watching the movie, "THE ROAD"..damn. i need to keep pausing it! - Page 2

bell · bell's Garage

Ok......I percieved the family trackd dad and son for quite some time, when pop was looking at his map early in the flick they were stil far inland in the mountains, and that's where his home was iirc......walking time from there to the coast in those conditions could takes months......
Sometimes I over anylize the details.....but that's how my brain works LOL

jtfreels · 07-06-2010, 10:51 AM

I'll add.... read the book, one of the very few books I've read straight through in one sitting.

Jay

Garp · 07-06-2010, 11:40 AM

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I'll add.... read the book, one of the very few books I've read straight through in one sitting.

Jay

I just ordered it on this recommendation.

wdfifteen · wdfifteen's Garage

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One of the most depressing movies of all time

I found it encouraging. In the midst of the end of the world, after the loss of everything, the kid is taken in and loved. A great story of the redemption of mankind.

jtfreels · 07-06-2010, 12:21 PM

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I just ordered it on this recommendation.

I'm auditioning for back of the book quotes

Jay

MotoSook · 01:17 PM

I listened to the audio book. I meant to buy the unabridged version, but screwed up and got the abridged version! Anyhow, I enjoyed it. Being a father of young sons and having a tight bond with my father made the story more meaningful to me, but to be honest, I have read better books. It's a good story, but I guess I'm not looking as deeply as some of you guys.

Always have ammo ready to bug out...a lot of ammo. And the kids know how to handle a spoon.

Chocaholic · 07-06-2010, 01:11 PM

Didn't see the movie, but the book has haunted me ever since I finished it. Started out depressing and continued downhill from there. In those circumstances (wife committed suicide because she knew she couldn't survive and couldn't bear to watch her 5 yo son go through it), complete desolation, starvation, cannibalism, etc., we can only wonder what we would do to care for a 5 yo son with no hope of survival.

Makes you appreciate the fragility of all we have now. Can easily go away and we quickly become rabid animals. Incredible.

Cormac McArthy is one of the best writers of our time. Reading All the Pretty Horses now.

Joeaksa · 07-06-2010, 02:18 PM

Just added it to my NetFlix list and looking for the book. Sounds like a good read!

tcar · 08:37 AM

Didn't get it read in one sitting, but did read it in one day (and night).

Book better than the movie... the wife has a much smaller part in the book, but I heard that Charlize Theron practically begged to be in the movie, and they gave her (the wife) a bigger part than the book gave the character.

Also, just saw "The Book of Eli"... another road/cannibal movie. Whew.

MotoSook · 07-06-2010, 03:00 PM

Friend told me to get One Second After... Have the audio book downloaded. Just started it.

Both Book of Eli and The Road are on oour NetFlix list.

GothingNC · 07-06-2010, 03:17 PM

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Friend told me to get One Second After... Have the audio book downloaded. Just started it.

Both Book of Eli and The Road are on oour NetFlix list.

I'll have to check those out.

A book I enjoyed long ago was Warday by Whitley Stieber I read back in the late 80's.

Warday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crowbob · 07-06-2010, 06:26 PM

Though it is relatively easy to read in one sitting, the novel requires more time to become meaningful. Even the opening sequence takes a while to truly comprehend as I recall.

enzo1 · 07-06-2010, 06:38 PM

friend of mine said not to bother getting "book of Eli", dunno, haven't seen it

ckissick · 07-06-2010, 08:05 PM

The Road has my favorite passage. On page 181:

"The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunnelled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying the charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commisaries of hell."

herr_oberst · 07-06-2010, 08:15 PM

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The Road has my favorite passage. On page 181:

"The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunnelled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying the charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commisaries of hell."

More in one paragraph than lesser writers can describe in a chapter.

Every page of every book he writes is full of phrases like that. It took me about three readings of the first paragraph of All The Pretty Horses to get into the feel of the book, and once I did, I couldn't put it down.

porsche4life · porsche4life's Garage

I really enjoyed the book... I took my time and read it slowly.... I often found myself rereading passages.... Really scary when you think about it.

Joeaksa · 07-06-2010, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ckissick

The Road has my favorite passage. On page 181:

"The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities themselves held by cores of blackened looters who tunnelled among the ruins and crawled from the rubble white of tooth and eye carrying the charred and anonymous tins of food in nylon nets like shoppers in the commisaries of hell."

Sniper, Leland and myself eat people like this for lunch. They are not tender (a bit stringy to tell the truth!) but better than starving.

Bring them on, we are hungry and ready for b-fast. Not kidding, if this happens this is not a game in our neck of the woods. We play for keeps...

Chocaholic · 07-07-2010, 04:21 AM

Surprised to hear that anyone can knock out a Cormac McCarthy book in one sitting. If so, they're missing 80% of what's there. Take your time. No one paints a picture like CM, but you need to take time to absorb what he's saying. None of his books should be considered a quick-read. Just my opinion, of course.

m21sniper · 05:19 AM

I'll have to see this movie, i've never even heard of it before.

In an EOTW scenario, you better be prepared to do ANYTHING to survive.

If the time ever comes where civilization falls, any "moral high ground" you try to claim or retain will almost certainly end up being your burial plot.

Some people will become victims almost immediately. Others, well....Wolves are survivors who feed on the weak among us. Some wolves have 2 legs. Those 2 legged wolves will do very well for themselves if the time ever comes.

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Some wolves have 2 legs. Those 2 legged wolves will do very well for themselves if the time ever comes.

see the movie...i wouldnt call it "doing well". IMHO, doing well would me the meteor actually fell ON me. not on the other side of the planet blacking out the sun. ON ME.