The Revenant (2015) - Full Reaction
Added 2023-09-18 00:46:34 +0000 UTCWow, two INSANE movies in a row! I think Leo absolutley deserved this Oscar. I mean, some of you were probably right, not an animal movie per se, the bear definitely had main character energy though.
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The crazy thing is that this is based on a real story. I remember reading this in a historical magazine at the same time the film was coming out.
Fredrik Larsson
2023-10-02 06:02:14 +0000 UTCThis looked like a lot of it was filmed in British Columbia, but I could be wrong; I know that this happened in 1823 and that he crawled over 200 miles for two months after being attacked, which took place in South Dakota. I can't imagine even crawling 200 yards after being ripped apart by a brown bear; I have hunted all my life, and one of my biggest fears is being eaten alive. The movie The Edge (1997) is good. And if you ever want to see a cute movie, The Bear (1988) is excellent.
Eddie Perkins
2023-09-21 01:51:10 +0000 UTCThe Grizzly was just a mother defending her young, can't fault her for that. Leonardo should have won for a lot of movies. This one included. I can still picture him as boy in the TV show Growing Pains. I am still concerned about you still being sick Cassie I saw your IG post. You deserve to be better. Flipper was a good animal movie from 1963. Grizzly Man was a fantastic movie.
Zachary K. (Verified Swiftie)
2023-09-19 00:51:19 +0000 UTCMy first time watching this movie also. One amazing tough movie. Hard to watch. Glass was a real person and some of the story is real. And he didn't die there. He survived the bear attack by a number of years. He was one tough man. Hard movie for you Cassie. Great Reaction. That's two tough gory movies in a row. Based on true people and stories which I liked. But, maybe a fun movie for you next.
Rick Williams
2023-09-18 22:38:50 +0000 UTCPrecisely. There's only so many facts and corroboration that can be gathered from the history books. I doubt the Scotsmen really flashed/mooned the English at the Battle Of Stirling the way it was shown in Braveheart (1995). But that didn't stop it from being entertaining.
Zane From Canada
2023-09-18 21:35:59 +0000 UTCIt’s a tall tale at least, as they say.
Mike LL
2023-09-18 18:52:28 +0000 UTCCassie is not ...'built'... for heart-less, mind-less brutality. And this story had no heart... just brutal survival... no mind... just madness... and for all of it all Cassie could offer us, were remembrances of Jeremiah Johnson. But ultimately, this WAS a story of... survival... and retribution... and honorable death.
Terry Yelmene
2023-09-18 17:52:41 +0000 UTCI always get this and Paddington confused. I wondered why my kids were screaming so much! (jk)
Odd Thomas
2023-09-18 17:36:38 +0000 UTCI would say The Revenant is good not great. This was my second time watching it all the way through and like the first time I felt it was a bit too long. Yes the cinematography was top tier but are we watching a revenge story or a nature documentary? I would cut some of the gratuitous nature shots and the whole Native American girl being kidnapped subplot to make it a 2 hour movie. For the good stuff I would say of course the movie was freaking gorgeous, Tom Hardy plays a great villain, and the fight scenes were really well done. The opening battle was shot beautifully with the camera just moving through the fight and the ending was just intense/brutal. Its funny to imagine how you would have reacted to this movie 2 years ago. Overall its a good movie. I gotta disagree about the Oscar though. Yes it is really hard to act while not speaking and Leo did fantastic at playing "man in agony" for 2 hours. It was a great performance I just don't think it was award worthy.
My_Cousin_Mose
2023-09-18 17:36:22 +0000 UTCI loved this movie. The story of survival is true, which is beyond legendary especially in the 1820's: Mauled by a bear, left for dead, bleeding and broken, no food, no water, no equipment, no modern-day medicine. Not many would've survived. The story of revenge was added to the movie for dramatic effect and additional plot, which I was fine with. Nothing wrong with a little creative embellishment for entertainment purposes. Leo and Tom were phenomenal.
Zane From Canada
2023-09-18 16:31:29 +0000 UTCSo you haven’t watched the movie, but agree with her that he deserved the Oscar?
Cole Jennett
2023-09-18 16:14:45 +0000 UTCHaha yeah. 😁 Aside from the subject matter, the "fetch" bomb is dropped 569 times. He definitely should've won for that movie.
Zane From Canada
2023-09-18 16:11:50 +0000 UTCYes, Cassie, to seal the wound when he poured gunpowder on his neck and lit it afire. To cauterize the wound. Tough, tough watch. You have got to give yourself some kudo's to get through this one.
Mike LL
2023-09-18 15:32:51 +0000 UTCI am, right now, in the middle of the movie and I'm stopping now. I have seen it once before and it wasn't fun at the first viewing and it isn't fun now. It is well done, but I am just not having a good time. Some people might enjoy the strong negative emotions, but I don't. I thought, maybe the reaction format would add something to it that I might like, but you are just as negative as I was on first viewing. Yeah, enough now. I am glad there are movies for everyone, just this isnt for me.
Dioskur
2023-09-18 13:37:03 +0000 UTCI agree. Though to be honest, I don't really care since Oscars mean bupkiss anyway. Besides, it is not like the most "worthy" win.
Doug Fisher
2023-09-18 13:32:35 +0000 UTCNow that is an animal movie I can get behind. ;)
Doug Fisher
2023-09-18 13:26:34 +0000 UTCI am not a Leo fan either. In fact this movie was the start of my major turn off from him. Not so much the movie itself but he filmed it here in Alberta. When he experienced a Chinook (local historical winter warming effect) and went on to tell the world he had experience "Global Warming" first hand... I kind of lost all respect for him and any desire to watch his movies. Not a very bright guy.
Doug Fisher
2023-09-18 13:25:50 +0000 UTCI heard they showed the bear scene while announcing the awards and they gave the award win to the bear HAHA!!!
ROBERT CLARK
2023-09-18 11:44:41 +0000 UTCYup djkento, I was the same way. I didn't think it interested me but I just watched it finally and it was freaking amazing. Hardy and DiCaprio gave incredible performances
Jyn Jilly
2023-09-18 10:30:54 +0000 UTCHey homie. I was the same way… I would say, if you can find it free on streaming then watch the first like 5 minutes. If you’re not totally locked in then, totally valid, move on, no big deal. But when I tell you those first five minutes had my jaw on the floor and my butt on the edge of my seat… WOW. The cinematography is so impressive and so technical.
djKENTO
2023-09-18 08:51:48 +0000 UTCUnfortunately, I don't really have a desire to see this movie, not that I think it's a bad movie or anything like that, I've heard a lot of good things about this movie, it just doesn't intrigue me as much! Though I do know what this movie is about, based on a true story about survival and revenge! Plus, I'm not exactly a big fan of Leo Di Caprio, but I do have respect for him, he has proven that he's a good actor, and I definitely agree that he deserved his Oscar for best actor he got in this film! Who knows, maybe one day I'll find myself interested in watching it! However, I hope you found some enjoyment and entertainment in watching this movie despite the fact that it's not an animal movie per se, though it has a ferocious bear in it lol! Next animal movie I say you and Carly should watch and react to together is, sorry for saying it again, Iron Will! You two will love it, dogs, lots of dogs lol! Anyway, hope you get better soon from your Cold, I turn 35 in 4 days lol! Love and support always and God bless you, Carly, and your family [virtual hug]🥰😁😉😇🙏👍🌹
Wesley White
2023-09-18 07:56:00 +0000 UTCFor some reason that last shot gets to me, the music and the cinematography. Btw Alberta looks beautiful. But it reminds me of something that people who've lived through extreme survival situations have talked about, some people say it's a supernatural phenomenon, science says they're hallucinations driven by survival instinct, but either way, people have said that in their worst moments they would see or even speak to someone close to them, alive or passed on, who would motivate them to keep going. I think Leo deserved the award for this, but also for a few others I can think of. One of which is The Aviator, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it.
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2023-09-18 06:46:42 +0000 UTCFor a long time all I could say about this film was... "The bear came back" 🤣 ..that bear attack was borderline traumatizing.
Michael Enos
2023-09-18 05:30:45 +0000 UTCSuffering: The Movie. I still had fun watching it with you. I once saw George Washington's uniform in a museum, it was like a child's size small. People were tiny back then. No way they were fighting a bear and winning.
Brian's Dog
2023-09-18 04:43:47 +0000 UTC"The cinematography was beautiful." I'm so proud of you for noticing and saying this, Cassie. This film is a work of art. From the sound design to the photography. One of my favorite films! Loved your reaction!
Philip Alan
2023-09-18 04:29:07 +0000 UTCYou should check out the true story of Hugh Glass. His backstory in this is fictional but the story of his survival is nuts. After the bear attacked him I. Real life his friends thought he was dead so they did a funeral for him and left him in the wilderness. He then had to basically crawl his way back to the nearest town. He even lay on dead tree bark to let maggots chew on his back skin to heal faster as the bear tore up his back.
Night King01
2023-09-18 04:24:18 +0000 UTCStrong disagree here. This was an incredible performance from Leo. Like popcorn said, the Acting he did just with his face said a thousand words. Not to mention all the physical acting he had to do.
Michael Lynch
2023-09-18 03:55:08 +0000 UTCWould Ted count as a bear movie?
2-Can
2023-09-18 03:54:15 +0000 UTCWow, I liked this movie. You crank out a lot of content. Thank you. While brief, the bear scene made this an animal movie for me. I agree with you that the cinematography is awesome, and that DiCaprio's performance is Oscar worthy. His Oscar well deserved. Tom Hardy was stunning. There were brief moments when his demeanor reminded me of Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986). Tom Hardy is excellent in Peaky Blinders (2013) (6 seasons).
Clay F
2023-09-18 03:07:34 +0000 UTCThere was some serious grizzly bear energy in this one!
Kent Theaker
2023-09-18 02:52:29 +0000 UTCI really love the theory that the camera or the film’s POV is from Leo’s wife (except in the dream sequences when Leo is dreaming). It would make sense in that the camera is always floating above and below and kind of has a life of its own, and then especially in that final shot.
Chip MC
2023-09-18 02:42:06 +0000 UTCBe sure to subscribe to the channel. Once the Exclusive channel hits 1,000 subs it gets a higher priority for converting the video from SD to HD
Coleton B.
2023-09-18 02:10:45 +0000 UTCI haven't seen this yet,,, thus its on my list also.
Michael J
2023-09-18 02:03:00 +0000 UTCThis 100000%. That movie is so amazing, and literally NOBODY ever talks about it. Highly, highly recommend that one. Also you forgot to mention Alec Baldwin
Astraeos
2023-09-18 01:40:22 +0000 UTCA harsh, gorgeous, epic (and yet very intimate) survival/revenge story. To say the film is rough is somewhat of an understatement. The brutal, unforgiving wilderness of 19th century America is very effectively captured by Alejandro González Iñárritu and his brilliant DP Emmanuel Lubezki (aided, I am sure, in no small part by the reported hellish conditions the actors endured while filming). Images of great, serene beauty are juxtaposed against moments of intense, peace-shattering violence (some of it at the hands of man and some at the from the uncompromising will of the wild, uncontrollable environment). What Werner Herzog called the "obscenity," "misery" and "pornography of overwhelming murder" in the natural world comes through quite clearly in THE REVENANT And yet, for all its spectacle, for all its nods to the dual-sided nature of nature itself, the film lacks the same sort of profound depth, the same humble respect for its subject that a filmmaker like Herzog or Malick or Tarkovsky (who is an admitted influence on the work) would bring to the project. The movie carries itself like a masterpiece, but I'm not sure it has the substance to back it up. Iñárritu's camera becomes, at times, a little too intrusive into the events of the story and consequently reduces the overwhelming presence of this non-human character in the film to merely the backdrop of a camera crew. It is a tendency that, while it lent an immediacy and humorous meta element to the goings-on of his prior film BIRDMAN, here it breaks the carefully engineered spell of the film's gritty realism and reminds one that it is an artificial construct that one is watching. At least three times throughout the film an actor gets close enough to the lens to fog it up (Iñárritu's colleague Alfonso Cuaron did a similarly odd thing in his otherwise excellent CHILDREN OF MEN with droplets of blood spattered across the screen). Some might argue that this is no different from the "so-common-that-it-is-now-virtually-unnoticeable" lens flare that used to be considered a big no-no in Hollywood, but I don't think so. One is just a visual flourish that occurs naturally from a physical phenomenon... the other is a gag from Weird Al's "Eat It" music video. The former one has to work hard to avoid. The latter one has to work hard to include. Iñárritu also succumbs to the kind of symbolic heavy-handedness that Cuaron has occasionally been accused of. Themes of death and resurrection/rebirth are pushed often enough in the surreal imagery of the hero's various dreams/memories, but when you not only have him dig himself out of his own grave but also emerge naked from within the body of another animal, you're no longer being subtle. The performances are strong with Tom Hardy being a particular standout. Leonardo works even harder than usual here in his intense, angry onscreen persona. Whether or not he's a "great" actor, he is, like Tom Cruise, certainly a committed one. With furrowed brow, heavy grunting, raspy speaking (due to a throat injury) and very conspicuous spittle meticulously placed in the corner of his mouth, his performance is not just acting. It's ACTING!!!!! and he never wants you to forget it. It makes sense that the academy gave him his Oscar for this role finally because they tend to recognize not the "best" of any category but the "most" of any category and Leo does the MOST acting here he's ever done. In fact, for me, the finest moment for his character/performance was a more subdued one: a brief but very human interaction between him and a friend as they rest on their journey and try to catch snowflakes on their tongue. It is a nice touch, a welcome bit of levity that is, to my recollection, the only time in the whole film Leo smiles and gives himself and the audience a reprieve from his sometimes overbearing (no pun intended) acting. Ironic that the least scenery-chewing Leo does in the whole film is the scene where he is literally chewing the scenery. Finally -- and without giving too much away for those are yet to watch it -- while it is a revenge story, the film tries to change its course in the final moments to be about something else (mercy, forgiveness, compassion, etc... of leaving, as one character says, "vengeance to the creator"), but it is an abrupt, unconvincing and somewhat hypocritical move, the movie paying lip service to higher ideals without really embracing them. Prior to seeing REVENANT, I remember discussing recent "man vs. nature" films with a friend (someone else here mentioned THE EDGE with Anthony Hopkins.and, for the record, I really like that one) and the Joe Carnahan/Liam Neeson vehicle THE GREY was mentioned in the conversation. Though very different from REVENANT, there are numerous similarities between them and imo Iñárritu's piece suffers by comparison. Carnahan's movie succeeds in being a far more compelling and coherent existential experience. Though decidedly nihilistic in tone, THE GREY allows its metaphorical significance to emerge organically from the events of its story rather than forcefully drawing attention to themselves. Carnahan's artistic decisions are always made with deference to the reality he is depicting. His camera is submissive rather than intrusive. There is no self-awareness to his film and thus its emotional, psychological and spiritual power is more potent. Iñárritu is an intelligent, ambitious and talented filmmaker (a self-proclaimed artist), but he could learn a lesson or two in effective storytelling from a very skilled artisan like Carnahan. I'd love to see a reaction to THE GREY at some point. In the meantime. I am glad that you got to see this, Cassie, and I'm looking forward to watching your reaction. As always, keep up the good work.
Stick Figure Studios
2023-09-18 01:39:27 +0000 UTCLove THE EDGE. Definitely superior to this one.
Stick Figure Studios
2023-09-18 01:32:28 +0000 UTCI admit to fast forwarding to THAT scene to see Cassie's reaction. 😮 The first time I saw this movie and those bear cubs I knew Leo was in trouble. Truly an unforgettable scene. 🐻
Robin Craft
2023-09-18 01:28:58 +0000 UTC"The Edge (1997)" is a superb hidden gem animal movie ,Anthony Hopkins ,the Alaskan wilderness and Bart the bear ,what more can you ask for If you ever feel like another animal movie ,it is definitely one to consider
Duncan
2023-09-18 01:23:10 +0000 UTCFrom the intro “I don’t think I’ve seen a Leo movie that I’ve not liked…” You can end that streak pretty quickly if you’re ever convinced to watch The Wolf of Wall Street.
Cole Jennett
2023-09-18 01:18:09 +0000 UTCI never understood the hype for this movie. It wasn’t bad but it honestly wasn’t the role Leo should have won an Oscar for. The book was a lot better.
Alex Gorell
2023-09-18 01:16:03 +0000 UTCGood one Dorothy! 😂
Robin Craft
2023-09-18 01:11:22 +0000 UTCthe scene with the bear is forever etched in my mind…
JL_83
2023-09-18 01:08:34 +0000 UTCIs anyone else having trouble getting the video to start? It keeps buffering for me. NVM saw that YT comment about it still is rendering
David Freese
2023-09-18 01:05:22 +0000 UTCYeah, maybe since it would have been second if The Revenant hadn’t been on the poll you could take pity on us😉
Cole Jennett
2023-09-18 00:58:05 +0000 UTCFrontier Leo! He does have range,this is a re-make of the 1970 'Man in the Wilderness' starring Richard Harris (Dumbledore)..Lions and bears but no tigers,Oh My!
Celeste McAllister
2023-09-18 00:53:10 +0000 UTCYou should just watch Secretariat. It’s pretty incredible.
Michael Lynch
2023-09-18 00:53:00 +0000 UTCIt was a good movie and Leo was great in it. I do think that it was possibly a makeup for him never winning previously though. However, it isn’t a fun watch, and not sure I really want to sit through it all again. I think once was enough, but I’m very interested in the future youtube edit😊
Cole Jennett
2023-09-18 00:50:59 +0000 UTCYou guys are getting me to watch a lot of films I would have never watched otherwise 👍🏽
Omar
2023-09-18 00:50:58 +0000 UTCNext animal movie.. TOGO
Steve Colletti
2023-09-18 00:49:33 +0000 UTCBetter story or book than movie. Leo should have won for the Departed or Wolf of Wall Street. Parts of the movie was filmed in Alberta, I believe
Bill Maurer
2023-09-18 00:49:33 +0000 UTC
