after Inglorious Basterds Brad Pitt is
back for more
re-enlisting with the Allied force! you're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of Fury!
These troops get by you, we're all dead
in the water - all we got is you
I won't ask you to do anything I haven't done myself
- Com-check! - Photo-check! - Bird-check!
Fire!
On what?!
Hit that sonuvabitch!
Hit it!
Do your job! Do what you're here for!
Brad Pitt was used to sell tickets for
Inglorious Basterds but when it came
earning the gold he wasn't even a part of
the discussion
only when the film's cast was honored
as an ensemble did his name even come up
but as we all know, while Pitt just
recently won a Best Picture Oscar for
twelve years a slave
he'd like to win one for his primary
profession - acting
but unlike fellow pretty boys Matthew McConaughey or Ben Affleck
Pitt has always made interesting films so
there's no transformation into artiste
to wow the Academy
instead like another accomplished pretty
boy Leonardo DiCaprio
he finds himself endlessly in search of
the recognition and prestige that
audiences already give him
but hey can you blame Pitt or DiCaprio
for wanting to make it official?
and yes the Academy loves war movies
movies about recent wars not so much
with the exception of The Hurt Locker
and
maybe American sniper but Pitt is playing
it safe by going old school with another
world war two story
another world war two story?! yes but
Pitt has found a little explored corner
of that storied bit of history
the armored tank! today our soldiers are even safer with Predator drones where they're
totally removed from the battlefield
but back during world war two an armored
tank was the most protection the army
any army
could afford their soldiers and despite
roughly 20,000 being used by the US Army
during World War Two
there've only been a handful of movies to
feature them the most notable being
Sahara with humphrey bogart
Battle of the Bulge with henry fonda and
Kelly's heroes with Clint Eastwood
donald sutherland, telly savalas
and don rickles. and while Brad Pitt is
definitely fury's biggest star
it does feature an impressive ensemble
cast as tanks were not a
single man effort. Percy Jacksons Logan
Lerman, who's been flirting with the jump
to the big leagues for a while now
The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal, Michael
Pena
who co-starred in writer-director David
Ayer's biggest hit to date End of Watch
and then
Shia LaBeouf. We'll see how LaBeouf does on screen
but so far he's dominated the press
coverage for fury with stories about how
he refused to shower
pulled out his own tooth and continuously
cut his face for real with a knife
throughout production
all in the name of authenticity! but all of LaBeouf's efforts will be for nothing
if Ayer, directing his
first period piece can't deliver on his
end. So will Fury finally do for tanks what
hollywood has already done for
submarines? or when it comes to the Oscar
race is this pic
hopelessly outgunned? it's so frustrating
to watch a movie with so many great
elements fail so utterly
this is me watching Fury - this movie is off to a really bad start!
oh but wait a minute that is a great action
sequence - tanks are awesome!
and hey, the acting is getting pretty good
oh but wait, it just totally went off the
rails
goodbye and it's all David Ayer's fault
and probably also Brad
Pitts' who clearly has Oscar tunnel
vision because Fury knows where it
wants to go
logic and good storytelling be damned! and
the real problem with this movie really is
Brad Pitt's character
for two reasons - the first is he makes
a big promise to his men that he's going
to keep them alive
and they make a very big point of
showing that this promise means so much to
him personally
yet clearly - without having too many
spoilers here
killing Germans is more important to
him than keeping is
troops alive so I don't understand why
the first promise was made
and if they were going to make that
first promise about keeping them alive
why not show more of the internal
conflict with Brad Pitt between
these two priorities he clearly has which
is keeping his troops alive, his team
and killing germans! now as for the killing germans bit
that's never explained even though he's clearly obsessed with killing Germans they make
quite an effort to show that - for
instance in the camp
when they're going to question the SS
officer and Brad Pitt just
loses his cool over the whole thing - and
you know
Logan Lerman's character, they make quite a point in breaking him and showing how he
comes to hate germans, and that's done effectively
although Logan Lerman, at the end of the
movie, you discover really hasn't changed
at all
again I don't wanna give a spoiler
away but his character ends up
almost in the exact same place in terms of
his stance
with war as he did at the beginning of the
movie
but with Brad Pitt's character they don't
show
why it's so personal with him - so
intensely personal to kill germans
I suspect it has something to do with
why his character speaks perfect German
or at least
it should have something to do with that -
but I suspect the reason David Ayer
doesn't show
why Brad Pitt hates Germans so much is
because he couldn't
come up with a cool enough reason and
that's why he doesn't include it - it's the only
reason I can think of! because including
a sequence
at the beginning of the film or having a
flashback would've
exponentially improved this movie but
instead
by not showing Brad Pitt, you know what
causes him to hate
Germans so much, the Nazis in particular,
it robs Brad Pitt's character of his
motivation
it robs him of our sympathies and it most
likely will rob Brad Pitt of the Oscar
nomination he clearly wants so badly
and I think someone could argue well
isn't it cool
to not know why he dislikes German so much, don't you
appreciate the mystery?
and I would say I if your gonna go the
mystery route which i think would be a
mistake
even it's not compellingly edged out nor
are the arm
you know the conflicts between what
brett is saying and what he's doing
largely says it's just their job to kill
germs but again
it's clearly deeply personal for his
character
now those are the problems at the movie
that I think our you know
fail to the top but there's still a lot
of good things as i said they're great
elements here
the just totally wasted I'll it's Brad
Pitt and Logan Lerman so many boys do a
very good job
I was impressed at how Michael Kenya
shyla bach
and Jon Bernthal were able to stand out
with very little screen time actually
I also like the movie has to say about
war I think it was a very fresh take on
it
which surprised and I think surprisingly
least to my knowledge
I haven't seen any other hollywood
movies about war look at it from this
perspective
you know what soldiers in their deal
with the mentality is I think it was
done
quite effectively I was really really
impressed it was like showing the band
of brothers
come so famous but taking all the
romance out a bit
but still leaving the imports that bond
and i really appreciate that
I also like what had to say about tech
warfare I thought it was
really other action sequences were this
really exciting
I love the tracer rounds with that was
used and it peaked my interest in tax I
in that regard I wish that the film I'll
told more about harte-hanks operate and
he got kinda
you can pick up a little bit Logan
Lerman scared to joining the crew was
the perfect opportunity and you never
want to take school
it was the perfect opportunity to give
us a a quick lesson in tax and also
would like to know a little bit more
about tech warfare
which I also thought see pretty
interesting and something I'm not
familiar with so
I think the movie succeeded in that
regard the movie does succeed in a lot
of various a particular the middle
section
so I think you should see fury at some
point because in that middle section
I and what he has to say about war and
you know some other performances in that
action sequences and you know good good
introduction tanks
on only an introduction unfortunately
there but because at the beginning of
the movie and the
end of the movie in the beginning by the
way just you know place like a bad
bad theater I everyone speaking their
emotions
I was just I was really nervous when I
was going to have to sit through to the
next two hours or so
but I would say because in all sections
worth seeing
but because in the beginning the end
it's not worth seeing in theaters
or I can't recommend you see it deters
it's your call really are you might
argue it needs the big screen because
the kind of film it is then
go for a matinee save as much money as
you can this
so that's my review of fury what do you
think did
did the wasted good elements make you
curious as well
or did you like the way everything came
together %uh please share your thoughts
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