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Gosh, what a tank. A what a crew too. :-)
bad film
why
Wardaddy is a dirty gold spending noob. He fitted spall liner in his tank so he can have an unfair advantage.
Not that bad of a movie actually, reminded me of Saving Private Ryan in a good way. Lot of the hate it got was from whining "dats not realistic" whiners who got their "expert" knowledge by reading wikipedia. Oh, and soviet fanbois, but that was to be expected.
Care to explain the opening scene where the guy jumps out of what seems like a tank wreck on a German officer riding a horse... alone, without escort or anything? =)
Also the mindless panzerfaust spam at the end, the hilarious tank 'battle' where they outmaneuvered the Tiger after it's crew oneshoted the other tanks but somehow magically missed their tank on several occasions while stupidly charging ahead. What about the 'supposedly' sex scene? Looks totally out of place.
..and my personal favourite - "...this is 'Merican tank, we speak 'Merican! Understand that?!..." - a killer quote =)
Yes, that movie was bad =) Sooo bad that it's good =)
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That's exactly the kind of nitpicking that belongs on IMDB forums.
1) The scene was clearly intended for the aesthetic values, but a low-ranked officer moving alone in the general confusion of the collapsing German war machine in the last months of the war is clearly not unthinkable. Not every German officer had some kind of "bodyguards" assigned to him, especially not that late.
2. Yes, the end battle was unrealistic, and the tank would have been hit by one of the Panzerfausts in reality, but c'mon, plot armour is there in every WW2 movie. Up to that point we've seen many Shermans get demolished by Panzerfausts and that Tiger battle? What the hell do you not like about it? They had a ******* real, working Tiger out for the fight, and its might was very well represented by the fact that it demolished the Shermans while they tried to swarm it (hint: it didn't miss their tank only, and the Shermans missed the Tiger on several occasions). Yes, it might have killed Fury in reality, but once again, it's a war movie, the main crew has plot armour. The people complaining about that are usually lame whiners who feel that "it's unfair" that "evil USA" is winning, while neglecting all the aspects of the movie that actually show how inferior the Sherman was to German tech. It's no different, actually even worse in Russian war movies, where glorious T-34s bounce off Tiger shots, and steam-roll the German orcs back to Berlin.
3. The sex scene? Lol, woot. Yea, the movie is about the crew, and yes the crew is shown as morally ambigious, so what the hell is wrong with it? Only thing you found to complain about?
4. The quote? Oh, c'mon now, that's just the definition of nitpicking. I know you dislike the US and such, but it's perfectly fitting quote for Brad Pitt's character, who is a cynical, battle-hardened front-line sergeant. Your own political bias doesn't determine good and bad.
I guarantee you, it this was a Russian movie about a T-34 crew, you would be completely fine with it. Literally all the things you picked are complaints that can be directed on every war movie there is.
"Russian movie about a T-34 crew, you would be completely fine with it. Literally all the things you picked are complaints that can be directed on every war movie there is."
Why is it that every argument you make you somehow drag Russia into it?
I second rkraptor.
How on earth do "soviet fanbois" come into a movie about a tank crew on the Western Front? You're delusional Orange, seeing "Evil Ruskies" around every corner.
I thought the movie was okay, 6/10 for me. A lot of unrealistic elements (as noted above) thrown in to make it more "cinematic" though. The sex scene was so awkward and out of place I literally laughed aloud at the time.
I liked the tank battle scenes, even the skirmish with the Tiger wasn't so bad in my opinion. It was simply the American nonsense that gets injected into the actors that really hauls my opinion down.
I think you can tell that the writers/directors took time in getting the tanks done accurately, but then threw the job for writing the acting scripts at a Joe Bloggs generic Hollywood action movie writer. But then, I don't know much, if anything about movie creation.
Because I knew the guy's political viewpoints and it's pretty clear what his main reason for critizising the movie is. Has nothing to do with me, soviet fanbois are just common on this group (it used to be nothing but their circlejerks), he's known to be one of them, he got riled up because this movie shows the "evil USA" winning and decided to nitpick on it to show "how unrealistic it is". All of my points in response to him still stand, as usual all that got picked out by you was a single quote about the T-34 that somehow seems to "invalidate" my whole argument.
Well, at least we can agree on the rating I guess, 6-7/10 for me as well. I just don't get which "American nonsense" you are complaining about when the crew is shown executing POWs on several occasions and the movie implies they rape civilians. They're clearly not shown in an exclusively positive light, much closer to being anti-heroes. Wardaddy isn't even much of a likable character (and I hate Brad Pitt, too)...
Production values for the tank battles were top-notch, the fact that they used real vehicles instead of CGI really played out, and the movie completely fulfilled my expectations. Yes, it's not a documentary, and yes, it has heavy plot armour on the main crew, but the battles were well-done and the plot was decent. Unless you went in expecting it to be 100% true to "reality", (knowing that none of us here really has a clue how WW2 really was like) you should be satisfied.
You know what, there was one good scene in the movie. It was relatively in the beginning where a guy shot a Sherman from a bush and the new guy hesitated to shoot him. At this point I was thinking "Man, this could actually turn out to be a good war movie...", but I disliked every other part of this movie.
About Soviet propaganda movies, they are obvious propaganda so they don't count as 'war movies' in my book. Have you seen 'Der Untergang', 'Stalingrad', 'Napola - Elite für den Führer' - those are war movies. Also more on the action side of things are 'Band of brothers', 'The pacific' and of course 'Saving private Ryan'. This movie 'Fury' along side 'American sniper', 'The hurt locker' are not war movies but rather American propaganda movies just as silly as the Soviet war propaganda movies. Can you make the difference now? I hope you do.
I like how they spam Panzerfauzt but no success. Only one hit.
It's a freaking movie not a documentary ._.
There are movies and then there are bad movies =)
I am ok with movies like this, is not real, but is actually fun to watch :) Any good tank movie besides Tank Girl or modern US tank movie? I need recommendation!