Favorite Outdoors/Survival/Western Movie

So far, here is what I have coming:
Jeremiah Johnson
Man In the Wilderness
Ravenous

I wanted to check these out, but B.B. doesn't carry them online:
Alone in the Wilderness
Never Cry Wolf
A Cry in the WildDick Proenneke "Alone in the Wilderness"
There are quite a few older title they don't carry. What a bummer.

I have seen the majority of the movies listed. They are all great. I wish I never seen them so I could watch them for the first time again.

I read this book Gary Paulson's book "Hatchet" in high school and loved it, just need to find the movie. Anyhow, I bought it about a year ago and loved it more than the first time. If anyone wants to borrow it, let me know and I will send it your way. Just let me know.

If anyone has this moive, A Cry in the WildDick Proenneke "Alone in the Wilderness" and wouldn't mind letting me borrow it for a week, please let me know cause I would like to watch it. I will send you a few movies of mine to watch while your's is gone.

Thanks for all of the recommendations.

Scott
 
breakthru62 said:
So far, here is what I have coming:
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If anyone has this moive, A Cry in the WildDick Proenneke "Alone in the Wilderness" and wouldn't mind letting me borrow it for a week, please let me know cause I would like to watch it. I will send you a few movies of mine to watch while your's is gone.

Thanks for all of the recommendations.

Scott
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..how 'bout I just put them on a disc and mail them to you and you can have them?
 
MagicDot said:
..how 'bout I just put them on a disc and mail them to you and you can have them?
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Hey bud,

As long as it's not costing you money to throw them on a disc, I would really enjoy a copy. I will return any cost to you. Please let me know.

Thanks man,

Scott
 
rksoon said:
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:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

:thumbup: Proenneke

and for a movie as good as Jer. Johnsen, The Mountain Men, Brain Keith and Charleton Hesston:thumbup:

It looks like a lot you have time to (gulp) kill? :D Pat
 
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omniviking said:
One Man's Wilderness, an Alaskan Odyssey :thumbup: Proenneke

and for a movie as good as Jer. Johnsen, The Mountain Men, Brain Keith and Charleton Hesston:thumbup:

It looks like a lot you have time to (gulp) kill? :D Pat
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Haha!!! Well, at least a couple more weeks of spending time indoors and no work. But, when my leg comes in, you guys won't be hearing much from me for a while........I'm ready to run!!!! :D

Anyhow, I will see if I can get those through blockbuster.

Thanks a bunch amigo
 
omniviking said:
One Man's Wilderness, an Alaskan Odyssey :thumbup: Proenneke

and for a movie as good as Jer. Johnsen, The Mountain Men, Brain Keith and Charleton Hesston:thumbup:

It looks like a lot you have time to (gulp) kill? :D Pat
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Haha!!! Well, at least a couple more weeks of spending time indoors and no work. But, when my leg comes in, you guys won't be hearing much from me for a while........I'm ready to run!!!! :D

Anyhow, I will see if I can get The Mountain Men through blockbuster.

Thanks a bunch amigo
 
The Snow Walker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337721/

IMDB: A pilot who delivers supplies to tribes in the backwoods of the Canadian north is implored to escort a sick young Inuit woman to a hospital. On the flight back, the plane's engine fail and they crash in the wastelands. Rescuers are unable to locate them and the two are left to struggle for their survival. The ailing woman thus teaches the hot-headed pilot the way to live in these regions.
 
breakthru62 said:
Hey bud,

As long as it's not costing you money to throw them on a disc, I would really enjoy a copy. I will return any cost to you. Please let me know.

Thanks man,

Scott
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..just PM me.. ..it only costs a disc. I've got a few more interesting videos I was going to throw on to fill the disc out. ..its up to you tho to make it into a DVD playable file.. ..don't worry about the cost. ..its yours if you want it.
 
C.S. Graves said:
(re: Red Dawn) Had I seen it back in the day, the Cold War mentality of the time probably would have tainted my enjoyment.
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I saw Red Dawn in it's first release, about 7 or 8 times. Height of the Cold War; around the same time, Reagan got busted for riffin' on the radio about outlawing Russia. I remember the local radio news listing the daily likelihood of global war, along with the weather. It was a weird time to grow up, this was real to us. I was about 12, IIRC. Had to deliver a lot of newspapers to earn those tickets :)

And even I knew it was a BS movie... BUT it was fun. "Eat me! Wolverines!" Good ol' team spirit-type stuff.

Plus, I never forgot the USAF knife the downed pilot had... I've owned a few of those since then ;)
 
James_Terrio said:
And even I knew it was a BS movie... BUT it was fun. "Eat me! Wolverines!" Good ol' team spirit-type stuff.
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Yeah, it's a lot easier to have fun with cinema when ya just let go of the political hang-ups and just go with the flow. There was something strangely appealing about the thought of holing up in the mountains with a truckload of supplies.

Oh, Black Robe is a good'n that'd qualify as an outdoors/survival film. loved that one.
 
Jeremiah Johnson tops the list!

Connagher, The Quick and the Dead, and Quigley Down Under are all enjoyable.

The Outlaw Josey Wales is great (anyone else ever read the book?).

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is very 70s, but has such great lines!

There is a very early John Wayne that is just a classic movie of the wagon trains going to the West - can't remember the name...

The ending of The Hunted is so incredibly stupid it ruined it for me.
 
JRB said:
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
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In addition to 3:10 To Yuma I'd throw in that other Cohen bothers offering No Country For Old Men. I believe that is every bit the western but in a contemporary setting.
 
Razorsharp244 said:
I guess suggesting "Into the Wild" will result in a beating, but I liked it. I would not consider it a "how to survive - movie" for obvious reasons.
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It's a good movie on how to commit suicide. If he only had a map, he would have known there was a bridge over that running river, about a quarter of a mile away.

I don't like movies that romanticize peoples' stupidity.
 
One for the end of the world.
"trigger effect"
With Elizabeth Shue ( had a thing for her since Karate Kid)
Young family in suberbia and the power drops out ( we never find out why) society crumbles.
But the whole no power, no eftpos no money, No doctor scripts.etc.
Carl
 
TedV said:
The Snow Walker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337721/

IMDB: A pilot who delivers supplies to tribes in the backwoods of the Canadian north is implored to escort a sick young Inuit woman to a hospital. On the flight back, the plane's engine fail and they crash in the wastelands. Rescuers are unable to locate them and the two are left to struggle for their survival. The ailing woman thus teaches the hot-headed pilot the way to live in these regions.
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I can't believe more folks haven't recommended The Snow Walker. AWESOME survival related movie. :thumbup: Open Range is one of my favorite "late model" westerns.
 
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