Originally posted to Facebook on October 17, 2014<\/p>\n
Fury<\/a>. Well. It’s a good war film, ranking up there with Saving Private Ryan. It’s a brutal film, with graphic violence, so much so that it’s almost an antiwar movie. Brad Pitt plays the commander of a Sherman Tank, named Fury, in the last days of World War II in Germany. The movie starts with the crew needing a replacement co-driver, played by Logan Lerman. He was a clerk, and is confronted with what war does to men (hint: it ain’t pretty). Somehow, Brad Pitt and his tank crew have survived since Africa, and are determined to see it through. Shia LeBeouf, Michael Pe\u00f1a, and Jon Bernthal round out the tank crew.<\/span><\/p>\n Fury is uncompromising, and appears to match accounts I’ve read of U.S. tankers, whose life expectancy is very short. We the audience experience that, close up. The story itself is a good one, and while there’s one scene that goes awry, everything else in the film makes sense for the story. The fight scenes are gripping. I do recommend it, for those that can stomach it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Originally posted to Facebook on October 17, 2014 Fury. Well. It’s a good war film, ranking up there with Saving Private Ryan. It’s a brutal film, with graphic violence, so much so that it’s almost an antiwar movie. Brad Pitt plays the commander of a Sherman Tank, named Fury, in the last days of World … Continue reading Fury<\/span>