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Old 09-04-2009, 05:02 AM   #1
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Default The Road (the movie)

Just watched the trailer today on apple.

Read today's review on Variety.

Trailer--unimpressive. Review--negative.

Too bad, but all signs point to a mediocre to bad adaptation of a really great novel.
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Old 09-08-2009, 09:53 PM   #2
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Just watched the trailer today on apple.

Read today's review on Variety.

Trailer--unimpressive. Review--negative.

Too bad, but all signs point to a mediocre to bad adaptation of a really great novel.
Maybe it's unadaptable. They've been trying to make a movie from The White Hotel for 19 years; still no success. Maybe one reason the movie is usually worse than the book is that they are such different media.
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Maybe it's unadaptable. They've been trying to make a movie from The White Hotel for 19 years; still no success. Maybe one reason the movie is usually worse than the book is that they are such different media.
I was thinking about your writing a few weeks ago. I was reading "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". Debut novel by a Swedish writer (who died before publication). As I read the opening pages, I thought, "yes, this is how you start a novel. You grab my interest."

Just started another novel last night. "A bend in the River." Again, caught my interest in the first few simple pages.

Versus your novel, which I had to dig down deep, Melanie Oudin-style, to keep going after the first few paragraphs.

Real art to the beginning of a novel. Or rather, the quality of a novel is often apparent in just a few pages.
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I was thinking about your writing a few weeks ago. I was reading "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo". Debut novel by a Swedish writer (who died before publication). As I read the opening pages, I thought, "yes, this is how you start a novel. You grab my interest."

Just started another novel last night. "A bend in the River." Again, caught my interest in the first few simple pages.

Versus your novel, which I had to dig down deep, Melanie Oudin-style, to keep going after the first few paragraphs.

Real art to the beginning of a novel. Or rather, the quality of a novel is often apparent in just a few pages.
Signed, Mr. "I tried to read the Crossing but Cormac was just spouting philosophy and not telling me a story so I quit."

I don't think you've read enough great novels to judge. Anyway, writing is a process. You should feel privileged that I've shared my struggle with you. Most of Cormac's life he lived in a barn with no plumbing, and sold 5,000 copies of all his novels combined before All the Pretty Horses. You're like those Ute fans who wanted to fire Whit after the Vegas game in 2007.

Let me know when you FINISH A Bend in the River. I won't hold my breath.
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Signed, Mr. "I tried to read the Crossing but Cormac was just spouting philosophy and not telling me a story so I quit."

I don't think you've read enough great novels to judge. Anyway, writing is a process. You should feel privileged that I've shared my struggle with you. Most of Cormac's life he lived in a barn with no plumbing, and sold 5,000 copies of all his novels combined before All the Pretty Horses. You're like those Ute fans who wanted to fire Whit after the Vegas game in 2007.

Let me know when you FINISH A Bend in the River. I won't hold my breath.
You're like many people in this world who do not achieve their potential--they are unwilling to take advice.

Humility.

I don't have the time to read "impenetrable" novels. If the writing isn't interesting enough to bring me along, well, I got other things to do.
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So the movie is out. It got decent, not great reviews. Better reviews than I expected actually.

I don't go and see movies too often anymore. Can't decide if I should see it or not. I might regret having the book sullied with images from a crappy movie.
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Once again an amazing performance from viggo is there any character this man cant play i went every step of the road with them a truly memorable film with oscar winning performances.
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Eric is probably the most fascinating proxy spammer troll yet. He loves movies. And his posts are not really different than just a normal person coming to this site and posting.
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Did anyone ever see the movie? The book was so wrenching that I don't have the heart to go through it a second time in a movie. Plus I heard the movie sucked.
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I watched the first 15 minutes. Then I turned it off. I could tell it was going to be lame.

I could tell that they would not be able to replicate the relationship--the string--between the boy and the man. And without that, you got nothing.
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