"War Horse"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2011 retrospective has officially begun! Following the release of Oscar-nominated "The Fabelmans" we're kicking things off with another Best Picture-nominated Steven Spielberg film that went home Oscar-less 12 years ago with "War Horse" starring Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston & Jeremy Irvine. Joining me for this throwback podcast review, I have Sara Clements, Brendan Hodges, Isaiah Washington, and Patreon guest Daniel Lima. What do we think of the film all these years later? Tune in as we discuss the themes, Spielberg having to compete with himself, the craftsmanship from his frequent collaborators, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for all your support, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Warhorse.
0:18.6	What is it?
0:19.7	It's a horse if I'm wondering about to no man's land.
0:22.9	What kind of an horse?
0:24.1	A miraculous kind of an horse be my guess.
0:32.3	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for War Horse, and the story is as follows. Albert and his beloved
0:39.3	horse Joey live on a farm in the British countryside. At the outbreak of World War I, Albert and
0:45.1	Joey are forcibly parted when Albert's father sells the horse to the British Calvary. Against the
0:51.1	backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, as he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his unique friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home. The film is starring. Emily Watson, David Fulis, Peter Mullen,
1:13.3	Niels Arstrup, and Jeremy Irvine.
1:16.5	It is directed by Stephen Spielberg,
1:18.3	and it is written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis.
1:21.5	Here to join me today for this throwback podcast review.
1:24.7	I have Sarah Clements.
1:26.4	Hello, hello.
1:30.8	Brendan Hodges. Hey there. And Isaiah Washington. Hey, what's happening? Joining us as a guest here on the podcast, one of our Patreon
1:37.5	listeners, we have Daniel Lima. Hello, pleasure to be here. Pleasure to have you. Thank you so much for taking a time to be
1:45.6	with us this evening. So we are talking about War Horse today. This is the 2011 Best Picture
1:51.9	nominated film from Steven Spielberg. The guy always seems to have a film within the Oscar
1:56.6	conversation. We just came hot off the heels of the fablemans being an Oscar-nominated film for
2:02.5	Best Picture this year. Sadly, that film did not go home with a single Academy Award win. Neither
2:09.7	did War Horse, something that we will talk about later on in this review here. But this movie
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