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Re: "The Road"
Kind of slow, stuck to the book like a magnet in my opinion.
Very dark, and I doubt that EVERYTHING will die in a nuclear war like that, SOME trees somewhere would live.
But all in all, lets you see possibilities..
Kind of slow, stuck to the book like a magnet in my opinion.
Very dark, and I doubt that EVERYTHING will die in a nuclear war like that, SOME trees somewhere would live.
But all in all, lets you see possibilities..
Re: "The Road"
McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed.
McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed.
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
AZ15Three - The wife. Many said:
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bignada</div><div class="ubbcode-body">McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed.</div></div>
That is exactly what I saw.... a world devoid of God. Weather it be the authors intention, or reflection, I can't say... but it certainly gave me pause.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bignada</div><div class="ubbcode-body">McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed.</div></div>
That is exactly what I saw.... a world devoid of God. Weather it be the authors intention, or reflection, I can't say... but it certainly gave me pause.
Re: "The Road"
Cutting off of thumbs, is a biblical reference.
Captured enemy who were to be released were made to promise (one's parole) never to march against or raise arms against the victors again. Cutting off the thumbs and big toes was a guarantee of the promise.
Cutting off of thumbs, is a biblical reference.
Captured enemy who were to be released were made to promise (one's parole) never to march against or raise arms against the victors again. Cutting off the thumbs and big toes was a guarantee of the promise.
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bignada</div><div class="ubbcode-body">McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed. </div></div>
So what of all the people throughout history that lived and died in these types of horrid conditions which were never exposed to your flavor of religion?
Would you suppose that this is any different than their story in a modern time?
Your expectations of a story told are clouded by your inability just to sit back and step outside yourself and enjoy a story.
Lighten up you may enjoy things more.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: bignada</div><div class="ubbcode-body">McCarthy does not offer his readers any "possibilities".
If you read his work, you will find he is devoid of a soul and has no concept of how to endow his characters with anything that approaches hope, much less Belief or Faith in God.
No Country For Old Men is a nihilist's wet dream. The sheriff makes a few veiled references but never directly confronts what is behind the evil that the border dope-running unleashed. The Big Man in Houston is just another elemental player.
The Boy asks The Man "are we still The Good Guys?"
That is about as much of a belief as his father could impart to him. McCarthy's The Road is an apt allegory for those who choose to trudge through their lives devoid of acknowledgement of God.
Read any of the current crop (since 1920 actually) "NY Times Best Seller" or "critically acclaimed" writers and you will see they all have alienation from God in common.
Just finished The Reapers by John Connolly. Utter bullshit about a salt & pepper team of homosexual assassins and their Vachs like sidekick team of irregulars. Writer is a Mick Irish Bastard, (I'm allowed to call him that as it is my heritage also), who shows he researched sociological texts on lynchings in The South, motivations of killers, and consulted with a sniper on choosing his Chandler and Surgeon rifles outfitted with S&B and NXS scopes. Fucking irish-puke who knows nothing of America, but is a best seller....
Who the fuck buys this shit besides libraries? As one who has an extensive library, I am very glad not to have wasted my money on any of this shit, psuedo-intelligentsia fiction.
Want to know who has stabbed your Nation in the back? Besides the major corporations, it is the educators, magazines, New York Times Review of Books, and all other arbiters of the written word.
Hacks like McCarthy and Connolly ought to be panhandling for their living rather than acclaimed. </div></div>
So what of all the people throughout history that lived and died in these types of horrid conditions which were never exposed to your flavor of religion?
Would you suppose that this is any different than their story in a modern time?
Your expectations of a story told are clouded by your inability just to sit back and step outside yourself and enjoy a story.
Lighten up you may enjoy things more.
Re: "The Road"
I was going to comment on the God aspect but can't really see a way to do it without violating forum rules, so I won't.
Suffice to say, everything looks red when you view the world through rose colored lenses.
I was going to comment on the God aspect but can't really see a way to do it without violating forum rules, so I won't.
Suffice to say, everything looks red when you view the world through rose colored lenses.
Re: "The Road"
Well devoid of anything the movie did kind of let you know some possibilities of things that might happen if the big one struck.
The bunker was phenomenal, my wet dream of what everyone should have for an earthquake preparedness - except being in a bunker allowed them to hide out.
THere is a very real possibility that hiding out or going to war with a gang would happen.
But, on a positive spin the History Channel did a special on such a conceived thing and showed how people (Tend to flock together) would form small communities and protect eachother and trade vegetables for home made goods etc..
The Road was as bleak as it could possibly be, worst case scenario - leaving emotions, politics, religion out of it...there would be nothing TO believe in if such as situation happened like it did.
Interesting on the NY Times thing though, had never thought about that before.
Well devoid of anything the movie did kind of let you know some possibilities of things that might happen if the big one struck.
The bunker was phenomenal, my wet dream of what everyone should have for an earthquake preparedness - except being in a bunker allowed them to hide out.
THere is a very real possibility that hiding out or going to war with a gang would happen.
But, on a positive spin the History Channel did a special on such a conceived thing and showed how people (Tend to flock together) would form small communities and protect eachother and trade vegetables for home made goods etc..
The Road was as bleak as it could possibly be, worst case scenario - leaving emotions, politics, religion out of it...there would be nothing TO believe in if such as situation happened like it did.
Interesting on the NY Times thing though, had never thought about that before.
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AZ15</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was going to comment on the God aspect but can't really see a way to do it without violating forum rules, so I won't.
Suffice to say, everything looks red when you view the world through rose colored lenses. </div></div>
I'd like to know where this thought was going...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AZ15</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was going to comment on the God aspect but can't really see a way to do it without violating forum rules, so I won't.
Suffice to say, everything looks red when you view the world through rose colored lenses. </div></div>
I'd like to know where this thought was going...
Re: "The Road"
BigNothing, I had secretly hoped the criticism would take this road eventually, after more people had read this parable, or watched it in their homes.
It would be hard to draft a more Biblical tale.
I agree with you about the "alienation" being part of what a knowledge-based intelligentsia pursues. After all, they have nothing to make or sell. But even the NYT book review speaks of its importance, "But the tale is as biblical as it is ultimate, and the man implies that the end has happened through godly fanaticism." Imagine that.
But God is very present in this story. Do you not see the barren world that man has made -fanaticism - when it was once clean and beautiful? Do you not see the story of a protecting father and a loving son? And what of the communions, and baptisms?
DAD, after killing a man: “My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you.”
DAD, after leaving a naked man on the road: “You’re not the one who has to worry about everything.” And the bouy replies, “Yes I am. I am the one.”
The tale is about the hardships and choices of being men, but for me, God is all through the story, reminding me that I am just a man. And He has omnipotence.
So I continue to carry the fire, and I hope you do too.
Just don't burn people with it. God Bless.
McCarthy is no Camus, but he asks that you pay attention...
BigNothing, I had secretly hoped the criticism would take this road eventually, after more people had read this parable, or watched it in their homes.
It would be hard to draft a more Biblical tale.
I agree with you about the "alienation" being part of what a knowledge-based intelligentsia pursues. After all, they have nothing to make or sell. But even the NYT book review speaks of its importance, "But the tale is as biblical as it is ultimate, and the man implies that the end has happened through godly fanaticism." Imagine that.
But God is very present in this story. Do you not see the barren world that man has made -fanaticism - when it was once clean and beautiful? Do you not see the story of a protecting father and a loving son? And what of the communions, and baptisms?
DAD, after killing a man: “My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you.”
DAD, after leaving a naked man on the road: “You’re not the one who has to worry about everything.” And the bouy replies, “Yes I am. I am the one.”
The tale is about the hardships and choices of being men, but for me, God is all through the story, reminding me that I am just a man. And He has omnipotence.
So I continue to carry the fire, and I hope you do too.
Just don't burn people with it. God Bless.
McCarthy is no Camus, but he asks that you pay attention...
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: marduk185</div><div class="ubbcode-body">what???you guys getting all this from that lamo boring nothing happens movie? </div></div>
Hahahaha much better 8/10
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: marduk185</div><div class="ubbcode-body">what???you guys getting all this from that lamo boring nothing happens movie? </div></div>
Hahahaha much better 8/10
Re: "The Road"
Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath...
Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath...
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
Oh god
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
Oh god
Re: "The Road"
LOL.
More and more I am seeing the sissy men that simply cannot choose a stance. If there is ONE THING that you might make a stand for, I choose wisely.
I never once mentioned religion.
LOL.
More and more I am seeing the sissy men that simply cannot choose a stance. If there is ONE THING that you might make a stand for, I choose wisely.
I never once mentioned religion.
Re: "The Road"
What would make someone believe that vegetables would not grow after such an event - they didn't hit the road for what, 3 years?
Where's all the gas/vehicles - you can scrounge something.
Just was not real in that bleak-ness.
small town community, everyone grows a garden, everyone hunts (assuming there are animals left.
Nuclear winter, well then we are all doomed...
What would make someone believe that vegetables would not grow after such an event - they didn't hit the road for what, 3 years?
Where's all the gas/vehicles - you can scrounge something.
Just was not real in that bleak-ness.
small town community, everyone grows a garden, everyone hunts (assuming there are animals left.
Nuclear winter, well then we are all doomed...
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
I believe we are discussing "The Road".
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
I believe we are discussing "The Road".
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tribe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
I believe we are discussing "The Road". </div></div>
Uh, no offense, but you and Forty-One won't shut up about the supposed religious references in this boringly depressing movie about nothing much at all.
Anyway. I'm still wondering what happened to the wife and why we didn't get to see her naked.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tribe</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mendocino</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Can you guys lighten up on the religion? If that's how you feel fine, but it seems to me this is violating the SH terms of use and I personally don't think this adds anything to the discussion.
Take a breath... </div></div>
I believe we are discussing "The Road". </div></div>
Uh, no offense, but you and Forty-One won't shut up about the supposed religious references in this boringly depressing movie about nothing much at all.
Anyway. I'm still wondering what happened to the wife and why we didn't get to see her naked.
Re: "The Road"
Arcticlight, the movie basically skipped much of the years after the "event" because they were holed up while she gave birth and the baby grew to a young child. So that would account for some of the lack of scrounge-able materials and animals, they had been exhausted by the time they hit the "road". Also the long sun deprived winter would possibly account for the lack of green plant life and hence the likely break in many food chains that would result with resultant mass level extinctions.
I tend to think of things on this type empirical level but suspect the author was less concerned with the cause of this predicament as he was the journey.
Arcticlight, the movie basically skipped much of the years after the "event" because they were holed up while she gave birth and the baby grew to a young child. So that would account for some of the lack of scrounge-able materials and animals, they had been exhausted by the time they hit the "road". Also the long sun deprived winter would possibly account for the lack of green plant life and hence the likely break in many food chains that would result with resultant mass level extinctions.
I tend to think of things on this type empirical level but suspect the author was less concerned with the cause of this predicament as he was the journey.
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: drmarc</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Arcticlight, the movie basically skipped much of the years after the "event" because they were holed up while she gave birth and the baby grew to a young child. So that would account for some of the lack of scrounge-able materials and animals, they had been exhausted by the time they hit the "road". Also the long sun deprived winter would possibly account for the lack of green plant life and hence the likely break in many food chains that would result with resultant mass level extinctions.
I tend to think of things on this type empirical level but suspect the author was less concerned with the cause of this predicament as he was the journey.
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Very well said.
And it may come to what happened here, maybe having a garden will make you a target, which is why I believe some small communities will watch out for eachother, I can see a visit back to the 1800's if that event happend, and IF a nu clear winter did not come - which it may.
I normally keep a pack of everykind of vegetable seed in my to-go box - mans gotta eat..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: drmarc</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Arcticlight, the movie basically skipped much of the years after the "event" because they were holed up while she gave birth and the baby grew to a young child. So that would account for some of the lack of scrounge-able materials and animals, they had been exhausted by the time they hit the "road". Also the long sun deprived winter would possibly account for the lack of green plant life and hence the likely break in many food chains that would result with resultant mass level extinctions.
I tend to think of things on this type empirical level but suspect the author was less concerned with the cause of this predicament as he was the journey.
</div></div>
Very well said.
And it may come to what happened here, maybe having a garden will make you a target, which is why I believe some small communities will watch out for eachother, I can see a visit back to the 1800's if that event happend, and IF a nu clear winter did not come - which it may.
I normally keep a pack of everykind of vegetable seed in my to-go box - mans gotta eat..
Re: "The Road"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What would make someone believe that vegetables would not grow after such an event - they didn't hit the road for what, 3 years?
Where's all the gas/vehicles - you can scrounge something.
Just was not real in that bleak-ness.
small town community, everyone grows a garden, everyone hunts (assuming there are animals left.
Nuclear winter, well then we are all doomed...
</div></div>
It was more than three years later so gas would have gone bad. Most motors would not be able to run.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ArcticLight</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What would make someone believe that vegetables would not grow after such an event - they didn't hit the road for what, 3 years?
Where's all the gas/vehicles - you can scrounge something.
Just was not real in that bleak-ness.
small town community, everyone grows a garden, everyone hunts (assuming there are animals left.
Nuclear winter, well then we are all doomed...
</div></div>
It was more than three years later so gas would have gone bad. Most motors would not be able to run.
Re: "The Road"
They would have had motors available if they had a supercharged car that could transform into a robot. People would be so much more pleased.
What if the wife could transform into a robot that wore just a ghillie suit?
They would have had motors available if they had a supercharged car that could transform into a robot. People would be so much more pleased.
What if the wife could transform into a robot that wore just a ghillie suit?
Re: "The Road"
Hey.... Knock it off! This thread had become so much more interesting without looking for any "DEEPER MEANINGS"..... phhht! What a tard....
....Now.... more on these "deceptathongs"!
Hey.... Knock it off! This thread had become so much more interesting without looking for any "DEEPER MEANINGS"..... phhht! What a tard....
....Now.... more on these "deceptathongs"!
Re: "The Road"
learned very little from the movie, same old = canned food is good - have tons of ammo
Well done dark movie and little bullsh%t
learned very little from the movie, same old = canned food is good - have tons of ammo
Well done dark movie and little bullsh%t
Re: "The Road"
I have decided to watch all future movies with a blanket over my head in an attempt to replicate this darkness theme throughout "the road".
I have decided to watch all future movies with a blanket over my head in an attempt to replicate this darkness theme throughout "the road".
Re: "The Road"
Seriously though... I can't get this flick out of my head. Picked up the book, and plan on watching the movie again...
Forget gardens, or fuel, or any of that.... in this vision, the world is dead. Some sort of ultimate disaster, of <span style="font-style: italic">::gasp::</span> biblical proportions
(in the true meaning of the phrase.... rather than the version we see monthly on the nightly news)... and nothing living remains but man. Left <span style="font-style: italic">completely and solely</span> to his own devices... truly naked in the wilderness.
The term blessed bounty certainly takes on greater gravity, absent of any at all.... and the temptation to succumb.... <span style="font-style: italic">man</span>... physical/spiritual, one and the same... the desire to continue to cary that "fire"... from whence do it come? To what end?
Seriously though... I can't get this flick out of my head. Picked up the book, and plan on watching the movie again...
Forget gardens, or fuel, or any of that.... in this vision, the world is dead. Some sort of ultimate disaster, of <span style="font-style: italic">::gasp::</span> biblical proportions
The term blessed bounty certainly takes on greater gravity, absent of any at all.... and the temptation to succumb.... <span style="font-style: italic">man</span>... physical/spiritual, one and the same... the desire to continue to cary that "fire"... from whence do it come? To what end?
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Did anybody notice what they did with color saturation... a small artistic thing, but I noticed it and thought it was cool.
The flashbacks of "before" had fully saturated color. Most of the rest of the movie was desaturated to the point of almost being black and white.
But towards the end (I won't mention anything plot-wise as to drop any spoilers), they very slowly started re-saturating the colors.
I'll have to watch it again sometime and really pay attention to it (or maybe watch with the commentary on)... I don't know if it was just to help set tone, or if they were actually going for something symbolic (colors == "hope" or something).
Did anybody notice what they did with color saturation... a small artistic thing, but I noticed it and thought it was cool.
The flashbacks of "before" had fully saturated color. Most of the rest of the movie was desaturated to the point of almost being black and white.
But towards the end (I won't mention anything plot-wise as to drop any spoilers), they very slowly started re-saturating the colors.
I'll have to watch it again sometime and really pay attention to it (or maybe watch with the commentary on)... I don't know if it was just to help set tone, or if they were actually going for something symbolic (colors == "hope" or something).
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On the visual end, I thought it had a real similar vibe to 28 Days Later... I haven't watched that in a long time... but that's the way I remember it.
On the visual end, I thought it had a real similar vibe to 28 Days Later... I haven't watched that in a long time... but that's the way I remember it.
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Just saw the movie last night and thought it was well acted and a reasonable series of events after an all out nuclear exchange or a massive comet/asteroid collision with earth leading to a nuclear type winter. The combination of sights and sounds, like the falling trees or earthquakes, was especially eerie. Hope we don't come to that state of affairs.
Just saw the movie last night and thought it was well acted and a reasonable series of events after an all out nuclear exchange or a massive comet/asteroid collision with earth leading to a nuclear type winter. The combination of sights and sounds, like the falling trees or earthquakes, was especially eerie. Hope we don't come to that state of affairs.
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After reading the book and spending over 12 hours analyzing it, I have no desire to watch a movie about a wacko bipolar man fighting with his childlike conscience....
After reading the book and spending over 12 hours analyzing it, I have no desire to watch a movie about a wacko bipolar man fighting with his childlike conscience....
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Movie was not bad. Mad me feel a little depressed to be honest.
I held my expectations higher, but it was good nonetheless
Movie was not bad. Mad me feel a little depressed to be honest.
I held my expectations higher, but it was good nonetheless
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: athhud</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and spending over 12 hours analyzing it, I have no desire to watch a movie about a wacko bipolar man fighting with his childlike conscience.... </div></div>
Wow. Such careful and insightful analysis. It puts me on edge waiting to see if one of the characters will turn into a giant robot!
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: athhud</div><div class="ubbcode-body">and spending over 12 hours analyzing it, I have no desire to watch a movie about a wacko bipolar man fighting with his childlike conscience.... </div></div>
Wow. Such careful and insightful analysis. It puts me on edge waiting to see if one of the characters will turn into a giant robot!
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If you want careful and insightful, I might still have the paper I wrote on it. Otherwise my abstract theories will have to suffice.
If you want careful and insightful, I might still have the paper I wrote on it. Otherwise my abstract theories will have to suffice.
