All Quiet on the Western Front [Blu-ray]

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Likewise, low-frequency audio and sounds are most evident where there are explosions and tanks rolling.

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An abundance of title cards breaks the flow somewhat, but sound effects, a music score, and slightly different editing make this version a fascinating curio in its own right, and definitely worth a look. Mark Kermode says that, although it is on Netflix, there is an excellent reason to see it in cinemas because it is "visually very, very impressive, overwhelming, and gruelling.

HDR and WCG, the former of the Dolby Vision variety, further enhance the piece, and also appear to do so more confidently here, allowing for those rich inky blacks with flashes of explosive pop, and never faltering under the extremes of what's on offer. And since Saving Private Ryan so viscerally displayed the atrocities and horrors of war, that element has become the norm when war movies are concerned. Escaping the clutches of Netflix through limited distribution rights, All Quiet on the Western Front has been able to make a fairly surprisingly swift transition to disc, and 4K disc no less, with its UK iteration coming courtesy of Altitude Film Distribution, who deliver it with outstanding 4K Ultra HD Dolby Vision and an utterly reference Dolby Atmos track, as well as a few nice extras to round out the package.

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The production design is some of the best ever committed to film and the new take on the story by bringing the peace talks into the mix was a great addition. It was nominated in twelve categories for the 2023 German Film Awards, [6] and won eight, plus the Silver Award for Best Picture. Of course some scenes appear slightly overexposed, others a shade soft, and still others a tad murky, but considering the film's age, such anomalies are expected, even after a restoration. Remarque is not as interested in the war and geopolitics as he is in the war as human absurdity made manifest.All Quiet on the Western Front' premiered to great critical and popular acclaim and remains a staggering achievement - massive in scope, yet surprisingly intimate and affecting. The performances from everyone are wonderful and bring the realities of war and suffering to the forefront, even if similar roles and performances have been seen before.

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Paul and his friends go on a mission to find 60 missing recruits sent to reinforce their unit and discover that they were killed by gas after taking off their masks too soon. But - and your mileage will clearly vary as the near-unanimous praise has shown - there is absolutely nothing, barring that aforementioned score, new here. Compared to the streaming presentation, there is a higher level of detail in the disc image that pops off the screen.Other moments reveal the shiny, green trees and shrubs in the background with a nice crystal blue sky above with some brown dirt or wood in the trenches. Hubert Wetzel, writing in Süddeutsche Zeitung, criticized the film's alterations to the book stating that "you have to ask yourself whether director Berger has even read Remarque's novel". In a sequence of the 1930 film, omitted from the 2022 film, Paul comes home on leave and can't relate to former teachers and other adults. town's former postmaster, who attempts to whip them into some sort of shape in a rather martinet manner.

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Based on Erich Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel, the film follows a young German soldier (Lew Ayres, Damien: Omen II) through the horrors of World War .A Collector's Edition Blu-ray release is scheduled for March 28, 2023, in the United States and April 24, 2023, in the United Kingdom. The young German teenager turned soldier Paul Bäumer takes in the chaos that surrounds him and finds those smaller moments of intimacy with his fellow soldiers and the hopeful beauty that can come out of such violence. So much so that it's easy to feel a little desensitised over another 150 minutes of war horror and get to the end wondering what was the point? At one point, the soldiers casually connect with a few village women, but there's no emotional bonding; any unions are all about escape, release, and soothing the numbness that has ravaged their bodies and minds.