Favorite Survival Movies?

Alone in the Wilderness...watch it everytime i see it on PBS.

My Side of the Mountain.....read the book, didn't know there was a movie.

Survivors...loved watching that show, thanks to survivor1 for remindind me of it. Also like that is The Tribe a kids show version of the global pandemic survivors.

and the best of all:

Night of the Comet....urban survival in dowtown Los Angeles, and zombies too.

forgot to add Swiss Family Robinson....best damn tree house around.
 
Part of that was filmed in my old school , a really creepy place that is now a mental home . (Not too much of a stretch , come to think of it )
Back in the day it was Llanarth , a Blackfriars/Dominican Boarding School , but I believe it is now known as Llanarth Court or Park .
Sheerluck
 
sheerluck said:
Part of that was filmed in my old school , a really creepy place that is now a mental home . (Not too much of a stretch , come to think of it )
Back in the day it was Llanarth , a Blackfriars/Dominican Boarding School , but I believe it is now known as Llanarth Court or Park .
Sheerluck
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I was about 12 when they started the filming and most of it in the first series was filmed within 10 - 15 miles from where I live. All the firearms for the series were kept in the local TA centre and my Father was the WO2 there, so he used to take me into the armoury and try them out.

We even got to meet the BBC Armourer for the series, I never got to meet any of the cast though; Father did, as they had a social evening with them at the TA Centre.

I regularly pass many of the locations that were in the series, and on occasion have worked in some of the properties that were shown.

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longbow50 said:
What I disliked about the Hunted was all the *animal rights* jargon thrown into the script. Like what transpired between del Torro's character and the female FBI agent, but it didn't end or begin there. As far as the hunters maybe being Gov. hit men, maybe on the surface they were. But with all of the ARA undertones and subliminal messaging in the script, I'm assuming that the hunters were being shown as over equipped, shoot at anything that moves slobs and Del Torro's character was actually the hero that died for a greater cause. Yeah I know. No one but me saw it. :(
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No, you were not the only one. Haha... The little statement between the FBI Agent and Bennie the Bull was one thing, the thing about millions of chickens dying and how would we feel if someone lost all respect for us and started hunting us to extinction, yadda yadda yadda...

Then when he was out in the yard at night with the little girl, he barfed off some more nonsense.

The two guys in the beginning, one of them had a GI lensatic compass hanging off of him, that was a sign that swung military but if they wanted them to be military guys, I'm sure one of them wouldn't have just been toting a 9mm pistol in his pocket that day. So, I would tend to agree with you that they were being portrayed as poachers or people who had such a great leap in technology over the poor, disadvantaged ani-mules. Anyone that has hunted whitetail in heavy brush knows what a pantload that is.

Another thing about The Hunted that was rather disturbing was the fact that they wrote Tommy Lee Jones character to be a non-military version of Col. Trautman from First Blood. Even the little "body bag" statement in the tent with law enforcement and military standing around in First Blood was echoed in The Hunted during an FBI briefing... Then there were the things about bringing his "boy" back, he trained him, he can bring him back! Same thing as First Blood.

Could one man in just a couple of hours, if that long, build that massive log booby trap, the sharpened spears on it and then, one man, hoist that damned thing up into a tree and then make a trigger that you can lightly touch but the wind won't set it off?

Hell no.

I mean, damn, I know you have to suspend disbelief, it's just a movie, but damn. At least in First Blood someone could have actually made the trap used in an hour. But in The Hunted, all sorts of things are flying everywhere and a guy ends up hanging upside down with a chert knife stuck in his belt and it didn't fall out. Seems rather kooky to me. The good guy designed a knife to do everything and never has one in the movie, the bad guy latched onto the idea more than he did. Bennie the Bull jumps off of a bridge with stuff in kydex or concealex and somehow loses that stuff in the water - I guess he should have just stuck them in his pants like Jones did and should have hanged upside down like a fruitbat for three minutes, then he would have retained them.

But we all know why that played out the way it did, so the knifemaking could be shown which is another thing entirely...

I'm just trying to learn how to spot with my Smallville X-ray vision the various plants I would need to heal myself and wolves under the snow...they could have at least shown him digging in about, what, three places hit and miss. No, he chugs right up there and picks a spot and pulls it out. Amazing. Does Tom Brown teach that in the Pine Barrens too?

Most people liked the movie because Bennie put the knife in the bad man at the beginning and run his gears but won't admit it... :D
 
Persev said:
Castaway with Tom Hanks, someone with no training has to learn on his own what it takes to survive.

The Earthling with William Holden and Ricky Schroeder- a lot of depth in the interaction between the man teaching the boy how to survive not just the outback but life and death.
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Yeah, I liked Castaway too. Now that was a great survival movie, And he did it without knives, wire saws, cotton balls, paracord, or PSK's. I thought it was ironic how he left his swiss army knife with his wife as he got on the plane. bad idea, but I guess that was the point.
 
ranger88 said:
Yeah, I liked Castaway too. Now that was a great survival movie, And he did it without knives, wire saws, cotton balls, paracord, or PSK's. I thought it was ironic how he left his swiss army knife with his wife as he got on the plane. bad idea, but I guess that was the point.
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Yea, and the dumb arse waited 5 years for a shit house to blow in to use as a sail when he was surrounded with palm. Used the same lame shelter for five years too.:confused:
 
mewolf1 said:
Yea, and the dumb arse waited 5 years for a shit house to blow in to use as a sail when he was surrounded with palm. Used the same lame shelter for five years too.:confused:
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"No Chillunz B leffd beehine", Part 1, was the orignal name for the script :rolleyes:
 
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