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I find it a very fun series to watch
Best movie of all time according to everyone
Thought it was OK
I think I liked it
It's a silly movie, but I liked it
Good movie; a bit confused
Came here to complain, but...
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The constant backfire is an exaggeration but remember it's a combination of things to make it sound like a tank. Run it in low range so you're hearing straight cut gears which are noisy, drag some chain, and run it rich so it will back-fire off throttle from time to time.
Is it perfect? No. Would it fool an 18 year old kid who doesn't know any better? Likely.
I took it as "Out of film for reshoots" and the extras were told to, fall down dead from time to time.
Just because the pillbox was taken, doesn't mean there aren't 120 German soldiers behind the rise.
That's the thing. Crazy stuff happens in war. Audie Murphy did the same thing, but in a tank destroyer, only had a .50 cal, no support, the vehicle was on fire, and kept the enemy at bay. Once he ran out of ammo, after forcing an enemy retreat, organized a team to take the position and win the day, though wounded.
If you made a realistic movie about Audie Murphy, you wouldn't believe it. Just like "Hacksaw Ridge". The real story isn't believable.
Heck, if you made a movie about my grandpa, fleeing conscription from the Germans, from Yugoslavia, all the way to Austria, it wouldn't be believable. But he did it. Without ever holding a rifle. He did it because he was clever. It even has coincidences that you would never buy. A capture by a war profiteer from Russia. A rescue by the Americans. Another attempt to escape, that was foiled. Eventual placement in a DP camp where he met my Grandpa.
There's way more to that story, but it wouldn't track as a movie. Too much cleverness, too much luck. You wouldn't buy it.
They made this other movie, coincidentally called "Fury" where they couldn't find a co-driver, they went into combat with a Tiger, the Tiger broke down and was destroyed. All the tanks in the attacking team survived. Later, they moved into a crossroads to guard it, the tank broke down. They abandoned the tank. Then they were sent back to the States for some R&R because they were due. Then the war ended.
That movie was super boring, so they made this one instead.
Chicory knows the way back. He knows where they left their gear. He knows where they buried the extra supplies. He knows where water is. It would be hard, but they should be back within a week or two.
It is great because it is not the movie that it appears to be.
The hero is not the hero.
The iconic lines are absolute nonsense that sound like deep thinking but aren't.
The actual hero is, frankly, a minor character who has barely a purpose other than wanting to marry a green eyed Chinese woman who is barely more than a mannequin.
Kim Catrell is playing a caricature of a caricature.
Random characters appear and then fade away for no purpose whatsoever. Just think to yourself, what's the name of the Chinese dude that helps them through the first half of the movie? No idea? Exactly. He drives the story forward, but leaves no traces.
The movie is everything that it isn't. That's what makes it better every time you watch it. Every time, it pretends to do something that should be cool in the 80's but falls completely flat, purposefully.
Truly the best, subtle, fourth wall break ever done in any film ever. Used only once in the movie, then never again. It's absolutely perfect and drives the story forward.
I know this is old but, for Christ's sake!
They made this other movie where the Korean Major wasn't educated in the United States, spoke no English, their was no interest or conflict, Sgt. Zach was shot in the head, died, and didn't factor in, the conscientious objector, defected to North Korea, the little kid was a spy for the Australians, and the Japanese dude hated the Canadiens.
It turned out that move sucked. They made this one instead. It worked.
All movies require willing suspension of disbelief. I had dozens of Asian, African, Russian, British, French, colleagues when I was in school. It's pretty darn normal. And I was in northern Minnesota. Imagine college in Los Angeles.
It's in the novel. Essentially, he had slowly gone mad. He didn't want to be there, he was alone, was out of his element, and had no friends.
It's primarily a plot device. No one knows that Dunbar is at the fort because the one officer who knew killed himself. The soldiers that had been at the fort were starving and left on foot to try to get back to town, but were all killed (to my memory) so no one even reported that the fort was unmanned. Thus the long time without resupply or contact.
In the novelization, it makes way more sense but putting it in the movie would slow it way down and it's already a slow movie.
Did you miss the part where Kevin Bacon makes a pro-Christian speech at the town hall meeting?
It's anti-fundamentalist, but not anti-Christian.
Easy answers:
Yes
From the pantry.
In the room that wasn't on camera.
With a shovel.
There, all questions answered. That was easy.
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