Jackrabbit1957
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As was said in the movie 1941, Horrywoood!
A Ship in the Wilderness you ask! See "Fitzcaraldo"Man in the Wilderness was fairly good except for dragging the stupid ship all over the mountains. Who needs a ship in the mountains????
The Revenant movie that was released at the end of 2015 was billed as being the replacement of the Jeremiah Johnson movie in the hearts of modern day Mountain Men and Black Powder lovers. And while I liked the Revenant it didn't in any way replace JJ as my go to Mountain Man movie. It didn't even get close to the sillier "The Mountain Men" with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith.
The gun battle at the beginning was first rate. But knowing the real story I was disappointed at how it was rewritten. I didn't understand. The real story was a great tail of survival and determination. You couldn't improve on the historical facts and the movie didn't. The fact that I don't care for Leonardo DeCaprio didn't even have any bearing on my disappointment in this show.
I would have thought by now It might have been added to Netflix or I would have seen the DVD for sale at Walmart but so far nothing. But to be fair I haven't looked very hard for it either.
So with the passing of time what do you guys think of the movie?
Yep, everybody is a critic.You get one mountain man movie every 30 years and people have to complain.
They should have at least warned the viewer that it was a story that just used historical figures but not historical truth.
And I know the JJ movie wasn't accurate. I read the book Liver Eatin' Johnson and have been told it was a pack of untrue stories too.