6.7 for "L'amore e la guerra" is a solid rating...and what is additionally cool about IMDB is that those are ratings from hundreds or thousands of users as opposed to "critics". I read somewhere that the average movie however gets either a
6.4 or
6.5 on that website. This is probably due to the fact that more people are going to check information, and subsequently rate highly, a movie they enjoy as opposed to one they do not. So the average gets skewed higher than the normal "5.5" on a 1-10 scale...
Sorry if this has been posted before but IMDB also has lists of highest rated films by genre (Top-50). Here is their ranking of "War" movies:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/war.
On a list naturally dominated by World War II there are, so far as I can tell, six films the center around the events of the First World War...
47) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - 8.1 rating
34) Grand Illusion (1937) - 8.2 rating
32) The Great War (1959) - 8.2 rating
25) The Big Parade (1925) - 8.3 rating
9) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 8.5 rating
5) Paths of Glory (1957) 8.5 rating
On a side note, and not to veer off topic, but does anyone else agree with me and find it weird that so many early films look so much older than the photographs of that era? As much as I admire the likes of Chaplain & Keaton, Garbo & Valentino, etc, I always feel like the silent films of the era do a poor job of actually depicting the people
from that era. Movie making was obviously in its infancy and filmmakers were more interested (particular in the horror genre) in creating exciting and flamboyant looking characters...layering clothing and make up on like Halloween costumes, and directing the actors to move and "speak" eccentrically, etc.
Even films that seem to attempt more realistic portrayals always look much more ancient and distant to me than the actual photographs we see from (and before) the era. Garbo is one of the few, in my opinion, that's has an authentic look and feel to her and does her contemporaries justice on the big screen. Otherwise I imagine, say, the IF sitting down to watch a movie together and laughing hysterically at how ridiculous it looks...
