Tam has mentioned that Netflix has a new movie based on All Quiet on the Western Front. She also mentioned the 1979 TV movie of the novel.
I plan on watching the 1979 move, as I was kind of busy back then and never knew that it had been made, much less aired. But that's not what I want to talk about.
It's been said that, with all of the streaming/cable choices, that we're in the Golden Age of Television. I disagree. Sure, there are some really good shows out there. But finding them sometimes feels like looking through a ton of chicken manure to find a one-karat diamond.
The Big Three legacy networks seem to have mostly given up the fight to produce quality movies and miniseries. The 1970s were sucky in a lot of ways, but the networks produced some notable movies and mini-series. Now, they don't even bother, concentrating on dumb-ass "reality" shows and lots of copaganda.
To be fair, they had sort of a captive audience back then. There were three commercial networks, PBS, and, in big cities, a handful of independent VHF/UHF stations that mostly aired old shows in syndication and movies that were either in the public domain or for which they could get the rights cheaply.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Thursday, October 20, 2022
2 comments:
House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.
In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.
All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.
(Please don't feed the trolls.)
中國詞不評論，冒抹除的風險。僅英語。
COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.
The 1979 TV movie was, as I recall, pretty decent. There was a program of distributing newsprint scripts to students across the U.S. and having them watch the movie, as I recall. I remember reading along while watching the movie, I guess that was about 9th Grade English I.
ReplyDeleteThere was also an earlier version made in 1930 and it was shown on TV though I can't remember when but I still have a VHS tape I made of it. As far as I know Hitler banned the book because it was not a book to glorify war but to show how horrible war can be. A quick search showed a site where you can watch the 1930 version, it's actually quite good for a movie of the era.
ReplyDelete