The book is fantastic and I can't wait to see this. Great review.

How are you reviewing it already? I thought it was coming out in December or something???

Tbis book sucked Shirly Manson balls...major yawner.  If it follows the book this two hour movie is going to feel like its 12 hours long, trust me.

NOT trying to provoke fans of the book, or the movie... just making a very very very selfabsorbed comment here...

Trying to picture what mood I would have to be in to say "Hey... lets go see THE ROAD tonight".

I know, I know ... shallow, shallow, shallow of me.  But it just sounds SO bleak and dark and depressing. Just... unpleasant. More to be endured than enjoyed, you know?

Hey, may say more about where I am than it does about the movie, granted. Just saying - I can't see myself ever being in a mood where I would seek this out.

From Shallowville, maybe -

Shadow

I agree with needaname and definitely disagree with Hobbs?  The book sucked?  Really?  I loved it and have been looking forward to this film for years.  Maybe because I'm a father I could completely relate to the position Viggo's character is put in.  Some of the situations they find themselves in are chilling and it looks, and by the review, sounds like they were captured well. 

As far as what mood you need to be in to watch this ... the mood to see a fantastic well made and acted film.  Sure it's a bleak and dark film but so are many great films of the past.  It's also more than just a dark film, it looks like it has a bit of everything: action, suspense, drama.  Everything but explosions and mediocre acting which should be a great experience after this summer of blockbusters. 

I am glad to see they didn't explain how the world got to that state. I thought w/ earlier previews, that's what they were trying to do and I'm glad they are sticking to the book.  There are def some creepy parts to this movie.  Great review.

"But. but I don't want to think when I watch a movie. I want to see big explosions---bwoooooosh--and see big robots bashing the hell out of each other--crash, biissshh, baaaangg--and see Megan Fox's T&A. When I go to a movie I don't want to think at ALL. IF I wanted to think in a movie then I'd watch a movie like The Road. But uh-uh, NOT for me. I don't want anyyyyyything in my head when I watch a movie. Uh-uh".

 Did not read the book or this review but I liked “No Country for Old Men” so I am sure I will dig this too. Cannot wait for this to come out. 

I'm only talking book of course...I can't rip the movie because I didn't see it but yes, the book sucked.

To sum up the story.

They walk, they are hungry. they find some food and are hungry again. They find more food. The son complains alot.  They really need shoes, but when they find a whole stack of them in a house they don't grab any. They run into bad cannibals and escape and cannibals don't chase them. They walk again and they find more food then walk again. They get cold. They get hungry and need more food. They encounter more cannibals, avoid them and yet again the cannibals don't chase them. They get hungry again and wish they had better shoes.  

I can't take credit for that review but when I read it that summed up exactly what I read...I won't even get into all the other inconsistencies in the story.  It was one of those books i wish would just end and was thankful when it did.
 

This book won the Pulitzer Prize which means about as much as Obama winning the Nobel.

You should have taken credit for that review.  It was great!  He forgot about the hiding though, there's lots of hiding.

And that was a great comment sharpe, real funny.  I'm all for the "shut your brain off" films as well (I LOVED Transformers 2), but a film like this looks to be always shines above the "crash, biissshh, baaaangg, T&A" movies.

I've read the book... cannot wait for the movie... knowing that they are completely seprate this review invokes what I saw in my head while reading the book!