One Paragraph Movie Review: All Quiet On The Western Front

Eleventh film: All Quiet On The Western Front. Made in 1930, this is a film about World War 1 made before World War 2 had even happened, and it’s utterly astounding. It’s also full of complete spunks but they’re mostly all dead now, so FOCUS. Usually I can take or leave a two-hour war film, but this one — anti-war and told from German soldiers’ points of view with incredible battle scenes and super-authentic-feeling mud, grenade blasts and dead pigs — kept me pretty much gripped. Shut up, I’m not crying, I got some shrapnel in my eye. Also — and it’s important I say this — one of the characters poos their pants. Four pairs of fine leather boots out of five.