USMC-EOD
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I was a little disappointed that it did not really follow the original story, but rather was loosely based on it with the director apparently putting his own spin on the story.
"Re-envisioning", I think they call it.
It was fun to watch, and gave a night's entertainment, but disappointing.
With the "John Boy/Walton's guy" film, one of the most terrible things to my young mind, when I was a middle-school kid in the late 70's when it came out, was the coldly impersonal way most of the main characters were killed off. No drama in the trenches, and my "younger self" was actually impacted by it.
Kat with a random shell splinter, and Paul getting complacent on the last day, with a bullet to the head when he should have darn well known better...
A good life lesson; complacency kills.
I guess, for me, it was forgettable, rather than the type of movie that inspired remembrance, and calculating care with the enemy in my own chosen career of my future. It did not do Remarque's excellent book or the previous two movies justice.
Bryan.
"Re-envisioning", I think they call it.
It was fun to watch, and gave a night's entertainment, but disappointing.
With the "John Boy/Walton's guy" film, one of the most terrible things to my young mind, when I was a middle-school kid in the late 70's when it came out, was the coldly impersonal way most of the main characters were killed off. No drama in the trenches, and my "younger self" was actually impacted by it.
Kat with a random shell splinter, and Paul getting complacent on the last day, with a bullet to the head when he should have darn well known better...
A good life lesson; complacency kills.
I guess, for me, it was forgettable, rather than the type of movie that inspired remembrance, and calculating care with the enemy in my own chosen career of my future. It did not do Remarque's excellent book or the previous two movies justice.
Bryan.