I thought "Fury" was a horrible movie.

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Am I the only one? I honestly thought the entire movie sucked donkey balls.

The acting was decent, the battle scenes were good but the entire theme of the movie was idiotic and dripping with liberal sub text IMO.

They even managed to make the Germans look like the good guys. The Americans killed a hostage and then terrorized civilian women but an SS man lets our "hero" go at the end???

I cannot believe I stayed up till 11 and wasted 3 hours watching that last night. I kept expecting it to change I guess.
 
The four tanks rolling side by side pouring endless amounts of gunfire into the enemy's skirmish line? A single German 88 gunner could have taken them all out....not to mention 30 seconds of that sustained assault would have seen all four tanks Winchester on ammo. Stuuuuuuupiiiiid

Not to mention, I don't know of many drivers, whether of a tank, Brad, humvee, or whatever, who would have taken a kick like that (Grady..the dude from Walking Dead) and not come out of the seat swinging.
 
The four tanks rolling side by side pouring endless amounts of gunfire into the enemy's skirmish line? A single German 88 gunner could have taken them all out....not to mention 30 seconds of that sustained assault would have seen all four tanks Winchester on ammo. Stuuuuuuupiiiiid

Not to mention, I don't know of many drivers, whether of a tank, Brad, humvee, or whatever, who would have taken a kick like that (Grady..the dude from Walking Dead) and not come out of the seat swinging.

Agreed. When I said the battle scenes were good I should have said entertaining. They were a bit bondesque in the amount of disbelief you had to suspend.
 
I enjoyed the movie, but admit there were some extremely over done parts. What I did appreciate was the depiction of the bleak survival rates of tankers during the time. The battle with the tiger specifically. I recently watched an interview done with a WWII vet who basically explained that when 4 Shermans came up against 1 Tiger then the outcome was almost always 3 destroyed Shermans and maybe a destroyed Tiger.

I'll never doubt a veteran like 11B above who has actually served, but I have read accounts, well at least recent accounts, of armor carrying just obscene amounts of ammo on them. There is a good blog from a tank captain in Iraq and they loaded the suckers down. So I found the ammo expenditure to be slightly believable...if resupply was nearby and they weren't being stingy.

My main complaint is that I didn't feel they made the interior claustrophobic enough. If you look at the old shermans (and even modern tanks) there really isn't much room.


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I honestly enjoyed the movie when I saw it. Not perfect by any means, and I certainly do find Brad Pitt's acting to be a little tiresome in it.

As far as American GI's tormenting German civilians? That sort of thing did happen. My grandfather, a WW2 vet spoke of witnessing it himself. If anything, I like that there are some war movies that don't make out the US to be saintly do-gooders with olive drab halos, and don't make every enemy out to be the sick twisted caricature of evil who kicks puppies and pushes their grandmother down the stairs. There was plenty of good and bad on both sides.
 
I enjoyed the movie, but admit there were some extremely over done parts. What I did appreciate was the depiction of the bleak survival rates of tankers during the time. The battle with the tiger specifically. I recently watched an interview done with a WWII vet who basically explained that when 4 Shermans came up against 1 Tiger then the outcome was almost always 3 destroyed Shermans and maybe a destroyed Tiger.

I'll never doubt a veteran like 11B above who has actually served, but I have read accounts, well at least recent accounts, of armor carrying just obscene amounts of ammo on them. There is a good blog from a tank captain in Iraq and they loaded the suckers down. So I found the ammo expenditure to be slightly believable...if resupply was nearby and they weren't being stingy.

My main complaint is that I didn't feel they made the interior claustrophobic enough. If you look at the old shermans (and even modern tanks) there really isn't much room.


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Even in a Humvee I carried a crap ton of ammunition....and my "teaser" belt was 300 rounds. But I had to stop and reload every now and then lol They were going cyclic and never had to reload and their barrels didn't melt. Even RAMBO reloaded his M2 in the latest movie.

I honestly enjoyed the movie when I saw it. Not perfect by any means, and I certainly do find Brad Pitt's acting to be a little tiresome in it.

As far as American GI's tormenting German civilians? That sort of thing did happen. My grandfather, a WW2 vet spoke of witnessing it himself. If anything, I like that there are some war movies that don't make out the US to be saintly do-gooders with olive drab halos, and don't make every enemy out to be the sick twisted caricature of evil who kicks puppies and pushes their grandmother down the stairs. There was plenty of good and bad on both sides.


Didn't just happen in Germany, I'm not proud to admit.
 
Even in a Humvee I carried a crap ton of ammunition....and my "teaser" belt was 300 rounds. But I had to stop and reload every now and then lol They were going cyclic and never had to reload and their barrels didn't melt. Even RAMBO reloaded his M2 in the latest movie.




Didn't just happen in Germany, I'm not proud to admit.

Well, to be fair, they actually did do quite a bit of reloading in the movie. Not as much as would happen "in the real deal" but one guy was shot in the noggin trying to get ammo to WarDaddy, and the new gunner guy had to reload his 30 at least once that I remember. After thinking about it, I would say my biggest fault I had in the movie was that they did dwell a bit too much on the "War is bad and we are acting bad because of it" aspect. I didn't fully understand Wardaddys hatred of the SS as I believe that the try horror caused by the SS wasn't exposed until well towards the end of the war when the camps were being liberated. Then again, I forgot what specific time frame Fury was supposed to be covering. There is a chance they had helped liberate a camp, who knows. But it was something that wasn't really made clear, and to a history guy like me it seemed odd. Yeah, we know they were the really bad guys now, but not sure how bad they knew they were then.
 
Well, to be fair, they actually did do quite a bit of reloading in the movie. Not as much as would happen "in the real deal" but one guy was shot in the noggin trying to get ammo to WarDaddy, and the new gunner guy had to reload his 30 at least once that I remember. After thinking about it, I would say my biggest fault I had in the movie was that they did dwell a bit too much on the "War is bad and we are acting bad because of it" aspect. I didn't fully understand Wardaddys hatred of the SS as I believe that the try horror caused by the SS wasn't exposed until well towards the end of the war when the camps were being liberated. Then again, I forgot what specific time frame Fury was supposed to be covering. There is a chance they had helped liberate a camp, who knows. But it was something that wasn't really made clear, and to a history guy like me it seemed odd. Yeah, we know they were the really bad guys now, but not sure how bad they knew they were then.

The SS-Totenkopf camp guards were a different than the Waffen-SS units that were front line soldiers. I'm sure there was some transferring in between the ranks, but he may of had a grudge against them due to all the atrocities committed (massacres in various towns/cities) committed by the different Waffen-SS divisions.

The reloading scene I meant in particular was this one:
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It just seemed like it was a long, slow march with zero pause.
 
The whole movie was like a cartoon. Drafting the kid from the motor pool into the tank was a straight ripoff of Saving Private Ryan.
 
The SS-Totenkopf camp guards were a different than the Waffen-SS units that were front line soldiers. I'm sure there was some transferring in between the ranks, but he may of had a grudge against them due to all the atrocities committed (massacres in various towns/cities) committed by the different Waffen-SS divisions.

The reloading scene I meant in particular was this one:
fight.jpg


It just seemed like it was a long, slow march with zero pause.

Oh yeah, I recall the scene. No doubt it seemed a bit extreme. But on the rank of "Movies that broke the reloading rule" score Is score it a 6 out of 10.

Commando got a 1 for reference.


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I wasn't impressed.
Didn't the guys abusing the women have a lame attempt at "southern" accent?
I get less and less interested these days in watching anything on the big screen.
It seems to always be pushing an agenda.
I better go ahead and stop there.

Fury gets one egg on the Chicken Movie Chart, on a scale of one to seven.
 
I honestly enjoyed the movie when I saw it. Not perfect by any means, and I certainly do find Brad Pitt's acting to be a little tiresome in it.

As far as American GI's tormenting German civilians? That sort of thing did happen. My grandfather, a WW2 vet spoke of witnessing it himself. If anything, I like that there are some war movies that don't make out the US to be saintly do-gooders with olive drab halos, and don't make every enemy out to be the sick twisted caricature of evil who kicks puppies and pushes their grandmother down the stairs. There was plenty of good and bad on both sides.

My wife's grandfather talked about, "Making them dance." Not sure if it was just soldiers or civilians all he said was Kruats or Germans.
 
I honestly watched it and though "meh", I felt like I wasted a small portion of my life. It being such a "highly rated" WWII film I'd the reason I haven't watched Allied yet. I am afraid it will suck as bad.
 
Though it wasn't a great movie, it wasn't the worst either. I was equally entertained, bored and confused....often at the same time. Best part was the ricochet during the afore mentioned battle. Probably won't watch it ever again.
 
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I forgot I'd seen it til the pic above. Yeah it was that good...
Still can't recall one detail.

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Am I the only one? I honestly thought the entire movie sucked donkey balls.

The acting was decent, the battle scenes were good but the entire theme of the movie was idiotic and dripping with liberal sub text IMO.

They even managed to make the Germans look like the good guys. The Americans killed a hostage and then terrorized civilian women but an SS man lets our "hero" go at the end???

I cannot believe I stayed up till 11 and wasted 3 hours watching that last night. I kept expecting it to change I guess.


Go watch Kelly's Heroes (again). It will help erase that stain from your mind and make you feel better about life in general.

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I enjoyed Fury. Had an opportunity to observed a few Tank Commanders during REFORGER exercises. The movie projected an accurate descriptions of tank living and individual responsibilities, based on what I saw in the field.
 
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Shah Lebouf really had a tooth pulled for it...what a nut job.
And, you know, plus all that other crazy stuff he's done lately.
 
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