Fury

[Cortone]

Thought there would be more posts here than there are. I thought it a great war film - and not what I was expecting (based on past war films). Great performances all round.

As for Edith Bowman's interview, well done to Edith for not getting rattled by Shia Le Boeuf. However, she was asking closed questions (i.e. ones where you can answer briefly, like yes, no), rather than open ones (why did you, how was ...). But he is such an a*se that he would still have replied with rubbish. Wish they had kept him locked up in New York.

[woody505]

great film 9.5/10 horrors of war no holding back couple of scenes surprised me it stayed a 15 rated. York was only 60% full

[The Sparrow]

I see I am a lone voice but I really didn't like this.
Not enough Jason Isaacs and the only likeable person was Logan Lerman (Norman) and even he had an extremely questionable scene with the young German girl.

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She was expected to have sex with him, would he have raped her)

I loathed the way "Coon-Ass" and "Gordo" treated Norman. I would have been quite happy had they been killed early on in the film.
Vile men in every way. And again, the way they treated the two women disgusted me.

It was only towards the end of the film, did I feel any suspense but it sickened me the way Wardaddy treated the dead German's body. Utterly disrespectful.

I also had a lot of problems hearing great chunks of the dialogue. The heavy Southern accent was impenetrable at times.

It was well acted and it looked impressive but that's about all I can say positively.

As for the Red Carpet footage. I was very glad it was edited and not shown live. Was it too hard for most of them to look like they were happy to be there? Michael Pena and John Bernthal didn't crack a smile once. Only the lovely Logan Lerman and Jason Isaacs smiled and gave the impression of enjoying the "privilege", As for SLB, what a shame he wasn't wearing his paper bag.

Finally, what was going on with that security guard who overreacted each time anyone touched Brad Pitt??

[steve9872]

It was only towards the end of the film, did I feel any suspense but it sickened me the way Wardaddy treated the dead German's body. Utterly disrespectful.

Welcome to the reality of war, its kill or be killed and everything is permitted that keeps you alive and kills the enemy.

Finally, what was going on with that security guard who overreacted each time anyone touched Brad Pitt??

They weren't touching him that I saw. The guard was moving hands holding phones out of the line of shot of the phones BP was facing.

[stuartboy]

I loathed the way "Coon-Ass" and "Gordo" treated Norman. I would have been quite happy had they been killed early on in the film.
Vile men in every way. And again, the way they treated the two women disgusted me.

I have to agree with you on that: I really had no empathy whatsoever for anyone in that tank, and was quite glad to see some of them peg it.

I also had a lot of problems hearing great chunks of the dialogue. The heavy Southern accent was impenetrable at times.

I forgot all about this. I too struggled a lot with the dialogue. I thought it was more that they mumbled a lot, but that strong dialect, whilst perhaps authentic? was pretty impenetrable. They could have done with it being entirely subtitled, not just the German speech.

[kelliec]

OMG Shia Le Boeuf's interview! And Brad Pitt's security guard I agree was very OTT

The film itself was really good especially Wardaddy and Norman. My niece did cry alot but she also does that at Disney movies 9/10

[kevinknapman]

Another gripe - is M*ther-F***er not a modern invention of an expletive? From black American ghettoes. I don't recall this ever being a swearie-word in the 1940s. I may be totally wrong there too though.

You'd be surprised. Oddly there are Texas court transcripts that have the word being used as far back as 1898 so not a modern expletive at all. It's use was especially prevalent during WWII to describe something unpleasant or difficult.

[yogi]

I thought this was ok, but wasn't blown away.

It was impressively staged but I feel I've seen the War is Hell story now and this didn't add much apart from some imaginatively gruesome kills. And how is this a 15 and Gone Girl an 18, I've looked up the official reasons but really don't agree.

The characters were unpleasant, which is fine, but rather one dimensional, which wasn't, but the director excelled again on that male group camaraderie.

It didn't help that I was sat in the only spare seat in the cinema and my nose was almost touching the screen. If this was the only option and I was p*ying I'd have got a refund, it seems ridiculous to have seats like this in a modern cinema.

Guess I should have got there earlier, but at least I was in time to see Shia's terribly uncomfortable interview.

Anyway, 7/0

[stuartboy]

Another gripe - is M*ther-F***er not a modern invention of an expletive? From black American ghettoes. I don't recall this ever being a swearie-word in the 1940s. I may be totally wrong there too though.

You'd be surprised. Oddly there are Texas court transcripts that have the word being used as far back as 1898 so not a modern expletive at all. It's use was especially prevalent during WWII to describe something unpleasant or difficult.

Thank you. I knew someone would know (and prove me wrong! Lol)
It just didn't seem to ring true to me in the film. Mind you, older more period WW2 dramas wouldn't have even allowed shit let alone anything as strong as that, so would have given a very toned down impression. I tended to think that even the F-bomb wasn't used nearly as much as today. It has lost its power nowadays, especially as it is now noun, verb, adjective, adverb and any other part of speech.

[rottyexpress]

Amazing film, would go and watch it again.

Could not believe that Leicester Vue was only about 70% full.