January 17, 2012
A two hour late start turned into a 15 minute early release.
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Warrior
"Warrior" is way better than it looks.
It opens and closes with songs from "The National"
"Anthony Tambakis and Gavin O'Connor selected The National song "About Today" to close the movie before writing the final scene. The scene was written with the song playing on a continual loop at O'Connor's house while the writers worked."
Review of “Warrior”
Thinking about this movie, I had to go to a thesaurus to find any synonyms for "underdog." Try it. The point is that I had little interest in watching another dark horse movie because they tend to follow the same unique long shot formula to such a degree that there are not many synonyms even for the word that describes them. Further, the admittedly exciting trailer for Gavin O'Connor's geometrically constructed "Warrior" (2011) seemed to give away all of the film's secrets, including the most preposterous plot points. More than that, all the villains in these Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) matches seemed too familiar and too cartoonish. But, a few friends recommended the movie; then, my fellow Far Flung Correspondent from Cairo, Wael Khairy, appreciated this movie somewhere in his list of the Best Films of 2011.
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War Horse: An Illustrated Review
Thinking about this movie, I had to go to a thesaurus to find any synonyms for "underdog." Try it. The point is that I had little interest in watching another dark horse movie because they tend to follow the same unique long shot formula to such a degree that there are not many synonyms even for the word that describes them. Further, the admittedly exciting trailer for Gavin O'Connor's geometrically constructed "Warrior" (2011) seemed to give away all of the film's secrets, including the most preposterous plot points. More than that, all the villains in these Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) matches seemed too familiar and too cartoonish. But, a few friends recommended the movie; then, my fellow Far Flung Correspondent from Cairo, Wael Khairy, appreciated this movie somewhere in his list of the Best Films of 2011.
And, when the film opened with the all too familiar shots of small town factories and churches, my skepticism against any originality only grew. But, Wael was right: this is a great movie. This film is indeed an underdog movie, and the story is indeed appropriately preposterous, but it has only one real villain: pain, of the body and heart, of course. Now that I think about it, maybe pain was the real villain in most of the "Rocky" movies also.
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War Horse: An Illustrated Review
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