re: Fury - Best job I ever had, scene

The last scene I kept thinking "Take his sidearm!!!" I really thought we would hear a gun shot when he went into the ambulance.

Fair enough. Maybe I should watch it again. It ticks all the boxes for a movie I should like. Could have been my expectations were to high based on message boards.

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Maybe it was the way Shia yelled "on the way" every time he fired the tank. Don't know why but I thought that was awesome ?

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Some of the scenes are ridiculous but that is absolutely how it goes down.

Tank commander gives initial fire command "gunner, sabot tank"

Gunner identifies target "Identify"

Loader arms main gun and gets out of the recoil of the breach and yells "Up"

Tank commander gives gunner permission to engage "fire and adjust"

Gunner pulls trigger and yells "on the way"

I just finished a rewatch of this, and I had no idea it was sort of hated by this board (at least partially). I think it’s really good, even the battle scenes. The tank scene in the field is well done and at least seems realistic enough (unless you have some real world knowledge of tanks). And the final battle scene is a little ridiculous, especially the ineptitude of the Germans, but it’s still pretty well done, and believable enough within the framework of the movie (considering they surprise attacked a mostly-walking force of soldiers with very little anti tank weaponry).

I don’t get the hate on this one at all, even the final battle scene.

Love this movie. The acting was phenomenal, and all of the characters had their own moments to show who they were as a team, and show who they were as individuals (the good and the bad).
I honestly don't know how a man that likes war movies couldn't like this movie, key word being movie. It's not a shot for shot remake of WWII playing out on the field. It's a movie.

I will say I didn't like Brad Pitt getting them all killed though.

He knew damn well that they wouldn't have left him behind to fight the SS alone. I get that they all made the decision on their own, but still...they shouldn't have had to.

The Tiger battle started out well but quickly went to hell when they did the typical movie bullshite of having the tanks maneuvering about 20 feet apart.

Trying to get behind a Tiger was typical with a Sherman, even an Easy 8, but from point blank range they could have penetrated about anywhere.



Battle tactics with tanks include using angles to get the most out of your armor. The Tiger manual instructed them to use the 30 degree angle to the enemy as I recall. Just as shown in the penetration ranges chart above.

The final battle was laughable, but overall I like the movie and will watch it whenever I come across it.