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Posted: 10/12/2015 1:08:22 PM EDT
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You obviously missed the all the multi-page threads we had on this movie lol.
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Needed more rape to be realistic. That and a tank without infantry support and a STG44 wielding sgt.
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I know most here liked it, but I think it sucked more than the Thin Red Line.
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I know most here liked it, but I think it sucked more than the Thin Red Line. View Quote This. Couldn't finish it. Back-talk your WWII sgt in combat and you can expect him to lovingly brush your teeth with the butt stock of his M1. As correction to you and an object lesson to the rest of the unit. |
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Was a great movie.
Protip: Fury is not about WWII, or Tanks, or Nazis, or whatever. Those things are just setting. Fury is a movie about the love / hate relationship between men in horrific circumstances. About a long slow descent into the dark and finally... redemption, of a sort. |
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Great movie.
I just don't understand why he didn't just retreat to fight another day. His hate for the Nazi's cost his life and those of his crew. |
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The ending was pure Hollywood. Any competent soldier would not have done what they did.
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not on amazon prime yet.....they still want $18 for the download.
Bite me. |
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1) What infantry battalion commander assaults a broken down tank in the dark instead of just bypassing it?
2) What tank crew sucks so bad as to stick together for 3 years in combat w/o being promoted to command other tanks despite terrible casualties? Ie, I've taught you everything I know about commanding a tank in combat. We'll let these green noobs command these green trank crews; you keep driving/loading/shooting. 3) Find an enemy survivor of a horrific battle; leave him under the tank, don't report there is an enemy in our rear. 4) German households still have means to boil water on demand behind enemy lines? Or did they have a wood stove already heated up for the eggs? Neat movie, great to see Shermans still moving. Would hate to face one w/o effective anti-armor weapons. |
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Isn't there some scripture somewhere that says "thou shalt not take on the SS in a disabled Sherman"?
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The ending was pure Hollywood. Any competent soldier would not have done what they did. View Quote Yeah, but there probably was one or two that would have though. I would have taken my people to the tree line in a hurry. I mean, at that point in the war I don't think that anyone was under the illusion of the allies not winning the war. I believe that Hitler too by this point had already seen what time of day it was himself. |
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I found it enlightening; I never knew you could fit that many cliches in a Sherman tank.
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Liked it better than SPR; one of my more preferred war movies now.
When SPR is on I'll watch mostly just the beginning. With Fury, so far I've tuned in every time it's been aired. Good formula/relationship/script IMO between the crew members that made it likable |
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Isn't there some scripture somewhere that says "thou shalt not take on the SS in a disabled Sherman"? View Quote What kind of got me about the movie in retrospect though, is that when the kid saw the SS battalion coming, there were several or even more Nazi troopers toting Panzer fausts. (spelled right?) Anyway, I think that their tank and the crew would have been nailed and baled within just a matter of a couple of minutes of the initial fire fight beginning. You know, like credits rolling pretty damn quick. |
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1) What infantry battalion commander assaults a broken down tank in the dark instead of just bypassing it? 2) What tank crew sucks so bad as to stick together for 3 years in combat w/o being promoted to command other tanks despite terrible casualties? Ie, I've taught you everything I know about commanding a tank in combat. We'll let these green noobs command these green trank crews; you keep driving/loading/shooting. 3) Find an enemy survivor of a horrific battle; leave him under the tank, don't report there is an enemy in our rear. 4) German households still have means to boil water on demand behind enemy lines? Or did they have a wood stove already heated up for the eggs? Neat movie, great to see Shermans still moving. Would hate to face one w/o effective anti-armor weapons. View Quote I don't pretend to know military matters, but this line of thinking is not uncommon in general. I have team leads who have been here 1/3 of my time at my company, are younger and don't know the company's way of working entirely not to mention having less experience. Have to correct them many times and teach them proper way to get things done not to mention correct their designs. They move some people up as just managers instead of experienced engineers for just managing which IMO is a terrible inefficient way to run a project. Not surprised if the same line of thinking is used in many other situations. |
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The ending was pure Hollywood. Any competent soldier would not have done what they did. View Quote Yeah, why they crew would have waited until the enemy soldiers were all around them and climbing on top of them before firing made no sense. Could have slaughtered over half of the enemy in the last battle from a few hundred yards with high explosive and white phosphorous shells while laying into them with three machine guns, and then withdrawn as dark set in to fight another day in another tank. |
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It's a movie, not a documentary.
I liked it. Most of arfcom says it wasn't like how they remembered WWII when they were the commander of a tank. |
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I thought it was a decent movie.
Brad Pitt's famous ad-libbed line "ideals are peaceful, history is violent" is multi-use...I've borrowed it to help shut down a hippy buddy of mine. |
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Quoted: what were the orders? I seem to remember something about "at all costs" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Great movie. I just don't understand why he didn't just retreat to fight another day. His hate for the Nazi's cost his life and those of his crew. what were the orders? I seem to remember something about "at all costs" |
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Great movie. I just don't understand why he didn't just retreat to fight another day. His hate for the Nazi's cost his life and those of his crew. View Quote It wasn't his hate that kept him there, it was his duty and commitment to the mission. He stayed for the mission, his men stayed from him. From the wiki...... "A platoon of four tanks, led by Fury, receives orders to hold a vital crossroads, protecting a clear path to supply trains and a camp full of nurses and rear-echelon troops. The map shows Emmerthal south of Hameln, where the railway from the Ruhr district to Hanover crosses the Weser river." |
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Yeah, why they crew would have waited until the enemy soldiers were all around them and climbing on top of them before firing made no sense. Could have slaughtered over half of the enemy in the last battle from a few hundred yards with high explosive and white phosphorous shells while laying into them with three machine guns, and then withdrawn as dark set in to fight another day in another tank. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The ending was pure Hollywood. Any competent soldier would not have done what they did. Yeah, why they crew would have waited until the enemy soldiers were all around them and climbing on top of them before firing made no sense. Could have slaughtered over half of the enemy in the last battle from a few hundred yards with high explosive and white phosphorous shells while laying into them with three machine guns, and then withdrawn as dark set in to fight another day in another tank. Thought the same then stood back to rationalize it and realized if they did that, they would have had less chance to hit accurately with anything else but the main tank gun which would be bad with the limited ammo they had. Plus, it would make it easier from a distance for the enemy to spread out from all sides and creep in on them. Through the element of surprised they got the advantage while also being in close distance with an armored meat shield made it a better advantage IMO to gun them down easier and make each shot count. |
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The whole scene with the German women was horrible View Quote Definitely breaks up the mood of the movie for sure, but I think they tossed it in their to show another side to Pitt's character contrast to the other crew members. Same thing later in the movie when he quotes scripture and surprises Bible with it. |
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I think it was on Saturday evening, I watched it, not a great movie but not bad, I'd give it 3 stars out of 5.
It was kind of a bummer that the apartments got hit right after they left them, and the girls got killed, that was kind of sad. I would have left that tank sitting in the road and gone on to fight another day. It was kind of a John Wayne ending, you know, the hero dies but the kid that was hanging around survives. Don't wait to go out the escape hatch until AFTER the Germans drop a couple of hand grenades inside, you would be about half way out when they went off and made Swiss cheese out of your legs. |
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I saw it...wasn't bad....didn't see it in the movies...rented it...but it was hard, as I can't stand most of those liberal fucks.
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1) What infantry battalion commander assaults a broken down tank in the dark instead of just bypassing it? 2) What tank crew sucks so bad as to stick together for 3 years in combat w/o being promoted to command other tanks despite terrible casualties? Ie, I've taught you everything I know about commanding a tank in combat. We'll let these green noobs command these green trank crews; you keep driving/loading/shooting. 3) Find an enemy survivor of a horrific battle; leave him under the tank, don't report there is an enemy in our rear. 4) German households still have means to boil water on demand behind enemy lines? Or did they have a wood stove already heated up for the eggs? Neat movie, great to see Shermans still moving. Would hate to face one w/o effective anti-armor weapons. View Quote Why the Germans wouldn't march right around them is beyond me. |
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I could see it happening though. And worse. I don't think that the Russians would have been that kind. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The whole scene with the German women was horrible I could see it happening though. And worse. I don't think that the Russians would have been that kind. Of course you could. Youve grown up on a generation of movies depicting the American fighting man as a neanderthalic, knuckle dragging inbred hick evil piece of baby murdering shit. At least 10000 women got raped in irag right? I mean look at all the filthy american soldiers we had there. |
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