Sadly Over-hyped

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Simply a quite fun film to watch. It was both interesting and catching to me, from scenery to acting to story. I never read the book, but the film itself was definitely worth my time. I would, however, like it more if there were a bit less "remember girl x" talk and a bit more wide open forest and mountains shoots.Overall, super recommended.

Retired travel writer Robert Redford is bored. He has a beautiful house, a loving wife, Emma Thompson, and semi-affectionate grandchildren, but he's bored. His idea? Getting together with a buddy and hiking the Appalachian trail, or as he phrases it when he calls all his friends, "going for a walk in the woods." Hence the title.The only snag in his plan? None of his friends want to join him—except Nick Nolte, whom he hasn't seen in decades. They don't see eye to eye on much, but they're stuck together during this hilarious and sweet movie about finding happiness. When you're not laughing yourself silly from every line Nick Nolte delivers, you'll be able to appreciate the beautiful nature that surrounds them, and it's always great to see Robert Redford in a setting he loves so passionately. He gives a little speech about how important it is to appreciate and protect nature, and the movie wouldn't feel complete without it.I absolutely love this movie, and I can't think of anyone I wouldn't recommend it to. There isn't anyone in the world who hates Robert Redford, and there's nothing offensive in the script. It's funny, clever, thoughtful, touching, and wise.

The first shot of Robert Redford in this film is rather surprising; the 80 year old glamour '70s boy looks like he should be darkening his hair and play Ronald Reagan after he left the White House. Yes, those first few moments are very jarring, especially when it is established that he is married to Emma Thompson. A supposedly popular expert on travel, he wants to hike the entire Appalation trail (from Georgia to Maine) and ends up bringing along (reluctantly at first) the out of shape, drunken, raspy voiced Nick Nolte. Along the way, they meet a bunch of mostly annoying people, deal with all sorts of inclimate weather and a series of wacky, unbelievable situations that would make Hope and Crosby blush.So the idea of traveling down the Appalations or the continental divide has crossed my mind (and passed me by), but at least here, I get to see what part of the east coast trail looks like. I don't know that I'd be pleased dealing with braggarts claiming that their style of hiking was better than mine. I certainly would not be allowing someone like Kirsten Schaal infiltrate on my vacation for more than 5 minutes. I could have done without big bad Bertha who asks Nolte to help her untangle her parties that super glue couldn't repair. I could have done with more of the still beautiful Mary Steenburgen, wasted in a five minute space. Thompson, too, underused and obviously not believable as the aged Redford's mate.This is supposedly based upon a true story of younger characters, and after getting used to Redford's flabby face skin and Nolte's whiskey soaked voice, I still had the issue of them being just far too miscast. What is on screen are not the lovers of two of Barbra Streisand's greatest romantic films but what remains of them, two leading men far past their prime and trying to be Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey even past their prime. It is not a dignified look at the desire to stay young, with them pretty much acting like fools, especially when Redford repeats a similar scene from one of his first hits that doesn't hwbr the impact more than 40 years later.

After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. Although it's not the best film of either Robert Redford and Nick Nolte both men give 2 truly great performances and they make this trip in order to face their personal demons but also find a purpose on their lives and it's for sure childish and immature at times but it's still a very entertaining comedy with 2 really good actors although the R-Rating is kinda a little bit too much for me but maybe it's because of the "F" words? But still not a R-Rated film more like PG-13 but anyways still a pretty nice film and if you see it with low expectations you will not be disappointed 8/10