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Showing posts with label post apocalyptic. Show all posts

the Road (2009)

by D. Jacob Ryals

Planet of the Hobos

This movie is okay.  Not great, and I could definitely see people not liking this movie.  Most movies like this, there is some huge delima that occurs and the whole movie revolves around this delima.  As you watch the father and son travel they narrowly escape what would usually consume the entire plot of the movie.  They kill a scavenger and escape his buddies.  They come across a family of cannibals and escape being eaten.  They find a bank of food, and don't have to defend it.  This movie is more about showing you what complete and utter despair is.  I like the fact it doesn't take the normal turns, though the end result is a little boring.  This is not a movie that takes you on a ride or gives you some kind of experience.  This movie is meant to be thought about and talked aobut afterwards.  I didn't like the ending.  It wrapped up a little too nicely.  Some movies are like that, and I don't mind that.  It really is though like a movie with a planet full of homeless and starving people.  I have heard that the book isn't bad, so I may check it out.

Not for everybody.


Book of Eli (2010)

by D. Jacob Ryals

Loved it, movie made for my sensibilities.  
Denzel as always does not dissappoint and gives a great leading man performance.  There isn't much stretching required for this character, other than the old western drifter hero character.  Gary Oldman is part of the unholy bad guy actors trinity.  (the other two being Jack Nicholson and Christopher Walken)  His ability to take on the complete mask of this character is also what this great actor has been known for.  There were a couple of moments when you could even see the vulnerabilities of the character on Gary's face.
 The story started out to be your typical western, with the drifter who comes to town and saves the people from the local rich despot.  This ended up not being so.  The twists at the end are almost unimportant, because the ride you have taken to get there has been so much fun and done so well, that you don't care that it was meant to BLOW YOUR MIND...
...but doesn't.  
It doesn't ruin it either, so i am happy.  When i realized in the theater how much I was going to like this movie, I literally was on the edge of my seat praying to God that they don't jump the shark and ruin it for me.  I was pleased with the end and didn't feel like it when on too long and ended abruptly. 
 I would like to see a comic book of the continued story and hope not for a sequel.