Masterpiece?

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 1999)

To say 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is the all-time masterpiece of war films may be an understatement -as it may very well -also- be the all-time masterpiece of all films.
Technically dated?
The design of its, sometimes, sporadic cinematography wasn't so much to capture the era as it was the era.
Its universality?
As universal as battle is everywhere ugly, as universal as battle is its privates, and as universal as its privates are its youth.
Its comparisons to other war films?
Sixty years from now 'All Quiet on the Western Front' will still be the pinnacle to which all war films strive.
What other film -of any genre- can inarguably be more so?