Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

bensonmum2 Writing a plot description for Buffalo Rider is difficult because there's really not much of a plot. A man named Jake Jones rescues a buffalo calf from coyotes and nurses it back to health. Later, for reasons known only to Jones, he decides to saddle and ride the buffalo he calls Samson. He rides around the West, saves a baby, and rides around some more. In between all of this "action", we're treated to poorly staged animal sequences that quickly turn into little more than scenes of animal cruelty. For example, we get to see what happens when you put a raccoon and a cougar on the same bit of frozen river. Or, how about putting a raccoon on a chunk of ice in a raging river just to see what happens? This is certainly what I call entertainment (please note the sarcasm). Overall, Buffalo Rider isn't very good. Because there's not plot, it's unrelentingly dull. The acting is as bad as you'll find. It's kind of bizarre to me that two members of Buffalo Rider's small cast appeared in Animal House. Weird! Also, the music is ridiculously bad, the lighting is often horrible, and the sound recording is sloppy. And there are way too many ridiculous moments in the movie. One example, while he goes off hunting, Jones leaves the baby he's rescuing in Samson's care. That's right, Samson acts as a babysitter! The narrator would have us believe that Samson understands his responsibility. Uh, whatever. If I have to note one highlight, it's easily the scene at the end where Jones rides Samson into a saloon for the final shootout with the bad guys. Finally, throughout the movie, I asked myself more than once, "Why would anyone want to ride a buffalo?" As far as I could tell, Jones has no good reason. When he found Samson, he had a perfectly good horse. As rough as riding a horse can be, it doesn't begin to compare with how uncomfortable riding a buffalo appears to be. And unlike a horse, a buffalo isn't a very dependable means of transportation. Jones is most often completely at the mercy of Samson. If Samson doesn't want to go a certain direction, he's not going in that direction. If Samson wants to stop, he stops. And there's nothing Jones can do about it. In the end, riding a buffalo isn't the brightest of ideas.

third-industries-iii 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.

arwen-edsall It was a cinematic masterpiece of epic buffalo proportions and the best film I have ever seen with a man riding on a buffalo. Although long, drawn out, poorly acted, with poor cinematography, poor sound quality, and a wandering nearly nonsensical plot, the buffalo and his rider will steal your heart. Many animals probably died in the making of this film, but it was filmed in 1977 and released in 1978 when people clearly didn't care about that. If a man riding on a buffalo doesn't spark your interest, maybe a man punching a cougar will. Rick Guinn (the guy on the buffalo) delights as actor, animal handler, and stunt man. Samson (the buffalo) entertains with his swift kicks and trampling abilities. Folks, this movie is not to be missed by anyone who loves a buffalo and a guy riding one.

brad-rappa 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.