In hindsight: Jeremiah Johnson vs. The Revenant

Jeremiah Johnson all day

Revenant’s 3rd act was horrid. Technically marvelous, but painfully mediocre movie

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in fact I think Hardy should have been Glass and DiCaprio as the weasley dude who left him for dead.

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If you think about this; it makes total sense. DiCaprio would have changed Hardy's character into some souless wealthy smartass who is just going by the orders of the company.

And Hardy would be Leo's character as some outcast hardass left for dead. Expendable help. But who is a real trapper and can survive unlike DiCaprio and his pretender company group.

Company men vs. survivalist. And maybe they watch him get mauled because they already have the pelts and don't want to have to pay him.

And he wakes up totally confused and makes it back to camp and he can't fully remember what happend but everyone treats him likes he's just part of the team and gives him his pay...but as he's leaving, he sees something that reminds him of his fellow trappers laughing as he gets mauled...ala Eastwood in High Plains Drifter...and they just watch him.

And that's when Hardy knows. And that's when the movie begins.

I place the Revenant in the firmly OK category. I didn’t care for DiCaprio’s performance and thought the whole mystical Indian bullshite to be tiring.

The Revenant was a perfectly decent movie. Jeremiah Johnson is a masterpiece.

The delivery of "Didn't put enough dirt down... saw it, right off" was one of the classic understated lines in movie history.

I’ve always wondered who that was a gif of, never had a clue it was Robert Redford.

You cook good rabbit pilgrim.

i don't agree with all of that, specifically it being one of the best movies in the past 5 years, but completely agree with this...

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In hindsight DiCaprio is also incredibly overacting and in no way has he ever come across to me as a badass....in fact I think Hardy should have been Glass and DiCaprio as the weasley dude who left him for dead.

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he was my main issue with it all along, and why i hold that above opinion. it is a gorgeous movie to watch and listen to however. in that sense i would agree it's one of the best in the last 5 years or so.

Where does Man in the Wilderness fall in this comparison?

I remember watching it on TV as a kid and was blown away by what he went through. It's another version of the Revenant story.

Check TCM at least twice a week for upcoming flicks. Usually Tuesdays and Saturdays seem to be their best nights, but sometimes they'll play something incrdible at like 3 am, usually a Clockwork Orange or something graphic. It's my favorite channel by far

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There was a third "Wilderness" movie either before, or after these two.

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Wasn't there a Charles Bronson movie where he was an unknown 1800s dude who supposedly killed a guy but really didn't and he was on the run the whole time in the wildeness and outlasted the search party because he was a badass?