The Revenant.

[Omahkapi'si]

Overall I enjoyed watching it. I like it when the movies get stuff right too but I don’t let it wreck the movie fir me.

Gene Autry never seemed to reload his six shooter either but I still liked seeing him whup the bad guys.

 

[Packrat]

Irritating thing about Hollywierd, they take a great story, Lord Grizzly, and than change the whole out come. Ashley never got killed in real life. Technical support people, Give me a break
A Man called horse and Man in the Wilderness were much better, especially when they didn't have all the tricks movie people ,CGI, can do today

 

[Caleb Foster]

Accurate or not I really enjoyed it

 

[waksupi]

We had this discussion at a rendezvous this past weekend. All agreed, the old one was better. The bear attack in Revanent was so fake as to be laughable.

 

[mushka]

Hollywood doesn't do actual history, they make movies to entertain ignorant people and make money, nothing else.

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

Not too long ago, I was watching a WW2 documentary on one of the channels, and in one of the reenactment scenes there was a guy with a flintlock musket in the firing line amongst the Garands. I couldn't believe it. Got a good laugh out of that one.

 

[alcessapiens]

Not too long ago, I was watching a WW2 documentary on one of the channels, and in one of the reenactment scenes there was a guy with a flintlock musket in the firing line amongst the Garands. I couldn't believe it. Got a good laugh out of that one.

maybe someone was exercising their sense of humor

 

[Cubreac]

I have seen both movies Man in the wilderness is the better movie. I read a book by the title of Lord Grizzly many years ago great book but can’t remember the name of the author. The book was about the life of Glass. Had a hard time putting the book down!

Here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Grizzly

 

[Daveboone]

I was watching, 'Revolution' with Al Pacino. In his 1st battle scene when the camera pans down the colonial battle line, there are all sorts of guns. One guy even has a Snyder Conversion. It does irk me when they get this stuff wrong. Semper Fi.

How I hated that movie! Particularly, where and when did Pacino's character....who apparently had no back ground or history with long rifles, suddenly become an expert marksman and rifleman??

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

maybe someone was exercising their sense of humor

That’s exactly what I figured it for.

 

[JRL1164]

I like the film The Revenant. I enjoyed it quite a bit and even if it had some inaccuracies was just happy to see a film of the period. Its a seasonal film for me, usually in January on a cold night with a warm fire going inside I'll put it on and enjoy.

 

[reddogge]

Yes, he closed the frizzen before shooting the bear and maybe there was some powder left in the touchhole to ignite it. At least that's what I'll go with.

 

[shorthair]

Expecting historical accuracy from Hollywood is about like expecting truth from politicians, which is truly sad.

 

[shorthair]

I don`t why they even bother to list technicle advisors . Are the even on the set , dothey watch the shota, look at the script Gad it looks like they just must be a relative and collect a check from the producers for skipping while swaping thumbs.
watched a poirot episode this morning an he stated to Hastings that Columbia was a landlocked country. This from Agatha Christy a reknown writer. Or was it the makers of the film ?
And if you really want ridiculous just watch the news sxity or more years ago I was involved in two incidents the first of which I did not see any reporters or camera men there and the second in which both were present. when I viewed the reportage on TV I actually thought I must be in a foriegn country with fictional writers. The results were so utterly ridiculous.

Blitz

Why should they, Hollywood knows what "really " happened, just ask them.

 

[kyron4]

I'm not trying to be a wise guy here. I don't get your point. The film period supposed to be early 1800's. There were a lot of surplus Bess's laying around at that time. Also, all the parts from broken guns left over from the Rev. War that were reused into new guns. Could you please expand on your post? Thanks, Semper Fi.

Just making a joke using a generic example, not specific to any movie. Even the most researched and thought out period piece will draw criticism from some for something as insignificant as the color of buttons on a jacket or a bayonet that wasn't issued in early '42 but late '42. In short, some people will always find the turd in the punch bowl.

 

[kyron4]

We had this discussion at a rendezvous this past weekend. All agreed, the old one was better. The bear attack in Revanent was so fake as to be laughable.

Really ?

Short of having a real bear maul a real person, how would you have made more "acceptable" ?

 

[victor#0]

Since I had read " Lord Grizzly " I was excited to see it, after watching how they hollywooded it I was thoroughly disgusted. leonardo dicraprio is also a communist Dbag, they could of at least had someone who reeks of toxic masculinity play Hugh Glass instead of a pantywaist!

 

[waksupi]

Really ?

Short of having a real bear maul a real person, how would you have made more "acceptable" ?

Some of us have actually seen bears maul and kill animals. Go watch a dog shake a rat, you might get the idea.

 

[JEBMs]

Not too long ago, I was watching a WW2 documentary on one of the channels, and in one of the reenactment scenes there was a guy with a flintlock musket in the firing line amongst the Garands. I couldn't believe it. Got a good laugh out of that one.

Maybe the armorer for that movie was smoking what they are saying Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was on the Rust set

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[bigstick6017555]

I have read many articles and books on bears charging, attacks and maulings, one thing they all seem to have in common is each one is different in numerous ways. I do not believe a bear has one set way to do its natural things it does. Hollywood does what it does to make films exciting, but how bad was this man mauled in? It was a story passed down for many years, maybe it was worst, or not as bad as depicted. Met a man once that claimed to have been attacked by a small Grizzly, showed the scars, got racked across his back with claws while running away, at that point the bear dropped the attack. The infections from the clawing was the worst from the ordeal, he claimed. I think if you took a survey you would more than likely have quite a few ways different people would have wanted that scene portrayed.