NETFLIX MOVIE TRAILER
ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT
Two trailers for you today, starting with one for the film that will be German candidate for the Oscars next year: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, based
on the classic book by Eric Maria Remarque, will stream on Netflix as their German original October 28th with Daniel Bruhl and Sebastian Hulk in the cast.
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| The film will stream on Netflix this October |
The story follows teenagers Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and
Muller, who voluntarily enlist in the German army, riding a wave of
patriotic fervour that quickly dissipates once they face the brutal
realities of life on the front. Paul's preconceptions about the enemy
and the rights and wrongs of the conflict soon crumble. However, amid
the countdown to Armistice, Paul must carry on fighting until the end,
with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass' desire to end the
war on a German offensive.
ARMAGEDDON TIME TRAILER
WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS
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| The film opens wide in USA this November |
I grew up in Queens in the 80s. Maybe they should film my story. I've seen two versions of All Quiet..both very good, excellent pacifist manifesto, but it leaves me cold. It's not my favorite Remarque novel, and yet it was his best
ReplyDeleteYou did? When did you move to USA? I thought you grew up in Chile and moved to USA later on.
DeleteI came to Queens in 1974 (I was fourteen) and lived here until 1996. I returned to the States in 2016. So I spent my adolescence here and went to high school here. I count that as growing up.
DeleteOy, must have been fun going to a US high school than to some in Chile.
DeleteI wouldn’t know. My father and my cousins had great experiences in Chilean high schools. I hated elementary school, but it was due to systematic bullying. High school in America was also not very representative. I attended two schools quite different from each other. My freshman and sophomore years were spent at the United Nations School, a sort of Gossip Girl elite joint, and on my last two years I attended a Jewish School. In the latter, I learned a lot and met true friends and true love. High school in Chile today is a nest of political activism. Students spend more time on the streets protesting than studying. Yesterday the Instituto Nacional’ students had taken over the metro stations of Greater Santiago.
DeleteWish our students would riot and protest too. Back in my days students were the starting point of all political upheaval and change, we threw down Milosevic that way too (I went to high school during his rule, then to college during NATO bombings and to elementary school during Yu wars). Today's students are superficial and powerless, probably because we have been brainwashed by the government and our tyrant for a decade now. I spent part of my first year at college in Otpor, our guerilla student resistance which pretty much brought fight against Milosevic to the streets where we rioted for a long time and forced him to accept his loss of elections. We would march the streets every night, no such spirit in today's little brats.
DeleteStudent manifestations (mind you these are underage highschoolers) are ok as long as they are conducted in a coherent fashion, and the demands are coherent. Since 2019, students have been demanding a change of government, in the interim they have looted stores, set places in fire, destroyed public property, toppled statues, and wrecked their schools. Finally, this year they got a president that they liked; a thirtysomething college dropout/Daddy’s boy, former student leader who until elected to congress had never held a job in his lifetime. And now, the kids riot against him and what are their demands this time? That the schools they destroyed be rebuilt by the government.
DeleteHahaha... nasty little brats, they all need good beating and some labour in a mine or something.
DeleteNot a fan of Anne Hathaway, but I love Hopkins!
ReplyDeleteShe can sometimes be too pathetic.
DeleteArmageddon Times looks intriguing.
ReplyDeleteDo not miss it in cinemas this November.
DeleteI love Anthony Hopkins so I would watch anything he was in.
ReplyDeleteHope you will like this one.
DeleteI'm surprised Anthony Hopkins is still acting. Isn't he like 200 years old? Though I have always loved his work, I'll definitely make sure I make time for Armageddon Time.
ReplyDeleteI think he plays a good guy for the first time in this one. I much prefer Ian and Derek to Hopkins.
DeleteI'm all in on the first one, but will be skipping the second. Even if my girl Anne Hathaway is in it!
ReplyDeleteIt does seem a bit monotonous.
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