Movie: Fury

[jdmcm]

Yeah Henry Ford and Telly Savalas rolling 50 gallon drums of gasoline down the road and single handedly thwarting the entire Ardennes offensive was way better...maybe in the Fury sequel Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton will swing in on a cable car and save the day...

[Ed Storey]

Too bad your 'vast' knowledge of WWII movies is limited to a few of the dreadful examples from the 1960s. You didn't disappoint me with your reply, I expected as much - or should I say so little.

Try "Go For Broke" and "The Tanks are Coming", both from 1951 for starters.

[Robert Bergeron]

Come on guys, not worth showing such ''fury'' about ''Fury '' !

Besides, i haven' t seen it yet, you are ruining my high expectations about Hollywood movies and accurate depiction of history and facts....

Robert

[chris vickery]

Funny to hear all the commentary and reviews on this movie. I have yet to see it but expect that I will.
As such, it is entertainment. If one wanted accuracy and fact they would watch a documentary...maybe.
I was screening some documentaries from US involvement in Vietnam last evening. Needless to say, even these had a certain flair to them, typical government produced quasi propaganda that at times seemed quite doubtful even though they were presenting "fact". Interesting to note that a great deal of the included information has since been disputed, disproven or altogether dismissed in the years since files have become unclassified.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the movie.

[jdmcm]

Seriously Ed? "The tanks are coming" and "Go for broke" ? These are the movies that you cite as cinematic gems from the golden age of war movies? Ouch...The tanks are coming is probably worse than "Battle of the Bulge"...a cast of veritable unknowns with anchorman hair-do's casting each other knowing glances all the while looking like something out of a Rock Hudson Palm Springs pool party...wooden acting, a formulaic plot right out of the US War Office, laughable jingoistic narration and just plain painful to watch...twenty minutes in you are rooting for the Germans to kill them all! I think if you were trying to convince shoeless, dough-headed farmboys to join the army in 1951..this would be the ticket...makes war look like a pretty good time! (Grab a cup of "joe" Sarge then we will give them Krauts what for!) And "Go for Broke", Van Johnson's vanity project about discrimination in the ranks! Not entirely unwatchable...but I preferred him in "The Caine Mutiny"...a much better picture in my humble opinion...Hey I don't hate the old war movies (except "The Tanks are Coming"...it deserves to be hated) I even find myself watching Patton whenever it rears its ugly head on TV...but lets face it..."The Beast", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers", "Lebanon", "White Tiger" and "Fury" among others, combine better writing, much better production values, vastly superior acting and I think make a much more realistic point of showing war for what it is...a horrible undertaking of last resort

[Ryan]

Bah!

Everybody knows the best war movie ever made is Kelly's Heroes.

Flame suit on.

[Wayne Henderson]

I saw this last week and as entertainment goes it was good. My opinion only.
Kind of knew going in it would be the same US soldier wins the war on his own type film but what the hey.
The treatment of how it was filmed inside the tank was impressive if not a little too roomy (is that a word?) but at least the rivet-counting-types have little to moan about regarding the Tiger Tank but they will find something, they always do.

It's a movie, it's not real... unlike Star Wars and Dr Who.

And speaking of model makers, how long will this take...

The NEW Tamyia "Fury Tank" complete with steel barrel, blown track, Sgt Wardaddy and bits of 300 SS soldiers to complete that diarama.

Fury gets from me.
Wayne