Comments on: Review: ‘The Road’ – Shannon’s Take

By: Juvenal

Juvenal — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:44:03 +0000

It wodlun’t be possible Ken knows that Hal Jordan is a pilot? I took it he was saying the guy is also a Galactic cop, and was commenting on the choice of the military jet as opposed to a contraption designed by the artist. What Ken doesn’t get is that military jets are real, which makes them serious. Now if it had been a spaceship that would have been stupid, because spaceships are not real, and as a result they are corny. It’s very important to make this material as real as possible, because when you are reading the stories you don’t want any reminders that it isn’t real. Things which aren’t real remind the reader that the story isn’t real, and that spoils the feeling that it’s real, and taking place in the real world.

By: Shannon Hood

Shannon Hood — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:27:11 +0000

@Marcel
Well said, and I couldn’t agree with you more.

By: Marcel F. Williams

Marcel F. Williams — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:45:30 +0000

A heartbreaking journey of a father and son desperate to survive in the harshest post-apocalyptic world ever imagined!

Viggo Mortensen and 12 year old Kodi Smit-McPhee (where do the Australians get all of these great young actors?) both deserve Oscar nods, IMO. In fact, I’d also give an Oscar nod to Robert Duvall for his brief but powerful performance as ‘the old man’. The cinematography is outstanding and the environment that they created is devastatingly realistic.

This is an important film that deserves to be nominated for Best Picture of the year. If this film doesn’t inspire both politicians andcitizens to do whatever is necessary to protect our planet’s precious environment in order to enhance human survival and the rest of the species on our world– then I just don’t know what will!

Marcel F. Williams