What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Ben]

Raising Cain.... Not bad.

[Trapt53]

Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

[onetluv]

The Revenant...HIGHLY recommend it...great movie and great acting...awesome story.everything about it was good.another awesome flick starring Leo..

[Stavros]

The Revenant (Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, 2015)
This pretty looking flop cannot decide if it is a survival or a revenge drama. One can dismiss the revenge story given that there are hundreds of such films and this one suffers because the survival story dominates and the revenge is only there to tie loose ends in the story. Once Glass returns to Fort Kiowa the film's pulse stops. Unfortunately, the survival story is riddled with fact and fiction; the bear attack is the highlight of the film, the scenes with the horse stretch credulity, for some to breaking point. The music whines on with no relation to the film, while a mix of Pawnee, Cree and Sioux men on horseback, often a-whoopin' and a-hollerin' like something from a long-forgotten John Wayne movie occupy the same part of the land where in reality they were far apart. And there are no dogs, even though the first nations and the trappers who (often, but not always) stole from them all had dogs, for hunting, retrieval and company, as depicted in one of the most glorious of American paintings, George Caleb Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845), linked below. It is perhaps fitting that Leonardo DiCaprio, the 43-year old actor with the voice of a 14 year old should spend so much time in the woods, given the state of his acting, and if he gets an award it might be because he doesn't speak for most of the film. The opening scenes which are supposed to present character, scene and motive, are all but incomprehensible, Tom Hardy having perfected a grunting even more obscure than Brando.

The Revenant is the second film to use the story of Hugh Glass, abandoned on a hunt he built a raft and spent something like 6 weeks sailing down the Missouri after that bear attack. Richard Harris was the first 'Glass' in Richard Sarafian's film Man in the Wilderness (1971).

What a way to make a living!

[scorpeo777]

french film " A Prophet" , highly recommended

[hardiron4u]

The Big Short



The true story about the recent housing bubble. Its about betting that the stocks you buy will fail. Specifically the investment in securitized subprime home mortgages. This movie is nominated for 5 Oscars. Entertaining but the scaring thing is that this can happen again. Made a few folks very rich and millions poorer.

[SanDiegoPervySage]

Dirty grandpa

[BlüeKarma]

Bridge of Spies, good Tom Hanks Cold War-era thriller

[simes]

Seven. Entirely ace.

[broncofan]

Very perceptive review about The Revenant. I read the book and decided not to see the movie on the basis of it. In the book, the revenge story is even less compelling, which is probably why Inarritu dressed it up a bit for the film. I could tell this from a trailer where Glass has a son and is buried alive with loose dirt. It took a story where the basis for revenge was head-scratching and turned it into a melodrama.

Assuming the movie is similar in other respects, the main character makes it back to safety after a harrowing attack, only to drive headlong into the wilderness as winter approaches with a hostile Native American tribe (the Arikara) in his path so that he can get his revenge. Couldn't he have waited to see if his tormentors survived winter? Apparently that wouldn't be reckless enough for a man who survived a bear attack that took off his scalp and left him with maggot-infested wounds on his back.

I'm not sure Leonardo DiCaprio is such a bad actor though...