YOUTUBE PICK: 'The Edge' Supercut

In a world where Leo's dance with a big CGI bear in 'The Revenant' is heralded as one of the best of the year, it's easy to forget what had come before. 'The Edge', released in 1997, starred Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins and Bart the Bear. Roger Ebert (man, not website) criticised the film's level of bear recognition, stating; "Having successfully negotiated almost its entire 118 minutes, The Edge shoots itself in the foot. After the emotionally fraught final moments, just as we are savoring the implications of what has just happened, the screen fades to black and we immediately get a big credit for Bart the Bear. Now Bart is one helluva bear (I loved him in the title role of The Bear), but this credit in this place is a spectacularly bad idea."

It seems that the history of film is really just stuck in a loop of decennially induced bear-mania. However, as succesful as 'The Revenant' has been, 'The Edge' didn't quite recieve the same treatment, with decidedly mixed critical reviews. It must have been the all the artifical light.

To celebrate this pattern, here's a supercut of all the times Alec Baldwin says 'Charles' in 'The Edge'. Because it exists.