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Survival basics go AWOL?
posté par FergooseSTAFFMOD le 11 août 2019 à 04h35
I am no expert, but I'm baffled by who the director consulted on survival techniques. Leo's character repeatedly seemed to go out of his way to continue wearing furs that were soaked through in freezing conditions- a one way ticket to fatal hypothermia. Yet we barely see even his teeth chatter - the most we get is him having cold hands!
Then the only time he decides to take his clothes off is when they aren't that wet and he is in a nice sheltered spot at the bottom of a cliff - so that he can jump inside a horse. Jeez Louise.
Real nice cinematography and an okay score, but this was bloated, repetitive, too on the nose (bad vs good) and had a few really badly chosen scenes. I expected more having liked 21 Grams and Birdman.
5/10
Réponse de A-Dubya
le 24 août 2019 à 12h50
It did drag on and on and on. I waited years to see it, and at the end of finally watching this long film, I just felt...nothing. People were telling me "You have to see this!" Unlike Dances With Wolves, it did not live up to the hype for me once I got around to seeing it. I felt that Tom Hardy was a pretty good heel, but it was bloated, as you said.
Réponse de MongoLloyd
le 24 août 2019 à 17h32
Hmmmm... I saw this online, then saw it in a theater and I thought it was pretty friggin' epic. The battle scenes with the Indians in the beginning, the bear mauling, the long painful road to recovery, and the pursuit of Fitzgerald were all very satisfying (to me) from a storytelling perspective.
As for accuracy in survival techniques, you have to take what they film with a grain of salt, mainly because they have practical considerations to manage not the least of which was very cold temps and needing to prevent an A-lister from becoming hypothermic.