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Ah...the last day of vacation.....

I just saw War Horse (the movie). It was good...but it wasn't the best film I've ever saw.

It was weird, but I wasn't that emotionally attached to the movie. I heard lots of people sniffling in the theatre, and I felt a little bad that I didn't cry (ok, I got a little teary at one point, but even now I forget what point that was...I think it was when the two German brothers got shot....one of them was 14).

The movie had excellent sound (I liked how at one point you could hear the artillery shoot from one side of the theatre to the other). I was also paying attention to the clothes, because I needed reference of 1925-ish for a picture I was drawing (assuming fashion didn't change that much between 1910's to 1920's).
One of my favorite scenes was when the British soldiers were charging on their horses, the German machine guns fired, it then it showed the empty horses running away.

At some point towards the end, I noticed that the lighting made the scene look as though it were taking place on stage. I wasn't sure if that was intentional or not, but it gave an interesting effect as you left the theatre.

However, seeing the movie first spoiled the book for me (I got it for Christmas from my cousin, and I hadn't finished reading it yet.) However, the movie was a little different than I expected it. I thought it would have a person narrating as the horse, but instead they just showed the horse from an outside perspective.