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post #1 of 17
6/6/02 at 12:17pm
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Has anyone else seen this movie?? I LOVED it!!! The kids (ages 3 1/2 and 2) loved it too, but not as much as i did. The music was great, the animation was wonderful, and the story was awesome!!!
post #2 of 17
6/6/02 at 1:24pm
Hi, I just saw it on Tuesday night, and was thinking about starting a thread myself, yesterday

I'm a horse freak and I really liked this movie. Had some small criticisms of some of the artistic license they took with animating the horses' head and face, but overall it was great. I could have done with a strictly ochestral soundtrack, rather than the Bryan Adams songs, but that's okay. The beginning, with the eagle, was gorgeous, then the build-up to "when horses ran wild" or something along those lines, when the horses appear, damn, I'm getting teary-eyed sitting at my computer remembering that. I saw it with my partner's mother, so I didn't cry, but if I'd seen it alone or with him or a close friend I would have been bawling, just because it is so emotionally beautiful, especially if you have been in love with horses since the age of consious thought like me... I will definitely buy it when it comes out on video, and may go see it again if I can. It seemed pretty intense for little kids in some parts, for sure, but they did a good job of making what was sad/scary, have a good resolution, which was nice. And it didn't sugar-coat the crap the US calvary did to native americans, which I also appreciated. Good movie, worth seeing!
post #3 of 17
6/6/02 at 2:35pm
We haven't been yet, but I am definately taking the kids to this one. It's such a refreshing change formt eh usualy Disney crap (like Lilo and Stitch looks like)
post #4 of 17
6/6/02 at 2:49pm
We went last weekend and loved it. My ds LOVES animals and one of the things that I liked about it was that the animals didn't talk! Also loved the music too.

Warmly~

Lisa
post #5 of 17
6/6/02 at 6:19pm
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Oh yeah...I totally liked that the animals didn't talk also!! But I think one of my favorite parts of the whole movie was at teh begining when spirit (as a young horse) came face to face with the big buffalo and the big buffalo smiled at him and stuff. If it had been a disney you know the buffalo would have been mean and stern. My kids are usually pretty sesitive about intense parts in movies and they did great with this one.
post #6 of 17
6/6/02 at 7:34pm
thanks for the review. want to take DS, 3 1/2, and am now going with MIL, her friend, SIL, her friend, and DS. why all those people?? DS invited his "Nana", who invited the rest. so much for momma-DS time. oh well...but we will have fun nontheless!!
post #7 of 17
6/8/02 at 11:22pm
We saw it yesterday and it was very good, but it also touched on a lot of things that the kids haven't really had presented before (like the history of the native Americans, "breaking" a horse in, and cavalry uniforms to name a few) and I wish we had been at home so I could stop and explain things a bit. It actually made me kind of sad, to look back at the US and the way we have treated people and animals, and ourselves in the process.
post #8 of 17
6/8/02 at 11:59pm
I heard someone's concern over the depiction of guns and the mistreatment of animals and Native Americans. Granted, these are all historical fact, but what were your impressions in this sense?
post #9 of 17
6/10/02 at 12:57am
I really thought the horse breaking scenes were very intense. I was worried about Bonnie's reaction but I'm not sure she really got it.

I thought it was very odd at the beginning when young Spirit was born and went to nurse... mare with no teats (!) so he sticks his head way up between her legs. It was very odd to me! But then later, when he licked the icicle a girl about five years old behind me laughed really loud and said "He thinks it's his mommy's chi-chi!" so she got it! LOL

This is the first time we have brought her to a theater and she was pretty into it for a while. The shot you mentioned before, where the horses come thundering over the horizon, right at you.. she gasped and then just stared with eyes like saucers and her mouth in the O.
post #10 of 17
6/11/02 at 1:59am
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I liked that these new issues were brought up for my ds in this movie (ie seeing things he'd never really had any knowledge of before such as breaking a horse in, treating people badly for racial reasons, etc) because it was a great teachign opportunity. I think most of it went over his head, but we are planning on buying the movie when it comes out on video and we will be able to talk about it even more then.....it's great because it shows the way NOT to do things (ie by force both with the horse and with people) and then it shows the right way and how happy things can turn out if you use a little patience and compassion....plus even the "bad" guy learns in the end (instead of dying or not having the issue resolved) to be compassionate...it shows that even when you make mistakes you can change.

(I hope everyone isn't laughing about how much I like this movie!)
post #11 of 17
6/11/02 at 11:31am
Quote:

(I hope everyone isn't laughing about how much I like this movie!)
no way You are right, it is a good movie even just "superficially," as good entertainment, but there is some good stuff to it, plenty to talk about - horses ran free, why not anymore (some still do, they are protected in part because of one determined women, etc.), issues around our military history, the results of force and violence versus the results of compassion, etc...... I'll be buying it when it comes out on video, myself!
post #12 of 17
6/12/02 at 12:21am
I guess you're not talking about "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus," are you.










Sorry. I think I'm getting old.





- Amy
post #13 of 17
6/12/02 at 12:30am
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: Dr. who?
post #14 of 17
6/12/02 at 12:45am
y'nh'mama ...

Dr. Sardonicus. From an unbelievably awesome album ... back when there were albums ... a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...

Never mind.

- Amy
post #15 of 17
6/12/02 at 12:11pm
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post #16 of 17
6/12/02 at 3:57pm
Wow! I am blown away by this movie! We just saw it last night and I am soooo very glad that we did! My boys are 2 and a 1/2 and 4 and 3/4 years old, so they were able to handle the intensity.

Nothing gets past them so it made for a wonderful opportunity to discuss the breaking of the horses and the treatment of the Native Americans... especially since I am part Cherokee and Apache, myself.

So much has been lost in my family history and this helps to open a door to discussing our heritage with my sons.

It was a Dreamworks production, btw, not Disney, so I think that that helped. I loved that not everything was so black and white, so to speak. Even the Colonel had some sense of honor.

Also, it really helped to strengthen my resolve to "check out" of society for a while and live the rural life. I want my boys growing up knowing the stars, the land and the animals and having a strong respect for them. Oh the beauty of it all made me cry.

Well, I could go on forever... my boys woke up this morning wanting to "run free like Spirit" ahhhh...
post #17 of 17
6/13/02 at 2:18am
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glad2be I'm so glad you and you're family got as much out of it as I did!! And probably a bit more since you have native american heritage. I used to dream of marrying a traditional native american man....instead I fell in love with a chinese speaking white man.
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