Posted on 01/17/2016 10:53:15 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
My son knows me pretty well and he raved about the film but said it was too violent for me to be able to like it. I believe him. So I’m not going. Too bad they do this. I dislike gratuitous violence so much.
My wife and I walked out at the halfway point.
Just so much more gratuitous violence and vulgarity.
Hollywood is losing it's sense of making a fine feature film, IMHO.
The violence is no worse than what you see on cable. The movie has beautiful scenes, but for the most part it is a grind to watch. It does not compare to the great westerns of the past.
Anyone know where I can pick up one of those semi-automatic flintlock pistols?
There are so many Mountain Man stories that could be put on film-again!
Hugh Glass (MAN IN THE WILDERNESS)
Jedediah Smith
John Coulter, famous for fining Yellowstone and “Coulter’s Run”, made into a movie by Cornelle Wilde in Africa THE NAKED PREY.
Bill Williams
Jim Beckwourth (Black mountain man who guided Chivington to Sand Creek)
Jim Bridger (The young man who was supposed to bury Hugh Glass, but ran away)
Kit Carson
Andrew Garcia
“Indian” John Nelson
I saw the film. The production was done exceptionally well, I could feel the cold and snow.
The violence was extreme. I’m not saying the violence was overdone, I don’t know what people were like in the wilderness back then but I hope it was overdone. It was a dog eat dog world portrayed in the movie. It is hard to imagine such a brutal world or such dishonest people in it.
One good thing about the movie is that DiCaprio had so little to say past a few grunts. If nothing else the story was gripping, it holds you on the edge of your seat, I will be glad when I can forget it.
Can someone elaborate a little more on this “bear rape”? I can’t wrap my head around that - WHO was raped, and by whom? What I’ve read so far is just what’s in these comments on the movie. I just can’t picture a bear raping someone - that’s the jist of what I’m getting. Thanks much.
If the bear scene is any more violent than what was in the Man in the Wilderness, I'm definitely NOT going to see Revenant. THAT was an extremely violent scene, and what Richard Harris went through after the attack was too much to watch. It was horrible.
Will not waste my time.
Came home raving about it.
Was surprised he went to see it, even more surprised he liked it.
Or Death Hunt.
DiCaprio will win an Oscar, I predict.
GETTING INTO A VISIBLY DEAD HORSE...?
Sorry, that’s not for pussies.
Maybe it was a super hi-tech MODEL..?
Eh...I have my doubts.
I heard the director was really, REALLY making his actors suffer.
NOT DANCES WITH WOVES, by a MILE.
And devote his entire acceptance speech to fighting Global Warming.
I noticed that too. I guess he kept his cheeks full of balls but have no idea where he hid the powder.
Elaboration: didn’t happen. Period.
| Exceptional recovery rate, especially from hypothermia.
Still liked it.
Sounds like a remake of Man in the Wilderness. With a lot of extra added violence thrown in to make it more “realistic.”
I guess he kept his cheeks full of balls but have no idea where he hid the powder.
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LOL — That comment could go in so many different directions.
That was just a rumor somebody came up with at an early screening because the bear attack was so violent. The bear was female and protecting its young. By now, though, the bear rape rumor has become an internet meme — something bigger than the scene or even the movie.
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