well good day everybody it's a beautiful afternoon and we are here to talk to you
about our favorite travel movies Dave and I spend a lot of time on planes and
we binge watch a lot of TV series but we also love movies we love watching movies
to see and get inspired about the places that we're going to travel to we love
watching movies to remind us of the places that we've already been hey we
just love watching movies that inspire travel so we're going to count down our
favorites for you today let it begin let the countdown begin
here we go
well by far my favorite travel movie has to be planes trains and
automobiles now you might be thinking well that's not really an inspirational
movie or a very deep movie but the performances in this movie with John
Candy and mr. Martin are absolutely fantastic it had me rolling in the
aisles it reminds me a lot of you know a traveler that you don't want to sit
beside or travel with and it's it's hilarious especially when John Candy
takes off his shoes and socks in the plane that is worth watching that movie
one of my favorite travel movies is Julie and Julia I'm a huge Meryl Streep
fan so of course I love her but I also love the fact that this is about Julia
Child and cheese and France cooking food and it really makes you just want to eat
French food I also have a soft spot for this because it's about Julia the other
Julia is a blogger Dave and I are travel bloggers so it was like you know the old
days of travel blogging where every single day you updated your post about
your daily life so it was really inspiring I love that movie if you're
going to France and you love food check it out
I have to mention one week it was
a very popular Canadian movie with Joshua Jackson in it you would know him
from Dawson's Creek yep Pacey from Dawson's Creek and he goes on her I don't want to
get the the the whole premise of it away but he goes on on this inspiring road
trip all across Canada stopping at all these crazy monuments that are like all
across our country which a lot of people don't know about like giant moose or a
giant nickel all these kind of things and it's it's sort of a journey of
transformation and it is an incredibly inspirational movie and again his
performance in that is great you don't have to be Canadian
to enjoy this movie either I think it transcends all countries
okay one of my favorite
movies based in Europe is in Bruges with Colin Farrell and brendan
gleeson I just love this movie because it's it's a kind of a caper Colin
Farrell he's a hitman who has a job that goes bad and they have to go hide out in
Bruges and the whole time is really funny because they they put it in in a
clever way Colin Farrell's character he hates Bruges he's always like I hate
Bruges and then brendan gleeson is going through touring Bruges so you get to see
the beauty of the city and see the the hitman going I hate it here I'm stuck in
this lousy town but brendan gleeson going i love it here let's talk about
the the all of the beauty of the city it's also one that I really I sort of I
really fell in love with Colin Farrell in that one I think I probably one of
his best performances really I think it's his best performance I really hated
him when he did Miami Vice and no shoes no socks and yeah exactly he did some
really oh my god she did Alexander that was a really terrible movie but when he
did in Bruges I was back on the Colin Farrell team I loved him
now you can't
do a travel movie list without mentioning the bucket list oh definitely
one of the great ones most definitely Morgan Freeman Jack Nicholson and it's
basically it's the first time I ever heard the term the bucket list I don't
think it was very popular before that no I think people had life list and
inspirational lists but when it came out the bucket list and when when Morgan
Freeman what he described it when Jack Nicholson's like what the heck is a
bucket list he's like everything I want to do before
it kicks the bucket I thought it was perfect perfect it really is and that's
why we have that phrase around today yeah it's really an emotional movie it's
funny it's uplifting and it really gets you inspired to go out there and live
life to the fullest most definitely
here's an oldie but a goodie and it
really stands the test of time Romancing the Stone I just think the
chemistry between Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas
it's outstanding I love that she's a novelist of romance novelists and she
always lives just in her head but then she has to go on this great adventure
and I'm telling you I know so many people that want to go to Cartegena
just because of Romancing the Stone
the next movie that is on our list is the
Secret Life of Walter Mitty now I'll tell you the truth I wasn't overly keen
on seeing this movie I was like I might be okay but Ben Stiller at this time I
think he had kind of run his course didn't find him that funny
well after I saw it I thought it was done so perfectly just all the places
that he visits and if you're a traveler you are definitely gonna love this movie
the underlying story about why he's going to all these places is fantastic
you have to watch the movie to find that out but again it's something that
inspires you to want to get out there and travel and explore the world and
that's what all these movies are about right they want they inspire you to get
out there and travel and see the beauties that this planet has to offer
a movie that I really enjoyed was the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel it took me a long
time to to get Dave to watch it he wouldn't watch it with me he wasn't
interested in it but it was really great because it showed that you're never too
old to have an adventure and I really felt that it captured India well like
the really positive side all of these seniors going and having this adventure
in India just really good and Dev Patel he's the owner of the Marigold Hotel and
he lures all of these really lures all of these seniors there and kind of takes
them but then they become friends and then it becomes this great heartwarming
Dev Patel actually is the center of a lot of great movies about India
Slumdog Millionaire is one of my favorite movie it's just a spectacular
movie Academy award-winning and it really captures the true nitty grittyness
of India but also the beauty of it all and it makes you really want it it's
kind of the flip side of the marigold hotel right it shows the two different
sides of India and how contrasting it really is yeah and I recently watched
Lyon with Dev Patel again it's got the trifecta here but there's something
about when you see it you still want to go in and feel that and experience that
because India is such a different exotic place and hey it made you want to go to
Australia that too you know that first scene when he comes out when he's
surfing and you see us Joe like I want to live there he's a lucky
dude
another movie that I love that is a lot about travel is into the wild now I
originally read the book and then went to go see the movie I thought the movie
was a good interpretation of the book Sean Penn did a really great job
directing it and it did a I mean it showcases the beauty of Alaska which
we've been a few times and I absolutely loved it out there it's gorgeous I think
that what's great about it is it delves into the psyche of why people travel or
why they go on these adventures and maybe that's why I related so much to
this movie in especially at least the first half of the movie I really it
really hit home to me and that's one of the reasons why it's on this list
because it does anything that pulls at your heartstrings or has relevance to
your life you know is obviously gonna have an impact right
speaking of Jon Krakauer he's a he's a writer of into the wild another one that
I really loved was Everest yes I thought that Everest it was a real
big-budget Hollywood who doesn't love Jake Gyllenhaal I'm sorry I loved him I
thought he was great in that we climb down Mount Everest base camp a few years
ago and when they were going through nancy bazaar and the tea houses and
they're in Katmandu i was so excited for it it was I thought it was a good movie
I thought that it really makes you want to go to Nepal maybe not go and climb
Everest I maybe go to base camp and do a we did it gets a great feel and you
don't have the dangerous of dying especially those opening scenes in that
movie like you know the helicopter shots and all that stuff that really shows you
what what the Himalayas look like it I thought it really gave you a great sense
of what it would feel like to be there
well we just came back from Africa so I
have to at least mention one movie that I loved from Africa there's many but one
that makes this list is Tarzan I was totally surprised I did not want to see
this movie I thought it looked cheesy I thought it looks stupid and then we
watched and I was like that was fabulous it really was it was a great
interpretation of the story of Tarzan and it again it got to showcase the
beauty of Africa and uh unto itself like the movie is a great story but pair that
with the visuals of where they are in Africa and ma you want to run to that
continent right away
and speaking of Africa one of my
favorites of all time is Out of Africa with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford and
it's a classic and it's worth watching it's just nothing can go wrong with
Meryl Streep everything she plays is perfection and she's once again perfect
in this she's a married baroness who she can't fall in love with Robert Redford
but she falls in love with Robert Redford they have this unrequited love
they can't be together great chemistry between those two as well you can never
go wrong with a young Robert Redford
now you can't do a travel list of movies
were talking about up in the air Clooney in this movie just encapsulates what
it's like to travel frequently for a living which we really relate to you
know going to those airports picking scanning to how to be in the right line
at the right time what to do how to pack all that kind of stuff he covers it all
in this movie in a great performance as well
I have a real soft spot for under
the Tuscan Sun Dave and I just spent some time in Tuscany this year and all I
could do would keep referencing under the Tuscan Sun first I love the book I
read that first and then we went and rented the movie with Diane Lane and I
think she's fabulous she's one of the most underrated actresses I just love
her I think she's great and she's it's about a woman who her husband had an
affair she left him and then she moved to Tuscany to open a villa and we met
the actual real villa woman yes Elena a Borgo Argentine and Tuscany just go to
her villa and you are going to experience the real under the Tuscan Sun
but anyway that's a fantastic movie and speaking of more movies like that where
people make a switch yeah I'm a fan of also a Good Year now this was really
different for Russell Crowe this was early just a little while after
gladiator and all that stuff so it came in all dumpy and fat we're kind of used
to it yeah but hey I think it was all that French wine he was drinking so he's
this rich hotshot guy from London and he inherits a vineyard in Provence from his
uncle and it's a great story about how he adapts to moving down there and he
just goes to sell it but then of course he falls in love with the French you
know and it's a great movie about wine and
grapes and it just makes you want to learn about the art of drinking wine
which I think we Dave and I are pretty good at we can drink it no problem
Alright before we go
we're gonna do some quick honorable mentions because there are so
many great movies out there what can we do quick Dave what's one of one of your
quick ones that you The Bourne series goes all over the world
travels all over the world great adventure got to be in there well
speaking of spies I think any of the James Bonds of course especially the
new ones with Daniel Craig I'm a huge fan of that but the new ones I really
just want to go around the world and travel and be rich I want to go to
Casino Royale I want to gamble I want to walk off the beach looking gorgeous it
just makes me want to travel me too and you can't forget Indiana Jones you know
he travels all over the world in those adventures Harrison Ford is fantastic in
them and it just makes you want to be an adventure I want to get myself a fedora
and a whip and travel that way
so that'll do it for our top travel movies
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