Fantastic!

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is one crazy film. Looks like it was some kind of Morman production because BYU is thanked at the end but there is alcohol involved so maybe not. Anyway for it being made in the modern age of 1976 it sure does have a lot of animal abuse in it. For starters there are many buffalo shot. If they are not being shot at close range thats a pretty good special effect because it sure looks like they are being shot in the spine and fall down immediately like a dead cow. Then there are animal pairings kind of like putting a cat in with a pit bull, except it's a cougar with a raccoon. I have to give this film some credit though because there is a man lying on the ground next to two grizzly bears fighting each other and those bear claws look real. This film has seen a revival because it's production values are so low (95% of the dialog is from a off screen narrator or two, very Beast Of Yucca Flat'ish), and because there is some very un-PC animal abuse moments that would never be tolerated in today's American cinema. In revival I mean that it has been riffed by Rifftrax (formerly actors from Mystery Science Theater 3000) and it seems also has a web TV parody going around with a new comedic soundtrack. That would be the best way to watch this, then no one can accuse you of being a supporter of animal cruelty, because you are watching it in a comedic way. I only watched the Rifftrax version and it was a solid 9, very very funny. If I were to rate the film on it's own I would score it a 5 although it probably deserves a 1 for all the animal cruelty. I am amazed at the main actor's toughness and picking up a porcupine by the tail, and all the other crazy stuff he did, he's a tough guy!

I enjoyed this movie, considering what it apparently was ("hey, let's make a movie with Rick and some animals!"). It certainly wasn't top-notch, but it stayed fairly engaging throughout. I found the storytelling and most of the scenes to be great fodder for kids, but there's enough violence in it that I think it might be too much for younger ones. Middle-schoolers and up will be fine.If there had been a little less violence I think it would be great for younger kids; older ones might not connect well with it these days, unless they're interested in "the olden days" or man/nature-type fare. So it seems to me that its target audience is rather limited at this point. Still, if you happen to be in the mood to see a guy riding a buffalo, here's your movie!

There is a maximum of1000 words that I can use to describe this film. However 100000000000 words could never do this beautiful piece of classic American cinematography justice. It literally saved my life and restored my faith in humanity. While viewing this masterfully crafted piece of storytelling brilliance, I was in constant awe of the film's life-breathing symbolism, which can only be likened to the passion of romance engulfed in a sea of melancholy emotions. The subtle, yet deep, complexity of this work leads one to ponder, and to reevaluate what it is to subsist in this idealistic bureaucracy we call life. Surely the life, and the legend of the man, nay the spirit embodied by Buffalo Jones can be considered the greatest picture portrayed on the tapestry of the camera lens, sculpted by the dreams of true visionaries. A conceptual medium of storytelling that will forever be noted as a realization of relative truths out of this faction of subjective reality we so arrogantly deem time.

If you like stuff like Jeremiah Johnson and the like, anything having to do with pioneers in the old west and such you will love this movie. And not only that but the freaking guy does some amazing stunts. Second, the guy that said it was awful is a complete moron, the scene he describes about parking his buffalo and some kind of old joke being made, NEVER EVEN HAPPENED. It was a good movie, about a real man who lived and was a conservationist, with some pretty cool scenes and neat pioneer type western stuff happening. So I have to have 10 lines of text and it won't let me submit, so the movie was really cool and he rides a buffalo and fights bears and cougars and does manly man stuff that manly men do.