Ruffian Movie is on

[Lava]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

My mom didn't want to watch the movie and I tried to talk her into it. She won't even get a Barbaro Breyer or watch the Barbaro documentaries because of the memories of the Preakness...just thinking about the horse makes her sad, same with Ruffian. I try to spin it in terms of the greatness of their spirit and talk about how much good you can do by helping Barbaro's charity but things like that she just won't hear about.

I'm glad she didn't watch now. This would've made her queasy.

I am with your mom I cant watch that stuff the NBC thing on Barbaro was good till they showed the Preakness it still makes me cry

[TheSpyder]

I, for one, thought the movie was great. This life holds many good things as well as bad. Ruffian was both to the extreme and having lived those moments when it happened and now watching the movie, I know why I love horse racing so much. I just love the animals and the game, and everthing that goes into it. Horse racing is life, every part of it.

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

I, for one, thought the movie was great. This life holds many good things as well as bad. Ruffian was both to the extreme and having lived those moments when it happened and now watching the movie, I know why I love horse racing so much. I just love the animals and the game, and everthing that goes into it. Horse racing is life, every part of it.

i thought the movie was good, but what i dont understand about these horse racing movies, be it seabicuit,phar lap, or ruffian is why they dont hire some people that know what happens with the true handleing of these horses to tell them how to make it realistic. their were 15 things that were showed in that movie that isnt how its actually done, they are things that the general public wouldnt have a clue about, but why not make the movie an accurate portrayal? i dont think the cost would be anymore, it is just a lack of the producers wanting to pay attention to detail.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Like you said, the general public has no clue, so what's the point? And it would cost more, which is why they don't do it. It's all about money.

why would it cost more to put the shank on the halter the right way? why would it cost more to walk the horse the way they really get walked? and just another small doesnt really matter sort of thing...in the very 1st scene of the movie a racing form was shown laying on a table with the PPs opened to a certain page, the horse that was on the PPs shown was take me out,,,he was born in 1988,,,it is just a pet peeve of mine, i realize it was a low budget movie but.....for some reason as i watch i pick it apart in my mind.....how did ya like when they showed ruffians gallops and breezes suposedly taking place in the mornings at belmont park? she was the only horse on the entire track, when in reality the race track is like grand central station in the morning, when the track is open for training thier are like 100 horses out there from the time it opens till it closes each morning. but my favorite all time blunder in a horse racing movie was in phar lap,,he is regarded as the best race horse in the world.....the groom and his girlfriend take him on a picnic and while they are eating they turn him loose and let him run through the woods,,,wonder if pletcher will let the groom take rags to riches to the park today and let her loose to run freely like she is in nature?
its only a movie and like i said its just my pet peeve.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by slewpy

why would it cost more to put the shank on the halter the right way? why would it cost more to walk the horse the way they really get walked? and just another small doesnt really matter sort of thing...in the very 1st scene of the movie a racing form was shown laying on a table with the PPs opened to a certain page, the horse that was on the PPs shown was take me out,,,he was born in 1988,,,it is just a pet peeve of mine, i realize it was a low budget movie but.....for some reason as i watch i pick it apart in my mind.....how did ya like when they showed ruffians gallops and breezes suposedly taking place in the mornings at belmont park? she was the only horse on the entire track, when in reality the race track is like grand central station in the morning, when the track is open for training thier are like 100 horses out there from the time it opens till it closes each morning. but my favorite all time blunder in a horse racing movie was in phar lap,,he is regarded as the best race horse in the world.....the groom and his girlfriend take him on a picnic and while they are eating they turn him loose and let him run through the woods,,,wonder if pletcher will let the groom take rags to riches to the park today and let her loose to run freely like she is in nature?
its only a movie and like i said its just my pet peeve.

you remind me of .....ME. it's why i don't watch many movies--always seem to know what's going to happen, and the incorrect details slay me. i don't enjoy them.
gimme a good book any day!

Originally Posted by Danzig

you remind me of .....ME. it's why i don't watch many movies--always seem to know what's going to happen, and the incorrect details slay me. i don't enjoy them.
gimme a good book any day!

some of it was painfully blatant, the trainer is leading ruffian into her stall he is walking about 3 feet in front of her with no chain over her nose and he is walking on the wrong side of the horse, and the horse that was used in that scene was not a horse in any kind of training much less race training, the horse was about 14 hands with a big old belly and was walking behind him with the head way down and the trainer wasnt even looking at the horse, which in real life is about as dangerous a thing that you could do,,,the other thing that i noticed before each race she was suppossed to run the trainer ponied her into the paddock, go to the paddock at any track and they arent leading the horse into the paddock with a pony. again this is just me,,i thought seabscuit was one of the worst movies ive ever seen about equal with those japaneze movies where they speak english

[Danzig]

i was in the minority about seabiscuit. i thought they took a very good book, and turned it into typical hollywood garbage. the filming was good, the race scenes, but the actual writing, and the whole good vs evil crap...and then turning war admiral into some huge black monster of a horse, that was laughable.

[Downthestretch55]

I liked it. On a day when a nice filly wins the Belmont, and Ruffian remains buried there...well, maybe the movie makes some fans.
I also like the angle of people actually having "feelings" for a horse, beyond their wallets.
On a 1-10, I give it a 7.