Good Survival themed movies...your favorites requested!

coote said:
I can't think of the name of it now... but there is another really good movie. Perhaps you can think of the name. It's the one where the father takes his two kids out into the desert to kill them and then commit suicide... but the kids get away... and meet up with a young Aboriginal guy who helps them out.
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Walkabout. Great movie.
 
IF anyone is tuned into this thread this morning, The Snow Walker will air on the MoviePlex cable channel this morning at 8:40 am CST. My VCR is set. Good timing MoviePlex!
 
Gol durn movie plex ya mean . I never even heard of it .

I am sure that as I lie on my death bed surrounded by a bevy of beauties and deafened by the crying of my family that : Snow Walker will come on the Television just as I am taking my last breath . L:O:L
 
Another reason I like Hunters Moon with Keith Carradine and Burt Reynolds is that Burt plays a deranged mountain man . The exact opposite of his role in deliverance .

There is one point when he smiles that just cracks me up . I think there is a real
character in there with quite a sense of humor .
 
The Survivors (1986) - Robin Williams, Walter Matthau. Should help put some of the other movies in perspective.
 
Nankyotu Monogatari- AKA "Antartica" The original movie "eight below was based on. NOT A KIDS MOVIE! It came out in the 80's, little dialog. It is about the rescue attempt of dogs by the scientists who had to leave them on an expedition.
 
Kevin the grey said:
Gol durn movie plex ya mean . I never even heard of it .

I am sure that as I lie on my death bed surrounded by a bevy of beauties and deafened by the crying of my family that : Snow Walker will come on the Television just as I am taking my last breath . L:O:L
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Sorry Kevin, I didn't realize your were in the beautiful State of Canada! ;) JK, I love Canada. I wish I could visit there more often.

Well, you may not get the MoviePlex channel (a basic cable channel here that shows movies without commercials), but at least you get Trailer Park Boys! You do get to watch Trailer Park Boys, right? My wife and I think that is one of the best shows on the planet.
 
have any of you seen the show " killer Instinct " with the barefoot guy who walks around the Austrailian outback killing small creatures and cooking them over an open flame. i think he actually carries the knife from Rambo III. its one of the best examples of how to catch and cook food that normally wouldn't even be considered. the show on discovery channel " Survivor Man " is pretty good too.
 
Trailer park boys is just a little too close to the truth for me . Corner gas or Chilly beach is more my speed .

Movie plex sounds like M-PIX which does the same thing , commercial free , uncut movies .
 
khimbar said:
Walkabout. Great movie.
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That's it- it was on the tip of my tongue.

Aussie movies Coote? Jeez you Kiwi's aren't too shabby either. Although I guess 'Meet the Feebles' is not exactly a survival movie.:D

Watch for 'Dirt Music' which is being made at the moment. Based on a great book by our very own Tim Winton. The book, at least, had a very strong survival theme that I hope stays in the film. Starring Rachel Wietz I hear.
 
Oh, it is. I read the book first, then saw the movie. The "Crow" refered to in the title was the NA tribe, the Crow Indians (actually Absaroka or Apsaalooke...Sparrowhawk in correct language). He had a long running private war with them when they killed his Flat Head Indian wife (Salish). It took place in the 1830-40 time period in the Rockies. Filmed in Utah and based loosely on a real figure, John Johnston (1824-1900). Redford played the lead, Will Geer was a supporting charactor, his Mentor, Bear Claw Chris Lapp. The movie (and book Crow Killer) was based on Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man. Fisher was the WPA director of the Idaho Writer's Project. Note the Salish song during the wedding ceremony. It is a gaff. The song is their funeral song.
 
WVHILLS said:
have any of you seen the show " killer Instinct " with the barefoot guy who walks around the Austrailian outback killing small creatures and cooking them over an open flame. i think he actually carries the knife from Rambo III. its one of the best examples of how to catch and cook food that normally wouldn't even be considered. the show on discovery channel " Survivor Man " is pretty good too.
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The guy is Rob Bredl and he has some great episodes. One of the things that blows me away is that he goes everywhere,barefoot. Some of the terrain that he walks over with bare feet would injure my feet in hiking boots.

Doc
 
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