Most Amazing Movie I have Ever Seen

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 2005)

After watching this movie, I was amazed that it had every good war character ever made (like the guy in the platoon who can always trade for food or supplies). The first hour of Full Metal Jacket (one of my favorite hours in movie history) is basically cut from this movie and re-shot. I am surprised that the movie was ever released, because the protagonists are German. I think that is why this movie is so horribly under-rated. I think viewers in many decades were reluctant to support a movie about Germans in the First World War. Most of the viewers today probably won't be offended by the German protagonists, so I suspect younger viewers will rank this movie extremely high. Older viewers might have had trouble empathizing with the characters, if they bothered to see the movie at all. Also, the camera work is as good as anything you'll find today. It is hard to believe they used so many different angles and shots back in 1930.