'The Road' the movie

Math Mudrat

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I could be into this. As long as they are true to the original story and ending.

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I'm glad to hear that they didn't go the CGI route with this film. After hearing that this book, which I consider a masterpiece of modern literature that will likely (someday) be assigned as required reading in high school/college, was optioned for a feature film, I was afraid that the filmmaker would choose the "easy" way to recreate McCarthy's bleak, post-apocalyptic setting by going exlcusively CG.

I don't mind computer generated effects in small amounts, or for full on sci-fi and fantasy movies, but for a story like this, McCarthy's words painted very gritty, specific pictures in my mind's eye when reading the book. Each time I watch Band of Brothers, I marvel at the effectiveness of the physical sets constructed to help tell that story in a more believable way. The depiction of the physical environs of this film are just as crucial to capturing the impact of the book's story as the acting performance of the two leads. I hope the production designer, cinematographer, and director made their best effort to deliver a look to the film worthy of Cormac McCarthy's brilliant writing.

For those who read the book, what was your take on the "unnamed cataclysm?" With the constant ash falling and the very brief description by the father of the day of the event, I always pictured an asteroid, comet, of series of large meteor strikes.
 
I read the book a couple of moths ago and liked it. The movie could be pretty good if they do it right.

As far as the question as to what happened? The meteor scenario sounds plausible, never thought of that one. Do you think they will address it in the movie or stay true to the book?
 
I thought the event was some type of nuclear war and the associated fallout.
 
I agree that if they do this right, it will be a hard movie to watch. I loved the book, it was one of the rare books that really struck an emotional cord with me.

I agree with the comet/astroid scenario. The absence of any discussion of fallout or radiation made me think that it wasn't nuclear war.
 
The "event" makes for interesting discussion. I hope that people do not get so hung up on it that they miss the story here.

It's sorta like the Aliens in Signs -- you could point out all sorts of flaws with the "event", but the event is not the point of the story at all. It's a plot device that places the protagonists in a bleak, seemingly hopeless position.

I just hope they do a good job and get this as close to right as possible.
 
Read the IMDB summary....that movie looks "heavy". Of course, I messed up and read the spoilers (jees, what was I thinking?).
 
ummm....

Read the book, and it might be the worst book I have ever read. Scratch that, it is the worst book I have ever read. The only reason I kept reading it was because I thought there is no way that it goes on and on like this. "Something" has to happen. And it didn't. Two people walking down a road trying to find food with evil doers showing up now and again. The same thing over and over again. How boring can you get. If they stay with the book for the movie, it's gonna be about as exciting as Gus Van Sant's 'Gerry". Which was awful. How this got a pulitzer is beyond me. Just cause No Country For Old Men was great, does not mean every Cormac book is gonna be the same.

I mean anyone else think this was the dullest book of all time?
 
Calling The Road a chick book is probably one of the more wrong things I've ever heard on this website. Which is saying something considering I read West Mall daily.
 
man, I don't even know where to start with those posts. If you weren't touched by this book....
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personally I cried like a little girl.
 
Texashorn and Seattle Husker:I am curious.  Do you have children?  One of the things that touched me the most about the book is the sacrifices/efforts the father makes so that the boy has a chance.  I'm not ragging on the two posts.  I'm sure there are books/movies that you thought were great that I think aren't so great.  I'm just curious if you have kids.  That's all.   No big deal.
 
I agree with SMW that part of what made the book interesting for me was the relationship of the father and son and how far he would go to protect his child. It made me think about my family and what I would do for them (kill to protect them, kill them to spare them from agony, etc.)
 
Sorry guys, but the book requires a little depth on the part of the reader, IMO. It's a sign of the times that many today don't have the attention span it requires. The unfortunately startling, for today's fiction, lack of gratuitous action is one of the strongest features of the story. Fascination with spectacle in the post modern world has really shriveled our appetites for anything of substance. This book ran circles around No Country.
 
As mentally painful a book as I've read. I couldn't finish it for several months. It precipitated a long delayed but necessary examination of past and future relationships. I am a better person for having read it but I didn't "enjoy" it.
 
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