mayomay This is one of my all time favorite movies. I think Tom Berenger and Barbara Hershey did a wonderful job. I remember the first time I saw it, I was nervous and excited with them. The plot was great, the execution was great, the comedy was just my style, the only reason I can come up with for why they may have lower reviews, is because it came out relatively closely with Dances With Wolves, which can in some ways be similar. But, it is an entirely different storyline, and in my opinion, this movie was far greater of the two. I've seen Dances with Wolves a few times, but I've watched this one at least a dozen. And I am here today because I was researching (for the 3rd time) as to when it will finally come out in digital format. I have been impatiently waiting for this for about 2 years now. ;-) I absolutely love this movie!!!

weezeralfalfa An interesting, if implausible, fantasy, seemingly as believable as finding a Bigfoot in these mountains. According to anthropologist Lillian(Barbara Hershey), all the members of the Cheyenne warrior society: The Dogmen, were thought to have been killed in a massacre by white cavalry, back in 1864. Thus when bounty hunter Lewis(Tom Berenger) comes up with an arrow he found in the nearby wilderness of Northwest Montana, anthropologist Lillian(Barbara Hershey) identifies it as a Dogmen replica, which can be bought in souvenir shops. But, given all the strange happening of his trip into these mountains, Lewis suspects it was made by real Dogmen. Lewis checks out the newspaper archives, and finds 17 people over the years mentioned as disappearing into this remote area. Also, he talked to a retired rail worker, who recalled catching an Indian boy long ago, who spoke no English, who escaped. I checked up on the history of the Dogmen society. Seems it was one of 6 Cheyenne military societies, all of which are still in existence. Thus, Lillian's statement that all were exterminated long ago, doesn't hold up. There just might be an undetected small group of Dogmen , who retreated to this forest, hoping that no white man would find it desirable.The screenplay begins with a motive for Lewis to enter this difficult country. He's a bounty hunter, and 3 men escaped from the local penitentiary. Since he is an excellent horseman, and has a cattle-herding dog(Zip) to sniff out clues, he feels confident he can find them and bring them back, dead or alive. After several days, he does spot them from a distance. They are armed, thus he decides to wait for more daylight before continuing. Next day, he finds bits of their clothing here and there, but not them. He also finds the arrow I previously described.Lewis finally talks Lillian into spending a few days with him looking for the escapees and any Dogmen. Lillian knows much about Cheyenne culture and their language, thus will be a great asset if they find any Dogmen. On the way, Zip and Lewis's horse save the pair from a drop from a cliff. Also, Lewis saves Lillian from being swept down a stream. They are shot at with a few arrows, but when Lillian speaks their language, their hostility is reduced. They are taken to a tunnel behind a large waterfall, and on to a small Cheyenne village beyond. The chief's son is sick and asks Lewis to go get some white man's medicine. Lewis holds up a pharmacy, asking for penicillin, but the police are on his tail, and chase him all over the town, with various incidents, until he makes it into the forest, with a posse following him(just for a vial of penicillin!) This is the action highlight of the film. The medicine saves the chief's son. Meanwhile ,the posse is still looking for Lewis. The police chief has a grudge against him. He blames him for his daughter's death by drowning, when she fell off her horse and was swept away by the stream. Lewis decides he will ride out and give himself up. He is handcuffed; however, he bolts for freedom, into the cave behind the waterfall. The sheriff chases him into the tunnel, where Lewis had previously placed some old dynamite the Cheyenne had recovered from some intruders. He hoped to set off the dynamite with his rifle, but the sheriff got there too soon. So, a Cheyenne behind him sets off the dynamite with an arrow shot(Could that work?). The explosion blasts Lewis and the sheriff out of the tunnel and through the waterfall, to fall into the plunge pool. Lewis saves the Sheriff from drowning. Thus, the sheriff figures Lewis has made up for his failure to save his daughter. He decides to dismiss the rather trivial charge against Lewis for stealing that vial of penicillin. When Lewis decided to give himself up to the sheriff, to avoid the sheriff finding the Cheyenne village, Lillian decided to stay at the village, saying this is the kind of life she always dreamed of living. Very surprisingly, Rip also decided to stay with the Cheyenne girl who had tended to him after he was shot with an arrow. Lillian and Lewis engage in a passionate kiss or two before he leaves, it not being clear if he would ever return, or spend a while in jail for his theft. See the movie to find out how things worked out. Their romance follows the very common formula of: girl hates boy initially, then warms up to him, and is passionately in love with him at film's end. It takes a fair amount of suspended disbelieve to shallow this story. For instance, when the dynamite goes off in that tunnel, why weren't Lewis, the sheriff, and the Cheyenne blown to bits and buried under rock, instead of being blown out of the tunnel, let alone survive a long plunge into the plunge pool and manage to swim to shore. Nonetheless, this is an interesting story, and Lewis and Rip, especially, demonstrate a 'never give up' attitude throughout.There is one scene that greatly puzzles me, that seems to have nothing to do with the subsequent happenings. There is a helicopter hovering over near the village, at night, with a search light scanning the area. Eventually, we hear a machine gun. In the same scene, there is a group of soldiers or police? cavalry, with rifles in hand, who eventually charge toward what? Is the latter a flash back to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre?Lots of great scenery of the Canadian Rockies , mostlyPresently available at you tube.

scooterbutter This is a very poorly acted film with a very thin script, Tom Beringer looked as if he was distracted and disinterested in showing any acting ability. He used to be such a fine actor. It is sad to see him like this. Maybe he was just burnt out.I am a bit surprised so many people loved this forgettable film. John Wayne is not much of actor and people love him. Even John Wayne's movies look like masterpieces compared to this rubbish. It is a commonly held view that Americans have been systematically dumbed down over the past few decades. I never imagined until now jut how dumb they've become. Don't get me wrong the US is the best country in the world when it comes to mediocrity. Great American films haven't been made for so long that rubbish like this has risen in popularity. How sad.

AirborneRanger If you can get past the premise, this is a really good movie. It has all of the elements you could ask for. The cinematography is stunning. After seeing this movie, I started looking at real estate in Banff. There is romance with good and believable chemistry between the leads, well done and believable conflict between Gates and his father in law, humor, commentary on the American West in the form of a moral lecture, and the initial conflict between the two Alpha males that turns to respect and then friendship.The unlikely star of the movie is really the dog; I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it will make you want to get a dog like that.My favorite and most disturbing scene is the dream sequence. For better or worse, you can actually see our bloody history with the Indians playing out all over again. That perhaps is the most striking thing about this movie: You can really imagine that perhaps we have not moved forward as a society or culture when it comes to dealing with anything that we do not understand or refuse to learn about.