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I pretty sure that it wasn't a nuclear disaster in the book, but I'm still going to spend a lot of the movie worrying about their exposure to radiations (No! Don't drink that! It's +10 rads/sec). I blame Fallout 3.
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I guess my reading of it just gave me more of a "man destroyed by nature" vibe. McCarthy's never said what it was - I think we're supposed to be debating it.
You win this time Cormac.
11/24/09
I never read the book, by the way. Should I? Should I read the book then see the movie, or vice versa?
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Omigod, I was wrong!
It was earth, all along!
Oh, you finally made a monkey...
out of MEEEEEE!
11/24/09
"I hate them all,
from Chimpan A
to Chimpan Z!"
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11/02/09
In Hollywood: not many. #theroad
10/31/09
I kill me #theroad
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Like emo Burma-Shave signs? #theroad
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Depressing? If it was "Daddy flees with son, rapes the kid a couple of times and kills and eats him himself," that might be depressing. It would take a far better writer to make it in any way convincing.
McCarthy's success as a peddler of sadiomasochistic manly man's-man bullshit has me completely bewildered. And his prose styling is crap. #theroad
10/31/09
I actually had to study this book for a literature class at university last year. (And btw. the prose styling is completely intentional.) The book is not meant to be depressing. Bleak and sad, sure, but to accuse it of being depressing - or failing in that regard - is to completely miss the thrust of the story. The world is ruined and dying. Humanity is probably very close it its expiration date. Faced with an overwhelming sense of the mortality of all things, the father is determined above all else that his son will live whatever life he has knowing what it means to be Human, regardless of the impositions of the remaining world. #theroad
11/01/09
I came to McCarthy late myself, but I couldn't name a contemporary writer in his genre -- "manly man's-man," you called it? -- who beats him, and I'd be surprised if you could either.
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Although I would still defend the implication that someone who read Blood Meridian and chose to dismiss it as "sadomasochistic manly-man's man bullshit" was hopelessly insensitive to the power of the English language. #theroad
11/02/09
But yes, I'm belittling R3's contribution. It's a cold, cold world. #theroad
11/02/09
It was cold. The cold was symbolic but it was also real. Witch’s tit, THE MAN thought, symbolically.
"Daddy," said THE BOY. "Did there used to be bright light and hope and laughter?"
THE MAN sighed inwardly and also symbolically. Plus metaphorically.
"Yes, my son," he said. "There used to be those things plus Tastee Freeze and Tucker Max and Wilhelm screams and Pulitizer prizes and middle-brow snobbery bullshit that used reference to pop vampire fiction as the content of weak insults. Now there is only a wasteland."
"It sounds as if the prior world were also symbolically a wasteland," THE BOY said.
"Pretty much," THE MAN said. "Particularly Ohio. Well, pack your shit. We have a long way to walk if we want to avoid the worst fate known to Western civilization."
"What’s that?" THE BOY said.
"Butthex," said THE MAN. #theroad
11/02/09
"The Road" reads as if someone had dared a drunk Raymond Carver to write a TV script for "The Stand", although the result of that would probably have been rather more interesting.
But I have not read Blood Meridian and I have nothing against giving it a try. #theroad
10/30/09
A trailer is a marketing tool and an absolutely terrible way to judge a film. Word of mouth, reviews, and your personal taste for the genre and creators involved are much better ways to decide whether or not you want to see a movie.
When people use trailers and marketing campaigns to decide what movies they wanted to see, the biggest hits end up being... Well, the big blockbusters we have now. The ones everybody pays $12 to see, nobody likes and everyone forgets about two weeks later.
10/30/09
I'll have you know that scream is actually called , "Screams 3; Man, Gut-wrenching Scream And Fall Into Distance". Often confused with the Wilhelm scream. (and that book was amazing...trailer looks like rubbish)
10/30/09
Although nice to see my timing has changed. By the time I usually get to watch these links on IO9 they are dead.
This time I watched it, and it became "no longer available" just after I finished.
Well it was funny to me.......... #theroad
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