Hidalgo

[lapsedagnostic]

sucks. Rented it last night. Not good. Almost bad enough to be good in the other direction, but way too long for it. Viggo Mortensen must have thought it was a freakin' summer camp after actually having to make an effort for lord of the rings. "What? Only three takes? Cool!" and "Wow! That was the fight scene? I didn't even have to practice for that, and no-one actually hit me!"

Yuck. Bad. Ptui!

And loooong. Pointlessly. Stupidly. Brain damaging.

This has been a public service warning. Save your money. And your time.

Comments

[syrenspellbound.livejournal.com]

I thought the movie was supposed to be about the horse, not so much the human character.

[lapsedagnostic.livejournal.com]

It even patronized the horse.

And let's not get into...

nope, not gonna start. It IS a pretty horse, though, all the ones in the movie are.

Blech.

[kaowolfie.livejournal.com]

Do what the girls do. Stare at the horse flesh and, when appropriate, whine to yourself because your legs are 6" too long to actually /ride/ any of the pretties. :P

Or sit there and look at the unusally colored ones and debate what combination of genes got that color. Equine color genetics is /neat/, especially if you read the book by the same name. Brindle, however, is the fugliest modifier for a horse -ever-.

[mgs-naughtycat.livejournal.com]

actually, the amusing part about it is that the entire story isn't true. what-his-name (see thats bad, i'm a horse lover and havne't seen the movie) character made up the entire thing. he was known for being a tall tale teller, and well, this is just another one of his.
seriously... go research it...
in my book, that makes disney a looser for marketing something as being 'true' when it isn't.
ahh, well, i'll have to watch it just to say that i did. i have a feeling that some of the scenes would have been cool to see on the big screen, even if the rest of the movie sucked. i just can't justify spending near 30.00 for two damn people to go to the movies...

How Sad

[sierra-victor.livejournal.com]

I was rather looking forward to finally seeing it, but I won't waste my time or money now.

Thanks for the heads up.

S_V

[jomac2k.livejournal.com]

I followed a link to a link to a link and ended up read your journal, mind if I add you as a friend?

[lapsedagnostic.livejournal.com]

Sure. I put you on the "way too much info" filters. Let me know if it's too much.