I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE

[Ron_TN]

 

https://youtu.be/LoebZZ8K5N0

I cant wait for this one to come here.  Been lots of talk about it

 

Let's start with the bear attack, because it's one of the most amazing spectacles of the movie year 2015. On its own, it's reason enough to see "The Revenant," and there are plenty of other reasons. For weeks, there have been rumors that the scene shows Leonardo DiCaprio getting sexually assaulted by a bear. That does not happen. What happens is even worse.

DiCaprio plays a fur trapper, in 1820 in the Northwest wilderness, who thinks it might be a good idea to shoot a couple of bear cubs. He doesn't notice the enormous mama bear running up behind him, until he turns around just as he's getting pounced on. What follows is a scene that delivers in a number of extreme and wonderfully conflicting ways.

It is harrowing. It is technically remarkable, because there is no doubt in any viewer's mind that DiCaprio really does have a bear throwing him around and stepping on his head. It is a beautiful piece of bear-fight choreography - it's clear that serious thought went into how this fight would progress for maximum impact. There's also just enough emotional distance for us to enjoy what's happening. The bear, after all, does have a point. And this distance allows us to notice and experience the scene's other great pleasure: It's funny. Bears are so cute and cuddly that to see one go berserk on a guy, particularly one who has it coming, has a certain absurd satisfaction.

"The Revenant" is loosely based on the real story of Hugh Glass, an American fur trapper who was abandoned by his companions and left to die after the bear attack. Despite infections and festering flesh, he somehow survived and navigated his way across 200 miles of hostile wilderness. It's an amazing survival tale, and the movie itself looks like a survival chronicle. That really is DiCaprio with ice stuck in his beard. That really is DiCaprio wading and immersing himself in freezing water, over and over. Part of the pleasure of "The Revenant" is in watching freezing people from a warm cushy seat in a theater.

The film is directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu in a Terrence Malick ("The New World") vein, with shots of the sky through the trees, silhouettes against the setting sun and omniscient overviews of the entire landscape. The difference is that with Iñárritu, these are not occasions for philosophical contemplation. Instead, the sky might have arrows flying through it, signaling a new phase in an Indian battle. And the overviews, usually with some lone antlike figure in the midst of it, are there to remind you that this environment may be breathtaking, but people don't belong here.

Like "Birdman," "The Revenant" is a director's movie, a showcase for a filmmaker's vision and innovation. Iñárritu employs long, complicated shots that make full use of the wide screen. Early in the movie, he films an Indian attack in ways that make you realize that every previous director has done it all wrong. The attack comes without warning, from all sides. A character starts calmly barking out orders and is killed mid-sentence. Every moment is a horrible surprise, which, of course, it would be. There is no safe place to look, no safe character to follow.

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Even a great innovator, though, has his limits, and in attempting to make an endlessly riveting film about a guy trying to crawl and limp for 200 miles, Iñárritu has given himself a daunting assignment. He succeeds, in the sense that his 156-minute movie maintains interest, but the interest in maintained through a series of escalating catastrophes - Glass can't just go over one waterfall, but several - and stock action-movie situations, such as the lust for revenge. The fresh brilliance of the first hour fades into something more familiar.

Tom Hardy exudes an awesome perversity as Glass's most villainous colleague, but he would be more effective if he got past the idea that delivering an American accent means talking like there are marbles in his mouth. Still, he's a terrific presence.

DiCaprio doesn't get to say much in "The Revenant," but he does get to cauterize a neck wound with gunpowder (don't try this at home), the strangest improvised health-care procedure since Tom Hanks ("Cast Away") extracted a tooth using an ice skate. And he does get to eat a live fish and dive face first into a buffalo liver.

It's hard to talk about this as a performance, because there's nothing to compare it to. But if I were an Oscar voter, I might be tempted to vote DiCaprio best actor - or at least to propose a new category, the acting equivalent of the Purple Heart.

Edited January 8, 2016 by Ron_TN

[joe4vol]

Is this the one where someone got offended because they thought that he got raped by a bear?

[i1afli]

Yep, I wanna see it also.

[buck1032]

Hugh Glass, a man worth reading about.

[Oh Shoot]

Hugh Glass, a man worth reading about.

 

Man in the Wilderness was an excellent flick, too:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJp7cvcpwg

 

- OS

[buck1032]

Yes it was a good movie. Hollywood got a little carried away with the boat crap though. ;)

[Ron_TN]

I want some of what you guys are smoking!

[crossfire]

I cant wait for this one to come here.  Been lots of talk about it

Yep, I don't see many movies on the big screen but I want to see this one.

[BigK]

I watched it twice now and read the book...both are awesome.

[Ron_TN]

I watched it twice now and read the book...both are awesome.

Huh ...the movie is not out yet.......the movie I started this topic on is the "REVENANT".........HELLO

[Oh Shoot]

Huh ...the movie is not out yet.......the movie I started this topic on is the "REVENANT".........HELLO

 

Dunno if this is what he meant, but here, 21st Century to Ron ;):

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=download+the+revenant&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

- OS

[BigK]

Huh ...the movie is not out yet.......the movie I started this topic on is the "REVENANT".........HELLO

 

Actually, I have watched it twice. I got a screener copy that somehow got leaked.

[frankmako]

i will wait until it comes out on dvd. 

[Ron_TN]

I went and seen my movie and it was the most intense movie I've seen in a long time. It has some very graphic indian fight scenes. not to mention the bear fight.  DiCaprio earned his money being in that freezing water time after time.  The movie just won the Golden Globe's best Actor,Director and Movie, it deserved all three. Some of the best acting I've seen in a while.  I loved the way they worked the camera around,.....awesome work. 

[seez52]

It's a shame DiCaprio  is such a turd in real life.

[NoBanStan]

Actually, I have watched it twice. I got a screener copy that somehow got leaked.

 

He thought you had gone crazy :)

 

He would still be right!

[suspiciousmind]

It was incredible.

[et45]

Great movie,will have to add it to my collection when it comes out on dvd

[Ron_TN]

It's a shame DiCaprio  is such a turd in real life.

I just like his work....not into his private life.   We all been known to be turds sometime in our life.   

[monkeylizard]

Is this the one where someone got offended because they thought that he got raped by a bear?

 

Yes....and Jonah Hill as The Bear at the Golden Globes was quite funny.

[Mike.357]

only movie I am aware of that is currently out which I want to go see.

 

Don't care about his politics. I have always enjoyed Leo's flicks.