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Top Five: Manliest Movies Of 2014 – Page 3 – ManlyMovie

Top Five: Manliest Movies Of 2014

3) Fury

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David Ayer’s speciality is gritty realism.  Someone, Ayer I think, got the great idea of applying this to WW2.  Ayer is a former submariner so he was also the ideal candidate to shoot a tank movie, a feature about men inside a cramped steel coffin.  This is probably the best war movie since 1998 though, when three classic WW2 movies came out (Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line and When Trumpets Fade).  If they might possibly have picked a better leading man than Brad Pitt (he’s too old to be a Sherman TC), they couldn’t possibly have picked a better director than David Ayer.

Crucially, his combat scenes are both steady yet thrilling.  No shaking cameras here, so when you have a director with real skill and a penchant for coarse realism, you get the best battle scenes since Saving Private Ryan.  Each side in this movie also has killers, not just soldiers.  And that’s what happens in war.  Ayer shows us 1945 from a neutral viewpoint.

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