Jeremiah Johnson

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Feb 1, 2019 The best Western movie ever made!

Rey L Dec 17, 2018 A mountain man haiku. A film that visually tells it story, instead of using a lot of dialogue or pre/post feature screen text. While this film was a big deal in it's day, it's noteriety has faded, but merely to the fickle tastes of popular culture (most certainly this was an inspiration for both the television series "Grizzly Adams" and the Costner magnum opus "Dances With Wolves". "Jeremiah Johnson" has a soft, gentle and deliberately slow style (Redford's performance is mostly his use of his eyes and facial expressions), peppered by the sudden raw, unforgiving burst of frontier violence and calamity when faced with vengeful Crow natives (it's set in Colorado post-1850 leading up to the Civil War), grizzly and (again) villified & looney attack wolves (wolves very rarely will ever venture NEAR a human being and no, with no den around, they would not attack a person as a pack, no matter how hungry they were). A graceful film from a much different Hollywood era. See more

Theodore S Oct 8, 2018 This film about a man leaving behind society to live in the wild is apt today when young men are getting disillusioned with society. In 1972 Robert Redford was at the height of his star power and he decided to make a film very close to his heart- Jeremiah Johnson is shot in his native Utah, in the wilderness and based on a real historical figure by the moniker of "liver eating" Johnson. Directed by his close friend Sydney Pollack this is a good film and it features one of my favorite fight sequences between the Indian gangs and Jeremiah. It is raw, realistic and very well edited. Redford is good as the titular character and the pacing is pretty good, if not a bit uneven. (Jeremiah Johnson is a film to admire). See more

Leia R Jul 20, 2018 In 1972 Robert Redford was at the height of his star power and he decided to make a film very close to his heart- Jeremiah Johnson is shot in his native Utah, in the wilderness and based on a real historical figure by the moniker of "liver eating" Johnson. Directed by his close friend Sydney Pollack this is a good film and it features one of my favorite fight sequences between the Indian gangs and Jeremiah. It is raw, realistic and very well edited. Though the ending might leave some with a feeling of something lacking, I thought this was a great effort. Redford is good as the titular character and the pacing is pretty good, if not a bit uneven. See more

Draco S Nov 26, 2017 A movie I had long wanted to watch. At last, I managed to get it and I must say it is the most impressive drama I ever saw set completely in the wilderness. Filmed in Redford-beloved Utah but intended to portray a story taking place in Montana and Wyoming, the scenery is simply mesmerizing in its cold but heartwarming beauty: the ragged mountains, the desertic badlands, the snow-laden forests and mountain streams (not the annoying Hollywood artificial snow whose crystals bever melt even indoors!): everything contributes in making of tgis movie a deeply engaging experience of a spiritual communion with nature. And the relationships between Native Americsns (Crows, Blackfeet) -also genuine- and the "spirits" inhabiting this grand environment is well conveyed to the observer. I deeply loved that movie, and I add it to a recent string of superb movies the likes of which I hadn't watched since a long time, such as 'Enough Said' and 'Hideous Kinky'. See more

Hermione W Nov 8, 2017 "The Revenant" before "The Revenant" was cool.

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