Banalities, clichés and ripoffs

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2015)

You can guess how boring I found this movie if I started typing this on my laptop halfway to it. I never had high hopes though. Another WW2 movie with exactly the same synopsis as always. A bunch of soldiers, dirty and desperate, in the darkest hours of history (as if WW2 was the only thing ever happened in Europe) and a dangerous mission. Oh well.
Dear Hollywood, please stop. There is NOTHING more you can tell about WW2. Yes, we admire how your SFX guys can rig explosions. Yes, your stuntmen still excel at throwing themselves in the air with a lifelike illusion of losing their limbs. And yes, good thing you can still come up with even more gross scenes more than fifteen years after Saving Private Ryan. Hey, yes, let's show a ripped off face on the tank's dashboard. Also, a half-rotten body, being treaded into the mud might also turn some stomaches. And add overdone visual effects to every gunshot so a battle looks like a lost scene from Star Wars. Literally, add the same laser bolts.
Is it a good war movie yet? Oh it's still boring. So let's just rip off some signature scenes from other, more successful war movies. Let's see what we have. German POWs being executed, straight from Private Ryan. Enemy soldiers burning, let's have a soldier telling others not to shoot them to let them burn. Or better repeat the same line three times in case the viewer still didn't get the point. Dead bodies being bulldozed into a mass grave, hey, that worked in Platoon, why not steal it? Soldiers find an abandoned piano in a newly occupied town, and it's boobytrapped. Yes, straight from The English Patient, but who remembers that? Maybe we can even throw in some tense dialogs around a table, as seen in Inglorious Basterds. No shooting at the end tho. Tank battle between Shermans and a Tiger, and who would've expected the hero having to shoot the German vehicle from the rear to disable it. Someone watched Kelly's Heroes, right?
Fury is definitely not a movie to watch if your age is over 25 or your IQ is beyond 80. You might still enjoy it if you haven't seen any war movies in the recent decades. Otherwise don't waste your time and money. We all know war is hell. We've seen it a couple of times. And please stop pretending that Germans were idiots and any rookie easily mowed down squads of SS on his first day. It was the other way around.
I just wonder why Hollywood is so obsessed with WW2 more than seventy years after it ended. Why is it mandatory to make another "war is hell, look at the poor sobs in the mud" flick? The very generation that actually fought that war did never took it this seriously. Besides of "serious" films there were a lot of WW2- themed comedies in the 1960s, both in the West and the East. Even the Russians made fun of it. There are no such movies nowadays. Does the current generation actually crave for their grandfathers' worst memories? Is it some bad conscience for being the first generation not having to go to a real war?