Posted on 10/16/2014 10:06:27 PM PDT by 31R1O
Has anyone else seen Fury? I just got back and it wasn't a bad movie at all. The character building scenes are a bit clumsy at times but the combat bits were top notch. It wasn't Blackhawk Down or Saving Private Ryan intense but there were tense moments. I recommend it.
Yep.
It was good. Not life changing but good without any preaching or social engineering.
I can’t watch Shia Labeouf in anything.
Dude is the Queen of Douche.
Um, no interest at all in Hollywood drek.
Yep.
It’s just a reminder that everything in this country has become false and pretend.
I would like to but I am a little gunshy after the likes of U-571 and Pearl Harbor.
Still a tank movie is a good departure.
I also recommend for those that have not seen it, “The Beast” about a Russian tank crew in Afghanistan.
Always seemed like the previews were good stuff.
But then this was the late 50's when the Hollywierd stuff was actually entertaining. As long as you liked John Wayne, monsters, etc.
There are lots of good and talented directors out there still making great films. Yeah you have ham fisted progressives but I love cinema, especially summer tent pole films and late year Oscar bait films. Gravity was fantastic, Guardians of the Galaxy was fun and 2010’s True Grit, Grand Budapest Hotel. The list goes on and on. Seek out the gold and leave the garbage behind.
There were at least 2 Sherman tanks getting ammo racked. The tank warfare scenes were very good and realistic about the Sherman vs Tiger combat.
He actually redeemed himself a bit in this film.
No, not a draft dodger. He was in a serious auto accident in 1943 which exempted him from service. Might also be possible your folks picked up on his gay vibe (he was a homosexual).
Aw, here I was thinking we’d got a “Nick Fury & his Howlin’ Commandos” movie.
Though, I guess we already got that, just with Captain America replacing Nick Fury.
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I’m too young to have been around in that era, but I have noticed the same thing in retrospect, just reading about various actors. It’s funny though, some of the actors with the most impressive service records turn out to be the ones you would least expect.
For example, I would never have pegged Jimmy Stewart as a “war hero” from his films, but he was drafted, rejected, then reapplied multiple times until he made the cut (after having been a famous actor for years). Then, when the Army tried to relegate him to public relations and training duties, he kept petitioning until he was put on active combat duty in Europe, lead bomber squadrons into Germany, and earned high decorations.
For some reason my parents didn’t care for actor Van Johnson. He was in that great Battle of the Bulge movie. Maybe he was a draft dodger, but I’m not sure.
Wish they told you why. My dad got me watching WW2 movies and now if a movie with Van Johnson is on I must see it.
In point of fact, Patton saw tanks as serving a role of escorting troops, and not fighting other tanks. He was largely responsible for delays in production of the M26 Pershing which had mobility (wide treads), protection (sloped armor) and a high velocity gun firepower equivalent to German tanks, as well as a self-leveling tube. Once they put a 90 mm gun on it, it was arguably a match for the ‘King Tiger’.
We learned that the Germans were eager to fight us tank-to-tank, e.g. at Villers-Bocage (Normandy, following 6-6-44) where Michael Wittman destroyed over thirty British convoy vehicles, including tanks and self-propelled guns. And of course the Eastern front was a tank war of attrition between the Reds and Nazi’s. Patton hadn’t read that book yet.
Anyway, those guys who climbed into their Shermans, with low velocity 75 guns and knowing what they were going up against were the definition of bravery.
The fieldmarshall, above, says that Van Johnson was just a little light in the combat boots.
I suspect my parents told me he was 4-F because I was a kid and they didn’t want to talk about such things.
Sorry, no way will I sift through the garbage to seek out a damn thing.
I have books to read.
As a postscript, when actor Rock Hudson started looking bad with AIDs—sunken cheeks, etc.—I broke the news to my mother that he was, uh ... wired for alternating current.
She was a big fan of his and was terribly disappointed in him.
And mad at me for telling her, but I didn’t want her seeing it in a supermarket tabloid.
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