Gab & Dad review The Road

Gab and Dad's review for this latest DVD release - based on its theatrical presentation, with added info bites about the DVD features. Road trip!

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[badlieutenant13]

So many people I know that saw this movie say that they did not like it because it was "sad and depressing". For me, a good movie that I like does not have to be "happy and upbeat". The down parts of life are just as important as the up parts of live, without the down, how would you gauge the ups? Movies like this make me appreciate what I have and I take stock of what would be.

[GabnDad]

@badlieutenant13 I couldn't agree with you more. (Kinda like 'Blue Valentine' too!)

[UnknownXV]

This was a very depressing movie, but yet it was one of the best I've ever seen. Feel good movies are fine, but it's nice to see a movie with real heart, something that says something.

[GabnDad]

@UnknownXV Agreed.

[lelandb123]

You guys do great reviews. Incredibly thoughtful!

[GabnDad]

Thank you!

[RollJob88]

gab is so hot...

thanks for great review.

[darkseeker102]

that a very good review i agree with most of what you said. Ya keep doing review you guys realy think about what you are saying

PS the actor who did the boy name is Kodi smit McPhee

[BUDDY6414724297]

Would your review SILENT RUNNING, ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER, DARK STAR, IDIOCRACY, MAD MAX?

[mentat1973]

keeping their humanity?

The end did not move me in the way it has moved most, I must say. The boy finding another family to live with only prolonged the inevitable to my reckoning. It was not a beacon of hope, but rather a pointless delay of the inevitable fact that they too will one day either starve to death or are killed by the vultures. It was a totally fatalistic and depressing story from beginning to end. A prolonged gut punch that I thoroughly enjoyed reading and watching.

[mentat1973]

I took away an altogether different impression from the movie and book. First and foremost, it is a profoundly ecological story. The man and boy's dilemma about how to live is thrust upon them by the collapse of any reliable access to safety, food, and shelter. Against this calamity, they must decide who they are going to be during this disaster: are they the bad guys, who pick the meat off the bones of their fellow men like common vultures, or are they willing and able to starve for the sake of

[sephuroth1]

This is probably my favorite movie, period. The amazing film making, acting, and cynical realism of society coming to an end is just amazingly done in this movie.