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Rating: 9 stars

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All movies seen on 10/19/2014

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Fury (2014)

Directed by David Ayer

War | Drama | Action

Most recently watched by scottfinn, jeneot33, seanCduregger, danhnguyen, sleestakk, schofizzy

Overview

In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named ‘Wardaddy’ commands a Sherman tank called ‘Fury’ and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Rated R | Length 135 minutes

Actors

Brad Pitt | Shia LaBeouf | Logan Lerman | Michael Peña | Jon Bernthal | Jim Parrack | Brad William Henke | Kevin Vance | Xavier Samuel | Jason Isaacs | Anamaria Marinca | Alicia von Rittberg | Scott Eastwood | Laurence Spellman | Daniel Betts | Adam Ganne | Eric Kofi Abrefa | Osi Okerafor | John MacMillan | Saul Barrett | Marek Oravec | Kyle Soller | Jake Curran | Jack Bannon | Branko Tomovic | Orion Lee | Vivien Bridson | Christian Contreras | Stella Stocker | Jacob Vonhendial | Lukas Rolfe | Leon Rolfe | Harry Hancock | Daniel Dorr | Bernhard Forcher | Edin Gali | Jaime FitzSimons | Chris Wright | Charlie Rotheram | Nick Beattie | Jimmy Carroll | Chip Dale | Dickon Leigh-Wood | Hugh Vere Nicoll | Xander Rawlins | Marlon Blue | Jamie B. Chambers | Zach Avery | Eugenia Kuzmina | Taylor Murphy | Paul Gorvin

Viewing History (seen 5 times)

Viewing Notes

We’ve been anxiously awaiting this to come out, so we grabbed tickets for a morning matinee. I think it’s safe to say we all liked it a lot. Easily the best film about war I’ve seen since Blackhawk Down and I fully expect I will end up watching this just as many times over the ensuing years.

All that said, it was not an easy thing to watch. It was probably as difficult to watch this as it was for me to watch Saving Private Ryan the first time. This isn’t the war movie we all grew up with starring Audie Murphy or John Wayne. This was a visceral, unsettling, troubling, horrifying experience that felt closer to probably what the real horrors of WWII were like for the people that experienced it.

It’s not a perfect movie, it feels a little rushed in places (which is weird given it’s a 2 hour 12 minute film), but that’s just nitpicking. I expect I’ll go see this at least once more in a theater with Dolby Atmos because I’m sure it would benefit from the greater sound quality and additional surround. It’s just that kind of movie.

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