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  1. 12-May-2009 #1
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    "The Road Is the Most Important Movie of the Year"

    http://www.esquire.com/features/movi...ie-review-0609
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    seriously though...I'll have to keep an eye out for this one.
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    Bassman - noiiice.

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    Couldn't be arsed to read the whole article, I mean - 4 sodding pages?!

    Anyway - regardless, I've read the book and I'm so up for the movie. Bring it on, most definitely.
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    Trailer! (which I'm not watching!)

    Don't forget you can visit the YouTube page and go HQ
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    Well, it's directed by John Hillcoat, who directed The Proposition, which was incredible. So yeah, I'm up for it. Trailer looks like a cross between The Road Warrior and Deliverance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by capncnut View Post
    Well, it's directed by John Hillcoat, who directed The Proposition, which was incredible. So yeah, I'm up for it. Trailer looks like a cross between The Road Warrior and Deliverance.

    Cool.
    No! Not going to watch it! Can't make me!!! No no no!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Trailer! (which I'm not watching!)

    Don't forget you can visit the YouTube page and go HQ
    Oh that looks BAD ASS. I am so into seeing this flick.
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    I read the first page and the last page of the review and didn't feel I missed anything. Let's hope the movie far surpasses the review, as I've only heard good things about the book...though I heard far too much of the ending, I'm afraid

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    i read the book (in damn near one sitting) and loved it. i'll probably see the movie too.

    the trailer looks decent.
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    1) I read the book, and it rocked.

    Actually, the reason I read it, was that I got involved in a YouTube collaborative film project called "Road Movie", which was to do with Frieze Film 2008 - it was based on "The Road", and the four short films were shown in October 2008 on Channel 4 under the "3 Minute Wonder" title of programming.

    2) That trailer looks super awesome.

    Mind you, I'm fed up of this "glitchy footage" schtick - it was old last year, now it's just older.

    Also, they seem to have amped up the action elements of the story, or at least that's how the trailer makes it look, in fact the trailer has all that 'action movie slam bang editing' that I'm so sick of these days ... but methinks it's a ploy to get more viewers, as if the film is really like the book, it should be far more sedate and meandering.

    3) Woo, Garrett Dillahunt!

    4) It's a movie of The Road - ergo, AWESOME-AGE.

    5) The scene in the book where:
     
    they go into that cellar in the house - which is infact the house of some cannibals - and find a bunch of people tied up, and one has their leg already hacked off (and obviously, it's been eaten), was shocking in the book - stunning rather - that left a real impression, and it was such a well written chunk of the book, it was truly gripping - and it's just words on a page.

    There seems to be a shot or two relating to it in the trailer, so hopefully that scene will be as horrifying and gripping as it was in the book.

    Bring it considerably on, yes sir!
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    Quote Originally Posted by capncnut View Post
    Trailer looks like a cross between The Road Warrior and Deliverance.
    Aussie Deliverance? "C'mon mate, squeal like a pig! Crikey, he's got a bonzer of a mouth on him, don't he?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Publius View Post
    Aussie Deliverance? "C'mon mate, squeal like a pig! Crikey, he's got a bonzer of a mouth on him, don't he?"


    Can't see either the trailer or the article from work. Alas. I am excited about this movie tho!!! I loved the book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Publius View Post
    "C'mon mate, squeal like a pig! Crikey, he's got a bonzer of a mouth on him, don't he?"
    is that a deleted scene from "crocodile dundee?"
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    The film was shot in Pittsburgh, so it has some good karma going for it as well.
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    Five long clips... I'm not watching them as I don't want to know anything (more) about the film until I watch it...

    http://www.cinemablend.com/new/5-Har...oad-14642.html
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