new war movie "fury", opinions? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

JB3 · #1 10-23-2014, 09:43 AM

The wife wants to go see this. Im reading some amazing variety of reviews, love or hate the movie seems to inspire passionate response.

Anyone seen it?

t walgamuth · #2 10-23-2014, 10:35 AM

Not yet. I'm sure we will though.....when it comes out on dvd.

MTI · #3 10-23-2014, 11:02 AM

DVD? Tom, streaming is what all the kids are doing these days.

Txjake · #4 10-23-2014, 11:35 AM

saw previews, looks ok.

pj67coll · #5 10-23-2014, 12:59 PM

Haven't seen enough of the trailers to get an idea if it's worth seeing or not yet.
- Peter.

t walgamuth · #6 10-23-2014, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by MTI

DVD? Tom, streaming is what all the kids are doing these days.

Unh huh.

JB3 · #7 10-23-2014, 02:26 PM

IMDB reviews are all over the place.

People calling it an insult to every veteran who ever lived, others saying its on par with das boot and private ryan.

I hope its not painfully bad like red tails.

TylerH860 · #8 10-23-2014, 02:33 PM

You are glued to the screen the whole time. Performances are magnificent. Battles are great. Very unrealistic epic final battle but still very good.

One scene just about ruined the movie for me. You will know when you watch it. Starts out nice enough until the rest of the crew joins Brad pit and the newbie.

Up there with private Ryan for me, but certainly does not glorify war or the people fighting it.

Can't Know · #9 10-23-2014, 02:35 PM

This review was enough to make me think it can easily wait for redbox or netflix. Or maybe never, even.

One excerpt:

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By the end of “Fury,” I was rooting for Brad Pitt to get shot between the incisors.
This is a problem, because he’s the hero of the film — a hard-charging sergeant who eats lead and craps shrapnel. Yet he’s a vainglorious bastard — vindictive, stupid and criminal.
His character should be brought up on charges or referred to the nearest psychoanalyst specializing in sadomasochism.
Director David Ayer (“End of Watch”) has evidently decided that if you can’t say anything new about war, you should say the old stuff, loudly and with images worthy of a gross-out horror flick.
Most of Ayer’s imaginative power goes into orgies of violence — men’s legs being cut off by machine-gun fire, a sliver of a face lying around like a dirty sock, another man who has been run over so many times, he has become one with the mud.

Full review here: Brad Pitt should be court-martialed for war-porn

TheDon · #10 10-23-2014, 06:57 PM

It's like Inglorious Bastards and a tank had a drinking binge. It's awesome

TheDon · #11 10-23-2014, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Can't Know

This review was enough to make me think it can easily wait for redbox or netflix. Or maybe never, even.

One excerpt:

Full review here: Brad Pitt should be court-martialed for war-porn

That review sounds like someone has lived a sheltered life. The creators of this movie made to to show the absolute horrors soldiers go through and the stuff they do because it changes you into a twisted war machine that does things like make a new guy execute a German POW

MTI · #12 10-23-2014, 07:16 PM

I suspect that it's going to be a long wait for a war movie to be the simplistic "good guys" beating the "bad guys" with mere honor, patriotism and courage.