Fury

[spanner570]

My son treated me to the flicks on Wednesday to see this.....

I do wish film makers would sit back and properly watch the end product and realise just how daft and improbable some of the scenes actually are...

I won't spoil it listing them, but put it this way......I wouldn't even get this on DVD.

Great special effects and sound, but that's it!

No offence intended, but it's not even on the same planet as Saving Private Ryan, Days of Glory, and Saints and Soldiers.

The above is my personal take peeps (and my armour nut son's too)

[Alan 45]

I take american war films with a pinch of salt, there entertaining and that's it , good to look at , loud and heroic

Teat them like thatand you can enjoy them , look for realism and accuracy and you'll feel let down

[BBdave]

I think if a true to fact war film was made everyone would walk out they are made for entertainment not documentary quality.

Private Ryan is far from free from mistakes.

Dave

[Neil]

Well I saw it and unlike all you perfectionists :P I enjoyed it. It is what it is, somewhat lacking in character building and it wants to be more than it is in places but it was good rip-roaring fun nonetheless. Personally I find some movies/tv shows with all sorts of computer nonsense a bit unbelievable (start up sequence in Jurassic Park for example).

It wasn't perfect but if you suspend belief for a while, it is good fun.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Just got back from seeing it, it was entertainment, I enjoyed it. I'm not a tank buff or a history buff, it was a few hours of been out of the house with good company

Adrian

[spanner570]

I hope my post wasn't taken the wrong way and reading a bit harsh......It most certainly was a good romp and enjoyable, just a bit 'Implausible' in places.

[aaron]

I saw fury first day out...last Thursday.

I fully recommend this movie.

Edit. ..I whipped my s4 out and recorded the tiger battle.

[Alan 45]

If you want to see a good tankers film that does have a bit of accuracy in it its Kelly's heros

Ok for some reason the tankers are hippies but hay at least it states you can't take out a tiger with a sherman mk4 unless it's point blank from the rear :P

[Guest]

That's not strictly true! A recent investigation into the death of Michael Wittman showed that a British Sherman took out 3 of the 4 Tigers at ranges of up to 800 metres (standard 75mm gun) firing from the flank.

As the Russians discovered at Kursk, the Tiger is vulnerable to a flank attack.

[spanner570]

If you want to see a good tankers film that does have a bit of accuracy in it its Kelly's heros Ok for some reason the tankers are hippies but hay at least it states you can't take out a tiger with a sherman mk4 unless it's point blank from the rear :P

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Alan, except when it's 'oddball' in charge of the Sherman!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron

[Alan 45]

That's not strictly true! A recent investigation into the death of Michael Wittman showed that a British Sherman took out 3 of the 4 Tigers at ranges of up to 800 metres (standard 75mm gun) firing from the flank.As the Russians discovered at Kursk, the Tiger is vulnerable to a flank attack.

I think I've read something about this mate but it was stated as immobilised not destroyed, this may have been why they started fitting skirts , but immobilising is still a good way to stop a tank

[Alan 45]

[ATTACH]92020[/ATTACH]Alan, except when it's 'oddball' in charge of the Sherman!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron

Great little dio that is mate

[BBdave]

I have seen an interview with a British tank crew member who fought in 1945 at the front in a Sherman and he said the film battle with the tiger was very accurate.

At least it was a proper tiger.

Dave

[Guest]

I think I've read something about this mate but it was stated as immobilised not destroyed may have been why they started fitting skirts , but immobilising is still a good way to stop a tank

They were all destroyed, Wittman's tank exploded blowing off its turret. That's partly why the mistaken belief of it being a Typhoon rocket persisted for so long.

Skirts? If you mean Schurzen, they were designed to counter Russian anti-tank rifles. Their benefits against HEAT rounds were only discovered later in the war.

The only tank never to have been recorded as penetrated by enemy fire is the King Tiger as far as I'm aware.

[aaron]

I'm gonna get me a Sherman to go with my tiger and do a dio of the movies tank waltz.

Was the Sherman an easy 8?