I like Monster haha.
Didn't really pick up on Leo eating a raw fish in the Revenant. Not that it was a gimmick, but the big "how we shot this" moment that got into meme territory was the bear fight. Not that I have anything for or against that aspect of the movie behind the scenes stuff being brought up so much around the time of promotion. Sure yeah show us how the bear thing went down.
But I got ya Don 
By the way. Do you get angry at people like Jackie Chan and Tom Cruise that do their crazy stunts (well most of them)?
To me, it mostly depends what it brings to a movie.
I'm a big fan of Jackie, however him being lead actor AND stuntman, allowed him to, for example, always shoot continuously, regardless of whether you could see his face or not.
This isn't as much of an issue anymore, because with cgi you can kind do whatever, but at the time it did make a difference.
I'm also a fan for the Mission Impossible movies, but in that case, i think it's mostly to fuel Cruise adrenaline addiction (or mental illness) more than craft, because films like Casino Royale (Craig's) feature amazing set pieces, without that need for Craig to be jumping off buildings breaking his ribs, halting the production for months.
At the end of the day i want to reiterate that i'm not saying that great cinema doesn't require sacrifice, even physical, but that at the end of the day, a gimmick on top of an ok movie, it's always just a gimmick.
And it's also actors (works for artists in general) smelling their own farts, this is part of it: The mystique of the tormented genius that goes off the deep end with the Stanislavskij and starts to suck back-alley dick to *
become* the prostitute, seems to me, little more than a sophisticated form of Narcisism.
Even my boy Lynch shat on the tortured artist myth, between one Trans. Meditation plug and the other.
EDIT: I should also say, beyond all this, everyone's free to do what they want, so if you want to shove nails up your ass for you movie, or get plastic surgery for your Michael Jackson biopic, go ahead, but i think Hollywood should at least stop pushing it as the true artist struggle symbol.
