Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Movie: War Horse

This one's been panned a bit by the local critics, but seems to still be drawing an audience.
I went, wearing my horse breeder/handler hat, to see what it was all about, and OK, the horse stuff was likable, if a little contrived and shmaltzy.
Spielberg's influence on the battle scenes was as impressive as ever.
I guess in the final analysis, its a kid-dult movie, with a close to fairy-tale story, but a bit too gruesome for a child.
I'll give it a thumbs up, the anthropomorphic super-horse thing might have been a bit of a stretch, but us horse-breeders all harbour a fantasy that our geese might grow into swans.

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