4. "Yo so this movie has one great scene that's better than the entire movie" In response to Reply # 0
And that's the scene in the apartment. One of the best scenes I've seen all year.
Also, the score by Steven Price is fucking dope. Especially the piano motif that plays as they prepare for the final fight and plays again over the end credits.
Otherwise this shit is okay until the end which is the biggest copout on three characters and is a super Hollywood ending. Fucking disgusting.
However I was slightly taken back on the story being told by the Mexican guy. Not sure if I got the message...was he implying that they/or Brad Pitt' character had done some foul shit in the past?
6. "RE: Fury (Ayer, 2014)" In response to Reply # 0
Read a little over half the script. It's not bad at all. I'm curious to see how Pitt depicts "Wardaddy." He more or less carries the film so much of its success will be contingent on his performance.
19. "It was pretty good. See Downfall" In response to Reply # 8 Fri Dec-05-14 02:09 AM by rawsouthpaw
and Letters from Iwo Jima if you haven't already, two recent and very good ones. I don't yet have the stomach for it but "Come And See" was made by a survivor of the Nazi attacks on the Soviet Union, and is supposedly too real.
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Fri Oct-17-14 01:51 AM
9. "Great acting. Strong visuals/sound. Very good movie. " In response to Reply # 0 Fri Oct-17-14 01:51 AM by Frank Longo
Per usual Ayer's films are heavily reliant on how strong his cast is. Here, the cast is great, with all five of the main characters really delivering (all-stars: Shia and Shane).
The story is nothing new, but the tank action is great, the movie looks and sounds terrific, and it gives those who went in wanting an Ayer-made war film exactly what they expected.
16. "verrrry meh. but im not a huge fan of war movies." In response to Reply # 0
never have been really. only watched it cos Walk Among The Tombstones was nxt in the double-feature. which i ended up liking approx. 10x more than Fury.
17. "Finally saw this. Really good, but not great. (mild spoilers)" In response to Reply # 0
Ending was, as bwood put it, "super Hollywood." That kept it from being great, to me.
But it was very good I really liked all the performances. Bernthal was on the edge of overdoing a time or two, I thought, but he played the redneck role pretty well. His teeth were disgusting.
Shia was the star, to me. It was also interesting to me that Shia became a Christian through playing "Bible" in this film. He says talking to Ayer and Brad Pitt about faith made him a believer.
As far as the dinner table scene, I really dug it. That probably was the best scene. When they started talking about the horses, was that reference to the crew doing shameful stuff, or was that literally about killing a bunch of horses? I wasn't 100% clear on that.
18. "The only thing that didn't bore me was the dinner sequence" In response to Reply # 0
Ayer's whole male-bonding-in-the-face-of-danger thing was done much better in End of Watch
Here, I just didn't care.
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20. "Just saw it....Shia stole at least half of the scenes." In response to Reply # 0
I don't know what that dude's preparation is like for roles....but it worked wonders for him here.
There's scenes where my attention drifted over to Shia and he wasn't saying anything. He looked like he saw way more than WW2. Brad was good too but he's basically playing a toned-down variant on Aldo Raine...which is necessarily a bad thing.
I hope this style of film that David Ayer (and Antoine Fuqua to a lesser extent) continues. I like movies where men speak and act like fucking men instead of getting their 'bro' on in every scene. ---------------------------------------
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