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The Road-Opens this week

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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Both book were so depressing. Good reads, and there is a lot in each that people read need to hear, if they pay attention. I read One Second After in one sitting.

Deep Winter and Shatter are two more "Must reads" of the same type of gender. Thomas Sherry is the Author.
 
Try 1-800-FANDANGO or 888, cannot remember which right now.

Chris,

Cool. Wifey is from 'Toon. :D
 
Thanks Don!

According to Fandango it's not showing in Nashville, Chattanooga, or Huntsville..the three biggest cities within driving distance. Oh well, was going to buy the DVD anyway.
 
Crap. The nearest theater to me where it is playing is 116 miles away.:mad:

I guess I'll get the DVD when it comes out.
 
Excellent movie. It's an abbreviated and accelerated story and it has to be or it would be three plus hours like Schindler's List, etc. They didn't get crazy and make it an action picture like action pictures have come to be known.
 
A disappointment. Hard to film the bleakness and horror of the story as it unfolds in the reader's mind. McCarthy is a hard writer to film. That said, the Cohn's got No Country for Old Men transcribed beautifully. Read both books first.
 
"No Country For Old Men" just seemed to be violence for the sake of violence. Which is fine, I own the DVD...but it's not The Road.
 
Don Rearic said:
"No Country For Old Men" just seemed to be violence for the sake of violence. Which is fine, I own the DVD...but it's not The Road.
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I thought "No Country For Old Men" was fantastic, I was a little dissapointed that they didn't film an ending and include it with the rest of the movie. Chris
 
WaPo called it "a glorified zombie movie with literary pretentions." Ouch. Scathing review. Now I'm bummed.
 
Don Rearic said:
Excellent movie. It's an abbreviated and accelerated story and it has to be or it would be three plus hours like Schindler's List, etc. They didn't get crazy and make it an action picture like action pictures have come to be known.
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I did hear that the overall tone was described as depress. . . er, "bleak" to say the least. Just so the rabid action junkies would be forewarned. Anyways, still looking forward to it (damn, I really wish it gets shown here!)

I guess this movie is the "Twatlight" for the W&SS folks huh? :cool:

I liked Mortensen's last film Eastern Promises. Good story.


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Some blogs say the book "is the first real classic American novel of the 21st century." Well, I've always taken such claims with a grain of salt but it does make me want to go buy and read it, and it did win a Pulitzer.
 
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Bear Claw Chris Lappe said:
About 40 minutes North of Kaintuck, unless I'm driving then about 29 minutes. :)
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Wow! Someone else from Illinois. Cool. I'm about an hour south of Chicago. When I get a chance to hunt, I hunt in Mt Vernon area.

Sorry, didn't mean to try and thread-jack.

So, how was the movie anyone?
 
Well, I'll probably get it on DVD.

Whenever critics don't like it, and folks poo-poo it for not having a happy ending, chances are I'll like it.
 
Cpl Punishment said:
Well, I'll probably get it on DVD.

Whenever critics don't like it, and folks poo-poo it for not having a happy ending, chances are I'll like it.
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The more the critics hate it, the better I tend to like it, having said that, I really want to see this movie.
 
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