A waste of 90 minutes of my life

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I really enjoy the show it really does an excellent job showing how horrible the First World War was i only wish the show would continue

This is what telling a story is all about. It feels like a real story and it is. The interspersed scenes of the real war work perfectly and the character development is just right for me. They do a great job of showing the progress of the battles which is missing in most all war stories. Finally this show affected me like nothing in a long time. Yes I cried like a baby at the end of episode 3. The first episode broke me up also and the knowledge of the bravery and the awards for it truly exhausted me. Action, truth, great stories, Perfect. The directors and producers need to learn from this how to tell the war stories from all wars in the last century.

I feel bad for my British (and Aussie and Canadian and...) fellows. It was clear what this would end up being when the extraordinarily inappropriate soundtrack first played - a thing without value as an historical record, really nothing better than a violence-porn semi-fictional essay filled with bad acting, cheap visual stunts, and hackneyed clichés.My overall feeling is that the people who made this turd somehow wish for a return to the good old days of bloody romps and wanton destruction - to move the world of Mad Max back a couple of centuries and set up the end of civilization just a little earlier. With this sort of understanding and appreciation of any history, much less one's own, they may at least have their anarchy after all."Our World War" indeed - because it most certainly was not that of their great grandfathers.-drl

The stories they chose to portray in this series were well chosen and incredibly well done. Made a real change from the generic trench horror stories and showed other aspects of the war. The action scenes were pretty brutal and intense and really made the viewer connect to what was happening and what the soldiers went through.My only criticism is that the programme was clearly trying to target a young audience by throwing whatever awful style of music happens to be in the charts this week into the mix. It often jumped around quite randomly and spoiled the ambiance of the performance. I guess that this was out of some kind of desire to make the war seem more modern and relatable. Certainly the overhead thermal drone style shots and news style infographics of unit movements worked well. They made it feel a lot more relatable when we are all used to such things from Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the music though just seemed like a bad attempt at doing likewise which just came off as being really out of place and bizarre.Anyway, I apparently missed this when it first broadcast in the summer and only caught it when it was shown again on iPlayer later in the year. Watching this after 'The Passing Bells' really made this show stand out as being especially well directed and filmed. I would say it is definitely up there with the likes of Band of Brothers and The Pacific and considering that it is about World War One that is impressive.