Comments on: Fury Counter-Review by a Tanker

By: AppyRose

AppyRose — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:44:49 +0000

Audie Murphy was a hero period. Here’s the link to his Medal of Honor Citation. This is a amazing read.
http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=421

Semper Fi
Yes I’m a vet too, Marines and Army, and I have fired much more than a pistol.
Appy

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:54:48 +0000

You’ve never heard of Audie Murphy?

Seriously, read up on the guy. The stuff in “To Hell and Back” is actually UNDERSTATING what he accomplished (they toned it down because nobody would’ve believed the real story).

By: DarkTau

DarkTau — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:17:02 +0000

Audie Murphy’s badass achievements didn’t end there, either. In the 1950s, he recognized that he had an addiction to sleeping pills (because of his PTSD), took a week in a motel room by himself and broke it, and before his death in 1971 in a plane crash, recognizing his own symptoms in the soldiers who came back from Korea and who were coming back from Vietnam, spoke out about his PTSD (still known at the time as “battle fatigue” and “shellshock”) and called upon the US Gov’t. to not only increase the studies of the emotional/psychological impact of combat on individuals, but also extend health care benefits to Veterans. Sabaton also wrote a pretty damn good song about him on their “Heroes” album titled “To Hell And Back”-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNeastYxEc

By: Fuddy

Fuddy — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:42:52 +0000

Poor you, it must be miserable being you.

By: Fuddy

Fuddy — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:41:02 +0000

“To Hell and Back” is a really good WW2 movie based on an actual person and events, Audie Murphy. Read up on him before seeing the movie and it might make the movie a better experience for you.
For those of you not familiar with Audie Murphy, he was an American movie star in 1950′s to 1960′s.
The scene mentioned by the reviewer did happen. I was kind of down on the “Fury” movie because of the John Wayne shoot out at the end, but I’d forgot about the Murphy event, so will lighten up a little on my part.

By: Timothy Farley

Timothy Farley — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:34:33 +0000

The scene you describe in “To Hell and Back” is from a movie and perhaps sensationalized a bit. Your analysis is flawed in that event truly happened and that battle gained Audie Murphy the Medal of Honor. They don’t give those medals away without considerable eyewitness documentation.

Having read Murphy’s biography, he believes he was able to fend off the German attack for a few reasons. His unit had been calling in accurate artillery fire as the Germans advanced causing infantry casualties and he was firing the .50 cal from the back of a burning tank. He believes that the Germans could not locate the source of his fire since they discounted that anyone would be using the burning tank for cover as it was clearly about to explode. Since the resistance seemed too strong, the Germans called off the attack.

I cannot recall actual casualty figures but I believe his single handed actions turned back an attack by an infantry company with at least 1 platoon of tanks.

By: NachtWolf

NachtWolf — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:31:30 +0000

It did portray the horror of war. Mostly, anyway.

By: nixxxie

nixxxie — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:12:33 +0000

Interesting, was it The Chieftain?

By: ViKing_6

ViKing_6 — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:33:54 +0000

I think it’s worth going to a theatre to see it, not because of its quality, and so on, but for the soundtrack : whistling shells, ricochets and stuff.

By: Kvasnikov

Kvasnikov — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:29:21 +0000

I don’t usually go to theaters to watch movies and previous visit before Fury was over 10 years ago. Nice experience after I got over the Swedish subtitles.

“My answer is that if you’re a tanker, it’s a fantastic movie”

Indeed! My service time was only one year but I’m full-blooded tanker. After seeing Fury my thoughts were overall very positive. Then I see lot of reviews with negative attitude towards the movie. Sure, it wasn’t perfect movie but I still was pretty surprised by them. Well, world keeps rolling and I didn’t think it that much. Now that someone has put it in words it’s so easy to see it: most of the people aren’t tankers. Yep, that explains a lot.

I also loved The Beast of War when I saw it first time from TV. What a great movie too. This was nice review. Points for that! :)