Has anybody seem
N “Snowman?” Because I can’t find it anywhere
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Has anybody seem
N “Snowman?” Because I can’t find it anywhere[/QUOTE]
According to this film’s website, it’s making the rounds in a handful of very limited (like 3-day) screenings in a few cities, but it’s really not the kind of movie that typically gets wide release. I’m hoping it gets tossed over to Netflix soon.
Watching this now … did they just say they made enough money for 15 months of payments on the ranch? IIRC the evil banker told righteous, defaulting grandma that the first payment was $3,500 due (of course) on Christmas. So they netted over $52,000 in one day? What were they selling – crack?
no i believe they said like 3 months worth which would have made them about $8000. ( pretty damn good for a yard sale. )
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No horse movie can be worse than Wildfire, the Arabian Heart. Even worse than Lightning, the White Stallion, which held the title for years in my mind.[/QUOTE]
Lightening the White Stallion is incredibly awful. So bad that my non horse friend kept asking why they couldn’t find horses that looked similar. She noticed that the horses were different and she wouldn’t know an Arabian from an Clydesdale!
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So in looking up some of these bad horse movies listed here on Netflix today, I came across a documentary on the Palio, simply called “Palio” under the Horse Movies category.
Has anyone else watched it? It is mostly in Italian (w/ subtitles) and a really compelling look at the human personalities involved. Some of the racing footage is pretty brutal. I imagine the serious/fatal injury rate is high for both horses and jockeys :([/QUOTE]
Is this movie based on the Marguerite Henry book about the Palio horse race in Italy?
One of my favorite bad horse movies is The Electric Horseman (or is it Cowboy?) with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Ridiculous premise, but I loved the chase scene 
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It always amazes me that with all the money in the movie and tv industry that they don’t get an expert to sort out all the stupidity that we see in horse movies! I am sure it is the same for car people or doctors and lawyers! Even when Debbie Stephens was the technical advisor for “Something to Talk About” some of the horse mistakes were laughable![/QUOTE]
My husband wonders if sometimes the wranglers want their names removed from the credits after seeing all of the mistakes in the final movie!
We just watched http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1202521/
Every Second Counts about a girl who wants to go to college but her father wants her to turn Pro in TEAM PENNING so that she can save the farm…
it wasn’t as bad as Lightening the White Stallion but…
Well everybody here loses… because I can’t believe no one mentioned Big Spender!
Although now I feel old because I remember it coming out and thought it was about 8 years ago… no it was 2003… I would like to stop aging now.
Typical Story:
Guy is in jail, needs to get out and get good job to support his son
Guy gets job at retired racehorse farm/rescue
Race horse is too slow, money hungry owner sells it despite how much the jockey loves him
Racehorse somehow ends up emaciated at rescue
Non horse guy convinces emaciated horse to eat by feeding him mints
Non horse guy starts retraining horse (although the accuracy of his complete inability to ride was at least a little refreshing… but painful… so so so painful)
Jockey discovers horse has been rescued and comes out to start riding it, and VOILA she used to be a H/J rider
Train horse to be a winning H/J and gets sold to big time show barn
Big time show trainer hires ex convict to be horses groom.
Fun Facts:
Big Time trainer I BELIEVE is played by Danny Foster???
A lot of the competition scenes were shot at the Caledon Equestrian Park (were the 2015 Pan Ams were)
Lightning the White Stallion is SO SERIOUSLY BAD. I even wrote an IMDB review warning people abt it back in 2009. 
1985’s Sylvester is my all time worst horse movie.
Kid named Charlie (Melinda Gilbert) trains wild horse with the help of a cranky cowboy (Richard Farnsworth) and in no time (less than a year) turns horse into a champion eventer!!!
Come on people, it takes years to develop horses and riders! Ugh
The only redeeming parts of this movie were when they filmed Kim Walnes and The Grey Goose running at the Kentucky Horse Park (they were the stand ins for Melissa Gilbert).
Just unbelievable and disappointing:cry:
Snowman movie is available on amazon to buy and stream.
Electric Horseman and The Horse Whisperer. Beautiful scenery, realistic horse behaviors (apart from champion stallion surviving in the wild), and Robert Redford- three things that make a movie good IMO.
Silly as they were, I loved the old Disney horse movies- Run, Appalousa, Run, Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit, Horse with the Flying Tail (based on a true story), Jolly Roger (the trotting police horse).
Electric Horseman and The Horse Whisperer. Beautiful scenery, realistic horse behaviors (apart from champion stallion surviving in the wild), and Robert Redford- three things that make a movie good IMO.
Silly as they were, I loved the old Disney horse movies- Run, Appalousa, Run, Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit, Horse with the Flying Tail (based on a true story), Jolly Roger (the trotting police horse).
Just saw 20 minutes of Christmas Ranch. OP, you are correct, thus movie is so bad on every level. Typical sappy simply music too.
The “back story” in Horse with the Flying Tail was pure fiction. Nautical (reg. Peter de Oro) was bred to be a sporthorse type (though that wouldn’t have been the term they used then), by a QH stallion (Muchacho de Oro) out of a Army Remount mare. He never was a working cow horse or abused. He was something of a stopper until DeNemethy and Hugh Wiley retrained him. The only parts of that movie that were anywhere near accurate were what happened after Wiley acquired him.
Funny this thread popped back up, was thinking of it yesterday afternoon.
Recovering from a short duration but miserable stomach bug or revenge of old breakfast buffet food, watching very old Western TV shows resurrected from the vault.
It was Death Valley Days hosted by a young Ronald Reagan. Complete with title shots of the iconic 20 Mule Team ( show was single sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax, popular cleaning produce of the time, that used them to transport their Borax across the roadless desert from mine to processing facility well into the 20th century) making its way across the desert with its two giant ore haulers and water tank in tow. Very historically accurate.
What wasn’t historically accurate was that in the story, every horse harnessed to anything in the background had white, plastic O rings on the harness. Stood out like the proverbial sore thumb on all those bay horses. While those might have been around in the later days of the actual 20 mule team, they sure weren’t around in the cow and mining towns of the mid 19th century. Ruined my suspension of disbelief.
I watched Palio last night and loved it; yes it’s tough but so minimalistic and medieval- I found it fascinating.
Findeight, those rings were line spreaders, and before plastic, they were available in celluloid. Before that, there were metal rings. They extended the reach of connection so that lines would be straight instead of zigging over to the hames. I’ve never actually used them, so I can’t give a really technical explanation, except that I’ve also read that they enabled members of a team to stand a little further apart and get more air circulation, and that makes sense. Envision a pair or more of hot, sweaty drafters in hundred-degree temps.
I have a set of celluloid spreaders that are so old, the rollers in them are made of wood. I like them as decorations.
I can’t give a year of origin on celluloid spreaders, but they probably wouldn’t have been in common use in a frontier community. The stables providing the horses for the show probably liked the dressy look of the spreaders.
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1985’s Sylvester is my all time worst horse movie.
Kid named Charlie (Melinda Gilbert) trains wild horse with the help of a cranky cowboy (Richard Farnsworth) and in no time (less than a year) turns horse into a champion eventer!!!
Come on people, it takes years to develop horses and riders! Ugh
The only redeeming parts of this movie were when they filmed Kim Walnes and The Grey Goose running at the Kentucky Horse Park (they were the stand ins for Melissa Gilbert).
Just unbelievable and disappointing:cry:[/QUOTE]
If Sylvester is the worst horse movie that you have ever watched you really shouldn’t watch any of the ones mentioned here! LOL
