I just saw The Revenant won Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture while having dinner in a bistro in St. Helena - somewhere off San Francisco - as part of my holiday.
While I don't really care for The Golden Globes (who really cares about The Foreign Press?), it still is a celebration for the winners.
Having just watched The Revenant this week, I'm a little surprised that it won all the big prizes. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the movie; just thought that there were other movies that are better.
No doubt the cinematography and camera works were breathtakingly gorgeous. The way the camera followed characters in the scenes sometimes never stopped moving and was just poetry in motion.
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's direction was superb once again. And to have the talents of Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy to work with, it's a treat that doesn't come always.
DiCaprio and Hardy could easily win some Oscars with their performances here. And this could very well be DiCaprio's year finally. I would love to see him win it with this. His intensity here was just beyond anything I have ever see him do. And to play off of Hardy during their scenes together was really something special.
Domhnall Gleeson was another great addition, but it was young Will Poulter that also stole some scenes.
But as a whole, I thought the movie went on 15 minutes too long. There were a few scenes in the middle that made me wonder if we really needed them in there, which resulted in some parts being a little draggy. But it was Innaritu's story to tell and he wanted to tell it that way; so while I didn't fully enjoy it, I still respected it as an artistic point of view.
However, if you could keep in mind while watching the movie that Innaritu shot every single scene with natural light, you may find even more appreciation for the movie. Innaritu is a visionary that always seem to challenge himself to do something different and special.
There were a couple of high-octane fight scenes that did not get edited and was filmed continuously in a single shot. I have to wonder how Innaritu did it, or were there actually some editing but done with the Hollywood magic? Nevertheless, I was really impressed and was kept at the edge of my seat. Especially that scene with the bear!
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