Ruffian Movie is on

[Merlinsky]

I'm sure there's a better spot for this thread but being the day it is and the horse it is and the network it's on, is anybody watching the Ruffian movie and if so, what do you think so far?

Her races are now on Youtube it looks like, from her maiden to the match race. You just get chills looking at the real thing and so far it seems like they're doing a good job on the movie. What do you think of her cinematic doppelgänger?

[justindew]

Who is playing the jockey?

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by justindew

Who is playing the jockey?

A rider from Penn National. Diaz?

Also, Ruffian was "played" by 5 geldings, according to a newspaper article I read yesterday morning.

--Dunbar

[Danzig]

not watching. from what i've seen, the only good thing in the movie is sam shephard. supposed to be a poor production.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Danzig

not watching. from what i've seen, the only good thing in the movie is sam shephard. supposed to be a poor production.

Where'd you hear that from? Nobody I hear talk about it speaks in negative terms as far as the ESPN and Bloodhorse folks who've seen it goes. At least none that I've seen. The fake-Ruffian does seem smaller than you'd expect. She's supposed to be a great big fat filly when she gets to them, with a girth as a young horse that was bigger than Secretariat's at the same age.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

Where'd you hear that from? Nobody I hear talk about it speaks in negative terms as far as the ESPN and Bloodhorse folks who've seen it goes. At least none that I've seen. The fake-Ruffian does seem smaller than you'd expect. She's supposed to be a great big fat filly when she gets to them, with a girth as a young horse that was bigger than Secretariat's at the same age.

saw on a few on-line sites that it god bad reviews, some mention on here as well that others heard it wasn't very good.

yeah, ruffian was a big gal, a lot of people mistook her for a colt when they saw her...that was one of her problems, big horse with small feet. she was bigger than foolish pleasure, but wore smaller shoes.

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

Where'd you hear that from? Nobody I hear talk about it speaks in negative terms as far as the ESPN and Bloodhorse folks who've seen it goes. At least none that I've seen. The fake-Ruffian does seem smaller than you'd expect. She's supposed to be a great big fat filly when she gets to them, with a girth as a young horse that was bigger than Secretariat's at the same age.

I'm exhausted from all the Barbaro stuff...oh and ABC's already wonderful horse production earlier...

[Cannon Shell]

There is no question in my mind that ABC fixed the Belmont so that they would have a natural lead in to the Ruffian movie..

[Merlinsky]

Holy crap, they did a close up of the breakdown on the leg as it happened. I think I'm gonna be sick.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

Holy crap, they did a close up of the breakdown on the leg as it happened. I think I'm gonna be sick.

I left the room when the match race was coming up.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

There is no question in my mind that ABC fixed the Belmont so that they would have a natural lead in to the Ruffian movie..

lol.. the only reason she won is because I had her running 2nd in my tri

the whole day was bad.

[Merlinsky]

My mom didn't want to watch the movie and I tried to talk her into it. She won't even get a Barbaro Breyer or watch the Barbaro documentaries because of the memories of the Preakness...just thinking about the horse makes her sad, same with Ruffian. I try to spin it in terms of the greatness of their spirit and talk about how much good you can do by helping Barbaro's charity but things like that she just won't hear about.

I'm glad she didn't watch now. This would've made her queasy.

[Lava]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

My mom didn't want to watch the movie and I tried to talk her into it. She won't even get a Barbaro Breyer or watch the Barbaro documentaries because of the memories of the Preakness...just thinking about the horse makes her sad, same with Ruffian. I try to spin it in terms of the greatness of their spirit and talk about how much good you can do by helping Barbaro's charity but things like that she just won't hear about.

I'm glad she didn't watch now. This would've made her queasy.

I am with your mom I cant watch that stuff the NBC thing on Barbaro was good till they showed the Preakness it still makes me cry

[Suffolk Shippers]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

My mom didn't want to watch the movie and I tried to talk her into it. She won't even get a Barbaro Breyer or watch the Barbaro documentaries because of the memories of the Preakness...just thinking about the horse makes her sad, same with Ruffian. I try to spin it in terms of the greatness of their spirit and talk about how much good you can do by helping Barbaro's charity but things like that she just won't hear about.

I'm glad she didn't watch now. This would've made her queasy.

I watched the HBO Barbaro documentary this morning. Really sad, as expected, had me in a downer mood for a few hours.

As for the movie, I think Steve and others said it was terrible more than a few times, and thats how I viewed it going in. Was basically expecting a circus show of misproduction. I wasn't overly impressed, the story telling was mediocre, but Sam Shepard saved it.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

What do you think of her cinematic doppelgänger?

Small <g>

I got to watch one of the most spine-tingling, impressive races I'll ever have the pleasure to view today, and now I'm off, glass of wine in hand, to watch another great filly .... see y'all later!