01-10: Senior. You were already past middle age when it happened. How you've made it this long is a wonder, but the end is nearer than for most.
11-25 Wanderer: you ran out of supplies a long time ago, and the search for them has been the only thing that's kept you going. The road is your world, and the world is running out
26-40 Cannibal: meat is meat, and the strong eat. You're lucky enough to own livestock.
41-70 Warband: rape, murder, robbery, you don't even feel them anymore, they're just part of your animal instinct at this point.
71-85 Blood Cult: the hills are your home, and from them some great fires, great sacrifices and greater chanting
86-95 Commune member: a few places we're lucky enough to make it past the first year. Yours has been extra lucky.
96-00 DUMB: you live deep in Cheyenne mountain, or similar, in luxury for the rest of your days.
DUBS: you have found the bunker, you may rest
TRIPS: your quest is complete, immanetize the eschaton
Warband sounds nice, with the whole do whatever you want, especially rape and long pig as others have suggested
However I'd imagine I wouldn't do too well in the pecking order being a socially awkward autist. Guess I'd have to make up for it in sheer brutality
I feel like women in this scenario would 50/50 become more unbearable due to their whining or become submissive and silent because their life depends on it.
is right, considering the bleakness of the road 'universe' at least
0-85 should be reserved for either a smart suicide or a hideous death at the hands of cannibals, exposure, disease, starvation, and let's not forget rape meat for the war gangs
I’d join a local gang but become disillusioned as they resort to more and more barbaric acts before saying enough is enough and helping a young woman and her child escape from their captivity, sacrificing myself in the process.
I would immediately kill myself like the kids mom did. Absolutely horrible world to live in. Of all the fictional apocalypse scenarios I can think of, this is the one I'd stand the least chance in by far.
Bruh what? She gets mad over the dad using one of the few bullets they have on an intruder instead of on her and then walks off into the winter night without any clothes on to die
I would immediately kill myself like the kids mom did. Absolutely horrible world to live in. Of all the fictional apocalypse scenarios I can think of, this is the one I'd stand the least chance in by far.
This, it's not even a fun Mad Max apocalypse scenario.
Genuinely depressing, great book. Probably the most realistic apocalyptic scenario.
01-10: Senior. You were already past middle age when it happened. How you've made it this long is a wonder, but the end is nearer than for most.
11-25 Wanderer: you ran out of supplies a long time ago, and the search for them has been the only thing that's kept you going. The road is your world, and the world is running out
26-40 Cannibal: meat is meat, and the strong eat. You're lucky enough to own livestock.
41-70 Warband: rape, murder, robbery, you don't even feel them anymore, they're just part of your animal instinct at this point.
71-85 Blood Cult: the hills are your home, and from them some great fires, great sacrifices and greater chanting
86-95 Commune member: a few places we're lucky enough to make it past the first year. Yours has been extra lucky.
96-00 DUMB: you live deep in Cheyenne mountain, or similar, in luxury for the rest of your days.
DUBS: you have found the bunker, you may rest
TRIPS: your quest is complete, immanetize the eschaton
i don't think the world is that realistic as an apocalypse but i'm guessing you mean the characters actions are more in line with what would happen in an apocalypse
I would probably join a clan and desperately cling to whatever food source is available to me. The group turning to cannibalism is probably where I would end up splitting and becoming a thief/wanderer. I’m strong, good with a gun, okay with eating someone if it was dire. But at that point I’m no longer going to trust my group with human decency…and I’m not about to start playing who gets voted off the island. My aspirations would be to have a child…if only to give me some hope in the world. But if there were no women and my mind was constantly on food…who knows I’d probably kill myself.
I know we're on tv and all but you basically described Randall Clark's journals in the Honest Hearts DLC of New Vegas.
Basically surviving after the bombs fall in a national park. It's no the road but it's pretty good
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Randall_Clark%27s_journal
Just live by the coast and fish. Easy. >b-but the fish are all dead!!
nah, if you're alive the fish are alive. same with the deer and everything else. the plants, too. wow almost like the book is moronic and makes no sense unless the characters are literally already dead and in hell or something. in which case you're forced to become another worm crawling along the ground in pointless misery no matter what you do, because that's the whole point.
I would most definitely rape. I know that wasn’t part of your question, but I would be a man dangling a carrot for sex. Offering just enough food for survival, but only so I could rape. i would be the Genghis Khan of the apocalypse.
the entire point of this book/film is that you WON'T survive an apocalypse. you WON'T be a cool guy battling cannibals and bringing about the new world. you WILL suffer, and probably die early.
50% of the film is already the characters searching for food and huddling under a tarp for warmth, but there is even more of it in the book. I just enjoy the simple survival aspect. Same reason both I Am Legend adaptations were shit. One of my favorite movies is Dawn of the Dead because the whole thing is about people eating out of cans and building fortifications. It's extremely comfy.
I got bored of the survival aspects because it started following a formula of "oh no we need x, its so hard without x, oh by some miracle we discovered y that can be used for x"
I would have much more liked to see more of that giant band of men with their catamites and pregnant women and see how they survive, i get thats not what the book is about but the setting makes me wish it was multiple character stories told from different persoectives
I loved it, makes the narrator sound exhasuted and emaciated.
Also what is there to think or talk about, you've become an animal and if you're lucky you get to life to tomorrow
Not in this case. It's not a haiku. It's a grunting travel log.
I loved it, makes the narrator sound exhasuted and emaciated.
Also what is there to think or talk about, you've become an animal and if you're lucky you get to life to tomorrow
That doesn't make it 'beautiful', though it can be considered 'evocative' or even 'eloquent' if you've never read anything actually beautiful before.
Garbage taste. The Road is a perfect display of effortless genius.
The emperor has no clothes. The strength of The Road is not in its 'beautiful prose'.
7 months ago
Anonymous
what book do you think has beautiful prose?
7 months ago
Anonymous
A History of New York by Washington Irving
Also Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick
Comapred to The Road, though? Robert Howard stories generally have more beautiful prose than The Road.
7 months ago
Anonymous
A History of New York by Washington Irving
Also Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick
Comapred to The Road, though? Robert Howard stories generally have more beautiful prose than The Road.
You have no idea what you're talking about, but that's ok, at least you're only embarrassing yourself anonymously.
7 months ago
Anonymous
>You have no idea what you're talking about
I certainly do. Post the passage of The Road which captured your heart as 'beautiful'.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Beauty is subjective and I can tell already that you're one of those pedantic autists who will endlessly refuse anything that doesn't fit their own pitiably narrow range of opinion. That said, the second sentence of the first paragraph here
[...]
The book reads like this.
is sufficient in and of itself to prove me correct.
I always feel like I’ve somehow gotten smarter when I read McCarthy. When I finish a book of his and read something else I feel I’m reading much faster.
>The Road is a vastly superior book
This. The movie doesn't do the book justice.
i've gotta agree, i read that book cover to cover one afternoon. NCFOM is a much better movie though
It isnt as well directed as NCFOM and i think loses some of the magic because the director didnt understand the source material like the coen bros understood NCFOM.
50% of the film is already the characters searching for food and huddling under a tarp for warmth, but there is even more of it in the book. I just enjoy the simple survival aspect. Same reason both I Am Legend adaptations were shit. One of my favorite movies is Dawn of the Dead because the whole thing is about people eating out of cans and building fortifications. It's extremely comfy.
Because it's nearly as good. Ironic, because The Road novel is miles better than the NCFOM novel
Prose. The Road is beautiful and poetic. NCFOM is very simplistic in style. "Chigurh walked up to the door then he blew out the lock and sat on the couch and stared at the TV." Shit like that
That's surprising to read, because The Road is quite simple 90% of the time. You'll read like 5 pages of simple declarative sentences, then out of nowhere McCarthy hits you in the gut with the most beautiful insight you've ever read.
>two lame israelites who direct other people's material
Go back to r/goyslop.
The book is fantastic but genuinely so depressing, that goes for basically all his books though. It's incredible he died of natural causes and didn't kill himself, how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
The book is fantastic but genuinely so depressing, that goes for basically all his books though. It's incredible he died of natural causes and didn't kill himself, how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
but The Road had a positive ending and was basically a story about love for your children letting you endure anything. It was McCarthy commenting on fatherhood and his feelings for his own children. Just because some of his stories are about extremes of the human condition doesn't mean the author is fixated on them himself.
The world is what we make it. His son and others can change things if they put in the effort. Humanity's schtick is ultimately to adapt to whatever comes our way.
>but The Road had a positive ending
In a very small humanitarian sense sure the kid and his dad have to eat a lot of shit to get to that small positive though
>how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
he supposedly had a great passion for life and was very personable, funny etc. he also had a million hobbies so there was always something to occupy him. His worldview is pretty clearly bleak and nihilistic but he has said life's too short to live any way other than the one you want to or something to that effect, he was basically nietzsche but smart and talented
>Nietzsche but smart and talented
Based. Nietzsche has to be the biggest meme I've ever seen. He was a complete regurgitating moron without a single original thought and switched opinions more than a pregnant woman. Frick him. Deserved to die like a b***h.
>how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
Studies have shown that people who accept the shittiness of life are on average much happier than joy seekers. Depression comes from reality not living up to your expectations.
Almost every R-rated movie I've ever gone to has had an all-ages family in the audience who end up walking out when the heavy stuff starts. Usually Mexicans, but not always. I think there is a significant number of people who show up at the theater without having any idea what's showing and they just pick whatever movie has the coolest poster.
It isnt as well directed as NCFOM and i think loses some of the magic because the director didnt understand the source material like the coen bros understood NCFOM.
>bro everyone would eat eachother >and farm people and women to eat babies >and ammo and guns wouldn't exit in america
The story made no fricking sense. Cormac is a hack and cannot write for shit balls
This movie fails because it butchered the pacing of the book, especially the dialogue. It's supposed to be slow, tired, and dramatic but in this they're rattling off back-and-forths like it's a fricking Marvel movie.
Film is generally a cancerous medium. Two hours is simply not enough time to tell most stories.
I enjoyed this and the performances but I don't think there's much to discuss. It seems like McCarthy put his beliefs to paper with almost no consideration for story, just two men representing the internal back and forth he has every day. He respects and even envies Jackson's beliefs, but knows deep down he can't defeat his Nihilism like Jones' character.
I wanna talk about it. Let's talk about it.
Caught it when it came out on HBO. Was a little skeptical about watching it because it was a play.
I was pleasantly surprised. Good stuff.
Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person who really liked this film. The atmosphere of hopelessness and regret is something I've never seen in film before, but if any anons have suggestions I'd like to hear them.
The scene where you find out what happened to his wife, that it's too late to save her and nothing can ever undo the damage of the decisions he made, and you see her body dumped onto the landfill, knowing what torture she endured, is something that resonated with me. I think about that when I'm on the edge of making choices that could frick my life up.
It's like all people remember from the film is that blonde slapper fricking a car and nobody wants to talk about the rest.
It's not a good movie and McCarthy's worst hour as a writer. The girlboss Cameron Diaz shit completely killed any and all goodwill other scenes have. Fassbender was so fricking good. The best actor in the business by pure ability. That scene you mentioned is a prime example of his prowess. Shame he did capeshit, though.
It's a bad movie but the ending stuck with me for a remarkably long time which gave me the same thoughts as you with regard to how I treat choices in my life
The Road is just misery porn for the sake of it. >wow wouldn't this totally fricked up situation that could never happen be fricked up and sad?
Might as well write chainsaw massacring puppies and call it commentary on human sadism.
I had that in the book when the trees around them start collapsing and booming down like a house of cards.
Really drives the point home that there is no life left and never will be. Not in the soil or growing on it.
A dead planet
why is it perpetually winter? thats not how a climate disaster would even work. no matter where you are the planet is still subject to seasonal changes
It's not elaborated on what exactly happened. Cormac said it was an asteroid impact that threw up clouds of dust and led to agricultural collapse. Makes sense to me
It took a long time for earth to adjust after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
Someone explain the shooting scene to me. So they shot a guy, ran away, circled back and there seemed to be a pile of guts with poop on it. Did they gut the guy they shot?
I am downloading this film now and will watch it while eating dinner. It better be good or else I will sage this thread into oblivion. You've been warned.
>watch the road >they come across a couple >the couple is literally a interracial couple >not a joke or anything >in a dead fricking world of all the people they run into they run into a interracial couple
frick the people that recommended this israelite trash.
I loved it but there isn't a single thing to talk about it, you just watch it and that's it.
The bullshit about the ending being ambiguous is the most contrived and pointless discussion ever, adding absolutely nothing to one's enjoyment of the film.
the book was such a milestone in my life. Granted, I read it when I was around 20-21. Before that, if I picked a book I felt obligated to finish it in hope there is some payoff at the end. The Road was the first one I said 'nah', it was utter pointless boring steaming pile of nothing happens: the garbage, but it helped me get over my ocd, so I will always remember it.
I'm surprised the book turns off so many people
The starkness of it is to contrast the frank disgusting horribleness of humanity with the crushing unboundless love of fatherhood
I've never seen fatherhood written about in a way that hit me so emotionally before
Food chain made zero sense
Cannibals are cool and can even work in groups because... there are a lot of poterntial victims around so... there is a lot of food around? why not skip cannibal part? just steal food from people.
If you were in The Road who would you be? a cannibal? straggler? thief?
I would absolutely become a cannibal, even though I'd like to pretend otherwise.
I wouldn't. The mom was unironically right.
ROLL FOR YOUR FACTION/OUTCOME
01-10: Senior. You were already past middle age when it happened. How you've made it this long is a wonder, but the end is nearer than for most.
11-25 Wanderer: you ran out of supplies a long time ago, and the search for them has been the only thing that's kept you going. The road is your world, and the world is running out
26-40 Cannibal: meat is meat, and the strong eat. You're lucky enough to own livestock.
41-70 Warband: rape, murder, robbery, you don't even feel them anymore, they're just part of your animal instinct at this point.
71-85 Blood Cult: the hills are your home, and from them some great fires, great sacrifices and greater chanting
86-95 Commune member: a few places we're lucky enough to make it past the first year. Yours has been extra lucky.
96-00 DUMB: you live deep in Cheyenne mountain, or similar, in luxury for the rest of your days.
DUBS: you have found the bunker, you may rest
TRIPS: your quest is complete, immanetize the eschaton
For me, it's warband.
rolling for comfy Cheyenne mountain
Nope. get to raping, chud
i find the most delicious part of the woman to be the womb
Rolling
senior-I ate things and done things you wouldn't imagine, depravity and insanity have long since consumed my soul but death wont have me
Warband sounds nice, with the whole do whatever you want, especially rape and long pig as others have suggested
However I'd imagine I wouldn't do too well in the pecking order being a socially awkward autist. Guess I'd have to make up for it in sheer brutality
kk
>Cheyenne mountain
Better adapt to vault life. Hope you're not claustrophobic
rollang
Rollin
Rolling for a nice comfy bunker with post apocalypse wife.
PUTA
I feel like women in this scenario would 50/50 become more unbearable due to their whining or become submissive and silent because their life depends on it.
Roleing.
What's the point in rolling if there's not a risky bad outcome?
I love this post but:
is right, considering the bleakness of the road 'universe' at least
0-85 should be reserved for either a smart suicide or a hideous death at the hands of cannibals, exposure, disease, starvation, and let's not forget rape meat for the war gangs
Let me in the bunker
lets see
roll
Rollling
Life’s gonna be comfy from now on
rollan
Smoke weed everyday
rolling for blood cult
Roll. I'll be a cannibal, best chance of living day to day.
I set out across the wasteland to spread the word of SOL to survivors...
IMMANITIZE THE ESHATON!
Rorring
Chieftain of the local clan
Rolland.
gimme trips
ooooh mama that's fine too
rolling for warband yolo
roll
well I'm on my way home to check my lottery ticket, today might be a good day boys
Rollan
rollan
Rolling for violent nampa
Monday Waltuh
Good post
roll
I’d join a local gang but become disillusioned as they resort to more and more barbaric acts before saying enough is enough and helping a young woman and her child escape from their captivity, sacrificing myself in the process.
That wandering israelite old man character
probably a serial rapist. only decent looking chicks though unless theyre ugly and have a big ass
I'd be carrying the flame
I'd 100% be a thief. I would take food out of the mouths of babies. I don't give a frick.
I'd start as
but end up as
at the first obstacle.
A rapist.
I would immediately kill myself like the kids mom did. Absolutely horrible world to live in. Of all the fictional apocalypse scenarios I can think of, this is the one I'd stand the least chance in by far.
the kid's mom abandoned them both for another dude and they hear her being murdered right outside the house
where did you get suicide from?
Bruh what? She gets mad over the dad using one of the few bullets they have on an intruder instead of on her and then walks off into the winter night without any clothes on to die
What prompts anon to make these ridiculous assertions?
Probably dead, at best I'd make it to the first year of the (meteor? nukes?)
id be a sneeder or maybe a feeder
This, it's not even a fun Mad Max apocalypse scenario.
Genuinely depressing, great book. Probably the most realistic apocalyptic scenario.
Should have rolled. Your loss.
Rolling.
Frick, still counts. Frick you
i don't think the world is that realistic as an apocalypse but i'm guessing you mean the characters actions are more in line with what would happen in an apocalypse
Rolling!!!
I would probably join a clan and desperately cling to whatever food source is available to me. The group turning to cannibalism is probably where I would end up splitting and becoming a thief/wanderer. I’m strong, good with a gun, okay with eating someone if it was dire. But at that point I’m no longer going to trust my group with human decency…and I’m not about to start playing who gets voted off the island. My aspirations would be to have a child…if only to give me some hope in the world. But if there were no women and my mind was constantly on food…who knows I’d probably kill myself.
I know we're on tv and all but you basically described Randall Clark's journals in the Honest Hearts DLC of New Vegas.
Basically surviving after the bombs fall in a national park. It's no the road but it's pretty good
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Randall_Clark%27s_journal
Id kms because theyd turn my skinny body into a sex slave
Just live by the coast and fish. Easy.
>b-but the fish are all dead!!
nah, if you're alive the fish are alive. same with the deer and everything else. the plants, too. wow almost like the book is moronic and makes no sense unless the characters are literally already dead and in hell or something. in which case you're forced to become another worm crawling along the ground in pointless misery no matter what you do, because that's the whole point.
Can a fish open a can of food? Can a deer kill and smoke a fellow deer to preserve its meat?
can a Black person?
Theoretically
I would most definitely rape. I know that wasn’t part of your question, but I would be a man dangling a carrot for sex. Offering just enough food for survival, but only so I could rape. i would be the Genghis Khan of the apocalypse.
everyone thinks they will be the hammer
You would be a catamite to Chad.
Rape.
Rapist is the category most of us would fall into, to be fair.
Definitely captured by cannibals
because people like to emulate the serial killer
anything that helps me survive
Probably in a gang. Would end up getting killed and eaten because the gang got tired of me going on screeds about why this was the israelites fault.
the entire point of this book/film is that you WON'T survive an apocalypse. you WON'T be a cool guy battling cannibals and bringing about the new world. you WILL suffer, and probably die early.
if it was just me and i had no one else depending on my help, i'd probably an hero.
Cannibalistic raider.
Because its genuinely depressing and not full of memes
Nothing to talk about. Its sad and depressing. I like the part with Robert Duvall.
The Road is a vastly superior book, but No Country is a much better movie.
>The Road is a vastly superior book
This. The movie doesn't do the book justice.
i've gotta agree, i read that book cover to cover one afternoon. NCFOM is a much better movie though
What's so much better about the book?
50% of the film is already the characters searching for food and huddling under a tarp for warmth, but there is even more of it in the book. I just enjoy the simple survival aspect. Same reason both I Am Legend adaptations were shit. One of my favorite movies is Dawn of the Dead because the whole thing is about people eating out of cans and building fortifications. It's extremely comfy.
I got bored of the survival aspects because it started following a formula of "oh no we need x, its so hard without x, oh by some miracle we discovered y that can be used for x"
I would have much more liked to see more of that giant band of men with their catamites and pregnant women and see how they survive, i get thats not what the book is about but the setting makes me wish it was multiple character stories told from different persoectives
the beauty of the prose contrasts with the depressing narrative in a way that is really satisfying. one of the books I couldn't put down
why is so much literature depressing?
Writers suffer. In their suffering they seek new words to describe their suffering. They share their suffering in their stories.
>the beauty of the prose
The prose of the book is not 'beautiful'
It's dogfood simple.
can there not be beauty in simplicity?
I loved it, makes the narrator sound exhasuted and emaciated.
Also what is there to think or talk about, you've become an animal and if you're lucky you get to life to tomorrow
Not in this case. It's not a haiku. It's a grunting travel log.
That doesn't make it 'beautiful', though it can be considered 'evocative' or even 'eloquent' if you've never read anything actually beautiful before.
The emperor has no clothes. The strength of The Road is not in its 'beautiful prose'.
what book do you think has beautiful prose?
A History of New York by Washington Irving
Also Last of the Mohicans and Moby Dick
Comapred to The Road, though? Robert Howard stories generally have more beautiful prose than The Road.
You have no idea what you're talking about, but that's ok, at least you're only embarrassing yourself anonymously.
>You have no idea what you're talking about
I certainly do. Post the passage of The Road which captured your heart as 'beautiful'.
Beauty is subjective and I can tell already that you're one of those pedantic autists who will endlessly refuse anything that doesn't fit their own pitiably narrow range of opinion. That said, the second sentence of the first paragraph here
is sufficient in and of itself to prove me correct.
Garbage taste. The Road is a perfect display of effortless genius.
The book reads like this.
>autistic dark
ghost dog?
I always feel like I’ve somehow gotten smarter when I read McCarthy. When I finish a book of his and read something else I feel I’m reading much faster.
Elaborate.
Prose. The Road is beautiful and poetic. NCFOM is very simplistic in style. "Chigurh walked up to the door then he blew out the lock and sat on the couch and stared at the TV." Shit like that
That's surprising to read, because The Road is quite simple 90% of the time. You'll read like 5 pages of simple declarative sentences, then out of nowhere McCarthy hits you in the gut with the most beautiful insight you've ever read.
What the frick are "winter beans" and why is this homie eating them?
Because it wasn't directed by two of the greatest directors living today
>two lame israelites who direct other people's material
Go back to r/goyslop.
Because he's a man. Not a wuss. Great writer.
Not quite as good but still kino
The child actor was annoying as hell.
Papa.
The book is fantastic but genuinely so depressing, that goes for basically all his books though. It's incredible he died of natural causes and didn't kill himself, how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
When you have someone to protect you can't give in. Remember that when the muslim sleeper cells attack major cities after the election.
I thought they were supposed to activate on the day of jihad last Friday
i thought your nose was so ugly and hooked; everyone would know your israeli
but The Road had a positive ending and was basically a story about love for your children letting you endure anything. It was McCarthy commenting on fatherhood and his feelings for his own children. Just because some of his stories are about extremes of the human condition doesn't mean the author is fixated on them himself.
It's positive in some sentiment, but look at the world he left his son in. Not a lot of positivity there
The world is what we make it. His son and others can change things if they put in the effort. Humanity's schtick is ultimately to adapt to whatever comes our way.
There was no happy living insect flying away catching the sunlight at the end of the book.
>but The Road had a positive ending
In a very small humanitarian sense sure the kid and his dad have to eat a lot of shit to get to that small positive though
>how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
he supposedly had a great passion for life and was very personable, funny etc. he also had a million hobbies so there was always something to occupy him. His worldview is pretty clearly bleak and nihilistic but he has said life's too short to live any way other than the one you want to or something to that effect, he was basically nietzsche but smart and talented
>Nietzsche but smart and talented
Based. Nietzsche has to be the biggest meme I've ever seen. He was a complete regurgitating moron without a single original thought and switched opinions more than a pregnant woman. Frick him. Deserved to die like a b***h.
I have read a bunch of his books and never found them depressing.
Blood Meridian is not depressing. Suttree is very depressing.
>how can a man hold all that darkness within him and not kill himself
Studies have shown that people who accept the shittiness of life are on average much happier than joy seekers. Depression comes from reality not living up to your expectations.
He was able to have sex and produce a child
>see the road at kinoplex
>there's a 3 generation family there
>grandma, mom and daughter leave after 2 minutes
>dad and son leave 2 minutes later
still don't get why they came
Dad likes lotr and driving
what kind of fricked up redneck family decides to go to the cinema all together to see The Road?
Almost every R-rated movie I've ever gone to has had an all-ages family in the audience who end up walking out when the heavy stuff starts. Usually Mexicans, but not always. I think there is a significant number of people who show up at the theater without having any idea what's showing and they just pick whatever movie has the coolest poster.
The trailer for it totally makes it out to be some kind of cheesy blockbuster action movie, I guess they thought it'd be R-rated for action sequences.
lol that music suggest it might be some story drivin 'there is hope at the end' action movie
It isnt as well directed as NCFOM and i think loses some of the magic because the director didnt understand the source material like the coen bros understood NCFOM.
because it's way more depressing
This dumb homie should not have left the bunker lmoa
>bro everyone would eat eachother
>and farm people and women to eat babies
>and ammo and guns wouldn't exit in america
The story made no fricking sense. Cormac is a hack and cannot write for shit balls
>complete collapse of ecology, economy, and infrastructure
>ten years go by
>"haha, just flourish bro"
You're moronic
filtered
This, so hard. It's like, just go to McDonald's moron!!
Because it's nearly as good. Ironic, because The Road novel is miles better than the NCFOM novel
Basically it's so over the top bleak and grim it becomes impossible to take seriously. No country for old men is more nuanced in that regard
That whole book was just doom and gloom. I hated the son the whole time. Just a whiny b***h the entire book
I don’t think the rangers pitching will hold up. Could be a quick series
There's no stopping Altuve, Alvarez, and Abreu. They'll make mincemeat of Texas pitching
This movie fails because it butchered the pacing of the book, especially the dialogue. It's supposed to be slow, tired, and dramatic but in this they're rattling off back-and-forths like it's a fricking Marvel movie.
Film is generally a cancerous medium. Two hours is simply not enough time to tell most stories.
>the film everyone should see
Because Scorsese hasn't turned it into a chore as it is 😀
Lost in the Zombie Post-Apocalyspse sauce. A lot of releases in the neighborhood of it at the time. It's decent as an adaptation.
the setting is unrealistic
the roaming cannibalistic rapists is nothing new and you can find them anywhere
Corny ending.
I watched this movie and felt genuinely exhausted just sitting on my couch, definitely a great movie but not one I'll ever watch again.
why isn't it talked about as much compared to NCFOM or the road
I enjoyed this and the performances but I don't think there's much to discuss. It seems like McCarthy put his beliefs to paper with almost no consideration for story, just two men representing the internal back and forth he has every day. He respects and even envies Jackson's beliefs, but knows deep down he can't defeat his Nihilism like Jones' character.
I wanna talk about it. Let's talk about it.
Caught it when it came out on HBO. Was a little skeptical about watching it because it was a play.
I was pleasantly surprised. Good stuff.
or this one
Underrated. It’s like if David Lynch made Sicario.
Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person who really liked this film. The atmosphere of hopelessness and regret is something I've never seen in film before, but if any anons have suggestions I'd like to hear them.
The scene where you find out what happened to his wife, that it's too late to save her and nothing can ever undo the damage of the decisions he made, and you see her body dumped onto the landfill, knowing what torture she endured, is something that resonated with me. I think about that when I'm on the edge of making choices that could frick my life up.
It's like all people remember from the film is that blonde slapper fricking a car and nobody wants to talk about the rest.
tbh i never actually watched that movie. I read the screenplay cuz it was the only McCarthy they had in the library
It's not a good movie and McCarthy's worst hour as a writer. The girlboss Cameron Diaz shit completely killed any and all goodwill other scenes have. Fassbender was so fricking good. The best actor in the business by pure ability. That scene you mentioned is a prime example of his prowess. Shame he did capeshit, though.
It's a bad movie but the ending stuck with me for a remarkably long time which gave me the same thoughts as you with regard to how I treat choices in my life
The Road is just misery porn for the sake of it.
>wow wouldn't this totally fricked up situation that could never happen be fricked up and sad?
Might as well write chainsaw massacring puppies and call it commentary on human sadism.
Hello phillistine
i like that he broke that buck. we all know why the orc was made to strip. buck status: broken
i would try to survive but i would also locate and keep a lethal dose of opiates just incase shit got bad.
Is the ending different in the book? Are they gonna keep the boy or eat him?
>that part where they navigate the city and see melted skyscrapers
I had that in the book when the trees around them start collapsing and booming down like a house of cards.
Really drives the point home that there is no life left and never will be. Not in the soil or growing on it.
A dead planet
It wasnt good
its kinda just misery porn, its just alright. meanwhile every scene in no country is iconic
shit was to short shouldve been 4 hours long
why is it perpetually winter? thats not how a climate disaster would even work. no matter where you are the planet is still subject to seasonal changes
Sunlight blocked by ash
still wouldn't lead to a perpetual winter. if anything it would lead to a Mercury-like situation where it switches between extremes
If you say so. It's not a sci-fi novel/film
Also I don't know if it's actually "perpetually winter". The characters are trying to go south to reach warmer temperatures though
It’s not. Just perpetually overcast.
It's not elaborated on what exactly happened. Cormac said it was an asteroid impact that threw up clouds of dust and led to agricultural collapse. Makes sense to me
It took a long time for earth to adjust after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
Someone explain the shooting scene to me. So they shot a guy, ran away, circled back and there seemed to be a pile of guts with poop on it. Did they gut the guy they shot?
The guy they shot was part of a crew of cannibals, and after the man killed him, he was gutted and torn apart by his friends for food
And they pooped on the guts?
You fricking trolling?
Yes
I am downloading this film now and will watch it while eating dinner. It better be good or else I will sage this thread into oblivion. You've been warned.
>the road
Ruined by the last 10 seconds.
They ate him. There, happy?
>watch the road
>they come across a couple
>the couple is literally a interracial couple
>not a joke or anything
>in a dead fricking world of all the people they run into they run into a interracial couple
frick the people that recommended this israelite trash.
Is the interracial couple in the room with us right now?
yea as his bull is fricking his wife rn
its the bow scene. Keep denying Black person lover
I loved it but there isn't a single thing to talk about it, you just watch it and that's it.
The bullshit about the ending being ambiguous is the most contrived and pointless discussion ever, adding absolutely nothing to one's enjoyment of the film.
I thought the movie ended on a positive note. Or at least it made me believe that a good future could still happen even after all the chaos.
Too fricking depressing. I remember watching this movie and going outside and appreciating green grass and a clear sky.
this shit is so fricking boring what a waste of time
the book was such a milestone in my life. Granted, I read it when I was around 20-21. Before that, if I picked a book I felt obligated to finish it in hope there is some payoff at the end. The Road was the first one I said 'nah', it was utter pointless boring steaming pile of nothing happens: the garbage, but it helped me get over my ocd, so I will always remember it.
I'm surprised the book turns off so many people
The starkness of it is to contrast the frank disgusting horribleness of humanity with the crushing unboundless love of fatherhood
I've never seen fatherhood written about in a way that hit me so emotionally before
Food chain made zero sense
Cannibals are cool and can even work in groups because... there are a lot of poterntial victims around so... there is a lot of food around? why not skip cannibal part? just steal food from people.
>there are people, so there must be lots of food
>even though most of the people are eating other people
>most of the people are eating other people
yeah that food system would collapse in a month
Seems like you'd be left with one guy who ate (directly or indirectly) everyone else after a week.
For me it's Last Night 1998 as the most kino apocalyptic film.
checked, last night was awesome
quantanamera- the streams of the mountains please me more than the sea
because in its attempt to be bleak it is simply bland