Ash Ketchum

Does his character get killed in the film? And did he really die to make it look more real?

Orbi-Wan Techno

Seeing it at a sneak on the local military base this Saturday. Hope it's worth the time.

banthafett

The story seems like something I'd. But I hate LaBoof and Pittface when he does his over acting. If they wanted something like Pitt gave just give the role to Cage.

Solid Snake

l'm not a fan of either. Though Pitt usually does solid work. Labeouf is actually a decent actor. He doesn't get my attention when he's casted but he isn't a bad actor either. He has gotten better. Is all the hate from his Bay work or what?

Why So Blu?

Um... it might have something to do with him acting like a douche when he's not filming something.

I thought he was solid in Charlie Countryman - that's a terrific film.

Ash Ketchum

LeBeouf was born June 11, 1986. Weren't you born around that time also, Solid Snake?

(Also born around that time: Megan Fox, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan and the Olsen Twins.)

Solid Snake

i was born on July 8th, 1986.

Solid Snake

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Ash Ketchum

I saw this on Thursday night. I'll write it up after someone starts a review thread.

Solid Snake

just spoiler it up. I want to know what people thought NOW!

Ash Ketchum

If you've never seen a WWII movie--as I'm sure was the case with younger viewers at the screening I went to--then FURY would seem exciting and original to you. But if you've seen TONS of WWII movies--like I have--it's all pretty clichéd and old hat. A little grittier than most and done with skill and assurance, but the plot elements are all standard war movie stuff. And Pitt plays his role as a standard-issue movie star, riding into battle standing tall and unharmed... With a little less violence and gore, this could easily have been made in the 1960s, although they probably would have softened the characters a bit. But if they'd made a tank combat movie in the 1970s, it might have looked like this. And I might have liked it better then.

I also wonder about whether a clerk-typist with no combat experience or tank training (the new guy played by Logan Lerman) would be assigned to be a gunner with a battle-hardened tank crew after only eight weeks in the army. That didn't ring true with me.

I liked INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS much better.

Solid Snake

so.... solid?

hanshotfirst1138

I just think that WWII has been played it so throughly from so many different angles, it'd take a genius to make a movie about the subject which actually shook things up.

Osiris3657

Well to my pleasant surprise, the rating has been trending up. Started at 61% last week and now stands at 78% with 46 reviews in. I may catch a showing tonight.

Troy Stiffler

They should have hired Cage to play all of the characters. Like The Klumps.

inri222

What angles are you talking about? We all know that the US won WWII all by itself.

hanshotfirst1138

By Hollywood, I meant, obviously. But there've been so many WWII films from other countries as well, I just wonder what there is left to do with the genre. I think it'd take a Kubrick or a Malick to really do something genuinely new.

Solid Snake

Has there been a WWII tank crew film? The only that popped up for me is where eagles dare but..it's not a tank crew. It just has a tank driven by Donald Sutherland.

GreenVulture

I believe you're thinking of Kelly's Heroes.

Solid Snake

Wait. Yeah. Both films were in a two pack BD. My bad.

taffer

Same here.

Now I want a Nick Fury movie. Maybe one with David Hasselhoff Fury during WWII. Then he has a black baby who becomes Sam Jackson Fury in the modern day.

Comic spoilers:

Troy Stiffler

Soul Man 2: The Dark Rise of Fury

arminius

Sahara with Humphrey Bogart. The tank they used, an M3 Lee, was actually used in the desert by the British and Americans.

Solid Snake

I BARELY remember the TV movie but.... is it good? I just remember really wanting to see it cuz I loved the character but also being bored by it.

RocShemp

Hasselhoff was great as Fury. The movie not so much. It was entertaining but very cheesy.