War Horse

Jmac:

"Over there, Over there, Send the word, send the word, over there, that the Yanks are coming!" Spielberg again, makes another movie about how warring sides and those in between are so similar we shouldn't ever go to war, to the detriment of the movie.

Most of the movie was about people complaining about not wanting to go... which is true, but not ‘war movie’ material. Sir Stevie made this point with Munich in an action oriented way... a period piece with the same message was not warranted.

If you really like animals and especially horses, you will just love War Horse. If you wanted a war movie, don't even think about it.

The cinematography is was very beautiful, but if you saw the trailer, then you saw just about all the amazing cinematography moments, and those that you didn't see, you could go your whole life without and never miss them.

I give it a 2.2 heartfelt looks into a horse’s eye out of 5. What does a horse;s eye look like when it blinks..... I’ll let you decide. It’s extremely slow to get into.

PS: For me not to like a Spielberg film that is saying a lot.

Kmac:

I really wanted to like this movie. I got the sense from early reviews that it was a war movie that actually had very little to do with war. Those were the parts I did enjoy, the non war parts. I found the action involving the little boy and his horse and life on the farm to be enjoyable. I like these little slice of life type scenes. These bored Jmac. As soon as the action left England for the war I found it harder to watch. I have a weak stomach and even if the violence wasn’t terribly graphic I still found it hard to watch. This part bored me. We definitely were not enjoying this movie at the same time.

It is a very pretty movie but one in which you can see most of the best shots in the trailer. I feel Spielberg may have taken a play from his buddy George Lucas’s playbook once he found CGI. If looks pretty, and sounds pretty, the characters are just window dressing. Someone needs to poke Spielberg in the nose with an ET finger and tell him no.

Overall it just wasn’t a movie we could both get into. I give this 2.5 out of 5 slow trots.