"The Revenant" DVD/Blu-Ray

[Marc Adamchek]

I ordered the blu ray copy in advance from amazon (hey, I'm starved for old timey entertainment) and was glad when it came to my door. Kicked back and watched it with nobody else in the house, bit my tongue and refrained from screaming out my usual stream of cussing at ALL the inaccuracies and absolutely needless story "enhancers".

After all of that, I enjoyed it.

But one thing just plain mystifies me. Why oh why are the frizzens not shown at full cock and fired on a pan of powder? Think Last of the Mohicans. How cool and powerful an image does a flintlock present on the screen with a mini-explosion at the pan quickly followed by the main BOOM at the muzzle? Now imagine a whole bunch of guys firing their flinters like that. The director could have milked the basic working of the rifles to great dramatic effect IMHO.

OK, I'll stop there before we go further into the semi-auto flintlock rifles and pistols. Instead of letting that get me riled I just let it go and imagined they were double barreled(!)

 

[Darto]

:surrender: :haha:
http://pagesix.com/2016/05/20/hypocrite-leo-takes-private-jet-to-collect-green-award/

 

[tenngun]

:rotf:
hypocrocy sits on all our shoulders. Anti Gay rights senators solicit gay prostitutes. Hillery pays her female staff less then her male staff, Gibson writes Christian movies and explodes in anti semntic rants, Boxer wants to disarm you, but states that she thankful for armed body graudes around her at a feisty dem meeting in Nevada.
And me, I complained about everything wrong with the movie...then bought a copy :rotf:

 

[Black Jack]

I just received Revenant from Netflix a couple of days ago. I've watched it twice so far....the cinematography is just stunningly beautiful. It really captured the stark, brutal beauty of the land where the story took place. Yeah, I know the Hugh Glass saga didn't take place in that locale but I kept telling myself that it was not a movie about the Hugh Glass saga per se but was a movie from a novel. I have re-watched the bear attack a half dozen times...talk about brutal. If I buy the movie I will have to make sure I look for the Blu-Ray version so that the glorious photography shines through.

 

[GrumpyGrizz]

I saw it twice at the theater. It's a decent flick. One of the best things to come out of it was my friend calls me the next day. "Did you know that was based on a true story?" It will generate interest.

 

[Alden]

The movie The Revenant is supposed to be released on DVD...

Might add it to my Jeremiah Johnson and The Mountain Men movie's.

Yup, 'bout where it belongs. With those timeless, blockbuster, classics. Yeah...

I hear tell there is a Director's Cut where they show Dickaprio dying from his own cuts, not just the fade to black and his last, pained, breaths ending the movie... I need this. Maybe someone can confirm.

Does the DVD/Blueray have an alternate ending, maybe where Dickaprio never makes it out of the woods? Perhaps where he chokes to death lying face down, too weak to escape a puddle of grits...

And are there subtitles to understand the other half of the words mumbled by the antagonist who also dies at the end!? He made Sam Elliott sound downright articulate!

 

[Brad McCaffree]

I had to see the movie since it's my era. Saw it twice AND added it to my collection of fur trade hollywood classics.
BUT... the first flaw I saw, was ol Tom Hardy taking a piss and zipping up his buckskins??? oh well. Hugh Glass was a bad ass like all of them boys were back then.
Surviving the climate, critters, and NDN's made em tough. There are many of us around that still carry that toughness, but the future of "tough" is bleek.
B

 

[coloradoclyde]

https://youtu.be/GXD7fY3E1_E :rotf:

 

[SgtErv]

CC that is hilarious :rotf:

 

[Cowboy]

https://youtu.be/GXD7fY3E1_E :rotf:

Hey! I want that!! :haha:

Respectfully, Cowboy :grin:

 

[Billnpatti]

Yeah, I agree. Just watch it for its entertainment value. It is an entertaining movie but it is not historically accurate. If you read the real story of Hugh Glass, you will find that Hollywood took a LOT of liberties with the telling of that story. But, that is Hollywood for you. Like I say, just watch it for it's entertainment value.

 

[coloradoclyde]

When people complain about it not being "historically accurate" or deviating from actual events....I'm astonished.
What were people expecting?
Who goes to the movies to learn historical accuracy?...


Here' some more fat to chew..... http://hughglass.org/jim-bridger/

 

[Claude Mathis]

Like I say, just watch it for it's entertainment value.

And they'll admit that's the only reason they made it. They make money entertaining people. :wink:

 

[Snakebite]

Sometimes even a bad mountain man movie is better than a lot of the other stuff they put out. :2

But I actually like this one. Just take it for what it is.