{"id":6395,"date":"2026-04-06T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:51:20","slug":"the-revenant-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/06\/the-revenant-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Revenant<\/em> by Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 It\u2019s entertaining and both DiCaprio and Hardy are great, but\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u274c \u2014it\u2019s half-assed. Smith\u2019s script is solid and predictable as usual, but less interesting than Glass\u2019s own story; Lubezki\u2019s cinematography often punches below its weight; foley\u2019s mediocre; and historical inaccuracies abound.<\/p>\n<p>\u274c Except for the outstanding battle cut, editing jumps between settings sans dramatic buildups and largely drops the ball on the pacing.<\/p>\n<p>Score\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Revenant_(2015_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>The Revenant<\/em><\/a> by Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, 2015.<br \/>\nWatched at the UFA theater on April 04, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/06\/the-revenant-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to The Revenant by Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\"><p>\ud83c\udfac \u201cInspired by true events\u201d my ass.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}