incredibly harrowing sequence late in the film where the young soldier knifes a French fighter to death but is then As for the English dub, I sampled it during a few stretches and found it to be a mostly passable effort, so it's not the worst compromise if you're

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based days, with a group of really measured and nuanced performances by a coterie of young actors portraying the There are only a few extras here, which is telling that there may be a bigger release somewhere down the road with more interviews and featurettes. Still, this small set of extras and its audio commentary is worth the time. with much more fleshed-out character development and substantially more heart. There's also the fact that it arrived long before the deluge of war The book has been adapted twice before, as a 1930 film and as a 1979 made-for-TV movie, but this version is the only one that takes place exclusively on and near battlefields. The novel and its first two adaptations feature the main character, Paul Bäumer, going home on leave during the war, but director Edward Berger’s 2022 version skips over that portion of the story.frame in one sequence, which I was frankly surprised they didn't remove), overall this presentation is blemish free, at least since we don't even get an SD disc here. Other than that, it's a bang-up job with striking design elements, separate hubs for both discs, and a 24- trapped in a foxhole with the corpse for a night. The film's iconic final moment (which won't be spoiled here for those Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics (HD: 9:14) is the same featurette included on the recent To All Quiet on the Western Front easily ranks among the most ear-opening discs I've heard in recent memory, regardless of format or genre.

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heard of All Quiet on the Western Front in either its original novel form or its first film adaptation from 1930, but vaguely sobering but short-lived numbness. I mean, what self-respecting American hasn't already been at least partially

effects, which certainly extends to the height channels as fly-overs, bullets, and explosives blanket the soundstage with considerable weight. Dialogue ground for a commentary of this type. A fairly wide variety of topics are covered by the first-time commentary participant, from cinematography For more about All Quiet on the Western Front 4K and the All Quiet on the Western Front 4K Blu-ray release, see All Quiet on the Western Front 4K Blu-ray Review published by Randy Miller III on March 20, 2023 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.0 out of 5. and in theaters not much more than a year later. The film, much like the book, was an instant sensation, ending up

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actually seemed to work.) But I'll at least extend an olive branch and admit that, despite its overall failure to capture the emotional meaning of the English, EnglishSDH, French, German, GermanSDH, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, SpanishSDH, Catalan, Czech, CzechSDH, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian( less)quite noticeable instances of damage (including a fairly long several second scratch that runs down the left side of the slightly unreal ambience. Things are not waxy or smeared in any way, but this one element may bother even those who,