DISQUS

Film School Rejects: ‘The Road’ Trailer Will Catch Up With You and Kill You

  • rommy · 6 months ago
    this would've been better as a low-budget indie film, shot in black and white, with no back story and anonymous no-name actors. that's how the story should be told.
  • Pete L · 5 months ago
    I agree with the B&W filming. When reading the book, I didn't visualize any of the images with color. The images were too bright in the trailer. Looks like they added some parts for the mother and about 100 other people that wasn't in the book. I hope all the extra added stuff helps instead of hurts the story.
  • Renee · 6 months ago
    "You sure have a purty mouth...."

    Thsi should be interesting.
  • Karl_H · 6 months ago
    I like post-apocalyptic narratives and although I’ve never read the book on which this film is based the presentation of the desolate landscapes in the trailer makes it look like a film that I’ll definitely have to watch.
  • adhoc · 6 months ago
    hah, thats Cromartie giving you a case of the heebiejeebies.

    The book was interesting, but i'd have to say not one of my favorite. Took me a while to get used to the writing. For example, "Deep stone flues where the water dripped and sang." Paints a good picture, but as a sentence caught me off guard. And the book is full of that.
  • Jean · 4 months ago
    Well that's Cormac McCarthy for you. Try reading All the Pretty Horses. More than once does a sentence take up half of a page.
  • MrDeath · 6 months ago
    I really don't want them to give too much backstory! Please dear god don't explain why the world ended, make it less specific.
  • MarkMushakian · 6 months ago
    When I first heard about this movie I was excited. When I saw the first images from this movie was very excited. When I saw this trailer my excitement completely deflated. Somewhat like with Terminator: Salvation, while the idea sounded promising, the trailer did absolutely nothing to pique my interest.

    I'm not really looking forward to The Road anymore, but it'd be grand if the movie was a pleasant surprise :)
  • Kangaroo Be Stoned · 6 months ago
    I will only see it because of Viggo.
  • GuiltyTrace · 6 months ago
    The reason I read the book was because I heard they were making a film adaptation and it was highly acclaimed. I finished it in maybe four days. It's an incredible read and I hope the movie is just as good. Plus, Guy Pearce man...
  • Bryan · 6 months ago
    "By the way, it anyone else getting a Squeal-Like-A-Pig vibe from that hick who wants to kidnap The Boy?"

    Well, the book does make a major mention of such characters in the death squads roaming the country side. Something about chained-up marching catemites, and the mother claiming that they'll rape, kill and eat the boy.
  • Boulevard · 6 months ago
    This trailer is suffering from some "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" syndrome. That is to say, if the movie stays true to the book, then it isn't action driven, and in an attempt to draw in a larger audience, they made it seem like an action flick. At least, I hope that's the case; it's a lot easier to deal with than "bad movie syndrome."
  • Aleric · 6 months ago
    I still want to see this even though it has taken wayyyyyy too long to release it.
  • raven22153 · 6 months ago
    if anything, it's sure to boost gun sales amongst the "in-a-post-apocalyptic-world-gone-to-sh!t/over-run-with-zombies/mutants/robots/cannibalistic-hillbillies-kalashnikov-owners-will-inherit-the-earth-crowd. The book was powerful and bleak.
  • xSilencio · 6 months ago
    Man, this trailer let me down. The book was so much more subdued. It's nice to see that Omar from The Wire has a part though, I hope he pulls the shotgun on someone.
  • vsdfvsdv · 5 months ago
    Well 3 seconds of that looked decent...
  • Todorojo · 1 month ago
    Several of McCarthy's works have been adapted into screenplays with mixed results. Those of us who read "No Country for Old Men" prior to the release of the film were more than elated by how true to the original work the Coen brothers' film adaptation remained. Though I am very much interested in "The Road", any addition of back story, extra characters and eventual plot twists that were not present in the book are not only unwelcome, but gravely unnecessary to a story that already had all it needed. My hope is that the adaptation of "Blood Meridian" currently in development is as stark and desolate as the book.