(It's not really germane to this discussion, but a few years later I got to know a number of people who had been extras in a different Costner film, and most of them could best be termed as "former" fans.)
Over the subsequent 20 years or so, I went to fewer and fewer movies, and am to the point where I no longer know (or care) about them unless one happens to touch upon some particular interest of mine. If the budget is there, some of the modern costuming and props are spectacularly good, and the visuals can be stunning. Too bad much of the writing and many of the performances are not up to the same standards, and the PC attitudes that creep in can be insurmountable as well as incongruous.
Mr. niteowl77
My problem with the movie is they could have given us more of a story with interactions of the characters. The best parts for me is when the men come across the Indians one on one. A Pawnee Indian befriends Glass when he needs it most, and there's a touching scene where they are sitting together eating snowflakes.
Whe Glass meets up with Pataqwa it's so short that you can't believe that there could possible be any memory of the event on her part. Why not a few scenes of them together? He fires one shot, one shot and all these French Trappers flee? Would have been better if he and her sneak off, reconnoiter. The she goes her way he goes his. I mean up to that point, I was pretty much hooked on everything, then things started to fall apart. And the dream scenes got read tedious. Why spend so much time dreaming and thinking about his dead wife, I know, I know it's the "out of body experience thing" where Glass is close to death. In short, I don't give the ending, mainly because there's not much one. It's a simple revenge movie with some beautiful scenes of Calgary.