The Revenant | Dec 25 Limited, Jan 8 2016 wide | Opening in select IMAX theaters Jan 14th.

[The Stingray]

This will be better than Star Wars. Yep I said it.

 

That wouldn't be very surprising.

[pieman]

This will be better than Star Wars. Yep I said it.

 

Of course it will.

[dashrendar44]

This will be better than Star Wars. Yep I said it.

 

This is the only major movie I'm looking after this season even more than Hateful Eight that seems like a redundant Inglourious Basterds set in Django Unchained universe. SW7? LOL.

[dudalb]

So dudalb, please tell me your fur-trader buffs are gonna get all critical with fur minutiae.

Nah, more about the weapons they carry,their equipment,the clothing, etc...they are just like Military history buffs.

[dudalb]

I think I ve already said this but I was very surprised to discover this movie seems to be a giant VFX undertaking with 5 houses involved like a Marvel Studios movie.

 

Weird.

There is nothing in the Hugh Glass story that calls for a lot of fancy VFX except maybe for the fight with the Grizzly because that would be hard to do halfway realsitically with practical effects. (They really "cheat" on the scene in the Man In The Wilderness(the 1972 Richard Harris heavily fictionlized version of the Hugh Glass story) by doing it with a lot of very quick shots so you never really see exactlyvwhat is going on).

But Five VFX Houses......God, they spent as much on one Grizzly bear as Jackson spens on the siege of Minas Tirith. That's one hell of a expensive Griz.......

Look, I think the film looks incredible,but gobsmacked that they spent that kind of money on it.

Edited October 20, 2015 by dudalb

[dudalb]

 

I watched Man In The Wilderness last week and liked it. The film wasn't action-packed all the time but several scenes were pretty impressive and it had an interesting twist. After watching it I'm even more looking forward to The Revenant which - judging from the trailers - will have enough action.

 

If you are looking at the story of Hugh Glass as a non stop action film, you are sadly mistaken.

It's a survival against Nature story with a few action scenes. Similiar to "The Martian" really.

Which is why Fox sending out the trailer with "The Martian" made perfect sense.

Edited October 20, 2015 by dudalb

[Lestranger]

This will be better than Star Wars. Yep I said it.

 

[el sid]

If you are looking at the story of Hugh Glass as a non stop action film, you are sadly mistaken.

It's a survival against Nature story with a few action scenes. Similiar to "The Martian" really.

Which is why Fox sending out the trailer with "The Martian" made perfect sense.

Yes, probably. As I said, I liked Man In The Wilderness as it is. I'm not even sure if more action would have matched. Probably not.

SPOILER ALERT

I like the personal change Bass goes through.

END OF SPOILER

My idea was that Man In The Wilderness got mostly positive reviews (I looked at amazon.de and rotten tomatoes) but those who didn't like it said it was too „lame“. And I think in our days people want to see something with action even more than then (in 1972). So I think The Revenant will have enough but not non stop action scenes to attract moviegoers. In my opinion the story itself is interesting enough.

Edited October 20, 2015 by el sid

[TalismanRing]

I think they got around the idea that it was "too tame" by changing significant story points which make it more a black and white revenge tale than one about survival.

[dudalb]

I think they got around the idea that it was "too tame" by changing significant story points which make it more a black and white revenge tale than one about survival.

Which would make it less appealing for me.

Edited October 20, 2015 by dudalb

[TalismanRing]

Which would make it less appealing for me.

 

Agreed. 

 

But with this budget, even when it was a mere $60m it makes sense fiscal if not artistic sense.

[dudalb]

Agreed. 

 

But with this budget, even when it was a mere $60m it makes sense fiscal if not artistic sense.

Another issue is the film uses real names (whereas the Harris film used fictional names) and one of the people who abandoned Glass after the Grizzly attack (I don't use the spoiler because the trailer clearly shows the decision to abandon Glass) became a very famous figure in the American West. Sort of lessens the tension of the revenge plot.

[takerowns]

http://www.eonline.com/news/708868/leonardo-dicaprio-ate-raw-bison-liver-slept-in-animal-carcasses-and-lived-to-tell-the-story-in-the-revenant

 

THIS MAN IS THE  FUCKING G.O.A.T

Edited October 22, 2015 by takerowns

[Jake Gittes]

He will get that Oscar if he has to take it from Fassbender's cold, dead hands.

[Joel M]

Now that they have to promote the movie everyone is gonna give the vague "amusing" stories about the troubled shooting. In a couple of years we are gonna hear about the crazy stuff like if Tom Hardy tried to kill Inarritu with an axe or sth.

[The Futurist]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leonardo-dicaprio-agonizing-revenant-shoot-833888

 

 

Leonardo DiCaprio on "Agonizing" 'Revenant' Shoot: I Was "Sleeping in Animal Carcasses"

 

 

OH, LEO, LEO ...

[CoolioD1]

And I thought they smelt bad... on the outside.

[The Futurist]

[CoolioD1]

I hate the definition of the title (movies that do this in the advertising/even at the start of the movie sometimes are legit the worst) there but otherwise it's a neat poster.

[The Futurist]

I fucking Love Leo but Goddamn, he s gotta be the biggest hypocrite of Hollywood, Mr Hollywood Earth Man has a carbon footprint as big as a small country.