The Road

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Tristan Sinns
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I have hope for this one! It looks like the superior end-of-the-world film of the month; the other one being that rather stinky looking 2012.

Anyone else looking forward to it?

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I don't know - I predict an unfullfilling conclusion

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Tristan Sinns
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It's actually based on a book that is pretty popular:

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307265439

I need to reads it.

I hope they pulled it off - good post apocalyptic films are good times!

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I think it looks pretty good. I like all the actors involved. They even got the guy who played Omar from The Wire. Awesome! lol

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I just bought the book.

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Read a review in the Philadelphia Inquirer that said it was very well-made and performed but that it was just "okay". The reviewer was disappointed that it didn't live up to the "feel" of the book, which is what you always hear, I guess. The source material and its adaptation need to be two very different things most of the time.

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Yeah. Two different mediums. I'll wait to read the book, give movie a fair chance. Smile

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Heh, that's what I was thinking.

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It looks pretty good to me better than 2012, and I love me some post-apoclyptic movies even if they don't have zombies haha. Vigo always does a great job and I love all those actors so I definately if I have a chance go see it.

I'll tell you one thing I'm more of a practical effects than cgi not that I have anything against cgi, but man like people who don't understand it make it a big spectacle and use it and abuse it. Take for instance Van Helsing those monsters look like shit and the scenery was god awful.

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Post-apocalyptica is so now that I'm worried it's going to wear out its welcome. As Buffy would have it:'It's the end of the world - AGAIN?' Plan to read book though.

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