Fury Movie Review (3 Viewers)

I'll say one more thing, we went to the Alamo Theater here in Austin and i was kinda shocked to see large numbers of younger women filling the theater, guess they'll sit through anything to see Mr. Pitt, Have no doubt there were some shocked ladies last night....
Ray
 
Well, I might go again just to watch the tanks. Definitely buying the DVD or Blu-Ray when it comes out. It would be nice to see a DVD that has the usual deleted material. I'll bet there's a lot of tank footage that didn't make it to the big screen.
 
More like, Hating Private Ryan. Or Defaming Private Ryan. If you go see this movie, the only Fury here is what you should be feeling toward the disgustingly anti-American filmmakers and actors who made this absolute garbage. This movie is extremely anti-American and makes our troops look like they were murderers, rapists, and thugs, as well as hypocritical religious Christian zealots. It made me very angry to watch this. America had the moral high ground in World War II. Our fighting men were good, and they were moral. But you’d hardly know it watching this crap. Yes, I’m sure there were a few bad apples, as there are everywhere, but overall and in the vast majority, we were–we ARE–the good guys, absolutely the opposite of what this absolutely sh-tty movie shows us.
In this movie, Brad Pitt (a/k/a Mr. Palestina Jolie) plays the commander of a tank unit, and he forces an innocent, naive typist (Logan Lerman) newly assigned to his tank to murder a German soldier who has already surrendered. Then, he forces the innocent soldier to rape a German girl, saying, “if you don’t take her into that bedroom, I will.” Other soldiers rape German women and take German loot. Then, they take the eggs some German women are about to eat, and they lick them all over. The Nazis were horrible, terrible scum. But you’d hardly know it watching this movie. In fact, the movie’s last scene, which takes up about a third of the movie, should be a scene in which you’d root for the American tank crew, fighting the Nazis –ZOMBIE TYPE with everything they’ve got left. But you’re hard-pressed to root for these scumbags you’ve seen behave so horribly.
 
Read all of the posts and replies concerning the film. Apparently we have one person who did not enjoy the movie due to the way that the American tank crew was portrayed.
In reality this depiction was quite accurate of how a tank crew "may" act that was in the war from the very start from North Africa, through Normandy, and on into Germany.
War, Death, and killing changes a man. For each friend that he loses and for each comrade that he sees missing body parts and blown to pieces turns him more into a revenge
seeking warrior with each passing day. Myself being a 20 year retired veteran I can relate to how war changes people. The films makers could have chosen to Sugar coat
the theme of the film, but chose to show the other extreme of what reality was for many a combat soldier. Morality in War only lasts for so long.
It is a well known fact that during the war, Americans, Germans, Russians, etc..... at one time or another committed atrocities and war crimes at one point or another. The films
maker was depicting a WWII Sherman crew that was about pushed to their limits and acted out the emotions that many troops felt towards wars end. No doubt the Fury tank
crew was depicted as a band of killing animals, but that is what war did to many U.S. service men who saw unrelenting death and combat.
The box office figures place Fury at the #1 spot in the movie theaters this weekend. To each their own...................
 
I saw the movie"Fury" and could help but noticed the similarities between this and "Saving Private Ryan." The"new" guy being labeled good guy and and Hanks asking Damon to be a good person, Fury defending a critical crossroads from overwhelming force and SPR defending a critical bridge, the star actor getting killed, both groups deep behind enemy lines. Just noticing.

Steve
 
THERE IS A MAJOR SPOILER POSTED BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't read it if you haven't seen the film. A bit late for me........ grrr:mad:rr













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Yeah agree mate could of had the decency of a spoiler alert..................:mad::mad:
 
larso said:
THERE IS A MAJOR SPOILER POSTED BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't read it if you haven't seen the film. A bit late for me........ grrr:











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Yeah, it got me too. Haven't been able to see the film yet so it is unfortunate that the ending has been partially revealed.:( -- Al
 
Not to worry, by the time I download it all will be revealed anyway, looks ok but Brad Pitt couldn't act his way out of a brown paper bag........:wink2:
Wayne.
 
waynepoo said:
Not to worry, by the time I download it all will be revealed anyway, looks ok but Brad Pitt couldn't act his way out of a brown paper bag........:wink2:
Wayne.
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You "PIRATE" you......................^&grin^&grin
 
wayne556517 said:
You "PIRATE" you......................^&grin^&grin
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Yeah him and 'Jack Sparrow' go way back, not to mention Keith Richards.:tongue:^&grin

Also thanks for the heads-up fella's on the 'spoiler alert'. I hope to see the movie next week at the flicks if I'm lucky, unless I can find a dodgy Aussie pirate.
 
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Saw it today.

Some of the battle scenes were pretty good, specifically the first one and the entrance into the town.

Also, the equipment, weapons and uniforms were all excellent IMO; granted, I'm, not a rivet counter, but I liked what I saw very much, they did their homework on this one.

It was pretty brutal in places, but nothing like SPR, not even close; comparing the two is like night and day.

I didn't get the Tiger I scene at all; why would that Tiger come out of its spot where it had cover to lock horns with three Shermans? And the way they fought jousting back and forth was a bit hokey too, I expected Guffy to show up with his Chaffee turret blown off and ram the Tiger tank.

And the ending;..............................good lord, 200 Germans armed with panzerfausts attacking a disabled tank, Pitt gets hit by a sniper what, three times and is still alive, then two stick grenades get dropped into the tank and blow up and the tank just shakes a bit here and there and Pitt is still in one piece?

If two stick grenades get dropped into a tank with all that live ammo sitting there, it would have been blown to bits, not to mention it followed the SPR formula; some poor SOB typist/translator/wet behind the ears yahoo gets assigned to a tank/infantry squad, he's the green guy who starts out not wanting to kill Germans and ends up like Audie Murphy wiping out Germans left, right and center and he's the only one to live at the end, even when a German finds him hiding under the tank.

Sorry, that final scene was way too 1950's/1960's US war movie for me, kept looking for Sergeant Rock from the comic books to appear swinging a 50 cal MG around like a stick killing those evil SS guys..............it's always the SS guys at the end of the movie for some reason.

Also, amazed how fast the last scene shifted from day to night, that was a real head scratcher.

All in all, it was entertaining, I won't be going to see it again, nor will I buy it when it comes out on DVD.

It was good, not great.
 
I just got back from seeing it and I could not agree more with what George just posted. I really enjoyed it until the final battle. The Germans in reality would have knocked that tank out in 30 seconds. I,ll give the sherman - tiger battle a little of Hollywood leeway, but not the final battle. Back to the final battle, why didn't the Germans just go to the rear of the tank, why would they constantly charge hopeleslly into the machine guns? I,m surprised the final scene was Brad Pitt standing atop the sherman swinging a sub machine gun like Fess Parker did at the Alamo!
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gk5717 said:
I just got back from seeing it and I could not agree more with what George just posted. I really enjoyed it until the final battle. The Germans in reality would have knocked that tank out in 30 seconds. I,ll give the sherman - tiger battle a little of Hollywood leeway, but not the final battle. Back to the final battle, why didn't the Germans just go to the rear of the tank, why would they constantly charge hopeleslly into the machine guns? I,m surprised the final scene was Brad Pitt standing atop the sherman swinging a sub machine gun like Fess Parker did at the Alamo!
Gary
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Perhaps Brad was also born on a mountain top in Tennessee.:wink2:^&grin -- Al
 
George you read my mind. Every point you made was what I was waiting to respond to. Were you sitting beside me. I wanted to stand up in the theatre in that final battle scene and yell out"come on,really!" That day to night deal was a head scratcher. I thought maybe I missed 5 hours of time somewhere. Do the Sherman's not have the ability to lock the hatches on the inside? A panzerfaust has also breached the hull and doesn't cause significant damage except taking out one GI. Of course this Sherman has survived two past ricochet shots from a PAK gun and two Tiger hits in previous battles. Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank makes an appearance along with SGT Rock. The two stick grenades didn't even mess Brad's slicked back hair. Attacking from the front of a known disabled tank.Those crazy SS. How about running out of 30 cal ammo but having enough time prior to the SS showing up to sit in the tank and smoke, drink and have casual chit chat. I get the fact that they all thought they wouldn't make it out of this battle but you would think they would have brought all that ammo inside and locked the hatches. And which enemy doesn't know about the escape hatch??
Good but not great...agreed!
 
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George you read my mind. Every point you made was what I was waiting to respond to. Were you sitting beside me. I wanted to stand up in the theatre in that final battle scene and yell out"come on,really!" That day to night deal was a head scratcher. I thought maybe I missed 5 hours of time somewhere. Do the Sherman's not have the ability to lock the hatches on the inside? A panzerfaust has also breached the hull and doesn't cause significant damage except taking out one GI. Of course this Sherman has survived two past ricochet shots from a PAK gun and two Tiger hits in previous battles. Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank makes an appearance along with SGT Rock. The two stick grenades didn't even mess Brad's slicked back hair. Attacking from the front of a known disabled tank.Those crazy SS. How about running out of 30 cal ammo but having enough time prior to the SS showing up to sit in the tank and smoke, drink and have casual chit chat. I get the fact that they all thought they wouldn't make it out of this battle but you would think they would have brought all that ammo inside and locked the hatches. And which enemy doesn't know about the escape hatch??
Good but not great...agreed!
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I hate to be critical, especially considering all the little things that were done right in this film, plus you're taking a huge risk doing a strait up war movie, but again, the ending ruined it for me.

At one point during that final scene, I looked up at the ceiling of the theater and thought "Holy @#$%, get me out of this theater please!"

And the locked hatches comment; I thought the same thing, why leave them open like that, made no sense at all.

So sloppy............
 
gk5717 said:
I just got back from seeing it and I could not agree more with what George just posted. I really enjoyed it until the final battle. The Germans in reality would have knocked that tank out in 30 seconds. I,ll give the sherman - tiger battle a little of Hollywood leeway, but not the final battle. Back to the final battle, why didn't the Germans just go to the rear of the tank, why would they constantly charge hopeleslly into the machine guns? I,m surprised the final scene was Brad Pitt standing atop the sherman swinging a sub machine gun like Fess Parker did at the Alamo!
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The final Battle is for me why I rated the movie an 8 out of a possible 10. I think if they made the movie more accurate in the Tactical
dept. versus less of the Hollywood coated effect Brad Pitt would have been killed off within the first 45 min. of the film.
To gauge my opinion on war movies...... Films like "A Bridge Too Far" is a 10 in my book.
 
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