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FURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie [video]

41 points by CHB0403085482 3y ago

aaron695 3y ago
The Australian Armoury & Artillery Museum in Cairns Oz has a prop from the film - https://www.facebook.com/LostCairns/posts/german-tiger-1-tank-replica-from-the-movie-fury-starring-brad-pitt-it-was-not-a-/1603840366328784/ https://www.facebook.com/LostCairns/posts/german-tiger-1-tan... Not as cool as the real thing of course, the cool shit in the Australian tank museum would be the real tanks. Seeing a tank that can fire a nuke is pretty amazing especially when you realize it is both nothing special and amazing what humans can do as average. Like the video says visit a tank museum if you get a chance.
- CHB0403085482 3y ago
  Does it have a SENTINEL tank on site? https://youtu.be/m3UeOvM7MrM?t=19 https://youtu.be/m3UeOvM7MrM?t=19
the_common_man 3y ago
Baited me. This is about a tank. Title is different from the YouTube video
- rzzzt 3y ago
  They rented out both a Sherman and a Tiger for the movie according to the video's description.
- dang 3y ago
  We've reverted the title now. Submitted title was "Fury – How a museum with the only running tiger made a movie [video]"
palemoonale 3y ago
Ah, Fury. One of the most historically correct American war movies made. /s (The Tiger ambush scenwas their 2nd most laughable one, as they were told to not turn 131 in oder to protect its drive train, and so got shot in the ass. Besides that, Panzerfuehrer were trained to go for first and last tank in a column to block movement, and especially if one is a Firefly!)
- hexfish 3y ago
  Spotted the Panzerführer.
  - palemoonale 3y ago
    This scene as shot was beyond idiotic. Never would have a Tiger left its hiding to drive straight(!) towards 3 remaining Sherman. He could just have picked them out using his superior optics, and relying on frontal glacis armor. (...rounds don't ricochet off fields, kids! This is supposedly timed as spring '45) But "uh hu, we got permission to use 131 in a movie, so we definitely need to show it driving around!" With the museum's explicit restriction of not turning, as to save wear on that precious (it is!) final drive, so there you have it: an idiotic "leave-perfect-hiding-drive-fwd-drive-backward-and-lets-just-outturn-the-Fireflys-turret-by-turning-ours" game.
    - IshKebab 3y ago
      I mean... you don't really need to pick on their tank battle tactics. The final scene was at least 5 times more ludicrous. "I'll just stand up on top of this tank and none of the hundreds of Nazis will be able to hit me for at least 5 minutes". Ok. I thought it was a decent film until they massively jumped the shark in the last scene. Someone needs to do a "sane edit", then you can complain about the tactical accuracy.
      - palemoonale 3y ago
        Right, "their 2nd most laughable one". "Heroically mow down waves of made-inept SS" is and will stay obviously number one. Can't praise vintage ("Liberation") and current ("Pavlov's 28") Russian WW2 movies enough, while the later ones do have their holes ('inept German conscripts"), at least the props are always alright, acting is top.
      - adamredwoods 3y ago
        You haven't heard of Audie Murphy yet, have you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy >> Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 caliber machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the flaming tank destroyer returning German fire from foot soldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.
anovikov 3y ago
In a way, making WWI tank movies is a lot easier. There are so many extant Holt tractors left...
jimnotgym 3y ago
Councidence. I watched this yesterday. I thought the Fury film was meh, but the tank museum is awesome. I'm really pleased to see their tanks in films and I'm really pleased to hear how it happened
coldcode 3y ago
Visiting the Tank Museum is something I do when I go to England. I wish I could be there on Tiger Day and see it driving around. It's an amazing machine to see in person. Having four actual WW2 Shermans plus the Tiger in Fury made the movie so much more amazing; it's not a great movie, but the actual vehicles made it special.
- epolanski 3y ago
  I would love to visit Moscow's Kubinka tank museum. Not only it has a Tiger, but a Panzer VIII and a Karl Gerat Self Propelled Gun are also visibile among the german ww2 weaponry. Sadly, I don't see myself getting there in many years.
nimbius 3y ago
if you liked Fury, you should check out the Russian movie T34. some really great CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BlybdjhVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BlybdjhVg
- CHB0403085482 3y ago
  It's renamed Iron Fury [T-34] (2018) for western audiences.

41 points by CHB0403085482 3y ago

The Australian Armoury & Artillery Museum in Cairns Oz has a prop from the film - https://www.facebook.com/LostCairns/posts/german-tiger-1-tank-replica-from-the-movie-fury-starring-brad-pitt-it-was-not-a-/1603840366328784/ https://www.facebook.com/LostCairns/posts/german-tiger-1-tan... Not as cool as the real thing of course, the cool shit in the Australian tank museum would be the real tanks. Seeing a tank that can fire a nuke is pretty amazing especially when you realize it is both nothing special and amazing what humans can do as average. Like the video says visit a tank museum if you get a chance.

CHB0403085482 3y ago
Does it have a SENTINEL tank on site? https://youtu.be/m3UeOvM7MrM?t=19 https://youtu.be/m3UeOvM7MrM?t=19

the_common_man 3y ago

Baited me. This is about a tank. Title is different from the YouTube video

rzzzt 3y ago
They rented out both a Sherman and a Tiger for the movie according to the video's description.
dang 3y ago
We've reverted the title now. Submitted title was "Fury – How a museum with the only running tiger made a movie [video]"

palemoonale 3y ago

Ah, Fury. One of the most historically correct American war movies made. /s (The Tiger ambush scenwas their 2nd most laughable one, as they were told to not turn 131 in oder to protect its drive train, and so got shot in the ass. Besides that, Panzerfuehrer were trained to go for first and last tank in a column to block movement, and especially if one is a Firefly!)

hexfish 3y ago
Spotted the Panzerführer.
- palemoonale 3y ago
  This scene as shot was beyond idiotic. Never would have a Tiger left its hiding to drive straight(!) towards 3 remaining Sherman. He could just have picked them out using his superior optics, and relying on frontal glacis armor. (...rounds don't ricochet off fields, kids! This is supposedly timed as spring '45) But "uh hu, we got permission to use 131 in a movie, so we definitely need to show it driving around!" With the museum's explicit restriction of not turning, as to save wear on that precious (it is!) final drive, so there you have it: an idiotic "leave-perfect-hiding-drive-fwd-drive-backward-and-lets-just-outturn-the-Fireflys-turret-by-turning-ours" game.
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    I mean... you don't really need to pick on their tank battle tactics. The final scene was at least 5 times more ludicrous. "I'll just stand up on top of this tank and none of the hundreds of Nazis will be able to hit me for at least 5 minutes". Ok. I thought it was a decent film until they massively jumped the shark in the last scene. Someone needs to do a "sane edit", then you can complain about the tactical accuracy.
    - palemoonale 3y ago
      Right, "their 2nd most laughable one". "Heroically mow down waves of made-inept SS" is and will stay obviously number one. Can't praise vintage ("Liberation") and current ("Pavlov's 28") Russian WW2 movies enough, while the later ones do have their holes ('inept German conscripts"), at least the props are always alright, acting is top.
    - adamredwoods 3y ago
      You haven't heard of Audie Murphy yet, have you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy >> Murphy mounted the abandoned, burning tank destroyer and began firing its .50 caliber machine gun at the advancing Germans, killing a squad crawling through a ditch towards him. For an hour, Murphy stood on the flaming tank destroyer returning German fire from foot soldiers and advancing tanks, killing or wounding 50 Germans.

anovikov 3y ago

In a way, making WWI tank movies is a lot easier. There are so many extant Holt tractors left...

jimnotgym 3y ago

Councidence. I watched this yesterday. I thought the Fury film was meh, but the tank museum is awesome. I'm really pleased to see their tanks in films and I'm really pleased to hear how it happened

coldcode 3y ago

Visiting the Tank Museum is something I do when I go to England. I wish I could be there on Tiger Day and see it driving around. It's an amazing machine to see in person. Having four actual WW2 Shermans plus the Tiger in Fury made the movie so much more amazing; it's not a great movie, but the actual vehicles made it special.

epolanski 3y ago
I would love to visit Moscow's Kubinka tank museum. Not only it has a Tiger, but a Panzer VIII and a Karl Gerat Self Propelled Gun are also visibile among the german ww2 weaponry. Sadly, I don't see myself getting there in many years.

nimbius 3y ago

if you liked Fury, you should check out the Russian movie T34. some really great CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BlybdjhVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BlybdjhVg

CHB0403085482 3y ago
It's renamed Iron Fury [T-34] (2018) for western audiences.