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Things I don't get about this movie...

posted 8 years ago by user-169-360487
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1. Why do the bullets appear in green and red, like the lasers in Star Wars??

2. Why would the army send a guy with only eight-week experience to drive a tank and be the gunner of an experirenced tank crew??

3. Why would wardaddy stay in the tank and choosing to fight with more than 300+ germans, doesn't sound like a bright move by a veteran...Saying it's his "home" just doesn't convince me, it's freaking tank for Christ's sake...Just get another and decorate it the same..

4. The germans are incredibly stupid in this movie, why wouldn't they just retreat when they see wardaddy's tank and retreat in the bank, blow it up with bazookas or order an airstrike, they seemed like kamikaze soldiers who deliberately get themselves killed by the hundreds and then finally think of using bazookas and grenades..

5. How come the grenades inside the tank don't blow the entire tank up, or least of all, blow the dead bodies of Wardaddy and Gordo's up..

6. Why would the army just send tank crews without field soldiers to the battlefield, they aren't really that flexible, isn't it best to accompany them with foot soldiers as well?? Doesn't strike me as believe they ONLY send tanks into the battlefield...

[–] Dave-R011 8 years ago

All these subjects have been discussed on this board. Read some of those threads and many of your questions will be answered.

[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

1 Tracer fire not lasers.

2 It's not like they did college length courses in tank warfare for general recruits during WW2. I think that aspect of the story is quite believable. This was Norman's first experience in the front line.

3 Wardaddy is a career soldier and all that fighting has changed him, as we see throughout the film. He's got nothing to go back to or that he could relate to and besides that, his orders were to hold the cross roads at all cost.

4 Norman reports back they don't have any heavy artillery or tanks with them. The "calling in an airstrike thing" is frankly ridiculous. This is over 70 years ago you do realise and the German army is in general retreat, whilst fighting rear guard actions as we see in this film. I do agree with you regarding "the kamikaze soldiers" comment. Unfortunately this happens all too frequently in films for the sake of action and raising the body count.

5. Gordo absorbed the impact of one, but agree the second should have made more of a mess of the tank's interior and Wardaddy.

6 It really would depend on the resources they had at their disposal. The Captain makes the point that holding the crossroads is vital to maintaining the supply links to all military units in the general vicinity. I guess he thinks that tanks make the initial incursion and set-up and then radio back for infantry reinforcements. But of course the radio is destroyed early on.🐭

[–] pfarnell 8 years ago

.... or order an airstrike

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Why would the army just send tank crews without field soldiers to the battlefield, they aren't really that flexible, isn't it best to accompany them with foot soldiers as well?? Doesn't strike me as believe they ONLY send tanks into the battlefield...

I used to ask the opposite question when watching the old 'Combat!" tv series..