Nooooo, the end is better, I promise! There's some awesome British accent porn in the last...thirty minutes or so, and a nice scene between a British and German soldier.
That was very nice. The little cease-fire to help the horse was sweet, so that helped some, but they still killed Nicholls way too quickly. I don't know. This movie is too over the top sentimental for me in general.
Yeah, I think if War Horse had been released a couple of months later, even, both Hiddles and Benedict would have had way more scenes, given their popularity. I think they were going for a Black Beauty-esque type thing, where we get little hints of different people through the horses' interaction with them, and with that glimpses of different social classes and even time periods. In my opinion, the best part of the movie is the contrast between the scenes from early WWI, with Cpt. Nicholls et. al. still on their horses and in those lovely golden fields, riding in to be mowed down in the woods, with the grim, dark, trenches of 1918 with the rats and the mud and the barbed wire. Speilberg does will with war. But the stuff with the little girl was too schmaltzy to me (and felt like they might have been cribbed from a WWII narrative? I'm not sure there were civilian who were going out and fighting and dying at the hands of Bad People back in WWI, the way her parents were implied to have been), and while I did kind of warm to Albert
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Part of the problem with me is that 20th century war movies are really not my thing. It is very difficult for me to enjoy one (which makes my closest cousin shake his head at me). I did like that contrast you mentioned. I didn't even know that they were still using horses at the beginning of WWI. The cavalry charge was especially sad because it's obvious from hindsight that it's doomed.
I didn't pay attention to what happened to the girl's parents, to be honest. I think I was playing dominoes with my friends by that point. Her being dead at the end of the movie was too much, though. Her poor grandfather.
I couldn't bring myself to watch that movie since it always seemed too depressing (I hate walking away from a film and thinking, "Wow... that was sad." Make me laugh; scare me; make me think. Do not make me cry).
On a crackier note, every time I saw the trailer I thought: ah, the love between a boy and his horse...
I haven't been able to watch sad movies in a long while thanks to my ridiculous ability to cry at anything that is remotely touching (seriously, it's horrible). Maybe it's a good things that I find this movie way too sentimental, since movies like that actually kill my urge to cry, which sounds contradictory, but somehow it works out. Except for this particular death, which was horrible, although I already knew it was coming, but it was still horrible.
It is basically a platonic love story between a boy and a horse.
Platonic my ass. That boy is waaaaaay too into that horse. "We'll be together some day, Joey" is a literal line taken literally from the film. I mean WHAT.
Of course that did make lotus0kid and I laugh when Cpt. Nicholls was so nice about it. He understands about the love between a boy and a horse, obviously.
Yeah, that's true. He said that? I really have no idea what people were saying during half of this movie. My friends and me kept talking over it. It was too hot in the room to focus. That line is ridiculous. These two were too lovey dovey.
Nicholl's was just so sweet. That made his death extra horrible. I was like, "who's going to take care of the horse now?"
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I didn't pay attention to what happened to the girl's parents, to be honest. I think I was playing dominoes with my friends by that point. Her being dead at the end of the movie was too much, though. Her poor grandfather.
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On a crackier note, every time I saw the trailer I thought: ah, the love between a boy and his horse...
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It is basically a platonic love story between a boy and a horse.
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Of course that did make lotus0kid and I laugh when Cpt. Nicholls was so nice about it. He understands about the love between a boy and a horse, obviously.
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Nicholl's was just so sweet. That made his death extra horrible. I was like, "who's going to take care of the horse now?"
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