He died for nothing. That's literally the point of the movie. Young men are sent into the meat grinder to die horrible deaths for nothing. It's not going to have a feel-good ending.
The dude literally says "A tragically satisfying ending." He knows that point he jus got mad because it pissed him off. People in this comment section did not watch the video cause he literally said that, that's crazy.
Then the truth behind that scene will boil your blood. Over 5,000 soldiers died between the signing of the armistice and it going into effect. 5,000 people died between 5am and 11am on November 11th, 1918.
Thats exactly the point tho. Its an antiwar movie. Saving private ryan is american which portraits the soldiers as glorious heroes, which isn’t the reality in war. That’s why the ending is so perfect, it’s not a happy ending, just like war never has a happy ending.
@moviekhans bruh the ending is necessary that is the only way for people to understand bad ending is one of the reasons people understand the message think why people don't realize privat Ryan is a anti war movie so people don't know provat Ryan is a anti war movie because it have a good ending people is stupid so all quit at the westurn front hold nothing back on the anti war all quit at the westurn front do everything and what surprise me there is a short that is some one put on a war costume after watching the movie the person who make the short mise the message so the ending is atless able to make people to stop with the glory lie but some how there some dum people also there a short were some one try to play a war game but the ending he pull a gun and put it in his mouth Holy shit and the movie effects me greatly so stop complaining about the ending
That’s literally the entire point of the goddamn movie dude. Did you not watch it? It’s supposed to explain how stupid war is, the movie isn’t meant to have a good story, it’s supposed to make you mad because of how dumb war is. Just like the 1929 book.
So what if it doesn't include the town scene? It doesn't make the film shit. The original AQOTWF movie cut out a couple of moments from the novel, such as the horses being tied up with their own intestine
If you know the story of All Quiet on the Western Front from either the book or any previous adaptations, you go into the movie knowing that basically everyone is going to die, including Paul. The only difference in the 2022 film is Paul dies on November 11th, whereas in the original story he dies in October. Part of me had hope this adaptation would go in another direction, that Paul would be spared. But alas no, he still dies, with a peaceful look on his face, "as if happy the end had finally come."
Honestly he's so destroyed at the end of the story (even saying something like he feels unable to go back home and live normal life) and having lost all his friends, I don't think he particularly cared if he lived or died anymore...
ive only watched the movie so far but im pretty sure his death in the movie was way more peaceful than in other versions of the story because he knew he would be one of the last to die
There is only 1 complaint I have with the 2022 adaptation (the movie is amazing, I think!) And that is the part where Paul goes on leave in the original story and meets Kantorek and has a conversation with some older gentlement is cut out of the film, which would have made the end more impactful to me as he shows that war has changed him to the point that he doesn't fit into normal society, so once the war is over his life will never be what it is, hence why he looks so peaceful when he dies.
If you dont like a war movie because characters die without reason you really dont know about war. Stay with Spielberg, he knows how to make you happy at the end. Even if you just saw hundreds of men die, Spielberg wants you to feel good cause "it was worth it", thats just a false meaning. Soldiers dont found meaning in war, they find death, chaos and desperation. All Quiet in the western front represents that, if you are not ready for it stay with the happy endings war movies, but dont call the ending of this one stupid
The movie is called all is quiet on the western front because he was alive when they stop the war and died when it was all quiet on the western front. Hope this makes for sense.
I hate to be the "umm actually" guy, but the title of the book comes from a newspaper article that the author saw whilst briefly back in Germany during the war, glofifying the German offence on the Eastern front. He saw his friends get blown apart and brutalised and becuase they hadn't made any progress in that area, all it said at the end of the article was the German of "in the West, nothing new". A random journalist boiled the man's piss so much that he never forgot the phrase
The sad reality is, 10,000 men died mere minutes before the 11th hour. Imagine how they felt marching down to their deaths knowing the end is nigh but a stupid general is ordering them to die
Idk where you got your "facts", but 10,000 men didn't "mere minutes" before the 11th hour. Less than 3,000 died in the hours before the 11th hour. Still too many though.
This movie is done a great job of depicting what it would look be like as soldiers have survived for years and have so much to come home back to and just die like that. It actually shows what happens to people that have survived for a long time and it can happen to anyone at any moment which this makes you watching it angry but the movie has done a great job making you angry.
I agree with this statement except for one anti war movie. Come and See. It’s the only non-glorified war movie that the ending made me satisfied. Last I checked it’s still all on TH-cam.
War is a horrible creation of humanity that will haunt us until the end of days. No one wins. Everyone loses. The meager suggestion that killing one another for territory, resources, or money is moral is absurd. Man will find a way whether by godly or ungodly means and purpose.
That’s the point. The author of AQOTWF was a veteran and wanted to capture the moments when men were fed into that meat grinder and empires collapsed because of pride.
I hated that French soldier who left Paul there like what a dick. I get it that they were trying to kill each other earlier but he’s just following orders
Its a anti-war film, its ment to show war isnt fun and kills, no good endings are seen, people say ‘only the dead have seen the end of the war’ for a reason
its not stupid, because unlike saving private ryan, All Quiet on the Wester Front is a TRUE anti-war film. Not trying to make it seem like dying is some form of glory.
@@cringlord1920 bullshit bro, i don't give af if some Ryan needs saving because some mother is sad if my life is on line, Saving private Ryan has excellent screenplay and crappy story
@@dimensionhacker2271 Broskie, Idgaf what you don't give a fuck about, my point still stands and you haven't disproved it. The soldiers died to save some, that's a hero's death. Dying isn't noble, saving a life is.
@@cringlord1920 "Broskie" lmao idgaf that you dgaf that idgaf , Surviving is noble, i like the film throws self importance into trash and it's supposed to be an anti war movie not glorifying death, In reality those guys died for nothing, they could just abandon their mission, would have saved a bunch of lives.
@@dimensionhacker2271 They wouldn't have saved anyone besides themselves, that's not noble. The film isn't glorifying their death but instead their courage to save someone. Saving a person is noble and that's not subjective.
That's the point. The film is about how these soldiers were fighting in the trenches just for a few cm of land. War brings pointless death. Private Ryan's message does not align with the reality of war
To get you pissed about how pointless all the fighting and death was, and how disconnected from those who fought and died the war eventually became, that's the whole point of the story! So many people died POINTLESSLY in WW1.
He got stabbed before the war ended, not after. Both him and the French soldier stopped fighting either because they were exhausted or both simply had a moment of clarity and questioned why they were fighting. Then he got stabbed, mere seconds before the war ended, not after the alarm sounded. He was so close to making it, and got killed mere seconds away from the end. And the other guy walked away after he was stabbed.
Im a feminist, so this movie is really important to me because it shows things men have suffered from due to societal pressures and gender stereotypes. Hell hes not even a man! Hes 17! And dead in a war! I bet he never even had sex. I bet he never got his heart broke or moved on and fell in love with another woman. Ive watched countless interviews of Vietnam veterans telling their story and the most common thing that I thought was so sweet is how they all make some kind of comment in the beginning when theyre telling you how old they were they say things like, "i had just turned 18 the day i got to boot camp. I was such a young pup. I had no business being over there. i shouldve been home chasing the girls...not tip toeing through some jungle 15,000 miles away looking for the Vietcong." Its some version of that, whether theyre proud of what they did in vietnam or not (they usually are because im sure its hard to not be because if you admit you arent...then in your head youre just a murderer even though you were a child. That wouldve been drafted if you didnt volunteer.) Guess what they couldnt recruit a 28 year old. They cant recruit a grown man. Is that because 28 year old men arent as good as 18 year olds? Id been 28 year olds would be better in every category BUT most of the recruits are 18, 19 years old. They cant recruit a grown man because he knows its not some adventure and he'd tell your ass to go do it yourself for that kinda pay. Then if its so fun why you over here recruiting when you can be on the front lines?! And some of them then got paralyzed from the waist down which meant they never got to have sex or have children. Another man said he'd prepared himself for death but he never prepared himself for coming home paralyzed and what that would mean for his life and ugh now that im 35 and i look back on the guys from my high school that went to the army and went to Iraq i thought they were so grown then but now? Id beg them to stay home. Fuck what happens in Iraq let them work it out. Guess what they wont ever work it out. They dont work together as a people their is a radical population that tries to enslave the other side and until they can make their own peace go to college get a girlfriend, get another girlfriend, get married wait a long time, have some kids, get a job that you hate but get to come home alive from STAY OUT THE MILITARY...i have a 1 year old son, and the only thing i cant accept from him, because i love him too much, is a military career. But that doesn't mean i dont love our soldiers.❤
The original ending is even better, there was no big fight on the last day, all side was way too exchausted for that(well there was bombing, what you gonna do with the shells after the war...). Paul died by a stray bullet, his dead was even more meaningless in the book and it ended with the simple "nothing to report", there was no one to even notice that he died.
You guys totally missed the point of the movie's ending. It's what happened in the book, just in a different way, and it's meant to convey how cruel and terrible war is.
I actually felt like a huge weight has been lifted off when he was killed. He came out and took a deep breath of free air and no war. He looked calm. Even if he had survived, he should serve for the nazis again which is worse. Hence this ending is far better.
Saving private Ryan is a great action movie but historically inaccurate and Hollywood bs mostly. All quite at the western front shows you that war is cruel.
Paul dies in the book and the other two film adaptations. The whole point of that was to show how senseless and frivolous war is, especially the First World War which came as the result of a family squabble between cousins Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, King George V of the United Kingdom and Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany over agreeing which nations to back in the event of a fallout because an heir to the throne of Austria was assassinated by a Bosnian-Serb peasant.
The reason he dies for no reason is to really show how pointless war is. Yes heroism like saving private Ryan is amazing but in reality, in Ww1 there is a lot of unmarked graves of people who died just like that. I’m not saying no one was a hero or that every film must be completely historically accurate but it helps you see just how pointless it was and that he could have survived.
American war movies: look how cool and the amount of brotherhood we have Actual good war movie: die for the ungrateful, lead by the incompetent, kill the unfortunate
you should read the book. you would be furious to know real life doesn’t always have a happy ending, especially amidst the crucible of the first world war
War is not something to be glorified or placed on a pedestal. AQWF did an amazing job showing how cruel and bittersweet war is for it’s victims as well as the soldiers.
While the setting of the remake's ending is kind of too glorious imo, it does get the point. It's not satisfying, it's not worth it, just like the first world war It's understandable to be pissed, it's the intention
Just asking, how is the setting too glorious? Every now and then they showed a beautiful landscape, and how beautiful life can be to contrast the senseless brutality and deaths. Like the butterfly in the book. This whole movie’s thing was kind of about contrast, like the aggressive soundtrack playing when they’re laughing around. Or the transitions from battlefield to the lavish life the leaders where living, complaining about the pastries
@@TheReeelBradPitt the way Paul walks to the light and sits down to bleed out is a much more "glorious" death than how he dies on other versions: getting shot in the head while reaching for a butterfly and while standing up to draw a bird
History remembers the leaders, the ministers, the presidents, the general and some isolated and outstanding actions from regular folks every now and then. The others ? They're just numbers, many died pointless deaths and were just turned into statistics, without a name, without a tomb. Armistice was signed at 5 am, but it came into effect at 11am of november 11th for poetic value...a poetic value that saw 3 thousand men die in a war that was already over. That movie portrays reality for what it is, most of us aren't the heros of an outstanding story, we're just pons or background caracters who do not matter in the bigger picture.
The 1930 and 1979 version interpeted the ending of Baumer in a more themeatic, resolved, and peaceful way of dying and releasing all the stress and guilt of his lifetime during the great war. Paul's death in both of these adaptations also portrayed a different emotion to war then seen in the 2022 adaptation where it portrays an all out senselessness and stupidness of war, instead in his near end, he feel quiet, and felt peace where he stood. Even when the sniper had killed him, the whole Battlefield fell quiet, as if in war he had suffered, but while deceased, he felt what he had once reconziled to a lifetime ago, long before the war, a child.
Your pissed, good. This your average movie where in the end, the guys win or there is a happy ending, maybe with some little twist that someone died. All Quiet is not there to glorify war, it is to tell you that even at the last second, you could die. War isn’t something to be simply entertained by, it is something you learn from
Apparently this guy doesn't know this movie was based on a book which was turned into a movie which was turned into another movie which turned into this
They tried to make the death a big major event, in the 1930 version the ending is much more simple, he sees a butterfly, he reaches out the suddenly he is shot by a sniper, no music, no big effects, nothing, a gunshot noise and thats it, then a radio transmission saying “all quiet on the western front” thats where the name of the book came from
The ending on that movie sort of makes sense metaphorically. During the whole movie we saw a Boy eager to be on the battle fields, naive of what is to come. And the cost of war, the losses, the consequences of it are so drastic that no sides wins. Which leads to the ending with nothing and nobody, only losses.
30:58 I think the message of this cannot be understated. This was just some guy, excited for war, got a high ranking job, trains the soliders and fills their heads with ideas of glory, but he has never fought a day in his life.
Yea that’s the entire point. The entire point was that he made it through so much in the war, through the entire war, and died at the end, pointlessly, on a day where the only report was that it was “all quiet on the western front”. He made it through much worse experiences, through more horror than any of us can imagine, and died on a quiet day, in the final minute of the war. The entire point is that his dead was pointless and everyone else’s was too
It was intentionally supposed to be unsatisfying because that's how most soldiers died. Not in some kind of epic blaze of glory. Just killed by something they never saw coming
A truly perfect and accurate ending would have the main character built and being sent off to war all excited and just as his mission starts, hes shot and dies, has his uniform stripped of him, and put in a mass grave, and his name forgotten. That would show the true meaningless death in war
"Everything here is like a fever. We didn't ask for it. The others didn't ask for it but it's suddenly there nonetheless it happened and nonetheless half the world is involved, mind you. And god looks down...at us murderers" -Kat
Well it’s not like the main character died at literally 1 second before the cease fire. He wasn’t the main character. Who knows how many others died in the war just moments before, during and after 11 am. The movie followed one of the men who happened to meet that end and the story of him and his friends was no more unique than everyone else’s
Everybody in world war 1 died for nothing. Such a great film, sure it's got its flaws but for the most part it's great. The heroic beautiful thought of war before the truth was out with all the young men optimistic and eager to get to war, they slowly approach the front and the grim reality starts to creep in then they're in the middle with the bombing and the children in distress like animals to the slaughter then they harden up and become temporary immune then the slow signs of PTSD and the constant contrasts between the grim reality of the soldiers and the paradise of the men who send the soldiers to their death for their own pride and ego. I love this film but it's super sad.
He died for nothing. That's literally the point of the movie. Young men are sent into the meat grinder to die horrible deaths for nothing. It's not going to have a feel-good ending.
@DailyEditzzzzlooks like someone got a spoiler😂😂
true words
Not everyone in war dies for nothing.
@@jerbs5346Yeah! Just...mostly everyone.
@@grawlix-man463 The Rangers on Pointe du hoc died so thousands of other men could live.
if it made you pissed then the movie made a good job
If it pissed you off you weren't paying attention to the film lol
@@AugustK1ng99 no it’s made to piss you off it’s anti war
In the book Paul dies a month before the war ends
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Bro missed the point.
The dude literally says "A tragically satisfying ending." He knows that point he jus got mad because it pissed him off. People in this comment section did not watch the video cause he literally said that, that's crazy.
Ikr
@@whybroaintchillin He was saying that about Saving Private Ryan
@@ThatBlobfish-zb3iv this nk 🫢🫨🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why does it seem like most of these podcasters have shit for brains?
Then the truth behind that scene will boil your blood. Over 5,000 soldiers died between the signing of the armistice and it going into effect. 5,000 people died between 5am and 11am on November 11th, 1918.
shhh they only only the happy ending films
All for the sentiment of the 11th hour of the 11th month
@@50-frames-of-stick7111th hour 11th day 11th month*
Henry Nicholas John Gunther was the last to die in ww1 at 10:59am
All so bureaucrats can have their glory.
Thats exactly the point tho. Its an antiwar movie. Saving private ryan is american which portraits the soldiers as glorious heroes, which isn’t the reality in war. That’s why the ending is so perfect, it’s not a happy ending, just like war never has a happy ending.
lol yes, you’re right. even for victors, war doesn’t have a happy ending. i was pissed but satisfied because it makes sense.
@@moviekhans it’s how the book and every other movie does ut
Saving private ryan was actually meant to be kind of “anti war” but it turned out to be a huge hit
@@FerdinandllI second this, the director literally said in an interview that anti war was his intentions.
@moviekhans bruh the ending is necessary that is the only way for people to understand bad ending is one of the reasons people understand the message think why people don't realize privat Ryan is a anti war movie so people don't know provat Ryan is a anti war movie because it have a good ending people is stupid so all quit at the westurn front hold nothing back on the anti war all quit at the westurn front do everything and what surprise me there is a short that is some one put on a war costume after watching the movie the person who make the short mise the message so the ending is atless able to make people to stop with the glory lie but some how there some dum people also there a short were some one try to play a war game but the ending he pull a gun and put it in his mouth Holy shit and the movie effects me greatly so stop complaining about the ending
Bro is the type of guy to watch a documentary and say it’s all talking and no action
"It was stupid. I was pissed"
Yeah, that's kinda WW1 in a nutshell.
Every soldier during the great war: so it was all a Iie
Stupid is to think war was anything but tragic and meaningless deaths
Ask Ukraine and Israel if they believe that.
They still do think that.
@@jfkst1Ask Russia, who invaded in the first place, you can't defend an invasion.
Mm yes the philippine revolution was meaning less and so was the many other independence movements
That’s literally the entire point of the goddamn movie dude. Did you not watch it? It’s supposed to explain how stupid war is, the movie isn’t meant to have a good story, it’s supposed to make you mad because of how dumb war is. Just like the 1929 book.
It has a great story and it keeps you very engaged, then hits you with a gut punch that you don't get with a lot of books
And the movie the original one
I AGREE!
This film doesn't even include the best part of the novel. When the soldier returns home, and realizes he's unable to live as he did before the war.
I like the 1977 ending the best. And apparently this guy doesn't know these movies were based on the book
So what if it doesn't include the town scene? It doesn't make the film shit. The original AQOTWF movie cut out a couple of moments from the novel, such as the horses being tied up with their own intestine
@@cringlord1920 OP didn't say the movie was "shit", they just said it left out what they thought was the best part. Calm down.
@@StoutShako I am not hating on him, I'm pointing something out
What the hell do you expect? War isn't supposed to be happy.
If you know the story of All Quiet on the Western Front from either the book or any previous adaptations, you go into the movie knowing that basically everyone is going to die, including Paul. The only difference in the 2022 film is Paul dies on November 11th, whereas in the original story he dies in October.
Part of me had hope this adaptation would go in another direction, that Paul would be spared. But alas no, he still dies, with a peaceful look on his face, "as if happy the end had finally come."
That’s the point tho. It’s supposed to show you the horror and futility of war. War doesn’t determine who’s right, only who’s left
I'm pretty sure its anti war so...
Honestly he's so destroyed at the end of the story (even saying something like he feels unable to go back home and live normal life) and having lost all his friends, I don't think he particularly cared if he lived or died anymore...
ive only watched the movie so far but im pretty sure his death in the movie was way more peaceful than in other versions of the story because he knew he would be one of the last to die
There is only 1 complaint I have with the 2022 adaptation (the movie is amazing, I think!) And that is the part where Paul goes on leave in the original story and meets Kantorek and has a conversation with some older gentlement is cut out of the film, which would have made the end more impactful to me as he shows that war has changed him to the point that he doesn't fit into normal society, so once the war is over his life will never be what it is, hence why he looks so peaceful when he dies.
If you dont like a war movie because characters die without reason you really dont know about war. Stay with Spielberg, he knows how to make you happy at the end. Even if you just saw hundreds of men die, Spielberg wants you to feel good cause "it was worth it", thats just a false meaning.
Soldiers dont found meaning in war, they find death, chaos and desperation. All Quiet in the western front represents that, if you are not ready for it stay with the happy endings war movies, but dont call the ending of this one stupid
Kat Really Got The Worst Death Honestly, Killed By A Kid? C'mon
Yeah just for food tho
JUST FOR 2 DUCK EGGS
like cmon the duck can lay some more bruh
@@M1YBASEYTthey stole more animals before tho
i mean, "killed by a kid" hes armed with a firearm, id shit myself even if it was a kid
He wasn't pierced in the heart he was killed by a stab in the lung
It’s 11AM then everyone becomes like GTA npc lol
The movie is called all is quiet on the western front because he was alive when they stop the war and died when it was all quiet on the western front. Hope this makes for sense.
I hate to be the "umm actually" guy, but the title of the book comes from a newspaper article that the author saw whilst briefly back in Germany during the war, glofifying the German offence on the Eastern front. He saw his friends get blown apart and brutalised and becuase they hadn't made any progress in that area, all it said at the end of the article was the German of "in the West, nothing new".
A random journalist boiled the man's piss so much that he never forgot the phrase
Yeah this comment is wrong but I like thinking of it
The sad reality is, 10,000 men died mere minutes before the 11th hour. Imagine how they felt marching down to their deaths knowing the end is nigh but a stupid general is ordering them to die
Idk where you got your "facts", but 10,000 men didn't "mere minutes" before the 11th hour. Less than 3,000 died in the hours before the 11th hour. Still too many though.
This movie is done a great job of depicting what it would look be like as soldiers have survived for years and have so much to come home back to and just die like that. It actually shows what happens to people that have survived for a long time and it can happen to anyone at any moment which this makes you watching it angry but the movie has done a great job making you angry.
If the ending of a war movie makes you pissed, it has successfully done its job.
I agree with this statement except for one anti war movie. Come and See. It’s the only non-glorified war movie that the ending made me satisfied. Last I checked it’s still all on TH-cam.
If you hated this ending. Try watching the ending of "The Departed"!!!
War is a horrible creation of humanity that will haunt us until the end of days. No one wins. Everyone loses. The meager suggestion that killing one another for territory, resources, or money is moral is absurd.
Man will find a way whether by godly or ungodly means and purpose.
Well, the japanese should have thought about that before bombing Pearl Harbor
Well if you're pissed, imagine living it.
That’s the point. The author of AQOTWF was a veteran and wanted to capture the moments when men were fed into that meat grinder and empires collapsed because of pride.
I hated that French soldier who left Paul there like what a dick. I get it that they were trying to kill each other earlier but he’s just following orders
In the movie from 1977 Paul actually tries to help a guy he stabbed
@@wwbragg13 happens in the current version too when he killed a frenchman in a bomb crater
The entire movie just made you feel that there was no hope
No it wasn't stupid! It was so heart touching.
Its a anti-war film, its ment to show war isnt fun and kills, no good endings are seen, people say ‘only the dead have seen the end of the war’ for a reason
its not stupid, because unlike saving private ryan, All Quiet on the Wester Front is a TRUE anti-war film. Not trying to make it seem like dying is some form of glory.
I get your point but the main characters in Saving Private Rian did die a hero's death, they died for a noble cause because they saved Ryan...
@@cringlord1920 bullshit bro, i don't give af if some Ryan needs saving because some mother is sad if my life is on line, Saving private Ryan has excellent screenplay and crappy story
@@dimensionhacker2271 Broskie, Idgaf what you don't give a fuck about, my point still stands and you haven't disproved it. The soldiers died to save some, that's a hero's death. Dying isn't noble, saving a life is.
@@cringlord1920 "Broskie" lmao idgaf that you dgaf that idgaf , Surviving is noble, i like the film throws self importance into trash and it's supposed to be an anti war movie not glorifying death, In reality those guys died for nothing, they could just abandon their mission, would have saved a bunch of lives.
@@dimensionhacker2271 They wouldn't have saved anyone besides themselves, that's not noble. The film isn't glorifying their death but instead their courage to save someone. Saving a person is noble and that's not subjective.
That's the point. The film is about how these soldiers were fighting in the trenches just for a few cm of land. War brings pointless death. Private Ryan's message does not align with the reality of war
The end triggered me so much i screamed the hell out of me in my pillow
That the point of the movie tho
The point of the movie is depressing MILLIONS of people died for nothing.
He heard them screaming its 11 o clock ceasefire! But man still killed him💀 brudda wanted the end of round killcam a little too much💀💀
The fact that he got killed by a kid too makes this even worse
Sometimes war doesn’t go the way you want it….
To get you pissed about how pointless all the fighting and death was, and how disconnected from those who fought and died the war eventually became, that's the whole point of the story!
So many people died POINTLESSLY in WW1.
He got stabbed before the war ended, not after. Both him and the French soldier stopped fighting either because they were exhausted or both simply had a moment of clarity and questioned why they were fighting.
Then he got stabbed, mere seconds before the war ended, not after the alarm sounded. He was so close to making it, and got killed mere seconds away from the end. And the other guy walked away after he was stabbed.
Im a feminist, so this movie is really important to me because it shows things men have suffered from due to societal pressures and gender stereotypes. Hell hes not even a man! Hes 17! And dead in a war! I bet he never even had sex. I bet he never got his heart broke or moved on and fell in love with another woman. Ive watched countless interviews of Vietnam veterans telling their story and the most common thing that I thought was so sweet is how they all make some kind of comment in the beginning when theyre telling you how old they were they say things like, "i had just turned 18 the day i got to boot camp. I was such a young pup. I had no business being over there. i shouldve been home chasing the girls...not tip toeing through some jungle 15,000 miles away looking for the Vietcong." Its some version of that, whether theyre proud of what they did in vietnam or not (they usually are because im sure its hard to not be because if you admit you arent...then in your head youre just a murderer even though you were a child. That wouldve been drafted if you didnt volunteer.) Guess what they couldnt recruit a 28 year old. They cant recruit a grown man. Is that because 28 year old men arent as good as 18 year olds? Id been 28 year olds would be better in every category BUT most of the recruits are 18, 19 years old. They cant recruit a grown man because he knows its not some adventure and he'd tell your ass to go do it yourself for that kinda pay. Then if its so fun why you over here recruiting when you can be on the front lines?! And some of them then got paralyzed from the waist down which meant they never got to have sex or have children. Another man said he'd prepared himself for death but he never prepared himself for coming home paralyzed and what that would mean for his life and ugh now that im 35 and i look back on the guys from my high school that went to the army and went to Iraq i thought they were so grown then but now? Id beg them to stay home. Fuck what happens in Iraq let them work it out. Guess what they wont ever work it out. They dont work together as a people their is a radical population that tries to enslave the other side and until they can make their own peace go to college get a girlfriend, get another girlfriend, get married wait a long time, have some kids, get a job that you hate but get to come home alive from STAY OUT THE MILITARY...i have a 1 year old son, and the only thing i cant accept from him, because i love him too much, is a military career. But that doesn't mean i dont love our soldiers.❤
Paul should get more respect He did everything he can truly a legend. Rest in peace 🕊️
People when a movie isn’t predictable: 😡
I loved the ending
I actually love it too because it made me care about the character so much that I was pissed. lol
@@moviekhans It was a very sad ending that definitely caught me off guard
Bro he was just a kid
@@moviekhansunfortunately war movies can't put "and they lived happily ever after" in their movies too unrealistic
The original ending is even better, there was no big fight on the last day, all side was way too exchausted for that(well there was bombing, what you gonna do with the shells after the war...). Paul died by a stray bullet, his dead was even more meaningless in the book and it ended with the simple "nothing to report", there was no one to even notice that he died.
You guys totally missed the point of the movie's ending. It's what happened in the book, just in a different way, and it's meant to convey how cruel and terrible war is.
5000 people died after the armistice because they wanted it to happen on the 11th day on the 11th month at the 11th hour.
The movie isn’t supposed to be a heroic story, it’s supposed to show a message and a tragedy
I actually felt like a huge weight has been lifted off when he was killed. He came out and took a deep breath of free air and no war. He looked calm. Even if he had survived, he should serve for the nazis again which is worse. Hence this ending is far better.
He was stabbed seconds BEFORE the 11:00 deadline. You're misremembering a crucial detail which totally invalidates your critique
If you were pissed and thought it was stupid then congratulations that was the point of the movie
It was really a bayonet to the heart
Million of innocent people died in ww1 and this movie is telling us that war has no happy ending
Saving private Ryan is a great action movie but historically inaccurate and Hollywood bs mostly. All quite at the western front shows you that war is cruel.
Paul dies in the book and the other two film adaptations. The whole point of that was to show how senseless and frivolous war is, especially the First World War which came as the result of a family squabble between cousins Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, King George V of the United Kingdom and Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany over agreeing which nations to back in the event of a fallout because an heir to the throne of Austria was assassinated by a Bosnian-Serb peasant.
The reason he dies for no reason is to really show how pointless war is. Yes heroism like saving private Ryan is amazing but in reality, in Ww1 there is a lot of unmarked graves of people who died just like that. I’m not saying no one was a hero or that every film must be completely historically accurate but it helps you see just how pointless it was and that he could have survived.
American war movies: look how cool and the amount of brotherhood we have
Actual good war movie: die for the ungrateful, lead by the incompetent, kill the unfortunate
The majority of WW1 films end like this. I'm thinking of all three iterations of All Quiet on the Western Front, The Trench and Gallipoli as examples.
he didn’t get stabbed in the heart he got stabbed in the lung
Correct
@@AnimatorAOfficialcorrect 😂 that could absolutely have gone throught his heart or any major blood vessels around the heart
bros the kinda person to complain abt ww2 not having a happy end
you should read the book. you would be furious to know real life doesn’t always have a happy ending, especially amidst the crucible of the first world war
War is not something to be glorified or placed on a pedestal. AQWF did an amazing job showing how cruel and bittersweet war is for it’s victims as well as the soldiers.
If the movie ending pissed you off....DEFINITELY DONT READ THE BOOK LOL
While the setting of the remake's ending is kind of too glorious imo, it does get the point. It's not satisfying, it's not worth it, just like the first world war
It's understandable to be pissed, it's the intention
Just asking, how is the setting too glorious? Every now and then they showed a beautiful landscape, and how beautiful life can be to contrast the senseless brutality and deaths. Like the butterfly in the book. This whole movie’s thing was kind of about contrast, like the aggressive soundtrack playing when they’re laughing around. Or the transitions from battlefield to the lavish life the leaders where living, complaining about the pastries
@@TheReeelBradPitt the way Paul walks to the light and sits down to bleed out is a much more "glorious" death than how he dies on other versions: getting shot in the head while reaching for a butterfly and while standing up to draw a bird
@@Spen073I think it's meant to be symbolism, he's literally "going to the light."
@@grawlix-man463 true
Bro’s acting like the main character can’t die
History remembers the leaders, the ministers, the presidents, the general and some isolated and outstanding actions from regular folks every now and then. The others ? They're just numbers, many died pointless deaths and were just turned into statistics, without a name, without a tomb. Armistice was signed at 5 am, but it came into effect at 11am of november 11th for poetic value...a poetic value that saw 3 thousand men die in a war that was already over. That movie portrays reality for what it is, most of us aren't the heros of an outstanding story, we're just pons or background caracters who do not matter in the bigger picture.
The 1930 and 1979 version interpeted the ending of Baumer in a more themeatic, resolved, and peaceful way of dying and releasing all the stress and guilt of his lifetime during the great war. Paul's death in both of these adaptations also portrayed a different emotion to war then seen in the 2022 adaptation where it portrays an all out senselessness and stupidness of war, instead in his near end, he feel quiet, and felt peace where he stood. Even when the sniper had killed him, the whole Battlefield fell quiet, as if in war he had suffered, but while deceased, he felt what he had once reconziled to a lifetime ago, long before the war, a child.
He died for nothing like most of the soldiers in ww2 it may be an unsatisfactory ending but at least it’s accurate to what would of happened
Your pissed, good. This your average movie where in the end, the guys win or there is a happy ending, maybe with some little twist that someone died. All Quiet is not there to glorify war, it is to tell you that even at the last second, you could die. War isn’t something to be simply entertained by, it is something you learn from
Wow how can you be so obtuse 😂
Apparently this guy doesn't know this movie was based on a book which was turned into a movie which was turned into another movie which turned into this
They tried to make the death a big major event, in the 1930 version the ending is much more simple, he sees a butterfly, he reaches out the suddenly he is shot by a sniper, no music, no big effects, nothing, a gunshot noise and thats it, then a radio transmission saying “all quiet on the western front” thats where the name of the book came from
The ending on that movie sort of makes sense metaphorically. During the whole movie we saw a Boy eager to be on the battle fields, naive of what is to come. And the cost of war, the losses, the consequences of it are so drastic that no sides wins. Which leads to the ending with nothing and nobody, only losses.
30:58 I think the message of this cannot be understated. This was just some guy, excited for war, got a high ranking job, trains the soliders and fills their heads with ideas of glory, but he has never fought a day in his life.
It just felt like a really anti climactic ending
It’s not a fantasy movie. It’s war. Millions of people died in an “anticlimactic” way.
A movie about war isn’t supposed to have a happy ending. What’s wrong with Americans??
You got pissed off. Meanwhile a movie hasn't made me cry in years and this finally did.
You missed the whole point the whole war is stupid everyone's death is stupid and for nothing that's what the movie is trying to portray
Yea that’s the entire point. The entire point was that he made it through so much in the war, through the entire war, and died at the end, pointlessly, on a day where the only report was that it was “all quiet on the western front”. He made it through much worse experiences, through more horror than any of us can imagine, and died on a quiet day, in the final minute of the war. The entire point is that his dead was pointless and everyone else’s was too
War isnt satisfying or have sense. That is point of the movie.
The point of the movie is that for the majority of the soldiers there was no happy ending, only sorrow & death
This has to be ragebait. The whole point of the novel/movie is the futility of war and a commentary on the insanity of WWI.
The point of him, the main character dying at the end is to show you war has nothing good.
It was intentionally supposed to be unsatisfying because that's how most soldiers died. Not in some kind of epic blaze of glory. Just killed by something they never saw coming
the end of this movie made me feel what i think these soliders felt...numb.
That’s what it wanted. It painted how tragic war is. Obviously there are a lot more messages but if the ending pissed you off, the movie did great
The saddest scene fir me is ludwig’s death like its just heartbreaking😢😢
A truly perfect and accurate ending would have the main character built and being sent off to war all excited and just as his mission starts, hes shot and dies, has his uniform stripped of him, and put in a mass grave, and his name forgotten. That would show the true meaningless death in war
"Everything here is like a fever. We didn't ask for it. The others didn't ask for it but it's suddenly there nonetheless it happened and nonetheless half the world is involved, mind you. And god looks down...at us murderers"
-Kat
My guy judging a century old piece of literature as if it was born yesterday.
People dying pointless deaths!?!?!? In World War 1!?!?!?!? Whaaaaaaa!?!?!?
Bruh this is one of the best war movies ever made ....
They shouldn’t be pissed off about the movie, they should be pissed off about war
That’s the point, millions of men died for nothing
The allied soldier looks like cristiano ronaldo
The original ending was him getting shot while reaching for a butterfly....
Well it’s not like the main character died at literally 1 second before the cease fire. He wasn’t the main character. Who knows how many others died in the war just moments before, during and after 11 am. The movie followed one of the men who happened to meet that end and the story of him and his friends was no more unique than everyone else’s
Yeah that ending where he died just pissed me off.
bros IQ is not even double digit lmao
Everybody in world war 1 died for nothing. Such a great film, sure it's got its flaws but for the most part it's great.
The heroic beautiful thought of war before the truth was out with all the young men optimistic and eager to get to war, they slowly approach the front and the grim reality starts to creep in then they're in the middle with the bombing and the children in distress like animals to the slaughter then they harden up and become temporary immune then the slow signs of PTSD and the constant contrasts between the grim reality of the soldiers and the paradise of the men who send the soldiers to their death for their own pride and ego.
I love this film but it's super sad.
its meant to show that no soldiers would survive, you dont need surviors becuase only the dead have seen the end of war.
Was also stupid when the farmer kid turned into a ninja and killed the other German. Like how did that fool sneak up on someone in the forests.
What do you expect. That’s the one thing Saving Private Ryan got wrong as a Anti-War film, A sense of hopelessness
When you are too much used to Hollywood's happy endings...
Then you'll love "Johnny Got His Gun".
The point is to prove that war is not some happy ending..