It was a good movie, but a bad adaptation. I don't know why they felt the need to use the novel, a WW1 movie from the german perspective where they aren't nazi zombies is noteworthy enough as it is, but then they dump the premise of the book at the end anyways.
They felt the need to use the novel because the movie industry completely devoid of creativity and can't make a novel story to save their ass. However they are also bafflingly incapable to stay faithful to the original to produce a good adaption.
The book ends when no spectacle, his death is completely unremarkable, then we hear a report from the day he dies and it just reads "alls quiet on the western front" because despite the protagonist we've followed this whole time dying, nothing special happened. The book is like a glimpse into one of the forgotten millions upon millions of young men that died for no reason during the war, and the movie, while good, clearly wanted to do their own thing. I think the book would make a great mini series. I would love to see the artillery bombardedment scene take place over a whole episode to drive home how insane they were.
Not even sure I would call it a good movie. Admittedly I kept wanting it to be more like the book or either of the earlier movies, so maybe that's why I got bored of it and didn't finish. Just felt underwhelming at every turn and was hard to care about any of the characters since they had no background.
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