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This garbage won 3 Oscars?

posted 8 years ago by JimmiesRustler
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Didn't even deserve to get nominated.

Good photography and cinematography don't just make a movie. Last thing I knew, acting, plot, soundtrack, and some base level of excitement was a movie. This movie was "exciting" as watching grass grow. Even the fight scenes had no weight. You knew the guy would survive it all.

After all who survives bear attacks, swimming in ice cold water well below freezing and then walking around for miles without wet clothes on(you've have hypothermia in 5 minutes). There is has to be some part of being believable to have plausible deniability. This movie has neither.

[–] iadorepink 8 years ago

This film deserved the Oscar for cinematography. It was beautiful. Although i do agree cinematography doesn't make a great movie. The film is unrealistic. But one thing it has next to great cinematography is acting. Tom Hardy was the MVP of the film. He was an incredible and effective villain. It won cinematography and deserved best supporting actor. But as far as anything else, no.

[–] Victoriavixen 8 years ago

Leo won for lead actor, not supporting.

[–] bmiluszusky 8 years ago

He didn't say anything about Leo lol

[–] gloops 8 years ago

I'm afraid the film jumped the... bear. It should have stuck to the story of the real Hugh Glass, which is much more interesting than a tired revenge 'plot'.

The actual events took place in summer (when bears aren't hibernating). The real Glass survived a bear mauling, set his own broken leg and got himself 200 miles to the nearest settlement, but nobody could survive repeated dunking in icy water without succumbing to hyperthermia.

I didn't care for the fourth wall breaking in-your-face camera work. I found it a bit claustrophobic, which is the wrong mood to be setting for a story of a man alone in a vast wilderness. The film didn't seem to have any point or message, or anybody to empathise with. It just dragged on for hours and left me cold.

[–] dnjsthd 8 years ago

Didn't even deserve to get nominated.

I think so.

[–] causewayking 8 years ago

Swimming in ice cold water well below freezing. You might want to go back to science.

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[–] espdemon-18077 8 years ago

This wasn't a film, but a cartoon with cinematography like that of National Geographic. It reminded me of the roadrunner and coyote cartoons. Abysmal film in almost every way imaginable. The fact that it's sitting on an 8.0 rating is as comical as the films attempt to portray gritty realism. Just a silly cartoon all the way around.

[–] Patman111196 (1811) 8 years ago

People really need to realize that most Oscar nominations, especially for technical design, have little to no bearing on the quality of the movie. I mean sometimes very cool visual effects and production design can influence people's expectations. Take Passengers for example, critics weren't too fond, but audience probably loved it for it's Oscar nominated production design. Anyway, this movie had very cool supporting visual effects, costumes, and production design (potential frontrunner to have wonfor that imo). But sometimes we just get too taken far by how the story seems overlong and noninteresting.

[–] FrozenLantern (14) 8 years ago

Disagree