Fury
Just thought I'd open a thread on the David Ayer war movie "Fury" with Brad Pitt. I'll have to digest for a bit before I write my review, but, in brief:The "War" part, or the technical stuff....
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I suppose any film that depicts war accurately could be labeled an anti war film. That doesn't mean we don't have to fight them. Just that we need to realize what we are doing and deal with it. We all...
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I've thought since seeing "Enemy at the Gates" that there might be a market for replica tanks, build them as lightweight shells that bolt down onto a stripped down truck chassis with sprung suspension...
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ChrisPat wrote: On another track why does today's audience and production crew demand such careful attention to detail when cast, crew and audience -most of them having lived and many having served in...
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I suppose at some point they'll paint some vehicles green and have the computer fill in the blanks.
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There are a handful of working Panther tanks left, and a few that could be made to work.Saw a Panther down at Folkestone a couple of years back. The group of re-enactors with it confirmed that it was...
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Condottiere wrote:I suppose at some point they'll paint some vehicles green and have the computer fill in the blanks.No need to have any physical vehicles in the scene at all - we're a bit past that...
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istobie wrote:Condottiere wrote:I suppose at some point they'll paint some vehicles green and have the computer fill in the blanks.No need to have any physical vehicles in the scene at all - we're a...
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Not so much a film, more like several "video-game missions" linked together in a hollywood vehicle to make heros look good and make $.Did a troop of shermans really travel so closely? Would they...
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Outside of the Aniston gambit, I like Pitt, so it's usually hard to make him look bad, except Inglorious Bastards. I think that the script does take liberties in the interest of the length of the film...
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I had avoided this thread until I watched the film to avoid spoilers - little did I know it contained half a dozen posta bout the film and the remainder was DaveAAA on his one man crusade against...
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Would a clerk be thrown into a Sherman bow-gunner seat within a few hours of joining his new unit? Yup. Happened far, far too often.
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I live in Dorset and know one of the Tank Museum staff who worked on Fury looking after Tiger 131. The film makers were aware that in real life the Tiger would have stayed hidden in it's defensive...
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aghart1 wrote:I live in Dorset and know one of the Tank Museum staff who worked on Fury looking after Tiger 131. The film makers were aware that in real life the Tiger would have stayed hidden in it's...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:Would a clerk be thrown into a Sherman bow-gunner seat within a few hours of joining his new unit? Yup. Happened far, far too often. I have read the same. Cooper writes in "Death...
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There is, or was, a Sherman in one of the Dutch Museums (Overloon IIRC). It has three fatal hits; two in the lower hull by 75mm, simple penetrations and one by an 88mm low on one side of the turret....
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Originally, the elite of a very select corps were assigned Tigers, and since there wasn't an over abundance of them, would presume the practise was followed with the candidates available.
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There were late war cases of King Tiger crews abandoning their vehicle when they saw the enemy.
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There were some cases of Tigers ending up fighting it out at the ranges shown in the film. Wittmann engaged a lot of his targets at Villers-Bocage at under 100 yards. If the first Cromwell that he...
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