Favorite Survival Themed Movies?

Zombie Zeke

Zombie Zeke

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Rimfire's thread about the Edge brought this one on and it got me wondering if there were some I had'nt seen.

my five are:

Red Dawn-Swayze and Sheen trying to make it in the mountains while things are falling apart in Soviet occupied US.

The Edge-Boy meets Bear

Hunted-Knife guys doing Kali and making Tom Brown look good.

Castaway-Tom Hanks doing the fire dance

Ravenous-Cannibalism in a remote outpost in the 1800's (horror)
 
Man I must be weird I really don't have the same taste in movies as yall. Ravenous and The Hunted rank up there with some of the worst movies I have ever watched, 4 hours of my life I would really like back.:thumbdn:
Snow Walker and A Cry in the Wild are the only two survival movies that I can think of that I thought were good.

A Man in the Widerness and Naked Prey are good but I am not sure if they would be called survival movies. Chris
 
Yeah, I'm finding it tough to think of an entire movie?

My mind quickly shifts to individual scenes of movies that show the human condition when faced with tough times, not an entire movie.

The scene in Terminator where the humans are living underground, using dogs to sniff out robots is one that brings to mind a post-apocolyptic scenario and how much it would suck to survive and have to deal with it.

Band of Brothers in the Ardennes woods, (Bastogne) trying to survive freezing their butts off in foxholes, not supposed to have any fires, running low on med supplies, etc.

Most movies make a mockery of true conditions, which are usually for worse than what is portrayed on film.
 
I thought "Ravenous" was a hoot! Love it or hate it, I guess.

Gotta mention "Jeremeiah Johnson", and "Never Cry Wolf" , the book was better in both cases of course.

Can't forget "Quest for Fire" and "Clan of the Cave Bear" either. It's been about 20 years since I saw either of them, but I seem to recall liking the scenery... especially Rae Dawn and Darryl... can I mention "Tank Girl" for pure silliness? "I got two words for ya...brush your teeth!" :D
 
HAHahhaaaa!

Gibson, you don't look old enough to remember Quest for Fire.
Forget about that one!
 
I liked ravenous as well.
The Mad Max trilogy is some of the best.
Anyone see that old movie a boy and his dog? its post apocalyptic
and its about a kid and his dog and they communicate telepathically.
Kinda weird but its supposed to be funny.

I watched quest for fire in my grade 9 history class, with some scenes edited of course.
 
My side of the mountain was a classic when I was a kid...as was Jerimiah Johnson, and the outsider----Dying austraillian outback loner teaches a boy how to survive. The edge (of course) The hunted---well as a one time student of kali I still have to hunt for reasons to like it. Never Cry wolf was good. Castaway (although it was about an hour to long...typical for tom hanks) as far as bad but fun movies ( icant's remember the name of it) but Iced -t or iced cube or one of those guys is abducted by some rich guys and set loose in the woods so they can hunt 'em...This also brings to mind running man not a wilderness survival movie but a fun watch none the less.
 
SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS

I was impressed that I survived watching it.

Sorry I couldn't resist:rolleyes: :D
 
RescueRiley said:
Iced -t or iced cube or one of those guys is abducted by some rich guys and set loose in the woods so they can hunt 'em...This also brings to mind running man not a wilderness survival movie but a fun watch none the less.
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Ice-T - Surviving the Game

Also a good 'what would you do" kinda movie...
Trigger Effect
 
The Last Trapper and Touching The Void......both very different but both very good !!!:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
runningboar said:
Man I must be weird I really don't have the same taste in movies as yall. Ravenous and The Hunted rank up there with some of the worst movies I have ever watched, 4 hours of my life I would really like back.:thumbdn:
Snow Walker and A Cry in the Wild are the only two survival movies that I can think of that I thought were good.

A Man in the Widerness and Naked Prey are good but I am not sure if they would be called survival movies. Chris
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Runningboar, I'll have to look those movies up, never saw either of them.

I think Ravenous is truly polarizing. I just happened to think it was brilliant, definitley not the usual.

I just watched a new one this morning "thanks netflix" called Prey about lions and survival in the bush. Actually it was alot more like Cujo.
 
Chef,

Snow Walker is one of my all time favorite movies.

OK I haven't seen Ravenous since it first came out. It is the one about the cannibalistic soldiers right?
 
Of individual scenes, one that stuck with me the most over the years (and hit me the hardest when I saw it for the first time) was the one from Schindler's List, where the Jewish people, packed into an open cattle-car for transport to an extermination camp, are cooperating to break icicles from the roof of the car, and melt them down for drinking water. I was really impressed by the combination of ingenuity, of using the very means by which their enemies were trying to kill them as a way to survive, and the sheer refusal to die. It struck me as a remarkably-triumphant scene, because of that undefeatable survival attitude.
 
I would have to say in no particular order:

Deer Hunter (1978)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Cast Away (2000)
Sniper (1993)
White Water Summer (1987) with Kevin Bacon

There's more, but having a brain fart right now.
 
Took me forever to find it but there was a book I read as a kid called Deathwatch that I knew I had seen as a movie. The movie (TV) was called Savages. A young tour guide takes a rich businessman hunting for bighorn & finds himself hunted instead. It's been years but I know the kid uses a slingshot to stop the hunter from killing him. Takes place in the arizona desert.

I liked Robinson Crusoe as well (the book mostly) but any version of the movie I've seen has had some merit, I enjoyed the one Pierce Brosnan did a few years back.
 
I met that girl from snow walker, she is very pretty.
There is a movie made on the book hatchet, I saw it many years ago, but I remember it was very well made. Paulson wrote it actually.
 
it looks like a lot of the movies i would have named have already been named..... there are some good ones on here....:thumbup:

the lord of the rings trilogy was awesome...:D
 
Most of the good ones have been mentioned already.
Some more obscure survival movies would be
Rogue Male with Peter Otoole. Survival Quest with Lance Henrikson.
 
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