Oh why...

They were getting their shit pushed in and a Tiger was advancing on them. They were about to blow the bridge because they were losing and THEN the reinforcements arrived.

Didn't they like, all die?

Defending is easier than attacking and a 3:1 advantage is advised for any attacking force.

This. They had the advantage of an ambush, then started dropping like flies.

Goddamn if that isn't one of the most intense action scenes in film, though.

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Could be worse.
In Wind Talkers Nic Cage single handedly defeats damn near the entire Japanese army

.45 ACP strong
9mm Para Faggum queers blown the fuck out

Aww is the wittle germanboo upset? Gonna cwy naziboo?

there were a lot of problems with that last scene, but a mixed 1/3 platoon-strength unit of american soldiers holding off a SS-Waffen infantry company and heavy panzer kampfgruppe was not one of them.

the town's urban landscape created chokepoints that funneled the infantry and vehicles into killzones, reducing the Axis forces' effectiveness. this is exactly what happened on the eastern front in soviet urban areas.

the real problem was the SS Waffen unit's lack of infantry tactics, but that's stereotypical of so many american ww2 films.

Fury was a steaming pile of Wehraboo shit. I hated every second of that movie. Good art direction, though.

yeah, whoever was in charge of wardrobe deserves an industry award

To be fair, for late war Waffen SS, having no grasp of tactics and just rushing forward is kind of a 50-50 proposition

I've heard of the Waffen-SS' stubborn idiotic tendency towards frontal attacks.

but the thing about SPR is that the German infantry didn't have any of their distinguishing characteristics, e.g.

>squad based around the MG
>no use of suppression, fire-and-maneuver, room-clearing
>no use of heavy weapons beyond the panzerschrek, little use of grenades

i mean, they're not fucking volkssturm, but that's the way they were portrayed

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The whole last stand portion of the film was just gratuitous action for the audience. If you really want to be realistic they should've just blown the bridge immediately and left.

Not to mention they wouldn't have sent anyone to specifically get Ryan in the first place.

It was stupid for several reasons. Like Hanks putting his Thompson through the eye slit in the Tiger. Or the Germans dricing open top armor through an enemy town for no apparent reason. Or the Germans having ahaved heads even though they on general had longer hair than the allied soldiers.

Fuck Spielberg.

>expecting the movie going public to notice or give a shit about infantry tactics.

Even if they were to get an expert to train the actors to look like they know what they're doing, nobody would notice except for the .01% of people who are autistic to notice. Film making is not conducive to accurate portrayals of combat.

Tom hanks was dying sat by himself shooting a tank with his sidearm
yeah they were winning

That Tiger looks ghastly.

I've not seen this film since it was released, is it worth another go? I can't remember much about it.

>implying the germans won the war

>waffen SS
>good

>squad

Well there was Tom Hanks men were a squad. With the other men already holding the bridge you had something more like a platoon.

>could hold off a company

Yes. They were prepared and well dug into defensive positions. A platoon holding off a company in such a manner is no issue. The defenders in fact were being routed until reinforcements and air support showed up. But the idea of a smaller unit holding off a larger one is fine, and it happened all the time. In fact the Germans were really good at it, they had to be, given they were so regularly outnumbered.

And if there's anything unrealistic about the battle, it's that. The U.S. are the underdogs and they have to hold off a mass of assaulting troops. It was almost always the other way around. I guess since it's a Hollywood film, the Americans always have to look like the underdogs.

>no use of heavy weapons beyond the panzerschrek

What? They use a 20 mm flak 38 gun in an anti-infantry role and the Tiger's main gun to take out sniper positions.

There's no drama if the bad guys are outnumbered by the good.

>fat italian takes 5 bullets and runs around fine
>texan super-sniper knocks off 50 germans within a minute
>air support arrives a second before Tom Hanks is crushed by the panzer

The whole movie was terrible, desu. After the first scene, it just went downhill really fast.

>Not to mention they wouldn't have sent anyone to specifically get Ryan in the first place
Except... they did. In real life.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_brothers

He got it right in the end; the air force shows up and wins the battle for the amerisoldiers.

That was not uncommon, the japs were soviet teir, have you never read anything about Pacific theater MoH winners?

Stay mad pleb

Yes

>Several days following D-Day, Fritz had gone to the 82nd Airborne Division to see his brother, Bob. Once he arrived at division, he was informed that Bob had been killed on D-Day. Fritz was shipped back to England, and, finally, to the U.S. where he served as an MP in New York until the completion of the war.

Sounds like he was just told his brother were dead and got sent home. No one went out and specifically looked for him.

To be fair that wasn't even a real Tiger tank.

The Waffen SS was hit and miss, just like all military units. It had some units that performed extremely well, notably its Panzer divisions.

The infantry units were hit and miss, and by the end of the war lots of them were basically untrained teenagers.

But still, the movie didn't portray them accurately.

>Fury was ... Wehraboo
Why? How?