Be Brave! New War Horse Trailer Will Run Off With Your Heart
"Can there be an Oscar nomination for a horse?" asks Sasha Stone at Awards Daily, providing her initial thoughts about the new trailer for Steven Spielberg's Oscar-bait behemoth War Horse. I mean, it's a great question! At this point I'm wondering if there anything this film can't be nominated for.
Of course you can do without all the standard, Spielbergian tracking-in-at-gaping-white-people shots, but the rest is a sell job for the ages. More in Wednesday's Oscar Index, but spoiler alert: This one's not budging.
VERDICT: So, so there.
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You mean there might actually be a movie that comes out this year that I don't forget about on my way home from the theater?
The music makes me want to puke. How long has it been since John Williams wrote a great score? This reminds me of Amistad with it's incessant unnecessary underscoring. Maybe I'll watch it with the sound off.
"Of course you can do without all the standard, Spielbergian tracking-in-at-gaping-white-people shots"
Um, you might want to learn some history. There weren't too many black English, French or German trooops fighting in World War I. That might explain why they're not in the film - a little matter of historical veracity and all that, rather than cowing to the PC brigade and putting black faces where there wern't any.
No one's being PC or asking for historically inaccurate casting. I'm just saying Spielberg's done the shot to death and it's lost its drama.
Hold your horses, it says "this january." That would disqualify it from getting any nominations.
Does this horse actually survive the war without being eaten? Here we go re-writing history again.