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