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.
yeah, I get it...amazing what you can find from old movies sometimes, but not always what you want.
do you know, am I right - was that from the “God help me I do love it so” scene?
Except Brad Pitt is very pro gun.
I think he uttered those words at the site of the ruins where he said he was there in the past when it was an ancient battlefield.
How old are you people?
What was the last movie you saw?
Can you drive at night?
You are uninformed on the capabilities of the late model Shermans. With APCR rounds, at medium and close ranges, they were quite capable of ruining a Tiger’s day.
The resident tank expert at WarGaming wrote up a nice piece on this.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/pc-browser/21/TCH_Fury_Sherman_Tiger/
The tales of the Sherman being a death trap are highly overblow and largely stem from a single post-war book. It was no juggernaut but it was hardly a tincan.
yes, shortly after the “I can smell a battlefield” and “I know, I was there” scenes. I thought this was that scene.
Van Johnson had just started a 7-year contract with MGM in 1942 when he was in a major road accident which left him with a metal plate in his head. Ineligible to serve during WWII, he became America’s war film hero, playing the amiable guy next door sent overseas to do his part for America. J
thanks for the link
Words from the wise.
Frankly, I looked at your citation and read it. So what I’m supposed to believe is that this expert is completely right and every other account I’ve seen and heard (in one show from actual tank crews) is wrong.
Yep saw that too.
These pampered douchebags today have never known much of a greater horror than having their wrong-flavored Dasani water in their dressing room.
I'm not bothered by whether actors have been in a real war. I just think the acting profession is so dominated these days by homosexuals and metrosexuals that there are few actors anymore who can convincingly play macho manly types. There are no stars anymore with the masculine and heroic qualities of John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, et al.
Did you see the movie? What did you think of it?
I remember living in a great country...
Recently, I saw the final statistics on death-rates to Sherman crews per destroyed tank (it was linked to on Freeper Homer_J_Simpson's excellent daily WW2 series five or six weeks ago). They were 0.3 men per event, which is much lower than we've been led to expect. When a Sherman got badly hit, most got out alive.
Going tonight. I will post my thoughts. It looks like a decent two hour mind vacation.
People knew about Rock Hudson all along, IF they wanted to know, I first learned it as a little boy in 1961.
...mind vacation.
“People knew about Rock Hudson all along, “
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You are correct-—rumors were flying for years.
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