Secretariat: The Movie, Whoa!

[dean smith]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

That's pretty lame.

Eh... the fact that the Cleveland Municipal Stadium scenes were shot in Milwaukee hardly ruined "Major League."

Try to lighten up and enjoy yourselves once in awhile. Why some racing fans are so dead-set on hating this movie I'll never understand.

If they made a movie about disc golf, I wouldn't care if the DeLaveaga Masters Cup scenes were shot in someone's backyard. Believe it.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by dean smith

Why some racing fans are so dead-set on hating this movie I'll never understand.

I am not very excited about it because I thought the preview for it looked pretty horrible. I enjoyed Seabiscuit, but this movie looks very Disney-fied and horrendous from what I've seen.

I hope I'm wrong and Scav is right.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I am not very excited about it because I thought the preview for it looked pretty horrible. I enjoyed Seabiscuit, but this movie looks very Disney-fied and horrendous from what I've seen.

I hope I'm wrong and Scav is right.

You wouldn't think it was Disney one bit.

[Riot]

The film isn't historically correct, so purists can easily find fault - but I'm sure the masses will love it, and it will place horse racing in the spotlight. A good thing we should be grateful for.

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I am not very excited about it because I thought the preview for it looked pretty horrible. I enjoyed Seabiscuit, but this movie looks very Disney-fied and horrendous from what I've seen.

I hope I'm wrong and Scav is right.

no, you were right. it was not that good. seabiscuit was way better and more accurate. they spend half the movie fighting over selling the horse...after he wins horse of the year as a two year old. they do point out how he won 7 races in about 9 weeks. he won 8 as a two year old ....3 at the saratoga meet...ran in 9. won the sanford ten days later ...won the hopeful. i laugh when they talk about giving two year olds HOY today they run about 4 times. his first jockey paul feliciano (5 pound bug) was not fired after the first race....he rode secretariat to his first win, second time out. sham never won the wood...angle light did. they needed a "bad guy" . frank martin was elected .......like he did not know secretariat was good after his first season and sham was never really close to as good. the tracks they run at ...saratoga did not even look like saratoga and for the belmont they should of shown the real footage. i know its disney and they need a story but half the movie is spent in family bickering over possibly the best race horse ever. it was actually kind of a dumb movie other than secretariat being the subject in it.