01-15-2012, 09:32 AM
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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.
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.
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