This and Pearl Harbor

Well, I started my military career as a US Air Force F-4 Phantom Weapons Systems Officer and then transferred to the Army as an Armor/Cavalry officer, so I have firsthand experience in both fighter aviation and tank warfare.

Fury is the most realistic movie ever made about tank warfare in the US Army, period. The Beast of War runs second in terms of movies filmed in the English language about tank warfare, but it's about a Soviet tank crew during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the early 1980s. The fact that the crew was played by mostly American actors speaking English makes them sound like a US Army tank crew in action, and I imagine a Soviet tank crew wouldn't be much different, but I can't speak to that as a point of accuracy. No other movie filmed in English about tank warfare comes close to these two. Kelly's Heroes had some decent scenes of Donald Sutherland's character and his tank platoon, but it wasn't a war movie so much as an anti-establishment adventure film with the tankers as secondary characters. So were the tankers in Battle of the Bulge. Patton wasn't a movie about tankers but about the commander of a Corps and then Army whose forces were tank-heavy and who had been a tanker in the previous war, with George C. Scott in the title role appearing in the commander's cupola of a tank for all of seven seconds in a three hour movie.

As for Pearl Harbor, I've devoted an entire page on my own website to it:
http://www.lylefrancispadilla.com/pearl.html

The best way to sum that page in one sentence is to paraphrase George S. Patton: The bilious bastards who made that movie don't know anything more about aerial warfare than they do about f ***ing! (And George C. Scott may have said "fornicating" in Patton, but the real Patton used the real F-word!)

"Pearl Harbor" made me puke, it was so bad.

and it got worse, the further it went.

If you want a real movie about PH, watch "Tora Tora Tora"

I think you are the only one that liked that movie.

I can't think of two more different films about the same conflict. Pearl Harbour is a love story with a battle attached, all the characters are either dashing fighter pilots or beautiful nurses, and Cuba Gooding Jr. Fury while not perfect is much more gritty and realistic, hell even Brad Pitt is more grizzled than he's ever been in a film.

Pearl Harbor had to be the worst movie I have ever seen. Might as well be titled "Ben Affleck single handedly wins the war!" The CGI was awful and the battle scenes at Pearl looked more like they were attacking the Death Star. One particular scene really bothered me where they went to a brief shot of Admiral Yamamoto saying "I fear all we've done is to awaken a sleeping giant.............." then back to another scene. To those who don't have an inkling of history, they would have no clue why he would've made such a statement from watching this movie, though in reality,it's debated as to whether he really made such a statement but you can bet he was thinking it.

The movie Tora! Tora! Tora! was by far, a much better movie and far more realistic looking. When Admiral Yamamoto makes that statement at the end of that movie, you knew exactly why he would've said it and knew why Japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor.

this one is so much better than pearl harbor (which suffers from a ridiculous amount of needless melodrama)

I thought Pearl Harbor was pretty terrible, Fury was much more gritty.

Plus these guys have been together for a long time under extremely stressful circumstances, I highly doubt they’d be cuddling up to each other at night.

Unless this was meant to be a, you know, joke (in other words, trolling), then clearly the OP is one of the very few people in the world that feels this positive about Bay’s Pearl Harbor.
Lmao.

If OP got something out of Bay’s movie, then good for them. But a superior film to Fury? Lol. Fury is far and away better than that glorified soap opera.