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But he didn’t get why doja cat in ost and Britney Spears, because Elvis make pop industry someway, colonel invent that humiliating management practices in industry
I think if this is his first Baz Luhrman movie, I can see how he would dismiss it. BUT as a fan, I think it's kind of a return to form for Baz. Not a 2. More of a 6 or 7 for me.
elvis had the most shots, so it had the most cinematography. this is the primary metric by which the oscars give their awards, like how dramas are automatically nominated for best screenplay because they have the most words.
For nominations, yes. I have no idea why Elvis was nominated otherwise. For wins, especially for Cinematography and Film Editing, it’s actually more correlated to a film that the Academy allocated to what I like to call “winning the techies.” That includes Cinematography, Sound, Film Editing, Production Design, etc. Dune deservedly won several of those last year, but it wasn’t the film with “the most editing” or “the most shots” at all. It won because it was already winning a ton of other techies, among them Sound. Same goes for films like Mad Max: Fury Road and to a lesser extent Sound of Metal. All were deservedly winning techies. And sometimes, it’s absolutely undeserved, like with Bohemian Rhapsody and to a lesser extent Dunkirk (which was a great film all things considered but Baby Driver easily should have won those techies instead). As for what will win this year, I’m actually predicting the various techies are gonna go to multiple different movies. Elvis is probably gonna easily win at least two of the three Art Direction related categories; Costume Design and Makeup, neither of which I think are deserved. EDIT: I was wrong, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever won Costume and The Whale won Makeup, both deservedly so in my opinion. Much better wins than Elvis. Babylon will likely win the third Art Direction category, Production Design, and deservedly so. EDIT: Oh come on, why did All Quiet win this??? Either Babylon or All Quiet on the Western Front will win Score. The former would be a great win, the latter… not so much. EDIT: Welp, All Quiet won. Completely undeserved. All Quiet on the Western Front is probably winning cinematography; it is the “prettiest” movie of the five nominees even if it is not the most ingeniously shot. Top Gun: Maverick will probably win Sound. Everything Everywhere All At Once is, hopefully, winning Film Editing. It could go to Top Gun though. Avatar: The Way of Water is very obviously winning Visual Effects.
This reminds me of a book i have that provides parody advice for amateur theatre, that suggests the main aim for any person involved is to be noticed, even if it is detrimental for the rest of the production - so a lighting designer should always try and put in as many different lighting effects so the audience will leave saying "wow, what lovely lights'
@@IDHLEB in like one or two scenes, yes. The bulk of the film’s editing is more unremarkable than bad. That may have been one of the reasons, but it definitely wasn’t the sole reason. It was still being allocated to winning the techies. That’s the main reason why it won.
They count sequels as “Adaptation” because they’re “adaptations” of characters that already exist. So that’s why Top Gun and Glass Onion are in that category. It’s VERY stupid.
Yeah I remember casually looking at that category and I saw Glass Onion and the Wikipedia page for it said something like: Adapted property: Benoit Blanc Like, yeah, great adaptation of the main character of the series. What does that even mean?
EEAAO may not be everyones favorite, but it winning would be a win for movies generally. Mid budget action sci fi is something we always needs more of. And damn if the movie doesn't have heart.
I don't know why you have the caveat of it "may not be everyones favorite". It's universally acclaimed and it'd be damn hard to find someone who doesn't like it.
Ugh no it wouldn't be a win for movies in general. A movie that is just a string of action scenes with a single gimmick that is also filled with redundant and over bearing exposition and some really crappy performances.
@@Keihzarulook man, I get you didn't like it but that was a terrible criticism. The performances were objectively awesome and by "single gimmick" I'm assuming you mean the theme of the movie?
One of the main reasons why the 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front feels so real is that most of the background soldiers were actually veterans of the First World War, so they knew what drills they did during that time and what methods they used during the fighting.
to be fair the ostrich animated short was a student film made by one guy on his own so its super impressive that it even got nominated. i attended a q and a with him and he seems lovely but i think a lot of the "hollowness" of the messaging behind it does come from it being an outcome for his phd and thus needing to hit various research marks lol. i didnt like it as much as i liked ice merchants and my year of dicks but im still rooting for it because its an australian student film
I went to see Triangle of Sadness twice, the second time I took my bestie with me and 30min in when there was an emphasis on the boat moving a lot she whispers "dang I hope no one pukes in this I'm extremely emetophobic" I didn't know what to do I was just (• ▽ •;) (I ended up warning her right before the puking started, she plugged her ears and didn't look for at least 10min but she still regrets watching it lmaoooo)
Omg Adum THANK YOU for mentioning how lame the bunker scene from modern "All Quiet" was, even though you've never read the book, where it was absolutely horrifying. The dumbest thing is, there was no need in any flashy CGI explosions. Just proper raw performances, lighting and sound. The sound of devastating WW1 shelling that could last for hours and was akin to a drumroll of deafening volume, driving people insane.
I hate how bohemian rhapsody and Elvis are getting all of these nominations when rocketman- the superior biopic musical - got snubbed and was only nominated for ONE category
It's been four years and I'm still angry that Rocketman got absolutely nothing in comparison to Bohemian Rhapsody even though it was so much better. At least it actually won the one nomination it got
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing. I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history. Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse is based on a book. It’s mostly just a collection of quotes and nice messages. It’s not the best kind of book to make a short film about. But the book is very wholesome
13:17 good news, Tom Hanks both won Razzie awards for Worst Supporting Role as the miscast Colonel Parker and Worst Screen Couple for his latex makeup design and that thick accent. So yay!
I'm honestly hoping Everything Everywhere All At Once gets best picture. I liked All Quiet on the Western Front and Fabelmans just fine they're both 7-8 out of tens for me, but they seem like the choices the Oscars usually go for when you think of Oscar Bait. EEAAO is the stand out movie of this year. It isn't Oscar bait, it isn't a franchise like Top Gun, Black Panther, or Avatar, it's an original movie that has become universally loved.
Re: Baz Luhrmann - I highly recommend ROMEO+JULIET. I think that’s the perfect synthesis of his style, where it utilizes his high-energy approach while not looking like it’s in a computer (which is a good way to put his post-2010 work, kudos for that haha)
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing. I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history. Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
The score for all quiet on the western front sounded exactly like the score from annihilation, which fit for that film, a sci Fi lovecraftian horror, but not for the 20s war movie
Thank you. Omg I’ve been shitting on Elvis ever since it came out and everyone I’ve ever talked to praise the living hell out of it. You hit the nail right on the head Adum! It’s real shame too, this biopic had so much potential 😭 Never let Baz touch the editing room ever again pls 😅
Also you are so right about the potential. Baz dropped the ball and made a pretty insignificant film. Elvis has a wild career and pop culture icon, changing the music industry forever. It could have been way more interesting.
Always look forward to these videos. 57:15 Thank you for reminding me of the onion clip. Gave me a good chuckle 1:00:45 re:dubbing I've been watching a lot of older Hong Kong Jackie Chan movies, and this happens in a lot of those too, where the Cantonese and Mandarin tracks are both obviously dubbed (and in a lot of cases, Jackie Chan is dubbed over by someone else)
I used to agree with Adam's opinion on The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. I thought the messages were pretty forced. But I started appreciating it more as a "comfort movie" of sorts, like the dialogue in the film is something that people with depression, like myself, need to hear every day. I started recommending the movie to my friends because I genuinely felt like they all had to hear what the movie had to say. It of course isn't for everyone and I'm not fully disagreeing with what Adam said, but I still recommend it.
31:14 really man, just went through to see Maverick and literally go to the bathroom? What the hell do you drink? Yay, Maverick is still the best rendition sequel than the first one.
Am I the only one who loves Top Gun 2's screenplay nomination? There's an art to making a proper legacy sequel and a big emotion-driven blockbuster spectacle, and Chris McQuarrie is well-respected.
It was alright. Felt like it hit a lot of the same beats as the first one without saying anything new. Good movie but I’m not sure what the hype is about
I remember when I was watching Elvis my dad told me it was the same director as Moulin Rouge and I told him "Oh, that explains why I'm having a seizure right now."
19:19 Justifying the music choices in Elvis: It's about a white guy in the 1950's listening to black music. Music that was considered evil by conservative (racists), that supposedly invokes violence and sexual behavior. That sentiment is lost on us, because the music from the 1950s sounds innocent and conservative to us. So they put in contemporary black music, that *now* would evoke a similar sentiment as the music Elvis liked *then*. Same goes for Eminimem in the end credits. He even mentions it in the song how he is similar to Elvis in that way; influenced by black music, and criticized for it.
Wow, that's actually really interesting. I haven't seen the film, and don't really plan to, but I had seen the complaints about the score. This perspective makes the soundtrack a lot more interesting than the criticisms I've seen make it out to be.
I saw all quiet on the Western Front in Theaters in Germany. And oh boy, the score worked there. It was one of the most intensive Cinema experiences I ever experienced. Felt like being on the battlefield myself. I believe this movie isn't designed for a first watch netflix experience.
I like the old All Quiet because it keeps it real, focused solely on the soldier's experience, which is the whole point of the story. No broader politics, just pure grinding hell.
i hope the segment for the boy the mole the fox and the horse being longer than the other animated shorts nominees means adam hated it as much as i did edit: i stay winning because those were the exact same criticisms i had
@@thecinematicmind yeah the animation is stellar but it just feels like theyre all quoting live laugh love mug slogans at each other with no prompting and it's wayyyy too long. i can definitely see why its an oscar nominee lol but it feels really inauthentic and the other nominees make way better use of the medium than the glorified "i read winnie the pooh once" picture book style of that one. i'd like it if it was about 10 minutes long instead i think
1:09:01 let’s face it, The Last Wish is the best Puss in Boots film in a good spinoff from the Shrek series so I’m planning to see on my birthday bash on Peacock so yay, it’s a clever DreamWorks comeback movie. Suck on that Boss Baby!
That "DUN DUN DUNNN" in All Quiet on the Western Front kept making me think of the Fire Nation theme in Avatar (the good one) and it was so distracting
1:04:56 or Hulu because it was streaming just close by Disney+ and it was a really nice documentary about a couple who studies and being love to know about volcanoes.
9:15 the same is true for the American made-for-TV movie a few decades ago, where they did the same as the original-- they paced it all around the youngsters going to war first, without showing any combat until they finally enter the Western Front. i honestly think this newer one showed the war scene 1. because they had a great idea for that war sequence but no clue where to put it, including the idea of wearing a dead man's clothes without knowing it (but we as the audience know because we see the fallen cut-out labels at the recruiter's feet) and 2. they were worried modern audiences would be bored without le shooty shooty death combat being the first thing they see in a "War Movie".
Fun fact about the original All Quiet on the Western front: the soldier extras were mainly actual German soldiers. As in, a lot of Germans moved to California after the war and, since it was s war movie, the former soldiers were hired as extras and a soldiers account was the reason the guy was blown up and his hands on the barbed wire. And I remember reading an interview with one of the subjects of Band of Brothers who said something along the line of "during X battle I was thinking 'this is just like All Quiet on the Western front'". Which really made me think just how…important, I guess, this film was? Like the fact it was memorable enough to be thought of during actual war.
The problem with Elvis is the performances are more of impersonations than performances. It’s just “oh Elvis said ‘baby baby baby’ and his manger was danish let’s run with that.” The perfect example of this is with Walk the Line. Joaquin Phoenix didn’t just go “I hUrT mYsElF toDAY” like a gravely 70 year old man because Johnny Cash didn’t talk like that when he was young. He was doing this CRAZY thing called acting.
I honestly didn't mind Tom Hanks performance just because of the comments that he was basically treating the man like he was the devil, just beyond evil, which actually makes me enjoy his performance more than the main character's.
35:56 I don’t why the Oscars pick this movie so I went into it and it was pretty good and I do enjoy the women’s issues of living force labor and attempt to leave the area so they can live in a better freedom or a better life. So yay, I’m glad this one it’s a fair shot for this movie so all the women can go free whatever they want…looking at you She-Hulk and Velma.
I’m so glad you called out the editing of Elvis, it was 100% my least favorite part of the experience and I was absolutely terrified it was going to win the Oscar because of the whole “Best=Most” ethos the Academy seems to have
In the title "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse," the use of the Oxford comma is optional. Some writers and editors may prefer to include it, while others may choose to omit it. Either way, the meaning of the title is clear and unambiguous.
I'm still in support of top guns adapted screenplay nom. I think it fully embodies a "great" adaptation. Its definitely the most improved over the adaptation material. All quiet many thought was not an improvement, but on the same plane. Glass onion sure. I found living to be extremely boring and inferior to Ikiru. and women talking does deserve it. But the slot was probably going to the whale if not top gun, which is pretty much just a cut and paste of the stage play. I can't speak for the women talking novel but I still think that Top Gun had the most improved screenplay from the original top gun
The Boy the Mole the fox and the horse is based on the book with the same name and is basically just an entire book of quotes with the drawings of the characters, practically a childrens book with how simple it is. I'm very much not surprised that the film ended up like it did
The new "all quiet" is barely based on the book. It has a couple of scenes but largley it is a completely different story. The old movie and the 1979 TV movie are far closer to the boom.
THERE IS ALSO THE 1979 BRITISH VERSION! It was also good, I recommend giving it a watch. Not as good as the 1930 original but ya' know, still worth a watch.
“Most of the performances in this film were great except for maybe like one or two younger actors” 37:01 I love how it cuts to a baby when he says this 😂
I am really liking this more "off the cuff" delivery Adam has been doing in his shorter reviews lately. I feel like we can hear more of his personality and it bring a new "color" (if you will) to the review.
Elvis’s editing annoyed me until I realized it’s supposed to be reminiscent of old Elvis movies and Elvis concert films, and it was perfect. I hated Buhrman’s direction for every other movie except it worked for this film so well.
The Quiet Girl was my favourite film of 2022 & is also one of my favourite films. As a Englishman (of Irish decent) who has grown up in a English household I found it interesting seeing a part of culture from a nearby country that doesn’t necessarily presented to the majority of English people. Scotland also have their own version of Gaelic & like with Ireland that is also a part of their culture that doesn’t really get seen by English people. I had the same reaction of seeing a hidden part of a nearby culture with the Welsh folk horror film The Feast which was spoken entirely in Welsh. As well as that I found The Quiet Girl to be one of the most beautiful films I have seen, from the first shot all the way to the end it just looked like an art piece & felt like something you could just crawl into, there were no shots that felt dead & bad or every shot was well made & beautiful. It did the impossible thing of making me cry particularly at the final shot no spoilers of the film but it is certainly a beautiful film that gets you in the feels. Colm Bairéad is certainly one of the most talented directors around & for the film to be nominated for best international film but not best director is a complete mystery to me, even more of a mystery is that it didn’t win anything, but all I can say is that it is great seeing people talking about it as I felt like I was the inly one who had seen it at one point 🤣, if anyone who is reading it hasn’t seen I recommend checking it out, certainly an incredible film
Moulin Rouge is the only time Baz Luhrmann's anachronistic music style has really worked for me, and that is NOT a movie for everyone. Also Strictly Ballroom is his best movie and I will die on that hill
I feel like the original basement scene in all quiet on the western front benefitted from it being just one huge wide shot looking in at this. It makes you feel like your seeing old found footage or like your one of the soldiers hoping not to get crushed under flaming rubble. All the cuts and movie lighting make it just feel like another scene in the remake.
You should make a site where you catalog all your reviews. I respect your reviews the most and I always come here looking for something to watch. It'd be nice to sort by highest rated so I can go down the list.
I just checked and you can sort all his ratings, but there are plenty of "so bad it's good" joke ratings he's given. There are a lot of "Top Ten of X Year" lists of his on there, and those don't have the joke ratings. Just look up "IMDB YMS". Not sure if I can send links on YT because they get filtered through spam.
43:07 I bet he will win for sure probably the best obesity life experience to see and giving Afronsky’s comeback was a lot to see and if he win Adum, I would kiss you besides the fake art poster and if Elvis won for Best Actor, that could be a awful cheat and a meme.
Personally, I love the idea of a filmmaker like Luhrmann taking his style, which I tend to associate much more with fantasy, and applying it to our world and our history. I think the touch of an auteur filmmaker is what the biopic genre needs, which is why I'm hyped for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer movie.
With that many nominations for Everything, I guess we gonna see way more ADHD movies in the future. It‘s a annoyingly crazy ride for kids, wild for the wildness sake. May many people make it their cult flick, but to me it doesn‘t deserve a single Oscar apart from Best Editing (also more for the amount of editing work). And I deeply love the Daniels‘ Swiss Army Man which walks the line between crazy and artful WAY better, imho.
The Boy, The Mole, the Fox and the Horse definitely feels like an attempt to shove in filler for an adaptation of what's basically just a book of inspirational quotes
EEAAO was my #2 behind top gun maverick. Its not my favorite film ever, but in a truly AWFUL year for movies, Everything was way beyond most things I watched this year
@@jeremyusreevu237 the performances and themes and set design and music and style and costume design for Everything was tremendous. The action was actually the least interesting part of the movie for me. It was really excellent
tried to watch Tar, hoped it would be another Whiplash. but it felt sooo pretentious. also I didn`t buy Blanchett`s performance at all. it felt so much like an actor acting. she worked hard but it was quite bad imo...
I totally agree with you about the Boy, Fox Mole Horse movie. It was huge here in the UK, and it was all over the BBC at Christmas. Drove me crazy. Like if Pinterest quotes were a movie.
I’ve never understood why people share the artwork all over Facebook like the quotes are anything deep. I absolutely love the style of the art but it’s cheesy and very ‘live, laugh, love’
You do have to wonder if the new "All Quiet" begins with an action scene because the filmmakers were genuinely worried people streaming it would hop out if it started slower, the medium having a tangible effect on the form.
I really like that it started with an action scene. Because it showed the mindset of this war. Everyone was replaceable. We follow a soldier who scare for his life, he lose a friend and then end up dead. And then his uniform is striped, washed and stitch up for the next soldier. Like cog in a machine. But that cool if it wasn’t effective on you, I personally really love this movie though I haven’t seen any other versions of this book.
@@Marvelfan-nu7ve It's not about it being better or worse per se - I hate critiquing any film on purely good vs. bad terms - but it's a structural choice that firmly locked the film into one central theme: war being mechanical and dehumanizing. That probably agrees more with our modern sensibilities, but it also badly weakens a major theme in the original story and film: how young soldiers were duped into glorifying combat. The reason this choice stood out to me is because it very much resembles the television "cold-open", trying to get its teeth in before the opening credits. Movies never had a need for hooks because, well, if you've already driven to the theater, paid for a ticket and popcorn, and sat down, you're probably not going to leave if the first ten minutes no matter how much you dislike it. But today, in an era where most movies are watched at home, that no longer applies, and every movie is competing with every film available on-demand at all times.
I think they started with that cuz we had to follow what happened with the dead soldier's clothing. So by the time our protagonist gets his recycled outfit, we realize what he's really in for.
Did you missed the imagery they were going for of war making lives disposable? We saw the process of a soldier's uniform being ripped from it's corpse, sent back to be recycled as "new" uniforms, and then when Paul gets it he just rips out the name tag and tosses it like garbage. And it's kinda the point of the drone. It's played only in battle sequences or whenever we see the war machine in action. Because it sounds like a machine or siren. What part of this basic symbolism and motif aren't you getting?
I’m in the interesting position of being a fan of the Elvis movie in large part because of Confused Matthew, who’s favorite filmmaker and movie are Baz Luhrmann and Moulin Rouge. Tbh I do wonder if my reaction to Elvis would be similar to Adam’s if I hadn’t watched Confused Matthew’s videos and gained an understanding and appreciation of Luhrmann, so I’m kinda glad I made space in my brain early on for the kind of movie Elvis was.
Moulin Rouge is great. Moulin Rouge is purposeful in it's editing and everything, it's intentionally emotion over logic, and intense in a melodramatic way to show how the characters feel and to pay homage to musicals and Bollywood. I feel like Elvis lacked that purpose and intent.
This would be hilarious. I never made it past the first scene so I just rewatched a clip: Editing where the timing is completely off the music. Singing that's completely out of sync. Shots are overexposed seemingly at random. It's like a sensory and technical nightmare.
I came here just to say that I’m extremely angry about Aftersun not being nominated for Best Picture. Even if they’d never award it due to being such a subtle masterpiece, it ABSOLUTELY deserved to be there at the very least. Same with Charlotte Wells for Best Director, it boggles the mind how they didn’t nominate such an impressive debut after being lambasted for lacking female director representation.
It makes me chuckle that the two best films of the year, for me, were both female directed, and they couldn't even somehow get one female director in, when there were two there alone (Aftersun and Women Talking)
Unanimously agree. Aftersun is a rare film not only was beginning to end natural, but naturally powerful in character depth. Charlotte Wells has my absolute respect.
I saw someone else mention this and it's so true. Lilo and Stitch was more tasteful (and just around better) in their usage of Elvis music then the Elvis film was
I thought about Lilo and Stitch's better use of Elvis while watching Elvis too. I also thought about Lilo and Stitch when Adum brought up how movies are purposefully being made to be longer. Lilo and Stitch was made when Disney had a strict 90 min. rule so their movies could get more screenings. So, they had to leave out some ideas and scenes that could've enhanced an already good movie. The movie doesn't feel like it drags, so I doubt it would've ruined the pacing. It's just a shame that movies might've been lessened by guidlines that are no longer an issue. Now that movies don't have to worry (too much) about the run time, it feels like they have way less things to say or ideas to execute.
Why so much hate to Lurman's Elvis and Lurman himself? Gatsby is great and Elvis is a good movie as well. Whats wrong with the editing in this movie? Whats wrong with cinematography (it wins at guild awards)? Whats wrong with Butlers performance? I get some critique about Hanks performance, but the concept of a movie with Unreliable narrator makes it more intriguing. I watched the latest documentary (the searcher) about Elvis and its about 80% true to timeline and history. Im not from USA, and i knew Elvis only for his most popular songs, and this movie not only gave me a look the tragic fate of a man, but give a push to explore new songs of his discography.
@@daims8041 I personally find his films to be very "style over substance". So if the style isn't quite right, or even to your personal taste, it leaves very little left to praise or admire about the film. For instance, the use of Elvis' music. Making some awful remix to suit some sort of style to appeal to the younger generation, rather than just using his own music that was very popular for a reason. I wasn't joking, Lilo and stitch use Elvis' music better, with no crappy filters, just pure love and respect for the music, and enough respect for the audience to recognise and enjoy it. and that was a "kids film".
If I remember right, actors in talkie films from the early 30s were so expressive because they were still coming off silent films where they had to be more expressive to convey emotions well to the audience
The shellshocked guy is actually pretty accurate in the 30's All quiet. It's not dissimilar to what they actually were like when you watch old footage of real shellshoked WW1 veterans. Shaking and making faces like that.
Not a vet but I have PTSD from my family and I can believe it, PTSD fucks with your body down to your expressions. I’m not saying it makes the performances perfect, but it’s an interesting topic I guess
@@idontcheckmynotifications Sorry, I don't really care if I'm being rude, the PTSD you have from your family isn't comparable even in the slightest to the PTSD from someone fighting in one of the most deadly and horrible wars of human history. They shouldn't even be given the same term.
@@ziggle5000 This is like the worst thing you can say to someone suffering. It's as braindead as the "Shut up if you're hungry/hurt, think of the children in Africa" argument. It's stupid because someone out there in this giant and horrifying world is ALWAYS suffering more than African children or WW1 soldiers and probably won't be even remembered or known by anyone, doesn't change the fact the guy still suffers awful PTSD or is in any sort of pain no one should suffer. He simply said that he knows from experience that PTSD can make you look shellshocked and nothing else, what is you major malfunction?
The way I see All Quiet’s horn soundtrack is that it is industrial in its nature. It is a repeating tone that sounds like a factory horn. It makes sense that it is put over the scene of the uniform being repurposed. The industrial cogs of war keep running and churning in and out the men that get chewed up by it
I totally agree! When Adam played an example of the horns(?) I could totally understand why it would be jarring and uncomfortable to hear, but imo that might have been the point of using it. Not just to portray the industrialism of war, but that infuriating, sickening realization that punches you like those horns when you see that the soldiers are nothing but cheap equipment, objects, to be crushed and thrown aside for the sake of battle. But I also fully understand why someone wouldn’t like that choice of music. On the flip side you could see it as too obnoxious and irritating, maybe disrespectful to the reality playing out on screen, so I get where Adam’s coming from.
