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.
The De Palma movie with Kirk Douglas? Decidedly lackluster IMHO. I’d skip it were I to do it again.
The tank movie with Brad Pitt?
“Anyone else seen Fury”
Yes. In the eyes of my ex-wife.
CC
I haven’t seen it, and I’m not sure I will.
I can no longer suspend my disbelief as I watch known douchebags pretend to be heroes.
*rim shot*
The tankers who rode in Shermans called them ‘Ronsons’ (after the lighter) because they caught fire so easily when going up against German tanks with 88 mm guns and high velocity long barrel 75s, the Panther.
American, British tankers: heroes; American actors: zeroes.
I’ll see it when it’s on Netflix.
Many actors throughout history have been douchebags. Sometimes you have to hold your nose and watch and enjoy.
It's almost funny to watch gun-grabbers in real-life play gun-toting heroes in the movies. Almost.
The ironic thing is, it doesn't have to be an act!
Brad Pitt isn’t a Gun Grabber, but I’m sure everyone involved with the Production would gladly disarm the Population if given the chance.
I forgot to complete the sentence:
“It doesn’t have to be an act—to be a hero!”
That’s the single biggest credibility problem in Hollyweird today. 50 years ago when they were doing WW2 films, many of the actors in them actually HAD been in the war or in military service (look at “Hogan’s Heroes” for that matter, where the actor Robert Clary, who played Cpl. Lebeau, had been in a real Nazi Concentration Camp for 3 years !).
These pampered douchebags today have never known much of a greater horror than having their wrong-flavored Dasani water in their dressing room.
+1
No way I would pay whatever it is theaters want these days to wait through God knows how many minutes of BS preview and advertisements to get what you paid to see.
There was a time in my faded memory when previews were sort of fun. From what I gather, Hollywierd had screwed that up along with everything else.
Gotta laugh to keep from crying sometimes, I guess.
CC
Movietone News then Serialized Perils of Pauline or some such, followed by the Cartoon. Admission 10 cents popcorn five cents as was a small coke.
Movie theaters are so 20th century, I don’t need ‘em.
And the multiplex theaters are fairly small & packed with people coughing and sneezing. I don’t need that either.
If they handed out bubble bags and remote controls, so I could stop the show and go pee, and if they charged a dollar to get in, and brought free popcorn to our seats and rubbed our feet ... I still wouldn’t go.
I’m going to see it. Maybe Sunday with my shooting buddy.
The years of war veteran Hollywood actors are long gone. You have to deal with what is left. If these kind of movies make money, maybe they’ll make more of them.
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.
I look forward to previews. I didn’t detect any sort of social engineering in the movie. Just a good war flick. Sometimes something is lost on the small screen. I have to admit though I see lots of things on the large screen. I have a local theater where we can get two tickets, two slices of pizza and two craft beers for less than $30 bucks so its a good value date night. I did go to a major chain for this movie and it was $11 but they had IPA’s for $6 which isn’t bad for the movies.
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