The Road (Film)

[Joker]

There's a featurette out of The Road. The movie based on the book by Cormac McCarthy. It seems to be a lot less of an action flick than the trailers made it out to be.
Which I think is a good thing.

Apple.com link Apple - Movie Trailers - The Road

 

[Crothian]

After reading the book I have zero interest in the film. Hopefully, for its sake though it is more action then the book.

 

[dravot]

After reading the book I have zero interest in the film. Hopefully, for its sake though it is more action then the book.

I loved the book, but I'm not sure that they can be true to the book AND be a good movie.

 

[Crothian]

I lot of people really liked that book. For me the writing style made it hard to feel empathy or care about the main characters. Plus it seemed rather obvious what was going to happen. The tone of the book just made it offer few if any suprises for me.

 

[dravot]

I lot of people really liked that book. For me the writing style made it hard to feel empathy or care about the main characters. Plus it seemed rather obvious what was going to happen. The tone of the book just made it offer few if any suprises for me.

That was one of the amazing things for me: the writing style was bleak, just like the situation they were in. Actually, I felt a lot of sympathy for the main characters...my son is about the age of the boy in the book, and it made it easy for me to relate.

 

[Crothian]

That was one of the amazing things for me: the writing style was bleak, just like the situation they were in. Actually, I felt a lot of sympathy for the main characters...my son is about the age of the boy in the book, and it made it easy for me to relate.

For me the writing style was just bad. It was much more a distraction that kept me from enjoying the book. I experienced the same thing with Blindness, another book made into a movie within the past year or so.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

I've read enough books and seen enough films about the quasi-realistic apocalypse (Z for Zachariah, On the Beach, Threads, The Day After, etc.) that I try to avoid such literature as depressing without adding anything new to my understanding or entertainment. I read the plot summary on Wikipedia, and decided The Road sounded both depressing and predictable.

I would be interested in hearing anybody debate that, either for the book or the movie. Is there more to it than just hunger, sickness, cannibalism, pain and death? Does it bring anything new to the "after-the-end" genre?

 

[Crothian]

Distrust and paranoia, oh..and lawlessness.

 

[RangerWickett]

See, but if you add in "cars, guns, and makeshift spiky armor," it suddenly becomes awesome.

 

[zen_hydra]

See, but if you add in "cars, guns, and makeshift spiky armor," it suddenly becomes awesome.

"There has been too much violence, too much pain.
None here are without sin.
But I have an honorable compromise.
Just walk away.
Give me the pump
the oil
the gasoline
and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives.
Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland.
Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.
I await your answer.
You have one full day to decide."

-The Humungus