[FILM] War Horse

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GrandSherman

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Well its on our "must see" list, since we have horses....LOL

Warhorse was good, wife wants to buy the DVD when it goes on sale.
 
Finally got to go see it... AMAZING story, great setting, and great scenes. I don't go out to the movies very often, but i HIGHLY recommend seeing this one.
 
Well, I kind of have to disagree with him. There just isn't really much you can do with a horse movie. Only two kinds really. One: horse wins race against incredible odds or Two: Boy/Girl owns/loves horse. Boy/girl loses horse. Horse goes through some tough times. Boy/girl finds horse. Guess which one this is? Duh.

"Joey" faces so many life-threatening situations at one point I was thinking "Geez, just shoot him already!" I think Spielberg's goal may have been to get everybody crying for the last half of the movie. Worked on my wife, but she grew up around horses. Not so much for me, although it is possible I may just be a callous b*****d.

Anyway, the first third of the movie is dreadfully slow as we go through the boy loves/trains horse phase. Getting Joey to plow a field is the high light! Then the adventure phase goes from scene to scene where Joey is tested to survive and meets good/bad people. Finally Joey finds boy who had joined up for the army and just happened to be on the same part of the Western Front at the end of the war where Joey just happens to show up. Joey and boy both return to the farm and are reunited with his Mum and Dad with music and a Gone With The Wind sunset behind them. The End. Hope I didn't give too much away, but I don't think so.

If you've seen the trailer you really have seen most of the best parts of the movie. Not a bad DVD rental eventually.

Now if Joey had been a puppy...
 
LOL puppies ALWAYS win over horses... Like I said I liked the movie though... mTK ain't kidding about the beginning...
 
GrandSherman said:
Finally got to go see it... AMAZING story, great setting, and great scenes. I don't go out to the movies very often, but i HIGHLY recommend seeing this one.
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Got to agree with you GS really enjoyed the movie, wee bit of fantasy here and there but overall a very good film......War scenes made you feel like you were in the trenches
 
HH, war scenes could have used some historical/technical help.

For instance, why did the Germans move those heavy guns up on top of the ridge where they could have been victimized by counter battery fire?

Why did the German camp, that got overrun by the Brit cavalry, have twenty+ heavy mg's all in a row at the tree line...facing their own camp!!

Entire movie required a substantial suspension of disbelief. I rarely go to "family" movies so I guess it serves me right. :rolleyes:
 
mTk said:
HH, war scenes could have used some historical/technical help.

For instance, why did the Germans move those heavy guns up on top of the ridge where they could have been victimized by counter battery fire?

Why did the German camp, that got overrun by the Brit cavalry, have twenty+ heavy mg's all in a row at the tree line...facing their own camp!!

Entire movie required a substantial suspension of disbelief. I rarely go to "family" movies so I guess it serves me right. :rolleyes:
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I believe there were a awful lot of bad decision's in the first world war, I am not covering for the film perhaps studing the details of the war scenes you will find odd thing's that were not practical......the reason being some of the bad decision's that were made by both side's......I think the We live and learn with vast loss of lives, the first day of the Somme there were 10'000 deaths, as in many earlier wars through bad decision making in History.
 
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