I just watched the silent version of Ben Hur, so I'm getting a kick

Yeah! Cheaper glue prices on the way, baby!

Wayne 985: I'm sure people at PETA refrain from eating cyanide too.

Unfortunately.

They're probably upset that most of the horses weren't euthanized.

/Hates animal cruelty. Hates hypocrisy nearly as much.

How many got killed in Game of Thrones? Thousands!!

I had one fear about watching a show about a horse track and they farking went there in the first episode. Seeing a horse break it's leg during a race is not my idea of must see TV.

Lemme unnerstand.

Racing horses, potential death, for sport is OK.
Racing horses, potential death, for film, is BAD.

Am I right?

"Perhaps if producers had considered the proven safety protocols that we would have suggested, these horses would still be alive."

Yeah, right. And let me give you my cat while you're at it. I'm sure you'll "set it free" to live out a full life. Oh wait...

/f*ck PETA

Could it be that race horses die all the damn time? I would be interested to see how many, if there were any, were killed in other horse racing movies. I've gone to the track maybe 5 times in my life and have seen a horse die twice./csb

Hoffman's involvement assures I will fall asleep about twenty minutes in

Painfully
Egregious
Thoroughbred
Accidents

FlashHarry: Pocket Ninja: I'm typically a huge fan of the HBO dramas, and was really looking forward to this one. But I've given up. I find it ponderous, slow, impenetrable, and boring. I thought as much after the first episode, but gave the second one a shot. That was worse. The only other series I gave up on as quickly was that so-and-so from Cincinnati idiocy. Maybe I just don't care for horse racing.

god, THIS.

i tried - i really tried - to like it. i'm a sucker for HBO dramas. but if you don't know the ins and outs of horse racing, you'll be lost. plus, half the characters mumble their lines so that their dialog is totally indecipherable. sorry, HBO, i'm done.

Yeah, it's not that great. I watched about half of the first episode before calling it quits.

I may catch some flak for this, but Dustin Hoffman in the past twenty years give or take has been pretty...uninspiring.

I'm going to eat 3 horses for every one PETA complains about! HURRRHURRHURR AREN"T I EDGEY AND COOL

Vets check horses all the time. And still, there are horses that break down.

Being checked & given the go-ahead doesn't prevent injury any more than going to the doctor does. Horses are 1000# standing on a single toe, moving at speeds of over 30 MPH. All it takes is a bad step, and the horse is hurt. Most injuries aren't serious. If the fracture is bad enough that they recommend euthanasia, then it's likely to be a bad break.

It isn't deliberate on the part of HBO, it isn't caused by someone's carelessness. It happens, just like that time you tripped going to get a cup of coffee.

I had a horse break a leg. It took 2 surgeries & months of rehab to get him better. He's fine now.
/csb

ib_thinkin: cameroncrazy1984: I hadn't heard of this show before but if PETA hates it, I think I will check it out.

Dustin Hoffman in TV series about former Jewish aide to Italian mobsters.

Lawyer or CPA?

"I don't know how this will affect our ratings, but it will definitely...

(shades on)

... suck for Luck."

YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Wait till Peta finds out how many horses died in Ben Hur...

I enjoyed the first episode for what it was... I think this show might've been better as a miniseries rather than the second coming of Boardwalk Empire for HBO.

/the poker player in me was still screaming for a king to hit the river in the last episode... so there's always that for me I suppose.

Satanic_Hamster: Wait till Peta finds out how many horses died in Ben Hur...

Ben ?

Apos: Is this show living up to its deafening hype?

It's well made, but not my type of show. Good drama, but i just can't get into casino/track stuff so it ain't for me.

Sad about the horses, but it's not like they were having them jump off cliffs. Horses do run, don't they?

Didn't Milo and Otis suffer from similar problems?

beantowndog: Wouldn't PETA just kill all the horses?

Just as ethically and humanely as possible, I'm sure.

/f*ck PETA
//worth saying again

so wait, we're killing horses for entertainment, now?


[writes this down]


got it!

mekkab: so wait, we're killing horses for entertainment, now?


[writes this down]


got it!

Well, we're certainly not allowed to kill them for their sweet, succulent meat.


Mmmmmmmm.

Unavailable for comment:

I'll be the lone voice in the wilderness on this one: Luck is amazing. It's the best thing on TV at the moment. You really have to watch every episode twice. They do explain everything, but not always in the order you'd want. Yes, the characters mumble their lines, but so do people in real life. You don't have to get every word to follow it.

I think it's worth watching to see Hoffman and Farina play together. They're both so good at what they do.

It's one of those shows that's only going to get better as it unfolds.

They cancel Bored to Death so that they can have Boardwalk Empire but with horses? Dick move.

Nobody complained after Game of Thrones (new window)

/don't tell me that wasn't real

farkingismybusiness: don't tell me that wasn't real

What's worse, I heard it took 37 takes.

I like the part where Dustin Hoffman mumbles some stuff I can't hear, then Nick Nolte mumbles some more stuff then the other guy mumbles and stutters into his phone while a guy with a thick spanish accent mumbles some stuff.

farkingismybusiness: Nobody complained after Game of Thrones (new window)

/don't tell me that wasn't real

Looks like he cuts into a fake horse, then the horse falling down is actually film of it getting up played backwards.

self_made_hell: farkingismybusiness: Nobody complained after Game of Thrones (new window)

/don't tell me that wasn't real

Looks like he cuts into a fake horse, then the horse falling down is actually film of it getting up played backwards.


37 horses died for christ sake.

propasaurus: They're just doing what they always do, grandstanding.

Mr. Ed sees what you did there

Talondel: scarmig: Lemme unnerstand.

Racing horses, potential death, for sport is OK.
Racing horses, potential death, for film, is BAD.

Am I right?

Um, this is PETA we're talking about. If you had to get a sick child to the hospital, and the only way to do it was to ride a horse, PETA would tell you that you're ethically obligated to let the child die before enslaving the horse and forcing it into manual labor.

So I'm pretty sure they don't think EITHER of those is ok.

I'm pretty sure they won't rest until all quadrupeds have the vote.

The whole "no animals were harmed" thing makes absolutely no sense. Do they mean nobody ate a burger during the whole shoot? Because if they did, then those words are incorrect.

Meh. Horses are delicate, ephemeral creatures. They seem to die if they step wrong, get frightened by something, are fed a cheeseburger or have their hair brushed the wrong way. I would say "stay gold Ponyboy" but that just made the people at the stable mad and caused them to dispute my unemployment claim.

scarmig: Lemme unnerstand.

Racing horses, potential death, for sport is OK.
Racing horses, potential death, for film, is BAD.

Am I right?

What about pigs? What about ham? What about bacon?

an ASPCA logo doesn't mean what you think it does, subby...

Pocket Ninja only other series I gave up on as quickly was that so-and-so from Cincinnati idiocy.
Leave Kem Nunn alone you BASTARD!

whither_apophis Mr. Ed sees what you did there
my mom was the eternal horseperson, couldn't figure out why Wilbur, a supposedly professional architect, wanted an office that always smelled like horseshiat

I had to go through the horse-with-a-broken-leg ordeal in 1990.
She had been mine for 16 years.

My eternal blessings are upon the man who was able to quickly bring his backhoe to the pasture on a summer afternoon ...