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"Horse Trailers" Brave & War Horse!

I have videos of these 2 trailers posted on my blog, but I was wondering if anyone else is excited for these movies. I know some of you went to see War Horse on stage. Joey isn't chestnut in the movie, but bright bay still works, and he is chunkier than a racing TB so I'm happy. Plus Brave looks awesome so far. :bounce Whatcha guys think? http://virtualpwnies.blogspot.com/2011/07/horse-trailers-brave-warhorse… EDIT: Tried embedding vids to the post, didn't work for some reason.

Monsterpony Wed, 07/06/2011 - 18:49

I love Pixar movies so one of my favorite accents plus horses plus Pixar plus medieval times equals I will be seeing that. Agree with Admin on not sure that I'll see a war movie though.

rabbitsfizz Thu, 07/07/2011 - 06:59

Warhorse, I doubt will translate. I am absolutely put off any movie that cannot be bothered to get it's details right.
At the start there was a shot of a jumping horse in the correct, army reversible pelham, then the close up shots show a horse being ridden on the bottom rein of an eggbutt sided Pelham, stainless steel- come ON, even I can remember before there were SS bits and I do NOT remember the [i]first[/i] world war!
The bits would have been, occasionally, the officers own, if it was an officers horse, although those had to conform with uniform, they would have been, if army issue, steel, that had to be cleaned with silver sand and steel wool or it rusted, and lots did rust. The bits, when army issue, were army reversible pelhams, twisted on one side, plain on the other, bar bit, ridden ALWAYS with TWO reins- this was England, we so NOT ride with one rein on a pelham- why do you think it has two rings?
An officers mount could /can be ridden in a double bridle- again TWO reins.
The army had it's own issue / make of saddle too- very uncomfortable for the rider but quite good for the horse, very heavy- I can personally guarantee all this info- why can't Steven Spielberg?????
It would also help if they got the harness right.
No, I shan't be watching, all the inaccuracies and total lack of continuity would drive me nuts....

Threnody Thu, 07/07/2011 - 16:50

Lol yes from the post you just made I think the theater would be in danger from your wrath toward the inaccuracies. ^_^

I'm very excited for Brave, and I'm being optimistic for War Horse. That optimism could kick me pretty hard if Spielberg drops the ball like he did in his other movies post-CGI in film. The blatantly CGI horse is well... blatantly CGI. I'm in total support of animal actors being safe 100% while filming, but the overuse of 3D models in movies bothers me. I guess that's why scenes where CGI horses in movies get hurt or killed don't emotionally effect me as much since they are alarmingly fake to begin with. But that movie puppet of Ginger in the back of the cart in Black Beauty gets me every time because it's really there, not made in a computer and edited in.

The horses in Beowulf were painfully bad. The people were amazing and the first time I saw the trailer I thought it was live action with green screen and special filters (like the filming of 300) until I saw how off the horses looked. I never saw it in theaters but had to watch in in my 3D Modeling class. >.<

Hok, end rant.

rodeoratdogs Thu, 07/07/2011 - 22:12

WAAAAAAAAAA! :( I don't like the part with Ginger in the cart in Black Beauty either, love that movie tho. :D

Threnody Fri, 07/08/2011 - 02:09

For me:
[b]
Bambi's mom[/b] - Over it
[b]Mufasa falling off the cliff[/b] - He turns into ghost stars :shrug:
[b]Old Yeller [/b]- Stopped crying after seeing it as an adult
[b]Artax from Never Ending Story[/b] - Upsetting but weird because he had sudden onset depression?
[b]Charlotte the spider[/b] - Sad but not tear jerking anymore

[b]Ginger's death in Black Beauty[/b] - Makes me cry. Every. Single. Time. :cry:

rodeoratdogs Fri, 07/08/2011 - 11:02

I never did watch Old Yeller because my mom told me the dogs died, I can't handle it.... but everything else I pretty much agree...

rabbitsfizz Sat, 11/19/2011 - 06:06

Try reading the book and you probably will not be bothered watching the Warhorse film- rubbish, basically, uninformed rubbish pretending to be based on fact (which I do not for one moment believe) I hate kid's books that get everything wrong as I can see little worse than misinforming children. That is why Black Beauty and the Flicka trilogy stand out, I think, in the world of horse books- they all stand the test of time and AS and M O'H both did their research and knew their stuff. Michael Morpeth thought it was enough to write a cutely emotive story and pass it off- not in my book it is not!
For me the end of Black Beauty and the end of My Friend Flicka have never been surpassed- just read the last paragraph of either to be reduced to helpless tears!!
I prefer not to watch films of these things as they so rarely even attempt to come up to the original, although Roddy McDowell was pretty good as Ken, I have to say! I shall ignore the latest supposed Flicka film except to say I rest my case!
I did watch Spirit- it was passable to even good in places- although the lack of necessity to actually train a horse to harness is something that I hope none of the young watchers emulate (we did hitch our mare to a pram and hope she would pull it- can't remember quite where we stopped but we walked back and I would not want anyone to try it on today's roads)
I shall watch Brave- it looks good and is not so realistic on the people or animals that they will have to stick to realism in a way that Spirit should have done (I will never get over the eyes on the horses!)
All in all I am very picky about films and books these days except I will read anything by Stephen King or (Sir) Terry Pratchett (often twice) and Dean Koontz when he is sticking to what he does best (although he is another sloppy researcher- these people pay someone to do the research why do they not get it right??)
I did not see Old Yeller till I was adult, nor Bambi (because I cried so much in Dumbo that my Mother would not take me!) I cried in Bambi anyway and so did my boyfriend who claimed he had something in his eye- yeah, right.
Try watching "The Yearling" or "Where the Red Fern Grows" without crying, I challenge you.

Threnody Sun, 11/20/2011 - 08:15

^ Much love for Terry Pratchett and Discworld. ^_^

I read The Yearling and Where the Red Fern Grows in school and I think watching the movies would require a tissue box. :( And hugging a pup. (Also had to read the Red Pony. It was scarring. I do not know how that is a children's book.)

I can't watch one episode of Futurama about Fry's dog Seymour from the year 2000 and what happened after Fry was sent to the future. The poor dog is sitting in front of a pizza shop all sad and alone waiting for a master for years in all weather until he passes in his sleep from old age. Doesn't help that the cartoon dog looks like my own. The creators of the show made a time travel episode that corrected Seymour dying alone by having a clone of Fry go back to the past and take care of him. I think the fans were so angry at the sad ending from before that the creators tried to fix things.

I also agree that Brave looks just stylized enough so that they don't enter the uncanny valley. Just realistic enough movements to look great but stylized enough to not be creepy. Beowulf the animated movie was creepy. Fairly realistic looking people, soulless eyes, awful looking horses. It was very jarring even to non horse people in my class when we had to watch it for my 3D modeling course. That and the blatant "Hollywoodization" from the actual story of Beowulf. Since when was the king the father of Grendel? And Beowulf was the father of the dragon? I also had to laugh at the aversion to showing frontal male nudity. Instead of having strategically and tastefully placed objects and angles, the creators put a black hole of shadow in front of Beowulf regardless of the lighting situation.

For a comparison we got to watch The Incredibles where the unrealistic characters felt more real to the viewer.