>>661685Agree with this. I was still glad I saw it, and it's always nice to see historically based and /out/ movies coming from Hollywood. The beginning was pretty solid, but it went downhill after the bear attack. Too much dreaming about / rescuing Indian QTs, too little actual survival. Glass's journey was already brutal and harsh enough in fact; I don't know that there was really a need to add to the overall brutality of the movie with repeated scenes of soldiers burning some village. Iñárritu even forgot the part where he lays on a rotten log so the maggots can eat the gangrene out of his wounds, opting to replace it with the sagacious and long-suffering Indian who gets killed by racist Frenchmen. I don't think Hugh Glass's mixed-race son was brutally murdered before his eyes, either. I don't recall that he even had a son. I suppose any portrayal of American Indians from Hollywood in the current year has to be more or less sympathetic, though. I understand Iñárritu's quandary here.
Props to Iñárritu for filming in the real outdoors instead of just using CGI for everything, though. The CGI buffalo looked terribly stiff and mechanical, but I understand the need for them. I wasn't too bothered by the scene with Glass sleeping in his horse's carcass, since at least that's a real survival tactic. It's at least possible that Glass might have used some variation on it. DiCaprio was obviously really into his role, to his credit. It may not be a perfect movie, but I'll take it over the usual Hollywood stuff like War of the Worlds 23: Giant Robots Edition or Superheroes vs. MechaHitler. Pic not especially related.
