Posted on 01/09/2016 9:20:48 PM PST by nikos1121
And that was one of my 1st impressions.
It also seemed an amalgam of many movie concepts at times.
Fantastic cinematography but, didn’t like the movie overall.
I too, thought that was a wasted shot. Usually with the French all it takes is a loud noise or at most a 'boo'.
Lanscape, scenery, atmosphere: A+.
Acting - can't comment, don't like DiCaprio. Sufficient job for a part with little actual acting. He lost me though, towards the end, when I saw his hands and fingers hacking and handling a stick. Those hands look like boys hands, never saw a hard day. Didn't fit the character. I'm not being picky here -> I wasn't looking for it -> It just kind of ended the believability of the character - not a conscious decision. B+.
Story ... Too much disney with the repeat of what the Indian said earlier as the movie's final philisophical statement. B.
It's worth watching just for the landscapes, cool first battle scene. For a while I thought it was a great movie, but by the end - I'd say - pretty good movie with great great beautiful scenes, filming, Dicaprio not being a part of that, although he didn't detract, and if I wasn't biased against him I would say he did a really good job. Except ... they should have had him chop a cord of wood to get his hands in shape. He has the hands of a 17 year old office worker, not a guy who just survived death 47 times.
Never ran a trap line, eh?
3. Glass, sustains wounds throughout that are beyond life threatening no doubt, including where he has a fistula going from his esophagus to the outside that he closes up with, gun powder? And he gets sewed up, and the sutures are in place for like more than ten days? Maybe longer? And they don’t get massively infected? Come on, man.
stitch with sawgrass (or inner lining of nettle) dragged through boiling water, poultice of honey and sphagnum moss (moss alone in a pinch) You won't get infected.
9. Throughout the film you get the clear idea that bow and arrows can out fight soldiers and trappers who have to reload their flint locks.
True. Within range, and in the proper hands, the bow and arrow can be more lethal... Seconds to reload and fire.
Glass strips down naked, yes naked, and climbs into his dead horse’s hide, after spending what seems like forever taking its entails out. He leaves his shoes, shirt, socks and coat outside. Next morning he stretches, pushes his way out, and then I assume puts on the same clothes that have been hanging out overnight in subzero temperatures.
Yep. I have never slept inside a dead horse, but in winter, you do not sleep in your clothes - They get wet. Well, moist. Moisture is not your friend in the winter. Always dry everything out at the fire at night. Sleep with your clothes, but not in them.
actually, the part that doesn't work is the wetness inside the horse. The idea is probably true, but I would be packing that belly full of grass before I climbed in.
In shade hill sd. Glass has been part of South Dakota lore since I learned of him in elementary school
Classic. I dare you to say that at an Organizing For America rally.
I watched Sicario yesterday. Gripping movie. Highly recommended and explains the current narko-traffiking scene well.
I agree. You could have put others in that roll, although Dicaprio has a certain screen presence. Hard to take your eyes off of him.
I think the problem is in the scene selection and editing. I’m sure they tossed some scenes that were more with some interaction of the Indians and with Glass. They kept way too many minutes on other things.
For example, I still don’t understand the significance of the burnt out Indian village Did the French do that.
And he did fire his pistol twice while riding.
The opening Indian attack was brutal. Seems they had some long sequences there. That’s great directing... Then just when you think you’re about to see an epic movie beyond compare things start to bog down and unravel. It held my attention, cause I’m in to these kinds of movies, but no way you’ll be able get your wife or girlfriend to go. I see some good reviews and some good sales for two weeks, then vooooompf it’ll close. I don’t think Dicaprio is a shoe in either. This movie was release ini 2016, right?
Mike Meyers did a great impression of that:
Unfortunately, FR server is still butchering the UTF-8 codes for much of punctuation. You should copy the whole text into the plain text editor then paste it back into the browser's editor.
The FR server software needs at least to stop declaring to browsers that it supports UTF-8 (in the edit form page it puts out) when it obviously does not do it correctly. Or someone should fix the 3-4 lines of code where the UTF-8 input bug is.
I thought his audience descriptions added to the whole movie event......
...people who sit in the back....watching their back.....and carrying.
Welcome to the new normal.
Great review..... But I think I will pass on this one!
ps....and I liked Jeremiah Johnson and the newest True Grit
Thanks for the tip. I wrote in out as a word document then posted. It took around ten more minutes to the edit it so as to at least get the paragraph and bullet breaks.
Sub Zero water?
That’s ICE man.
The story of Hugh Glass is awesome all by itself.
The movie seems to leave the story of Glass somewhere behind. I think there was more to the man than survival.
I think it’s “I should really just relax.”
What's the problem - Rambo did similar and sewed his own arm up....
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