Warhorse

[Gunnen4u]

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Excellent movie, well filmed, great plot-line, and a good ending. A bit drawn out, and 2 1/2hrs long, but worth it enough. Apparently, they did a lot of John Ford type directing/producing - the initial scenes reminded me of The Quiet Man concerning the countryside.

Problem is, most adults will find it too sanitized, most kids will be disinterested, and teenagers won't appreciate it - yet it seems to be doing very well at present and plenty of folks are seeing it. I think they were trying to gauge the more desensitized movie-goers and with kids anymore, it's hard to do.

In any case, it's worth watching and something most kids can see as well. In fact, please do see it.

[Twilla]

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I heard it's very manipulative. I'm still pissed at the way ET played me.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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We have this on our to do list for tomorrow or Monday.

[Gunnen4u]

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I have a friend who said it wasn't adult enough, but I told him to get fucked. I tend to look for good movies that come out - and while the pickings are very few anymore, I felt this one was good at least.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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We saw this last night - finally. I wanted to like it, really I did, but it fell flat with me.

The story was good - a different version of Black Beauty you can say, except there isn't a shred of truth to how horses behave. It's a good kid's story.

Knowing horses as I do, I just couldn't get into all those fantastic things that horse could do. Especially that deductive reasoning for an animal with a brain the size of a walnut. Once that scene where he was trapped by the tank came along, and he climbed his way over it and out, I laughed out loud and got dirty looks. Oops. He was shod, he'd have slipped on that metal on the tank and fell under it with his head directly under one of the tracks. Did they even have those kinds of tanks in WW1?

Barbed wire scene - any other horse in the history or genus equus running into that kind of mess would have been skinned alive and if alive at all, would have died overnight. Completely impossible, improbable and unbelievable.

I know it was meant to be a story, but you need a shred of truth to it. It was a good movie but it could have been great if they took into consideration equine believability.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I hear the play on Broadway is much better at telling the story. I may see about tickets for that in the summer time.

[Rhubarb]

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It hasn't long come out here.
Not sure I really want to see it, war and animals. In truth many of those horses died....of starvation, because it was hard to keep the volume of food at the Front.

The village it was filmed in is near us, near a really good car museum on the Dorset Somerset border called Castlecombe.

The publicity here has been paramount about the horses, the directing and those who brought it to the screen. Also they have made a big thing about it being a children's book

[Twitchin Kitten]

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It's an age old story line of something that was "passed around" and how it connected the lives of those it touched. They could have used a pumpkin to make the same story IMO.

some of the scenes of piles of dead horses was a bit disturbing too. It just could have been better if they didn't make the horses antics so fantastic. My friend Pam saw the play and read the book and she said they didn't do that so much in either but the movie seemed to be made to cater to those who really relish in the fantastic and unrealistic.

[Gunnen4u]

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Oh Christ wept.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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No, he mocked the silliness of a horse with human reasoning.