I see it has bad ratings here. I like watching this movie every once in awhile, and I've never seen anything bad about it. I don't have an emotional connection to it, like "me and my dad watched it before he became a raging alcoholic," or anything, I just think its a pretty good movie. What's said to be so bad about it?
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i agree with you. Hidalgo is very entertaining. i enjoy this movie whenever its on TV like AMC. the low rating reminds me that ratings on IMDb are *beep* for example HIGH NOON is only rated 8.3. that says volumes about todays IMDB users and their intelligence level IMHO/.
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Too stupid to discuss. (The movie, not the question.)
shareI rated it a 1.0 and would give it a zero if I could. It was among the most terrible movies I've ever seen. I could barely sit through it and I still remember how awful it was to have to watch the entire thing which seemed to go on forever and ever.
I'll always remember this movie as painful to watch because it was so boring and bad. Well, at least it left an impression on me.
I hate this movie.
Its "too much" of a Disney, so its far too whimsical and hamy. Everything from the colors to the characters are caricatures of common stereotypes. It feels like a Mummy Returns with horses, and by that I mean, that nearly every scene is fully of some corny one liner or over the top performance. When it tries to be serious, it loses the audience with a silly scene to follow up.
This is the first time I didn't enjoy J.K. Simmons, his makeup and wardrobe were atrocious, and while he was the only believable thing on screen, everything else that shared screen time with him, detracted from his performance.
The Silver Stallion and The Horse Whisperer are far better stories, with stronger leads.
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I don't get people in this country and their ratings. I've seen so many great flicks that didn't get a peep of good press, then some crap Michael Bay explosion fest generates a billion in ticket sales.
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Todays kids like movies to be "dark" with ambiguous endings. They have to have plenty of explosions too.
This film didn't have any of this, so therefore, they hate it.
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This movie is not bad. It's conventional and too long, and the focus should be on the race, not all the ancillary nonsense. 3,000 miles on horseback against 99 others and this movie has to throw in "rescue the princess" scenarios. Too bad.
It's merely average. I'd like to know what the above person thinks is a good movie since he thought this was a "1". I absolutely hated the second Hobbit film and still gave it a 4. In my opinion, most movies are sixes, while 7 is above average. 8 is the beginning of something special and 10s are incredibly rare (I think I have only given four or five tens since 2000). This movie is a 7. And it is therefore the best film Joe Johnstone has ever made.
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What Anscules said^^^
Fast forward through the dumb parts and you have a great movie if you love horses.
The end of the race had me so emotional I was crying, then again, the beauty of the ending.
Loved it but too bad they had so many dumb things going on.
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Let's see....the Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Forrest Gump, Misery, There are so many.
Hmmm...
I enjoy this whimsical tale, and I can understand why you don't if to rate such films as The Shining and Silence of the Lambs as "good".
As for what's wrong with this movie: only the fact that its proclaimed to be based on a true story which Disney didn't do any actual homework on, because the entire take had been debunked since its release.
I have three complaints:
* Hopkins mumbled some of his lines to the point that I needed subtitles turned on to understand him. (No, not his drunken scenes either!)
* The fake snow at Wounded Knee was just -- well, RIDICULOUS!!! Geez.
* The music was overdramatic in many scenes; it didn't match the action.