Just watched the Revenant for the first time.

Leo really swung for the fences, I agree.

Still a good movie

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Leo tries way to hard in that movie.

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Hardy, on the other hand, was fantastic.

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Agree on both.

I saw it in theaters. I thought that it was one of those movies that I should go out of my way to catch in theaters.

My impression of it was just that they went too over the top with the harshness of all the stuff that happens to Leo's character to the point that it becomes too much the point of the movie. It was almost like a gore porn thing going on. I actually chuckled a little to myself by the time they got to the point where he went over the cliff on the horse.

Still it did some things really right. The scenery and shots and all that were pretty awesome. I'm probably being more critical of it than I would be of some lesser movies because I wanted to expect more out of it.

EDIT: Oh, yes, down vote me because you can't actually engage in discussion about a movie on the movie board.

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You can tell he pours himself into his roles, but he never really gets lost in them.

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s real blood is in ‘Django Unchained’ scene

Leonardo DiCaprio cut his hand while the cameras were rolling on the set of "Django Unchained" and kept moving through the scene, never breaking character. His real-life bloodied hand made it into the final version of the film, The Weinstein Company has confirmed with Yahoo! Movies.

It is this type of dedication that helped earn the 38-year-old actor a Golden Globe nomination and Oscar buzz for playing an evil slave plantation owner.

SPOILER ALERT: DiCaprio's hand injury happened during one of the movie's most climactic scenes -- as Calvin Candie (DiCaprio) confronts Django (Jamie Foxx) and Dr. Shultz (Christoph Waltz). Candie has learned the pair have been pulling an elaborate scam on him in order to retrieve Django's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), a slave on his vast Mississippi plantation."

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Whatever.

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The Revenant was one of the films where I just couldn't get behind the main character's motivations. I actually thought Hardy had a legit reason to do what he did considering the situation.

I like Leo and pretty much every film he does, but there was a quote in the Feud miniseries where Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are arguing about talent, Joan said something to the effect of "they don't reward your talent, they reward you because they see how hard you sweat", perfectly sums up Leo especially in The Revenant.