David Ayer to Write and Direct Fury

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I saw this movie yesterday and had mixed emotion about it. On one hand I thought it was visually great and the acting was great as well. I thought the action scenes were well done and the intensity of the acting was good. I even liked Shia 's acting.
On the other hand I was a little baffled about what the story was even supposed to be about. We got no real back story to Brad Pitt's character; which seemed to have some deep troubling emotions with him. And I kept drawing resemblance from the characters in Fury with characters in Saving Private Ryan(from certain characters to the bond of the unit).
Don 'Wardaddy' Collier= Captain Miller
Boyd 'Bible' Swam= Private Jackson
Norman Ellison= Corporal Upham

I think the story/plot is the major drawback of this movie and no real back story to any character. I wanted to know more about the Fury tank unit, their history, where they from, what they've been thru, except for a few words.
 
DA_Champion said:
The movie opens with some text. Something about the American army going into Germany and having a hard time against the superior German tanks, and how the Germans are fierce warriors now because Hitler has declared total war. That's an interesting premise I guess ... but what follows is a movie without any fierce Germans, it's entirely the Americans easily crushing the Germans at every twist and turn for 90 minutes. The Americans win nearly every fight, easily. There is no evidence of any superior German tanks or fierce German warriors so the opening text was completely meaningless.

The movie progresses and the tank crew has to take a town with just one tank. This one tank then proceeds to shoot and kill hundreds of German soldiers (I thought the Germans were fierce?) until finally the Americans get weakened because they run out of ammo. Brad Pitt comes out of the tank to shoot with a small gun, and he is shot by a German sniper who is wearing a mask (lol, seriously, a mask) and who emerges as the only individual in the German army who can aim. For Brad Pitt, the great American to fall, it takes four or five direct gunshot wounds, and then he has time to deliver parting words to his friend who proceeds to hate below the tank.
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Wow no offense but I'm not sure if you even saw the same movie that I did, based on those comments. The Americans didn't win every fight easily—what about the battle with the one German tank vs three American tanks? [blackout]The German tank wiped out two of the three American tanks easily, and would've destroyed Fury too if Fury hadn't gotten behind it.[/blackout] It was also pretty obvious that the German tanks looked more well-armored and heavy-duty than the American tanks.

And in the last fight, that wasn't a "town", just a stop in the road where there happened to be a building and they had to stop because [blackout]the mine blew out the tread[/blackout]. And like any "fierce German soldiers" would've been able to take out a tank. Think about it, tons of soldiers versus a tank. Unless the Germans had another tank somewhere (and they didn't) the odds were actually pretty even, because Fury was immobile at that point and the crew had to rely on ambush tactics to try to survive.

And Logan Lerman's character (the "young American soldier") killed some Germans via the tank before they got to the German town. The German friendly fire wasn't really a catalyst for him "hating Germans" or "willing to kill". Nor did he get "enthusiastic consent" from the German girl, you could tell that she didn't really want to do it either. As Brad Pitt's character said, they were young and didn't know how long they were going to live.
 
Just saw it. M'eh...it's a middle-of-the-roader, maybe slightly better. I give it a

6/10
 
The action was competently done. It's just that there wasn't much to latch onto for me. This was for the major part a standard WWII flick that just happened to focus on guys in a tank. But there was no punch, no zip, no interesting angle to strongly separate it from others of it's kind. Pitt's a fine actor and even Shia did alright and I usually can't stand him. But it's missing that spark. Frankly, this is a watch it once and then forget it movie.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't have the impression Norman and Emma had sex.
 
Yeah, this is one of the best movies I've seen this year. Gripping from start to finish.


Brad Pitt for Deathstroke!
 
Finally got to see this and thought it was incredible. Been waiting for a good tanker movie for a long time and damn, Ayer delivered. Suicide Squad is in good hands.

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Asr said:
Wow no offense but I'm not sure if you even saw the same movie that I did, based on those comments. The Americans didn't win every fight easily—what about the battle with the one German tank vs three American tanks? [blackout]The German tank wiped out two of the three American tanks easily, and would've destroyed Fury too if Fury hadn't gotten behind it.[/blackout] It was also pretty obvious that the German tanks looked more well-armored and heavy-duty than the American tanks.

And in the last fight, that wasn't a "town", just a stop in the road where there happened to be a building and they had to stop because [blackout]the mine blew out the tread[/blackout]. And like any "fierce German soldiers" would've been able to take out a tank. Think about it, tons of soldiers versus a tank. Unless the Germans had another tank somewhere (and they didn't) the odds were actually pretty even, because Fury was immobile at that point and the crew had to rely on ambush tactics to try to survive.

And Logan Lerman's character (the "young American soldier") killed some Germans via the tank before they got to the German town. The German friendly fire wasn't really a catalyst for him "hating Germans" or "willing to kill". Nor did he get "enthusiastic consent" from the German girl, you could tell that she didn't really want to do it either. As Brad Pitt's character said, they were young and didn't know how long they were going to live.
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Good post but [BLACKOUT]you're missing one US tank. The column started with five, lost one early (that's when Fury took over on point) then the German Tiger knocked out three before Fury killed her.[/BLACKOUT]

And you are correct that the Tiger was more heavily armored. The huge majority of M4 Shermans were undergunned vs German tanks in the last few years of the war and had almost no chance to penetrate a Tiger unless it was through the weaker rear armor.
 
Finally saw this, really enjoyed it, battle scenes and acting were superb. Direction was very good as well, looking forward to Suicide Squad even more now, 8/10.
 
Ayer does such good action, and also thankfully gets good performances from his actors. This film had some really good character moments as well.
 
I finally watched this on DVD. It's a damn good movie. The ending is a little unrealistic, but overall the acting and writing was good.
 
Asharad said:
I finally watched this on DVD. It's a damn good movie. The ending is a little unrealistic, but overall the acting and writing was good.
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There have been much crazier things that happened during WWII than what was shown in the ending.
 
^ Hell, look at anything Audie Murphy did alone and you've got yourself a whole series of insane movies.
 
I didnt think anything about the ending being unrealistic .

I just thought it was kinda lame how [BLACKOUT]Lerman's character "ran away" after his whole development is learning to stand and fight[/BLACKOUT]

I completely forgot about this movie though. It was cool, I'm gonna have to rewatch it sometime
 
Saw this awhile back, and loved it. The scene in the ruined house really stood out to me in particular; the dialogue and editing gave it a very Tarantino-esque flavor that I really dug.
 
Blackman said:
I didnt think anything about the ending being unrealistic .

I just thought it was kinda lame how [BLACKOUT]Lerman's character "ran away" after his whole development is learning to stand and fight[/BLACKOUT]

I completely forgot about this movie though. It was cool, I'm gonna have to rewatch it sometime
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There was no point to him staying. All he would have accomplished was dying like the rest, and Pitt basically ordered him to go.
 
Schlosser85 said:
There was no point to him staying. All he would have accomplished was dying like the rest, and Pitt basically ordered him to go.
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Yep, exactly, he wanted Norman to live so ordered him to get out. And even then, he still needed luck with that one German ignoring him when he found him.
 
that's not really how I saw it.

I mean if he was just going to order him to go and hide, I dont see the point of him staying in the first place.

They all signed up to die with that last mission. They all knew it was suicide. So having him be the first to follow Wardaddy was a good moment and was a good way of showing his development from a "coward". But signing up for a suicide mission, seeing all his friends die, and then running away even if he was ordered to kinda ruined the character development to me

But to each his own
 
I didn't especially think Norman was "cowardly" in the first place. Being inexperienced and scared when you've never been in combat before =/= cowardly, to me.
 
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