DISQUS

Film School Rejects: A First Look at Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’

  • ty · 1 year ago
    This looks great. If it stays true the book, the scenes with Charlize Theron should just be flashbacks. She shouldn't actually appear in the movie's "present tense." It's really all about father and son.
  • white slave jew · 1 year ago
    i was an extra in this movie.. i just screamed for my life.. can't wait to see it on the big screen
  • Lars · 1 year ago
    Maybe they'll get round to it in post production but I think it's far too sunny. The sun is
    hardly there, is a point the book makes over and over. The clothes are are in better
    condition than I had constructed in my head. I agree with ty that the mother should be
    strictly flashback - this is not some human version of Disney's "Homeward Bound: The
    Incredible Journey".
  • Supernetuser · 1 year ago
    I read the book for school years ago. This is an awesome story. The casting is near-perfect save the kid being younger in the book. I'm impressed though, I'm really going to go see this movie anyway despite the scare factor, and how I may not sleep that night. The book was just as good as the movie. I say read it before you go see the movie. I haven't done that with other book/movie combos.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    The pictures make it look like an action flick. It is not.
  • Cole Abaius · 1 year ago
    A little too sunny, yeah, but I'm just curious to see another McCarthy piece get adapted. Hopefully this will become a trend of adapting his work through different directors every time.
  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    McCarthy's Blood Meridian (aka Evening Redness in the West) is set to become a film as well.
  • that neuro · 1 year ago
    Just the visuals create mad atmosphere... Can't wait.
  • Kim Bondi · 1 year ago
    I can't wait to see this. A book hasn't sat with me for this long in ages. I couldn't stop
    thinking about it for days.
    BUT, I agree, the mother character (Charlize) better not be in for longer than a couple 30
    second flashbacks and the characters should be as ageless and nameless as the book. It is
    father and son- nothing else. And as far as casting goes, it looks ideal to me. The boy was
    of no specified age.
  • T · 1 year ago
    If anyone can do this brilliant book cinematic justice it is Hillcoat.
    Everything looks good; fine casting too - great to see Williams again!

    T
  • john of sparta · 1 year ago
    1. the boy was unborn during the "long shear of light".
    you can deduce he's around 10.
    2. CT as the wife, has 8 seconds of screen time matching
    her relative "book" time, if it's a 2 hour movie (not film).
    3. visuals will "sell" the movie, since the lack of character
    conversation in the book led to introspection.
    4. yes, the screen caps are Too Bright, but i understand
    that this is the flickering image adaptation of a book.
    5. finally, if and when it's released, i will pay to see it.
    there's so little advance, it might be exhibited for one week.