I Called Spirit Mid, So My Girlfriend Made Me Rewatch It (Part 1)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 май 2024
  • Ah Spirit, the film I so casually criticised in an attempt to talk up yet another Dreamworks masterpiece. Soon after this I heard a lot of loud critiques coming for me to dare say that Spirit was "nothing special", particularly from my girlfriend who demanded I rewatch and do a review on it. So here I am, and uncharacteristically I was actually wrong. Now this video WAS roughly 15 minutes long, but no matter how many re-edits I did, RUclips would not have it. But once I broke up the same video into two parts it's no longer a copyright issue. I've been having this come up more and more recently so I appreciate you all bearing with me as I wander around blind trying to find out how to do this. When you're finished, here's the link to the second part of the review: • I Called Spirit Mid, S...
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Комментарии • 272

  • @RedX03
    @RedX03 17 дней назад +2199

    Your girlfriend singlehanded saved your life with this

    • @keona5560
      @keona5560 12 дней назад +18

      I was literally about to say the same thing

    • @SpideyStudios37
      @SpideyStudios37 11 дней назад

      @@keona5560me too lol

    • @GoldeStatue
      @GoldeStatue 7 дней назад +5

      she literally did

    • @Tata45868
      @Tata45868 2 дня назад +1

      We were already sharpening the pitchforks

    • @MrTigracho
      @MrTigracho День назад +1

      Bro stop. I WAS not going to murder him

  • @Makise3
    @Makise3 17 дней назад +1399

    All praise to your girlfriend for making you watch this classic.

    • @MakenzieMirror
      @MakenzieMirror 11 дней назад +3

      My sibling has/had a profile picture of the character in your profile picture I believe!! :00

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 4 дня назад +3

      For real, the fact that almost all men glaze over this movie because it was branded as "annoying horse girl movie" when really it's a masterpiece!😂

  • @silversamurai0267
    @silversamurai0267 12 дней назад +815

    Fun fact: horses are one of the hardest animals to draw, let alone animate. Their anatomy is just... kind of an anomaly? To animate an entire movie about horses, and to do it well, is challenging. So, this is beautiful.

    • @K.C-2049
      @K.C-2049 10 дней назад +15

      R* solved this problem for Red Dead 2 by just throwing motion capture suits on horses lol

    • @BrokensoulRider
      @BrokensoulRider 9 дней назад +65

      @@K.C-2049 Spirit was nearly two decades before Red Dead 2. This movie, along with a lot of Dreamworks and Disney movies actually, have always drawn horses/animated them well.

    • @PetitTasdeBoue
      @PetitTasdeBoue 6 дней назад +26

      That's also why "horror horses" became a joke in webtoons, because so many of them take ugly out of place 3D horse model and just put them in their comics and it looks awful lol
      Sometimes you even have "ghost carriages" without horses aha

    • @K.C-2049
      @K.C-2049 6 дней назад

      @@BrokensoulRider yes they also did great. Like I’m not trying to be sassy I just think the mo cap suits on horses is neat… why does literally everyone think every comment is an argument?

    • @BrokensoulRider
      @BrokensoulRider 6 дней назад +2

      @@K.C-2049 I... wasn't arguing? I was simply pointing out a fact.

  • @horse14t
    @horse14t 16 дней назад +937

    Fun fact: All the horse sounds, right down to the hoof beats are real! They had actual horse vocal recordings and recorded horses going over various terrain for the different hoof beat sounds!

    • @luunix6793
      @luunix6793 7 дней назад +13

      wow i always really liked the sound of them running lol

    • @TheRibottoStudios
      @TheRibottoStudios 5 дней назад +2

      damn that's hella dope! Wild also cause they had a VA do the lion sounds for the lion king.

    • @horse14t
      @horse14t 4 дня назад +1

      @@TheRibottoStudios They also used some tiger sounds in TLK too :P
      Specifically some of the roars because "lion roars weren't intense enough".

  • @tanishamuntslag6369
    @tanishamuntslag6369 17 дней назад +773

    Smarty pants calling spirit MID
    His gf :*feels offended and gives the how dare you face* watch it again

    • @wak773
      @wak773 17 дней назад +11

      people are entitled to their opinions, it's hard, but it's true. then again, nothing wrong with rewatching something

    • @tanishamuntslag6369
      @tanishamuntslag6369 17 дней назад +3

      @@wak773 true

  • @doczirebeka8312
    @doczirebeka8312 16 дней назад +386

    I will never forgive the girl power bullshit remake they did with it. This isn't a my little pony movie, and that is exactly why it is great! Its unique, mature, yet real tone is what made it outstanding and a classic! 😤

    • @fightingfaerie
      @fightingfaerie 15 дней назад +144

      Spirit, the horse that could not be broken. A symbol of freedom and resisting the oppression of the white man/US. No one could ride him. (If anything he carried Little Creek more than let him finally ride)
      Sequel: Horse becomes "best friends" with the daughter of a railroad owner. She rides him everywhere on little kiddie adventures.
      Just disrespectful....

    • @returnoftheromans6726
      @returnoftheromans6726 13 дней назад +11

      Yes! Somebody said it!!! ☠️

    • @doczirebeka8312
      @doczirebeka8312 13 дней назад +18

      @@returnoftheromans6726 sir, it was literally the first thought I had when I first saw the trailer for that crap. Anyone could've said the same thing. 👍

    • @Pandanananananananan
      @Pandanananananananan 8 дней назад +12

      IKR! IT WAS ABSOLUTELY BLASPHEMOUS WHAT THEY DID TO SPIRIT! I remember seeing the trail or every time I went inside Costco and I would point at it and tell my siblings about everything I hated and lil critiques I had for it

    • @thatswack5282
      @thatswack5282 7 дней назад +5

      I remember watching the remake because I was so excited for it, spirit was my shit. My mom was pregnant with my little sister and I had her up on the trampoline pretending to be spirit singing “can’t catch me, I’m free”. Absolutely destroyed his entire iconic personality of being free and unwavering. I still watched the show, it was still cute, I just refused to acknowledge that she was riding Spirit.

  • @lorettabes4553
    @lorettabes4553 11 дней назад +238

    Btw, horses are consired the hardest animal to draw. *To. DRAW*. James Baxter drew horses for days to learn their anatomy and behaviour (and the other animators ofc). Animating him was not easy. (Source: James Baxter talked about it at Playgrounds Eindhoven last year. We got to see the frames onnpaper that they used! A beautiful shot from Belle and The Beast was there too)

    • @SpaceotterwithaMustache
      @SpaceotterwithaMustache 9 дней назад +10

      James Baxter is literally built different when it comes to animation

    • @starcrash-ash6061
      @starcrash-ash6061 2 дня назад +2

      Wait the James Baxter horse from adventure time was named after a real guy? 😂

  • @SkookieCat_Arts
    @SkookieCat_Arts 17 дней назад +420

    Spirit was actually the reason I got into animation. I watched it when I was 4 and when I saw the behind the scenes on the dvd I was absolutely blown away. I didn’t fully understand what the animators were doing but it really made me want to become an animator, and it’s been my life goal ever since😂

    • @thunderclanwarrior1253
      @thunderclanwarrior1253 16 дней назад +16

      Hope you can achieve it!!! Fellow animation student here :D Good luck!!!!!

    • @lorettabes4553
      @lorettabes4553 11 дней назад +5

      I'm in my 3rd year of 4 years of earning my art diploma with the desire to become a 2D animator.
      You can do it!!!

    • @StealAwayTheStars
      @StealAwayTheStars 10 дней назад +12

      Spirit was the movie that got me paying attention to movie scores. Of course Hans Zimmer is a master but every movie I watch I really listen to the music and it all started with Spirit. And coming from a horse person, they did a phenomenal job animating this movie. Horses are so difficult and they they just nailed it.

    • @GragonOhare
      @GragonOhare 6 дней назад +3

      I had a similar experience! I watched that "How to Draw Horses" special feature on the DVD when I was 10 and it completely changed how I thought about drawing. Rewired my brain. I'm an artist now, at least partially because of Spirit.

    • @SkookieCat_Arts
      @SkookieCat_Arts 6 дней назад

      @@GragonOhare dang dude, I just checked out your channel and you’re so skilled :0
      I’m still a beginner 😅

  • @henrymockingbird9645
    @henrymockingbird9645 17 дней назад +197

    I don’t think box office is always an indicator of quality some of the greatest classic movies are box office bombs

    • @Dude-hs7zm
      @Dude-hs7zm 3 дня назад +6

      Yeah. Basically every Laika movie is *technically* a box office flop, but they’re one of my favorite studios. The thing with box office success movies is they either had an ungodly amount of advertising, or had all the right cliches to draw in a large crowd.

    • @joyhope9486
      @joyhope9486 2 дня назад

      Box office is bullshit.
      Box office measures money.
      It doesn’t even measure views.
      Money doesn’t equate to artistry, although I think many trust fund baby fraud “artists” would disagree with me…

  • @Vandriar
    @Vandriar 9 дней назад +117

    Sinbad and Spirit are like Treasure Planet. They are hidden diamonds in the rut that never got the chance they deserved to fully shine. Hats of to your girlfriend for waking you up to reality

  • @nikmariealex
    @nikmariealex 17 дней назад +351

    Shout out to her bc you were dragging it lol

  • @misfits9294
    @misfits9294 16 дней назад +133

    Your girlfriend is top tier, make her a keeper. Also this just made me realize Spirit probably failed more critically simply because it was a Native allegory in 2002. It still did well but 69% on rotten tomatoes?! For THIS masterpiece?! I feel it'd rank a lot higher today.

    • @zorro......
      @zorro...... 4 дня назад +23

      Not just an allegory but also explicit in its stance against colonialism and its tragic and cruel consequence to natives of the land (humans and animals and mother nature alike). When I rewatched it as an adult, I was in awe that they were so explicit in being against colonization, and not just used the horses as an allegory but had native people that the audiences were meant to feel for and relate to more than the stoic, tough cowboy (colonizer).

    • @MrTigracho
      @MrTigracho День назад +1

      ​@@zorro......this movie was released too ahead of it's time

  • @austint4139
    @austint4139 17 дней назад +143

    Sinbad is similar to treasure planet with how they performed and being ahead of there time, you shouldn’t judge them by the box office

    • @lorettabes4553
      @lorettabes4553 11 дней назад +23

      Same with Legends of the Guardians tbh

    • @immydocherty
      @immydocherty 8 дней назад +7

      literally! the animation is so beautiful and the plot is so good!! It does have that nostalgic factor but it's a movie I could watch over and over again and never be bored

    • @kyuumons
      @kyuumons 7 дней назад +19

      No for real. Even Brother Bear didn't do great at the Box Office, but it's still a beautiful movie. All those movies came out at a time where the studios were actively trying to bomb their own movies so they could excuse the pull push towards 3D :/

  • @foxpokemonforever4775
    @foxpokemonforever4775 17 дней назад +164

    BASED Smarty Pants’ girlfriend
    Spirit is one of my favourite animated movies, it’s so gorgeous

  • @hayleybartek8643
    @hayleybartek8643 13 дней назад +49

    "Spirit is mid."
    Ooh, that there's a paddlin'.

    • @K.C-2049
      @K.C-2049 10 дней назад

      he'd better not steal the school canoe next.

  • @sakurap95
    @sakurap95 16 дней назад +117

    I remember seeing the trailer in theaters. It comprised of the opening sequence with the eagle and expanded over the grassy landscape. When those horses erupted on screen, it was epic! You felt like those horses were really coming right at you! They captured the power and majesty of being surrounded in a horse herd so well! I still get chills to this day.

  • @swifttoplay3047
    @swifttoplay3047 14 дней назад +31

    spirit was THE reason i became into animation, into art, into horses into the very idea of bringing things to LIFE! that opening shot alone made me go "i want to recreate this feeling of being ALIVE as we dive through the canyons with the eagle" the eagle being the imagery of freedom, of spirit himself being freedom and self. Spirit has and will i say, brought life to many artists. its not just ABOUT horses, it brought storytelling to where it should be, its beautiful and my favourite way of telling stories for animals. your only understanding through the animals perspective, they wouldnt understand anything other then their own wants and needs but aware certain things.

  • @ItsMeFern2019
    @ItsMeFern2019 12 дней назад +30

    My mom told me this movie was the only one that ever made my dad cry. I've never seen the man even come close to shedding a tear in my life. To me that says a lot about Spirit. When I was a kid I was blown away watching it and nowadays if I sit down to watch this I'll cry at least 10 times either from sheer amazement or sadness. I'm glad your girlfriend got you to take another look at Spirit, it's deserving of so much more hype than it gets imo!

  • @runezunn6655
    @runezunn6655 17 дней назад +94

    Spirit is actually one of my many favorites among the Dreamworks movie run. I remember watching this movie over and over again because it was so good. 😄

  • @lauramarschmallow2922
    @lauramarschmallow2922 13 дней назад +34

    I was really confused when I found out that they made a Spirit sequel series about a human interacting with Spirit rather himself? I like horses, not people! xD

  • @jessiewilson207
    @jessiewilson207 16 дней назад +40

    When I watched it as a kid I wasn’t very into it because I lived in the world of talking animals and I didn't understand the emotion, though I still enjoyed some things. Watching it later, after growing up, I realized how amazing the score, songs, characters, and story are

  • @1Fresh_Water
    @1Fresh_Water 6 дней назад +10

    My grandpa raised horses and he loved this movie. He loved that the horses didn't talk, that they moved like real horses, acted like real horses (mostly), and that it shows the real *spirit* of the wild horse. Add in the absolute banger soundtrack and the fact the horse is "voiced" by MATT DAMON, and it's an absolutely amazing movie.

  • @olleselin
    @olleselin 17 дней назад +85

    Oh, you have a girlfriend? 🆒️
    And yes, Spirit is alot better in quality then what we all give it credit for

  • @returnoftheromans6726
    @returnoftheromans6726 13 дней назад +19

    I watched this film over and over as a child. Spirit was, undoubtedly, one of my animated animal heros. (Balto and Simba being the others.) This started my transformation into a full-blown horse girl. Lol!
    But as an adult, I fully appreciate what it encapsulates. The setting of the sun on the "Wild West"; one that Frederick Remington loved to paint; the brutality on the Natives. (By the way, can we just appreciate how Dreamworks respected them as a whole while they made this, and also highlighted how close they were with their animals?)
    Apparently, Spirit's father was a black stallion called Strider. He was also captured by humans, and possibly killed by them. In this light, it is even more heartbreaking seeing the look on his mother's face as he tells her it's going to be okay, when she already knew that he probably would not survive the humans. Some say that the Eagle is a manifestation of his father in 'spirit' form. But I have another theory. In the train, when Spirit has that vision of his family, there appears a black horse galloping behind his mother. I believe this is when Strider appears to strengthen his son in his time of need.
    The movie's opening lines telling the audience it is up to them to decide whether that land was won or lost in the end gets me every time. That, along with: "There are those in Washington who believe the West will never be settled. The Northern Pacific Railroad never reach Nebraska; a hostile Lakota, will never submit to Providence. And it is in that manner of small thinking that says this horse can never be broken." Ring true in some form or other. But, thanks to those who respected the West, namely Theodore Roosevelt, we still have those hoofbeets ringing clear across parts of our land.
    That is what Spirit's whole being stands on: that Nature will find a way.

  • @copycat0284
    @copycat0284 17 дней назад +28

    Your girlfriend has, all my respect for doing this

  • @thirteenthhour370
    @thirteenthhour370 День назад +4

    8:12 -- Spirit being violently kidnapped from his people, tied up and forcably dragged back across days or even weeks to the army base, just so they can break his mind to use his body, and the absolute horror on his face when the gates open and he sees exactly what the army has in mind for his kind: brand-burns and shaved heads and forced labor -- what they have already done to break, burn, starve, and exploit all those other horses and when the gates close, they will do the exact same thing to him with no means of escape-- that's a nice firendly gentle subtle callback to slavery.
    It also makes that music montage to "You Can't Take Me" (objectively the best song in the movie) a LOT more intense and meaningful

  • @eralswiggins9837
    @eralswiggins9837 13 дней назад +16

    She saved you from such a disgrace

  • @ThisisIzzy69
    @ThisisIzzy69 16 дней назад +16

    i remember voice dubbing Spirit when i was little, then when i got a little older, i realized that they don't need to talk. I'm very happy that they made that choice. :) Also Dreamworks, please bring 2d animation back!

  • @khabukie
    @khabukie 10 дней назад +8

    people thinking Spirit is "too PC" is absolute bonkers

  • @frankiebcatt3661
    @frankiebcatt3661 7 дней назад +8

    i think the narration takes itself really seriously, but it works because 1. the movie hits some really serious stuff! it has a serious undertone! and 2. it’s spirit himself narrating it, and he’s a bit of a self important dickhead of a horse whose character arc is largely about expanding his worldview, maturing and humbling- still, he lacks the context the audience has, and to him the events of the film are the singular most important and dangerous things anyone could ever possibly encounter. there is nothing he as a horse could imagine that’s more important than keeping the herd (and later rain, little creek and the other Lakota people and horses) safe, and no greater danger to them than a train line carrying the men who represent all evil to him. the narration is such an important part of this movie IMO seeing as the horses don’t speak, and it’s our only insight to what he’s thinking, so every line had to have been chosen so carefully, and I think they did a great job representing both spirit’s character and conveying plot.

  • @lucamagic
    @lucamagic 16 дней назад +27

    Nice to see that you gave it a second shot :)
    Also, I always find it so weird that some Americans refuse to acknowledge that their ancestors were horrible people even if that’s what really happened in history…

    • @SpaceotterwithaMustache
      @SpaceotterwithaMustache 9 дней назад +3

      I don't know, it's some stupid ego stuff or smth. Humans are very narcissistic sometimes, even if admitting it wouldn't make them the bad person.

  • @selmabm3409
    @selmabm3409 16 дней назад +11

    Girlfriend made an excellent decision

  • @marisokami5259
    @marisokami5259 16 дней назад +13

    it's not right to judge a movie based on box office, it's more about luck and marketting and whomever edited the trailer than what the movie actually is, there's plenty of people who shouldn't have gone to see coraline because parents didn't realise it might be too scary for their kids and there's plenty of people who go to live action disney remakes even though they are often completely inferior to the original

  • @TheEpicArtist-jo2pj
    @TheEpicArtist-jo2pj 12 дней назад +6

    Thankyou for making this spirit is my favorite movie of all time, and it saddens me how underrated it is. I hope a bunch of youtubers make videos about it and more people get to enjoy this amazing film.

  • @Chireiya
    @Chireiya 2 дня назад +1

    The animation of this movie amazes me to this day. Every single frame looks perfect. The horse anatomy, but also the adaptation into the cartoon style (especially in the face) is incredible!
    Also funny you showed a brief clip from RDR2; In the online version of the game you can get a mustang horse that looks exactly like Spirit.

  • @benjaminwitham8142
    @benjaminwitham8142 17 дней назад +7

    Spirit stallion of the cimarron is such a classic very underated at the time of its release I watched it alot its great if there was a place for there to be both a healthy balance of styles both in 3d computer animation and the traditional classic 2d hand drawn style it would be wonderful to see happen also this is one of the rare animated films to tackle the western genre would love to see more animated films in this genre and cover more historical type settings

  • @artikulv731
    @artikulv731 17 дней назад +7

    I remember watching this film so many times as a kid, always loved it.

  • @wizard-lizard
    @wizard-lizard 8 дней назад +4

    Growing up in the southwest US and going on road trips to all the national parks as a kid, this movie is one of my all-time favorites! I rewatched it with friends and we can tell generally what state they're in throughout the movie, and it's so cool to see my home drawn/represented so beautifully. The only other time I've seen the southwest animated so thoughtfully was in Cars, which also has a soft spot in my heart. I'm not indigenous/native American so I can't speak to the accuracy of the representation here, but as a kid it definitely seemed like one of the most realistic/nuanced pictures of the American colonization/genocide in the west over other films like Pocahontas. Also the soundtrack is fantastic and great for road trips!

  • @mine_neko
    @mine_neko 17 дней назад +6

    I remember as a kid I was already excited about an animated movie about horses 🐎

    • @QUARTERMASTEREMI6
      @QUARTERMASTEREMI6 16 дней назад

      Oh yeah, it’s my favourite “horse themed” animated movie of all time! 😁

  • @lenastorm6280
    @lenastorm6280 15 дней назад +5

    I LOVE "Sindbad"! It's one of my favourite movies! And it's has been since I was a kid. And I also realy, realy, realy like "Spirit", but mabey that's just because I like horses.

  • @berengerdietiker22
    @berengerdietiker22 16 дней назад +7

    I'm not a horse guy, but even I enjoyed Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron wholeheartedly.

  • @AriTheWarrior999
    @AriTheWarrior999 13 дней назад +7

    I mean, Iron Giant was also a flop in theatres but essentially became a cult classic afterwards. Some movies just need to age like a fine wine. I personally find most critics to be about as exciting and reliable as a sack of hammers - Spirit deserved far more credit than it got. Honestly, people whining about movies being too PC just piques my interest even more. Mainly because you learn pretty quick how thin-skinned people are 😆 what, you can't handle the tiniest reminder of the fact that America has never been perfect and has contributed to horrible attrocities for as long as it's been colonized? Grow up. Face it. Quit shoving your head in the sand, you look ridiculous.
    Getting an animated film about horses and Native Americans, even if it's designed for a kid's palate, made a solid stamp on my life. Still a favorite to rewatch to this day. Glad your gf knocked some sense into you about it!

  • @Meles_mls
    @Meles_mls 4 дня назад

    Spirit is one of my all time comfort movies. I can watch it again and again and not be bored. The animation and story are both wonderful and the movie itself made me passionate about art when I was young. I'm so glad you gave it a second chance!

  • @lulakacontreras3520
    @lulakacontreras3520 5 дней назад +1

    Boy the chaos of ur arguments about simbad would make Eris so happy.

  • @alalessia
    @alalessia 4 дня назад +1

    first movie I very clearly remember crying to when I watched it as a kid, it's a core memory and I've loved drawing horses ever since

  • @darlingdannid
    @darlingdannid 7 дней назад +1

    i love this movie. when i was a little kid i spent a lot of time with my mom's sister and her family, and my cousins weren't allowed to watch a lot of shows and tv. my aunt was very religious and bought heavily into the satanic panic of the 2000s. but she had this movie on dvd, and it was one of our favorites. as a black kid i empathized very greatly with both spirit and the lakota because i understood the ways in which chattel slavery was similar. and i appreciated that the movie recognized the importance of harmony with nature instead of trying to bend it to your will. but my absolute favorite part of this movie is the masterful way it navigates storytelling with very little dialogue, through the music, the animal sounds, and the expressive animation. it's so enriching in that way.

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 16 дней назад +3

    the term "traditional animation arms race" echoes through my mind

  • @Nichrysalis
    @Nichrysalis 3 дня назад

    Amazingly animated, gorgeous landscapes, soundtrack has amazing orchestral score and some bangers, greatly written characters, and an amazing message about what spirit is and why spirit is important to community.

  • @sebastiantrias1529
    @sebastiantrias1529 17 дней назад +4

    Welcome to club of not embracing this underrated masterpiece.

  • @zofifi7549
    @zofifi7549 12 дней назад +11

    The funny thing about this movie is that horses aren't native to americas. Europeans brought horses there and the wild ones are decendants of those that escaped or were abandoned and some point. There turned out to be a horse-shape slot in the ecosystem so they survived while not becoming invasive species. So, yeah, for horses it was longer because they have shorter faster generations but they are there only as long as europens. Not like the Spirit could know, or would care about petty chistorical details. But, no he is not techically native, more like naturalized.

    • @SakuraStallion
      @SakuraStallion 10 дней назад +7

      To be fair, American horses has only gone extinct a few thousand years prior, which is fairly short evolution wise! Horses evolved and spread from North America and were brought back by europeans!

    • @zofifi7549
      @zofifi7549 10 дней назад

      @@SakuraStallion Oh? Yeah, that sure expliains the empty ecological nishe. I knew there was a huge extinction of megafauna but didn't know local horses were part of it too.

    • @emimartinic
      @emimartinic 9 дней назад +2

      Uhm, no, horse evolution is fairly complex. There were horses in america and they went extint a few thousand years before the europeans brought them back

  • @js66613
    @js66613 12 дней назад +4

    Honestly, I'm so glad that your girlfriend made you rewatch Spirit. Wish more people's girlfriends did that. xD

  • @Pandanananananananan
    @Pandanananananananan 8 дней назад +2

    Thank goodness your girlfriend made you rewatch the film

  • @Twisted56
    @Twisted56 17 дней назад +2

    I just watched Spirit last week, and it's beautifully animated, with a very exciting story.

  • @morningrosie3684
    @morningrosie3684 4 дня назад

    Spirit is one of the only movies that made me cry from the music alone. Listening to it while driving through the mountains is a feeling like no other. America is my home, and there’s just something about this movie that makes me appreciate the beauty of this land, and be grateful for it.
    I grew up in the countryside, and it feels nostalgic to see it on screen, even if I may not be from the mountains.

  • @erinbathie-moore8478
    @erinbathie-moore8478 3 дня назад

    Spirit, Treasure Planet, and Ferngully were some of my most watched 2D films as a kid. I'm glad you've come to love this film

  • @KittMouri
    @KittMouri 16 дней назад +2

    I LOVED this movie! I regret not seeing it in the theater. It was well written and I really loved that it wasn't a talking animal movie...and this is coming from someone whose favorite movie is The Lion King. I also really loved the soundtrack. And obviously, I absolutely adored the animation. This movie deserved better. ❤❤

  • @immydocherty
    @immydocherty 9 дней назад +2

    Sinbad is a phenomenal movie and nobody could change my mind on it

  • @Lita3O2
    @Lita3O2 6 дней назад

    nice summary. i think this movie is underrated, it looked really cool visually when it came out and has some interesting animation style, which still holds up pretty well overall. i would have certainly liked to see dreamworks continue with this style, so its a real shame it didn't catch on.
    and doing the music + narration combination rather than talking animals was an excellent decision. it keeps the movie a bit more grounded and adds to the traditional western feel. hans zimmer and bryan adams did so well; that soundtrack is really great, was one of my favorite CDs as a kid and i still listen to it from time to time.

  • @kitkat5596
    @kitkat5596 11 дней назад +3

    If Dreamworks and Disney returned to 2-D animation I'd learn to do a backflip then and there. But that's just wishful thinking.

  • @cjanderson2371
    @cjanderson2371 4 дня назад

    This movie is a masterpiece. Sometimes it takes a few viewings to really appreciate the depth, but the animation in itself is some of the best there is. James Baxter is such an outstanding animator, too.
    Also, the reason why Spirit failed in the box office was marketing and people who were not ready for the truth. It’s got quite a cult following now, much like Treasure Planet binned for Disney, but is now a well-loved cult classic.
    Spirit is such a mature film. Love it so much!

  • @grafcharming5030
    @grafcharming5030 7 дней назад +2

    I just read the title and was like 5min saying in disbelief „What?!“ in different octaves - you called spirit mid? Your girlfriend set you on the right path my friend. What?!
    I mean…
    There is no world where spirit is mid 😂
    Honestly no 😂

  • @fenafea7287
    @fenafea7287 3 дня назад

    spirit is my absolute comfort film and it makes me yearn for being free and wild (and a horse as well i guess). it´s the one horse movie i still love to this day loooong after my horse girl childhood

  • @battythings
    @battythings 2 дня назад

    My aunt took me to see Spirit when I was a kid and I was such a sobbing mess she asked me if I wanted to leave 😂 I’d never seen a movie as a kid where injustice just kept happening to the main character. It served this child well, taught me a lot ❤

  • @radioisactive7590
    @radioisactive7590 9 дней назад +1

    I used to watch this movie on loop as a kid, I guess I had good taste because it really holds up!

  • @starxolotl
    @starxolotl 4 дня назад

    I remember running around the house to the opening scenes. Loved this movie as a kid.

  • @juliarush111
    @juliarush111 День назад

    I have a distinct memory of SOBBING watching this when I was a teenager. Crying so hard it woke my mom up. She teases me about it to this day

  • @AbigailPinehaven
    @AbigailPinehaven 7 дней назад +1

    Your girlfriend saved you from a bombardment of horse girl rage

  • @eleosde7045
    @eleosde7045 3 часа назад

    I loved Spirt so much, I watched it on repeat weekly for a lot of my childhood.

  • @speljufcharlotte8999
    @speljufcharlotte8999 13 дней назад +1

    This is my all time favorite childhood movie. Together with Pocahontas. Might have to do with the Native American fibes, and my love for horses. But it is also just a genuinly good movie with beautiful music and emotions.

  • @flowercrown-eevee
    @flowercrown-eevee 4 дня назад

    Spirit was my favorite movie as a kid. I was a horse girl as a kid and LOVED horses. I drug my mom to the theater as a kid to go see it and im pretty sure i was that annoying kid bouncing around way to excited to see the movie. And i still love it. It was one of my go to movies to watch. I had the sound track, toys and anything else i could. my mom also liked the movie she was impressed by the animation and particularly loved the train chase scene.

  • @ImSo_Snazzy
    @ImSo_Snazzy 13 часов назад

    When I was in second grade, my teacher found out I like the movie- I had an infatuation with this film and I still love it as a young adult- and she gave me a disk of the SOUNDTRACK. I went to sleep to that disk on a radio/cd player/cassette player every single night for six years

  • @EKOIS267
    @EKOIS267 7 дней назад

    I LOVED this film growing up I think I might of had it on dvd but I do remember when it was on Netflix, as a kid my fondest memories were listening to the soundtrack. I think I rewatched the movie about 17 times. Whenever I get sad I find myself watching spirit :’) I loved the film and also love horses!! It’s nice to appreciate for its accuracy and it’s such a nice plot !!

  • @EclipseSeth
    @EclipseSeth 6 дней назад

    I remember when it came out. I watched 5 different times on the cinema. Yes, I made my family buy me tickets for it for 5 times. I think the last 2 were from my grandmother, who took me to the cinema on the last day and let me rewatch the movie again to say it goodbye.
    I never did that with any other movie.

  • @BlackReshiram
    @BlackReshiram 3 дня назад

    i watched this movie when i was five and the memory of how much it emotionally moved me and made me cry is a core memory but my opinion of the fact that it managed to make me cry has changed to a positive one! this movie was insanely good.

  • @forg_m6424
    @forg_m6424 4 дня назад

    This was my favourite movie as a kid, despite being painfully hard to watch and introduced me to a very interesting part of history. And, gosh, people, you have to listen to the italian soundtracks, they are breathtaking!

  • @ruthiewitter569
    @ruthiewitter569 2 дня назад

    I listen to the soundtrack to this day

  • @WlfToboe
    @WlfToboe 3 дня назад

    Random neat fact, the animation for the horses in Spirit were done by a guy named James Baxter; He also guest animated and voiced the horse James Baxter in Adventure Time, which is why the horse has a much smoother animation than the other characters :v

  • @unistudent4002
    @unistudent4002 Час назад

    If spirit came out in the age of streaming I reckon it would have been bigger.. I had it on vhs when I was a kid and we watched and rewatch that shit thousands of times

  • @GingerSnapping
    @GingerSnapping 6 дней назад

    The most interesting part of the development of the movie is they mixed the digital and traditional media! This movie claims to be the first use of digital and traditional animation mixed. Lots of the models and landscapes are painting over with traditional animation. The landscape paintings are meant to mimic artists from the late 1800s and the early 1900s who depict the same environments out west. All of the native characters were played by native actors. Like said, previously the horse noises including hoofbeats were all made by real horses. Horses are one of the hardest things to draw/animate because there movement is so clean and complex. We all know what they look like and how they move so its hard to mimic realistically. Spirit unfortunately was tarnished by Dreamworks attempt at 3difying it in "Spirit running free" but I will forever love the original for its anti western expansion pro native rights and natural rights vibes. The horse blows up a train. he's my hero and fostered my love of horses.

  • @DragonMagi
    @DragonMagi 2 дня назад

    I actually have a version of this film with the Mat Damon narration removed pretty seamlessly and it's great. There's a torrent for it floating around somewhere, at least there used to be.

  • @Ellie-ub7qo
    @Ellie-ub7qo 2 дня назад

    as a child i would quite literally wake up but still be half asleep and right away would call out “horse” repeatedly while not being old enough to know how to pronounce the word until my mom would put the movie on. one of my favorite movies ever

  • @nightangel486
    @nightangel486 6 дней назад

    I remember when this movie came out, it was right after the Disney animation heyday. People just couldn't comprehend an animated movie about animals where they don't talk, and I think they felt deceived assuming that's what it was going to be.

  • @kaekaesam6240
    @kaekaesam6240 15 дней назад +1

    Spirit is my favorite Dream Works classic!!!

  • @sudenkieppi
    @sudenkieppi 8 дней назад

    Okay I'll add a few scrambled thoughts of my own, because Spirit was one of the movies that made me get into art. Not so much animation, though I have done some very simple attempts. Back when I was a kid, I had the DVD (it's still on a shelf at my parents' place) and it had a little guide video on how to draw horses in the style of Spirit and also some behind the scenes stuff iirc. I had always been artistic, but this movie basically made me start working on getting better at anatomy and drawing in general because WOW. I wanted to be able to draw well.
    Also for some context, I'm Finnish and have only ever watched the Finnish dub of Spirit. I tried watching it in English a while ago, but I literally could not, because it felt very... different? The soundtrack is essentially the same, the songs are in Finnish as is the dialogue, but otherwise it's the same afaik. Personally I like the Findub so much better, it just feels almost like the voices fit better?? Also the songs in Finnish are absolute FIRE!!! No hate to the American versions, but the Finnish covers are absolutely beautiful. Especially the cover of You Can't Take Me that plays after Spirit is captured. I would link it here, but I think YT doesn't like links in comments anymore because of bots.
    So if you do want to listen to the Finnish cover, just type this into RUclips: Spirit you can't take me nondisneyfin (The channel name is NonDisneyFIN). It should be the top result, and also has [HD 1080p] in the title for some extra specificity if needed. There are other uploads of this song, but personally this specific one is the best clipped from the movie. Some cut the beginning too short, others cut off the end, making too abrupt. This one's pretty perfect.
    Anyway. Not much to comment on the start, though I agree about the animals-not-speaking part. The body language and expressiveness of the horses is so good that no dialogue is needed. And I mean, that's pretty darn impressive, actually. To make a somewhat complex facial structure such as a horse so expressive that it's obvious to even small children, while still retaining that they are indeed horses and not some kind of amalgamations between horse and human. I've seen it happen, it doesn't always work and would probably traumatise the children lol
    In general about the movie, I absolutely loved it. As a kid, and now as a young adult. Being Finnish, I had no proper knowledge of American history as a little kid, so this sort of introduced me to it, I guess? As I think back on my childhood experience with this movie, I can honestly see that it may have had a slight influence on my own values. Some of them more strongly than others. Freedom is a very important concept to me, though I think the American and Finnish ideas of them differ somewhat. Personally I wasn't super hyper into the love story side of Spirit, but it's not bad at all, and Rain (I believe that's the name of the love interest) is a very nice character as well. Without her, some parts of the movie wouldn't be the same. It's a bit silly, horses in love, but it works. I think as a kid I was just mad that Rain was keeping Spirit from achieving his goals of freedom, I guess. He would rather stay with her than to go back home? I think it's just a slight deviation from his character, the unbreakable wild spirit. To abandon the wilderness for her? Mehhh. But I still love her as a character. I'm just not into very romance-focused media, though there is a lot of good stuff out there.
    it's really a shame what the new Spirit Riding Free did to Spirit. I've seen a couple rants about the series. The style and animation have gone WAY downhill, what with being a semi-crappy 3D style because of budget. Where the movie had very real and smooth and beautiful movement, the series are..... well, not that. I mean, it's made for kids, but it's still kinda awful. OG Spirit was also made for kids, but it's awesome. They also basically made Spirit, the unbreakable, an absolute loser. He just lets this random kid ride him. They have some kind of a "connection" or something??? It seems very 'stereotypical horse girl series where the girl magically makes the dangerous horse sweet as can be in approx. 0.2 seconds' coded. There is a good message behind the show afaik, but it's still like... no? You can't just basically clickbait people by using Spirit... I would watch it to see if it's as bad as I've heard, but I don't want to contribute a single cent.

  • @ovidbowie3929
    @ovidbowie3929 4 дня назад

    Spirit is both deep and a banger. The soundtrack will make you rock out, cry and fill you with courage.
    Edit: And the bad guy’s defeat was so cool cause it showed you can overcome by example (by spirit in this case) winning the battle without sending them off a cliff into fire. But in a subtle and oddly mature way, getting a nod and realizing the battle is over.

  • @Tellsajokecrowdsitsinsil-ic2dc
    @Tellsajokecrowdsitsinsil-ic2dc 12 дней назад

    Spirit is my most most most most most favourite film of all time!!!!!!! So glad you came to your sentences!!!!!!!

  • @Jess-kn1wk
    @Jess-kn1wk 3 дня назад

    I love this movie!

  • @joyhope9486
    @joyhope9486 2 дня назад

    “The Oklahoma panhandle”
    😂

  • @Edwenthewolfxx
    @Edwenthewolfxx 10 дней назад

    One of my fav movies of all time

  • @raeveii
    @raeveii 8 дней назад

    No, I haven't memorized Spirit. I KNOW IT BY HEART.
    I know the songs, I could lipsync with the dialogues (unfortunately I don't speak horse so neigh for that) but I know the cues for it. And what really tickles my addiction to it is that no matter how many I've watched it, it doesn't get old. It's still fun and excitable and emotional. I mean that much impact is rare. This movie hit so many high notes for me and it's not even that deep. I love it, always.

  • @a.w.4708
    @a.w.4708 День назад

    My sister was obsessed with this movie when we were young so we watched it together over and over again. For me the really sad part was when he was in the train - I think the train wagons really resembling ones used for prisoner transportation into concentration camps (in Poland we learn about it in quite a young age) was a part of the impact.
    Also as much as I generally don't like American films regarding the messy American political history, this one I've never had a problem with. Maybe because it was never saying "you are guilty just by being white" or any of this.

  • @ruthiewitter569
    @ruthiewitter569 2 дня назад

    This film shaped my childhood and gave me a sense of wonder and freedom. I wouldn’t trade that for the world.

  • @rt_goblin_hours
    @rt_goblin_hours 10 дней назад

    Something this movie reminds me a lot of surprisingly is how the rohirrim are characterised in the lotr movies, horse focused and commenting on how times are moving past them

  • @ruthiewitter569
    @ruthiewitter569 2 дня назад

    “Go one on one you cowards” telling someone to fight a horse one one one brings me gleeful delight
    Subbing.

  • @nova14414
    @nova14414 7 дней назад

    I love how even if the movie flopped, everyone seems to still agree its REALLY good! Yeah it's definitely showing it's age with the animations but oh well. I grew up watching this movie alot, basically to the point of knowing the to this day almost perfectly so it makes me happy seeing others watch it and realizing its still good for how old it is!

  • @Corona567
    @Corona567 7 дней назад

    The actual evilness we did to the natives is very tragic. I remember reading my first college book of what we did to them, and it brought me to tears. No child, no women, no men were safe.

  • @MAdelineMichelRiding2Paradise
    @MAdelineMichelRiding2Paradise 5 дней назад

    Fun fact: The reason we don't see Spirits dad is because Stallions will fight any other stallion off a herd. You can unwrap that more and most people are horrified once they learn that spirits mom is in the herd. Because... one stud "watches" over a band of mares
    Also, the reason these horses have eyebrows id for expression since the horses don't talk. Real horses don't have eyebrows

  • @ThatGlitterFairy
    @ThatGlitterFairy 4 дня назад

    Whenever this movie is on, it just hit Netflix, I will without a doubt cry; I will cry when I watch it soon

  • @ekabahenda
    @ekabahenda 6 дней назад

    that part where you said westerns give you nostalgia even as a non American!!! 📌😆👌

  • @Jazzatic2011
    @Jazzatic2011 4 дня назад

    I watched this movie in theatres and I recall us loving it!