Fury

I've been talking a lot of war movies lately and im going to continue this trend for as long as i see fit. The next war movie im going to talk about is Fury.
Fury is the story of an American tank crew in the closing days of world war two. It stars Brad Pitt, Shia LeBeouf, and Micheal Pena. The n in pena should have a tilde over it which makes it sound like pen-ya but i cant figure out how to do that. It also has that guy from "The Walking Dead" and Clint Eastwood's hot son.

In my opinion, Fury is one of the most under appreciated movies of the past few years. It is a thrilling, gritty, realistic, and well made movie and it deserves more credit. This film covers some of the things that we dont like to talk about in regards to war and it does it very well.

Brad Pitt delivers an outstanding performance as do all of the actors. There isn't really one main character, although they do follow some more than others. The movie really centers around the messed up family of brothers that is the tank crew. The actors mesh well with their characters and with each other. Chemistry is there and it shows.

The special affects in this movie are also outstanding. When making a war movie, there is a difficult decision to make, "Do we use practical affects or animated ones?" Honestly, i almost always choose the first option. I think real explosions are great.  However, Fury made a good call with faking the battles, for the most part.
Some of it was real, the tanks and soldiers were all real and all outstanding, but the tracers and shells and explosions were made on a computer. It turned out awesome. They were able to show things way clearer and more accurately with the fake stuff than they ever could with the real. My only complaint is the use of animated squibs.
For those who don't know, in the old days, when you got shot in a movie, an explosive on your chest that was full of fake blood would go off and squirt everywhere. These are slightly dangerous and many have traded them for putting in the blood spirt in post production. Fury does this. It looks fake, you can see it from a mile away and it stand out against the very real and gritty movie. It really can take you out of it.
But other than the squib, i really like everything about this movie. i highly recommend you watch.