"The Road" (1 Viewer)

[MarkeytMaker]

(Not completely military related)...though shall you rent/watch the movie, "The Road" and shed not a single tear, I would consider you sick and demented. As a tool for women to rate their spouse, I say that the man who sheds no tears for this movie should be tossed!

Let me warn you the movie is harsh!

 

[Scott]

This one looks too bleak for me as I can imagine the apocalypse being more grungy and squalid than the usual movie versions.

 

[nmrocks]

Yes, it was a very Dark, Dark movie

 

[Rutledge]

Not sure what you were supposed to come away with. Kind of like Lord of the Flies for adults, but in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Presented a very bleak outlook of humanity. There were almost all "bad guys", hardly any good ones. Would like to think in such an environment people would pull together for survival rather than the opposite.

 

[MarkeytMaker]

Not sure what you were supposed to come away with. Kind of like Lord of the Flies for adults, but in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Presented a very bleak outlook of humanity. There were almost all "bad guys", hardly any good ones. Would like to think in such an environment people would pull together for survival rather than the opposite.

So, I'm real curious to know if anyone is fessing up to shedding tears?

 

[marco55]

Not a lot of action nor heroes but probably one of the most realistic movies of this type.A little hope at the end.
Mark

 

[Scott]

So, I'm real curious to know if anyone is fessing up to shedding tears?

Not to a lady on the "internets."

 

[joesgis]

Fantastic movie...originally saw the trailer prior to its extremely limited release....never saw it in theaters because its run was short and only shown in very few theaters for some reason. I anxiously awaited the dvd release...rented it...LOVED it.....ran out and bought the bluray the very next day.

Very dark movie featuring powerful, poetic metaphors. Intense, well acted, well produced and stunningly shot. But even in all this darkness there is an ever present, overriding beauty of the human spirit as it stands up to all things imaginable....a classic struggle in many ways....highly recommended.

As brutal as this movie is, I saw the light in the darkness, and I really got a lot out of it.


Joe

 

[lancer]

Well, I like dark sci-fi, end of the world, post-apocalypse type movies, so you all have convinced me to see this one. Besides, I like Viggo. He was great in A History of Violence and that Russian mob movie. -- Al

 

[W T Allison II]

I had read the book first. The movie I thought put it all in perspective. I liked it. It makes you wonder if you would have those survival skills for you and your son.

 

[Scott]

I still have Alastrise on my NETFLIX wish list. It's not released here for some reason

Alatriste
2006NR

"Part military hero, part privateer, Capt. Alatriste (Viggo Mortensen) fights for imperial Spain and tries to keep a dangerous seductress (Elena Anaya) away from his young squire, Inigo (Unax Ugalde), in this adventure. Based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novels, the film follows 17th-century mercenary Alatriste as he woos beauty María de Castro (Ariadna Gil), honors a promise by keeping Inigo out of the war, and plots to destroy his sworn enemy."

 

[PolarBear]

The Road 1755
These are 2 of John Jenkins' Battle of Monongahela figures shot against a still from The Road, the 2009 film of Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic novel of the same title. Director John Hillcoat shot the film at 50 locations in 4 states utilizing scenes of urban decay and natural disasters to get the look he wanted and used a washed out palette of blues, greys and sepia for his cinematography. Pittsburgh the site of the 1755 Battle of Monongahela was one of the locations used in the film. The backdrop for my photo was a still from The Road. If in 1755, during the clash of the British & French Empires in North America, there was a utopian view of North America and its bountiful offerings, in our own time that point of view has been replaced by a more dystopian vision that appears in our current artistic expression ranging from literature to popular culture. It made me wonder what Braddock and Washington, both men of the 18th C Enlightenment who believed in human progress might have to say.

 

[Scott]

Great! Maybe Chief "Runs With Premise" is there to!

 

[PolarBear]

Great! Maybe Chief "Runs With Premise" is there to!

Ah! Shades of Lord Jeff.

What did you think of the film?

 

[Combat]

I imagine if the French and Brits had known what modern day Braddock, PA would look like they both would have gone home without a fight. Not a pretty sight.

 

[Nooooo9]

The landscape is still pretty in Pennsylvania. Just ignore the post-industrial blight.

 

[PolarBear]

The Road to Civilization
Another photo diorama inspired by John Hillcoat's film of Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic novel The Road and also the plight of the people of the Gulf States. The background, a still from the film, is New Orleans several years after Katrina but before the BP disaster.

 

[Scott]

Ha! Looks like the films where "tribes" of survivors dress really cool in the odds and ends of civilization. Warriors of the Wasteland. A "classic."

 

[PolarBear]

"The Dead Gray Sands"

"He got up in the night and walked out and stood on the beach...Too black to see. Taste of salt on his lips. Waiting. Waiting. Then the small boom falling downshore. The seething hiss of it washing over the beach and drawing away again. He thought there could be deathships out there yet, drifting with their lolling rags of sail. Or life in the deep. Great squid propelling themselves over the floor of the sea in the cold darkness. Shuttling past like trains, eyes the size of saucers. And perhaps beyond those swells another man did walk...on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world..." Cormac McCarthy The Road 2006

 

[Scott]

Or my dad keeping the Japanese from the Cape Cod Canal Dec 8, 1941.