"Slow Burn" Spoilers I don't know about Jolene Blalock personally. I think in the movie it eventually came out that her character was white but could and did pass as black for career reasons. Or because it served her purposes in getting near the bad guy. Or not. I dunno. I stopped paying attention to all the twists and turns at some point and just waited for movie to be over. ***
Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Narrator - Apr 15, 2007 2:12:51 pm PDT #8187 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Kathy A - Apr 16, 2007 12:33:01 pm PDT #8188 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Wow--there's actually a good review for Pathfinder! Admittedly, it's from the Flick Filosopher, whose taste is different from the majority of critics in select films (Bobby was in her top 10 from last year), but she seemed to like it on its own terms, which she relates to 300 and The 13th Warrior.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 16, 2007 2:10:30 pm PDT #8189 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The interview with Urban implies that there was actually tons more research and cultural sensitivity going on than the trailers would lead one to believe, but the basic premise is not enough to lure me in in the abscence of a compelling ad.
§ ita § - Apr 16, 2007 2:23:24 pm PDT #8190 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I saw it last night. It's deliberate and slow in ways not like 300 or The 13th Warrior. More similar to the latter.
Interestingly, the Norse did transport cavalry on longships. Stinky ride, I bet.
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 4:42:13 am PDT #8191 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
They'd have ridden big "cold blood" Northern horse stock, which is characteristicly hardier than the much faster "hot bloods", so there's that, too. Which is about all the history of horses I know....
sumi - Apr 17, 2007 6:55:54 am PDT #8192 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Not "big" - they'd probably have ridden something more like Norwegian Fjord or the Gotland - I mean, were the Vikings known for their cavalry?
Or the Icelandic Horse - which claims to be the only true Viking horse.
Were the horses in the movie Icelandic horses?
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 6:58:00 am PDT #8193 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've seen Fjord horses, which are neat and yes, big pony-sized. (And have crests instead of manes, IIRC). I'm probably thinking of later-developed Belgians and whatnot as coldbloods.
sumi - Apr 17, 2007 7:02:09 am PDT #8194 of 10001
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Cute Icelandic horses -- trying to imagine fully armored type people riding these guys. But the armor from that era isn't the same as the later knights with the Great Horses, right?
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2007 7:05:18 am PDT #8195 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Cute Fjord Horse pics with the crest and the stripe down the back onto the tail, too.
sumi - Apr 17, 2007 7:06:58 am PDT #8196 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Picturing Karl Urban riding one of those horses, wearing, for example, his Rohirrim armor from Lotr is amusing.