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Aylee -> RE: -=Warhorse is a deadhorse, someone kick me=- (1/11/2012 9:20:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist
OK... I'm 15 minutes into the movie and I want to poke my eyes out with a pencil.
I'll sum it up.
A horse was born.
Someone bought it at a horse auction.
The end.
Pass me a pencil please.
Did anyone see this dog of movie?
Does it suddenly become less boring than the English Patient at 20 minute mark or something?
Is there a discernible plot anywhere other than "just another uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow day in the life of horse that lives in a uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow town full of uneventful, dull, droll, boring, slow people "?
http://landmarkreport.com/rmcginnis/2011/12/review-of-war-horse/
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We are less than seven years away from the anniversary of the end of World War I, and the last surviving combat veteran of the war died this year. There might be young people unaware of the dire historical facts and the unspeakable human toll of that war, but for almost everyone else, the sheer scale of the losses and nightmarish reality of the trenches, repeated in refrain for almost a century, has dulled us to the staggering truth of it all. Which is probably why Spielberg and the creators of War Horse have seen fit to transfer our sympathy from a mere human caught in that carnage to a horse, enlisting it to re-awake our sense of pathos in the form of that most noble and graceful of animals, into whose big, dark, anxious eyes Spielberg invests so much human emotion. It’s a remarkable feat, to be sure, but some part of me can’t help but be saddened that we’ve had to transfer to an animal what we can no longer comprehend in men.
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