great movie.....does anyone know of any westerns that have similar settings?...
shareman in the wilderness, the mountian men, and the first couple parts of into the west (cleanest damn mountian men i ever seen). thats the best ones on mountian men i know of but i prefer books and hangin with the other mountian man re-enactors alot better
shareAlone in the Wilderness,its not a movie but a documentary about Dick Proenneke,Who lived alone in a small cabin in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years filming his daily routines and some of the best nature footage ever.This is one of my favorite movies.
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Yeah that's a great documentary, and another one by the same father/son producing team is called Silence and Solitude which includes some more about Proenneke and their own Alaskan nature footage. Alone in the Wilderness was a huge hit on PBS and I know here in Seattle it had an especially large following. Dick was an amazingly creative and self-sufficient outdoorsman. Some of his daily journal writings were compiled into a book also called Man in the Wilderness I believe. It's very interesting. He had many many more journal entries over the several decades he spent alone in his Twin Lakes cabin which are yet to be published.
shareI'm suprised no one's mentioned Dead Man with johnny depp. While it definately has a very different style and plot, the mood of lonliness and solitude conveyed in the movie remind me alot of Jeremiah Johnson.
shareIts a cowboy movie rather than mountain man, but I thought 'Open Range' had some of the best scenery of any recent movie.
Plus its not a bad story; and being relatively new its not hard to find on DVD.
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I love The Missing. I wish I'd seen it more than once in the theater.
Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle "Dixie"?
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I really liked Tommy Lee Jones' character (as I usually do). I would love to see a prequal to this movie to tell some of his story.
I'm really surprised at how people didn't care for this movie (it's low rating). I think it was great.
Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle "Dixie"?
I haven't seen it yet but the reviews when it came out kinda turned me off. Made it sound exceedingly violent and both PC and racist, not to mention a strange combination of a homage to Ford's The Searchers, weird Indian rituals, a family drama among others. I guess it was quite a departure for Howard FWIW. I've really only cared for Tommie Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove and The Fugitive. Jeez after Robert Duvall's character died in Lonesome Dove the life went out of the film and Jones sure couldn't carry it alone IMO. The Missing garnered a 58% approval rating from the reviews at rottentomatoes.com. Maybe someday I'll give it a looksee. Boy this new Jesse James movie with Brad Pitt has gotten some good buzz and is supposed to be more along the lines mood and look-wise to a Terence Malick flick. Good thing if more like Days of Heaven but not so good if like The Thin Red Line which underwhelmed me.
shareBreakheart Pass with Charles Bronson. An interesting mix of western, action, and Christie-esque murder mystery, all with plenty of beautiful, snowy scenery.
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A little late to this thread, but also I'd add "Cry of the Black Wolves" (1973)
shareWhat, no LITTLE BIG MAN? Or did I miss someone mentioning it already?
shareWhat, no LITTLE BIG MAN? Or did I miss someone mentioning it already?
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I know they have already been mentioned, but McCabe and Mrs Miller and the Great Silence are closer to this film than anything I can remember. They also happen to be two of the best Westerns I've ever seen.
Recently Into the Wild kind of reminded me of this flick, although it would be more than a stretch to go beyond the 'back to nature' aspect there.
Someone really needs to make another snowy mountain Western, I'd love to see something like McCabe and Mrs Miller hit the screen, but period pieces tend to do dick all for business, so they rarely come....
Ravenous. It's a horror western.
The Outlaw Josey Wales is similar, but I don't remember any snow.