I have a fascination with World War I, so I watched this when it first arrived on Netflix. It deviates from the book in some ways, but maintains the same anti-war message…overall I rank it as one of my favorites of the year, as it is a great World War I film on it’s own…though I did take issue with the revised ending. Because the way they revised it now the title doesn’t even make sense. It was far from quiet on the Western Front.

Other than what I felt was an overblown ending, I did decide to read the original book after watching it, because I had seen both the fantastic 1930 film and the 1979 TV movie, and I thought it would be fun to compare all three to the text. I think cinematically the 1930 version is still the best. In terms of adapting the novel, 1979 is really good and might be the adaptation with the most taken directly from the text. 2022 has definite moments from the book, but strays the farthest, and again I think the ending was all wrong.