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The Fortune
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Betrayal
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Play It As It Lays
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The Outfit
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Alex in Wonderland
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
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In The Cool of the Day
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That Cold Day in the Park
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Thumb Trippin'
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At Long Last Love
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Run of the Arrow
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Saint Joan
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When the Wind Blows
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Housekeeping
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Haunted Summer
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In a 9.12 piece called "Sumptuous Devastation," I described John Hillcoat's The Road (which I had just seen) as "two hours of rotted, ash-covered, end-of-the-world remnants captured in ravishing, desaturated, ugly-beautiful photography with highly admirable production design. Viggo Mortensen and the kid are very good...yes, fine. But what they bring isn't nearly enough.

"I read Cormac McCarthy's novel for the exquisitely plain prose, but the movie is quite unnecessary. It really and truly goes nowhere, enhances nothing, offers no poetry of any transformative value and adds nothing to the conversation. Plus it has a lousy story. You can have it. I'll never watch The Road again. You can give me the Blu-ray and I'll never pop it in."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 1, 2009 at 7:17 AM

comment #1

carlos alejandro says ...

Jeff, not related to 'The Road', but in case you have not seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C92OsQ3jiQQ

(Thought you might like that.)

Posted by carlos alejandro at November 1, 2009 7:39 AM

comment #2

George Prager says ...

The film equivalent of Lunchables.

Posted by George Prager at November 1, 2009 7:52 AM

comment #3

COCO says ...

Is this a miss?....the book haunted me for days.....
I felt sad for us all (if it were to finally end like this)
How would someone react to the world ending?
The film is too devestating in the doom portrayed.

Posted by COCO at November 1, 2009 8:59 AM

comment #4

THE MovieBob says ...

Some things just don't work adapted "straight" - i.e. without reworking or embellishing.

This is one of them.

Posted by THE MovieBob at November 1, 2009 9:41 AM

comment #5

erniesouchak says ...

I agree 100 percent -- maybe for the first time ever!

Posted by erniesouchak at November 1, 2009 9:51 AM

comment #6

erniesouchak says ...

You know, Wells, I think you could make the same basic argument about "Revolutionary Road," but you loved that one.

Posted by erniesouchak at November 1, 2009 2:22 PM

comment #7

televisiontears says ...

I didn't notice it the first time I saw this trailer, but there's a serious Wilhelm Scream towards the end.

Posted by televisiontears at November 1, 2009 2:40 PM

comment #8

K. Bowen says ...

Loved it.

Posted by K. Bowen at November 1, 2009 2:40 PM

comment #9

Krazy Eyes says ...

Is that really a Wilhelm Scream? Sounds more like the Tie Fighter scream to me. I don't think they originate from the same source.

Posted by Krazy Eyes at November 1, 2009 4:05 PM

comment #10

DeeZee says ...

carlos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-arXkfZds

Posted by DeeZee at November 1, 2009 8:57 PM

comment #11

Admiral82 says ...

I just started reading the book. I can't put it down. I'm not real hyped about this film though.

Posted by Admiral82 at November 1, 2009 9:18 PM

comment #12

BurmaShave says ...

Definitely not a Willhem. And fuuuuck why can't they get the tone for these trailers right. I prefer the made for TV thriller style of the first one to this bullshit that is trying to sell it like THE PERFECT STORM.

Posted by BurmaShave at November 2, 2009 5:54 AM

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