[Cloud9]

Something that would kill all life would kill all life. If anything survives, the list will include roaches, wild pigs and politicians.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'S')eeds can remain dormant in the soil for many years, so it sounds a bit silly if all the plants have died.

[Cloud9]

True, what makes it interesting is how the characters cope.

[frankthetank]

Ok... The movie isn't playing in La Crosse, isn't playing in Madison and is playing at ONE theater in Minneapolis..>WTF! My BIL saw it at that theater in MSP. I talked to him tonite. He did not like it. He said it was the most depressing movie he has ever seen and was sickened by it, mostly because it was just a hopeless journey. He said the part about them finding the house and thinking they would find food when they pulled the boards up scared the crap out of him. Something about living skeletons They need to play this on prime time television instead of American Idol.

Seeds can remain viable for many, many years...and after Toba/Yellowstone/etc i'm guessing most (as in small groups or plants survived somehow. I guess i find this most intersting because for this kid to survive, it would take DECADES before the planet would come back around to a more "normal" climate state. If you want to read some interesting stuff look up Toba and bottleneck... ALL humans arise from this...

[Cloud9]

I’m reading the book. To remain viable, one should stock up on bullets, bullion and barbeque sauce.

[mos6507]

I saw the movie last night. Really, the scenario in The Road is worse than anything I envision in a die-off. It's enough to make endless waves of zombie-horde invasions on the doomstead seem like a paradise future. We need some hope to cling to, even if our odds are low.

[Olaf]

The book is sitting on my dining room table right now as someone elses Christmas gift. Now I have to get it for myself.

Olaf

[Revi]

I just saw the Road. I don't think I'll be going again, but it was an awesome movie.

It is a kind of a metaphor for what a lot of people go through.

We all keep travelling down the Road.

It makes peak oil seem like a piece of cake.

[frankthetank]

Read the book from start to finish this evening. Really fast reading book. Most of it was as i expected, although not as bad i thought it was going to be (more realistic?). Interesting how all the "good" guys are all scared of each other...while the bad guys all seem to have grouped together.

The book to me is about being a good parent. Raising your kid to do the right things, but then again i'm in the midst of that right now with my son, so i guess i have a biased view. Ending was sad, but predictable.

Strange how you put yourself in the man's shoes through the entire book and try to think how you would handle a situations like that.

[Revi]

I just read an early Cormac McCarthy and I have to say that he got better by the time he wrote The Road. It was a very scary book. The movie was a great adaptation of the book.

I would say that you don't want to see this movie until after the sunlight begins to increase in February or March.

In retrospect, I think it was a great movie, but I'm not going again!

[Cloud9]

The Road is a good read. It serves a purpose if it gets Middle America to think about the unthinkable.

[kevincarter]

--don't read this post if you haven't seen the movie or it'll spoil it for you--

I was very impressed by this movie. The first thing that really got me is how it explains how they get there, I mean, when the SHTF the woman is pregnant and the movie happens when the kid is like 10, that was very effective. It really got me to think, what if you had to go through 10 long years of things going from bad to worst with no hope of things ever being better? You use almost all your rounds on defense untill you're out of them, and then what?

Another thing that impressed me a lot is the role of women in this movie, they only appear a tiny bit but they are so important, first the wife is suicidal and, plainly, let's them down, she's too weak. On the other had the woman that shows up at the end is portrayed like a key element for the survival of the little team they are making (good guy + 2 kids + starring + woman), she talks like a care giver (love her southern accent), looks like can take care, has the right attitude... at least that's the way they paint her.

So, bottom line: choose the right kid of people to team up with from the begnining, have more rounds that you think you are going to need and have the right attitude. The father has the right attitude somehow but the wife is just stopping any alternative thinking, the guy's only mistake is letting her degenerate. She got on my nerves, it's underestandeble because the situation is just too bad, but still she got on my nerves.

The movie has great costumes and make up, that's exactlly how the zombies are going to look like.

[buddylee]

In case you didn't know, this was released on DVD this past Tuesday the 25th. I bought it last night used (haha that means someone bought it Tuesday and disliked it so much that they traded it in immediately).

I enjoyed it, and to my surprise, my wife enjoyed it as well. When I even attempt to talk to her about what kind of issues we're facing she gets mad and makes me stop. She cried at the end, but then again I teared up as well.

Good movie. Not as good as the book, but what movie ever is?

[Sixstrings]

I've thought about buying the book, but with so much real doom going on I find I don't like to read or watch fictionalized doom.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('buddylee', 'I')n case you didn't know, this was released on DVD this past Tuesday the 25th. ... Good movie.

[Pops]

We got it from Netflix on Tues. I really like MaCarthy, Pretty Horses was great, I think there was not a comma in the whole book.

The movie was a very good translation of the mood from the book, great locations, no obvious CG. I read an article a while back about some of the locations but can't find it now.

The book was more intent on the minutia of survival than I guess a movie could be. The search for food, water, shelter, and the joy found in a can of peaches or the boy tasting Coke for the first - only - time was the most convincing part of the story. the movie tried but there is only so much you can do I guess.

Silly things always throw off the "suspension of disbelief" for me though, like lifting the gasoline pump nozzle from the pump, pulling the trigger and nothing happens - Susan said "what did he think would happen, there isn't any electricity to run the pump." And like someone said, just a few humans, one dog and not one other living thing is hard to swallow - but hey, it's just make believe.

Susan isn't much into the doom thing as sport, what people call "prepping" is just how we've always done things. So I was surprised when she said "It (the movie) made me fell anxious... that something like that could happen." I noticed the pantry is more full than normal after Wednesday's trip to the store.

[Lore]

The movie was a hard translation from the book. I guess the test and limited release proved that. It spent almost a year in editing. I agree on quite a few holes, but as Pop's said, it's just a movie. I found the child a bit wimpy and overly naïve for his age and living conditions. Sociologically some of the most dangerous and unpredictable predators are the young and inexperienced.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Daniel_Plainview', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('buddylee', 'I')n case you didn't know, this was released on DVD this past Tuesday the 25th. ... Good movie.