"The Road" release date + review + TRAILER

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:27 am

the dvd rip leaked.

phenomenal film, btw

jamrage · Post by **jamrage** » Fri May 28, 2010 2:54 pm

Saw this on dvd this week.

Thought it was pretty good, although bleak as fuck as everyone has already said.

I fucking hated the kid, I wanted him to die about 5 minutes in. I understand he was our humanity personified (if that makes sense), but he was a top notch pussy for someone who had lived in that environment his ENTIRE life. Viggo was excellent here. I really feel he's unfairly slept on sometimes, but he's a legitimately great actor I think. The other actors (other than the kid obviously) also did well.

The art direction was amazing, they did such a phenomenal job of creating the world. Very easy to fall right into the story. Kudos to those people who made it happen.

I did feel the ending was pretty predictable. You never felt like the end of the road would bring some sort of salvation at any time, and you knew Viggo was gonna die as well.

This movie just didn't resonate with me. The darkness of it didn't help, but I do appreciate them trying to make a serious apocalypse movie. It's sort of hard to put my finger on as I generally love post-apocalyptic stories, but I think the kid really took me out of it. Not a terrible movie at all, but I don't think I'll ever watch it again either.

6.5 outta 10

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:24 pm

finally watched this last night, i read the book when it was released and loved it, really enjoyed this too

thought the lil kid did alright, was annoying a couple times but didn't make me hate him, Viggo killed it like always, Duvalls short but sweet performance was great

did a great job with making the world seem dead

the scene where Omar gets his clothes takin was gut-wrenching, forgot that part from the book

lookin forward to Hillcoats next flick

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:00 pm

nowhere near as much enjoyed as The Proposition, but still a good flick

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:16 pm

Truth. wrote: lookin forward to Hillcoats next flick

Word on the street is that he's the newest director attached to the much aligned Le Cercle Rouge remake.

http://criterioncast.com/2010/05/31/le- ... to-direct/

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:25 pm

i'm not holding my breath on that one until i actually see a trailer

but assuming it does go through it's a good idea, Hillcoat may even be a slightly better fit. To has shown a nearly religious devotion to Melville, which is cool when he applies it to his own work but might ultimately make a Melville remake redundant as it might end up too close to the original. Hillcoat's style on the other hand is much grittier and nihilistic, so he might put a new spin on things by taking the story into a darker territory while eschewing the romantic/mythological aspects of French noir.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:44 pm

Yeah I think Hillcoat is a rather inspired selection for director. Although I am becoming a bigger fan of Johnnie To after every movie of his that I see. I'm sure his take would be excellent, but he's never directed an English language film yet and he might be better of cutting his chops on something with a lesser pedigree to live up to.

I'm just glad its not John Woo anymore.

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:54 pm

drizzle wrote:i'm not holding my breath on that one until i actually see a trailer

but assuming it does go through it's a good idea, Hillcoat may even be a slightly better fit. To has shown a nearly religious devotion to Melville, which is cool when he applies it to his own work but might ultimately make a Melville remake redundant as it might end up too close to the original. Hillcoat's style on the other hand is much grittier and nihilistic, so he might put a new spin on things by taking the story into a darker territory while eschewing the romantic/mythological aspects of French noir.

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this. I think a remake is fucking retarded, but I'm down with this.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:55 pm

Woo needs to keep to the historical epic/wuxia thing, i feel like there's promising things for him there. doing something like this remake would be a huge regression. Anything he could feasibly squeeze out of Le Samourai and Le Circle Rouge he already jammed into The Killer 20+ years ago.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:38 pm

just had to be a black guy.

hustler · Post by **hustler** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:04 am

i havnt watched this yet and havnt read the book, but it seems like the kind of movie where i would crack up and laugh at some really serious emotional poignant momments in the film, and piss everyone off in the theater. il watch the rip and let u guys know what i think, but im going into this expecting to be calling out this lil kid as a bitchboy numerous times throughout the film.

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:53 am

I enjoyed this a lot. not as much as the book but that was to be expected. the part with omar was

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:40 am

I finally got to watch this and it was alright. Viggo is the man though. i thought the pacing of the movie made it boring. I read the book in about the same amount of time as the movie runs. Like odium said, the book was way better, but that is to be expected.