German critics haven’t merely panned All Quiet on the Western Front. They’ve machine-gunned, gassed, grenaded, bayoneted, shelled, tank-crushed, and blowtorched it.
per se, but I suppose it would have to be when the ostensible protagonist Paul Bäumer watches one of his school buddies attempt to surrender to the French—only to be torched with a flamethrower at close range before he’s finally shot.
After all, why offer viewers a reprieve from the blood and guts by leavingthe famous pages where Bäumer goes on leave and struggles to live in polite society again after what he’s witnessed and done? Instead, why not just insert an entirely new set of characters, higher-ups who drink fancy wine and ride on fancy trains and include a bloodthirsty general so clichéd that he spends the movie sitting in his mansion literallyhas the effect of a “pumped-up miniseries” that will be lucky to...
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