bayoubill
aka Sheik Yerbouti...
too bad Spielberg (who's apparently completely lost touch with whatever it was that once made him a reasonably-decent director) was the one who got his hands on this story...
took a great premise (wayward father buys troublesome horse on a drunken whim; son lovingly trains troublesome horse; boy and horse save the family farm despite naysayers; horse gets taken away for the war effort; horrors of war are shown from horse's point of view; meanwhile boy enlists in the hope of finding horse; horse and boy are ultimately reunited...)
and turned it into a boring, overlong, steaming pile of horse schlock...
major points taken away for the run time (2:26)...
in the hands of a more able director, this story shouldn't have taken more'n, say, 1:45 to tell, and told in a way that left me feeling satisfied, unlike this doughy unevenly-cooked mess...
bottom line... this movie made me pissed me off that I wasted $9.50 of my money and 2-1/2 hours of my life watching it...
best I can give it is a C- ...
took a great premise (wayward father buys troublesome horse on a drunken whim; son lovingly trains troublesome horse; boy and horse save the family farm despite naysayers; horse gets taken away for the war effort; horrors of war are shown from horse's point of view; meanwhile boy enlists in the hope of finding horse; horse and boy are ultimately reunited...)
and turned it into a boring, overlong, steaming pile of horse schlock...
major points taken away for the run time (2:26)...
in the hands of a more able director, this story shouldn't have taken more'n, say, 1:45 to tell, and told in a way that left me feeling satisfied, unlike this doughy unevenly-cooked mess...
bottom line... this movie made me pissed me off that I wasted $9.50 of my money and 2-1/2 hours of my life watching it...
best I can give it is a C- ...