Mostly/entirely shot with only natural light.
First half of the trailer could be an Electronic Arts preview for a new game.
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
lots of pouty actors in this
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
looks like a stupider less fun take on Dead Man
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
A lot to pout about on the frontier!
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
heard a rumor tom hardy punched inarritu in the face on set during filming
think there was a real attempt at a herzog/kinski type environment for this. by all accounts it was hell.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm actually cautiously looking forward to this. Seems like the story/setting might curb Innaritu's worst instincts
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
he deserves the Nobel Prize.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
i dont even hate all of that dude's movies (amores perros is still the jam, 21 grams has its moments) but there has not been a single account to suggest he is anything other than a complete pretentious twathammer
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
Did anyone punch Tom Hardy in the face though?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
I want to enjoy the warm glow of this possible fact before it gets repurposed as For Your Consideration "difficult birth" trivia or whatever.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
i didnt mean the emotions per se, i meant squinchy-faced lippy actors up to the age of 40
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Good reviews overnight from the first screening.
Adam B. Vary@adambvaryWill Poulter says they'd rehearse every detail in scene for in THE REVENANT in the woods, come back a month later, & not remember anything.
DiCaprio diplomatically calls making THE REVENANT "a beautiful blur," & the scramble to shoot in natural light "like an unfunny SNL."
― my harp and me (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
Dicrapio is an unbeautiful blur.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
i like the michael hurley song
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
some of the trailers used this song from last year, really cool piece of modern classical inspired by looming global warming apocalypse :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGva1NVWRXk
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
like used about 30 seconds of it obv
so David Thomson has flipped for this
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/david-thomson-the-revenant-alejandro-g-inarritu/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
“Wilderness” is no longer a romantic word for environmentalists to enthuse over in their drawing rooms. It is the inferno that disdains civilization, and offers “beauty” as a torment to our hopes and vanity.
For anyone who spends much time in wilderness, it is neither of these overheated exaggerations.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
Still haven't seen Birdman, and I wasn't sure if I could see a film called The Revenant, which is a shorter title than Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, but probably, maybe, better. If there's a Michael Hurley song, though, maybe.
― clemenza, Monday, 4 January 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Just as Iñárritu’s Birdman deconstructs performance, so The Revenant is tense with self-assessment.
I dread the film school essay that will cite this sentence
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
didn't realize & cant believe this cost $135 mil to make
― johnny crunch, Monday, 4 January 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
that's when they give u money to burn, after yr Oscar
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
He was halfway through shooting this when the Oscars happened, but there hadn't been much snow yet :-(.
― (please no long guns of any kind) (Eazy), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
It's weird that they'd quote Herzog and not cite their source.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 January 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
For the first hour I was immensely enjoying this, some great cinematography by Lubezki for sure. I am not a fan of Inarritu, but thought I'd give this one a try. For the last hour and a half it is a typical load of Inarritu balls - just overdone yawnsome bombastic bollocks.
― calzino, Monday, 4 January 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't get how extended scenes of strained facial expressions make a movie. Yet here you go!
― calstars, Monday, 4 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
https://41.media.tumblr.com/1e14e54c66adbd981a4f01b7d232d707/tumblr_mi09cxzrHJ1r0btqdo1_500.jpg
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Got through to the end, enjoyed thoroughly. the nature alone is worth viewing.
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 02:46 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed it a lot, but didn't know that much about it - I only saw it as a cheap mystery movie, we were convinced it was going to be Spotlight.
You really feel like you're in Leonardo's bronchial passages, for all the NATURE it's very close in, one neat gimmick with the camera lens in particular. My friend claimed that the lack of space disqualified it as a western.
I made me want to rewatch Ride with the Devil.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
You can definitely see a lot of money on film - but some of the cost is they outlasted Canada's snow and moved it to Argentina to finish?
Also regarding the Tom Hardy punching (and general Herzogianism) - apparently Hardy didn't like some of the realism the Iñárritu wanted, so the director let Hardy choke him out - someone took a photo, and that is the cast t-shirt.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:49 (eight years ago) link
iirc The weather in Argentina was also terrible and delayed shooting.
I really despised the trailer - lol @ natural lighting/well shot etc. Pure hammy technocratic nonsense. Lets burn a pile of money instead.
Friend wants to see this so I'll go on about how terrible this is afterwards on here too.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:00 (eight years ago) link
I generally dislike Iñarritu but I thought this was hallucinatory and/or intense.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
fisheye lens very much in use
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
Reading in American Cinematographer magazine how some of their lenses warped due to extreme conditions and some of the resulting shots were kept in because of their unique look. But fisheye wasn't intentional it seems.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
Nice Jodorowsky "Holy Mountain" homage early in the film, too.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
"lol @ natural lighting/well shot etc. Pure hammy technocratic nonsense. Lets burn a pile of money instead."
yeah how dare anyone admire the technical and aesthetic elements of a film, wtf kind of post is this
― circa1916, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
apparently xyz just wants people in a room talking, single static cam
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
I found the 'everything is very clear and possibly something is happening that Leo's face can't see' scenes much more acid-etched than the 'and now, a hallucinatory passage' ones.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
i suspect this is thread-relevant
@NickPinkerton Jan 4Proposed addition to Sarris's The American Cinema categories, to meet the new demands of the 21st century: Messianic Mediocrity.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/684863663010787330
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 7 January 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
looks pretty but overdramatised story
go for the lulz stay for the cinematography
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 7 January 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
xp oh my god
― goole, Thursday, 7 January 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
surprisingly big 1030 am crowd for this when i just went, its a bit of an arduous watch for an arduous story. does look often gorgeous. leo is always good and hes good here. idk hard for me to get too worked up abt this either +/-
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
like def is a theme abt as much as nature nearly kills leo, it also provides for him and like not only in obvious ways, a few times hed be dead just if the immed landscape was different idk that stuff was p cool; the revenge thru-line is m/l just to have a plot
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 January 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
I enjoyed this and theres some incredible scenes and breathtaking cinematography but a few Malick-isms cant help to hide the fairly slight story.
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Saturday, 9 January 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
I don't think anyone's trying to hide it?
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 9 January 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
can't help but wish this could have been done by malick or herzog but it was still great
― gr8080, Saturday, 9 January 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
I really enjoyed this
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 10 January 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
its a great cinematic experience, overblown or not
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Sunday, 10 January 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link
xxp only if Herzog followed the bear instead.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 10 January 2016 09:21 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvkiG3lGuUQ
― 龜, Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
The Grey>>>The Revenant.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
this was excellent, I'm surprised at the backlash here but I guess I should expect it. Also the avalanche: that was one scene that I was almost positive was CGI, wow.
― akm, Sunday, 14 February 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Yes, I also thought it was excellent. The soundtrack was fantastic as well.
― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Sunday, 14 February 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link
"why did this movie use the names of real people in a similar situation when all of the details are made up?"
it's a dramatization and that happens all the time in literature and film? what a dumb question.
I was surprised to learn any of this at all was based on a real person.
― akm, Sunday, 14 February 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
This was excellent
No he wouldn't have survived any of it, fuckin congrats.
― Soon all logins will look like this (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 February 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
there are no dumb questions, just dumb Hollywood
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
Think I'll go see this tonight instead of watching the Oscars.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
you can watch the Oscar clips and save ya $15
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 February 2016 18:37 (eight years ago) link
If you see "The Revenant," you might still have time to catch the last two hours of the Oscars.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 February 2016 21:54 (eight years ago) link
did i say this was pretty cool & exciting until leo finally got to the base but became totally dull & pointless after? he got fucked by a bear! and rode an unwise horse off a cliff! and hothed it, and totally froze multiple more times, and ate gross buffalo, and all kinds of crazy shit. after all that, who cares if he gets revenge on mumbles with wolves guy?
― somewhere btwn Gabriel Garcia Marquez and early Evel Knievel guy (contenderizer), Monday, 29 February 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
lol i knew leo screamed and cried enough to win that sweet sweet oscar
― davey, Monday, 29 February 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
He ate raw liver! He's a vegetarian! If that isn't acting, what is?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 February 2016 06:38 (eight years ago) link
he screamed and cried in another language too did you see??
― davey, Monday, 29 February 2016 06:45 (eight years ago) link
Who was better, like significantly better in a likely role/movie this year tho
― Soon all logins will look like this (darraghmac), Monday, 29 February 2016 08:47 (eight years ago) link
The bear.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 February 2016 09:38 (eight years ago) link
Ha
― Soon all logins will look like this (darraghmac), Monday, 29 February 2016 11:09 (eight years ago) link
I mean, significantly better in a likely role is kind of stacking the deck anyway, this was a likely winner because it's a very much the sort of huffing puffing performance of adversity that the academy tends to award - it's gotten a bit better from the 90s run of Silence of the Lambs / Scent of a Woman / Forrest Gump / Leaving Last Vegas / Shine (though there was definitely a bit of "Beat that!" in Eddie Redmayne's win as Stephen Hawking last year), but there's still a sense of "I want a Oscar - what should be wrong with me?"
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 February 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
Has a director ever won two years in a row before?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 29 February 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
Mankiewicz and Ford.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 February 2016 11:33 (eight years ago) link
Leo's acting was good when he was rolling around in agony, unable to talk.
― remove butt (abanana), Monday, 29 February 2016 11:52 (eight years ago) link
Hardy was better in the same movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 February 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Leo at least had an excuse for his unintelligible mumbling.
― Ad h (onimo), Monday, 29 February 2016 12:45 (eight years ago) link
it would be cool if there was a video game of this movie.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 29 February 2016 14:35 (eight years ago) link
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/issue/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/dysentery.jpeg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 February 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
Seeing this was a much better way to spend 2.5 hrs than any awards show.
― WilliamC, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Struggling to think of a lower bar tbh
― anglos with derpy phasis (wins), Monday, 29 February 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
There are a lot of ILM threads that will meet you halfway (and a lot of ILE threads in fairness, and they're less likely to have decent music)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Slightly higher bar: I liked it.Next rung up: it was worth the $9.50 I paid to see it.Beyond that, I'm not qualified to say.
― WilliamC, Monday, 29 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was a great movie.
― akm, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I had no problem with it, it was a great Movie. That is, big screen, spectacle, well-made, had a vision. It just didn't have anything to say, imo, which left it kind of shallow/hollow.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:46 (eight years ago) link
I thought it implied a lot about white settlement in native land
― akm, Monday, 29 February 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, that was there, but I didn't get anything deeper from it. That's not what the movie was "about" really, was it? it was about dogged revenge, or toughness or something vague and violent. Like I may have noted, like poor-man's Malick, with the craft and vision but minus the courage of ambiguity/mystery/natural magic or whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 February 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
Like a malick, u mean
― Soon all logins will look like this (darraghmac), Monday, 29 February 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xeCbQws.jpg
― gr8080, Monday, 29 February 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
when is he playing Welles
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 29 February 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
lol gr80 that pic...
leo was good in this and i figured he'd get the oscar. anyway mostly i'm just glad eddie redmayne didn't win. also, Josh in Chicago otm
― davey, Monday, 29 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
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― akm, Monday, February 29, 2016 11:54 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, that's in the film, but then there's also the Arikara leader who speaks only in exposition, where like 70% of his lines are "Maybe they have Powaqa" or "If we go this way, we might find Powaqa" like his men (or the audience) are too stupid to remember their goal.
― intheblanks, Monday, 29 February 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
I thought the most perplexing stuff was why this hyper-realistic movie of people in the real world doing real historically stuff real-y tossed in those bits of magical realism, of floating wives and ghost kids. Worked in "Tree of Life," but not here.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 February 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Kind of happy this didn't win last night. I enjoyed parts of it I guess, but overall it was like if Malick, Tarantino, and Herzog collaborated on a film, but decided to remove any of the mystery, wit, or weirdness of their own work.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 00:44 (eight years ago) link
otm. Best director I can see, best picture nah.
― WilliamC, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
Rescreening this film after reading the source novel... if you didn't like the movie than do yourself a favor and avoid the book.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Monday, 10 July 2023 01:45 (nine months ago) link