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fajrdrakoI just looked at the trailer for "Hidalgo" at Hidalgo and I was actually disappointed it. It looks trite, predictable, anachronistic and generally unimpressive.
But it's Viggo Mortensen.
Maybe it put me off because they keep saying with the title "Based on a true story", which I find annoying. It's like hedging its bets between history and fiction without being one or the other. It also implies the story has nothing else to recommend it - would you hear them advertise "Shakespeare's 'Henry V' - based on a true story"? I don't think so.
But it's Viggo Mortensen, and I like the idea of Arabian desert tales.
What really put me off, I think, is that the trailer made me think of "Indiana Jones". Nothing against Indiana Jones, of course, but I don't want another version of that movie.
If it has a sexy Arabian prince in the story, I might reconsider my snap judgement.
But it's Viggo Mortensen.
Maybe it put me off because they keep saying with the title "Based on a true story", which I find annoying. It's like hedging its bets between history and fiction without being one or the other. It also implies the story has nothing else to recommend it - would you hear them advertise "Shakespeare's 'Henry V' - based on a true story"? I don't think so.
But it's Viggo Mortensen, and I like the idea of Arabian desert tales.
What really put me off, I think, is that the trailer made me think of "Indiana Jones". Nothing against Indiana Jones, of course, but I don't want another version of that movie.
If it has a sexy Arabian prince in the story, I might reconsider my snap judgement.
