[QUOTE=Candle;2490256]
at least they appear to be using the same horse to play Ruffian :yes:
They are treating the viewing audience like idiots though :no:[/QUOTE]
I dunno…I’ve counted 4 horses so far.
Can’t find it here in Calif! Man I really want to watch it.
I definitely wasn’t prepared for the graphic recreation of her broken leg 
well, the leg breaking scenes were not needed and poorly done
oh that was graphic. i know, i know, but that many views of her leg?
OMG…WHY did they have to do those scenes that way? I was hoping…if maybe like the “flashback” scenes in Seabiscuit with the old announcers and shots of the era…then maybe show crowd reaction…something…I was OK til those stupid “close ups”. Wondered how they were going to do it…didn’t expect that…Jesus…
OMG, i really don’t think her leg breaking needed to be that graphic… i wasn’t prepared for that… i just gasped and turned away… they need to warn people, i won’t be sleeping well tonight… that sound will haunt me…
OMG! They did NOT need to show that!! Not just when it happened but a couple times after when she was standing on it! My 8 year old son was watching. He ran over to me burying his head in my chest totally upset. So was I. I think it was totally uncalled for to show all that.:mad:
I wish I knew a way to let ABC what I think. Anyone know a way?
It is going upset a lot of horse-loving youngsters. I literally said “OMG” and turned away.
I remember watching the race as a young person. Then of course the media had to jump in and shortly thereafter some news show (it wasn’t 60 minutes but something similar) did an episode of horses breaking down on the track. They showed even more horrible breaks.
So sad for all involved and all the fans who loved her.
I hid my eyes for the entire race. I knew what was coming. Why did they have to re-create it so slowly and for so much detail? YUCK.
I screamed
[QUOTE=Joanne;2490368]
It is going upset a lot of horse-loving youngsters. I literally said “OMG” and turned away.
I remember watching the race as a young person. Then of course the media had to jump in and shortly thereafter some news show (it wasn’t 60 minutes but something similar) did an episode of horses breaking down on the track. They showed even more horrible breaks.
So sad for all involved and all the fans who loved her.[/QUOTE]
I could not believe they showed it that graphically. I havent cried like that in a while. Sam Shepherd was great. I like the real footage at the end.
She was one incredible horse. I was 16 and living in New York when that race was run. I was devistated. What an incredible waste of horse over a match race. Who knows what she could have gone on to do. And even been a sensational broodmare. :no:
I remember when I was little pretending to be Ruffian while I ran around my parent’s front yard with the girl down the road. (Although she had been dead for more than a decade by then) What a beautiful mare she was.
The breakdown scene was horrific. Could have done it in a nicer way than flapping her leg all over the place…made me remember the pictures of Go For Wand.
[QUOTE=horselips;2489687]
I cannot understand the mindset of people who refuse to grasp that some of us are watching this movie for it’s depiction of a great racehorse’s brilliance.
I had followed Ruffian’s career since it began, and will watch the movie to remember her magnificence. Not all of us suffer from the Barbaro Complex. Watching the movie NOT as one who enjoys a train wreck, as was so rudely, and wrongly put, but because I see the movie as a tribute to her.[/QUOTE]
Well put!!
i thought the movie was absolutely wonderfully done…i was of course balling my eyes out, but i think it was once of the most raw, emotional, beautiful films i have ever watched. I think ABC did a WONDERFUL job, and i applaud them for showing what they did of the breaking down scenes/broken leg views. They showed every aspect of horse racing, even the ugly, and i say “good for them”. It’s not every day that horse racing enthusiasts enjoy admitting this is what actually goes on in their sport…pretty much daily all over the nation, and I think its a part of the sport, and it should be televised. And not that just it should be televised for those reasons, but basically for the truth behind Rufian’s story. It’s a part of the sport, and it should not be hidden for the sake that “we need to get more people to start liking racing”… or “racing is loosing interest”. I thought the acting…especially by the head trainer was EXCELLENT. He really captured the spirit, bond, emotion a true horseman has. And what an ending…whew
I just posted on the other thread, but wanted to here, as well. - Geez, that was just horrid. Nothing like watching a reenactment of a horse running around on a grissily stump to end your day with. And would someone please telly Hollywood that horses do not just close their eyes when they get The Big Shot??
Honestly that was just appalling.
Quite graphic for the break down scene. My boyfriend (who is not horse-y at all) and I both cringed and looked away.
I thought that the movie was well done though, and that it portrayed her beautifully.
- I caught one mistake though, they brought the ‘filly’ in from one of the races and I caught a glimpse of a sheath, rewound (sp?) it, and saw the sheath again. Lol. I like pointing out mistakes, especially in horse movies
I screamed
[QUOTE=Joanne;2490368]
It is going upset a lot of horse-loving youngsters. I literally said “OMG” and turned away.
I remember watching the race as a young person. Then of course the media had to jump in and shortly thereafter some news show (it wasn’t 60 minutes but something similar) did an episode of horses breaking down on the track. They showed even more horrible breaks.
So sad for all involved and all the fans who loved her.[/QUOTE]
I could not believe they showed it that graphically. I havent cried like that in a while. Sam Shepherd was great. I like the real footage at the end.
She was one incredible horse. I was 16 and living in New York when that race was run. I was devistated. What an incredible waste of horse over a match race. Who knows what she could have gone on to do. And even been a sensational broodmare. :no:
Frankly they portrayed that the trainer did NOT feel the horse was ready and was being pushed by the media and the owners fell for the hype. But did that really happen that way? Was there anything about the story that was not correct as the media seems to imply but I can;t find details. Do any of you know?
Frankly it is karma that Rags to Riches won today perhaps in the spirit of Ruffian but still probably the story did not need to be told…will regular folks go watches races after that?
[QUOTE=BenleaSealily10;2490393]
i thought the movie was absolutely wonderfully done…i was of course balling my eyes out, but i think it was once of the most raw, emotional, beautiful films i have ever watched. I think ABC did a WONDERFUL job, and i applaud them for showing what they did of the breaking down scenes/broken leg views. They showed every aspect of horse racing, even the ugly, and i say “good for them”. It’s not every day that horse racing enthusiasts enjoy admitting this is what actually goes on in their sport…pretty much daily all over the nation, and I think its a part of the sport, and it should be televised. And not that just it should be televised for those reasons, but basically for the truth behind Rufian’s story. It’s a part of the sport, and it should not be hidden for the sake that “we need to get more people to start liking racing”… or “racing is loosing interest”. I thought the acting…especially by the head trainer was EXCELLENT. He really captured the spirit, bond, emotion a true horseman has. And what an ending…whew[/QUOTE]
:yes: I agree with you on all counts.
