Can somebody please tell me what happens in the rest of this movie? I wanted to see Avatar starting at 2:35pm. My goal was to get there by 1:30pm, so I could get tickets before they sold out. Because I got sidetracked, I ended up getting there at 2:30pm. Avatar was sold out, and the next showing would be at 6:15pm. So I got tickets to the 6:15pm showing. Meanwhile, I went to go run some impotant errands. I decided that I would go into Avatar at 5:30pm so that I could get a seat before it packs up. And that I would get back to the theater by 4:30pm so that I could watch something else in the meantime since I would be done with my errands by then. WARNING: SPOILERS So I get back to the theater by 4:30pm, and find my way into a nearby movie called "The Road". I go in, and watch this awful movie for an hour straight. With a F***ING COCA-COLA COMMERCIAL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT!!!! (This was the first time that I noticed that a movie was a commercial since the day I went to see shitty Blade 3 when it came out and turned out to be a giant Ipod commercial in the guise of a film.) So I'm sitting there watching this absurd insanely boring Road movie. I get up to the part when the kid sees another little boy. And pops takes the kid, puts him on the car, and tells him he was hallucinating. Now, I'm curious about what happens in the rest of this movie, but I really have no desire to sit through watching it just to find out. So if somebody would please tell me, that would be great!
I only read the book, but the coca-cola scene was in there too. It's an example of the world that was destroyed, the luxury we took for granted. Spoiler (from the book): Dad dies.
Maybe you should go back to movies where everything is pretty and shit just gets blown the fuck up? I've not seen the Road, but if it's anything like the book, it's haunting, evocative and powerful.
I just got the book. I want to read the book first B4 I see the movie. I read that this mopvie is one of the best adaptions from book to moive ever made. Viggo is an awesome actor as is and watching a Behind-the-Scenes documentary and what he did to prepare for the role was astounding. Cant wait to get into the book.
The book is astounding. It will change the way you look at things and will be one of those books you just never forget. It's very hard to begin, as Cormac McCarthy's work often is, but once you get past the first few chapters... the book is a raw and powerful story that shouldn't be missed. You won't be sorry that you've read it. It's amazing.
I was too traumatized by the book. I won't be watching the movie. I don't need to see what my imagination already knows
Whatever review you read, supposedly it's supposed to be a fairly accurate adaptation of the book. Not necesssarily the 'best' (most accurate?) adaptation ever. Apparantly even the cocacola commercial was in the book. If the book really is that similar to the movie, I'm not sure what makes it so great because there really wasn't much of anything in the movie that seemed to be all that profound like some people are saying. What would you say makes the book so powerful? As far as the movie goes, the dad and the son are looking for food. But I don't know what happens in the rest of the story, so I can't really say much about it other than how bad it was up to the point I watched.
A pretty good take on what has become, over the past fifty years or so, a hackneyed theme in the SF world. I get the impression that a lot of the people reading and watching it, as with Star Wars, simply haven't read much science fiction, and are seeing the ordinary (or in the case of Star Wars, the substandard) for the first time. May they enjoy - and maybe, someday, look up "A Canticle For Liebowitz" or one of the other classics of that particular niche.
I haven't seen it, but I'd like to. One of the few bad things about living in a rural area is that the theaters around here generally don't play movies unless they are brand new major releases. This is also why I haven't been able to see The Boondock Saints II.
I don't want to see the rest of it much less read the book. The movie was pretty bad. And all the buzz about the movie being very accurate to the book doesn't exactly make me want to read it.
I saw a screener yesterday, and you are right, it is not a good movie. I still recommend the book though, there's something different about it that the movie didn't even come close to capturing.
