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The Road-Opens this week

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Yeah, I know I don’t need to remind anyone here about this.

Guess I just couldn’t contain myself.

I don’t think I have anticipated a movie as much as this one in a long time. And all the changes in release dates didn’t help.

Sure hope it was worth it…

(Probably won’t be able to get to a theater until next week, though)
 
I finished the book recently. Despite the mixed reviews, I liked the human story.

I hope they do the movie justice.
 
The book was really moving. I felt like crap after reading it for about a month. Looking forward to feeling like crap again when the movie comes out.
Viggo Mortensen is really good. See Apalosa and History of Violence.
 
Definitely on the must see list.

Also Warner Brothers bought the rights to "One Second After"....should make a disturbing but great movie as well.
 
coop1957 said:
The book was really moving. I felt like crap after reading it for about a month. Looking forward to feeling like crap again when the movie comes out.
Viggo Mortensen is really good. See Apalosa and History of Violence.
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+1, except I have kept thinking about the book and feeling like crap for a couple of years!
 
quietmike said:
Definitely on the must see list.

Also Warner Brothers bought the rights to "One Second After"....should make a disturbing but great movie as well.
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One second after is another good read. I guess I am an eternal pessimist. I like to read about SHTF while everybody else is in la la land watching American Idol.
 
That book was the darkest thing I have ever read in my life.

There is NO WAY in hell I ever want to SEE any of that on any screen. I've been through enough crap and misery in my life - I don't want no more.

We live in times where most people today either have little imagination or lead charmed lives. I don't fit in either category.
 
quietmike said:
Definitely on the must see list.

Also Warner Brothers bought the rights to "One Second After"....should make a disturbing but great movie as well.
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I'll have to keep a lookout for that one. The book was excellent.
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The story is pretty good. I don't really go in for "survival" or disaster stories. To me, it was a story about parenting.

Some reservations about movie adaptations, but the director, John Hillcoat, seems a decent act. I liked his move, The Proposition. I don't expect his treatment to be like the average Hollywood disaster movie.

Obviously, The Road will attract those who go in for disaster porn. There are a couple movies that are similarly themed post apocalypse pseudo documentaries. The earlier is The War Game, which is available on DVD. The latter is Threads, which is not available on DVD, but is watchable on Google Video. Both are pretty interesting, very similar treatments of the same subject, done about 20 years apart. While The Road is fundamentally a story about the human situation, these other two are more specifically about nuts-and-bolts post nuclear war speculation, and even survival.
 
nah; the story is too bleak for me...i'll stay with mccarthey's No Country for Old Men, thank you...
 
Been waiting since October of last year.

Why people think the book had a bad ending, I don't know. The book mirrors real life better. Not everything has a happy ending.

Shecky,

"Threads" looks sort of like the British version of a made for TV movie from around the time "The Day After" was made here...around 82-83. It was called, "Special Report" and was a mock newscast of a terrorist incident involving a nuclear weapon. Do you remember that?
 
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