The Revenant

[mattjames2010]

Promotional copy has leaked online. So, if anyone wants to forget about the loss tonight, I'm sure you guys know where to go to find leaked films.

Time to see if Leo deserves an Oscar this year or not.

 

[Bay10]

Promotional copy has leaked online. So, if anyone wants to forget about the loss tonight, I'm sure you guys know where to go to find leaked films.

Time to see if Leo deserves an Oscar this year or not.

That movie looks very good.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Promotional copy has leaked online. So, if anyone wants to forget about the loss tonight, I'm sure you guys know where to go to find leaked films.

Time to see if Leo deserves an Oscar this year or not.

He's deserved a few already.

 

[mattjames2010]

He's deserved a few already.

He's been nominated for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He went through that hearth throb time in the late 90s, nothing of which I considered roles deserving of an Oscar. I was never too impressed with his role in The Aviator, it was on par with the other nominees of that year. The role I believe he should have won for was his role in The Departed, i loved his performance. I wouldn't have mind seeing him win for The Wolf of Wall Street, but my goodness, that was a great year for nominees. It was so good that Tom Hanks' Captain Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix's character in Her was snubbed.

From the predictions, it will be DiCaprio, Redmayne, Fassbender, and most likely Smith being nominated for best actor. Personally, from the roles I've seen, DiCaprio deserves his first Oscar win. But I think we all know Redmayne will be taking home the Oscar due to politics and media drive. The fact Redmayne won last year over Keaton should be labeled a crime.

 

[darthseinfeld]

He's been nominated for What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He went through that hearth throb time in the late 90s, nothing of which I considered roles deserving of an Oscar. I was never too impressed with his role in The Aviator, it was on par with the other nominees of that year. The role I believe he should have won for was his role in The Departed, i loved his performance. I wouldn't have mind seeing him win for The Wolf of Wall Street, but my goodness, that was a great year for nominees. It was so good that Tom Hanks' Captain Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix's character in Her was snubbed.

From the predictions, it will be DiCaprio, Redmayne, Fassbender, and most likely Smith being nominated for best actor. Personally, from the roles I've seen, DiCaprio deserves his first Oscar win. But I think we all know Redmayne will be taking home the Oscar due to politics and media drive. The fact Redmayne won last year over Keaton should be labeled a crime.

I thought he should have gotten a nom for Gangs of New York. Maybe not a win, but a nom

He got overshadowed by Risen Star

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

I thought he should have gotten a nom for Gangs of New York. Maybe not a win, but a nom

He got overshadowed by Risen Star

He should have won for the departed imho.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Fantastic book covering the amazing life and times of Hugh Glass. In his early life Glass was a skipper and his ship was captured by pirate Jean Lafitte who turned Glass into a captive pirate for two years before he escaped by swimming the Galveston Channel. His freedom was short lived and he was captured by Pawnee Indians while trying to make it overland to Missouri. The Pawnee eventually adopted Glass and he married an Indian as well as later speaking as a delegate for the Pawnee. In his later years (what the film covers) Glass worked with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company who followed on the heels of Lewis and Clark to trap the Missouri and it's tributaries like the Yellowstone and Platte.

I can tell from the previews that the story has changed for film, but it still looks really good. Glass was about the toughest dude I've ever read about and the American frontiersmen were in a class all their own. I hope the film does justice to the lives the early settlers lead while exploring the Dakota and Montana areas because it's really an amazing story.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Promotional copy has leaked online. So, if anyone wants to forget about the loss tonight, I'm sure you guys know where to go to find leaked films.

Time to see if Leo deserves an Oscar this year or not.

I watched it last night. It's a decent movie. Very heavy. (like many of DiCaprio's recent movies) I will say this though. It's EXTREMELY unbelievable. They took it way to far in what is humanly possible. One second he is a vegetable on a gurney. Next, everyone carrying him leaves him and the next thing you know. He is dragging himself across the ground for miles which is a hell of a lot harder to do than just walking. (from vegetable to doing something I can't do in perfect health in 5 minutes)

He is a good actor, but the movie entered the stupid stage. I give it 3 3/4 stars. The only reason I give it that many stars is because he is a good actor. My buddy and I spent most of the movie facepalming. We expect some unrealistic things, but that was straight over the top.

We watched Tarantino's The Hated Eight too. At least you expect complete BS in that movie. The Hated is a good movie if you like his movies.

 

[Seven]

He should have won for the departed imho.

This Boy's Life and Basketball Diaries were great films.

 

[mattjames2010]

I watched it last night. It's a decent movie. Very heavy. (like many of DiCaprio's recent movies) I will say this though. It's EXTREMELY unbelievable. They took it way to far in what is humanly possible. One second he is a vegetable on a gurney. Next, everyone carrying him leaves him and the next thing you know. He is dragging himself across the ground for miles which is a hell of a lot harder to do than just walking. (from vegetable to doing something I can't do in perfect health in 5 minutes)

He is a good actor, but the movie entered the stupid stage. I give it 3 3/4 stars. The only reason I give it that many stars is because he is a good actor. My buddy and I spent most of the movie facepalming. We expect some unrealistic things, but that was straight over the top.

We watched Tarantino's The Hated Eight too. At least you expect complete BS in that movie. The Hated is a good movie if you like his movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

You understand that part of the film you find unbelievable actually happened, right?

Despite his injuries, Glass regained consciousness, but found himself abandoned, without weapons or equipment. He had festering wounds, a broken leg, and cuts on his back that exposed bare ribs. Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 miles (320 km) from the nearest American settlement at Fort Kiowa on the Missouri. Glass set his own leg, wrapped himself in the bear hide his companions had placed over him as a shroud, and began crawling. To prevent gangrene, Glass laid his wounded back on a rotting log and let maggots eat the dead flesh.

 

[darthseinfeld]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

You understand that part of the film you find unbelievable actually happened, right?

Did you get a chance to watch both this and Hatefull 8? If so which do you think has a better shot at an Oscar nom?

Semi OT: Have you seen Beasts Of No Nation yet?

 

[YosemiteSam]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

You understand that part of the film you find unbelievable actually happened, right?

I'm aware. Watch the movie. Lets just say, they made the movie far more dramatic than what is actually possible by a human. The dude was on his death bed unable to move at all. The next thing you know it he was Grisly Adams trudging through the wilderness. Either he is on his death bed unable to move or he isn't. You can't have both in a five minute period of time.

Get this, they showed his back all ripped open from the bear. The rate at which blood was pouring from his back. It wouldn't have taken two minutes before he would have lost an entire gallon of blood. Umm, nobody could survive at the rate he was loosing blood. Damn sure not in the what? 1800s?

 

[mattjames2010]

I'm aware. Watch the movie. Lets just say, they made the movie far more dramatic than what is actually possible by a human. The dude was on his death bed unable to move at all. The next thing you know it he was Grisly Adams trudging through the wilderness. Either he is on his death bed unable to move or he isn't. You can't have both in a five minute period of time.

Get this, they showed his back all ripped open from the bear. The rate at which blood was pouring from his back. It wouldn't have taken two minutes before he would have lost an entire gallon of blood. Umm, nobody could survive at the rate he was loosing blood. Damn sure not in the what? 1800s?

Again, him having meat ripped from him straight to the bone actually happened. Hugh Glass had his ribs exposed by the bear. Nothing in the movie demonstrated that he was in fact a vegetable, they showed he couldn't speak and was sick from injury. It was far more likely fatigue and blood loss that resulted in his lack of movement. This was all factual, Glass looked to be near death to the point those with him didn't realize he was still alive. Was it unlikely? Yes, but that's what makes Glass' story famous, he beat odds.

The only thing dramatized in this movie was the revenge tale.

 

[mattjames2010]

Did you get a chance to watch both this and Hatefull 8? If so which do you think has a better shot at an Oscar nom?

Semi OT: Have you seen Beasts Of No Nation yet?

They'll both be nominated, but a better shot? The Revenant. Mainly because the director just came off the Oscar juggernaut last year of Birdman, and the Academy has a way of nominating the same directors/actors two years in a row. But The Hateful Eight is Tarantino on auto-pilot, it's nothing we haven't seen before from him. Great dialogue scenes, a great performance pulled out of Samuel L. Jackson, but other than that, it's not something I rank highly.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I only want to see Leo as the pretty guy he is. No interest in the crazed woodsman look.

I pass!

 

[YosemiteSam]

Again, him having meat ripped from him straight to the bone actually happened. Hugh Glass had his ribs exposed by the bear. Nothing in the movie demonstrated that he was in fact a vegetable, they showed he couldn't speak and was sick from injury. It was far more likely fatigue and blood loss that resulted in his lack of movement. This was all factual, Glass looked to be near death to the point those with him didn't realize he was still alive. Was it unlikely? Yes, but that's what makes Glass' story famous, he beat odds.

The only thing dramatized in this movie was the revenge tale.

lol. Horse ****.

 

[Doomsday]

The movie was a bit too slow for me. Very little character development, other then Leo's character made it hard for me to feel involved in the movie. 6/10

 

[Teren_Kanan]

Movie was very good.

The Bear Attack scene was brutal and amazing to watch.

 

[Fletch]

He's deserved a few already.

Two for sure. Blood Diamond. Departed.

 

[khiladi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

You understand that part of the film you find unbelievable actually happened, right?

Much of it is legend. Your assumption is based on the fact that the story related by Wiki is the only version of it.

http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/revenant/