Comments on: Please Explain to Me Why The Road Trailer Sucks

By: Neceros

Neceros — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:23:34 +0000

Oh my god.

This movie was pure junk. The ONLY reason I sat through the whole thing was to see if it got any better, and it didn’t. PURE GARBAGE.

By: Watched the Film

Watched the Film — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:12:24 +0000

I watched this movie, finished it not even a minute ago, and I have to say the movie was horrible. all through out the movie the kid’s annoying poor acting and whining made it unbearable!

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:18 +0000

@ zomgmouse

I imagined the story, from reading the book, to be all grey and black with no other color whatsoever. Everything McCarthy describes is like burnt ash.

I do not have high expectations for this movie.

By: zomgmouse

zomgmouse — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:44:41 +0000

The copy of The Road I read had a blue-grey cover, and so the whole time I imagined the story to be blue-grey. The trailer, IMO, had too much yellow and red to match the style of the book. I see they’re playing up the relationship between the man and his deceased wife. Also, where in the book were there so many gunfights? The book’s virtue was its ability to maintain a languid pace but at the same time keep me concerned, intrigued and reading.
I was looking forward to a film version of The Road, but now I am not going anywhere near it.

By: scott sucks

scott sucks — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:44:25 +0000

you suck

By: scott

scott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:37:20 +0000

the book sucks

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:29:22 +0000

@ e

I read the book, too, and you’re right: it’s far more concerned with the relationship between the boy and the man than it is with where they’re going. There are going to be lots of changes, I’m guessing.

By: e

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:05:30 +0000

You wanna know why this trailer looks so sucky? If you’ve read “The Road”, or any other of McCarthy’s novels, you know that they don’t really have plots. What makes the novels so great is that they’re beautifully written. Good syntax is hard to film and (it would seem) impossible to sell. So what else is there in the novel that they could put in the trailer? The color gray…check.

And really there’s not that much left that can be put into a trailer to make it look enticing to those of us who would rather not be inconvenienced by reading. The easiest way to do this is to add a few random explosions, of course.

Sorry, I try not to rant on the internet too often, but you asked and I’ve been wondering the same thing myself

By: Dude

Dude — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:27:28 +0000

I am legend didn’t suck.

By: Muppet Baby

Muppet Baby — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:24:41 +0000

Damn – this doesn’t match the scope and magnitude of the book at all!! It looks like a typical doomsday feature! Crap! I guess the reason could be to lure in people who didn’t read the book and then- WHAM!- hit them with a more artistic film (I hope)