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    The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride

    First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    Oh, fuck you, Harvey.
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    Image of Son of Tezby Son of Tezby
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    That was the worse book I have eva read, it was terrble. I liked good books like The Stand an other post apocalipse books like Bleak House. This was a sht book and its gonna be a sht film.
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    Image of Corby Kennard Corby Kennard
    05/14/09

    @I&I: Good to meet you. I thought I was like the cheese, standing alone. Good to know other's have not been taken in by the Oprah Book Club Hype.
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    Image of Son of Tezby Son of Tezby
    05/14/09

    @Corby Kennard: Joke.
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    Image of Corby Kennard Corby Kennard
    05/14/09

    @I&I: Which part?
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    Image of Son of Tezby Son of Tezby
    05/14/09

    @Corby Kennard: The whole damn thing. The Road is a masterpiece, you doofus.
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/14/09

    @I&I: PWNED!!!
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    Image of Plague Plague
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    this is going to be a brutal viewing experience.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/14/09

    @Plague: It's exciting isn't it?!
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    05/14/09

    @Plague: If it's done right, yes.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    Ok, so that looked very good. Ive never read the book and wonder if its worth reading the book before the film and getting disapointed. Or read the book after the film purley to be selfish so I can enjoy the film first.Then say ..ahhhhh, the book is better. I dont know. Ive heard so many good things about the book that I really should read it sooner rather than latter. Judging by other peoples reactions here its nothing like how the book describes it. And truth be told, aside from the great visuals in the trailer. Is that all the action and suspence we will see and the rest just a 'road' movie. For the record, I am Legend's trailer made it look awesome. It sucked ass.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/14/09

    @CoffinDodger: I'm in the "Great book!" camp, so I'd recommend reading the book first just so you can fully enjoy the book without having the images of the movie dancing in your head.


    Then watch the movie almost like it is an entirely new and separate thing.


    At least that's my plan.

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    Image of limber limber
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    Oh, good lord.


    There are going to be a lot of very, very confused apocalypse fans in the opening weekend audiences.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    If you turn the volume off, it actually seems about right.


    It's just all those damned "*SLAM* *SLAM* *SLAM*" dramatic cut to title screens that screw it up.

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    Image of letthieri letthieri
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    You know what I really love about the trailer, even if it makes the film seem like an Independence Day sequel? That it has no Duvall or Pierce, but Garret Dillahunt is in it and he has the world's craziest ponytail.


    [www.garret-dillahunt.net]

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    05/14/09

    @letthieri: This is Dillahunt's second McCarthy adaptation after No Country For Old Men. He's just so scary-good in everything, I think I hate him.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    05/14/09

    @Sproing: Wait, where was he in Country?


    I began to love / hate him when I realized he played two different characters in two seasons of Deadwood. I didn't realize it was the same actor until 1/3 of the way through the second season.

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    05/14/09

    @NerD!!!:

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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    05/15/09

    @Sproing: Oh holy crap. Ok, I love/hate him even more now.
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    Image of AldoraGreel AldoraGreel
    05/14/09

    In reply to The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride
    What the heck was with that familiar roar sound (can't quite recall where I've heard it before) as the dude was thrown/launched about halfway through? That sounded completely out of place.


    Also, The Road is one of my favorite movies. I can't wait, although I'm sad they are making it look like it was global climate change that did everything. One of the best parts of the book was never knowing what actually happened. The only hint you ever got was that the father (Viggo's character) had dreams/flashbacks to a bright light, which alluded to a nuke (or series of them) going off, but which could easily have been him going crazy/dreaming.


    Ugh, so excited!

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    Image of IndustrialJones IndustrialJones
    05/14/09

    @AldoraGreel: It's known as the Wilhelm Scream.
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    Image of im.thatoneguy im.thatoneguy
    05/14/09

    @AldoraGreel:
    It was a tie fighter.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/14/09

    @IndustrialJones: No, that one isn't the Wilhelm scream, it's a different one but equally familiar. But anyone who played Dark Forces knows it as the scream that you got every time you fell off a cliff. It's just a bad, overused sound effect used very poorly in a pretty awful trailer.
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    Image of OraRalla OraRalla
    05/14/09

    Yeah, I think it was a tie fighter too.
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    Image of grime grime
    05/14/09

    @OraRalla: lol, i hate that scream!


    though not as bad as the rusty gate sound you hear in every other movie.


    also: nuclear war is necessary in the book, as it explains why it's always dark and why you can't grow any more food.

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    05/14/09

    @grime: The cause of the crisis is never explained in the book. A meteor strike could do much the same as a nuclear war.
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    05/14/09

    @grime: They never mention radioactivity or anything, though. I always assumed it was a meteorite or sommat.
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    05/15/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: I thought it would have been a mass from orbit (planetoid/asteroid) that caused the huge fires sans radiation. Or a supervolcano. Either which displaced enough ash to blot the sun out. The fires would burn everything, much like California wildfires, but on a continental-regional scale. No fire fighting nor national guard could extinguish fires on that scale.


    I hoped they would not ruin the adaptation. I loved the book, in that you were dropped into a cataclysm where a father and son had to survive and actually reach their their endgoal, no matter how dire.

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    Image of Fate'sBitch Fate'sBitch
    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    Never. I will never see this movie. I still have nightmares about this book and I read it a year ago (oh god, don't go in the basement!). You kids feel free to torture yourselves for two hours, I'll just stay home and watch glorious lens flares on DVD and hope for the Utopian future.
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    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    Jesus Hollywood, GET SOME NEW IDEAS!!!
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    I've found that the best way to deal with cannibals is with the Lincoln Repeater.


    Keep the Rad-X handy...

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    05/12/09

    @AngryEddy: Damnit Eddy. I have shit to do and now I am looking up youtube videos of Fallout 3 game play.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    I'm really looking forward to the many op-ed columns and blog posts that will reference The Road: "President Obama/Benjamin Netanyahu/Gordon Brown/Stephenie Meyer/Twyla Tharp/Roger Clemens is like the nameless father/son/cannibal in The Road...." That's never going to get old.
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    Image of seraosha seraosha
    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    I hated The Road. One of the wrst books I have ever read.
    I'm a sucker for apocalyptic stories and tales of people facing insurmountable odds or unthinkable tests of will (see: The Stand, The Ruins, and Blood Meridian), though.


    Maybe the movie will be better.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/12/09

    @seraosha: I... uh... what?
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    05/12/09

    @seraosha:


    What an unoriginal comment. I think it can be said that you haven't even read the damn book at all.

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    Image of Son of Tezby Son of Tezby
    05/12/09

    @seraosha: Blood Meridian is a western set in the 19th century, in Texas and Mexico and has absolutely nothing to do with "post apocalypse". C'mon now - you haven't read The Road have you?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/12/09

    @I&I: C'mon now... you haven't read the comment above this one, have you?
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    Image of AldoraGreel AldoraGreel
    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    I loved The Road. One of the best books I have ever read.


    I'm a sucker for apocalyptic stories and tales of people facing insurmountable odds or unthinkable tests of will (see: The Stand, The Ruins, and Blood Meridian), though.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/12/09

    @AldoraGreel: Siamese twins??
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    05/12/09

    In reply to First Official Review Of The Road Calls It The Most Important Movie Of The Year
    Yes... the review is glowing. WITH RADIOACTIVITY!
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