FURY new Brad Pitt WWII film

[former user]

@Valerik

totally offtopic, but there You go:

in my late teens (during my 1/72 WW2 collection time), I was once awarded a diploma for spoiling group watching of war movies by commenting on the mistakes.....

maybe this would help You too?  

@Bruce, congratulations on Your "little bit of detailing", it is a mystery to me how You don't get stoned to death by envious collectors on every convention You visit 

[Constable Bertrand]

I watched this today and enjoyed the action. I was also very impressed with the "weathering department". Every visible skerrick was; beaten and worn and was covered in; mud, grime and rust.

Patina is so trending 

Also, Shia labeouf did a pretty good job surprisingly. He was rather dashing with his moustache, and much more likeable than his role in transformers.

Apart from any real plot besides character development, 2 things got my goat.

1. More Tiger! For the cost of filming with one of the sole remaining Tigers, I expected to see it crashing through walls and doing jumps. At least more noise from its engine/wheels. (I was hoping for the screeching of tanks pre Town battle scene in "Saving Private Ryan")

One might think they were being very gentle with it for some reason.

2. Valerik's Point 10!
 
Seriously?
Just go around back.

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 was a very nice touch unseen in most ww2 films.

Cheers
Matt

[Harry Faversham]

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.

[julesav]

My gang of long term ww2 gamers watched 'Fury' last week. We were all impressed by the film. Memo to self before making a WW2 epic with 'real' WW2 tanks I must check availability of correct tankers goggles!

[former user]

finally saw it...
I have rarely seen a movie where the visuals were so good and full of quality and the rest was such a gigantic pile of crap.....
Yuck.....
would have made much more sense to replace all germans with Uruk-hai....

[Calimero]

... would have made much more sense to replace all germans with Uruk-hai....

Indeed!

[FramFramson]

Now that would be a movie to watch! 

[Predatorpt]

Just watched a very interesting documentary about the movie:

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/show/3415077/tanks-of-fury

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.

Avoid if you still haven't seen it, plenty of spoilers there. But it's worth seeing, if only by the veteran accounts and the Tiger from Bovington's museum.

[cram]

Will be going to see this film next week.

Here is an interesting link which gives one veterans opinion on the film:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/oct/24/fury-movie-tank-veteran-sherman-verdict-realistic

[MajorTalon]

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.

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.

[Amalric]

....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. ...

I agree.
This scene also reminded me of the beginning of the WW1 movie The Blue Max where Bruno is running for his life in no mans land, jumps into a crater and hugs the mud, then turns at a sound, looks up into a pristine clear blue sky where a beautiful clean biplane is slowly dueling another.

[Harry Faversham]

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.

It also showed that the Germans were a tad dense...
swopping their Panzerfausts for Assegies and charging a tank like Zulus at Rorke's Drift!!!

    

[former user]

yes, especially the ladies who - while others ran around in springtime greatcoat, were wearing skimpy summer dresses to tease ameican GIs

[former user]

yes, but then again, I don't know shit about making movies 

[joroas]

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.......