ˈrevəˌnäN,-nənt/ - noun, one who has returned from the dead.
It was a cold movie, so bring furs to bundle up in whilst you watch. I found my teeth chattering, just from the visuals. Lonely feeling, I struggled along with the characters.
First off, I am so pleased that films and series are embracing this new neo-gore. It is the face of what real violence looks like. None of that red dot old cowboy movies shootings. Nothing to glorify gun shots or broken legs, just show it the way it would look, gruesome. This is what we need to see, not the candy-ass gunfights Hollywood has been giving us for decades. In the vein of History Channel's Vikings Series, HBO's Game of Thrones comes what it really looks like when a bear mauls someone, what it is really like when a bullet exits the head, and what it really looks like when your horse gets shot. This all adds to putting you right aside Leondardo as he sets out on his task in the face of a brutal cruel world.
And, yes, like almost all movies lately, there is pipe smoking in it. Lora turned to me in the middle of the movie and said, "we haven't seen one single new movie in two years that did not have a pipe smoker somewhere in the movie," and it's true. Pipe smoking in movies, even movies set in the time of now has had a huge upsurge in pipesmokers, from hipster meets old school in Ben Stiller's "While We're Young" to the Peterson smoking constant yardsale guy in Tom Hank's "Larry Crowne." Pipes seem to be showing up in everything we watch.
Anyways, if you want realism, Jack London meets Tarantino, but better than either of them, then this should be a treat. Keep a pipe in your vest pocket ready to go, so that you can light up as you exit the theater, trying to warm up on a bone-cold 65F Alabama evening as you try to heat up on your jaunt back to the car.
Go see it, wear furs, and take a rag to wipe the blood spatters off your face.
It was a cold movie, so bring furs to bundle up in whilst you watch. I found my teeth chattering, just from the visuals. Lonely feeling, I struggled along with the characters.
First off, I am so pleased that films and series are embracing this new neo-gore. It is the face of what real violence looks like. None of that red dot old cowboy movies shootings. Nothing to glorify gun shots or broken legs, just show it the way it would look, gruesome. This is what we need to see, not the candy-ass gunfights Hollywood has been giving us for decades. In the vein of History Channel's Vikings Series, HBO's Game of Thrones comes what it really looks like when a bear mauls someone, what it is really like when a bullet exits the head, and what it really looks like when your horse gets shot. This all adds to putting you right aside Leondardo as he sets out on his task in the face of a brutal cruel world.
And, yes, like almost all movies lately, there is pipe smoking in it. Lora turned to me in the middle of the movie and said, "we haven't seen one single new movie in two years that did not have a pipe smoker somewhere in the movie," and it's true. Pipe smoking in movies, even movies set in the time of now has had a huge upsurge in pipesmokers, from hipster meets old school in Ben Stiller's "While We're Young" to the Peterson smoking constant yardsale guy in Tom Hank's "Larry Crowne." Pipes seem to be showing up in everything we watch.
Anyways, if you want realism, Jack London meets Tarantino, but better than either of them, then this should be a treat. Keep a pipe in your vest pocket ready to go, so that you can light up as you exit the theater, trying to warm up on a bone-cold 65F Alabama evening as you try to heat up on your jaunt back to the car.
Go see it, wear furs, and take a rag to wipe the blood spatters off your face.
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