It was alright. Not one of Di Caprio's best though. Fell asleep a few times during it.
shareDude, this movie is WAY overrated, but when you make a point, please, make a COMPLETE post. Explain why you say that. "It was okay, not DiCaprio's best though" No *beep* Is there actually anyone claming that this is even NEAR from DiCaprio's best? If it is the case, I think these people need to take their medications...
shareDicaprio wasn´t the best thing in the movie. This was Iñarritu and Lubezki at the top of their game.
I was enthralled from start to finish.
"It was alright. Not one of Di Caprio's best though. Fell asleep a few times during it."
Just to make my point here, this doesn't say *beep* But it's okay, I'll speak loud once and for all.
Once again, Innaritu made sure that the audience receive a great cinematography. Yes, the cinematography, just like in Birdman, was spectacular. Innaritu is really pointious on this and this is something that I can appeciate with him.
But unlike Birdman, which had not only great cinematography, but also had amazing dialogues, outstanding performances and a really finely written screenplay. What I saw in The Revenant?
A Leonardo DiCaprio who barely makes 10 sentances in the whole movie, and instead spend the biggest part of the movies crawling, roaring and honestly in some scenes he really looks retarded. Poor Leo, that was a harsh role to play, it was really hard on the body. Yeah, right, at this point if we now give Oscars for physical efforts, we could have as well given the Oscar to Michael B. Jordan. All this hard training in Creed looked to me SO much more exausting than this *beep* and annoying DiCaprio's suffocation in The Revenant. And I ain't even gonna start with Hardy. What exactly did impress people so much? As usually, he spends the whole movie with his usual pissed off attitude and annoys the *beep* out of us viewers.
Maybe I missed some subtilities here (like in the whole movie actually), but I honnestly couldn't care much for the movie after an hour and a half of DiCaprio crawling I didn't even followed where exactly, and in the meanwhile when we changed the atmosphere a little, there was Tom Hardy complaining and being a total jackass. We don't know *beep* about the characters, we don't know their real motivations, little by little we start to just not care about them anymore. And wow, how Innaritu built a great complexity between DiCaprio and Hardy! Tarantino does it better with short scenes of few seconds in Hateful Eight (just watch Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh). That was a waste of potential, these two could have done a great team. But instead, they are put in the same movie, have almost no screen time together, and when they are together in the beggining and that we could have had worked something out, all Hardy does is trying to piss DiCaprio off for no apparent reasons. That my friend, is poor character development.
As for the screenplay? All right, it received 12 Oscars nominations (the movie with the most nominations), but even the academy didn't want to recognize this pretencious 3 hours of borigness for best screenplay. So... I guess my point is done. Of course I can just say the obvious and explain why the plot of this movie is totally empty, but if you have seen the movie and try to argue otherwise, well, I'll talk.
shareAnd as for the directing? Yeah, congradulations Innaritu, you are pretty good at picking up an effective crew. A crew that finds you beautiful forrests and montain, a cameraman who really know how to use a camera, the one or the ones behind the editing are maybe a little bit sleepy, but they are pretty effective. And you had one job, is to make sure that the plot and the characters are brought to our eyes in an interesting way. Did you nail it? Well, for some, yes. For me... Not at all. It's been a while that I didn't find a movie so boring. And yes, the mountain is really beautiful... But after seeing it 1 minute on screen, is more than enough. If i really want to feel the exitement, I'll climb a mountain by myself as I'm surrounded with beautiful forrests and mountains.
shareAre you OK? we get it, you hated it but with all due respect, it is kind of childlish what you are doing. I´ve had conversations with other people who didn´t like the movie in which they adressed the positives and negatives of the film and I like that but yours appears to be outright hatred.
If I happen to dislike a movie, I bring up certain key elements that made me feeluninterested or what areas I found lacking but never do I insult nor do I think my opinion is the only one that counts and that is exactly what you are doing.
For instance, you liked Creed and The Hateful Eight. In my case, I hated them both but If I come across with someone who happens to love them, I won´t be disrespectful. Quite the contrary, I´ll be attenvtive to whatever they have to say on the matter.
With that being said, you are entitled to your opinion as we all are but this is not constructive criticism.
Have a nice day.
Well, boo-f-ing-hoo. No positive points? What's that thing I said about the cinematography again?
shareAnd congrats, you hated Hateful Eight and Creed... Probably expected me to insult you as well?
shareI didn´t mean that. I don´t trash films for the sake of not liking them. Like I said, I am open-minded to those who are cohesive enough to bring up key elements as to why whether they did or did not like the film.
If you happen to like a film that I didn´t, that is great. In terms of opinions, art is subjective, we won´t always agree on everything and that is the beauty of movies.
Have a very nice day.
Ok, I didn't find the story fascinating. It was rather bland and slow.
It was something a little different though, so props for that.
The acting, what acting? Lol. It was solid, but I Di Caprio didn't really do much. Again, it was different, but it wasn't amazing.
The best acting, I found, came from the redhead guy who played the Captain.
The scenery looked great, but then, do you watch a movie for that? You could always watch National Geographic in HD for a far more beautiful and wonderful experience.
I'm not going to slate it, because it was worth a watch and solid enough overall, but I don't get all the "masterpiece" talk. Well, I do. It's the kind of movie made for the wannabe's and pretentious crowd. You know, the type that are too intellectual to enjoy and appreciate a light-hearted action movie.
A movie for those with more refined minds to discuss fine details, such as a remarkable shot of a twig swaying in the wind as the lead actor poignantly gazes into the distance. Things that plebs would never understand or comprehend.
It's not a masterpiece yet because it hasn't withstood the test of time. If it turns of that people still like this film twenty or thirty years in the future, then yeah, it's a masterpiece. Otherwise, it's a well made movie. I could definitely see myself watching this film again in the future.
Regarding the minimal dialogue, I know people who prefer dialogue driven films and people who are fine with as few words as possible. I suspect that you better react to the former; to each his own, I guess.
I totally agree with you. Was it one of your favorites of 2015?
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