... I'll see it just for some tank porn but my expectation that it's a quality film are rather low.
Looks fun.
I couldn't quite see the tank properly and I'm not really up on tanks too much anyway. Was it a Hellcat? A 76mm Sherman?
Dear Boys,
Larry would be turning in his grave, all action but very little substance .
I am sure the Super hero/ far east teenage market will love it.
I will be performing "Old Mother Goose" in Bristol this next Pantomime season.
We have decided to be faithful to the story no doubt unlike Brad,s balls and no
trouser effort.
Keep it up
Cecil
Yes Calimero, the SPR 'Tiger' is on a T34 chassis, as appears to to the grand film tradition, just like the one from Kelly's Heroes.
This from IMDb on the shermans:
The Main Shermans used in Fury were :
Fury M4A2 76mm HVSS from Bovington Tank Museum, M4A2 75mm VVSS from Tay Restorations,
M4A2 76mm HVSS from Jeep Sud Est,
M4A4 75MM VVSS from Adrian Barrell,
M4A1 76mm VVSS from Barratt Homes.
I'd have let them use mine but it's only 1:50, though it would've been fine for tiny Tom Cruise.
What? Barratt Homes owns a tank?!
What is Brad like 50 years old? Where there really 50-year-old tank commanders? Of course being in his 40s didn't stop Brad from playing the teenage Achilles in Troy, so I guess he's not really a stickler for these things.
Pics of tanks used:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/04/article-2443958-18847DE200000578-575_634x372.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/04/article-2443958-188548F900000578-982_634x423.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/30/article-2439334-1867E95D00000578-775_964x477.jpg
M18 Hellcat
(http://www.panzerdepot.com/Images/Pic%20of%20M18.JPG)
what do You think all those expensive tank heavy games get their ideas for rules from? 8)
plus, why do You think wargamers accept such 20th C firing distances as reality? :?
and, it gets even better with battleships and military supersonic jets....
Hellcats were longer than Shermans (by about a full metre), but the one in that photo looks quite a bit smaller than any other tank in the shot, more like the size of a tankette. Really not sure if it's some sort of scaled down model or not.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/30/article-2439334-1867E95D00000578-775_964x477.jpg
Well, look like there's something off with this last picture anyway... look at the SUV in the background it's almost as big as the first Sherman in the foreground... :?
You should change Your spoilers to background colour, it makes the thread unreadable for anyone who hasn't seen the movie. Spoilers should be only seen by active highlighting by the reader.
You have transformed the whole thread into a spoiler thread...
I don't understand the problem with the russian goggles - granted, having US issue goggles in soviet Russia would be a problem, but how do You know soviet "style" goggles would have not been available for private upgrade in the land of the free... market powers?
besides, he clearly states that he started with "torch", against the 10th Panzerdivision which had taken part in "Barbarossa" and was the transferred to Tunisia. Clearly a veteran would have been able to pinch an item formerly pinched somewhere else
The tank 'Fury' is an M4A2 (E8), or Easy Eight as they where known.
I have made one in 1:72 and its sold, with an order for another.
I think I got it pretty close.
Great movie!
(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n524/bruce-bonus/Fury/Fury001_zps6f3542af.jpg)
(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n524/bruce-bonus/Fury/Fury008_zps3ee24f2c.jpg)
(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n524/bruce-bonus/Fury/Fury007_zps8ed4e10a.jpg)
(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n524/bruce-bonus/Fury/Fury006_zps9e6a2018.jpg)
thanks
Bruce
point taken, gear issued after the movie takes places is not good, but You have to give them that it looks more retro and pilot than the real ones....
problem was the germans and the russians did not have enough of anything, they used virtually everything they could grab, better or worse.
might not be true for US tankies though. But I could construct a number of interesting narratives around these goggles, that would make the aspect of quality pointless (I think they are used in the Tunisia sequence of "Valkyrie" too). Plus they look wrong only if you know that they outdate the period
anyway, the ammo issue and the combat distance are far worse than such minor detail like goggles. And lining up tanks on a field with the infantry behind looks like straight out of uninspired wargaming....
fuck! this is 1:72?
point taken, gear issued after the movie takes places is not good, but You have to give them that it looks more retro and pilot than the real ones....
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Plus they look wrong only if you know that they outdate the period
Watched this with the misses today and actually thought it was a good film.
~snip~
What did those who saw it think of it?
The tank 'Fury' is an M4A2 (E8), or Easy Eight as they where known.
I have made one in 1:72 and its sold, with an order for another.
I think I got it pretty close.
Great movie!
(http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n524/bruce-bonus/Fury/Fury006_zps9e6a2018.jpg)
thanks
Bruce
... would have made much more sense to replace all germans with Uruk-hai....
They were out-gunned and out-armored by superior German tanks, but what the American M4 Sherman tank crews lacked in firepower, they made up for in courage. Discover the stories of the heroic GIs who rolled into Nazi territory in the final weeks of WWII and faced off against an enemy that refused to surrender. Then, go behind the scenes of the film "Fury" and inside the tankers' world, as we hear accounts from veterans who survived the intense tank battles firsthand.
Oh deary, deary me, it's not very good is it!? You don't often watch a war film and burst out laughing because it's that dire... 'Fury' makes 'Kelly's Heroes' look like a documentary!
I remember leaving the cinema after 'Saving Private Ryan' thinking, well done, a magnificent tribute to the sacrifice American soldiers made to end nazism. I came out of 'Fury' thinking, what an insult that drivel was to the sacrifice American soldiers made to end nazism... drivel of the highest order.>:(
....Oh, and that shot of the sky filled with planes was amazing. It firmly grounded the tank war in the mud, and showed just how far the angels in the heavens were from the grunt on the ground. ...
It showed that not all American soldiers were men like Captain Winters, Audie Murphie or Private Ryan. There were those who took advantage of the war, indeed, it showed that the enemy also did that in their own towns.
Well, the worst of these type of films, that I never finished watching, was Inglorious Bastards. After they murdered the sergeant, I started rooting for the Germans, then it got so awful that I had to turn it off.......