The Revenant: Iñárritu, DiCaprio

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Seeing this was a much better way to spend 2.5 hrs than any awards show.

Struggling to think of a lower bar tbh

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)

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.

I thought it was a great movie.

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.

I thought it implied a lot about white settlement in native land

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.

Like a malick, u mean

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when is he playing Welles

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

I thought it implied a lot about white settlement in native land

― 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.

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.

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.

otm. Best director I can see, best picture nah.

Rescreening this film after reading the source novel... if you didn't like the movie than do yourself a favor and avoid the book.