Here's a trailer for the new movie "The Revenant", the one supposed to be about Hugh Glass.
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So what do you think fellers.

Looks a little over dramatic for my taste. And I hate movies done in such dark settings.

Seems a little over dramatic for my taste. I don't like when they make the movie so dark.

I'll watch it before I draw a conclusion. I do detect (from the preview) some overtones of "modern Hollywood" firearm usage which is the norm for those that haven't a clue when using what we term "primitive" weapons as props. Just my take at this point.

Did I see a flatboat there, I think I'll go along for the ride on this one.

Well, looks like sort of a darker version(of a different mountain man) of the Jeremiah Johnson movie from the 70's. Looks like it might have some updated scenes from a TV movie from about that time too. Can't remember the name but I think the guy to made Man Called Horse starred in that one too. (about a hunter mauled by a bear, then abandoned by his group). I'd try it if it comes to the library or I can find a used copy cheap.

Leo DeCaprio as Hugh Glass??!.....I think I'll pass...

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Originally posted by MountainRanger:
Well, looks like sort of a darker version(of a different mountain man) of the Jeremiah Johnson movie from the 70's. Looks like it might have some updated scenes from a TV movie from about that time too. Can't remember the name but I think the guy to made Man Called Horse starred in that one too. (about a hunter mauled by a bear, then abandoned by his group). I'd try it if it comes to the library or I can find a used copy cheap.

Man In The Wilderness is the name of the movie you're thinking of. Loosely based on Hugh Glass with Richard Harris playing the part of Sam Bass. I actually enjoyed that movie.

yeah, Man in the Wilderness... I enjoyed it also.
I also watched a trailer for the Alone, But Not Alone movie and while it looks pretty authentic, the voice over sounds like something out of the Baptist Student Union or my local pastor hollering from the pulpit or something (not saying that's bad, but I don't watch movies for reinforcement of my faith). Gotta think about that one.

Clay Landry was technical advisor for The Revenant. Leo is a good fit - the right age, Glass was well used but not old. Any movie made about this era and fur trapping is well worth supporting.

Oh, and the movie was filmed in natural lighting - adds authenticity and a sense of realism.

It's gonna take me awhile to get my mind around Leo actually doing a serious dramatic role.

So here's my hope for it.
We can't as of yet give our full opinion on it since it hasn't come out. I do admit I have my doubts about it by what the trailer shows but maybe, just maybe, this will give interest to another generation concerning the muzzle loading era of our country.
May I be so bold as to ask how many of you were inspired to follow this path by watching "Jeremiah Johnson"? Don't get me wrong, that is my all time favorite movie, but as is typical of hollywood, full of historic errors.
I think the point here might be that this movie may not do it for me, but it could spark interest to some one else and take them on a new journey into exploring the real history of men such as Hugh Glass.
We never should go to the movies to learn accurate history, we should always go to the original sources.

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Real history is much more exciting than any fictional tale to me.

Here's to hoping that "The Revenant" will help others into our circle.

What inspired me? Maybe Davy Crocket but inheriting a couple of my grandpa's muzzleloader really did the deed. While I was in college, I started reading Muzzleloader and that sank the hook. In 1980, I attended my first rendezvous with my Sharon 54 Hawken rifle and became a terminaly incurable case.

load fast and aim slow.

As the affliction became worse, I started hunting with muzzleloaders in 1986 and haven't used a modern rifle since. In 1991, I purchased my primitive tent and my family started attending rondy's with me. The affliction got worse and worse, We were attending 3 and 4 rondy's a year and I continued to sink lower and lower. By 1991 I started shooting flintlocks and in 2005, put my hunting caplock away and started hunting with a flintlock.

As this affliction has slowly overcome my body, I had to have more black powder guns. This is a chronic disorder that has affected my whole family. Each one of us now had a rifle and pistol. I've also been found in the woods hunting grouse with a Tradegun. After my last acute attack brought on by the chronic affliction, I found that I had purchased a rifle for my sons "soon to be".

I've come to the realization that black powder smoke is a drug and when inhaled, affects the whole body. There has to be something in the smoke that affects the brain and the victim slowly falls victim to this as yet, non identified affliction. All the while, the victim sinks lower and lower to the chronic condition. As far as I know, there isn't a cure but I believe the wives as caregivers are starting to organize and looking for ways to at least lessen the impact on the family if not find a complete cure.

One of the things that is inhibiting finding a cure is that much like the drug addictions, the victim has to want to be cured and in most cases, the victim doesn't want to be cured. This is why I've deemed it an incurable terminal affliction.

Load fast and aim slow.

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Revenant

could inspire some new blood, it's always a possibility. From what I understand, no one has the full "real" story of Hugh Glass' life, but I doubt we have the true story of a lot of these guys that become the subject of any movie ever made.

I hope it does well at the box office and after sales. If it does it could mean Hollywood would follow up with other time period events put on the big screen.

Let's hope this new movie is a really huge hit, inspiring a lot of new shooters to try muzzleloading. After all, we do need the help. Shoot sharp, Mike

Yes, let's hope that it IS a huge hit! I look forward to watching it. However, I will view it just as I do all of the movies from Hollyweard. Jeremiah Johnson, The Mountain Men, Last of the Mohicans, Man In The Wilderness, they are all Hollywood movies with many errors but I love to watch them over and over. Just don't ever watch a movie called Hawken's Breed with Peter Fonda. My wife and I rented that one back in the '90s and immediately dubbed it THE WORST MOVIE EVER! And I haven't changed my mind on that to this day!
And White Finger you are a hopeless case! You sir have a most definitely terminal illness! Just know that you ain't alone Brother!

I went and saw it today, it was well worth it.
There was a really big crowd in the theater, way more than I would have thought to see a mountain man movie.