Saw The Big Short before it finished up in our theatres. I was a bit afraid it was going to be a bit too technical for me to enjoy (even though I had taken the securities course) but they explained it very well. It was tastefully done, kept my interest right through and the acting was superb. I especially liked Steve Carell. I give it 4 Stars.
Got caught up with an old friend this weekend. We had a lovely meal and talked and talked and talked.
Up for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor (even though he hardly talks and when he does it's in a whisper because he had a hole in his throat that he cauterized himself with gunpowder and fire). This movie should be called "If It Can Go Wrong, It Will Go Wrong". He is brutally attacked by a bear, almost drowns in a river, goes over waterfalls, leaps off a cliff with his horse, is chased by Indians on a constant basis, gets buried alive ... The movie was slow and perhaps southerners wouldn't think it, but we northerners know he should have died of hypothermia many times over and should have, early on, lost his feet and his hands to frostbite, if not his ears and nose. It is based on a true story but I'm sure this very much embellishes the truth. The meaning of "Revenant" is "one that returns after death or a long absence". That's Leo. I give it 3 Stars.
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