The Road

[OldFarmer2]

Anyone see the movie The Road,what is your take on this?Did you like or dislike it?
Really got me thinking.
God Bless
OldFarmer2

[Kursac]

It was a very sad movie. Very dark but it did show paranoia trumping commonsense & decency.

[ThePreparedMom]

I thought the book was great.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I watched a little 1/2 of it, that was the most depressing thing i've ever seen.

[Rmplstlskn]

It was a very sad movie. Very dark but it did show paranoia trumping commonsense & decency.

Yes, lots of very bad decisions... But sadly it was probably the most realistic of any unprepared person SHTF portrayal I have ever seen/imagined. Very sad and dark.... very dark. But that is what could happen...

Rmpl

[Kursac]

I thought the book was great.

I did hear the book was fantastic

[claymore]

God forbid any of us (anyone) to ever be in such a situation. What would have happened if they had stayed in the underground shelter ?

[monkeybird]

I hated the book. Refused to see the movie. It was depressing and fatalistic. However, RMP says - it was real!

[Bull]

My girlfriend and I watched it in the theater. I was trying to get her more into prepping, and I thought, this will probably help. So about a month ago, after we split up after eight years, I'm at best buy, and picked up a few movies and decided to get that one to watch again. I go home, and watch it sitting there by myself, and just thought, God what a depressing movie. I mean all the way to the end. Why did I buy this? Am I becoming masochistic, LOL? Real depressing. But it definitely points out how bad off folks could be without any preps. It definitely made me think more about security of the homestead.

[ComputerGuy]

Just started watching it again. The absence of color is noticable

[protus]

I did hear the book was fantastic

protus why was it a great book
i dunno maybe because of how real it all seemed,especially how the kid acted
he was sad right protus,i mean werent they all sad..
could be ,they all seemed sad and gloomy and scared
id be scared to ,all cold and dark,will it always be that way protus
i dunno maybe,what do youthink
i dunno,it could be,ifthere was no sun
well there has to be the sun or else we'd all die
arent we dying protus.....


if you can read that kind of typingfor 200 pages enjoy it :P

( the book and movie foloow each other pretty well for the most part,,,,but it is a dark film)

[Benn Gleck]

I did hear the book was fantastic

You must have been watching Oprah. ;)

To each his own, but it was a terribly depressing book and after reading it there was no way I'd waste my time on the movie. JMHO

[Lowdown3]

The guy makes stupid move after stupid move.

The world ended, you have a son to protect. Kill everyone in your frickin path if necessary. Oops did I say that out loud? LOL The main character was a sissy in that respect if you ask me. You don't need bullets to whack people.....

Best idea in that book was the whole deal where he is there in the shelter whittling down wood to make it LOOK like he had bullets left in his revolver. No mention of taking the other ammo. You might not currently have a weapon that uses that ammo, but you may find a weapon that does use that ammo in the future. Haul a couple extra lbs. to have the CHANCE of getting a weapon working in that bad of a scenario? You bet I would. Just the fire starting ability would be worth hauling them.

Book was more morbid than the movie IMO, but the movie was bad also. Typical defeatist "we are all gonna die" nuclear movie. Up there with Testament and Threads.

[ThePreparedMom]

You must have been watching Oprah. ;)

To each his own, but it was a terribly depressing book and after reading it there was no way I'd waste my time on the movie. JMHO

Oh it was a terribly depressing book, but it was thought provoking. It was very dark, but I can't say that it doesn't (sadly, but perhaps accurately) depict what lows people would sink to in a SHTF situation. Some people will simply believe that there is nothing they can do and that they will die. Others will just try to get out of Dodge and hope to find a more habitable place to live because they did not prepare in advance. In fact, in one terrible part of the book people had resorted to cannibalism, and in Patriots Rawles also deals with this idea.

[madamkitty33]

I saw it, cried a woman's tears. Then saw how unprepared they were. It was raw, depressing and will become true for so many in this country sooner than they can imagine. That's the saddest part.