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.
Yup, it took real courage to shoot at Tiger tanks with a pop gun while sitting on what was in effect a tin can full of gasoline.
Darn it! The good aspect of the entertainment business before the 1960s is the celebs didn’t reveal all their sins to the public.
That’s because, unlike today, secrets getting out could prove harmful to the studios’ bottom line. Of course, some did dribble out via scandal mags, but the public tended to treat them like we do the National Enquirer (although it has more credibility than many leftist news outlets since it was the one that broke the stories on Sen. John Edwards’ escapades/love child).
On the base here, it's worth going to a movie just to rise for the playing of the anthem before they show the flick!
Battlegound... great flick. There were rumors that Johnson was gay.
Some yeah. But I'm going to skip Dear White People....
The actors playing the Nazi were all JEWS!!!
Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Leon Askin all fled from the
Nazis
The Gestapo man Major Hochstetter was plauyed by Howard Cain
(Howard Cohen) an American Jew actor
Pretty wild, and all had served in the military during WW2. Remember, also, that Klemperer had it stipulated that Klink was never to get the “upper hand” or win over Hogan and the Allies or he wouldn’t play the role.
Some of the action in the preview scenes seem good, but that may be all there is. In thinking about the premise, a Sherman tank with a busted tread defending some crossroad, my first thought is that it really won’t involve any confrontation with German tanks. If it does, then it would seem a little far fetched to me. The one advantage a Sherman had over a German beast was speed, and with that gone, it would be a turkey shoot. What beat the Germans was numbers of Shermans, not firepower.
Also, one of the best tank movies I’ve seen is “The Beast” about a Russian tank in Afghanistan (disabled) trying to get away from the Mujahadin rebels.
Ahhh, that must be why Hogans Heroes was so realistic - damned near a documentary in fact!!
Just kidding - GREAT show! And FTR, the monocle and riding crop of Colonel Klinks? Those were affects that the actor, Werner Klemperer, added himself.
Hochstetter was awesome character!
I believe that scene was the “...I love it so.....God help me, I DO love it so...” scene.
Another good Russian flick is “The Platoon”.
Not “platoon”. It’s about Russian conscripts
drafted and sent to Afghanistan.
Top notch. The DI is one tough nut, but then
you see him alone after some reunion and he’s
by himself in a field crying. He takes them
to Afghanistan/ firebase under attack etc.
Not many of them live.
The point being, some of the cast members had more than enough real-life credibility to be playing those characters. Can’t say that about too many actors today, especially ones in ridiculous war films.
That wasn’t Patton. It was General Leslie McNair.
I was just having a good laugh......and yes, I knew your point. Audie Murphy played himself in fact, if I’m not mistaken. Lee Marvin was a bad ass marine in real life too I think (and we know that the Dirty Dozen was also a documentary...../SARC)
Jimmy Stewart was a MAN - compare his war record to John Wayne's for example.
Like you said, Stewart actively sought combat duty and flew in some of the hairiest bombing raids of WWII - I'm almost positive he was on the schweinfurt raid. He was the first major star to put on the uniform in WWII when he enlisted and he continued to fly as a reservist long after WWII. He even flew on a B-52 mission in Vietnam. He ended his military service as a brigadier general.
Before there was “Fury” There was............. ODDBALL.
I couldn’t find an image of him in his temporary headquarters where he uttered the line so I used this one.
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