The Revenant

[Jack Wagon]

Went to the movies to see the Martian, great movie.
Saw a trailer for the Revenant, looks like it might be a take off of the Hugh Glass story.
Di Caprio is the mountain man left for dead. Hope it's good, the clip looks interesting.
It's comming this Christmas.   JW

[Jake C]

It's one that I'm very excited to see. I heard somewhere that it took them forever to make because they used only natural lighting. Not sure if it's true, but it's always really neat when films do things like that.

Hopefully it'll be good.

[Rube Burrows]

I'm looking forward to it. I think that Leo is one of this generations best actors (although some of his movies are not my taste).

I also seen where he was so in character that he slept in an animal carcass and ate a raw buffalo heart. They also said that some of the crew quit because of the extreme conditions of filming.

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[PJ Hardtack]

Saw it last night and enjoyed it. It strayed from the true story in several areas, but hey - it's a Hollywood movie. The cinematography was great as was the acting.

Took away any and all illusions about the romantic life of a Mountainman. I kept thinking - frost bite, hypothermia, infection  ......

Someone needs to tell Hollywood that flintlocks need to be primed to fire reliably. One scene only showed a trapper using a brass priming tool. "Lock & Load!" is not just a expression of readiness.

[c.o.jones]

Saw the movie today...........OUTSTANDING!

[Kent Shootwell]

Seen the movie and thought it was OK. It would have been better if I did't know a bit about Hugh Glass or the places the story took place in. Didn't look like South Dakota or the mouth of the Yellowstone country. Why did they pick such poor camp sites, and hogs in the Indian camp? That two shot single barrel flint lock pistol would be handy!  Henry died in Missouri after returning to his lead mining business. Fitzgrareld joined the Army before Hugh caught up with him. Over all a nice matinee.

[River City John]

I'll try not to give away too many spoilers here.
Went to see "The Revenant" this afternoon. Very good, and Leonardo deserves any award they want to throw his way. As does Mr. Hardy.
But, (Spoiler Alert) the movie is 2 1/2 hours long and much of the movie's setting is around running water, - streams, rivers, melt-off . . . so one hour in amidst Surround Sound and if you have to pee but don't want to miss any of the action, (did I mention Surround Sound?) you are up-a-creek, so to speak. Like the subject of the film it tests Man's endurance in the face of adversity.
Men's room afterwards was standing room only and wait your turn. Then relief - one of those two, maybe three minute long pees where you swear not only Saturday's, but Friday's and possibly Thursday's bladder was emptied.

RCJ

[Johnny McCrae]

I went to see it last Friday. I thought it was a good movie however it was a long movie and a bit slow in spots IMHO. River John is correct about all that running water. My kidney's held up but I almost fell asleep. I'll buy the DVD when it comes out.