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What if you want to experience the outdoors, while in the comfort of your own home? Well, since we're all kinda trapped inside at the moment and travel is mostly out of the question, here are some movies to live vicariously through. MOUNTAIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtWMOAHoiI Narrated by Willem Dafoe, Mountain explores the human fascination with mountains through absolutely gorgeous cinematography. SHERPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLSWVsV3-9g In 2015, tensions between climbers, guide operators and Sherpas exploded into conflict after several Sherpas died in an avalanche. EPIC OF EVEREST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwuPmg68mKU Recently restored, this amazing film records Mallory and Irvine's Everest expedition in 1924. An incredible historical document. WILD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2-GSqPyl0 Based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, Wild depicts the transformative power of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. You can probably tell that my interests tend towards mountains, and Everest in particular, so please, help me broaden my horizons! What are some great movies about the outdoors that you love?
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The OG movie about the great outdoors, Alone in the wilderness by Dick Proenneke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss
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Jul 18, 2020 15:09
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Ride the Divide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrtPyr1KQI
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Jul 20, 2020 00:50
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The Edge
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Jul 20, 2020 15:35
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Alone in the wilderness is fantastic. My mind can't comprehend how he did it and was so successful at it. I take a lot from him, mostly how he became a student of the outdoors and just observed and paid attention. There are so many good movies and shows about the outdoors, I've really been gravitating towards them lately, even the lovely ones. The acting on some of the high budget films might be great but some of the lesser known movies are good as well for different reasons. Cast away FedEx employee survives a plane crash and ends up alone on a deserted island. I'll watch this every time it's on. I love Tom Hanks and he's perfect in this. I will easily admit this triggers tears every time Wilson floats away. Into the wild This one's an obvious choice. Highschool graduate from a well to do east coast family feels like his life isn't his own, takes off across the country with seeing his hopes on making it to Alaska to live off grid by himself. It's a beautiful movie with great music. People were so inspired by him they routinely visited his bus and often does making the pilgrimage do often they relocated the bus. Wild The Reese Witherspoon adaptation of the book by Cheryl strayed about a novice female hiker doing the PCT solo. Touches on family struggle, bad life decisions and culminates in her deciding to hike for some self reflection. I heard about this and had my reservations but it was a great movie for the most part. Beautiful scenery. Some very relatable stuff like packing way too much. The way back A story about Russian gulag prisoners who escape during pre/early WWII Siberia hike 4k miles to the Himalayas for freedom. Based on a true story, it's an interesting watch and beautiful scenery. Meru/touching the void/everest These are all great big mountain movies that I'll lump into one another. Climbing big mountains pose unique risks and these movies showcase what it's like to catch summit fever. Each had a different plot but good stories in each. Lots of technical climbing, little room for error, and catastrophic consequences. The revenent Story about an early North American fur trapper who is left for dead in the wilderness and forced to survive. One of the more horrific animal attack scenes in movie history in my opinion. Good acting, incredible scenery. 127 hours The true story of Aron Ralston, a solo hiker who got his arm wedged between a boulder while canyoneering and removed it with a gas station pocket knife in order to get out. Alive The rugby team stranded in the Andes due to a plane crash back in the 70s iirc. Resorting to cannibalism to survive is probably one of the most legendary survival stories of all time. Such a great story and this has always stuck with me. The mountain between us A story about two strangers who take an alternate flight to get home on a small plane which ends up crashing and their story of survival. I watched this on a plane and was pleasantly surprised. The long way round/down A Moto adventure with Ewan MacGregor about his and his buddy riding around the world. Less survival more travel/adventure. He's charismatic and fun to watch. The scenery and people are mind blowing. The second wasn't as interesting personally but still good. Arctic A movie about a man working in the Arctic being stuck after a plane crash and doing what he can to survive. Makes me leery of taking small planes across desolate Arctic landscapes. Snow Walker Backcountry pilot in Alaska/Yukon who shuttles people to and from oil outposts and hunting expeditions crashes his small plane in the middle of the tundra and struggles to survive. Vertical limit Cheesy early 2000s movie about high mountain climbing with a cheesy plot but it's a movie about mountaineering. Backcountry A lot budget movie about a couple whose attacked by a bear and the struggle to survive. The acting is bad, plot equally as cheap but it's an outdoor movie. TV Alone The series on history channel (also on Netflix as well) is the reality series where contestants compete against one another to survive completely alone and be the last one standing in order to win a half million dollars. It's brutal. People kill a moose and starve because it's too lean of meat. They drop a fire starter or lose an axe and tap out. They're stalked by predators. They get injured. It's pretty crazy. Surprise, the hardest part is almost always the mental game. I shouldn't be alive A great watch for anybody who enjoys the outdoors because it shows you how easy it is to end up in a survival situation. So many of these stories are well seasoned outdoors enthusiasts who know what to do but just catch a bit of bad luck. Some are clueless rookies who get in way over their heads and could have easily avoided everything. I enjoy watching because it has a lot of teachable moments. I'm usually analyzing their decisions from the start to see what I might have done differently. I'll say this after watching every episode, I never go out without at the very least food, water and my first aid kit which includes a swiss army knife, compass and a firestarter/lighter. Literally never. Also, leave a plan of where you'll be and when you'll return. Solves 40% of the episodes. Survivorman I'll take less Stroud over Bear Grylls any day. A more laid back and calculated kind of guy who teaches an infinitely more useful and practical set of skills for likely scenarios. Bear constantly demonstrates high risk decisions on a constant basis for ratings which will likely get most people killed in real life. Les reinforces that unnecessary risks can be a death sentence. Being in a survival situation completely healthy is bad enough, getting a concussion or breaking/spraining an ankle or leg is only going to make it worse. Mountain men Another reality show from history about people who chose a mountain lifestyle. The cast changes over the years but some of the diehards are still there. You get people from Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Appalachia etc. Some hunt, fish and trap while others chase nuisance mountain lions away from town and cattle. Others are craftsman who make knives and work on their homestead projects. They add some reality TV drama from time to time but it can be entertaining. Tom is insane. 77 year old former rodeo rider with bowed legs like a cartoon cowboy. He walks like a pirate with two wooden legs but still gets out on a snowmobile and services a trap line in the middle of nowhere, tans animal hides, makes authentic one piece canoes and other crazy poo poo. Marty was my other favorite who lived in Alaska and set up a remote trap line even deeper in Alaska accessible only by his bush plane. He would build his own cabin, stay out on the line for months on end in -30 degree weather and check his 50 mile trap line on a clapped out 70s snowmobile only to make s few thousand dollars on hides. The dude is definitely not in it for the money. Holy poo poo I've watched a lot of tv.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:40
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I love outdoor movies but if I'm being honest, I've never enjoyed any of them as much as the MST3K riff of Cry Wilderness I also like Man vs Wild (don't care if it's "fake") and Survivor Man
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Jul 21, 2020 18:48
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Ride the Divide - is pretty good. Documentary on the Great Divide Mountain bike race. Lots of pretty scenery. Happy People - , which used to be on Netflix was a fantastic doc on a trapper living on the edge of the Russian wilderness being a badass with a chainsaw and an axe.
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Jul 22, 2020 00:48
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clean ayers act posted:Ride the Divide: Inspired to Ride: Another one from the same filmmaker, this one is about the Trans America race. It’s especially poignant since Mike Hall was killed within a few years of this documentary. https://youtu.be/VjsUetmMI0Y That kind of touring and racing has no appeal to me at all but this film is awesome.
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Jul 22, 2020 05:48
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How can you people say you love the Great Outdoors and not love or mention the John Candy classic "The Great Outdoors"?  https://youtu.be/mlbLVZM5t1I Serious answer is pretty much any surfing documentary. I LOVE the camera work that goes into filming massive waves on top of the water and under.
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Jul 22, 2020 08:17
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Two fantastic films: https://youtu.be/YvS6O9lVkkg https://youtu.be/wxLcRNPptZI
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Jul 22, 2020 10:52
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I don't climb and have no interest in climbing anything beyond a scramble, but I really liked Free Solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urRVZ4SW7WU
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Jul 22, 2020 15:06
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I really liked Dersu Uzala, about the encounters of a Russian surveyor and a native trapper over many years. It's more a survivalist character study than a true sweeping-scenery nature's-majesty outdoors film, but well worth a watch if you can find it.
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Sep 9, 2020 04:42
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Jeremiah Johnson! Every year at the first snow fall of the winter, I pop in my Jeremiah Johnson DVD, pour myself a drink, and prepare for my upcoming winter camping trips. Its a slow pace movie but very enjoyable. I think I read Redford bought the whole drat mountain range where it was filmed eventually.
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Sep 28, 2020 02:08
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The movie Backcountry mentioned above was based on a true story, but IRL the girl was killed and yadda yadda yadda, different because...... The Bear is a pretty good movie, or so I thought anyway. Grizzly bear cub is orphaned after his mother is killed in a rock slide, meanwhile two hunters are going after a Male Grizzly. The small bear befriends the big bear and they hang out for a bit, even though in real life the big bear probably would have eaten the little one. Small bear trips on shrooms Is Quest For Fire considered an outdoor movie? By the same director as The Bear, its the story of a bunch of cave dudes whose fire gets jacked by another gang of cave dudes. So a bunch of the cave dudes go on an awe inspiring journey, a QUEST if you will, to find fire. Along the way they do battle with wolves, other tribes, one dude gets his nuts bitten in a fight, there are a bunch of instances of cave people sex and even a reverse gangbang, where one of the main dudes is captured and he has to bone down with a bunch of the ladies from the tribe that captured him.
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Sep 28, 2020 03:05
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wesleywillis posted:
This sounds insane, I've never heard of it, but it is now in my watch list.
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Sep 28, 2020 08:23
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It's a pretty good movie. Imho anyway. Some of the language used was cree and inuit which caused a bit of...... Laughter among people who actually spoke those languages because apparently they just used a bunch of random words as opposed to real dialogue and conversation. Some of the other 'language' was created to make it 'real' in that they had something resembling conversation rather than a bunch of hairy people grunting and poo poo.
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Sep 29, 2020 18:27
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Homeward Bound. On a more serious note Herzog's The Dark Glow of the Mountains is always one I enjoy.
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Sep 29, 2020 18:39
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+1 for Homeward Bound, just watched it last year for the first time in ages. If you're interested in a documentary about the history of the Forest Service, "The Greatest Good" is pretty fantastic. e: linked the wrong movie, looks like the greatest good isn't available to stream any more =\ e2: this is it http://www.forestryvideos.net/videos/greatestgood/?size=medium Big_Gulps_Huh fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Sep 30, 2020 |
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Sep 30, 2020 02:09
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The Fellowship of the Ring and it’s sequels, the parts that happen in the wilderness.
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Oct 21, 2020 20:11
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Himalaya (the Nepali film) has a plot but it really wants to show off the mountains more than anything. Nordwand/The North Face is interesting because the mountain wins, as happened in real life. And yeah, Dersu Uzala is great. A Soviet production directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Oct 30, 2020 19:03
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I LOVED this one: Mustang: Secrets of the Himalayas https://www.amazon.com/Mustang-Secrets-Himalayas-Jaswant-Shrestha/dp/B01B6O1CEG 1. Nepal is stunning. 2. The people, culture, agriculture, and personalities were delightful. 3. The filmmaker Jaswant Dev Shrestha has a clear love of and respect for Nepal.
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Nov 15, 2020 02:53
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Must-see outdoors movie: Deliverance
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Nov 28, 2020 21:48
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pmchem posted:Must-see outdoors movie: Deliverance Watching a movie about someone who wears their puffy jacket in water doesn't seem like a calming evening.
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Nov 28, 2020 22:18
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pmchem posted:Must-see outdoors movie: Deliverance Whats your favorite part? The hillbilly sodomizing?
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Nov 28, 2020 23:01
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wesleywillis posted:Whats your favorite part? Is that your favorite part? I enjoyed the calmer scenes. 
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Nov 28, 2020 23:17
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Inspired to Ride: That type of riding does appeal to me but it's not really what I'm good at. This was a good film though, thanks for the recommendation.
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Nov 29, 2020 17:12
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The sea is outdoors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_(1950_film)
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Dec 3, 2020 07:33
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Watch some good CanCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq7CqhbzPUs Just a really good canoeist spending a summer paddling around Lake Superior, mostly by himself, and doing some painting. (Not sure if this link with a hd version will work outside Canada: https://www.nfb.ca/film/waterwalker/)
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Dec 4, 2020 20:48
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Beyond the Comfort Zone: 13 Countries to K2 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8769318/ It's mostly about a group of guys trying to climb K2 and all the nonsense involved just trying to get there. The last 5 minutes are them actually climbing and they make it maybe halfway before turning around
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Dec 13, 2020 02:30
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I enjoyed the book "A Walk in the Woods" but the movie is pretty bad, they turn it to an Old Power joint and it wears out its welcome very fast.
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Rick posted:I enjoyed the book "A Walk in the Woods" but the movie is pretty bad, they turn it to an Old Power joint and it wears out its welcome very fast. Kristen Schaal was so good though. I liked the book and thought that'd be a hard part to cast, but she nailed it.
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