Check it out B-man and we will compare notes.
I saw it at Santikos and while it wasn't in Dolby Atmos - The sound was truly spectacular as was the Image since it was shot on Digital - So if there is a theater with a premium option - i highly suggest you partake.
Originally Posted by cr76
Spoiler alert...Kind of.
Saw The Revenant this weekend and it was pretty much as you described. I thought it was a visually stunning movie. The beauty of the scenery and the cinematography was contrasted well by the brutality. It was both fascinating and difficult to watch at the same time sometimes. The bear attack was probably the best scene of the movie. I would watch the movie again just for that scene. It was so fucking real and every bit as hard to watch as the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. The battles with the Arikara were equally difficult. DiCaprio did a great job of conveying the pain and frustration and helplessness that Glass must have been feeling and did it at times with no dialogue. In that way it was much like Castaway. Tom Hardy did a great job as Fitzgerald. He portrayed an intense internal struggle that eventually took him down. If only it were true.
Overall I was disappointed though. Had I not read the book and learned about the story of Glass I would have thought it a pretty good movie. There were too many deviations from the book which tried to stay historically accurate with a couple of noted dramatic exceptions. It was good enough in it's own right and there was no reason to deviate. The screenwriters did the real story a huge disservice IMO. Had they followed the book there were plenty of battles, hardships overcome and reckoning to make a great movie.
Some items of note, from the book's epilogue addressing historical accuracy is that Jim Bridger, the younger of the two betrayers, later became what is considered to be the king of the mountain men. He died in the 1870's and there are towns, rivers, bridges etc. all over the northwest named after him. His life is probably a very interesting story on it's own.
While there is some evidence that Glass confronted Bridger he did forgive him as is pretty much portrayed in the movie. However, there is no record of Glass confronting Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald escaped back down the river and enlisted in the army. He may have been found by Glass but Glass didn't kill him.
There is no mention of Glass having a son and he certainly wasn't with him on the expedition when he was attacked by the grizzly. Glass spent time as a captive of the pirate Jean Lafitte and the Pawnee at different times in his earlier years. He spent the next ten years after the bear attack exploring and trapping the southwest briefly before returning back to trap the Missouri river area. He was killed in 1823 when he and a couple of other trappers were crossing the Yellowstone river and were ambushed and killed by a group of Arikara Indians.
