People seem to be reviewing it based on a comparison to the book. Just judge the movie on its own. Forget the book
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But if you've read the book you already have images in your mind of everything.
From the previews I saw these guys simply looking way too old and differ quite a bit from the story in my head as I was reading it.
There's no way you can forget the book.
I listened to the author read the book on audio so the movie would differ even more from the book because I KNOW the Bryson character and his age.
I'll wait till it's on some cable channel.
It was really different from the book because the characters were 30 YEARS OLDER. So that made it an entirely different story. It has been a long time since I read the book, so I was able to forget it, mostly, but I was able to tell my husband (who hadn't read the book) that the real Bill Bryson wasn't INSANE. Because taking a 75-year-old alcoholic friend who looked on the brink of a heart attack on a 5 month hike would be insane.
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Yeah, it wasn't his age. My mom is in her 70s, and I think she could possibly do that, though the sleeping outside would not appeal to her. But she's very fit and hikes a lot in some pretty high mountains. But my mom does not look like Nick Nolte. He looked like he was about to explode.
sharei liked the book and therefore will compare it to the film. If they're going to make a film of a book, they might at least try to have it bear some resemblance to the book - otherwise why bother? Like for instance not having actors who are 40 years older than the characters they play - that would help.
shareBooks are almost always better than the movies made of them. A movie only has a couple hours to tell the story and therefore sometimes only gets the essence of the story. I read A Walk in the Woods decades ago. It spurred my interest in the AT. I liked the movie even tho it was different from the book. The only problem I had with it was the age of the actors. It made the movie too age related to me. Bryson and Katz were a good 30 years younger than the actors so they certainly were not "too old". Maybe out of shape but it was not because they were old.
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