Withdrawal, they show pharmaceutical processes well from the inside. And of course, the rich/poor line is fully explored. Not bad enough for a weekend evening.
Not bad enough for a weekend evening
Oh man, I saw that ~30 years ago [after they restored all the cut scenes] and was enthralled—what a cast and what a story, and what a Stanley Kubrick! I'd studied Roman history as part of Latin class at school, and was very interested in it in general, so the 3+ hours of the movie just flew by.
Would I watch it now? No, as you say it's a product for its time. The TV show from a decade ago is highly rated, but I haven't seen it.
Surprisingly it does paint a more sympathetic picture of the german soldiers
All quiet on the western front
Maybe it follows the book, so it probably wouldn't be surprising since Erich Maria Remarque was a German soldier.
Also, Christmas truce