Reviewing Movies

These two very different movies have some uncanny similarities. Both are set in the final year of WW#2 among a small group of soldiers whose leader ultimately dies. Each has a name actor playing the principal role who gets saddled with a 5-ft 9-inch clerk/typist who has no combat experience and survives the war. Both young men challenge the ethics and mechanics of warfare and are horrified by the experience. Both teams operate behind enemy lines. Every team seems to need a Bible-quoting conscience.

Saving Private Ryan	Fury
Tom Hanks	Brad Pitt
Jeremy Davies	Lyman Lerman
Timothy Upham	Norman Collier
Search Team	Tank Crew

"I was trained to type 60 words per minute."

"The army never made a mistake."

"FUBAR" "SNAFU"

The language in Fury is remarkably free of profanity.

The Allies won WW#2 despite the disadvantage of inferior technology and weapons and a defence wall years in the making due to the weight of superior fire-power throwing wave upon wave of troops at the enemy. It was a war of attrition that ground up an entire generation of young men ultimately depending on old men, women, and children in an all-out struggle to defend the Fatherland.