I didn't see a thread on this topic, but the movie "The Revenant" was quite... good?
It's is very visceral and gut-wrenching but at the same time does not minimize the realities of the past. You don't just magically get better or grow limbs back anymore.
Although the movie lacked dialog, it was an epic adventure from start to finish.
I didn't quite get who the princess was or how she got where she was at the end but it is pretty ignorable.
Pros of the movie:
- good camera movement and panning as if we were involved in the movie
- the cgi bear was pretty real
- very realistic fighting/chasing
- almost no dialog, everything conveyed through glorious acting
Cons:
- surviving in cold water for days... come on...
- storm-trooper syndrome near the end
- a lot of guilting by hypocritical Natives
- ends very unresolved, nobody gets paid!
I loved the movie. It felt akin to The Last of the Mohicans. And Tom Hardy did a great job portraying a "borderline indecipherable villain" once again.
But your cons are very accurate. Except your last one. They all paid in blood.
I loved the movie. It felt akin to The Last of the Mohicans. And Tom Hardy did a great job portraying a "borderline indecipherable villain" once again.
But your cons are very accurate. Except your last one. They all paid in blood.
True that the scenary was beautiful but it was already snowy here and seeing more snow basically doesn't seem as impressive
The acting and emotions distracted me off of the music. I actually didn't even notice it had music until you mentioned it and checked out the OST. Even without context, it is good ambiance music ^^
The cinematography was superlative and the acting excellent, but the plotting was inconsistent, the pacing terrible, and the overall feel of the thing outright distasteful. I felt like I was watching The Passion of the Christ again: a story in which a man experiences tremendous suffering and rises above it, sadomasochistically refocused on the suffering itself.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not objecting to the gore per se. Not a single frame of that bear attack should have been cut: it is shocking and savage and brilliant and absolutely essential to understanding the story. It's in the interminable scenes afterwards, where we just watch Glass lie there helpless and moaning, that I feel like the movie is fetishizing his pain. Not having that particular kink, I was bored and creeped out at the same time. The movie could have been much improved by cutting about two-thirds of the running time between the bear attack and the point where Glass crawls out of his shallow grave to start both himself and the plot moving again. And cut down a fair bit afterwards, too -- though for God's sake don't touch those landscape shots.
On the writing front, the additions made to the actual story of Hugh Glass mostly detract from it. The son was a complete fiction to turn the story into a more conventional revenge tale. The movie does a better job of characterizing and creating sympathy for the doomed family member than a lot of revenge tales do, but still: boring, tired, and unnecessary. The Indian princess Powaqa was an even more bafflingly clichéd interpolation. As soon as I saw the direction her subplot was going, I was like, "Oh, come on! Hollywood heroics in this movie? WTF?!" Total tonal dissonance. The one good change, and the change I knew had to happen going into the movie, was the ending. Of course you can't leave the story with Glass tracking Fitzgerald down only to let him go. He has to kill the sum*****.
Hugh Glass did survive the cold water of the Cheyenne River. Plus, y'know, a grizzly bear. (And the bear didn't survive him.) This was quite possibly the hardest man who ever lived.
It's more surprising that the shooting was so accurate in previous scenes. They did not have good guns in 1823. Speaking of which, I'd have to watch it again to be sure (and I'm not going to), but I could swear I saw in one scene Glass firing his pistol twice without reloading.
Setting aside the gorgeous scenery, it's pretty much the diametric thematic opposite of The Last of the Mohicans. Mohicans is high romanticism, Revenant is gritty realism. (Except for the parts where Revenant forgets its own tone -- see above.)
It's is very visceral and gut-wrenching but at the same time does not minimize the realities of the past. You don't just magically get better or grow limbs back anymore.
Although the movie lacked dialog, it was an epic adventure from start to finish.
I didn't quite get who the princess was or how she got where she was at the end but it is pretty ignorable.
Pros of the movie:
- good camera movement and panning as if we were involved in the movie
- the cgi bear was pretty real
- very realistic fighting/chasing
- almost no dialog, everything conveyed through glorious acting
Cons:
- surviving in cold water for days... come on...
- storm-trooper syndrome near the end
- a lot of guilting by hypocritical Natives
- ends very unresolved, nobody gets paid!
What did you think?
P.S.: this movie is NOT PG-13, it's 21+ at best.
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I loved the movie. It felt akin to The Last of the Mohicans. And Tom Hardy did a great job portraying a "borderline indecipherable villain" once again.
But your cons are very accurate. Except your last one. They all paid in blood.
The acting and emotions distracted me off of the music. I actually didn't even notice it had music until you mentioned it and checked out the OST. Even without context, it is good ambiance music ^^
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On the writing front, the additions made to the actual story of Hugh Glass mostly detract from it. The son was a complete fiction to turn the story into a more conventional revenge tale. The movie does a better job of characterizing and creating sympathy for the doomed family member than a lot of revenge tales do, but still: boring, tired, and unnecessary. The Indian princess Powaqa was an even more bafflingly clichéd interpolation. As soon as I saw the direction her subplot was going, I was like, "Oh, come on! Hollywood heroics in this movie? WTF?!" Total tonal dissonance. The one good change, and the change I knew had to happen going into the movie, was the ending. Of course you can't leave the story with Glass tracking Fitzgerald down only to let him go. He has to kill the sum*****.
Hugh Glass did survive the cold water of the Cheyenne River. Plus, y'know, a grizzly bear. (And the bear didn't survive him.) This was quite possibly the hardest man who ever lived.
It's more surprising that the shooting was so accurate in previous scenes. They did not have good guns in 1823. Speaking of which, I'd have to watch it again to be sure (and I'm not going to), but I could swear I saw in one scene Glass firing his pistol twice without reloading.
Setting aside the gorgeous scenery, it's pretty much the diametric thematic opposite of The Last of the Mohicans. Mohicans is high romanticism, Revenant is gritty realism. (Except for the parts where Revenant forgets its own tone -- see above.)
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