On October 16th the long awaited adaptation of the pulitzer winning novel The Road, by Cormack McCarthy will finally arrive on cinemas. Having read the book i think this could be one of the best dramas of the year and also one of the most realistic and well acted post-apocalyptic movies ever.




The cast is pretty solid, Viggo Mortensen as the Man, Charlize Theron as the Wife and newcomer Kodi Smith McPhee as the Boy (They dont have any names on the book, just, Man, Wife, boy).

The setting is 10 years in the future when an unnamed cataclysm has scorched the earth and left just a handful of survivors desperate clinging to life. Among them is the Man and his son, the Boy who will try a dangerous journey to find sanctuary from the madness and death that have consumed the world and its few remaining inhabitants. I wont spoil any details except saying that its gonna be a rough journey for both of them and also for the audience.

Here its a trailer in 1080 p, hope you enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBV-dx6r0KM


PD: This is my first topic so excuse the mistakes (there are gonna be a few).

I love this genre, hope this one is good!

Huh. You'd think that, if shit went down to end the world, that the people left over wouldn't be such dicks. Or, wait... Isn't that the Rapture?

Posters


6 Videos:
http://geektyrant.com/2009/09/6-film-clips-from-the-road/


And this guy on an off hand comment says the cut he saw sucks:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17291

This movie looks decent but it only seems to have a distant relation to the book I loved.

Here´s pretty good review from Hollywoodreporter (some spoilers included).

http://hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-revie...191.story?imw=Y

Still, the book is extraordinary and it would be very hard to top, even with Viggo Mortensen which i consider one of the finest actors of the last years.

Grrr.

Here is another Bad Review, this time from Variety:
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940928...d=3212&cs=1

Release date has been pushed back again:
http://geektyrant.com/2009/09/what-the-roa...hed-back-again/

Well this seems to be falling apart.

This was one brutal film.

Not having read the book but kind of already expecting the Cormac McCarthy brand of "bittersweet fuck you up"-ness, I can safely say I sat through the entire film with a knot in my stomach.

It's a bleak though thoroughly engrossing story of a father desperately trying to care for his son and preserve in themselves a code of humanity in spite of the world around them which has completely lost it's humanity.

Viggo is a tour de force in this. It's criminal nothing has been mentioned of him in this for the awards season.

Give this a chance and it'll hit you like a punch in the stomach.

3.5 out of 4. The boy was at times whiny. Only reason why I marked it down a little.

And yes the book is most certainly better but that doesn't mean the movie is shit.

The book is so much better than the film. There were a few scenes left out that I was looking forward to. However, the movie was a very faithful adaptation that I was pleased with when it was over.

I just watched this and I agree with the knot/punch in the stomach statement and that the book was better.

It's a movie worth watching.

Beautifully shot movie. The acting is also top notch, pitty Guy Pearce only gets a bit part but Mortensen was magnificent.

Yeah some of the scenes are full of dread. Almost unbearable at times.

Still that kid was one whiny bitch.

Finally caught this. Thought the movie was very true to the book. Menacingly dark and humorless. Great bits of Cormac's prose sprinkled throughout. Solid cameos all around...

Acting was terrific, by both Viggo and the boy. The scene where they're upstairs in the cannibals' house hiding in the bathroom and he's got the gun on his son's head... was top fucking notch.

Only bothersome acting for me was towards the end when the Man is dying and the Boy is crying over him. A bit over-acted to say the least. Still think they were robbed to not get even a sniff of Oscar chatter.

Loved it. Peeps I watched it with who hadn't read the book, however? Not so much. Miserable and contemplating suicide by the credits, they were.

I was lost by Molly Parker's lines @ the end; the cannibal house stuff freaked me the fuck out. Obvi a part of me wanted more spoon-fed details, but I get that this film wasn't aiming in that direction. Does Viggo put it as a clause in all his contracts that the audience must see his scrotum shadow at least once in each film he stars in that makes under $300 Million??

You read the book, Rick?

I have to watch this again as I originally saw it on a crappy quality SCR rip. And I was slightly drunk/high and still reeling in annoyance over the boy whining on the beach when Molly P was involved.

Nope, but by the sounds of the discussions here, I should.

I don't get a lot of book reading time... mostly because I'm immobile too much already!!



Edit to add: one bit bugged me; Viggo, via voice-over, mentions that there are no animals left; yet not only is there a dog, but the kid, who wasn't alive pre-event, thinks he can identify a dogs feet from underground?? WTF?

I watched this earlier in the week, I was expecting something about a baby in it somewhere, but I was half dozing. I liked the movie, but was left expecting it to have been more somehow.