I've read some reviews about the inherent animal brutality in the film and if you've seen it do you feel it would be too offensive to some animal lovers like us...but more especially "tapir" lovers...like ourselves?

Really curious what your overall reaction or take on the film was.

Also kinda wondering...and i know i'm waxing nostalgic here...but since it's based on a story from long ago...was there any mention or featuring of Nephite chariots/sleds and/or cureloms and cumoms???

Or so it seems to me...

since we are retired and our health insurance just went up TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH, first-run movie release "dates" just aren't on our entertainment menu any more.

Guess we have to wait until it comes out on Netflix.

Haven't seen it yet but I'm looking forward to the George Lucas/Brigham Young co-production about the Tuskeegee Airmen: 'Red Tails (and Flat Noses)'

The sentimentality is VERY heavy-handed at times, and I personally dislike foreign characters speaking English in a movie (as opposed to the filmmaker using subtitles to translate their speech). Some actors' fake German or French accents I found irritating.

Nonetheless, overall, I'd recommend seeing "War Tap--", er, "Horse". ;-) It's probably worth it to see it on the big screen if you can afford to, because the cinematography, the scenery, and of course the horses themselves are gorgeous. (Yes, the war scenes are depressing, obviously, but they are beautifully recreated and filmed. My husband is something of a WWI buff and said the historical details were good.) I found much of the scenery and shots of the animals breathtaking. The main actors are also very good.

Also, in my opinion, the scenes of brutality toward he animals, as well as the violence in the war scenes, really are not that bad. I can't stand graphic violence in films, and I had no problems watching this.

I saw it, but it was ruined because I was sitting behind a couple of cureloms. No manners, those beasts!

ahh, that made me smile. Plus sitting behind cureloms - what, no cumoms made the effort see the mighty war tapir in action?

I really did have to get up and leave when they had the horses pulling heavy armory. I don't know how I sat through the barbed wire scenes. I couldn't ever sit through it again.

Go see Mission Impossible--best one since the first one. I actually find Tom Cruise a pain in the as*--but loved MI.

I've talked to a couple of people who have fear of heights who had trouble with the tower scene in Dubai. I loved it! It's a great romp of a movie.

I haven't seen War Horse yet. I'm still mulling it over. One thing to keep in mind is that it clocks in at 2 hours, 27 minutes.

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I've been teaching myself the Cyrillic alphabet, and was thrilled to be able to read some of the Russian signs in the movie. The MI films are always great for armchair travelers.

The scene of the sandstorm in Dubai was quite interesting. Similar to the one in Phoenix not too long ago?



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Yep, MI is great. Haven't seen the other one. Hope to soon.

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War Horse was a beautiful movie.

Fine, if you like to see animals suffer (even though it's fake).

Do not see "The Descendants".

I go to movies to escape from problems, so I don't like movies like these.

+1

We went to see Mission Impossible 4 over the holidays and it was a great big screen movie and great fun.
Total escapism that kept you on the edge of your sat for the full two hours and twenty minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpoKdPNM10M

Especially when the chariot is a sled being dragged behind a team of tapirs.



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