Anybody seen the flick "The Tank" about a German tank crew? Seems to be bombarding my Prime (?) video feed with ads of late. Is it a re-hatch of the Jason Patrick flick "The Beast" in a different setting?
The previews didn't give me much info, but the acting quality was on a par with the Finnish war movie series "Sisu" if you've seen those. "The Beast" is a classic in my book, just wondering if this is a re-hatch just like every movie house can't make any original movies today, just remakes of remakes.
Good flick and nothing like the Afghanistan tank movie. Its about an American Sherman tank crew after D-Day. Usual Hollywood, has the tough tank seargent and crew bringing a replacement up to speed, while following FUBAR orders from the shaved tail lt. Unfortunately no lines like "Drinking wine and eating cheese" and no one named Moriarty.
Odd! All the ads show a Panzer IV or Tiger I in every scene and German tank crew. Ya' sure?!? Not "Fury"?
Whoops, my bad. Was thinking Fury and not the Panzer movie, which I have not seen. Apparently happy hour may have had something to do with it..
Watching it now. Scorp your pretty well spot on. Seems to be a low-budget Saving Private Ryan. Tiger tank crew has orders to go back towards Stalingrad to rescue a German Officer who has too much logistical info.
Thanks for the info. I'll probably watch it anyway, sometime they are just good fun (like the "Sisu" Finnish flicks..... NO Academy Awards coming from that line up but I prefer them to Spiderman remake episode #1,897).
Just finished the movie. Its awful. That's an hour and a half I'll never get back. I'd spend the time on the 870. At least you'll enjoy that..
Awful as in "rather have a root canal" or awful as in "slam a cinder block on your toes repeatedly"? Anything worthwhile in it, like real tank scenes or are they all CGI? Shot the 11-87 yesterday last night. Very dreamy, even tried some slugs. Now sourcing ideas to get the bubba-paint off.
I'd say watch the first 10-15 minutes and that's it. During this scence they knock out some Russian armor on a bridge. Other than that, one T-34 battle, and a scene where they throw a snorkel on and sit at the bottom of a river (totally believable). The rest of the movie is just lip-synch nonsense. I bet there isn't more than 25 actors in the whole movie and yes CGI. If you must. I'd recommend just fast forward to action scenes. To your point. Awful as in, not quite but close to "commode-hugging- drunk".
No, no, no..... there are more fond memories of singing "Buick" at the porcelain temple back in college than, well, actually I can't remember where I first saw any of the Rambo flicks. Now, ask me about beer-goggle-memories.....
