I just bumped into the movie The Revenant last night - to re-cap - “A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.”
Dam if they didn’t do a fine job of showing what cold is like. All of it was shot in natural light, in Canada, the United States, and Argentina. Didn’t see any fake snow (though the movie was mostly playing in the background as I was cooking).
It caught me because I had just spent three hours putting the plow and chains on my truck. I was well suited up in NorthFace gear. I can’t imagine what it was like in the snow nearly 200 years ago.
A lot of early 30s German cinema had great atmosphere. My favorite from that group would be The Blue Angel. I can’t take my eyes off the sad clown in the background.
“D.O.A.” (1949) is great at projecting a dark and menacing noir atmosphere (when you’re not laughing at the hilariously over-the-top depiction of beat subculture in a jazz nightclub).
I didn’t mean to start a pissing match; I was just offering a comedically contrasting opinion in order to possibly elicit a few chuckles from our fellow Dopers.
The fact that lots of people like the movie doesn’t sway my opinion; lots of people are often wrong.
