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Disney has its work cut out for it turning Steven Spielberg’s old style WWI film War Horse into a holiday family hit, but they’ve done an interesting thing here using the high caliber cast of actors to inject a little salesmanship into the film. War Horse, based on the Michael Morpurgo book, opens December 25.
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I know a lot of people have put a great deal of hard work into this film, but honestly, it looks like a spoof.
Umm, no. Looks like a great, epic film. Cannot wait to see it.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. As a Spielberg fan, I hope you’re right – he’s overdue a quality film.
The actors just told us what the movie is about and how we’re going to feel after we’ve watched it. I’m going to guess that at least half of the people who watch this trailer will pass.
My goodness, whether it’s movies, finance, business, education, art, collecting cans… COMMON SENSE will make u or break u.
I think it looks great – I think I can hang my cynicism up long enough to enjoy something like this
Saw this last night. I was so looking forward to it. This morning my jaw is still on the floor. The first act was like watching an expensive Hallmark channel movie — EVERYTHING was on the nose. From Williams’ mickey-mouse score, to Kaminski’s overlit camerawork, to the lack of any subtlety in the story or the characters (the evil landlord, the alcoholic farmer, the tough Mum, the sweet earnest son). There was not a plot point that you didn’t see coming a half hour beforehand.
I realize he was going for an old fashioned vibe, but NOTHING — not one moment — felt authentic.
The blocking of the scenes felt so forced and awkward that I kept having to remind myself I was watching a Spielberg film. Judging from the rest of the crowd glancing at each other aghast throughout the film, I was not the only one in shock. The Black Stallion this is not.
Keep in mind I’m the kind of Spielberg fan who defended Crystal Skull. However this makes The Color Purple look like a Coen Bros. film. Worse yet, the war sequences and borderline horse “torture porn” will disturb most family viewers. Exactly who is this film for? It’s as if he realized the first half of the movie was so soft that he ratcheted up the intense battle scenes to compensate.
If somehow this utter disappointment in filmmaking ends up a Best Picture nominee, Academy members should hang their heads in shame.
Homeward Bound…?
When I saw Planet of the Apes, I was completed surprised by Ceasar. No one had to tell me how to feel. This reminds me of the Brady Bunch analysis spoof, as told by Ken Burns.
This has been done before. With a dog. Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. Will Spielberg ever move on from his No Place Like Home Where You Belong schtick?
Anyone else think the cast supposedly giving their own opinions were ever so OBVIOUSLY scripted? Film actually looks nice though. Didn’t need this cheese muffin.
if there was more Cumberbatch in the film I;d see it but as there isnt I’ll probably miss it and save my pennies for his role in Tinker tailor Soldier spy.
Unfortunately this will get a pass from me as well. I grew up on SS films and respect the hell out of him, but I just don’t get this… at all.
I mean, if I hear the word “horse” again, I’m gonna go slap my assistant just to take out some frustration.
Yay industry clowns who still don’t understand Spielberg. Your ilk treated the man like a nerd who somehow got invited to the wrong party for years, only to watch him become an institution. The more success he earned, the more you hated him.
Get ready to hate him even more.
Trailer: no no no no.
We all know SS went to his script book, pulled out Saving Private Ryan converted it to G, then thought to himself, I have no experience with horses, and thus borrowed Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and viola, War Horse the movie is born.
The play (which has been given rave reviews) is a complex story. But… Disney likes simple stories,and the audience gets it…
this trailer make a simple story way too complex… and in the end, unattractive. Disney: change your marketing strategy!! You’re killing this film’s potential.
Spielberg now takes on WW1, “the war to end all wars”… and if all this is meant to soften us up for what’s about to come next year, then what a cruel, piece of pro war propaganda this is.
Triumph over adversity, glory and honor or just more perverted patriotism… the first World War was about total wholesale slaughter. Maybe if Spielberg had seen real war and not REEL war, he may want to tell a different kind of story!
I saw it last night. This is a great movie.
That film will be on Spain next friday. I just saw the trailer, but I’m thinking that some scenes of horse are so suspiciously similar at “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”, one of my favourites films… Am I wrong??
in that case I would be very disappointed, because Spirit teaches the sadness of war, does not show the soldiers as patriots, but as pawns that is what they are.
I don’t like it….