Originally posted by MildPossession
Another of his books, The Road, is coming out in a few months time as a film. Yet to read any of the man's work. The Road make a good film? It's directed by the guy who made The Proposition, and that was rather good.
Originally posted by MildPossession
Another of his books, The Road, is coming out in a few months time as a film. Yet to read any of the man's work. The Road make a good film? It's directed by the guy who made The Proposition, and that was rather good.
The Road is an absolutely STUNNING novel. Probably the best I've ever read. It's going to be hard to make it into a movie, but it's doable.
It's an incredibly bleak story, with some very very disturbing imagery. Really, if they were really accurate to the book, the film would not be able to get an R rating, it would get an NC 17 or go unrated, some really harsh stuff.
But the story is very simple. It's a Man and his son traversing a post apocalyptic wasteland of America, trying to get to the west coast, in order to avoid freezing to death. And that's all it is, just following them. The simplistic nature of the book may not transfer well to screen, but we'll see.
Read the book ASAP. It's a stunning work.
Originally posted by BackFire
The Road is an absolutely STUNNING novel. Probably the best I've ever read. It's going to be hard to make it into a movie, but it's doable.It's an incredibly bleak story, with some very very disturbing imagery. Really, if they were really accurate to the book, the film would not be able to get an R rating, it would get an NC 17 or go unrated, some really harsh stuff.
But the story is very simple. It's a Man and his son traversing a post apocalyptic wasteland of America, trying to get to the west coast, in order to avoid freezing to death. And that's all it is, just following them. The simplistic nature of the book may not transfer well to screen, but we'll see.
Read the book ASAP. It's a stunning work.
Noted. 🙂
Originally posted by Heat_Vision
I don't see why a sequal means the character would have to be explained any further than in the first. I would however like to see him in another situation where he murders a lot of poeple and is the only one still standing more or less in the end. That's all the explination I need. 😈
Originally posted by Röland
That pretty much ruins the whole point of the story and plot for the first movie.
That would be pretty much the same thing as the first one except a different reason to kill poeple. I don't see what the big deal is other than sequals having a high likelyness to suck but if it was done by the same writers, directors, and what not then it should be fine. I really don't see any reason to argue about this any further so enjoy your discussion. wallbash
Just watched this movie on DVD. And although it was brilliant, and I could hardly understand anything it seems like some bits were missing, or is this the way the movie was supposed to be.
Like when that dude who found the money was killed, suddenly there was gunfire then he lay there dead, it seemed very sudden was there something missing on the DVD or what?
And what was Tommy Lee Jones doing all the time, his character seemed to have a total useless role especially the last scene.
As for the Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, ohh WOW a new entry to my all time favourite movie bad asses.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Just watched this movie on DVD. And although it was brilliant, and I could hardly understand anything it seems like some bits were missing, or is this the way the movie was supposed to be.Like when that dude who found the money was killed, suddenly there was gunfire then he lay there dead, it seemed very sudden was there something missing on the DVD or what?
And what was Tommy Lee Jones doing all the time, his character seemed to have a total useless role especially the last scene.
As for the Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, ohh WOW a new entry to my all time favourite movie bad asses.
Originally posted by Menetnashté
Nah it was supposed to be that way. I'm not sure why they killed off the main guy other than just to kill him off. As for Tommy Lee Jones being useless, yeah he was. But he explains at the beginning of the movie that times have changed and he can't cope with it. Hence the title No Country for Old Men. He wasn't really supposed to kill "Sugar" it was kind of inferred that he would never be able to use his arm again since his ending was relating to the story Tommy Lee tells about the guy who shoots cattle. It's one of those movies where if you don't pay attention you don't get it. Only thing I didn't care for was how quick they killed off Woody.
I definitely didn´t "get it"🙂 but it was more down to not understanding what a lot of the characters were saying than lack of attention. This US dialect isn´t easy to understand they don´t seem open their mouths when speaking.
The movie was still brilliant though, "sugar" deserved the Oscar, brilliant performance.