I am a bit of a Nicholas Evans fan, and have read quite a few of his books. The Horse Whisperer is one of the few instances where the movie is actually better, thanks to Robert Redford’s unbelievable directing and the beautiful filming.
For those who haven’t seen it, Horse Whisperer tells the story of a young girl and her horse who are in a horrific accident. Both are left in a pretty bad way, and as a final desperate resort the mother takes them to a famous ‘horse whisperer’ across the country to try and save them both. Sounds lame, but it’s anything but!
This movie really should have some sort of warning or ‘Tissue’ rating though, sheesh. It wasn’t even the first time I’d watched it, and I still spent most of the movie in tears. Painful, painful movie to watch – but man, what an epic story!
now just how would we do this tissue rating:
1. martini + one olive + box of tissues
2. martini + two olives + box of tissues
3. martini + three olives + box of tissues
4. box of tissues + martini and no olives
5. extra, extra dry martini + five olives + big box of tissues.
Hahaha, awesome!
Here is how I would do the tissue rating:
1. wine + tissues
2. wine + chocolate + tissues
3. wine + cats + chocolate + tissues
4. wine + cats + chocolate + strawberries + tissues
5. wine + cats + chocolate + strawberries + tequila + tissues
Sadly, I had to make do with cats and coffee, and a slightly sodden blanket.
that could work as well so this one gets a 4 tissue rating.
we’ll leave the linus style sodden blanket out.
4.5 maybe, minus the blanket plus all the other stuff and an extra lump in the throat.