All Quiet On The Western Front sweeping up big BAFTAS tonight. Perhaps indicative of how those awards have gone soft in the head because I didn't think it was half as good as deserving of those awards. A good war film for sure, but not a great one. It was almost too on the nose with its violence. That it was centred on psychotic turns of violence rather than the utter futility of the barbarity means it missed the mark badly on being a worthy world war 1 film. The characterisation was almost non existent too meaning that when they came into harms way I could not care less.
And the less said about the pseudo Hans Zimmer score the better. Whatever happened to classical / melody?
Still to watch it.
My brother in law says it's amazing but he's very hit and miss.
For me the three outstanding films I've see over the last year for different reasons have been:
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Topgun Maverick
Banshees of Inisheerin
My highlight of tonight was Barry Keoghan winning Best Supporting Actor.
He could have won it for that one scene at the lake with Kerry Condon on its own for me.
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