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.
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Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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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.
Those are perfect.
Those actually make me want to see some of them, when I was totally meh before.
RIP Alan Rickman. Also 69 and also (FUCK) cancer: [link]
Oh man. RIP Alan Rickman.
Oh, that is not fair. Two cultural icons in the space of a week? At the same age. I'm skipping 69. (Which is something I would never normally do.)
The only notable omission I see in the noms is Ant Man not getting a visual effects nod for de-aging Michael Douglas.