Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD: THE MOTION PICTURE: TRAILER A

[The Fake Shemp]

IN A WORLD WITHOUT HOPE...

Eh, it looks alright.  Looks like they changed stuff from the book, though.

[Herr Mafflard]

looks like a cross between 'Mad Max' and 'A History of Violence' except with a less badass Viggo.

[Smooth Groove]

Seems like they're focusing more on the sci-fi elements than the humanistic parts of the story. 

But maybe they're just doing this in the trailer to sell the film to a larger audience? 

[fistfulofmetal]

The trailer does NOT represent the movie. At all. In fact the shots at the beginning of disasters isn't even in the movie. Don't base anything off of the trailer.

[Reb]

The trailer does NOT represent the movie. At all. In fact the shots at the beginning of disasters isn't even in the movie. Don't base anything off of the trailer.

TOO LATE I HAVE ALREADY FORMED MY OPINION

[Human Snorenado]

Movie looks like it will be ok, it's shame Vigo isn't doing any more acting after this tho.

[The Fake Shemp]

He's retiring?

[BlueTsunami]

That was a shitty trailer. Watch is be slower than the fast paced ass romp the trailer makes it out to be.

[Human Snorenado]

He's retiring?

yeah, pretty sure i read it in a couple of different places

[Eel O'Brian]

that trailer's just to entice the action crowd, none of that disaster footage is in the movie

http://www.esquire.com/features/movies/the-road-movie-review-0609

[Kestastrophe]

Eh, not as bleak as I pictured it in the book. Also, I always thought that the state of the world was caused by a Nuclear fallout (descriptions about burnt areas and ash), not an environmental disaster.

^oh phew

[The Fake Shemp]

Haha, people are going to be so pissed.

GODAM I THOUGHT DIS WAS TEH SEQWAL TO DAT EARTH AFTAH TOMORROW MOVIE

[Smooth Groove]

that trailer's just to entice the action crowd, none of that disaster footage is in the movie

http://www.esquire.com/features/movies/the-road-movie-review-0609

Putting fake footage in a trailer is pretty lame. 

[Phoenix Dark]

The news reports in the trailer are not in the film. They were added to the trailer to make it more marketable or whatever

[Great Rumbler]

that trailer's just to entice the action crowd, none of that disaster footage is in the movie

http://www.esquire.com/features/movies/the-road-movie-review-0609

Everything about the film seems disconnected in this way — shocky and post-traumatic. This is what happens: A father and a son walk from point A to point B through a desolate landscape. Cities are deserted. People-zombies, some of them hungry for human flesh, stare out from abandoned office buildings and sometimes hunt other people. It's always cloudy. Everything is dead. There is no color left in anything — not the people, not the plants, not the faces of mountains. Ruined, wrecked, used up — it is our world, consumed at its edges by fire, at its center by rot.

Sounds awful, because it goddamned well is. But it's awful, too, as in full of awe. Awful as in you cannot avert your gaze. It's hard not to watch a fire.

When they do move, the father and the son progress through a quietly seething dream, a world at its end. When they run from danger, they clank and rustle and seem wetly destined to never get away. When the father grips the boy's mouth to quiet him, it is too rough. Rivers seem to be icy sloughs of poison. Yet they swim. They are a father and son. They carry two bullets. Anytime the man turns his back on the boy or separates from him, it feels — in a way that scary, apocalyptic movies often do — as if everything will end. But in those movies, the end never really comes. You know that going in, because generally those movies just flirt with the apocalypse, just offer a little look-see at a tidal wave or a nuclear blast.

The Road is no tease.

 

[Diunx]

Meh.

[Bebpo]

McCarthy said that he pictured the state of the world being the result of a meteor strike. It wasn't intended to be a post-nuclear war scenario.

Would that cause a nuclear winter blocking out the sun and raining ash everyday forever?

Cause yeah, put me in the group that just assumed it was the result of nuclear war.  I'm disappointed that the scenes in the trailer looked so clean.  I had assumed there would be an ash filter pouring down like film grain over every outside scene.

[Barry Egan]

God I hate the writing in Esquire magazine.

[Bebpo]

So I read some dinosaur meteor impact pages and they say the global dark period after the impact due to debris in the air would have lasted months.

In the book it's been like that for many years and still going.  Though maybe Nuclear fallout would have only lasted months as well, so it's possible there is no decent scientific explanation for the book other than that's the way it is so deal with it.

[Bebpo]

And I just realized in the Fallout 3 Weather Overhaul Mod where they redo the skybox and lighting to make it look more like the sky would look after a nuclear fallout.....Fallout 3 takes place like TWO HUNDRED years after the bombs were dropped.  So the sky would probably have cleared up by then and that mod makes no sense (would make more sense for Fallout 1).

Brain explode 

[Shuri]

Is the father actually able to kiss ass in that movie? I dont think I could stand another movie where the main character is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow for 95% of the flick until he suddenly turns rambo at the end.

[clothedmacuser]

Is the father actually able to kiss ass in that movie? I dont think I could stand another movie where the main character is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow for 95% of the flick until he suddenly turns rambo at the end.

Nah.  He kills a couple of people but by no means does he kick ass.


The trailer looks pretty good.  They changed a lot but that was necessary to make it into a feature film.  I just wonder what Guy Pearce is doing to earn a credit.  There are only like two people he could play.

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The old dude they meet on the road and give some food or the guy at the end who adopts the child.  I hope he's not the survivalist they meet at the end.  I would hate for them to spend more then a couple minutes with that guy. 

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[chronovore]

I'm wondering when this will come out here, because it looks like I should see the movie before reading the book. Movies rarely impress after reading the book.

[clothedmacuser]

I'm wondering when this will come out here, because it looks like I should see the movie before reading the book. Movies rarely impress after reading the book.

It actually looks like it will be a very good companion.  The book would probably be impossible to stay loyal too unless it was a 30 minute short done by a experimental film student.  The movie looks like it takes the best parts of the book and strings them into a what a movie is supposed to be. 

Maybe I'm just optimistic after reading American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream and Wise Blood and finding the movies to be just as worthy as the book.  In each case you don't need to have read the book to understand the meaning, the film just an equal job.  In the case of American Psycho the film may even be a better medium for the story.

[chronovore]

Thanks, mac. I've gone ahead and bought the book, filled with evidence-backed optimism from you.

[Draft]

And I just realized in the Fallout 3 Weather Overhaul Mod where they redo the skybox and lighting to make it look more like the sky would look after a nuclear fallout.....Fallout 3 takes place like TWO HUNDRED years after the bombs were dropped.  So the sky would probably have cleared up by then and that mod makes no sense (would make more sense for Fallout 1).

Brain explode 

Yeah, but that's Fallout in a nutshell.

Not only has zero nature started to regrow (something I'm not really sure about...), nobody even bothers to sweep the rubble out of their home.

That shit consistently cracked me up. Like, I realize it's the post apocalypse, but maybe move the piles of shit and old candy wrappers outside of your hovel. Or maybe, I dunno, put a sheet over your filthy mattress.

[Eel O'Brian]

you can't look at fallout too closely

i mean, you can eat 200 year old pork 'n' beans

[Eel O'Brian]

and hey, mccarthy does some of the same shit in the road

[Eel O'Brian]

it's been at least a decade, the kid was born after whatever happened

and they suffer no ill effects whatsoever from it

pretty sure if you drink a ten year old canned coke it's no longer going to be carbonated or taste much like a coke

i did not care much for the book (not because of that, though), and i think it'll actually make a better movie

[Bebpo]

I think there is a line between "it doesn't taste right anymore" and "it's poisonous" and most of the food they were eating that was 10 years+ old fell into category 1.  Though the kid did get sick from something they ate at one point.