The Revenant

[SnakeDoctor]

Nope... Just expecting a great film.. I love westerns and films like this.. I like Tombstone also but think of that film as almost more of an action film then a western.

Costner's Wyatt Earp is more of a straight western than Tombstone. I actually prefer Costner's performance to Russell's ... and Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday is underrated ("Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel; I disapprove of his very existence. Tried to end it myself on a couple of occasions, but self-control got the better of me.") The love story in Costner's was also way less annoying. Tombstone has more memorable villains, one liners, a better Virgil Earp (Sam Elliott over Michael Madsen), and a slightly better Doc Holliday.

Looking forward to The Revenant. My wife isn't into westerns at all ... so I'm trying to figure how to drag her to both this and Hateful Eight in the same month. She's dragged me to enough horror schlock that she ought to be able to live with it.

SnakeDoc

 

[fosing]

I read somewhere that Leo was raped by a bear while shooting this one.

exaggerated much.

fondled.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

exaggerated much.

fondled.

He was asking for it.



You can't walk around dressed like a dainty, fair-skinned bear and expect a red-blooded grizzly not to react. Don't tease the bears.

SnakeDoc

 

[fosing]

also...

Spoiler

bears do shat in the woods

 

[JAWS]

Just got back.... Loved it... Could have done without all the dream sequences... Just a bit too self indulgent by the director... Otherwise almost perfect.

 

[bboy]

Disappointed by this one. It dragged on most of the time and just over all wasn't anything special. Although a couple of the action scenes were done beautifully.


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[DiFabio]

I saw Hateful 8 last night, seeing this tonight. I loved Birdman last year so I'm looking forward to this. Don't know anything going in, but I heard there's a bear scene that's intense. Can't be any more shocking than the crazy **** I saw last night with Hateful 8.

 

[JAWS]

I saw Hateful 8 last night, seeing this tonight. I loved Birdman last year so I'm looking forward to this. Don't know anything going in, but I heard there's a bear scene that's intense. Can't be any more shocking than the crazy **** I saw last night with Hateful 8.

Bear scenes is some great stuff... Film as a whole is great... Needed a bit of editing o tighten the focus of the film but it was beautiful to look at. I liked The Hateful Eight better but they are very different films... Hateful eight is just more fun... this film is gulling. It reminded me a bit of the Underrated "the Grey" with Liam Neeson as far as tone goes and atmosphere goes.. You actually feel cold while watching this

 

[fistfulmetal]

Fantastic frontiersman movie. Really enjoyed it, even more then the Hateful 8. The cinematography and the scenery was just great. The acting was top notch of course. You really felt the struggle DiCaprio's character was going through, especially that bear scene.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Domhnall Gleeson was the standout performance here. So happy to see him go from strength to strength.

 

[wanderlai]

It was good. Dragged on a good bit. First 30 min > the last 2hrs.

 

[meth head]

This film was majestic! The thread is surprisingly quiet given the epicness of this film.

 

[Gully Foyle]

It reminded me a bit of the Underrated "the Grey" with Liam Neeson as far as tone goes and atmosphere goes.. You actually feel cold while watching this

Agreed!
Also Man In The Wilderness from 1971 with Richard Harris and John Huston. Loosely based on the same guy.

The real Hugh Glass didn't have a kid or wife.
The creation of their characters here really colors the tone of the film.
It's basically a revenge fantasy with survival elements with some rather vague commentary on European colonialism in the New World.

I found the final confrontation to be a bit telegraphed and predictable.

Spoiler

Could anyone not predict that the native woman he saves from getting raped would be responsible for his life being spared at the end?
And he forgoes his revenge by quoting the Pawnee who saved him a few reels earlier? All seemed rather obvious and expected.
And wouldn't he want to take Hardy's body back to the fort to prove that Hardy was responsible for killing the Captain?
Why didn't the Arikara war party tend to his wounds or assist him at the end? He's in awfully rough shape to make it back . . .
Nonetheless, I liked the idea that--after struggling to complete his act of revenge--he's still haunted by the presence of his dead wife.
The murdered ghosts of the American frontier can never be silenced . . .

Still an impressive film, if just for the technical accomplishments alone.
It's like a Jack London story on amphetamines.
I think Hardy gave the greatest performance.
Leo is the Oscar-bait.
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[JAWS]

Agreed!
Also Man In The Wilderness from 1971 with Richard Harris and John Huston. Loosely based on the same guy.

The real Hugh Glass didn't have a kid or wife.
The creation of their characters here really colors the tone of the film.
It's basically a revenge fantasy with survival elements with some rather vague commentary on European colonialism in the New World.

I found the final confrontation to be a bit telegraphed and predictable.

Spoiler

Could anyone not predict that the native woman he saves from getting raped would be responsible for his life being spared at the end?
And he forgoes his revenge by quoting the Pawnee who saved him a few reels earlier? All seemed rather obvious and expected.
And wouldn't he want to take Hardy's body back to the fort to prove that Hardy was responsible for killing the Captain?
Why didn't the Arikara war party tend to his wounds or assist him at the end? He's in awfully rough shape to make it back . . .
Nonetheless, I liked the idea that--after struggling to complete his act of revenge--he's still haunted by the presence of his dead wife.
The murdered ghosts of the American frontier can never be silenced . . .

Still an impressive film, if just for the technical accomplishments alone.
It's like a Jack London story on amphetamines.
I think Hardy gave the greatest performance.
Leo is the Oscar-bait.
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The real story of Hugh Glass was a bit of a true life revenge fantasy. He was attacked by a bear and the group of men he was with took his stuff and left him for dead.. He ended up crawling for I don;t how many days, healed up and went and found those men and killed them all but one.. Who he spared because of his age... I don;t know if I have all the facts on that... But I think that is what I remember hearing. My Dad use to read all those true story Mountain men books and he read this true story and told me about it.. I could have my facts wrong though.

Great movie either way.

 

[Gully Foyle]

The real story of Hugh Glass was a bit of a true life revenge fantasy.

True. His grudge was about being abandoned and robbed, though. What he was really after was his rifle and comeuppance.
By the time Glass caught up with Fitzgerald (Hardy's character), the latter had joined the Army and thus enjoyed their protection.
There is a brief scene of Hardy in period Army dress that Glass imagines in a fever dream which seemingly references this.

Also . . . Ryuichi Sakamoto's score is magnificent.
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[Road Blaster]

I hope this is better than Birdman. That movie is awful.

 

[Khev]

Saw this tonight. It was definitely worth seeing on the big screen but I didn't love it. As a kindred spirit to those made for IMAX nature movies it was glorious to behold. Excellent score as well. But I didn't know it was going to be such a simple revenge flick and the story left me flat.

I liked Hardy, he very much reminded me of Tom Berenger's Sgt. Barnes.

 

[meth head]

I hope this is better than Birdman. That movie is awful.

Different folks, different strokes. I thought Birdman was a work of genius. The way they have edited the film to look like one continuous camera shot is sublime. I also love how this is by and large a mirror image of Keaton's career. This is a uniquely beautiful film imo.

 

[Deeznutz6]

Saw this last night, thought it was great, but not epic

Dicaprio was good but thought he was better in wolf.

If anyone Hardy deserves the Oscar

 

[BuddyGus]

Saw this tonight. It was definitely worth seeing on the big screen but I didn't love it. As a kindred spirit to those made for IMAX nature movies it was glorious to behold. Excellent score as well. But I didn't know it was going to be such a simple revenge flick and the story left me flat.

I liked Hardy, he very much reminded me of Tom Berenger's Sgt. Barnes.

I read an interview a few weeks ago where Hardy said he based the accent on Berenger's Barnes.