The Road (1 Viewer)

[hugh]

I cried at The Road too. I feel a little better about it now.

I read that in a brilliant run of enjoyable books that really hit me in different ways:
Maus
The Road
Absurdistan

I read it after reading Heat (we are all heading for environmental catastrophe), and then John Gray's "Straw Dogs" (humans are basically animals and will behave as such at the drop of a hat). Put me in a bad mood for most of last Summer.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I cried at The Road too. I feel a little better about it now.

I read that in a brilliant run of enjoyable books that really hit me in different ways:
Maus
The Road
Absurdistan

maus is one of the most affecting things i've ever read. i definitely got a little emotional at the end of that. then i started it again immediately. absurdistan sounds interesting. might check it out.

 

[pissypants]

Great book. Just read it the other day.
Very hard to see how it could be translated well to film, but if it's as close / faithful an adaption as "No country for old men" then it could be quality. So long as they keep the spit-baby, the cellar and all the other grim shit and don't Ron Howard it up. If it's bleak like "The Proposition" we're in with a chance. Duvall will be great as the old blind man.

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

creatorof2002[/URL] [/B] [/COLOR], post: 1103950"]i had an even better idea for an ending. The family should have taken the boy to a "sanctuary" of sorts a small community of a few dozen survivors who had some animals and a rudimentary garden where veggies were growning with the aid of a greenhouse, a last remnant of civilization, and in the group would be other children to play with.

I do not think insects count as "animals" because I think i saw the boy and his dad eating insects earlier in the film. It is also possible that "no animals" surviving means no WILD animals, some humans survived so its possible that DOMESTIC animals could have been kept alive. Maybe small animals like rats should have survived for this story so the characters could eat rat meat.

i :heart: the imdb forums.

 

[D0njo]

I really enjoyed that book. It was pretty grim though.

Amazing how much story he got out of such a simple premise.

Yeah, it's amazing he got so much story out of THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Spoiler

I really enjoyed the book but in retrospect it was a bit mad the way they kept stumbling on amazing resources when they needed them. McCarthy's style wins the day but the plot is a bit ropey

 

[Ferox13]

I'm hoping the trolley is from DUnnes.

 

[nooleen]

and the whole plot is about them looking for another trolley so they can get the euro out

 

[Ferox13]

and the whole plot is about them looking for another trolley so they can get the euro out

SPOILERS:

And then it turns out to be a bloody token..

 

[quasiquasi]

Just saw the film. I thought it was spectacular: scene after scene of unrelenting grey, hopeless and hopeful eyes, a red Coke can, a stapler. That said, I haven't read the book and most of the reviews I've read come down to "it's not as good as the book".

 

[nooleen]

SPOILERS:

And then it turns out to be a bloody token..

/silhouetted man in ragged trenchcoat falls like ragdoll to his knees, head hanging down, utterly broken/
/pan to darkening sky/
/roll end credits/

 

[Rachel666]

such a good book, im bringing tinned pears to the cinema and starving myself a few days prior so i can have the gastric experience

 

[pissypants]

i just saw it too. In fairness, when was any film better than the book? Jaws? I thought the book was amazing and quite enjoyed the film. I'd be interested to see how it carrys for someone who doesn't have the book in their heads when they go in.

 

[Ferox13]

/silhouetted man in ragged trenchcoat falls like ragdoll to his knees, head hanging down, utterly broken/
/pan to darkening sky/
/roll end credits/

LOL

 

[bogmanfan]

Saw this last night and really liked it. The wife hasn't read the book and she loved it. Interestingly, there were only about 10 people there (8.30 on a Sunday night in the Screen)

 

[lemonbravo]

Almost finished the audio book version. Tramped home through the snow on Friday after listening for 2 hours, got home and wanted to feed the kids and order some Ray Mears books.

 

[Ferox13]

Just home from watching it...

It was pretty good...

It didn't seem as hard hitting as the book.

The Oldman was very different from what I remember as well as the memories of the wife being a bigger part..

 

[David Kronenbourg]

if i was directing this there'd be no music and it would be shot on digital and i'd introduce a talking dog character

 

[Unicron]

i :heart: the imdb forums.

All films should in similarly to "I am legend."

 

[Ferox13]

I do think the trolley was miscast.