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Welcome back to another round of love or loathe. This time we have Leonardo DiCaprio and his psychically demanding oscar winning performance in The Revenant. I personally love this win. I understand a lot of people did not feel that this was his best performance and I dont think it’s his best performance either, but it was a truly demanding and draining role. The things he was put through during the filming were crazy and I think we should tip our hats to him for going that far for the movie. While I do think he should have already won a oscar for The Wolf of Wall Street, he was still deserving for The Revenant. What do you guys think do you love or loathe his win.
ReplyI thought it was a fantastic performance and a really good movie overall and on behalf of Leo I resent the popular narrative that he only got the Best Actor Oscar because it was his “time” and he was overdue. I feel like he EARNED the Oscar that year and his performance should go down in history amongst his finest.
ReplyCopy URLI neither love it nor loathe it. It was a good performance but not his best and not the best in the category.
His best:
-Ths Aviator
-What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
-Revolutionary Road
–The Wolf Of Wall Street (should have won for this)The best in the category was Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs. I’d also be happy if Matt Damon won for his turn in The Martian.
ReplyCopy URLLeo’s fine in The Revenant. He’s just rarely been undeniable even though this campaign tried to make it seem like he was. I would’ve preferred him winning for The Wolf of Wall Street since it’s so hard to win for comedy.
The difference in quality between the Lead Actress and Actor nominees that year is ridiculous.
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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.I absolutely love his performance and win. Not the best of his (see: The Aviator and The Wolf of Wall Street), but, at the same time, it’s DiCaprio, so that’s a pretty high benchmark. Still an all-timer of a performance though, probably ranks among the top 100 lead male acting performances ever. He just did *so much*, I feel like he was undeniable. Fassbender was also great, yes, but how can you say that an accent + line delivery + time progression is better than foreign language parts + brutal conditions + physicality?
ReplyCopy URLOnce there was only Dark. If you ask me, the Light's winning.
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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.I didn’t care for The Revenant or his performance at all.
He just seemed to be ‘working soooo haaaard’ and I get that his character is trying to survive throughout the movie, it’s just that his performance consisted of a host of different grunts.
This movie and his performance just didn’t gel with me at all.
Wish they’d done more with his wife and kid so I’d feel more for him. But all we got was flashbacks. Made me not care about his character and made the whole movie a slog to get through.
And come to think of it, I agree with the poster who said Tom Hardy was better.Was rooting for Matt Damon The Martian that year. And I really enjoyed Bryan Cranston in Trumbo. (Never saw Steve Jobs).
Loved him in The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator (his personal favourite performance of his), Revolutionary Road and so many others even Blood Diamond (I liked the accent). Also Django Unchained playing against type was so enjoyable to see. Just remembered Catch Me If You Can 💖
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And I thought they did him dirty by not nominating him for Titanic – if Jack wasn’t the life blood of that film I don’t know what was. Such a jouful/soulful performance.
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