Any one seen "The Road" yet?

[BeHereNow]

Just got a copy and I can't WAIT!!!

I've been waiting years for this film to be released.
The way things are going, I'm wondering if it is prophetic.

:hide:

BHN

[gateley]

1. I just went to imdb to check it out (don't think I'd ever heard of it) -- are you

referring to the one made in 1954, La Strada?

[BeHereNow]

3. No, just released. Viggo Mortensen's latest. (Edited to add linky for you!)

It was years in the final release, but now it's HERE!
Based on Cormac McCarthy's novel by the same title.
http://www.theroad-movie.com/upgrade_flash.html
BHN

[gateley]

5. Thanks!! nt

[WCGreen]

2. It's the feel good holiday movie of the year....

[BeHereNow]

4. Did you forget the sarcasm thing?

Maybe not, the way things are going in Washington D.C., in comparison,
it may cheer me up.

BHN

[WCGreen]

10. I thought the tag line was so over the top that the sarcasm

thing wasn't necessary...

[BeHereNow]

25. LOL- So true!

No need for the sarcasm thing!
It was frightening and depressing, but artistically superb in my opinion.

BHN

[WCGreen]

39. The movie has lightness and airiness in the trailers, at least....

The book was hatched in darkness and was utterly oppressive with threat and violence.

I have a great TV to watch when it gets to cable.

I like to laugh when I go to the movies and feel a little better when I shell out 12 bucks for a ticket.

[malakai2]

51. lol

Yeah, that made me chuckle.

[Greennaissance man]

6. I"ve seen it

It didn't do much for me. I think end-of-the-world films are starting to impress me less and less each time I see one.

2012 was such a crock I am ruined for the topic. I'm sure the book was better.

I am looking forward to the adaptation of The Lost Symbol.

YMMV-I'm no critic.

[BeHereNow]

22. Welcome to DU!

I watched it last night- gave me nightmares!

Mortensen is brilliant in the role.
Thought he and the kid had great chemistry as actors.

Also thought the art direction is award material!

Thanks for the tip on The Lost Symbol.

BHN

[renate]

52. I *hate* apocalyptic movies... hate hate hate hate HATE them

(because they're possible and that's depressing... and besides, it's so much easier and more boring to be all "the future sucks" than to be uplifting and inspiring)

but I really love Viggo, who is one hell of an impressive and interesting guy in real life as well as in acting, so I'll probably rent it anyway, after/despite having read the book. I can see how that role would be an incredible tour de force and he's just the guy to do it... so understated but there's so much beneath the surface.

[kestrel91316]

42. I love TEOTWAWKI and apocalyptic fiction, both book and film,

as a genre, and don't particularly care if they are well-done or not. Though I have some favorites. The book THE ROAD is one of them.

[Subdivisions]

44. I'm putting you down for the novel I'm thinking of writing. =) n/t

[kestrel91316]

46. LOL. I am an end-of-the-world junkie!

[Subdivisions]

47. I'm comin' after your nine bucks! =) n/t

[Selatius]

7. I saw the trailer for the movie, not the movie yet, but I wonder what caused everything to collapse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLgszfXTAY

Was it nuclear? An asteroid impact?

[exboyfil]

9. The book never says

The focus is on the relationship of the father and the son.

It is a very dark book - even darker than Blood Meridian and No Country.

I will wait for Redbox for the movie - can't afford to go to more than one or two movies per year.

I am hoping for Blood Meridian to be made into a movie.

[Javaman]

14. Actually, the book does alude to it. (spolier)

that it was a nuclear exchange. He talks about a flash of light and makes mention of a few other little tidbits that leads the reader to it being nukes.

[Tailormyst]

16. Yup- I thought it was pretty clear too

and the ash, dust, lack of life, lack of sun, all fits into nuclear winter scenario.

[exboyfil]

17. Asteroid strike

or Yellowstone blowing its top are two other possibilities. Nuclear exchange was most likely, but it is never explicit (which kind of fits into reality - the viewpoint was from an individual with limited knowledge).

[Tailormyst]

21. True- both those scenarios would fit

I am hoping to go see it this weekend. I loved the book.

[Kablooie]

20. It was a writer. He did it all by himself.

[Selatius]

43. Your response is funny, but alfredo's response below yours was even funnier.

:rofl:

[alfredo]

36. Naw, Desperate Housewives was cancelled.

[charlie]

8. I saw No Country for Old Men

One dose of McCarthy's soul sucking bleakness per year is enough for me.

[Johonny]

11. +1

[BeHereNow]

23. The Road IS bleak, so yeah, you'd better wait for it on cable.

I woke up really depressed this morning after watching is last night,
not to mention the nightmares I had while sleeping last night.

It's pretty GRIM.

BHN

[hatrack]

12. It's freaking brilliant - and the feel-bad movie of the year. Great date movie!

Seriously, seriously dark, with genuinely horrifying moments - and not in a gratuitous torture-porn way.

The acting is great throughout - Viggo Mortensen, it turns out, really is God.

[Javaman]

15. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

the book was delightfully grim. LOL

Seriously, there were such heart wrenching moments in the book. Some of the descriptions of the land and the sea left a hollow pit of despair inside me.

[Javaman]

13. How did you get a copy? it hasn't been released to video yet. nt

[BeHereNow]

26. Academy Screener- It is in theatrical release now though! Check your local listings.

I highly recommend it.

BHN

[Javaman]

41. Oh, so you're an academy member.

damn it, I'm jealous!!!

Mine if I ask what you worked on to get you into the academy?

[Marr]

18. It already came out? I thought it was coming out next year.

I enjoyed the book-- and I was waiting for the movie. Just how long ago did I obliviously walk past movie posters for a movie I wanted to see, anyway?

[BeHereNow]

27. I think the release date was around Thanksgiving.

If it is playing in your local theaters, GO.

BHN

[Kablooie]

19. Are you AMPAS, DGA, SAG or other?

I saw it last night. (Got my copy too.)

Kind of one note though.
I wish there had been a little more variety though it was true to the book.

(They did fill out the earlier family life more than the book but it made the good times look nearly as bad.)

[BeHereNow]

24. AMPAS

I haven't read the book, but now I want to.
BHN

[CrownPrinceBandar]

28. I was............

but the Weinstein Company decided that it should be diverted from a wide release to a very limited one, presumably to hype the Oscar buzz. So I guess my market wasn't worthy of showing it (even though they advertised it coming to this area).

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/11/road-mini-wide-release.html

[BeHereNow]

30. Bummer!

After what is MUST have cost them to make it, you'd think they'd want as many
people as possible to see it!

BHN

[CrownPrinceBandar]

31. Pretty stupid move, IMO............

I imagine it'll show up around here by the end of the year or shortly thereafter, but to limit its release to (I guess) heighten the mystique, is ignorantly short-sighted for a couple reasons: 1) I seriously doubt that they'll do another ad blitz telling folks in the spurned markets that they can see it now. And, 2) the movie will invariably be spoiled for alot of folks watching TV or the internet (as someone upthread did for me). Dumb move, TWC.

[BeHereNow]

32. Studio execs are sort of like our corporate whore representatives-

Removed from reality.

BHN

[CrownPrinceBandar]

33. It seems to be a universal................

:hi:

[BeHereNow]

34. It is, right down to local school boards and government-

People making decisions that affect and the lives of
the average person while having NO fucking contact with those they impact.

BHN

[AlienGirl]

29. Why watch something that will make me feel the way I already feel all the time anyway?

If I want to feel hopelessness and abject despair, all I have to do is think about the state of my life and the world and remember that *this is really the best it'll ever be*.

Tucker

[REP]

38. That's not really what the book's about; it's about the author's gift of his son to us all

And yes, I'm serious. Barf.

[mia]

35. "The Road" forever changed the way I look at life.

I read it twice.

[REP]

37. I read it; it was pretty blah vanity writing. Not impressed.

It struck me as a man who writing about having a boy child later in his life, and what that meant to his masculinity. Later I looked up the author's bio, and yup - he's got a new young wife (who has obviously fulfilled her purpose) and a shiny new golden son. Worship the might of his seed! Yawn.

[anonymous171]

40. "Vanity writing" ?

[Subdivisions]

48. Yea because fiction is never derived from adaptations of personal experience...

:eyes:

[Subdivisions]

45. Is anyone having a problem with the flash program? At the link in

post #3 for "The Road" website, it's telling me to update the flash player but I've done it twice (Internet Explorer) but it's still giving me the same update request.

[ret5hd]

49. that's because the link is to the "update your flash" page...

look at the link and delete the end of it, you'll see.

[Subdivisions]

50. Thanks =) Got it worked out shortly after posting. n/t