Live blogging my movie snark

[firecat]

Watching the Russell Crowe Gladiator movie for the first time, at 5:20 a.m., as one does when one learns it’s going to disappear from Netflix at the end of the month. Thinking to myself—

This montage (Maximus galloping his horse over miles and miles of countryside for days) seems very unrealistic as to proper equine management. I shall pretend these are aliens (Aliens?) that just look like horses. Or maybe they’re android horses. It is after all a Ridley Scott movie.

Comments

[noelfigart]

You know, it's only been in the last decade or so that I even gave that a thought. There's a David Eddings series where the knights are shown to take their horses' endurance into account and stops for resting them, and it kind of hit me between the eyeballs.

Then I can't NOT see it!

[firecat]

I mostly don't notice it with horses, so if I do that means it's egregious.