Like I said earlier, if the writer/director respects the audience's intelligence, I'm willing to forgive lapses of realism and suspend some disbelief. On the other hand, if the director asks the audience to take all kinds of flights of fantasy and leaps of logic in order to accept a highly implausible situation and completely irrational behavior by all parties involved, then no I am not. If a writer/director's going to pretty much ignore historical realities and context, why not just make a sci-fi pic? Really, if you just turn the Germans into giant bugs, that last scene could have been something out of Starship Troopers (the movie).
One party acting stupidly? OK. Both parties acting stupidly? That last battle scene could just as well have been an episode of Bumfights.
Web, I hope you are right about the message. Sadly, I fear that hawks are going to get a very different lesson from a movie like Fury, though.
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