The Road
From Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country For Old Men, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road. An all-star cast are featured in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece adventure, The Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of - a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.
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misery - cynichols
I was sitting through the end credits absolutely writhing with annoyance and dislike until the screen showed, “Based on the novel by…”….Cormac McCarthy!!!! Aargh – No wonder! Purveyor of some of the most misanthropic, self-indulgently miserable and plain nasty-minded novels I’ve ever had the misfortune to pick up. The fact that he can actually WRITE just makes it worse. McCarthy needs to get over himself, but seeing as he won a Pulitzer prize for this book, I wouldn’t hold my breath. As this is supposed to be a film review, I will say that the director did a good job with the material and the production values were excellent, as were Viggo Mortensen and Robert Duvall (in a small role). Still sorry I ruined my evening watching it.Excellent - freya
I was impressed. I never read the book, so I had no preconceptions.
The desolation and lack of ... life was very well done. I like that they switched to *colour* where necessary..sort of a Wizard of Oz in reverse.
The acting was superb. The ability to express complete and total loss of hope and acceptance of it. Just amazing.
Very definitely worth the watching.Excellent - DisposableHero
The lone wanderer/post apocalyptic genre is always a dark, bleak look at the world, but the Road kind of takes a different approach. It leaves a lot of things vague and up to your interpretation, including what actually happened, which I thought was really effective because you focused more on the relationship of a man and his son. It gives a faint hope that there may a little humanity left in a desolate, cannibalistic world. Viggo Mortensen and child actor Kodi McPhee were phenomenal, especially at certain moments of absolute despair and even unexpected tranquility. Charlize Theron should also be mentioned as the mother portrayed in flashbacks to before and during the change of the world. I also really found the atmosphere of desolation was pulled off really well, complementing the theme of apocalypse perfectly. It's unrelenting, though not fast paced, and don't bother watching if you're in the mood for rainbows and sunshine.
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misery - cynichols
I was sitting through the end credits absolutely writhing with annoyance and dislike until the screen showed, “Based on the novel by…”….Cormac McCarthy!!!! Aargh – No wonder! Purveyor of some of the most misanthropic, self-indulgently miserable and plain nasty-minded ...Excellent - freya
I was impressed. I never read the book, so I had no preconceptions.
The desolation and lack of ... life was very well done. I like that they switched to *colour* where necessary..sort of a Wizard of Oz in reverse.
The acting was superb. The ...Excellent - DisposableHero
The lone wanderer/post apocalyptic genre is always a dark, bleak look at the world, but the Road kind of takes a different approach. It leaves a lot of things vague and up to your interpretation, including what actually happened, which I thought was really ...