Talkie Tuesday: Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron

 

"They say the mustang is the spirit of the West."

 

Hello everyone!

 

After so much epic-ness in one place, it's time to scale back just a little and figure out how things used to be done back in the day, at this point well over twenty years ago.

 

I can't even fathom it to be honest.

 

This movie released so long ago at this point!

 

And yet it's still so great.

 

Now if only I could find the Sinbad one animated online somewhere ...

 

I digress. Before I head out to the open waters, I have to head back in time to when the Wild West wasn't just a story, but actually a place to be discovered and, for lack of a better word, tamed.

 

There's plenty of movies about it out there, but this one is near and dear to my heart, because of course it's about horses. It's Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Taking the Reins

 

"Sometimes you have to step away from something to realize how much you love it."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Okay, OKAY.

 

I did sort of imply I would be watching the new Cinderella movie, but then I got side-tracked by a commercial for the new Hallmark Channel Fall Harvest release, and of course I ended up watching that instead.

 

Sorry Cindy, I'll be seeing you soon, I promise.

 

Maybe.

 

But I'll admit Hallmark is my guilty pleasure, though I also make sure I don't start watching their Christmas programming until way after November 15th, considering starting mid-October, while it might make sense for them as this is their biggest flagship, makes zero sense for me. I need it to at least SMELL like Christmas before I watch those movies!

 

Anyway, I digress.

 

Tonight's blog post is all about horses and finicky women, in Taking the Reins.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Black Beauty

"Good people make good horses."

Hello everyone!

While listening to the rain fall outside I decided that I was going to review a movie that's incredibly near and dear to my heart. And I mean it's one of those where I will bawl my eyes out regardless if I've only just seen it, haven't seen it for years, or am watching it then and there.

There's something about a movie that talks about horses which always gets me.

Probably because horses just so happen to be my favourite animals.

And of course there's the little fact that black horses, especially, are the ones that get my heart racing.

What?

I admit it, at least!

And as to the movie I'll be talking about tonight, it's over twenty years old, but still amazing. I'm talking about Black Beauty.

Tome Thursday: Black Beauty

Hello everyone!

It's time to take a bit of a trip into the past. Well, at least I am.

Whenever I'm feeling down about something or just not at one hundred percent where I should be, I have a couple of ways to get a little boost and end up back in my happy place. If I'm really short on time I'll put on a tune that really gets me going, but if I can make some luxury choices, well.

I'll either put on a REALLY good episode of a television show I like (that depends entirely on my mood at the time) or I'll pick up a good book.

A lot of the times it'll be The Lord of the Rings (because reasons), but some days I just need a different kind of pick-me-up.

Very recently, I was digging around my shelves to find the one book that probably spawned my love for black horses. Yes, that's a thing, and no, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

I'm talking, of course, of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.

Talkie Tuesday: Hidalgo

"Nobody hurts my horse."

Hello everyone!

So for today, I decided to dig up an older movie, because I got sidetracked from my regular list yesterday night. Thing is, it often happens that I tend to think about which movie I want to type up for my Tuesday blogs, and then Monday evening rolls around and I turn on the TV, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Yesterday night I was trying to cheer myself up after the abomination that was Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, so I was channel surfing, searching for something, when FOX Movies blurred through.

There was a beautiful paint horse on screen, and a very blonde Viggo Mortensen.

Obviously, I stopped doing whatever else it was I had been doing at the time, dropped the remote, and tucked myself in to watch.

The movie I'm talking about is titled Hidalgo, released in 2004 in the wake of the Lord of the Rings success when all the actors and actresses who had taken part in that production were prety much the hottest thing in Hollywood.