As we grow more and more distant from the war to end all wars, that kind of reappraisal becomes even more important. It is, nonetheless, the first All Quiet on the Western Front adaptation in wide release that we’ve got from an actual German perspective. It’s therefore profoundly frustrating that All Quiet on the Western Front, at times, bucks against Remarque’s thesis. It’s a completely different perspective that is exceptionally well-shot and directed and raises its voice about Germany’s part of culpability for the war. It also, inescapably, feels as if it’s more of a war film than the others, with more action scenes and necessarily less of an examination of the effect of war on the individual soldier. It’s wild, compared to the mostly faithful adaptations of the past. By virtue of including two other characters, it makes an attempt to go beyond the trenches and indict the inhumanity of the people whose words cause wars. It’s therefore somewhat perplexing that this adaptation ditches a lot of the particulars of the novel, widens its perspective characters to include top German brass, elides characters and even changes the particulars of major plot points to tell what amounts to an almost completely different story-one with a wider scope. Berger (born in then-West Germany in 1970) is not. Despite their clear dedication to paint a universalist picture of the futility and inhumanity of modern war, the previous productions were, on some level, putting an American spin on this tale. Edward Berger’s new adaptation, distributed by Netflix, is unique among these in that it’s actually a German-language and German-led production. The first two were grim reflections of the wars of their time, and remain fascinating not just for their treatment of Remarque’s work, but for viewing them in the context of the time in which they were made: Lewis Milestone’s 1930 film landed in the precise middle of the two World Wars that forever reshaped Europe Delbert Mann’s 1979 television adaptation inescapably called back to the Vietnam War.
There are now three major screen adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Here are the 10 best action movies of 2022: But, if we let them, they can still inspire us-or provoke us. Revolution and safety don’t normally go together, but at the cinema, we see fantasies of fighting back where the dangers can’t touch us. As the powers that be try their damnedest to convince us that everything is finally alright (be that with COVID, police brutality, censorship, military overreach, or economic downturns), it is a comfort to be taken to the rebellious amusement park.
Tom Cruise and Michael Bay are featured on this list, so, what else could we be focusing on? Of course, there is an underbelly to that excess-a reason why bombast’s brash simplicity was favored over nuance. Some of the best action movies of 2022 were also simply some of the best movies of the year. From James Cameron’s long-awaited return to Pandora to the unexpected crossover smash that saw Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem kick ass while on each other’s shoulders, there has been a blissful return to excess at the movies. A rare year for straight-up action movies, some of the year’s biggest films were also those that exploded, that raced, that seared our eyeballs with spectacle.
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