I caught MOUNTAIN MEN

[Marc Adamchek]

Happened to come home and flick the Tv on to the western channel and I caught MOUNTAIN MEN with Charlton Heston about a half hour into it, so I naturally watched the rest of it. It just finished, and I STILL gotta wash up brush my teeth do all those chores before laying down, cursinig myself for watching a movie I've seen a dozen times or more.

Here's a challenge: Name 5 things depicted in that movie that were actually historically correct!

Who can do it?

 

[Pete Gaimari]

It would be harder to name everything that was wrong. I just watched it to for the first time, and wasn't too impressed.

Cmon..mooning and giving the finger in that era?

 

[S.Kenton]

The act of MOONING has been going for CENTURIES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooning
AND so has YE OLD ONE FINGER SALUTE!.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)
SO, it's possible...right?

 

[S.Kenton]

5 Things eh?
hmmm
1) the clothing they wore?
2) Native Americans got drunk easily?
3) the whole beaver pelt thing..?
4) the rifles they used?
5)and mooning and flipping the bird..? LOL
AND for the record : I own that movie on dvd.. and did the SAME thing you did..on the excact same night..lol Many hours of lost sleep I can blame on the WESTERN CHANNEL... :blah:

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Could of fooled me. It seemed out of place.

 

[S.Kenton]

I thought so too... then I looked it up and found that eastern tribes have been "mooning" for quite some time. The "flipping the bird" think was a little much..and when it was done it did indeed seem outa place..I agree with that one. It was kinda a vulger movie..but enjoyable nontheless.

 

[RJL]

5 things huh?
1: drinkin whisky til ya caint see straight
2: drinkin whisky til ya caint see straight
3: trading plews to Fontenelle for next to nothing
4: setting traps in some icey stream to catch said plews
5: Nat Wyeth meeting up with a wagon string of emmigrunts headed to oregon?
there how was that? :idunno: and maybe this aint the most historicaly correct movie out there? just try to enjoy it for what it is. how many other movies can make you long for the solitude of the rockies? i'd rather have that than some yuppie new yorker whining about missed loves and sour lattes! imho.

 

[Kentuckywindage]

who gives a rats butt what was wrong or right? Its a movie thats good to watch and has humor to it.

If you want PC movies, build a time machine, go back with a video camera and then you wont have anything to complain about.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Cold making you feel a little grumpy?

 

[Black Hand]

Seeing the movie once was enough. As to "good", that is purely relative to the viewer. I thought it was "bad" at best even putting aside the historical inaccuracies.....

 

[matt denison]

What's the matter, BlackHand? doncha' like t' have fun no more?

har har har

Mr. L. Dog

 

[tg]

Questionable PC/HC happenings in the film

1, Charleton Heston did not die in a film.

2, Charleton Heston did not call the Crow "you Damned dirty NA's

3, Charleton Heston tamped the power with his RR during a battle, else how did it shoot out into the NA's body?

4,How could a breast plate from a healthy 16th century Spaniard fit on a scrony horney old NA chief?

5, Immagrants....Immagrants.... so far over the top in acting skill even for the likes of Pee Wee Hermans

 

[DennisPollywog]

1. Kinnikinnick
2. travelin' through Absoroka-Yallerstone
3. "...come on Popo Agie, plenty whiskey um white
women :thumbsup: "
4. searching the Wind Rivers fer beaver
5. the Gros Ventre and Snake Rivers

And, my favorite...all them cheechakos back at
camp :v
Shreck

 

[zampilot]

Flipping the bird was odd, but it's been around since at least the 15th century someone told me, The English flipped the french to show they could still "pluck the yew". The french tended to cut the finger off captured english longbowmen.

 

[rabjr]

Sounds cool don't it...but I think you'll find that statement not to be true.

 

[Dphar]

Happened to come home and flick the Tv on to the western channel and I caught MOUNTAIN MEN with Charlton Heston about a half hour into it, so I naturally watched the rest of it. It just finished, and I STILL gotta wash up brush my teeth do all those chores before laying down, cursinig myself for watching a movie I've seen a dozen times or more.

Here's a challenge: Name 5 things depicted in that movie that were actually historically correct!

Who can do it?

They rode horses.
They were in the American West
They had problems with the natives.
They had guns.
I think they got drunk too.

I am sure there are others as well.
Heston and Keith must have been hard up for work.
They could have made a really good movie but it was more like that Liver Eating Johnson thing with Robert Redford.
Dan

 

[Kentuckywindage]

If you want to whine about the mountain men or jeremiah johnson being incorrect, try watching Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett :haha:

 

[Geraldo]

If you want to whine about the mountain men or jeremiah johnson being incorrect, try watching Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett :haha:

It's all entertainment. If you want reality, don't watch TV or movies because even the reality shows are scripted.

If it entertains you, whether it's The Mountain Men, the Duke, or Diehard, then enjoy it. If it doesn't entertain you, find something that does.

I'm just happy when someone makes a western or uses muzzleloaders in a movie.

 

[Pete Gaimari]

Accurate has nothing to do with it. It's just a bad acted movie that's not even close to believable.

 

[S.Kenton]

I second that!!!