The Road

[wei yau]

I read this book some time ago and loved it, though it was perhaps one of the most depressing things I've ever read. Not that it made me weep, but that it made me feel this sadness so deep inside my bones that I could not even weep.

Now, it's been made into a movie, I'm supposing I'll see it. It's got Viggo Mortensten who is the go-to mainstream guy for good serious movies lately (loved Eastern Promises).

Here's the trailer for The Road. It makes it seem more like a darker, edgier Road Warrior, which it's totally not.

Leastways, the book wasn't.

[ChuckF]

I read the book one night and thought it was so-so, but I definitely plan on seeing the movie just because Michael K. Williams (Omar Little) is gonna be in it.

[wei yau]

Here's a bit from an article about production for The Road.

Faint praise for Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania, where most of the filming took place, was chosen for its tax breaks and its abundance of locations that looked post-apocalyptic: coalfields, dunes, and run-down parts of Pittsburgh.

[ChuckF]

Oo, tax breaks.

[wei yau]

Oh man, it doesn't come until October.

Nevermind, lock this thread until September, please.

[livius drusus]

Oo, run-down parts of Pittsburgh! Urban decay + Viggo Mortensen = MUST SEE

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by wei yau

I read this book some time ago and loved it, though it was perhaps one of the most depressing things I've ever read. Not that it made me weep, but that it made me feel this sadness so deep inside my bones that I could not even weep.

I know that feeling

[wei yau]

I said LOCK THIS THREAD!

Sheesh, lazy admins.

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Oo, run-down parts of Pittsburgh! Urban decay + Viggo Mortensen = MUST SEE

viggo= must see all by himself but yeah, that totally looks badass.

[livius drusus]

Suck it, little, yellow, different.

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by wei yau

I said LOCK THIS THREAD!

Sheesh, lazy admins.

if only the threadstarter had bothered to do his due diligence, did we learn nothing from deadwood?

[wei yau]

OMG Lacist!

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by livius drusus

Suck it, little, yellow, different.

can we all call wei yau, nuprin, cuz I think it should be his official nickname?

[beyelzu]

Originally Posted by wei yau

OMG Lacist!

you might be top chink in the alley, wu, but that dont mean you can use the front door

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

viggo= must see all by himself but yeah, that totally looks badass.

SCOURGE OF CARPATHIA

[Qingdai]

Looks like they also filmed it in Louisiana and Oregon. Nice to know we also figure in for a post-apocalyptic feel, or tax breaks.

My husband read it, I think that being a father, and a new one at that, with all of the feelings of protectiveness, made it more resonant.

[chunksmediocrites]

Yeah. Hmm. I read it, and it was very good but not a novel I would ever read again. Does that make sense? So very dark and broken and despairing a future. Humanity mostly as primal predators and prey, with almost the last vestiges of social contracts and kindnesses stripped away. I sobbed when I got to the last chapter. But then of course I cried when I watched cheesy Deep Impact, very good Children of Men, Last of The Mohicans, and the first few times I read Return of the King, and Orson Scott Card's Songmaster, and... fuck. I guess I cry at the drop of noble self-sacrifice or even the stupid manipulations of music and movie cheese.

Anyway, I'm not going to see it, Omar Little or no. I want to believe that there is more impetus for humans to find common cause than that future Cormac McCarthy depicts. Ironic I guess when we live in a now where most of the world lives on less than 2 bucks a day and people destroy themselves and each other to survive and profit daily, but there it is. Great ending there, too, I depressed myself just writing this.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by chunksmediocrites

I cried when I watched cheesy Deep Impact

gtfo

[The Man]

hey, at least it wasn't Armageddon.

I cried at both, but in my defence, I was like ten.

[MonCapitan2002]

Originally Posted by wei yau

OMG Lacist!

Since when did liv have anything against lace? I think the movie looks good.

[Leesifer]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

I read the book one night and thought it was so-so, but I definitely plan on seeing the movie just because Michael K. Williams (Omar Little) is gonna be in it.

Never read the book but I would watch any filum with Michael K. Williams in it, after seeing him as Omar.

[BrotherMan]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

gtfo

You stifle it, FhuckC. Deep Impact was the good asteroid invades Earth movie.

[MonCapitan2002]

There are such things as good asteroid invading Earth movies? I thought they were a myth.

[BrotherMan]

Your face is the myth.

[chunksmediocrites]

Originally Posted by The Man

hey, at least it wasn't Armageddon.

I cried at both, but in my defence, I was like ten.

I did NOT cry during Armageddon. I especially didn't cry when Bruce Willis was saying goodbye to his hot daughter Liv Tyler and then blew up that asteroid with himself on it. It was just smoky in the room. That was the perfect example of a movie where I was angry while uh... upset about the smoke... because those fuckers were clearly manipulating an emotional response out of me to what was clearly over-budgeted cheese, and I was crying...because of the smoke... and also like, WTF? You bastards! With your smoking!

Oh and I did groan and laugh when I noted that the space ATVs had large machine guns to use in space. You know the old adage- better to have a large caliber machine gun in space and not need it, than not have a large caliber machine gun in space and need it.