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March 10, 2008
Oscar Challenge: AQOTWF
Five minutes into All Quiet on the Western Front, Nathan and I looked at each other and sighed happily. "This isn't going to suck," we said. And it didn't.
I probably shouldn't have re-watched Blackadder Goes Forth last week. There's a scene in AQOTWF where the soldiers are trying to figure out why the fuck they're at war, and all I could think of was Baldrick theorizing that the war started "when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry." The actual truth makes about as much sense.
At any rate, this ranked up there with Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan as one of the best war movies I've ever seen. Go rent it, it doesn't suck.
Comments
An excellent film. It truly captures the absolute hopelessness and meaningless of both the war as a whoel and each individual death within it.
Posted by: Rachel T at March 10, 2008 9:18 AM