DML wrote:You're worried about the realism of a horse's reaction?
This is a movie with a FLYING MAN.
Firstly, worried probably isn't the right word
Irritated I'll give you...
Secondly, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect things to play out vaguely realistically, even when there are fantastic aspects to the film. In fact, it could be argued that it's even more important to keep things rational in a film with a flying man. Wondering why people and animals can somehow survive things they shouldn't be able to jars you out of the suspended disbelief you need for this sort of film. I call them Indy in a fridge moments because, during Crystal Skull, I was jolted out of the film several times by remembering that Harrison Ford should actually have been vapourised less than 15 minutes into the film, or had every bone in his body shattered when his lead tomb landed without any form of cushion whatsoever. Tell me there's an alien who can fire eye lasers and fly and I'll believe you. Tell me anyone "normal" ran into a huge dust cloud and didn't suffocate (like I'm sure some people did in the very real building collapses that scene obviously borrowed a huge amount of imagery from) and a tiny bit of my brain calls bullshit. It's not as bad as Crystal Skull, but it's still bad filmmaking.
It's not Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Cedric the Invincible Horse.