I'm still slightly miffed at the stage version taking Best Play over my much-beloved Jerusalem, but I thought at the time that it would work better as a film. Guess I thought along the right lines then. Probably will give this a look after GWtDT.
Escape to the Movies: War Horse
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ok bob, second week in a row that a movie i had no interest in got reviewed. not really anything wrong with that it's just that i really love Friday because a lot of times the movie I'm most interested in seeing is the one you end up reviewing. i was hoping for Sherlock Holmes or mission impossible last week, and while tin tin was a good review, it wasn't out in America yet and if i wanted to see it i wouldn't have been able to any way.
this week i was really looking forward to Girl with a dragon tattoo, i love the director, and i was really interested to see how it came out, plus you had mentioned it in another episode a while back so i figured that would be your pick.
not that I'm complaining it's just that the only two weeks in the year that I've been really looking forward to your reviews in a "i might go see these Saturday" way. i rarely go to the theaters and these were the only movies this year that i wanted to see in theaters. i still probably will but I really want to see what your take on them was, especially since you didn't like Sherlock Holmes.
this week i was really looking forward to Girl with a dragon tattoo, i love the director, and i was really interested to see how it came out, plus you had mentioned it in another episode a while back so i figured that would be your pick.
not that I'm complaining it's just that the only two weeks in the year that I've been really looking forward to your reviews in a "i might go see these Saturday" way. i rarely go to the theaters and these were the only movies this year that i wanted to see in theaters. i still probably will but I really want to see what your take on them was, especially since you didn't like Sherlock Holmes.
Umm... What? Tanks were in WW1 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I], man.BakedZnake said:
OT: I'm sure it's good, Bob. It just doesn't interest me in the slightest.
Thank you for being the only person to say this.TaboriHK said:
World War one claimed the lives of countless living breathing men women and children and I'm supposed to get emotionally invested in a mistreated horse. Give me a gun and I'll shoot every dammed horse in the world before I see one person harmed.
Spielberg should have put a dog that got beaten every now and then in Schindler's List then at least all the PETA freaks and animal fanatics would have something to give a crap about as the poor Jews were led to the gas chambers.
No more family movies for a while, Bob. I can take a review of Tintin, I'll suck it up if you want to talk about Scorsese's kids movie/love letter to a visionary director, but this is either Girl with the Dragon Tattoo week or, if you couldn't see an advance screening for that one, at least Mission Impossible week which we all know you saw.
I was going to give this one a pass. I didn't know that Steven Spieberg was behind it. That guy is enough to rouse interest where trailers and previews were only able to find quiet cynicism. I'm still not ready to run out the doors to watch it, but if invited out to watch with friends, I think the answer will be "yes."
I'm not here to convince you to see it. I'm just here to suggest that you should watch a movie before assuming anything. Come from a place of knowledge before you come from a place of ignorance. I was with you in your comment before you said the above. Tight on cash? Right there with you. Assuming a movie has a moral you don't agree with? That is not worth the time.urprobablyright said:
Interesting...probably not the type of film I'd go to see in the cinema.
Also, what is the big deal with people seemingly being desperate for Bob to review Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Actually, what is the big deal with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, full stop?
Yes, I get it, it's the director. If you're so keen in finding out how the film has turned out, why not just go and see it? You don't need to wait for someone to review it surely.
Also, what is the big deal with people seemingly being desperate for Bob to review Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Actually, what is the big deal with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, full stop?
Yes, I get it, it's the director. If you're so keen in finding out how the film has turned out, why not just go and see it? You don't need to wait for someone to review it surely.
The only thing here that bugs the shit out of me about this movie is that we finally get a good, high quality, well made film about the horrors of the Great War(which Hollywood is complacent to totally ignore since it doesn't have U.S. troops punching out Nazis) and it's about a fucking horse?
Very minor quibble, but still irks me like all hell as a history nerd.
Very minor quibble, but still irks me like all hell as a history nerd.
Read/watch "All Quiet on the Western Front" if you want to see something about the human suffering in that war. The idea with the horse is that it's completely innoncent and has nothing to do with this war. It's like throwing a child into that scenario. Feeling sorry for it is a perfectly normal human reaction to this, at least in the context of a movie where the horse has a relatable personality.wwmcfar said:
The deal is that the original Swedish production trilogy was an international hit both on critic level and box office (completely shattered the international box office record for a Swedish movie, about 100M$, while previous record was like what 14-16M), for them it would be on level with the original Star Wars trilogy, rain money out of nowhere, since they mostly just make movie for their artistic value, so just have habit of trying to recoup the cost of their movie usually.MarsProbe said:
The thing is that bob been a critic, might not want to review it, if he saw the original, since it is actually pretty recent (the first movie was release less then 3 years ago) and the new Trilogy is just high budget cloning, so likely to leave a bitter taste to someone who has seen the original.
link for the unknowledgable? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_IBakedZnake said:
OT: Bob, I like you, but for the first forty seconds of your description, all I was thinking was:
The Artist...The Artist...Why don't you say a word about 'The Artist' for the exact same reasons you talked about...
...along with everyone else, which is the same point he's making about War Horse. I don't remember many, in fact, any people calling out Toy Story 3 for "cheap exploits". True as it may be, it was still affecting. So I guess War Horse is another one of those.Reptiloid said:
There's a reason why cliche's become cliche's... because they worked; and in the right hands (Spielberg being just about the rightest hands around) they will always work.
Yes, because nobody in show business has ever made a comment on the human cost of war before. Oh no wait, they have, quite a lot actually...wwmcfar said:
In the face of the hundreds, possibly thousands, of war is hell tales that focus almost exclusively on people, is it so wrong to make just one that instead chooses to tell it from the perspective of the other creatures we drag into our conflicts?
I'm not so sentimental about animals that I will put them before people, but your argument lacks context. If you want to hear about just how cruel and stupid the First World War was to people like you and me, watch My Boy Jack, All Quiet on the Western Front, Blackadder Goes Forth, or any documentary about the real examples of cruelty and stupidity in WWI that has ever been made. Any of those will do fine.
That film was made years ago.Mr.Tea said:
I'd say an adaptation is more worthy of reviewing than just another watered down remake of a much grittier foreign film (and novel).And besides, it's his show, he gets to call the shots as to what he reviews when it comes down to it, really.
Hmm...I don't usually like this sort of thing, but Avatar (the cartoon series, not the movie) proved it could be done well with the episode "Appa's Lost Days", so I'll give this the benefit of the doubt.