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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai

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SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2016 10:23:17 am PST #29674 of 30000

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Saw The Revenant with my daughter, yesterday. Went in totally blind, not really knowing what it was about other than it had Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio in it and someone being left for dead. I was completely blown away. By all the actors. I would have never guessed that the Captain, played by Domhnall Gleeson, also plays General Hux in TFA. No freaking way. Bill Weasley has sure grown up.

I saw today that Leo got a Golden Globe for it as did the movie. Totally deserved, as far as I'm concerned, but then I haven't seen any of the other movies that were nominated, so you can take my opinion with a whole salt mine.

Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2016 10:30:09 am PST #29675 of 30000

brillig

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of other movies with the same story line as Revenant.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 11, 2016 10:37:30 am PST #29676 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple of other movies with the same story line as Revenant.

There was a film based on the same story with Richard Harris back in the mid-70s, Man in the Wilderness.

Zenkitty - Jan 13, 2016 3:29:32 am PST #29677 of 30000

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I wasn't sure about seeing The Revenant, but your review pushed it onto the Will See list, Sail. Might have to wait for DVD, though. Such movies are often too overwhelming for me to sit through without a break.

SailAweigh - Jan 13, 2016 9:59:59 am PST #29678 of 30000

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

That, and on the big screen, it evokes big emotions. I was constantly covering my eyes and ears, not because blood and gore squick me, but because it was so hard to watch the character going through it. Leo did a really splendid job in this movie. It might be a little easier on the small screen, where everything isn't quite so much in your face; there were a lot of extreme close-ups.

I have to say about the score, too, that it wasn't anything memorable. Not in the way that it was bad, but in the way it both followed and spurred the action on in such subtle ways that you didn't even realize how much it was manipulating your emotions. There is nothing the least hummable about it, and it probably isn't a soundtrack that you'd want to play over and over, but it was really amazing for how it affected the movie.

Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2016 4:52:21 am PST #29679 of 30000

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Oscar Nominations.

[edit: I'm kind of meh on them]

Fiona - Jan 14, 2016 5:01:44 am PST #29680 of 30000

This makes them much better:

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Jesse - Jan 14, 2016 5:24:04 am PST #29681 of 30000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Those are perfect.

SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2016 5:27:27 am PST #29682 of 30000

Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Those actually make me want to see some of them, when I was totally meh before.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 14, 2016 5:30:29 am PST #29683 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

RIP Alan Rickman. Also 69 and also (FUCK) cancer: [link]

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