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It’s been argued that all that DiCaprio does in this movie is look exhausted and yell and the only reason he got his Oscar was for eating raw Buffalo meat. Even then, as an acting vehicle for DiCaprio, there’s a healthy amount to criticize here. It functions as more of a mood piece than anything else, with wonderful landscape shots throughout the movie with just as good moments by DiCaprio. Sure, The Revenant helped Leonardo DiCaprio finally get an Oscar for Best Actor and it helped highlight how wonderful of a director Alejandro Inarritu is, but I’ve seen movies like The Revenant dozens of times before.
With the exception of Gravity and its technical achievements, none of these movies have really mattered in the grand scheme of things. But as I continue to write more and more Most Decorated category entries, all I can see are movies that were the definition of ephemeral. If these movies were the best of the best in their respective years, then they should have had some kind of a perfunctory change on the medium. You know, when I first started this category, I could have sworn that these award season darlings would have some kind of an impact on the shape of cinema. So what really mattered at the end of 2015? What can we possibly learn from a year that felt so important to live in? Even the original movies of 2015 seemed to be more flash in the pan successes than true revolutionaries, much to the Academy’s chagrin. Most of the franchises that were popular in 2015 may still be around, but the entries that came in in 2015 aren’t exactly the most beloved entries in their franchises. The film industry has become much more homogenized in recent years, so it’s both strange and thrilling to see a year where so many different companies were all vying against each other in healthy competition before getting to the near cultural monopoly that we have today.īut did any of that matter? In 2019, we know how these franchise wars played out and we know who the winner was. Same as Sony, Paramount, 20 th Century Fox, and even Lionsgate. It wasn’t just Disney raking in all of the money, though they did when Star Wars: The Force Awakens released.
While I’m sure that 2019 will go down as the year that multi-media franchises from Disney enveloped the world of pop culture, 2015 was the last bastion of huge mega franchises from other corporations.
The scope of 2015 was grand and there was almost always a highly anticipated release coming out every week, whether it was from a legacy franchise or an original film that was getting significant attention from the Indie scene.
Avengers: Age of Ultron, two Pixar movies, a new Jurassic Park movie, a new Rocky movie, a new Tarantino, Fast & the Furious, James Bond, and a Hunger Games movie just to name a few.
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2014 may have been a wasteland of quality films, but 2015 was chock full of high profile releases that made 2014 look like the hollow year it was. Living in the moment, 2015 felt like a year that was going to go down in history as being one of the most important years of the decade. If there’s one word I can use to define 2015, it would be landmark. Welcome back to the Decade Decathlon, where we’re taking an extended look back at the past decade of filmmaking to see what worked, what didn’t, and what stories we can learn from the past.
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