I thought Tom Hardy's character was too evil, he didn't have any redeemable qualities. He was annoying, obnoxious and insufferable. I think it would have been more interesting if we could relate to him just a little bit
I tend to give these kinds of movies a wide berth. Usually it's just an excuse to make a movie with a shitty and boring story. Just as the revenant. It's pretty yes, but it's one of the most boring and gruesome movies I've ever seen.
Glass was actually going to kill the men who left him for dead. He did wind up crawling like 100 miles through the woods and made it to an outpost only to find out that the man he wanted to kill joined the army so he couldn’t touch him. Something like that.
+Heisenberg Isnt it the worst tho tryin to discuss that with other ppl. I dont like him either. I tell ppl he is a one note actor. Tell me a movie where the high point of his acting isnt screaming. There are like 3-4 movies where he just screams at a cell phone.
I'll admit there are other Grit in the Mud movies that have a larger philosophical meaning or better subtext, Aguirre, Apocalypse now, Fitzcaraldo etc. But for me, I went to see this movie to marvel at the incredible scope and visceral feeling, and thats what I got. Sometimes movies don't need to have a deeper meaning, sometimes they're just fabulous journeys. :)
The part where Leo gags on the Buffalo meat, I took it to mean he was still having problems with his throat, since in an earlier scene he couldn't even really drink water, and vomited most of it up. Sure, he cauterized it with gunpowder, but that's not a magic fix-all to the residual tracheal and esophageal damage the character likely incurred.
Great review, but I have to disagree with your assessment that there's no real discernible subtext. It seemed pretty clear to me that Inarritu was making a comparison between the struggles of DiCaprio's character and the suffering of the Natives during the colonization of the USA. Like, especially when the Frenchman tells the Native American dude he's not getting any horses because "fair is fair" or whatever, and then the Native America starts spouting off how they took their forests, took their animals, took everything from them... cut to DiCaprio having a Native American fever dream while emerging from a dirt grave. At every turn, Hardy's character devalues nature (refusing to let DiCaprio heal, the God Is A Chipmunk speech) while obsessing over progress ("Life? I ain't got life. I only got living and I ain't got that without these pelts."), and to make that dynamic clear he's easily the most racist character in the film. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but even on a surface level I don't think it's entirely style over substance. It's telling a story about how human progress can disturb the balance of the natural world, through the lens of the Colonist and Native conflict. Not the most original thing in the world, but there's something going on.
CarbonWaterCalcium I don't think it was the intention of the movie to say humans are inherently cruel, nor that nature is inherently peaceful. This whole narrative is kicked off by a bear fucking up DiCaprio for wandering into the wrong neighborhood, and the Natives in the story pretty much represent a group of humans who advocate for natural peace. The trouble isn't humanity, it's human ideas of business and industry. And of course, that progress seems very reasonable in a lot of ways (hence why so many people, especially Americans, sympathize with Hardy's way of thinking), but it's also kind of inherently corruptive; it's the mentality that means you're not gonna chop down a tree to build a shack, you'll chop down a forest to buy a farm. It's the mentality that turned the bison from one of the most populous animals in the USA to bordering on extinction. This is just random thoughts out of my head of course. I'm sure there's other stuff to the movie, and I'm sure there's more interesting ways of looking at it!
+LackingSaint I agree 100%, that's essentially what I took away from the plot. The line, "They don't hear your words, they only see the color of your face." sort of hammers that point home fairly early on in the story. I also looked into the real story and it struck me that they chose to include American Indians in a story that essentially had none, it twists the narrative to be more than just about a man getting fucked by a bear. Maybe they were distracted by DiCaprio's dumb face.
***** In fairness, if the moral was something that was really obvious just from the first viewing, you'd be saying it was obnoxious or preachy. And as it stands, the movie does literally end with Tom Hardy saying "Killing me won't bring your boy back". The whole two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right thread is pretty strong throughout the film, when you consider the relationship of the Colonists and Native.
One of the main reasons I enjoyed this movie was that it was successful at suspension of of disbelief. How it was shot with natural lighting and the some of the very gritty moments made it feel less like a movie with actors in it and something that was actually happening(even fooled me on leo's acting). I was sitting on my couch watching it and I was kind of feeling whatever the scene was in especially in the sub temperature freezing water scenes. I have been in those before and I could absolutely picture that. In fact, I am so dead inside these days from feeling anything from movies or tv shows so I feel that was quite an accomplishment.
I know people love it but I feel the same about the Departed regarding Scorsese. It's an okay enough movie but wouldn't rank it anywhere near his best.
12:28 Could I have lived the rest of my life without knowing this was a thing that happened? Yes, I could have but now I'll never know what that was like.
scampers *sigh* You're just a terrible fucking person. What happened to RESPECTING other people? WHY THE HELL DOES THIS FUCKING DISAPPEAR BECAUSE OF SOMETHING AS FUCKING TRIVIAL AS... A CHARACTER FROM AN ANIMATED TELEVISION SHOW??? WHAT THE FUCK? Man, people are fucking awful.
"At no point [...] did I get any idea that [revenge] was his motivation" - Jay @ 6:31 Were you drunk during the movie, Jay? How is revenge not the most obvious motivation after seeing his son get murdered in front of him? Normally I defend your points over Mike when he tramples all over them, but what the fuck was that?
+PowermateV100 It's not a constant theme that you're made to feel, though. Obviously you remember that his son was murdered, but it's not a motivation that the audience is made to feel consistently.
They did, but there are long stretches of the movie where there are no emotional ties to what's happening on screen. You're watching a man go through hell, and you have to constantly remind yourself why he's doing it.
Enthos2 Because it's blatantly obvious that that's the case, and spending any more time than he did belaboring a clear and obvious point is a wast time. I'm glad a director has the guts to not be constantly hitting us on the head with every little plot detail that he feels we should know (I'm looking at you JJ Abrams).
I like Leo, but he's been consistently the weakest part of every Martin Scorsese movie the last 10 or so years. I wish he'd use a different leading man. Just throwing that out there.
+danekarl I haven't seen Gravity so I can't say much on that, but one of the main aspects that made the Revenant so exceptional was the original score. Combined with the cinematography it created a really cool atmosphere, especially seeing it in the theater. I realize that "atmosphere" is totally subjective but that's my 2 cents on it.
+danekarl While what you are saying about them being "experiences", Gravity had emotional weight. It was a story of recovering after losing a child. Picking up the pieces in your life and fighting to take it back, because another human being showed her how good life could still be. It's super simple, and the space thriller part was only a canvas to make it more unique and compelling. Just like the Revenant it was a simple movie, but people don't like simple movies anymore, they only like goddamn Nolan mindfucks.
+danekarl Both have something to say, i would give you that Gravity is a little weak in the plot department, but overall is meant to be simple, but they have substance, and even if they dont is not that important
I refresh RLM about 10 times a day. I literally yell when there's a new video. I wave my arms around if it's about 40 minutes long. I don't wave my arms around if it's 25 minutes long. But I still make noises. I don't know why I'm saying this.
+mypowersareback oh my dear mypowersareback... used to do it all the time.... then i discovered that u can tell YT to send you email alerts when they post
Can you really call a character based on a trapper, someone who has to know how to survive in harsh conditions or they literally will die, a marry sue?
+FlesHBoX They establish that he was the guide who was hired and how he knew his shit with the boat being captured which was known to the audience but the other trappers didn't know at the time. Also his interactions with the chasing native Americans didn't prove to be fruitful when he tried. Idk I don't think its fair to call the character based on Hugh Glass a real human being who survived the attack a Mary Sue/Marty Stu. The journey of survival was true for the most part except for the chasing native Americans though. Hugh Glass irl lucked the fuck out in finding friendlies.
+Matt M It's probably his best role because he doesn't speak that much, he usually just shouts in his other movies, and he can't do an accent to save his life. Fassbender should win this year. really
not for django, the fact that he didn't even get nominated was borderline criminal. christoph waltz was basically doing the same thing that he did in his last tarentino film, and he got an oscar for that too.
His character in this is just too one note, a completely despicable, evil, annoying person. I felt like he needed to show another side of his character to make him somewhat relatable
I completely disagree, the Revenant was my third favorite film of this year. Despite a few minor quibbles I really enjoyed Leo's and Tom Hardy's performance along with the spectacular cinematography.
16:41 - That's not what the "uncanny valley" is. It's not "no matter how good looking", the point is that a face that looks _almost_ real is more _unpleasant_ (in the sense of causing involuntary fear and disgust) than one that is clearly _not_ real. If it actually manages to look good _enough,_ then it's good enough. The "valley" is the bit below that. And it's specifically about *human faces,* anyway, it doesn't apply to bears (which are supposed to make you feel uneasy even if they look - or indeed are - real). 16:51 - No, his name is definitely not "Inarato". :-P
django was a cartoonish portrayal, and it was shown in a very OTT "look who it is!!!" way. the Aviator is a solid film. Whats Eating Gilbert Grape is a good acting performance i agree.
It never crossed my mind that it was him, and i didnt know that he was in the movie until after the fact. So yeah, good on him! And shinzon and bane share nothing in common...
Even if I don't care about the movies, I check these out for the intros at least. This one is one of my favorites. What the hell was that noise when you started drinking your beer! XD
Jay comparing Leo's method acting in The Revenant to him accidentally cutting himself in Django is such a solid point. Now I'm really wondering if that had something to do with it...
+jackson madden They did take the time to explain why they felt that way. It's totally fine to have 2 conflicting opinions though, a performance is mostly subjective after-all. That said, why did you feel like Leo was wonderful? How were the points that they made not valid, in your opinion?
Live Maschine Tutorials Oh, I see where they are coming from, but to me Leo was great because he could accomplish so much with so little. I don't think his performance was as simple as just looking mad, sad, happy, etc. Every expression he had perfectly conveyed the emotions needed. I think my problem with their opinion on Leo is that they act as if any actor could have accomplished what Leo did in the film. That is simply not true. You need a GREAT actor to convey the emotions well. Not anyone can do that. If any ole actor had this role I am 100% sure the film would HIGHLY suffer for it.
+jackson madden Every scene when dicaprio talked or interacted with his son or wife were really powerful and you could feel whatever he wanted you to feel, he was great in those. For the rest of the film, though, I really didn't notice anything that would've led me to believe he was trying to survive for the rage or desire of revenge, it seemed to me the character only wanted to survive because he didnt want to die, he didn't transmit his motivation clearly through out the film apart from what I said first. It really wasnt nothing special, Tom Hardy did a way better job on creating a believable character with clear intentions, motives and a great acting to transmit to the public all of that. My 2 cents.
Saw the movie the night of the premiere, man was I ever pumped. I left the theater with a mild sense of disappointment, and I think I discussed with my friend just about every last thing you guys said. I even said the smelling bad on the outside line under my breath during the showing because I couldn't help myself. I'm glad there are some voices of reason out there when it comes to movies, because whenever I find myself so directly opposed to the vast majority of critics I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Can't wait for that "Dirty Grandpa" review. I got so exited when I saw the trailer that I poured lighter fluid directly into my eyes and commenced work on my safety mask-free welding project.
One of the funniest eps you guys have made, or at least lately. I enjoyed you making fun of Leo, but seriously, poor guy, just give him an Oscar for trying so hard in general. Splicing Norm with bear mauling = gold, even if super disturbing. And thanks for that white-Oscar bit right at the end (:
A testament to human willpower, dedication, and resolve is one takeaway. Another could be the lengths at which we will go for greed. This is definitely a human condition movie more than anything else I'd say.
ADDMcGee25 three years later...this post made me spit take all over my Switch. Thanks for wasting my Ackroyd Vodka Head Skull. Something something Rich Ellen Pizza. *Sigh*
I just watched the movie for the first time and I'm here to say 7 years later that Jay Bauman missed quite a lot in this movie which gave him incorrect notions about it in this episode of Half in the Bag.
I was glad I got to see this movie with no real context other than knowing Leo and Hardy were in it. Sure it was a simple revenge tale, but it felt like a "Gravity" where you can indulge in the experience, even if it's just about some really mad dude who got mauled by a bear. I don't love Leo, but I didn't feel like his performance was intrusive to the point where it took me out of the movie, and I can't entirely agree with the Mary Sue comment in the review. If I hired a frontiersman at that time, I want him to know the lay of the land, or how to sleep in a frozen tauntaun, etc. Even if he was a little too perfect, it's based on a legend, so the character should have some notable above average skills. I don't follow the Oscars but to the average movie goer like myself, I wasn't really put out of the film by Leo trying to win one. I had a good experience going in blind, and I couldn't help but feel parts of the review got a little bit too fixated on the Oscars tarnishing the film. Hey, maybe that's fair, but at least this movie was no Oscar-leeching "Concussion", where years of scientific research predicts football players hittin' their heads together can cause damage. Lovely. Either way, thanks for the review RLM and next time you should take a note from the Revenant and film your intro in actual harsh freezing environments so we can actually see your cold breath and your grimacing faces you hack fraud fucks. Cheers.
I feel like the whole concept of a revenge story is really well done in movies like Revenant and Gladiator because in reality if you were going to do something like this, not every step you take to reach this goal is going to be to kill this person. A lot of them --Especially in these two movies, is going to be to simply survive, survive long enough until you reach the goal rather than a movie like Taken where every single action the main character takes is to get revenge. Basically if there aren't really any actions taken outside of the main goal, it just makes the character look like this single-minded drone rather than an actual person that in reality wouldn't really have the capacity to just go after one thing for days at a time without any rest.
“What am I supposed to get from this?” A true story showing how far people will go to live. It showed a human element we rarely get to see. I can’t believe professional film reviewers somehow missed that
I'm so glad you said that about Leo!!! I felt like I was taking crazy pills with all the people telling me that he's this amazing actor. I've always thought he was over rated...even judging by the fact that he's never won an Oscar.
This movie was a lot like Interstellar to me. I got invested in the plot and the characters, I admired and drank in the visuals and soaked up the amazing score (seriously this movie had the best score of 2015. Just like Interstellar, I got out of the theater and then thought about it for the rest of the day. You really ought to watch it just for the spectacle, totally immerse yourself in the environment of the film and you'll enjoy it like nothing else, it's like a drug. I think that basically what you should take away from this is the simple age-old mantra: Never Give Up.
admrob The acting, dialogue, and plot were just too cringeworthy for me. The visuals were nice though. Nolan should try a scifi/action film, I feel he'd do better at that than real science fiction.
I also really liked Interstellar, on a mostly visceral level. But the visuals were really great. It was nice to see a robot that was just a big brick, almost like a 1950s idea of a robot.
Finally watched the movie. Great film. Now I can finally watch this episode I been saving for 6 years.
Lmaoooo
How was it?
that’s how it be huh
@@jeremyphillips3087 I enjoyed it
I thought Tom Hardy's character was too evil, he didn't have any redeemable qualities. He was annoying, obnoxious and insufferable. I think it would have been more interesting if we could relate to him just a little bit
The real Hugh Glass crawled back to civilization to get his shit back. He didn't have a son, but you don't get Oscars for material vengeance.
That would have been better honestly. If they made Glass just as lowdown as Fitzgerald and no Leo
Lmao
Rich Evans deserves that Oscar for his incredible acting in Space Cop!
+SupplySide Jesus It's a rigged game, man. smh
+SupplySide Jesus Now we just need Aunt Viv to yell at him in a bizarre youtube video...
+Victor Yoon he should get an oscar for eating horse penis hotdogs for the whole movie.
+Victor Yoon #oscarssohackfraudy
Fat Ethel didn't get any Oscars either this is obviously an attempt by the patriarchy to oppress fat white people.
This is surely on of the best HiB since they filmed it in the cold. What bravery.
The temperature was so low that the frosting on the door looked like spray paint
Braver than Leo. That hack fraud!!
@@jugularmusic what makes you say that? I'm intrigued
@@ryanlueras4594 it was a joke 😋 hack fraud is the catch phrase in the RLM community.
Up there with boyhood
"Based on true events" means "We used some of the same names, maybe."
Yuuup
"Some of these names were used during that time period"
As far as the movie Fargo goes, not even that.
Actually in this case the real story is somehow more brutal and more insane then the movie
I tend to give these kinds of movies a wide berth. Usually it's just an excuse to make a movie with a shitty and boring story. Just as the revenant. It's pretty yes, but it's one of the most boring and gruesome movies I've ever seen.
“Human misery genre” 😂
The Revenant, it took negative twelve degrees to make!
Glass was actually going to kill the men who left him for dead. He did wind up crawling like 100 miles through the woods and made it to an outpost only to find out that the man he wanted to kill joined the army so he couldn’t touch him. Something like that.
sounds like he hit his ceiling
That genuinely sounds like it'd make a better movie.
@@HughMansonMD ya or kills him and goes to jail
Google assistant says 300 kilometers, so closer to 200 miles
I forgot how much they hate Leo.
Atleast Mike still loves you Bryan.
+Heisenberg
No! You killed uncle Hank! You killed him!!
+Heisenberg Isnt it the worst tho tryin to discuss that with other ppl. I dont like him either. I tell ppl he is a one note actor. Tell me a movie where the high point of his acting isnt screaming. There are like 3-4 movies where he just screams at a cell phone.
@@full-metal_jacob5858 you hypnotized with hatred.
@@thedangerwich5476 attack his arguments,not him.otherwise your comment is worth shit.
Jane Got a Gun has, at time of writing, has a 42% Rotton Tomatoes score critically, 37% Audience Score
Haha ~ should have read the comments first before going & looking it up. Thank you, sah!
Not much has changed in 2 years!
Disappointed with The Revenant. All that time running around in the woods and the Blair Witch never showed up.
hurr durr i so funny
But nic cage turned up in a bear costume
@@thundercleez7699 hahahahha
That jab at the Oscars at the very end was absolutely perfect. Thanks Red Letter Media.
I'll admit there are other Grit in the Mud movies that have a larger philosophical meaning or better subtext, Aguirre, Apocalypse now, Fitzcaraldo etc. But for me, I went to see this movie to marvel at the incredible scope and visceral feeling, and thats what I got. Sometimes movies don't need to have a deeper meaning, sometimes they're just fabulous journeys. :)
The part where Leo gags on the Buffalo meat, I took it to mean he was still having problems with his throat, since in an earlier scene he couldn't even really drink water, and vomited most of it up. Sure, he cauterized it with gunpowder, but that's not a magic fix-all to the residual tracheal and esophageal damage the character likely incurred.
Great review, but I have to disagree with your assessment that there's no real discernible subtext. It seemed pretty clear to me that Inarritu was making a comparison between the struggles of DiCaprio's character and the suffering of the Natives during the colonization of the USA. Like, especially when the Frenchman tells the Native American dude he's not getting any horses because "fair is fair" or whatever, and then the Native America starts spouting off how they took their forests, took their animals, took everything from them... cut to DiCaprio having a Native American fever dream while emerging from a dirt grave. At every turn, Hardy's character devalues nature (refusing to let DiCaprio heal, the God Is A Chipmunk speech) while obsessing over progress ("Life? I ain't got life. I only got living and I ain't got that without these pelts."), and to make that dynamic clear he's easily the most racist character in the film.
I'm sure there's more to it than that, but even on a surface level I don't think it's entirely style over substance. It's telling a story about how human progress can disturb the balance of the natural world, through the lens of the Colonist and Native conflict. Not the most original thing in the world, but there's something going on.
CarbonWaterCalcium I don't think it was the intention of the movie to say humans are inherently cruel, nor that nature is inherently peaceful. This whole narrative is kicked off by a bear fucking up DiCaprio for wandering into the wrong neighborhood, and the Natives in the story pretty much represent a group of humans who advocate for natural peace. The trouble isn't humanity, it's human ideas of business and industry. And of course, that progress seems very reasonable in a lot of ways (hence why so many people, especially Americans, sympathize with Hardy's way of thinking), but it's also kind of inherently corruptive; it's the mentality that means you're not gonna chop down a tree to build a shack, you'll chop down a forest to buy a farm. It's the mentality that turned the bison from one of the most populous animals in the USA to bordering on extinction.
This is just random thoughts out of my head of course. I'm sure there's other stuff to the movie, and I'm sure there's more interesting ways of looking at it!
+LackingSaint I agree 100%, that's essentially what I took away from the plot. The line, "They don't hear your words, they only see the color of your face." sort of hammers that point home fairly early on in the story. I also looked into the real story and it struck me that they chose to include American Indians in a story that essentially had none, it twists the narrative to be more than just about a man getting fucked by a bear. Maybe they were distracted by DiCaprio's dumb face.
+LackingSaint
"On est tous des sauvages"
Filthy Bot Thanks, buddy!
***** In fairness, if the moral was something that was really obvious just from the first viewing, you'd be saying it was obnoxious or preachy. And as it stands, the movie does literally end with Tom Hardy saying "Killing me won't bring your boy back". The whole two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right thread is pretty strong throughout the film, when you consider the relationship of the Colonists and Native.
Jane Got a Gun has a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sorry Mike.
lol
Down to 39% There is a chance he could be right eventually!
It's 5.8/10 on IMDB which is shockingly low lol.
kevinmsft 5.8 is like 58%.
Captain BaseBallBat-Boy yes it is. Do the math. IMDb rating scale is 1-10.
One of the main reasons I enjoyed this movie was that it was successful at suspension of of disbelief. How it was shot with natural lighting and the some of the very gritty moments made it feel less like a movie with actors in it and something that was actually happening(even fooled me on leo's acting). I was sitting on my couch watching it and I was kind of feeling whatever the scene was in especially in the sub temperature freezing water scenes. I have been in those before and I could absolutely picture that. In fact, I am so dead inside these days from feeling anything from movies or tv shows so I feel that was quite an accomplishment.
Watching this after Leo got an Oscar for the revenant is kinda hilarious
Leo getting the oscar for this was like giving the little kid who tries real hard a participation medal.
@@TheWaynos73 i mean it was a really great performance
I know people love it but I feel the same about the Departed regarding Scorsese. It's an okay enough movie but wouldn't rank it anywhere near his best.
He could've won several Oscars throughout his career, so it's not surprising the academy finally gave him one
12:28 Could I have lived the rest of my life without knowing this was a thing that happened? Yes, I could have but now I'll never know what that was like.
Your profile picture makes for an easy target for ridicule on this subject.
Was wondering if I'd get a comment like this, but I must say the speed of it was impressive.JumpTheShark1994
+JumpTheShark1994 Why? Why would people ridicule him for something as trivial as having a picture of Discord? I don't get it. Only assholes do that.
scampers *sigh* You're just a terrible fucking person. What happened to RESPECTING other people? WHY THE HELL DOES THIS FUCKING DISAPPEAR BECAUSE OF SOMETHING AS FUCKING TRIVIAL AS... A CHARACTER FROM AN ANIMATED TELEVISION SHOW??? WHAT THE FUCK? Man, people are fucking awful.
scampers You're just a troll.
“Look our for mama bear” is, for some reason, one of the best things I’ve ever heard on Half In The Bag.
"Hi, i'm leonardo dicaprio and welcome to jackass!"
Jackass sure would be more entertaining with hollywood actors.
Wait Leo already did a Jackass movie. It was called Wolf of Wall Street.
*Hi I'm Leo DiCaprio and this is the "Eat a raw bison liver to win an Oscar" challenge*
18:54 From that moment I knew I had found my favorite RUclips channel
I lost my shit when I saw that. So great.
“Leo is Leo in this movie.”
That applies to every movie he’s ever been in.
Except for What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Especially Django
@@and8091 lol
I lost it at the Mary Sue/Max Landis line.
6:42
I will absolutely never tire of "call the movie character by their actor's name" as a joke.
"At no point [...] did I get any idea that [revenge] was his motivation" - Jay @ 6:31
Were you drunk during the movie, Jay? How is revenge not the most obvious motivation after seeing his son get murdered in front of him? Normally I defend your points over Mike when he tramples all over them, but what the fuck was that?
+PowermateV100 at this point he was playing dumb so hard that it was painful to watch...
+PowermateV100 It's not a constant theme that you're made to feel, though. Obviously you remember that his son was murdered, but it's not a motivation that the audience is made to feel consistently.
Enthos2 So those parts where he writes "Fitzgerald murdered my son" didn't happen? Or the numerous dreams he has of his son?
They did, but there are long stretches of the movie where there are no emotional ties to what's happening on screen. You're watching a man go through hell, and you have to constantly remind yourself why he's doing it.
Enthos2 Because it's blatantly obvious that that's the case, and spending any more time than he did belaboring a clear and obvious point is a wast time. I'm glad a director has the guts to not be constantly hitting us on the head with every little plot detail that he feels we should know (I'm looking at you JJ Abrams).
I'm glad they made the comment about Leo's acting. He's just trying way too fucking hard, whereas someone like Hardy just falls into their roles.
I like Leo, but he's been consistently the weakest part of every Martin Scorsese movie the last 10 or so years. I wish he'd use a different leading man. Just throwing that out there.
you are an idiot.
Raxos The grey woAH there
Kurt Walters why? he is one of the best actors ever.
True Gooner Wow you really hurt my fewings, lol GTFO.
I just watched Mike drinking that beer about 15 times. I'm sore from laughing
An excellent half in the bag episode, well executed and thought through. Very hilarious and well done.
I saw this movie as somewhat of a film to experience. I would put this in the same bin as gravity. Wonderful to watch, nothing to take away.
Such an original opinion
+danekarl I haven't seen Gravity so I can't say much on that, but one of the main aspects that made the Revenant so exceptional was the original score. Combined with the cinematography it created a really cool atmosphere, especially seeing it in the theater. I realize that "atmosphere" is totally subjective but that's my 2 cents on it.
+danekarl While what you are saying about them being "experiences", Gravity had emotional weight.
It was a story of recovering after losing a child. Picking up the pieces in your life and fighting to take it back, because another human being showed her how good life could still be. It's super simple, and the space thriller part was only a canvas to make it more unique and compelling.
Just like the Revenant it was a simple movie, but people don't like simple movies anymore, they only like goddamn Nolan mindfucks.
+danekarl I agree, it was like watching a less colourful and highly forgettable version of Apocalypto.
+danekarl
Both have something to say, i would give you that Gravity is a little weak in the plot department, but overall is meant to be simple, but they have substance, and even if they dont is not that important
Kept me thoroughly entertained throughout its length. One of my favorite movies.
I refresh RLM about 10 times a day. I literally yell when there's a new video.
I wave my arms around if it's about 40 minutes long. I don't wave my arms around if it's 25 minutes long. But I still make noises. I don't know why I'm saying this.
+mypowersareback oh my dear mypowersareback... used to do it all the time.... then i discovered that u can tell YT to send you email alerts when they post
+ʕ´•ᴥ•ʔ
I was like you ones then I got a life.
ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ Because you need some kind of attetion?
And if it's a plinkett video?
Jay's hair looks really good
Can you really call a character based on a trapper, someone who has to know how to survive in harsh conditions or they literally will die, a marry sue?
+FlesHBoX They establish that he was the guide who was hired and how he knew his shit with the boat being captured which was known to the audience but the other trappers didn't know at the time. Also his interactions with the chasing native Americans didn't prove to be fruitful when he tried. Idk I don't think its fair to call the character based on Hugh Glass a real human being who survived the attack a Mary Sue/Marty Stu. The journey of survival was true for the most part except for the chasing native Americans though. Hugh Glass irl lucked the fuck out in finding friendlies.
I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic when they said that.
I love how snarky Mike gets at the end at old ladies complaining about slow burn movies.
Those Kantankerous Kents!
This is definitely not the type of movie a woman would enjoy
You guys aren't true hacks until you actually review Norm of the North! It must be done!
+Chris Wynn dude for real norm of the north changed my life. I am a polar bear now.
+handsomebrick reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
+Hammington DC What are your preferred pronouns?
"Look out for Mama Bear" is totally an expression
While I did like Leo in this movie, I hate the whole "He deserves an oscar" argument. He's good but every year someone else is better.
+Matt M It's probably his best role because he doesn't speak that much, he usually just shouts in his other movies, and he can't do an accent to save his life. Fassbender should win this year. really
not for django, the fact that he didn't even get nominated was borderline criminal. christoph waltz was basically doing the same thing that he did in his last tarentino film, and he got an oscar for that too.
Darude Sandstrom I would’ve rather he won for wolf of wall street
epc productions are u kidding Hans Landa and Dr.Shultz are two completely different characters
The Aviator's still the closest for me.
Love the callout on Max Landis.
Tom Hardy is the Gary Oldman of this generation....just disappears into a role & is in way more movies than you remember because of it.
His character in this is just too one note, a completely despicable, evil, annoying person. I felt like he needed to show another side of his character to make him somewhat relatable
The Revenant was great! Especially when the bear started listening to his ipod and twerking!
The Revenant was an incredible movie. One of the best that I have seen in years.
"Raped By A Bear, Vows Revenge On Shinzon, Human Misery Genre" - Classic Redlettermedia.
Mike writes great sarcastic opening.
I completely disagree, the Revenant was my third favorite film of this year. Despite a few minor quibbles I really enjoyed Leo's and Tom Hardy's performance along with the spectacular cinematography.
wtf im getting an oscar anyway, im not gonna eat this - love the paraphrase of Costner XD
It wasn't a bear Rich, it was a 50-year old creep in a ShowBiz Pizza costume.
But according to the Ellen show that was Julia Ro...oh wait
Domhnall Gleesons name is pronounced "doh-null". What Homer says followed by nothing.
that sarah jessica parker joke hit me like a fucking truck , holy shit my sides
the teenaged girl joke is what did it for me
Now, that's what I call a "Cold Opening". LOL You guys rock!
I'm surprised more people don't compare this too Jeramiah Johnson. That was the first movie I thought of when I saw this.
Whenever Mike is yammering about old people it's the most hilarious thing in the video.
"Man in the Wilderness" 1971 with Richard Harris, is a good movie about Hugh Glass.
Huge ass?
@@AtheistGamerz atheists…🤷🏻♂️
2018 and it still makes me laugh when mike drinks the beer xD
2022, and it was my first time seeing that spit take. Truly a golden wholesome moment between friends.
16:41 - That's not what the "uncanny valley" is. It's not "no matter how good looking", the point is that a face that looks _almost_ real is more _unpleasant_ (in the sense of causing involuntary fear and disgust) than one that is clearly _not_ real. If it actually manages to look good _enough,_ then it's good enough. The "valley" is the bit below that. And it's specifically about *human faces,* anyway, it doesn't apply to bears (which are supposed to make you feel uneasy even if they look - or indeed are - real).
16:51 - No, his name is definitely not "Inarato". :-P
It took a really long time for me to even realize it was Hardy the first time I saw it. The guy is incredible.
What were they trading in the beginning of the film? Merkins?
oh my gawdddddddddd!!!!!!!! they were trying to corner the merkin market before the Indians stole them.
Oh man, that joke at the start just killed me! I'm still laughing XD
I saw this in the theater on a school day because some kid threatened to bring a gun to school and most of us took the day off. Good times.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Aviator and Django are examples of Leo being a good actor
Catch Me If You Can!
And all his other movies
Basketball Diaries.
Wolf of Wall Street should have won him the oscar.
django was a cartoonish portrayal, and it was shown in a very OTT "look who it is!!!" way. the Aviator is a solid film. Whats Eating Gilbert Grape is a good acting performance i agree.
I made it here so early I was brutally ravaged by a bear you hacks!
+DreamcastGuy Mr. Plinkett got an oscar for that.....
+DreamcastGuy You have got to be the most omnipresent person on RUclips. No matter where I go, I see you somewhere in the comments.
+redroversk Or they are just humans that like a video and coment on it. I don't know who dreamcast guy is and I just asume he's a regular dude.
Just stop. Please. I see you comment everywhere.
+Alec Aquino He's got the leech off everyone worth a damn somehow. He loves to toss Rich of ReviewTech's salad any chance he gets.
the part where mike puts the beer in his mouth like an animal...oh my god.that is pure gold
Rich is looking good lately. Even when he is supposed to be ye olde plinkett I can't help but notice that he has lost a lot of weight.
Mike roasting elderly people was my highlight
Ok, full disclosure, didnt know that was tom hardy.... WOW
+FirstAmongTheEquals How could you not? He's a big guy!
It never crossed my mind that it was him, and i didnt know that he was in the movie until after the fact. So yeah, good on him!
And shinzon and bane share nothing in common...
+Hikari KaraYami For you
+FirstAmongTheEquals You're supposed to know who Tom Hardy was... 'That was the deal.' :P
+Stewart Kee Whoa bro, you must be a real badass. Don't want to fuck with you.
That noise at 00:39 is the most I've laughed at your stuff, ever.
"Leo's character was a Mary Sue (...) he knew how to heal himself"- And yet again, Mike predicted Star Wars.
That's Marty Sam
You know that he’s making fun of people who call characters “Mary Sue” when he says that, yeah?
This came out at the same time as episode 7
Even if I don't care about the movies, I check these out for the intros at least. This one is one of my favorites. What the hell was that noise when you started drinking your beer! XD
didn't you guys notice that every time leo ate some disgusting raw meat there was an active fire really close by?
@16:15 Saying Leo is the equivalent of a teenage girl cutting herself is one of the funniest things I've heard 😂
Jay comparing Leo's method acting in The Revenant to him accidentally cutting himself in Django is such a solid point. Now I'm really wondering if that had something to do with it...
@ 12:20 - ***if you are hungry enough, you will eat anything, and it will taste like pumpkin pie.....***
Leo was wonderful in this movie. I have no idea what you all are talking about.
+jackson madden They did take the time to explain why they felt that way. It's totally fine to have 2 conflicting opinions though, a performance is mostly subjective after-all. That said, why did you feel like Leo was wonderful? How were the points that they made not valid, in your opinion?
Live Maschine Tutorials Oh, I see where they are coming from, but to me Leo was great because he could accomplish so much with so little. I don't think his performance was as simple as just looking mad, sad, happy, etc. Every expression he had perfectly conveyed the emotions needed. I think my problem with their opinion on Leo is that they act as if any actor could have accomplished what Leo did in the film. That is simply not true. You need a GREAT actor to convey the emotions well. Not anyone can do that. If any ole actor had this role I am 100% sure the film would HIGHLY suffer for it.
+jackson madden He did not accomplish much with so little. You projected that.
dsbnh Well than prove me wrong.
+jackson madden Every scene when dicaprio talked or interacted with his son or wife were really powerful and you could feel whatever he wanted you to feel, he was great in those. For the rest of the film, though, I really didn't notice anything that would've led me to believe he was trying to survive for the rage or desire of revenge, it seemed to me the character only wanted to survive because he didnt want to die, he didn't transmit his motivation clearly through out the film apart from what I said first. It really wasnt nothing special, Tom Hardy did a way better job on creating a believable character with clear intentions, motives and a great acting to transmit to the public all of that.
My 2 cents.
Saw the movie the night of the premiere, man was I ever pumped. I left the theater with a mild sense of disappointment, and I think I discussed with my friend just about every last thing you guys said. I even said the smelling bad on the outside line under my breath during the showing because I couldn't help myself. I'm glad there are some voices of reason out there when it comes to movies, because whenever I find myself so directly opposed to the vast majority of critics I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
It's violent, it's brutal, it's heartbreaking, it's cold... But like everyone this is why I love The Revenant.
Can't wait for that "Dirty Grandpa" review. I got so exited when I saw the trailer that I poured lighter fluid directly into my eyes and commenced work on my safety mask-free welding project.
leo was perfect for this role due to fact that he grew up in the pelty posse.
That swing sound you added with the ax cracked me up. Lol
Hugh Eass would walks 500 miles
Literally gagged and almost puked at that jackass scene.
0:38 oh god so funny
Mike's Suburban Sasquatch impression never fails.
One of the funniest eps you guys have made, or at least lately. I enjoyed you making fun of Leo, but seriously, poor guy, just give him an Oscar for trying so hard in general. Splicing Norm with bear mauling = gold, even if super disturbing. And thanks for that white-Oscar bit right at the end (:
"Oh my god, I've been raped by a bear! And I'm white." I did not see that coming, and it absolutely killed me.
A testament to human willpower, dedication, and resolve is one takeaway. Another could be the lengths at which we will go for greed. This is definitely a human condition movie more than anything else I'd say.
0:39 The sound I make when my feelings start to come out and I stuff them back inside with alcohol.
ADDMcGee25 three years later...this post made me spit take all over my Switch. Thanks for wasting my Ackroyd Vodka Head Skull.
Something something Rich Ellen Pizza. *Sigh*
I just watched the movie for the first time and I'm here to say 7 years later that Jay Bauman missed quite a lot in this movie which gave him incorrect notions about it in this episode of Half in the Bag.
I was glad I got to see this movie with no real context other than knowing Leo and Hardy were in it. Sure it was a simple revenge tale, but it felt like a "Gravity" where you can indulge in the experience, even if it's just about some really mad dude who got mauled by a bear. I don't love Leo, but I didn't feel like his performance was intrusive to the point where it took me out of the movie, and I can't entirely agree with the Mary Sue comment in the review. If I hired a frontiersman at that time, I want him to know the lay of the land, or how to sleep in a frozen tauntaun, etc. Even if he was a little too perfect, it's based on a legend, so the character should have some notable above average skills.
I don't follow the Oscars but to the average movie goer like myself, I wasn't really put out of the film by Leo trying to win one.
I had a good experience going in blind, and I couldn't help but feel parts of the review got a little bit too fixated on the Oscars tarnishing the film. Hey, maybe that's fair, but at least this movie was no Oscar-leeching "Concussion", where years of scientific research predicts football players hittin' their heads together can cause damage. Lovely.
Either way, thanks for the review RLM and next time you should take a note from the Revenant and film your intro in actual harsh freezing environments so we can actually see your cold breath and your grimacing faces you hack fraud fucks.
Cheers.
Mr. Plinkett: You left me on top of that mountain you ffffffffffffffffucks!
It took 12 degrees to make!
Jane's Got a Gun is at 42% in Rotten Tomatoes.
I feel like the whole concept of a revenge story is really well done in movies like Revenant and Gladiator because in reality if you were going to do something like this, not every step you take to reach this goal is going to be to kill this person. A lot of them --Especially in these two movies, is going to be to simply survive, survive long enough until you reach the goal rather than a movie like Taken where every single action the main character takes is to get revenge. Basically if there aren't really any actions taken outside of the main goal, it just makes the character look like this single-minded drone rather than an actual person that in reality wouldn't really have the capacity to just go after one thing for days at a time without any rest.
Damn, I can watch your videos all the day without getting tired of them. :D
You guys spent a long time hating on Leo... even where it was his character and not him lol.
“What am I supposed to get from this?” A true story showing how far people will go to live. It showed a human element we rarely get to see. I can’t believe professional film reviewers somehow missed that
@@gettingtoastedatq I do agree but I admit I wasn't left with anything too powerful in the end from it. I think that's what they meant.
Womp womp
Very spot on review from Mike and Jay.
I like the bear; it was a funnier character than they've ever had, plus every frame was dense.
The liver is one of the most sacred parts of the bison for many natives. A fur trapper would know that and not spit it out.
He barfed a little
I'm so glad you said that about Leo!!! I felt like I was taking crazy pills with all the people telling me that he's this amazing actor. I've always thought he was over rated...even judging by the fact that he's never won an Oscar.
6 years later and Jane Got A Gun is sitting at 42% on rotten tomatoes. (11:22)
I love how Jay nearly says Inarritu correctly and Mike corrects him with a far worse pronunciation
Hahaha, I was thinking "Hue Jass" too...😂
This movie was a lot like Interstellar to me. I got invested in the plot and the characters, I admired and drank in the visuals and soaked up the amazing score (seriously this movie had the best score of 2015. Just like Interstellar, I got out of the theater and then thought about it for the rest of the day. You really ought to watch it just for the spectacle, totally immerse yourself in the environment of the film and you'll enjoy it like nothing else, it's like a drug. I think that basically what you should take away from this is the simple age-old mantra: Never Give Up.
Yea, I felt the same way, but apparently to everyone else it's just an "visual experience"
You described it perfectly. One of my favorite movies
+Hombre De Bano I disliked Interstellar quite a bit, to me it was nothing but a few good visuals.
admrob The acting, dialogue, and plot were just too cringeworthy for me. The visuals were nice though. Nolan should try a scifi/action film, I feel he'd do better at that than real science fiction.
I also really liked Interstellar, on a mostly visceral level.
But the visuals were really great. It was nice to see a robot that was just a big brick, almost like a 1950s idea of a robot.