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An action-packed slog

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As far as awkward buddie movies go, A walk in the woods is relatively safe terrain. It doesn't have a great deal of charm but it is amusing, and the scenery is nice. Nick Nolte is an actor that doesn't do much for me. I have always found him hammy and unconvincing but his fits like a glove into this movie. He brings a great comedic touch to his over the top personality, and is the perfect contrast to the strait man of Robert Redford, who may be a little too straight for this movie. They hike the Appalacian trail together. Redford chooses this unlikely escape in the hope that it will help his writers' block. The two of them Huff and puff their way through the hills during the day and camp at night. They encounter snow, quicksand, bears, and the angry husband of a seduced woman. They have some exchanges that will make you laugh, and some others which are supposed to be insightful but aren't reallyA walk in the Woods is perfectly content to be a small movie, and thats what it is. It might have gone further with another actor playing the Redford role. Even the straight man needs to acknowledge that he is in a comedy, but Redford is too composed and takes himself too seriously.

It's slow, focused, full of nature. It's the opposite of Hollywood-style, extended, overfilled story, where one sentence can reverbarate for several minutes, and let's you think for a moment. It's almost like you can meditate in the cinema and you leave the theater refreshed and calm and happy. It's a lovely story, very funny at times, romantic in terms of our connection to nature and the universe. I love to come back to it from time to time, became one of my 'allways-must-haves" on the video shelf.

Robert Redford cast himself as an 80 years old writer hiking the Appalachian Trail.That ought to be worth some laughs, and it is. I went into the movie not having read the source material, so unlike probably about 80 percent of the reviewers, I had no frame of reference for calling out its heresies. And who says movies have to be exact to their source material anyway? Kubrick's The Shining will always be better than Stephen King's own mediocre, but very faithful, miniseries version.The ages of the actors didn't bother me. It added to the humor. No, very few people Robert or Nick's age hike the AT, but a few do. Every year. If the movie had been about college age buddies hiking the AT in their stylishly correct trekking gear, it would have been boring. Nothing interesting in seeing that.So how could the movie have been better? Casting certainly. Who? Well, how about the middle aged gang from Sideways? Call it Walking Sideways in the Woods. Paul Giamatti as Bryson, and Thomas Haden Church as Katz. They are closer in age to the source material, and could have done more than believable justice to the roles. Cast Jessica Hetch (Victoria in Sideways) as Bryson's wife, and Sandra Oh as the annoying lady hiker.Who for the randy motel lady with a thing for Bryson? Virigina Madsen of course.What about Katz's laundromat wannabe lay? Cammi (Missy Doty) from the BBQ joint of course. And the same husband (M.C Gainey) as her monster truck driving husband here.Miles' mother (Marylouise Burke) could have run the hiker hostel, or been the waitress at the "Sorry We're Open" Choke and Puke.That probably would have been a better movie. Well I know it would have.But it's funny the way it is, just not as funny as it could be.

I watched this movie today on Amazon Prime. I hadn't come across it previously, but I had read Bryson's "A walk in the woods" book a few years ago. Bottom line is that I really enjoyed the movie. It isn't a complicated plot, just a buddy movie about two ageing pals who go off on a walking adventure on the Appalachian Trail. They are mismatched on various levels, and pretty unprepared for the trek, but they get through quite a lot of it. Bryson's books are light-hearted easy reading delights, probably never envisioned to become movies, but I do feel that this movie does fair justice to the spirit of the book. The actors are perfect and do a great job – albeit that they are probably rather older here than Bryson and Katz were at the time. The movie isn't supposed to be a kind of guide to the Appalachian Trail – as some reviewers here seem to think. It is just a bit of fun centred on these two men and their adventures on the trail as well as their reflections on the earlier days of their friendship and the ways their lives have worked out. It is genuinely funny, and I laughed a lot.One small gripe - and this really applies to all movies where characters are required to carry backpacks. It is just too blatantly obvious to me that the packs have been filled with nothing heavier than a block of polystyrene. Maybe it would be a bit cruel to load these ageing actors with 20kg packs, so I will let them off with that here.