Movie: Fury

[jdmcm]

Seriously Ed? "The tanks are coming" and "Go for broke" ? These are the movies that you cite as cinematic gems from the golden age of war movies? Ouch...The tanks are coming is probably worse than "Battle of the Bulge"...a cast of veritable unknowns with anchorman hair-do's casting each other knowing glances all the while looking like something out of a Rock Hudson Palm Springs pool party...wooden acting, a formulaic plot right out of the US War Office, laughable jingoistic narration and just plain painful to watch...twenty minutes in you are rooting for the Germans to kill them all! I think if you were trying to convince shoeless, dough-headed farmboys to join the army in 1951..this would be the ticket...makes war look like a pretty good time! (Grab a cup of "joe" Sarge then we will give them Krauts what for!) And "Go for Broke", Van Johnson's vanity project about discrimination in the ranks! Not entirely unwatchable...but I preferred him in "The Caine Mutiny"...a much better picture in my humble opinion...Hey I don't hate the old war movies (except "The Tanks are Coming"...it deserves to be hated) I even find myself watching Patton whenever it rears its ugly head on TV...but lets face it..."The Beast", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers", "Lebanon", "White Tiger" and "Fury" among others, combine better writing, much better production values, vastly superior acting and I think make a much more realistic point of showing war for what it is...a horrible undertaking of last resort