History YMMV / TheRevenant

* BrokenBase: While everyone's happy that Leonardo finally got the Oscar, some felt that this wasn't the film he should have won it for, feeling that his performance wasn't as strong as his previous nominations.

* AwardSnub: Averted. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio '''finally''' got his Oscar with this film. But played straight with it not winning Best Picture, especially since most critics considered it a lock. Same thing goes for the score, which wasn't even nominated due to circumstances that prevented it from happening.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Due to the reports of the film going over budget and the R rating, not to mention the running time, some felt it wouldn't be much of a financial success. However, the film managed to score not only good reviews and awards attention, but also strong box office, with a current worldwide total exceeding 380 million and counting.
* AwardSnub: Averted. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio '''finally''' got his Oscar with this film. But played straight with it not winning Best Picture, especially since most critics considered it a lock.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The haunting score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryce Dessner and Alva Noto, especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4oEhmvaC4I main theme]] and it's variations.

* NauseaFuel: The scene where Glass hides himself inside [[spoiler:a horse carcass]].
** Given that he left a giant pile of [[spoiler: horse innards]] right next to this hiding place, "takes shelter in" might be closer to the truth than "hides inside."

* NauseaFuel: The scene where Glass hids himself [[spoiler:inside a horse carcass]].

* AwardSnub: Averted. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio '''finally''' got his Oscar with this film. But played straight with it not winning Best Picture.

* AwardSnub: Averted. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio '''finally''' got his Oscar with this film.

** Hawk. [[spoiler: He experiences a shit-ton of prejudice, goes to great lengths to keep his father alive, and dies horribly.]]

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Due to the reports of the film going over budget and the R rating, not to mention the running time, some felt it wouldn't be much of a financial success. However, the film managed to score not only good reviews and awards attention, but also strong box office, with a current worldwide total exceeding 300 million and counting.

** Fitzgerald murdering Hawk and leaving Hugh Glass for dead.

* HeCanReallyAct: Some critics were really impressed with Will Poulter's performance as Jim Bridger, especially considering some of the other [[Film/WereTheMillers films he's been in]].

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Due to the reports of the film going over budget and the R rating not to mention the running time, some felt it wouldn't be much of a finical success. However, the film managed to score not only good reviews and awards attention, but also strong box office, with a current world wide total exceeding 300 million and counting.

* MoraleEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The French trappers]] kidnapping the Ree chief's daughter, for use as their personal SexSlave and letting an innocent hunting party get slaughtered for said crime.

* Hawk. [[spoiler: He experiences a shit-ton of prejudice, goes to great lengths to keep his father alive, and dies horribly.]]

** The Pawnee hunter that Glass encounters and later befriends, was there because he had lost his family to raid by another tribe and was trying to find more of his people to the South. Despite this, he goes out of his way to help Glass stay alive and get to the fort. [[spoiler: He's later lynched by French fur trappers in cold blood.]]

** Bridger is manipulated by Fitzgerald into leaving Glass for dead. When he finds out that he was lied to, Fitzgerald convinces him to go along with the deception since if he told the truth, he would likely be charged as an accessory to murder. When Captain Henry offers them the promised reward money for staying to bury Glass, a shaken Bridger refuses his share. Later, when Glass is found by the expedition and Fitzgerald flees the fort, Henry angrily takes it out on Bridger who sobs that he had been lied and coerced into silence by Fitzgerald. Only Glass' word that he was telling the truth prevents him from likely getting hanged.

* NightmareFuel: The bear attack scene, particularly when we get a glimpse at Glass' wounds.

* MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Glass finally has Fitzgerald dead to rights when the latter taunts that killing him won't bring back his son. Glass tells him in Pawnee that "Revenge is in the hands of God" before sending the bastard downstream to the Ree warband nearby where they immediately give Fitzgerald his comeuppance via scalping.]]

* The Woobie:

* SignatureScene: Unquestionably, the bear attack has become this.

* Signature Scene: Unquestionably, the bear attack has become this.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://drudgereport.com/now3.htm A now-infamous Drudge report article]] claiming [=DiCaprio=] gets "raped by a bear" ''exploded'' across the Internet, to the point that Fox actually had to [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/01/revenant-bear-rape-scene issue a statement]] assuring people that no, the film does not feature bear rape.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://drudgereport.com/now3.htm A now-infamous Drudge report article]] claiming DiCaprio gets "raped by a bear" ''exploded'' across the Internet, to the point that Fox actually had to [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/01/revenant-bear-rape-scene issue a statement]] assuring people that no, the film does not feature bear rape.