This is why I knew it would be a struggle to watch every movie my wife and I owned alphabetically because there are going to be movies like this. Ones that my wife owns that is so appallingly bad that I would not be able to finish it. Thankfully in the case of this film even my wife could not make it through 25 minutes of this one.
Black Beauty is a kids film so it get some extra rope than a bad romantic comedy or mellow drama, but that does not excuse having a film narrated from the horses perspective. Let that one sink in for a minute ... now factor in that the narration begins at birth!
Of course I can't give this film a proper review since I couldn't make it through 25 minutes. The characters we meet are the definition of one dimensional, the drama I saw on a bridge in a storm was laughable and the dialogue is as dry as a Miguel Cabrera (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2010/news/story?id=4956736).
I have been threatened already by my wife that I will have to watch Hope Floats and similar films the entire way through, but for now I am simply glad that I survived this one without losing 30 minutes of my life.
About Me
- Movie Dork
- This is a second attempt at this. The first attempt focused on going through my movie collection alaphabetically and those reviews are still available. This time I am ranking my collection from 1-142 with #1 being my favorite and 142 being my least favorite. I am dropping out most of my wifes and kids films from this (Pixar will still be featured of course) and I can not over emphasize two points. First is that I like all the movies on this list and second is that there will be movies ranked in the 90's that if this list was based on quality of the film they would probably be in the top 25. Likewise, movies in my top 5 likely wouldn't make my top 50 if I was giving them an honest critique. I am not a critic (maybe a movie snob, but not a critic) and I am focusing on what I like/love about these movies and reflecting on that. I also reserve the right to do new entry films any time I buy a new film as well as doing films out of numerical order just for fun.
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