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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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Nooooooooooo ! You've already done the much harder part - read hundreds of pages of black and white text with no images and no human voices.
Now you've gotta watch the motion picture. Easy compared to reading the book.
Ok, just watch at least the first 30 minutes. If you don't like it, fine, skip the rest.
After watching it I said What was the point?The Road (2009)
Not for the faint-hearted, and hence, a fantastic movie !
It doesn't really have to have a point, does it ? It's not a business meeting with an agenda.
Movies are art, telling a story, and choices are made about the story. For myself if the movie is all suffering and misery, I want something positive from it or i could just listen to chalk scraping a chalkboard, but I’d never choose to do that.
If you are familiar with Rogue One, some might call it an unhappy ending, but something positive came from it.It's a dystopian survival story essentially.Movies are art, telling a story, and choices are made about the story. For myself if the movie is all suffering and misery, I want something positive from it or i could just listen to chalk scraping a chalkboard, but I’d never choose to do that.
Ultimately, I guess you and I have different interpretations of the movie (consequent to us having different life paths and backgrounds). Positive and negative mean different things to you and I.
I got a positive feeling throughout the movie. This was a feel-good movie for me throughout
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Father and son stuck together and endured a tough time.
Father and son got to spend real quality time together and bond. They traveled together, ate together, camped together, celebrated their little victories (like finding cans of food) together. This was a HUGE positive for me.
The father made sure to survive long enough to teach his son enough to survive on his own and, incidentally, pass him on to another family.
The son did eventually find another family.
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Also, there is a deeper dimension to the movie that most people don't get, because they're stuck on the surface (i.e. what is obvious). They're homeless and starving and cold. Yeah, on the surface, duh, it looks negative, because you're sitting in a nice warm home on a comfy couch eating your popcorn and drinking your soda. But, one has to go deeper than the surface to see the true meaning of this.
This is not just about physical survival. It is a strong metaphor for the endurance of the human spirit. The movie is essentially saying, "Life is tough. And challenges never come to an end. One challenge leads to another. One challenge morphs into another. (first the boy is with his father, then he finds another family and the struggle continues)" And, that realization seems negative on the surface, but its acceptance is a very positive thing.
The father succeeded in his ultimate life goal (to pass his values and some of his knowledge on to his son, so his son can make it on his own, in a tough world), although his body eventually gave out. This goes deeper than the physical aspect of life and living.
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Don’t go overboard. We don’t have to agree.
Maybe you and I have different opinions about what we consider to be worth our time and choose to digest, if the movie has not been falsely advertised. That is not an accusation about The Road, as I forget how it was advertised. As I said , movie makers choose to tell a story, and the audience individually decides if it is a story worth being exposed to and enduring, if the journey was worthwhile. I figure you know where I stand.
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I'm not going overboard. You clearly didn't see what I saw in the movie, so I'm just explaining what I saw.
I'm not trying to sway your opinion (that would be futile and meaningless anyway). Just telling you why I thought it was positive. Just pointing out it's not black and white as most movies are painted (with no imagination whatsoever, from the audience).
For me a film is a way of escaping for a couple of hours.
As long as I'm entertained or engaged that's good enough for me.
As long as I'm entertained or engaged that's good enough for me.
Recently watched A Ghost Story. It's a fine, artsy, piece. I think Enter the Void is a good companion film but it is not for the faint of heart.
Avengers Age of Ultron (2015) Well this proves why I am very happy Joss Whedon headed to the Distinguished Competition. New characters have zero substance, existing characters are written annoyingly and/or out of character. I now apologize for most of my angst about Markus and McFreely as writers of the current Marvel Universe (and in particular Cap, Bucky, Natasha and Sam), because after wasting my precious downtime on this last night, the only nice thing I can say about it is some of the moments with Hawkeye. Renner was on point here and I hope he gets more screen time going forward (perhaps someone can tell him the MCU Hawkeye doesn't wear tights so he'll hang around after 2020.)
Glad I skipped this one in the theatre and that it is already fading from my movie steeped brain.
Glad I skipped this one in the theatre and that it is already fading from my movie steeped brain.
it was excellent. I'd say 90% of the movie you've forgotten that you are watching Gary Oldman play Churchill. Thumbs up.
The trouble with the MCU is there are just too many of them. They keep coming every few months. But story wise the Avengers films soul purpose is to introduce new characters for their next film instalment.
Got to keep milking that cow!
As a rule, I go for individual stories and on balance, the comic based films I like are in the minority as compared to all that have been released. I’ve not really liked any of the Avenger movies although for ensemble films (as I’ve said in the forum frequently), the first two X-Men were special.
Note, it may be that the same thing happens to Star Wars as they over saturate the market.
Sure...and I agree that the Avengers films often slip in new characters, it's the double whammy of the bad writing and poor character choice that trips these up. The trouble with the MCU is not necessarily that there are too many of them, it is hiring directors who have no concept of the characters and think all of them have spout unfunny one liners while avoiding the use of a serious threat.
Markus and McFreely (who wrote the "third" Avengers movie, Captain America: Cvil War) have a much better grasp on most of the Marvel characters (and thankfully course corrected Black Widow after Whedon's lame kick back in AAoU); though I still think Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man and Vision are not necessary.
I think Disney are doing a much better job with Marvel than with Star Wars. That's all I say about Disney's SW.
We just saw this and agreed, it was pretty funny!
Agreed. I don't mind if the ending is not your typical Hollywood ending. Case in point the movie "The Mist". I loved the fact we were treated to an incident at the end that was heartbreaking while at the sametime another character was giving the most smug and "I told you so" look ever! I loved that.
I liked "The Road". It has been a while since I have seen it, but I liked it and had no issues with it.
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