The Best Outdoors is a blog about the best movie scenes of people outside in nature. Here’s why.
Movies are great, and I’ve always loved them. But the medium is kind of weird. The process of making a film is so expensive and labor-intensive that it can’t easily be done on even the most generous whim. You have to get a lot of people to agree to spend a lot of money before you point your cameras at anything.
But there are still moments when filmmakers are willing to let their actors wander outside in nature without much of a script or any idea what they’re going to do next, just because it’s beautiful and they can. There’s something magical about those moments – an innocence, a freedom, and maybe even a level of acting that seems more real than acting normally does.
In the best case scenarios, those moments feel like some kind of secret pact between filmmaker and viewer: we know what this is supposed to be, but we both agree not to talk about it explicitly. It’s just this great unsaid thing that gets expressed by everything around it – the wind in the trees, or the shape of the clouds, or the light reflecting off a lake at dusk.
Somehow it makes me feel less alone
Welcome to The Best Outdoors!
In this blog we will look at the best movie scenes of people outside in nature. We’ll also explore the psychology and philosophy of being outdoors.
More to come soon!
This article is part of a series of articles about the best things in life. The previous article on this topic is The Best Places to Live.
The outdoors are great, but sometimes you don’t feel like going out in the cold or the heat. And sometimes there are bugs. Luckily, many people have been kind enough to recreate the outdoors for us in movies and television shows. In fact, people have recreated so many outdoor scenes that we fancy movie critics here at The Best Things in Life figured we’d list some of them for you.
This is not an exhaustive list, of course, but it’s a good start if you’re looking for some inspiration for your next trip into the wild wild outdoors.
So many movies need to be filmed outdoors these days. From car chases to helicopter scenes, the best of Hollywood has had some amazing moments outdoors. This blog is dedicated to that purpose.
In this long, introductory blog post, the author describes a complicated vision for their new blog. The first thing they do is set the tone by describing some of their favorite outdoor scenes from movies. This approach sets up a more professional tone than if they had just jumped right into the details of their plan.
On a recent ski trip in the French Alps, I had ample opportunity to watch movies at night in a cabin. While the others were watching the usual Hollywood blockbusters, I finally got the chance to see The Revenant, a movie that I had been wanting to see for a long time. The movie was released in South Korea only last month. As soon as the movie ended, my friends started discussing it and one of them blurted out: “It was OK.”
“OK? What do you mean? I thought it was fantastic,” I said. “What’s wrong with this movie?” he asked me. “It’s too slow, it’s not funny and there are no special effects.”
I couldn’t believe what he was saying. To me, The Revenant is the best film of 2016 so far. The director Alejandro González Iñárritu has succeeded in creating an epic masterpiece that seamlessly blends reality and fantasy together in an authentic way. It is not just another superficial action movie; it is about survival, about life struggles and about human emotion and behavior under extreme circumstances. It is also beautifully shot, with stunning landscapes and details that make you feel like you are there with the characters on screen.
I love outdoors movies
It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?…
