FURY new Brad Pitt WWII film

[former user]

well, that's not so simple....
I can't say much about the movie before seeing it, and I don't want to speculate.

Where I cannot follow though is the 1945 plot with the tank platoon being greatly outnumbered by the german army....
I could understand the threat of the tiger against shermans, but maybe summer 44, not that late in the war.

And, after searching on IMDB, I cannot ignore the fact that there are no named german characters, so I guess the enemy has to be faceless and dehumanized again.... like in SPR and BOB.
Which interestingly is a contrast to Tarrantino, who offered a broad variety of german characters, with the americans being unidimensional pastiche....
but still, one has to see the movie first....

[answer_is_42]

Hooray for war, death to Germans.

This looks awful. 

[dm]

Hollywood are going to make any WW2 movie based around American involvement as they have a large consumer base but i wont knock the movie till i see it and just pleased that someone has finally made a WW2 movie that covers tank action. The trailer will also hype up the story as most movie trailers do.

Band of Brothers mini series was set against the backdrop of American involvemnt in the later stages of WW2 and it was widely praised even though it covered only the American perspective.

Maybe this new movie will inspire other countries to make their own movies that cover their countries tank actions in the period and with CGI getting better all the time even if the real tanks are not available for filming they could still be made

[former user]

it has been a long time since "kelly's heroes"

I wonder whether we will see references

[Driscoles]

Ronson !

[Sterling Moose]

A friend, and fellow wargamer, is an extra in this.  He sent me a couple of pretty good pics of himself in both US Inf and SS uniform.  He did comment that the MG42 he had to carry was made of rubber.

Any idea who holds the moulds for these?   

[wrgmr1]

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

[Atheling]

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

Wow! 

Darrell.

[FramFramson]

In the last picture, is that a half-scale model of an M26 Pershing on the left, in the foreground?

EDIT: No, not a Pershing. Damn, what is that?

[former user]

M18 Hellcat

[Atheling]

M18 Hellcat

Yep, it is- and a beauty at that  . Bad armour, very big gun!

Darrell.

[FramFramson]

I'm familiar with the Hellcat (vroom vroom!), but I totally failed to recognize it there.

[Elbows]

I noted the Hellcat but assumed it might be scaled down.  Was it that small?  Was it based off something tiny?  Again I'll see this for some tank porn but that's as far as my expectations go.

PS: We might see toys released to support the film which is always a potential bonus for gamers.

[former user]

hellcat was smaller than sherman, it used a different chassis.

we are probably used to regard sherman tanks as small in comparison to the german tanks it had to battle, so anything smaller than that might appear tiny, but it wasn't....

shermans were in fact rather large, given that they managed to fit in a 10cm after the war....

[Elbows]

There is a Sherman on my campus.  It's pretty hefty.  Not huge, but hefty.