War Horse

"This movie is so great! You have to see it! It's breath taking and you'll love it!"
... Which movie did this person see? I heard from people that this movie was going to be great and fantastastic and new and... I WAS BORED!

This is going to be a negative review of the "great" movie War Horse, made by Steven Spielberg so if you don't want to know why I think this and are just angry with me and if you're just going to insult my way of watching a movie... Go away!
However, if you are curious of why I think it was boring, or if you haven't seen the movie and want another oppinion than "it was fantastic!" please continue the reading and I'm not going to insult anyone who likes it, so please don't insult me for disliking it! It's just an oppinion!

So what I'm gonna do now is explain the story like I always do. It's easier to decide if you who haven't seen it will like it or not so, have your own oppinion first!

OK! The story... It's pretty much Black Beauty in a war zone. When I first heard about "War Horse" and saw the poster for it... I didn't read the plot for it then. What was going through my mind was like a war but from the horse's point of view! Now, I thought that would be boring at first... But then my mind started to continue this theory of plot and I saw like dark places with goneshots and explosions and you saw the horse's struggle to keep him alive and his rider. But then the rider dies and a emotionfilled scene is playing (slow motion of course) and then the horse is instead trying to get away from the war instead of listening to his rider who are just trying to get him to go forward and I saw so much emotions and if it was done right you would just feel the struggle and panic the horse felt and just try to survive a war.. I'm explaining it pretty bad right now because I'm just trying to summarize it. But I was just feeling emotional by thinking it..... What do I get? ... A MESS! I'm sorry but this was just a mess! So the movie starts of with the horse getting born and it starts off like your typical horse movie. A boy comes attatched to it and they grow strong together and stuff like that (remind you of something?). But then they have to sell the horse because they need the money. So the army comes along and are looking for horses to have in the battle (or something like that) Anyway! They sell the horse to the army and of course the horse is the best. Then we get one short battle and they loose this battle and the horse is taken into german custody. And... It's just a army movie after that! The horse is forgotten in half the movie... Ok, more than half of the movie and we just concentrate on the war and battles and meow! So we see the horse get tossed around owners and we follow some army guys have battles and just boring stuff. And in the middle of the movie the horse is like panicing and becomes Robot Unicorn! ... Not really, but it felt like it! The horse got tangled in some barbed wire and kept running, it got tangled in more barbed wire and it keeps running, it got tangled in more barbed wire AND some obsticles and STILL keeps running! But then the obsticals get stuck on some fence and then finally the horse falls and is lying there! So yeah, there is a calm scene where an english man and a german man is helping the horse free from the barbed wire and they're just talking like they were neighboors or something. And then the horse finally meets the boy who raised him in the beginning and The End! ..... Not really, there were some difficulties in the end but I just sighed and turned it off... I didn't even see the end! It was that boring!

So let me tell you why I didn't like it XD I haven't done that yet.... Even if it may show a little from that summary but I'm gonna tell you why now! And... It just felt like this movie was trying hard to appeal to everyone! Why it was a mess was because it went like a ping pong boll between two genres! "Don't like horses? We got world war battle for you! Don't like war movies? We got horses you can look at! Oh, you who don't like horses, don't worry! We won't hold the shot at them for long! You who want to look at the horses, you see them a little more than usual! We are satisfying everyone! XD" .... FAIL!!! Keep it to one genre!!! And if you are going with a Black Beauty story do it like them and concentrate on the EMOTION of the horse!!!! Not the humans! You can't have both! "War horse" is an appropriate   title since it was a war with a horse! I wanted to see horse in a war ><! Oh well! But I could've been impressed if I wasn't so irritated with how it was done!

The first half was really boring and it was the time when the boy and the horse was bonding! And it was boring! The guy who played Albert.. I didn't like his acting in this o.o I have no idea why but I didn't like it. And also Emeli (or how it's spelled -.-) I didn't like her acting either. It was too robotic and I liked more her character than the acting.... If that makes sense. Even though I don't like talking about how people act, I just had to say something here because here I really noticed how bad it was! But I'm not gonna say more about that XD

The editing in this movie was HORRIBLE!!! It distracted me from the story and I just saw how bad it was! And.,... No! I get so frustrated when I remember how it was edited! It was like in one shot it was cloudy, the next it was sunny (They cut to another angle in the same scene)! And in one shot you see all the horses running around from the gun shots... One shot later and everyone is dead! ..... How fast are the soldiers to kill horses o.O? Oh well! So you can gather that the editing was horrible! Also there was a LOT of pointless angles and scenes and shots! It was like the cameraman was new to the work and was trying to figure out the camera but someone liked the test shots for the camera so they worked it in! -.- There were A LOT of these "test shots" in the movie! And they drove me nuts!

Also... I don't think anyone introduced blood to this movie.... It's a war movie... without blood? .... Ok. At the first half the boy and the horse is learning how to plow to try to save their farm and they plow for days without rest...... Either the horse or the boy gets scars out of it! "You're as badly hurt as he is" ... Apparently not at all since no scar or blood are shown on any of you! And the scene where the horse is trapped in barbed wire.... No scars... Oh we do see them near the end, but it's when it is a close up! The only time I saw blood was when another horse was bleeding on it's knees and the ending and there was another time, but I can't remember it right now... Three times in a two and a half hour long movie!! What the Hell?!

So no, I did NOT like this movie (if you can't tell by now) and all I'm saying.... If you want to see a fantastic horse movie, see Black Beauty or Horse Whisperer! Those are better than this! And if you want to see a war movie.... I've heard Private Ryan is good... Go see that! Or some other movie I'm sure is better than this!

If you don't know how to combine a horse with war in a original way and don't make it look like a mess DON'T MAKE IT!

I'm not recomending this because it really drove me nuts with all the mistakes it made. And that's what I have to say!
Bye for now!