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Super bleak. Well done, but they make a pretty convincing argument for all the sane characters to off themselves (not a spoiler).

Grandpa's Spells wrote:Super bleak. Well done, but they make a pretty convincing argument for all the sane characters to off themselves (not a spoiler).

Wanted to check this out, but it's basically only playing in a few theaters in the city. GF read the book and said that the female character in the movie (Charlize Theron) is not mentioned all that much in the book. Was just wondering how much the movie deviates from the book. Is it worth going out of your way to see it, or should I pass and go down the street to check out 2012?

I would see it over 2012 any day. It's a good movie, from the same guy who wrote No Country for Old Men. But not a happy movie. E.g., there are people who catch and lock up humans for food, and under the circumstances one can see why. Makes Schindler's List look like Weekend at Bernies.

Theron is a minor character in the movie. Bigger than the book, but it's not a rewrite.

A man's gotta eat.

I'm not sure about this.

I saw the trailer and I don't like a few things I saw. They made it look like an action flick in the trailer and the mom has a prominent role that is lacking in the book.

I don't want to spoil it but it's a plot point that they deviated on that I feel was one of the original parts of the story that added to the level of darkness.

I've read the Road, No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses and they are fucking great books but very very messed up.

Grandpa's Spells wrote: Makes Schindler's List look like Weekend at Bernies.

Weekend at Bernie's, as brilliant as it is, is nowhere near as funny as Schindler's List.

Ed Zachary wrote:I saw the trailer and I don't like a few things I saw.

Trailer is not representative of the movie. Theron is more prominently featured in the trailer since she's a) hot, and b) an academy award winner. She's more in the movie than the book, but she's not in the movie much, either.

Theron is a fucking terrible actress. Jesus fuck.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Theron is a fucking terrible actress. Jesus fuck.

Looking at her is good enough.

So is this movie worth watching for those of us who really liked the book?

I wouldn't think it would make a good movie, but after seeing what the Coen brothers did with No Country For Old Men I don't know.

I thought the Judge was a hell of a character.

I heard book>>>>>movie.

Jesus what a fucked up movie. I kinda wish I hadn't seen it. Saying it's a good movie is sorta like saying somebody dug a bullet out of you with a pocket knife real good.

I made a point of not watching this movie.

Anon wrote:I heard book>>>>>movie.

That is correct. I think the director did as well as he could considering the sparse and bleak material, but the book was much better.

It was about as good as a screen addaptation could be for this book. Capturd the fear and hopelessness of the situation well.

If I was the President, I'd make all my Generals and Cabinent officers read the book over a weekend and then announce the immolation of Iran on Monday.

Leaving fuckers like that to developing nuclear weapons is a good way to make McCarthey's dark vision come true.

Oh and only a stupid, untrained fuck would take a road in a time like that, you use the road as a navigational aid and for intel, you dont step foot on it or even near it unless your ambushing someone for a can of beans.

SNAKE EYES wrote:Oh and only a stupid, untrained fuck would take a road in a time like that, you use the road as a navigational aid and for intel, you dont step foot on it or even near it unless your ambushing someone for a can of beans.

I haven't read the book, but the movie highlighted this with the guy at the end in case it wasn't already obvious to the viewer. I think the movie would have been less compelling if the father really knew what he was doing.

So for those of us that didn't read the book what caused the problem to begin with? Was it a nuclear war?

Shapecharge wrote:So for those of us that didn't read the book what caused the problem to begin with? Was it a nuclear war?

It's never explicitly stated, chaos and nearly everything dies.

McCormac is a stylist above all and the sparse ellipitical writing makes his world that much scarier and tense.

I 've also avoidsed the movie because I didn't think it could match the book. I don't know how big a role Charlize Theron had in the movie, but the unnamed wife gets maybe three mentions inthe book and none of them more than a paragraph.

I thought the book was very good but Cormac McC took the easy way out for the story's close (given 'the man's' fate was pretty clear long before the story's end).

Anon wrote:I heard book>>>>>movie.

I hope not... the book was fucking terrible.

Hagbard wrote:I thought the Judge was a hell of a character.

This is a fact.
Check out "Last Pale Light in the West" by Ben Nichols. A country music EP based off of Blood Meridian.
Great book, great album.

Shapecharge wrote:So for those of us that didn't read the book what caused the problem to begin with? Was it a nuclear war?

I read an article (I don't remember where) that suggested it was a meteor on par with that which wiped out the dinos.

ImUndaYourBed wrote:

Shapecharge wrote:So for those of us that didn't read the book what caused the problem to begin with? Was it a nuclear war?

I read an article (I don't remember where) that suggested it was a meteor on par with that which wiped out the dinos.[/quote


No way. It was The Walking Dude.

Flagg.