This was a very hard movie to finish. Almost nothing interesting occurred. I really would have liked to see more of the world. It felt like 90% of the film took place on a never ending road in the middle of desolate country. This would have been fine if something was happening but the entire movie was nothing but a father and son walking aimlessly. The movie definitely conveyed a drab and bleak atmosphere but it also felt very confined. Visually, i never felt like i was observing a story that was taking place in a post apocalyptic world. Other than the scene where the father and son take refuge in the well stocked bunker i was bored out of my mind. Nothing of interest or consequence ever happen in the movie. I did like the message of survival and strength but even that went no where. I really liked how the movie ended but because the rest of the film was so empty it felt incredibly anti-climactic.
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Well shit. The DVD just came today from Netflix and I was excited because I had thought that they would include the baby on the spit scene as a deleted scene, since it was filmed but just left out of the final film because the director thought it was too much.
But no, it's not even a deleted scene. The director apparently doesn't want anyone to see the scene. I wish they had gotten another director. One who was willing to show the grimness and viciousness of the world of the story, which was so important to the story and is a big reason why the movie doesn't work nearly as well as the book.
Well you have learnt your lesson, doing what you did to an animal = no baby scene in The Road. Your own fault really. Punishment. You ruined it for us all!!
Yeah, the film was depressing; only a slight glimmer of something resembling hope. But the book was grimmer, and also I think more hopeful. I felt like the movie played it a little safe and it lacked the prose (obviously) that makes McCarthy's book so good.
In the end, I just keep thinking the same classic thing about adaptations - "the book was better."
Unlike No Country for Old Men; in that case the film was just as good, if not better, than the novel. But I'm afraid with the Road that just isn't the case.
I really liked this movie. The movie was actually truely inspiring, unlike many other films that set out to be inspiring and fail. The father character was great, did the film do a good job of capturing his essence?The little boy seemed decent to me, and Mortensen was great. Probably the best Post-Apocalyptic movie I’ve seen in years.
I've never read the book , and wonder if the fans of the novel think the movie is absolute shit. I can understand claims that the movie did not capture the mood of the book as readers saw it, as I feel this way about the Trilogy of The Rings movies. For really good books, there is probably no way that a film can capture the emotional investment and influence that books give you.
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It's not as good as the book, imo. There are things about the book that just can not be put in to a cinematographic adaptation.
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I seen this the other night,my ex girlfriend hated it beacause it was too depressing,but I loved it,was well written and every minute was entertaining,a great movie
Survival is the ultimate motif of the Cormack McCarthy Pulitzer The Road. And so too is the film adaptation, faithful to the original while adding what McCarthy can't—the actualization of a landscape barren of life and humans barren of humanity. Then again, the film's failure is being even bleaker than the source, a testimony to the power of the imagination.
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Jan 15th, 2010 08:01 PM
I seen this the other night,my ex girlfriend hated it beacause it was too depressing,but I loved it,was well written and every minute was entertaining,a great movie
