The Revenant or Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Grizzly

I'm not feeling it. The cinematography is way too distracting and seems like it would be a tad bit nauseating for 2 hours plus. I get that they probably wanted to go with something that was a bit claustrophobic, but it is just too much even for me even for a trailer. Also, Leo..... you aren't going to win the oscar.

So he should just stop working forever?

Out of curiosity, who do you think will win the next Best Actor Oscar early next year? Seriously, do some digging around regarding the Academy and people's predictions and get back to me.

1. Yes, that is totally what I mean. And not just referencing the Leo no oscae meme stuff. He should stop working all together.

2. On a more serious note, don't know and don't give a shit. But I doubt it will be Leo because he is a very good and consistent actor, but I wouldn't say great. His best two chances for it were django and wolf, but based on the trailer if anyone is winning for acting from this movie it will be Hardy.

Leo is very popular with the younger crowd, so whenever oscar season rolls around a lot of people always kinda get mad on the social media that he doesn't win. The popular vote does not matter within the academy. Though in this case the academy is actually right for once.

I think his pre-superstar work is actually his strongest.

and you are entitled to that! As well as people are entitled to not be! And any opinion that is in dissent to your position also isn't going after you or your thoughts!

The Revenant to have a score by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Echoing my previous comment, it's getting schizophrenic at how this movie is mixing together people I really like and those I really don't (Sakamoto falls in the former category). 

The pure craft of this film is undeniable. I want to print and frame every single shot, apologize to Roger Deakins for probably missing out on that Oscar again, and spend the rest of my days marveling at the breathtaking beauty of Emmanuel Lubezki’s work. The two sequences that open the movie–the Arikara attack and the bear attack–are astonishing in both their brutality and in the skill that obviously went into them. After that, the film doesn’t reach those types of highs again, but those highs make seeing it worth it.

The movie does have its problems, most of them stemming from Inarritu’s more irritating tendencies. He attempts to create a foundation for Hugh Glass’s revenge story, utilizing flashbacks and visions and thin supporting characters in order to provide us with an emotional connection to the character’s past. He also attempts to tackle the Native American perspective, but the problem is that he doesn’t have the tightest grasp around any material outside of the main plot. In the end, it's all about Glass, and everything else just comes across as stuff we have to get through in order to see Glass and Fitzgerald go at it. 

Nevertheless, it does a simple revenge and survival plot well, and when it is able to commit to that, it is at its most compelling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy both turn in excellent performances as Hugh Glass and John Fitzgerald, respectively. Whereas The Wolf of Wall Street featured a Leo doing physical comedy, this movie features a Leo doing physical misery. He doesn’t speak much throughout, and we are bombarded with image after image of him struggling to survive in the harsh conditions. It’s a very sensory experience for the audience, and Inarritu intends to show us every last bit of a cruel nature and emphasize a human’s capacity for survival. Lubezki’s gorgeous panoramas frequently capture similar ideas as well: one shot in particular consists of Glass walking toward snow-capped mountains in the background, and he’s just a small speck in an expansive wilderness. It’s serene, yet foreboding. Nature may be beautiful, but it will break you.

Also, what a year for Domhnall Gleeson.

My dad dragged me to see it yesterday - it was beautifully shot and well acted, but I couldn't find an emotional connection with any of the characters. I wish they'd cut out a bunch of the Native American fever dream stuff (I'm not thrilled that almost all the Native American characters were just there to further the plot, rather than function as actual characters) and some of the scenes at the fort, and expanded on the relationships among the original fur-trapping party before the raid. It was admirable that Domhnall Gleeson's character seemed to be a stand-up guy who wanted to do the right thing, but I couldn't really figure out why, because there was no real sense of camaraderie to begin with that made any of it really resonant. I also didn't get a real sense of struggle for Glass, because the timeline was too vague and too unfocused. It felt like so much of what he went through once he was on his own should have been a lot, well, harder.

Didn't hate it at all, and I do like a good revenge story, but I don't think it was Oscar-worthy by any means.