 really is the saddest war.

@@samg1879 agreed. Pointless and achieved nothing but slaughter.

One of my favourite seen is when the MC is taken back from combat for a while for recovery and return to his home town. Here we saw his father and his friend saying how they will soon march on Paris and arguing what rout is the best. When he return to the trench, one share this conversation with his last living friend and he replied that those were nothign but dreams, talkign about how everything was falling apart while the allies were getting stronger by the days. Realy shows the difference between what we thing and reality.

@@florians9949 do not spoiler you idiotish nerd

it's good, though i preffer Three Comrades

Is a must read, period

Is it the same name

I would highly recommend the 1979 version if you've never seen it! That movie kept me from ever wanting to join the military. War is death

That's what happens when you get a German war movie instead of an American wankfest. Realism

All quiet on the western front is not nonstop misery and bloodshed, it has a lot of moments that are peaceful

@@ghostie7028 yeah that’s true there’s great juxtaposition. I remember watching it with my mom as a kid and wishing they could just escape

You should watch The Pacific

“These heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives they now live in a soil of a friendly country therefore rest in peace.”-Attaturk.

Since Germans made the movie it would make sense

@@DaveMaherPhotos true, but the shitty Red Baron film that came out a few years ago was made by German but in English.

German WW2 films have been a disgrace for so long due to Hollywood domination of the industry. Finally we are getting some German perspective, though "All Quiet on the Western Front" is arguably a left wing anti war book.

@@coloneldecker Nothing makes me more irritated than when German people in movies speak English but in a German accent

@@DaveMaherPhotos The 1930s film was an all American cast which is very normal in films which follow World War characters who aren't Ameircan or English. The Grey Zone is another one. Characters, who were real people, were all Hungarian played by Americans.

That’s especially true when looking at events like the Christmas truce

wait until you see whats in store for us in our futures 😁

Damn wonder what your grandad was doing from 1939-45?

@@todddarcy he was working at a pow camp near frankfurt... then as he was supposed to be prosecuted by the us administration some old pows that were under his watch at the time stepped in and the charged were dropped since he didnt mistreat them the way alot of guards at the time did.

@@todddarcy also great grandad btw you could at least read the comment before trying to say something

1917 was boring

1917 was absolutely boring it's all about delivering message nothing else.Even Dunkirk is overated. This was bloody hell, the real trench warfare and struggles it's like we have relived the moments of WW1

@@fahid3342 1917 was one of the greatest film experiences I have ever had...

@@AzureDefiance3701 I watched it. It wasn't good if you like action like Saving Private Ryan

A bit of reach there

I'm in the UK and had relatives fighting on both sides. Not read the book but have seen the two movies. Looking forward to this. :)

@@mumbleweed2729 I wonder if there be a time, maybe many years into the future, where a Palestinian and an Israeli have an exchange like this over some movies/books about their distant past conflicts. Because different religions are involved makes it so much harder to see.

@@jinparksoul It'll be harder as the balance of power between Israel and Palestine is much farther from center than it was between Germany and France+Great Britain.

@@mumbleweed2729 which are those two movies? Can you name them?

@@RS-gu3xk "All Quiet on the Western Front" 1930 & 1979

Arch of Triumph has been adapted to film several times and there is at least one adaptation A Time To Love And A Time To Die.

@@tuscanraid3r306 nice but we need modern adaptions like Western front too

Storm of Steel would be a great one too.

A lesser known but compelling book is Winged Victory

@@brada2354 Storm of Steel is vastly superior from the literary standpoint but because is not so well known as Remarque's and it is not an "anti war" book it will never be put into film.

Respect. My great grandfather fought in ww1 too. For germany

Dude your grandad deserves movie for himself! What a story!

My great grandfather died in Somme, he was German.❤️

@@staro21 mine escaped imprisonment in ww2- twice, at least once by hijacking a spitfire in Africa. There’s many stories worth telling

Hardcore.

Yeah I honestly haven't seen a more intense and accurate depiction of the horrible atrocities Europeans commited upon each other for the sake of the powers that be. Based on the trailer I'm amazed this is being made in 2022

@@codyrockarano5220 Europeans?

How many feminists and Africans you think they'll add to the key combat roles they were never in?

@@thatoneradicalizedprussian225 Yanks didn't come around till 1918, so yeah, mostly Europeans were duking it out.

@@kenm3855 Honestly looks like they might give us a genuine movie and not a shit show of a "diversity and equality" type movie

Yes I agree, this was a good film but was definitely missing some the scenes from the original movie.

My great great grandfather was a Scottish soldier ,he was gassed and shelled at the same time ,he’d suffer health problems for the rest of his life and also refused to speak of it ,he also had a an unfortunate habit of sleeping under his bed

@@atruemanofculture1521 My great grandpa had a very similar experience and outcome as a Canadian soldier. Eventually, he chose to undergo a lobotomy because the pain from the headaches caused by the mustard gas was too severe. It's really horrific that the children of these men were then thrust into the meatgrinder of World War II.

my great great granpda was an american soldier in ww1. His son, my great grandpa stormed normandy. He arrived on omaha 5 days after the initial landing and wrote a small piece to my grandfather. He said they were still there on the beaches, he was apart of the 5th infantry division "the red devils." He was a machine gunner and had 2 guys carry his ammo for him, both of whom died when they pushed up the beaches. He said he marched throughout europe with them until he was honorably discharged after suffering from trauma or something near the rhine river a year later. They marched throughout europe with Eisenhower. Really glad he wrote that page or so to my granpda, I think its important for that stuff to be passed on to future generations.

@@barkley8285 my own great granda was an engineer for the RAF ,not sure of any specifics but I can guess he was there for the battle of Britain

"the mud was cold" speaks volumes

Congrats. I kinda envy that.

@@Stoner075C thanks, I was on the filming day when we were like soldiers mounted in the yard in front of the general and he was giving his speech. the filming lasted about 13 hours in miserable weather, so it was really hard.

AWW MAN IM A INCEL 4CHAN CHUD.. I J3RK OFF TO THIS STUFF I LOVE THIS STUFF I HATE AMERICA TOO THE EARTH IS FLAT

“Those scars never truly healed”Yeah bruh we know you conquered Europe 20 years after that lmao

Which war

Do you guys have monuments dedicated to Germans who fell during WW1 and WW2 in each village/city/town like in France? I was just wondering

My great grandfather fought you fellas in WW1, my grandfather fought you guys in WW2. Terrible things were seen and never forgotten on both sides. Young men doing what they thought was right. The world is cruel.

@@Pmarmagne Absolutly not. There is still a great feeling of guild in our country. We have some army barracks with names of generals, but no monuments. I think that it is a good thing, that we don't "honour" persons, how have had a major role in theatres of war. Because no one is innocent in war. War brings out the worst in you, one day someone is a hero, next day he blows some civilians to pieces. There is nothing honourable in war. Besides that, I'm looking forward to see this movie. I saw the orgiginal black and white version when I was around 15 years old. My religion teacher showed it to the class and I was deeply impressed by it. I think it was the first time, when I realised, that war sucks, for everyone, no matter what. It was a hard contrast to Rambo and Missing in Action movies back in the times.

What a good man

My Grandfather also fought in the Austro-Hungarian army against the Russians. Unimaginable hardships.

@@john324 My grandfather fought against austrohungary, mistly croat and muslim soldiers who invaded Serbia!

It amazes me that there were people who remembered both world wars and lived to see the dawn of the Internet, even if most of them didn’t know what it really was. I doubt there will ever be another period in history where one could witness more change in a lifetime.

@@benbowland Well, there was an Englishwoman who was born in 1792 who died in 1903. So she was was eight years old at the turn of the 19th century, which saw the development of railroads, steamships. telegraphs, telephones (not yet common and perfected until 20th century), and died right before airplanes were invented. And it's scary to think of what developments might come about in the time until Gen Z will die off a century from now.

I think the point of the film is that they didn't have to go through this for all of us to be here today. 💔 It was the pointless, futile death of so many young men.

U clearly didn't get the movie

Cool

Les gens ont oublié les horreurs de la guerre et il semble que l'histoire est en train de se répéter

Lire A l’Ouest rien de nouveau m’a très clairement fait prendre conscience de beaucoup de choses. Je veux toujours m’engager toutefois.

Smart parents

Are you kidding me?! This isn't even NEARLY diverse enough! Does the ADL even know about this blatant antisemitism????

Probably for marketing since most people recognize the Stahlhelm and it would grab their attention. The pickelhaube is silly looking by today's standards.

@@Zure467 to be fair, the pickelhaube looked kind of silly even back then. I do recall both the 1930 and 1979 adaptations showing the transition from it to the Stahlhelm, an effective way of showing how much time had passed. I've found a couple of early reviews and synopses, and it appears this version does begin later in the war. I don't think this will be an exact retelling of the book, rather using the book as inspiration, plus name recognition. That said, reviews I've found say it excels in laying bare the destruction of youthful innocence, and the horrifying terrors of war in all its grotesque horror. Which was really the entire point of Remarque's books. I'm actually curious if the sadistic drill instructor, Himmelstoss, will feature in this, as he actually has a small redemption arc in the book that's not in either previous film.

Excuse my ignorance, is the book named the same like this movie?

@@danijelb.3384 yes. Both are titled “all quite on the western front.”

I think it’s a movie

@@datboidego Bruh it's a 1928 or so book... The movie from like 1930 came right after as an adaptation

@@Hyperion298 I'm confused why you called him dumb? All he said is that this trailer is a movie and not a show unless I'm missing something

@@darkenDuh Propably because he's a sad little troll, sitting in his basement, looking to start an argument out of boredom Ignore people like this. They bring nothing of value to the conversation or society in general.

We had to read it in like 7th grade (I think such a book is a bit too early for young pupils) and it legit gave me nightmares back then. The naturalism depicted in it is hard to describe.

My favourite book of all time, really hope they don't screw it up

whats the name of the book plZ

@@Chrissy-_- All Quiet on the Western Front…

@@yakhooves by Erich Maria Remarque

This book was revelatory for me. The Road Back - the direct sequel - which follows another band of soldiers as they return home to revolution and strife, is just as masterful. I hope that gets adapted too.

There's exactly one thing I want to see in a historically accurate WW1 story, and that's a successful trench charge. Despite the cliche of men getting mowed down, the vast majority of charges across No Man's Land were actually successful. The real death toll of WW1 came afterwards- the attackers were exhausted and out of the ammunition, and the defenders could simply overrun them with fresh troops and recapture the trench.

We all know theres gonna be black people (But not in the accurate ww1 way)

@@Scottagram So like in the original film

@@kaliyuga1476 Unless there are colonial troops or the Harlem Hell Fighters, its unlikely to find many if any black soldiers. At least as soldiers, who knows in other scenes.

Don't you worry, Netflix will make sure they are there, historical or not.

One of the few new productions where the lead hasn't been replaced with a Strong Woman (TM). ;)

I hope there's enough diversity in the German Army....

@@JK-br1mu I hope they show some representation with the Kaiserlicherollstuhlstolz Imperial Wheelchair Pride Corps

I doubt, i'm sure we gonna see a black german soldier.

@@syberiasybiria1916 And a trans soldier

i think war is always been hell....

@@hiroipip I think he is saying that, before WW1, the idea of dying for your leader or for your contry was heavily romanticized. True, war has always been hell, but it seems that only in WW1 is when humanity started to realize this.

Well young man, youre going to get to experience ww3 first hand for yourself, during the new age of technology.

@@Ben-ek1fz most movies romanticize war .

@@hiroipip War has always been hell but back in the days the war used to be a few major but short battles. They were brutal but different than daily bombardment in a trench which on top of violence is physical and mental torture. I'm not a psygholocist but I'd guess the prolonged suffering is what really breaks you.

@Seemore please don’t say pog ever again

Can't wait!

Give us. A bit of info please

@@wileyriley9638 there's a bit of stuff changed from the book. Some narrative plot points are shifted, some characters and scenes are cut out entirely, and an entirely new one is added. but the movie still adheres to the core themes and sticks true to what the novel is really about. the scenes I really wanted the film to adapt from the book were actually adapted, and adapted well too, so no complaints here the casting i thought was really great, the guy who plays Paul is honestly pretty perfect. the film made me cry a few times. It's really bleak The battle scenes are intense. despite it having a lot of action, never does any of it feel glorified or "cool." it's really well done after the film ended people were applauding for like 2 minutes straight, a lot of people liked it

@@TheMoonPersonTV It's not woke?

@@lanek2177 Bro you read all that and that's all you have to say? Get off the internet. You need a book or something.

I am from Germany and have also seen the film in the theatre. Absolutely shocking! There were many young people in the audience who were about the same age as their compatriots who were sent to this murderous war 105 years ago. When the film was over and the credits were played, no one got up and left, the whole audience sat together in silence for 3 to 4 minutes, something I have never experienced in cinema before!

@@ruhri0411 Last Time i saw that was Schindlers List.

I from michigan and saw in Troy with my mom and brother. Even though I knew the ending of the movie. It still destroyed me

Watch the real version from 1930, there will never be an better version than this one.

@@matteophilippi4047 yes that movie is insane

Read Hitlers war by David Irving. That book will blow your mind

The 1930 original is much better

@@matteophilippi4047 100% agree!

bro what is wrong with your brain lmao. I cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance it takes to call this movie apolitical while you probably think black arielle or gay and trans characters are political

The problem with Netflix is that they are a streaming company first, a movie production company second. In this day and age, with so many rival streaming companies, it really should be the other way around. Keep customers around by producing consistent quality originals instead of amassing a huge library of watchbait gunk greenlit by social media marketers.

@Qwerty123 Netflix is just spewing out junk until they can find something that resonates with the majority. Occasionally a couple of gems can be found if you're willing to dig through the cesspool.

Netflix will cancel this in a heartbeat if they didn't get enough views to make back the production costs with profit. Unfortunately, it's all about the $$$ these days.

And to think, they managed to do it without reimagining WWI from an intersectional feminist perspective…

definitely agree i was so hyped for this movie cause i love the war genre but i wasn’t prepared for what this movie was gonna end up being but yet it was amazing & brings tears to your eyes

Theatrical release or not, I'm setting up a projector at home for this one.

For sure, WW2 has had its day and is an old, tired and far too fantasised period of history in film. WW1 has so many angles yet unexplored.

Wonder Woman too, played the war with respect... until the end part of course.

totally agreed. wwi is a harder sell 'commercially' because it really cant be simplified into 'bad' and 'good' guys (ie whose fault was it that the war began? historians are still disputing that to this day).

Why on Earth would you care if this got a theatrical release? You have no stake.

My high school didn't have us read this book, but they had us read The Things They Carried (a Vietnam war book) and 1984. These two books shaped my perspective on how war and propaganda are machines that eat up humans and leave us with nothing. Haunting tales with strong messages.

Well said.

Hear, hear. This deserves way more likes.

Have you read Mark Twain’s “War Prayer” by chance? *highly* recommend. It’s very short, and it’s incredibly brutal. It made me feel gross for every moment of my life ever spent with anything less than total disgust with war.

Well said

... ww1 enjoyer...

@@casbee9610 you can enjoy learning about certain eras of history. Worded weird but he definitely didnt mean that he enjoyed that ww1 happended, he just enjoys learning the history/culture/technology of that era. It was a very interesting era and it is surrounded by interesting tech and politics

There was what was called "drumfire." It was when an area was completely shelled by artillery that would last for hours or even days. The name comes from the sound these massive barrages would make, where it was like a band of drummers were just beating their drums. There's some recreations here on KZfaq where you can hear what that sounded like. And again, this would sometimes last for _days_ on end. You couldn't sleep because of the noise and because the ground would shake beneath your feet. All you could do was crouch down in the deepest part of your trench that was infested with rats and mud. Guys would just curl up in a fetal position and wait for it to be over. So imagine not being able to move, having no agency and no way to rest, and staying like that for days as the earth was blown apart everywhere around you. It's no wonder people came back with "shell shock" where they couldn't walk correctly and would wake up in the middle of the night screaming long after the war was over. It really was Hell on Earth.

@@nekrataali I know, I am a Big History buff myself. In my Studies I figured the Eastern front worse than the west

dont worry. we will always have endless wars.

@@kevinfisher466 "Only the Dead have seen the end of war." -Plato

Especially after "1917", and even in games like BF1 that encapsulates how the war was.

@@linkin0983 BF1 was underrated. The campaign had me in tears. BF V also. Bf1 looked amazing. It really showed you the brutality of war.

Agree. Agree. Agree.

I 100% agree!! Just looking at how many WW2 movies have been made is insane. WW1 is thankfully getting more recognition now.

@@R3dH4z3 The campaign and online was so good on BF1 played it for years

Read his follow up book, it was more potent for me.

@@brunoterlingen2203 name of book ?

@@sethkappaccilli9509 "The Road Back" I believe mate.

The 1930 version? Or the 1979 version starring John-boy Walton himself, Richard Thomas?

Funny enough, all the clothing in the 1930 version was all original. There were so much on the market in the way of German uniforms and equipment from the war the the costume and props department just bought it. What you see on film is actual WWI German gear. And when they had German veterans living in LA to come authenticate the sets, training, and uniforms. They were so pivotal in the making, they were put into the film and made the training officers at while the boys are in the training school. It feels so real because the advisors had been the very men this book and film were about. I think they even brought in various Allied veterans as collaboration to back up like "Yup, when we raided this trench at Verdun, this is what we saw. They aren't trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge".

The major battle scene in the 1930 movie is still powerful today, and set the standard for such scenes.

@@squaddie67 and Ernest Borgnine...I thought it was very good...however,the 1930 one was the best...and that butterfly eh!.....Interesting to see how this one comes out..

You have to see the 79 version

movie isnt even out yet bro

@@ericgu9036 In cinemas it is bro

@@ericgu9036 it has pre screenings in cinemas.

and every one today has an opinion on the Ukraine war...

@@thePlum they certainly do.

The part in the book when he returns to his bedroom, and begins to take his favorite books out, to read them. And one by one they turn meaningless. The war has rendered everything meaningless, and his childhood is forever gone.

the poor have always fought the rich man's wars.

lol uh sorry pal,,, i'm paying for the war? i will be talking at length about it

Extremely surprising that Netflix didn't try to rewrite history and make the cast all black. I'll still never pay them a cent to watch anything on the platform. I'll be finding this movie free online like I do for anything else that might be produced by Netflix.

WW1 youtube videos and weirdly racist commenters, name a more iconic duo

@@HarryManback0 I'm surprised they've kept the enemy as the French. I was expecting them to change it to the 'ever evil Brits' who are the target for every historical film/TV programme these days

@@jackkendall6420 how is that racist?

@@valar460 *Their brains are broken, just ignore*

My cousin watched all of 1917 with me and left the theater asking me "why did the Americans have British accents?" He was around 19 with no clue of WW1

@jcorb I doubt it. My relatives 25 and older vs. younger have a vastly different knowledge of the world.

The old saying is still true: We are doomed to repeat lest we forget.

Lest we forget. But we always do, which is why it happens again, and again, until the time we all lose

@@Zure467 at least we aren't speaking german

OH yeah, that movie. I never knew there was a music video for Metallica's "One" until a few years ago and found out about that movie. They tied together their song to the scenes from that film and it is surreal.

The concept of Johnny Got His Gun is probably the most terrifying scenario I could conceive ever being in.

They probably won’t ever adapt “Journey to the End of the Night” into a movie. Not only are the depictions of violence extremely graphic, but it’s also probably the most nihilistic depiction of war, and of life, I’ve ever read. The majority of the passages set in WW1 involve the protagonist avoiding friendly fire by his own French comrades while performing reconnaissance missions, and searching for Germans to surrender to so he can survive the war as a prisoner😂. He’s later institutionalized because of his nervous breakdowns and while at the asylum he meets a Pacifist who annoys him. He concludes that simply being a coward, without any deeper political/philosophical reflection, is the purest form of antiwar protest.

BUT WHERES THE DIVERISTY WHYS EVERYONE WHITE AND WHY IS IT ONLY CIS WHITE MALES!! Jk jk hahah, actually surprised netflix keeping it accurate

@@asdf2593 Cause some of those extras were WW1 veterans which makes it more historically impressive.