The Road (1 Viewer)

[larso]

I know this film has been out for a while but I only saw it tonight. I find apocalyptic films fascinating (first one '****ation Alley) but I think this was a bit bleak for me. Having a young son of my own probably helped it punch a bit harder too. Has anyone else seen it?

 

[marco55]

Yes I saw it.It was a real downer for me but the reason I think it was because it's probably the most realistic movie of this kind I have seen.Good movie.
Mark

 

[Jack]

I know this film has been out for a while but I only saw it tonight. I find apocalyptic films fascinating (first one '****ation Alley) but I think this was a bit bleak for me. Having a young son of my own probably helped it punch a bit harder too. Has anyone else seen it?

Let me get this right - you knowingly watched an apocalyptic film and were surprised to find it a bit bleak? They're not all Thriller video clips Larso!

 

[larso]

No, not surprised. As you say, 'bleak' comes with the territory but it had rather more cannibals and walking cadavers than usual. No clear cut happy ending either. You'd best stay away from this one yourself, it's not made by Disney.

 

[joesgis]

I know this film has been out for a while but I only saw it tonight. I find apocalyptic films fascinating (first one '****ation Alley) but I think this was a bit bleak for me. Having a young son of my own probably helped it punch a bit harder too. Has anyone else seen it?

Yes, although bleak, I found the film riveting and powerful on multiple levels.

 

[Jack]

No, not surprised. As you say, 'bleak' comes with the territory but it had rather more cannibals and walking cadavers than usual. No clear cut happy ending either. You'd best stay away from this one yourself, it's not made by Disney.

Do not mock Walt - he served in WW1 and unlike your relatives when he looked over the battlefield he was looking east, not west and the Channel!

 

[45thdiv]

I watched this and then "The Book of Eli" the same day. Maybe I had too much caffeine or something, but "The Road," while well done, just dragged on for me. I do think that it was a great representation of what most likely would be going on in this situation with the world and humanity. The ending was not too bad. It gave a glimpse of hope that the world would move on and people would adapt. I was thinking that it showed what the second "Dark Ages" could be like.

Matthew

 

[lancer]

I found it to be the most outstandingly depressive film I have ever seen. I loved it. Bleak, gray, no real upbeat or happy ending. It is miles ahead of any other film of it's kind. It pulled no punches and stayed true to it's message while allowing just a hint of life continuing on, though a bleak one to be sure. There are a lot of "end of the world" type films worth watching, like the various "I am Legend" adaptations, or the "On the Beach" films, but this is the best, IMO. -- Al

 

[PolarBear]

I created this scene in 2010 after reading the book and seeing the film. I was trying to capture how the experience made me feel.

"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

 

[lancer]

I created this scene in 2010 after reading the book and seeing the film. I was trying to capture how the experience made me feel.

"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

Very moody and dark. I like it. -- Al

 

[Mitch]

PolarBear....

Superb picture and, you seem to have captured the mood well. I must say, I enjoyed the movie and, the Eli movie that was alos mentioned
Mitch

 

[larso]

Spolier question.

Maybe only those who've read the book can answer this but is the boy of the family in the final scene, the same boy the son saw in the fathers hometown? It's the sort of movie that does stick with you for a while.

 

[larso]

Whoops - that should spell 'spoiler'!

 

[Jack]

Whoops - that should spell 'spoiler'!

Real men do not say whoops - and yes I am aware of the irony of using it myself!

 

[larso]

"Real men do not say whoops"

If post-apocolyptic literature teaches us anything, it's that all the rules and norms of our existing civilised society are burned away. I can lend you some material so you can get up to speed if you like?