The Road
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- pillhead
I watched this movie over the weekend and all I can say it was bloody depressing and uninspiring. film?
- GeorgesII0
Have you ever heard of the third secret of Fatima?
this movie is pretty much that put it film, I enjoyed it even though it fuckn depressing.
- BaskerviIle0
I saw it over the weekend too. I thought it was really well acted, especially the kid. It was very depressing if you judged it on the surface. But I thought that the whole apocalypse thing was just a context for examine the father/son relationship – what the job of a father is (ie to prepare his children for their future, educate, entertain etc). There were light moments within the bleakness and I thought they stood out because of it.
Viggo was excellent.I also spent most of the film wondering where they filmed it with all those dark grey storm clouds the whole way through and all those huge fires etc, dead trees, burnt out cars. It really felt like everything was gone.
- Mount St Helens was used a lot apparently.JerseyRaindog
- Viggo was ace for sure!OhYeah
- HEAVY on POST PRODUCTION and sfx for sure !bitsnbobs
- indian_pole0
the book is fantastic. haven't seen the film yet.
- pillhead0
The thing about the film which I found hard to get my head around, there was no story line as to why the apocalypse happened, or even an expiation into the families life, you where just put into this apocalypse world, with very limited insight to the family which made it hard to bond with the film and it's story line.
- maybe look up 'Existentialism'BaskerviIle
- That's part of the brilliance of the story. It's not about the apocalypse, it's about life after.blaw
- trooperbill0
yah its on prtby
- rson0
One of the best distopia movies. I highly recommend the book!
- OhYeah0
Saw it yesterday and really didn't like it at all. A lack of a basic storyline made the film a pure turd IMO. The boy who I thought was a girl made the film even worst as he was a little pain in the cunt.
I really wanted to know why the apocalypse happened as well and why did Charlize Theron leave? Why didn't the boy know what a fucking can of Coke was??
But all the bad aside the scenery and visual effects where amazing, did like that.
- MR FUCKN SPOILER!!!GeorgesII
- LOL sorryzOhYeah
- Hahaha Pain in the cunt, WTF?
Are you mental?pillhead - OhYeah, you must be a few cans short of a six pack if you couldn't figure out the storyline or infer the rest.monospaced
- LOL think I will watch it again but this time pay more attention.. :)OhYeah
- bitsnbobs0
Maybe depressing, but should INSPIRE you to 'Change' to avoid such events becoming reality !
Countries, Governments and individuals need to change and act up. In Abraham Lincoln's word's"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
It was a good movie, a little over dramatised and sentimental in areas !
Check out "Time of the Wolf" by Michael Haneke, a far superior film, in my opinion and while you are at it go and see 'The White Ribbon' his latest film. A complete cinematic Masterpiece.
- moth0
I liked it. I really liked the depiction of the Dads dreams... that the roles of hopes and fears were kind of reversed. Instead of waking up from nightmares, he woke up from happiness to realise it was only a dream.
- moth0
OhYeah. If you can't figure out why the boy didn't know what Coke was then you're probably better off watching Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Squeakquel
- shitehawke0
I have not seen the film, but I have read the book.
The reason the world has become so devastated is never mentioned in the book, merely hinted at. Surely that makes for a more realistic depiction of what happens next. Government has collapsed and communications have broken down. The people don't know why the world is ruined they just have to learn to survive in it.The reason the kid has never seen a coke can is because it was never there, he was born into a land devastated, no proper food, society, nothing.
That part of the book was the worst bit for me actually, something so meaningless as a can of coke to us is completely new to the boy. And he will never have another one.
- kult0
Saw the movie in December. Wasn't a big fan of it. I was hoping it was going to build up to something a bit more profound, but it really just fizzles off at the end. If anything, it's like a "snapshot" of some burdened father and son's trek, and little more.
What also bugged me was the well-armed family that finds the boy at the end of the movie at the beach. The father claims they'd been scouting them for quite some days.. so why did they wait until after Viggo was shot+killed to come in and scoop up the child?
- resourcesmonospaced
- so no spoilers in there for anyone who didn't read it or see the film.shitehawke
- jazmine0
i think this was an attempt to redo the formula they had with mccarthy's last book to hit screen, no country for old men: take a popular book and just transcribe it to film as literally as possible. unfortunately the road isn't the same kind of book as no country for old men, and they totally missed a lot of the nuances, and literary beauty that was in the writing. the result is a very flattened out version of a really awesome book.
- harlequino0
I wish people would stop comparing books to movies, or replicating one medium in another medium. They're both completely different mediums with wildly different narrative structures.
- as a movie on it's own, the movie sucks even more. for all the reasons stated earlier. they could have brought a lot more to it to make it stand out as a film.jazmine
- Fine, your taste is your taste. But let's knock off the "wasn't like the book" nonsense.harlequino
- my taste is my taste, and i like movies that try to be like the book do it well. if they had gone off and made something different and done it well, then that would be another story.jazmine
- then that would be another story.jazmine
- Translating "literary beauty" into visual storytelling generally doesn't work. Words are for books. Pictures are for films.harlequino
- of course. which is why this is a bad book to try to follow literally. why people are complaining there wasn't a story line.jazmine
- fyoucher10
I saw it. I like-did it. I'd give it a 7 out of 10. Don't know or care about the book version but the movie is definitely worth watching. Makes you think...will people REALLY be like this if it were to ever come to that. The part where the 'bad guys' left the head of the one dead bad guy but ate the rest of his body is insane.
- shitehawke0
"will people REALLY be like this if it were to ever come to that"
just look at what is currently happening in haiti for the answer to that.
Now if a catastrophy or war or whatever happened on a global scale, and caused that kind of devastation, we'd find out how quickly civilisation and civilised society would crumble.
- lowimpakt0
"we'd find out how quickly civilisation and civilised society would crumble. "
i think that is misunderstanding what is happening in Haiti. Yes people were panicing in the short term because of the need for food and water but all across Haiti people were orgnaising themselves in their various camps.
people were taking the role of first aiders/doctors, people were acting as security, people were taking the lead in preparing food for large groups of people.
most people in rich countries forget how close they themselves are to chaos - i.e. if there was an immediate oil shortage how many days would it be before the supermarkets empty of food and how well equipped are most people in the UK/US to grow their own food?
Lots of the chaos was on the side of the countries that came into help.
- What I meant was, in a small area the chaos took over. On a large scale, with no prospect of help from other countries...shitehawke
- ... and everyone trying to survive, the chaos would spread.shitehawke