Last night I was watching Zach for a few hours while Cheryl was getting some sleep. I decided that I had seen "Waterworld" enough times and the College Basketball on ESPN was pretty boring. Enter "Jeremiah Johnson". Since it was playing in the 10:30-1:00 am time slot, I figured I would broaden my horizons and check it out. Has anyone seen this rather "interesting" movie? Although it wasn't very good, it was like driving past a car wreck....I just couldn't look away.
It was made in 1972 and starred Robert Redford. Old Bob Redford was a guy who moved out west to be a mountain man and the movie was all about his experiences in the Rockies. About 75% of the movie had no dialogue whatsoever...it was Robert Redford wandering the mountains fighting and killing indians. He ended up getting married to an indian woman who spoke no English, so the small amounts of dialogue was all subtitled. It was also interspersed with music that was considered "creepy" at the time but is rather cheesy 35 years later. I guess the best way to describe it was a cross between "Planet of the Apes" and the movie "Lost" starring Tom Hanks. Maybe it would be better under frotification...
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Jeremiah Johnson... i remember watching it with my dad. He was probably pretty frotified. i remember thinking it was pretty cool.
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