All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

 

My friend and I have a hobby of watching War movies together, the most miserable and soul crushing movies ever made. Although we go in knowing fully well that the message is always going to be "War is Hell" and everytime we get sad and teary-eyed.

This time however was different in the sense that this movie got remade in 2022. The original is way down the list of movies we knew we had to watch but, the remake demanded us to watch the original solo, so we could watch the remake together, knowing what to expect and see how it holds up.

The movie reminded me of a very similar war movie called Cross of Iron (1977). Both movies showed the german side of the war, although the later showed WW2, both had the soldiers chase women, both had a high ranking officer who never went to the front, face the war and get very surprised by it.

The scenes that got me the most are: when Paul returned from the war and got labeled a cowered and the scenes with his mother. 

My Rating: 10/10

Numb3rs season one (2005)

Got this recommended to me by a YouTube video on math, it's pretty nice I like it! The thing is, the crimes are so varied and cover very different and distinctive themes and problems that it wouldn't get old too quickly especially with the show being episodic.

It really reignited that nerd in me (I'm not good at mathematics) but general science and it's connection to math is really interesting to me.

This show (season 1) had very wholesome and cute encounters that contrasted with the violence of crime. Really liked the Larry character and the family's conversations with one another and them being proficient in what they do, the father was a city planner, one son is working for the FBI and lastly a genius mathematician.

Cuteness rating: 6/10.

Overall rating: 9/10.

Playing Synthesizer on Airship - Hiroyuki Namba (1982)

Found this album on youtube, it's pretty nice. I liked the opening and the last few tracks more than the rest.