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YMMV: War Horse
  • Anvilicious: Did you know War Is Hell? Of course, Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped...
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: "Year Turns Round Again".
    • And we have John Williams for the film version. What do you expect?
  • Ho Yay: Joey and Topthorn develop a very close friendship which involves intimate physical contact.
  • Moral Event Horizon: The German soldiers crossed it when they kill Gunther and Michael for leaving their side to flee to Italy .
  • Narm: Some of the more dramatic scenes are a bit overwrought, and Nicholl's death can be downright goofy-looking.
    • Averted in the film with a Gory Discretion Shot - all we see is a blaze of slow-motion gunfire from the German guns, and then no more Captain Loki.
    • The scene after the British cavalry charge the German camp and the heavy guns open up. All these horses are charging right past the guns, you don't see a single rider on any of them, and as sad as it is all you can do is start laughing about what incredible shots those Germans are. Must be horse lovers. (Note: Horses are huge targets compared to the men riding them, and a dead horse=a wounded and/or ineffective cavalryman.)

  • Nightmare Fuel: The war scenes, the gas attack in the German Trenches, Joey getting tangled up in barbed wire and the horses jumping over the German Lines in the forest without their riders during the failed British cavalry charge.
    • Accidental Nightmare Fuel: In the movie, after Joey finishes getting tangled up in barbed wire and he is lying on the muddy ground, there is a lightning flash and for a single frightening moment, you can see what appears to be a Slasher Smile on his face. It's really a normal horse expression, but it still looks rather scary.
  • No Yay: Albert's devotion to Joey is implicitly compared to the love Taylor has for his girlfriend.
  • Signature Scene: For the movie, it's either Joey at the end of the film in the sunset, the attack on the German Trenches, Joey dashing through No Man's Land, Joey getting tangled up and freed from barbed wire or Joey jumping over a British Tank.
  • Tear Jerker: THE WHOLE THING.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The puppetry. After about 15 minutes you forget those horses aren't real. And that's not even getting into the amazing scenery or war effects.

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