Okay fess up, who cried during "Seabiscuit"????

Come on NO ONE????

I just saw it this weekend on my Mother-in-law's new (from us) DVD player and wow did it hit me a couple of times. My father-in-law even got a little weepy and he is an old brakeman on the railroad.

Come on let's see those hands.

No tears. Only many problems with the inaccurate history.

Thank God I was in a dark theatre and no one noticed.
Yes, on two occasions I got all blubbery.

very dark.

I thought it was a very good movie and needless to say touching.

Generic movie review:
I laughed I cried it's the feel good hit of the season I'll see it again and again it was better than "Cats".

but I was a geyser the last time I saw "The Black Stallion".

What must the odds have been for that owner, that trainer, that horse & that jockey to come together & make something that special.

Did any of you see the PBS special ?
It was even more moving, well here at the moof hut anyway.

Sounds good though.

Yes a truly great story even if (as posted above) it wasn't exactly accurate. Oh well it is a movie.

But I cry during all kinds of movies. The end of Star Wars never fails to bring a tear to my eye. Go figure.

MzPip
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when someone works like hell to achieve a goal and makes it.

fiend, grew up on harness racing, LOVED the movie "The Black Stallion" et al... and just completely failed to be the slightest bit interested in this film, even when held a captive audience on a recent plane ride.

I found the plot completely predictable, the horse was lame, the jockey boring, the owner boring... I knew precisely what was happening before the characters opened their traps or segued into another scene.

I found it formulaic at best, and uncreative and unimaginative at worst.

If you want to see a REAL horse movie, one that sparkles with all the magic a movie about a boy and his horse should have, buy, rent or steal "The Black Stallion" and "The Black Stallion Returns", by Coppola of course... It was a magical story that lifted me up as a child; it swept my imagination away... I could spend hours on my schoolbus as we flew along country roads, as I imagined myself on the back of the Black... a magical story, and completely done to a perfect turn by Coppola and Roos... just, just simply brilliant.

and Cass Ole was truly one of THE most exquisite horses to ever live....

Almost all sports movies follow a formula so I feel that you just have to accept it.

Which puts us in the minority.

The turnoff for me happened right near the beginning when the formula-derived Copland-esque soundtrack got going with it's faux-Americana sounds. That's a sure tipoff that "morning in America" is going to come unhinged in about 22 minutes. And right on schedule, it did with the death of the owner's kid and the slide into the Depression. Historically accurate, perhaps, but formula in the film world.

Jeff Bridges gave another one of his incessantly smiling performances à la "Tucker - A Man & His Machine" (I movie I can't even watch) which was disappointing as I generally like his work.

I'm not a big fan of Tobey Maguire (I thought that James Franco - who played Defoe's son in Spiderman - would have been a more interesting choice as Peter Parker (in fact, he screen-tested for the role). He has that James Deanish, laconic, dark mien that I always found to be part of Parker's persona in the comic books. The bit of darkness that Maguire added seemed...well, added.), but he was very good here. For once he wasn't cast against type, and that worked for me.

The biggest drawback for me were the parallels to our own time, a time when the lives of real people are in the crapper so we use some sports figure as a crutch to lift our downtrodden spirits. Such rah-rahism doesn't put a shred of food on the table nor a paycheck in the bank these days because we don't have an FDR in office to use the government and its resources creatively to help the general population. So if the intent of the movie for *today's* audience was to lift the spirits, it had the exact opposite effect on me.

My wife and MOI went on and on about how great they thought it was and were surprised with my shrugged-off "it's OK" rating. Maybe I missed something.

I took my son to see a kid version of a Christmas Carol today at a local theatre and I cried at that, too, plus the two other versions of A Christmas Carol we saw over the holidays... including the Muppet version. My husband and I are just big softies!

But I cry at everything :)

Could have been the movie...Could have been the fact that I'd just gotten married two hours previously:shrug:

Geez what do I have to do, keep flogging you people?