Favorite Outdoors/Survival/Western Movie

Westerns not mentioned:

"Conagher" - Great cowboy movie

"3:10 To Yuma" - Great western drama

"Silverado" - Great, fun classic theme western


Outdoors:

Will add another endorsment for "Never Cry Wolf"

"Deliverance" - Great 'escape from inbred hillbillies' movie
 
Ravenous. It's a Western where some cavalrymen in a very remote outpost resort to cannibalism - and decide they like it.
Lots of dark/tongue-in-cheek humor, great action and fight scenes, fantastic scenery. Good fun. Although in one scene a man is shown using a big ol' bowie-with sawteeth on it.
Somehow I don't think that's historically accurate :D But it's just entertainment, not a documentary.

I'm another who has Jeremiah Johnson at the very top of my list. So many great scenes and quotes... "take my rifle, it's a good one, it killed the bear that killed me" in the note on the frozen trapper... I read the book as a lad, I should look around for a copy of it. It has a lot more in-depth descriptions of the survival-type stuff. IIRC the book was called "Mountain Man".
 
Last night I watched "A Cry in the Wild".
13 year old boy stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.
Its based on Gary Paulson's book "Hatchet".
Not great but a decent enough little flick.
 
My Side of the Mountain

Not as good as the book (they never are) but worth a peek.

I showed it to my 3rd graders when we studied different biomes and they ate it up.
 
Jeremiah Johnsons real name was John Garrison, my grandfather was named after him. He was born in New Jersey. He was my great granfathers great uncle, he died in 1900, and was rebarried in Cody Wyoming in 1976, Robert Redford was one of his paulbarers if my great grandmother was right. Anyway thats what she told me. Pretty neat to have that in family tree.
 
Echo4v said:
mdauben-that movie sounds like it's based on the true story of Hugh Glass. I read the book when I was in High School.
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Yes, it is... losely. Good flick though.

And since it appears that no post on this thread can get by without mentioning it Jeremiah Johnson is an excellent movie. I caught it on the other day and showed my wife the bear skinning scene, she laughed for 20 minutes.
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"Think you kin' skin a giz', pilgrim?" :p

I remember going out and buying and assembling a Hawkin Rifle kit years ago, mainly based on that movie. :rolleyes:
 
seraphim falls. good up till the end where it gets hella surreal, some cool uses of traps and the like.
 
Mentor said:
and for some classic Cold War propaganda, you can't go wrong with Red Dawn. It has stereotypes, Buck knife product placement, and wolverines.
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You read my mind. Had I seen it back in the day, the Cold War mentality of the time probably would have tainted my enjoyment. These days, I can put all that ideological hokum behind me and enjoy the film for its everyman-geurilla warfare action. :thumbup:

These are borderline survival, but definite outdoors movies: Deliverance, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, and Cannibal Holocaust. The last one may disturb viewers sensitive to animal slaughter.
 
As an aside, I recently learned that "Red Dawn" is actually being remade this year. I can't imagine how that's going to work (but I'll probably go see it anyway).
 
Terrorists from a former Soviet Republic seem to be the usual movie vehicle, now that the USSR is gone.

DancesWithKnives
 
I liked the documentary on Dick Proenneke "Alone in the Wilderness" though I haven't seen it in a long while and it's not really a flick. I'd like to watch it again sometime since I'm older and know a little more now.

ETA: Just saw magicdot suggested it too, then +1 to that :thumbup:
 
James_Terrio said:
Ravenous. It's a Western where some cavalrymen in a very remote outpost resort to cannibalism - and decide they like it.
Lots of dark/tongue-in-cheek humor, great action and fight scenes, fantastic scenery. Good fun. Although in one scene a man is shown using a big ol' bowie-with sawteeth on it.
Somehow I don't think that's historically accurate :D But it's just entertainment, not a documentary.
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Great movie. Arquette is such a stoner in it.
 
Lord of the Flies, Clan of the Cave Bear and Alive are some of my favorite.

Snow Walker (aka Walk Well My Brother) & The Last Trapper are really good too.
 
For new flicks "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" are both great for killing an evening.
 
and Lost in the Barrens. For such a good movie, and an award winning one at that, I cant find it ANYWHERE. I used to have it on VHS, now I cant find it on any bittorrent trackers. If anyone can find a copy please let me know, I really want to see that again, it was one of my boyhood favorites.

There was another movie I saw on tv a long time ago, but I never knew what it was called, maybe someone knows. It's about a couple who go to look after a cabin (or something like that) they run low on supplies, the guy goes hunting but is not man enough to shoot a deer, so they run out of food and try to trek to a settlement before winter comes. They try to take a shortcut through the mountains, and at one point the woman wants to eat her husbands dog. Right a bell to anyone?
 
dectia said:
For new flicks "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" are both great for killing an evening.
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:thumbup: I really liked both of these. The latter makes me wish I could get a shotgun supressor here in Canuckistan... just because! :D

Sometimes I wish I was in Finland instead. :(

Oh, how about Quest for Fire? Those were the good ol' days!
 
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