Yes I completely agree. I liked the TV miniseries from the 70s better than this, although that wasn't perfect either. If they made something like that again but improved with like an HBO's band of brothers budget then that would be really amazing. Maybe one day.
At a very basic level it keeps a lot of the main ideas, and those are things that any good WW1 movie should have whether it's based on Remarques book or not. That's why I say it's a pretty good ww1 film still.
But at the same time so much is lost from it. And not just minor themes either. The details really add up and I can't even really call it the same story anymore. I went over a lot of it in this post but it was the way Paul's death was mishandled in particular that really made me want to make this post.
I'm glad you loved it but personally I was really just expecting something else from it. If I could seperate it from the book totally then I probably would have loved it too. But as it stands I feel like the book and the older adaptations as well were a lot more meaningful and so I felt disappointed by it.
thorppeed OP t1_iuiv79a wrote
Reply to comment by brogrammer9k in All Quiet On The Western Front 2022 is a pretty good WW1 film but a really bad adaptation of the book (spoilers) by thorppeed
Yes I completely agree. I liked the TV miniseries from the 70s better than this, although that wasn't perfect either. If they made something like that again but improved with like an HBO's band of brothers budget then that would be really amazing. Maybe one day.