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A Sunday Horse (2016)
Ugh, A waste of beautiful horses
All the hokey religious stuff aside, it was a somewhat fun watch--because I love & have ridden & jumped horses. But the last 1/4 of the film, and a lot more was really cringe worthy; instead of jumping into the beauty of horses (which it tries), this film is hackneyed & for most, intellectually low-rent. It really doesn't deserve the 4 stars I gave it. Oh Jeeze, IMDb wants some lines of "criticism" (they say 10). Why can't you say it's "just simple hokey junk--an insult to horses". The whole medical nonsense when 'super girl" (rider & lover of her riding horses)is being treated from a fall is just formula junk for those (perhaps) who vote for Trump! (Sorry for the rhyme)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
Blaxploitation Female Soap Opera
This came highly recommended by a NYT reviewer, but yikes, before I was 1/2 way through it became real torture. Cast is mainly female--old & young--and they just scream and carry on in jealous nonsense with fortune telling and "voodoo?" thrown in. Samuel Jackson-- who the heck convinced him to play in this mess-- is reduced to a clichéd prop. 1960 Louisiana Bayou?? with blacks constantly in haute bourgeois costume with Connecticut accents is beyond laughable. The latter is cool--if that's what the director wants--but the story is pure soap opera slush! Bayou photography is great, and set against these ridiculous characters it comes as a great relief. The movie just slogs along with a cast of over-dressed harpies, both old and young.