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

the movie is intense!!

i also realize that i am woefully unprepared should the meteor hit.. i keep hitting pause and doing chores to relax..hahaha.

after checking emails, i'll go and snap a pic of my garden..water it..then back to the movie.

That one is grim.

wife has a horrible habit of goggling the synopsis..she said, "the hell with watching this!" and walked off. i dont suspect it ends well.

One of the most depressing movies of all time

Also one of the most realistic apocolyptic movies of all time........
Have lots of ammo, weapons, food, water, medicine.......
Look out for you own......
When the **** hits the fan this movie gives you an idea of what is really going to happen and what's to come......
Let us know when you finish watching it and we'll discuss.....

the book is much better and grimmer..... it gets inside his head more

well...crap. now that i'm all "cheered" up.

somebody care to speculate about the ending??

The book was written by a guy from here in Knoxville...

Personally.......I don't think the ending worked for me.....at least with the whole family and dog....
The dad was always keeping a sharp eye out for anyone, how the hell weren't they spotted? They were in route for quite some time.....it just didn't fit the movie imo.
Maybe the book reads different, I'll have to pick it up......

The scene at the beach made me dislike the dad after he stripped the lone guy, it turned him into one of "the bad guys" which he warned his son about.......

But all in all, when the **** hits the fan it'll come down to who's the fittest, has the most ammo, and the personal will to survive......

Read the book, saw the movie. Neither are for everybody, but both were crafted to a high standard.

Bleak doesn't even come close to describing the story, but considering the story, what else could it be.

That movie stayed with me for days. .


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As for speculation on the ending, the book and the movie pretty much equal out.)

bell,

The family had been watching the man and boy on the beach for a while like a day or two. Also, the boy did earlier spot the kid in the ruins. Also, the family with the dog appeared to be much more knowledgeable about survival so it is believable that they went undetected.

Was he born there?

Cormac McCarthy who is very famous author, lives in New Mexico, north of Santa Fe.

Wrote "No Country for Old Men", "All the Pretty Horses", etc.

so was the family at the end good or bad?

i think the kid represented humanity. he was all innocent, and trusting. if he died, so did mankind. i am surprised there wasnt extra ammo in that bunker.

Good, is the feeling we're left with...

His Dad was his ammo. Used it all up.

tcar..that's good.

No the family followed them through most of the movie.....at least that's what I interpreted.....
The families son was spotted when dad was reminiscing at his childhood home, and again when they were in the bomb shelter (the dog was heard above and the dad freaked out)......

Either way........why didn't they make contact sooner instead? They went through the trouble of "stalking" the father and son.....

In the book, it feels like the family was only tracking them for a few days, couple weeks, maybe.

The 'catastrophe' takes place several years earlier.

bell. i thought the same thing. but i imagined that they couldnt trust anything. an adult was simply too dangerous. the didnt know the relationship. so when the man died, they needed to act. i would have spend alittle more time with the bomb shelter. good movie.

Evidently he moved here when he was 4 years old and "grew up" here...

I enjoyed them both, but the book was much better.

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

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. ;)

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.

I'm auditioning for back of the book quotes :)

Jay

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.