Comments on: First Trailer for ‘The Road’ Misses The Mark

By: Firewalker

Firewalker — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:25:29 +0000

I agree totally with the Trailers misrepresentation of the guts of the story, but what’s got me also beevied is that the destruction was caused by a natural caustrophe. I know the book left it up for interpetation. My interpetation was that mankind destroys mankind (War) and that the surviours felt that god had abandoned them but through the journey and discovery of bond between Father and Son and the grey area of right and wrong humanity is saved and the bond between god and people and can never be destroyed no matter how hard we try! To quote the book “goodness will find a way” —will be loss if the destuction is interpetated for us especially something as silly and simple as the weather.

By: mildred alvarez

mildred alvarez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:29:46 +0000

This looks nothing like the McCarthy I read. The trailer is grossly misleading and will have anyone who has read the book outraged. Those who have not read the book will go in looking for Road Warrior and will come out disappointed, that is, if they stay to the end of the film. It will lead to bad word of mouth.

By: The Weinstein Company Tampered With ‘The Road’ Trailer - Screen Rant

The Weinstein Company Tampered With ‘The Road’ Trailer - Screen Rant — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:16:02 +0000

[...] A little over a week ago Screen Rant posted the first trailer for The Road, the cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. [...]

By: Stephen Tilson

Stephen Tilson — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:29:27 +0000

Ultimately, making a movie out of a Cormac McCarthy book is like making a stage play out of Bach’s Concerto and Fugue in D Minor. So much of McCarthy’s appeal comes from his authorial voice, his diction and even his syntax, that any movie can only hint at the richness of the novel.

If you’ve only read The Road, do yourself a favor and read Blood Meridian. The Road is good, but Blood Meridian is McCarthy’s masterpiece, the work that should assure him immortality.

By: Thumbmonster

Thumbmonster — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:10:27 +0000

boy then i am worried about it not being true to the book then if they start adding things that dont belong, as well as the wife, as i recall she had a few lines in the book and thats it in the end. a few lines. so i dont understand why they are adding her to the movie and giving her an extended role.

By: Movie Trailer for “The Road”this film | One Thing I Know

Movie Trailer for “The Road”this film | One Thing I Know — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:31:55 +0000

[...] First Trailer for ‘The Road’ Misses The Mark (screenrant.com) [...]

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:23:29 +0000

@thumbmonster

Because that’s in vogue at the moment (unfortunately).

Vic

By: thumbmonster

thumbmonster — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:15:29 +0000

UMMM read the book i dont recall enviromental breakdown, it was all a nuclear war. So why are they showing global warming and weather havoc?

By: Franni

Franni — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:14:06 +0000

The trailer is a complete misread of the book. Some reviews keep saying this is the first trailer. We can only hope the 2nd is truer to form and to the book.
A word to Taylor. No it is not 17 again but I would suggest that you grow into an adult mental image, and then wait for trailer # 2.
Mr. Mortensen is the perfect choice for this role as no one can telescope feelings with his eyes like this man. He is brilliant in most all that he does. This is like icing on the cake for him.
Sure wish the Weinstein group would give Charlize her own movie. She is so not in this movie except as a thought of remembrance in a flashback. Also they could have dirtied her face a bit, to suit the role.

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:24:03 +0000

@Vic
I’m agree with you about misrepresenting just to get butts in the seats.
The best book I’ve read in ages was ‘Cold Mountain’ and we know what Hollywood did with that one,
They rant and raved about how it was gonna sweep the Oscars and…..nothing. not a peep. Forgotten.
(And they made Nicole Kidman’s character a blonde.. And I was REALLY looking forward to that jet black hair)

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:17:01 +0000

Having read the book I can tell you the trailer is just like it save for the expanded roll of Charlize as Viggo’s wife. In the book she had a couple lines in a flashback and that was it.

The book was amazingly bleak and depressing but written like poetry, beautiful and raw.

It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Personally, I didn’t care for it. Too bleak for my taste. What can I say? I’m a romantic.

I’m really looking forward to seeing Robert Duvall in the role I just know he’s gonna be playing.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:49:05 +0000

I think I’ll like the book and the movie

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:41:26 +0000

I am looking forward to seeing this movie. I read the book and became excited when I heard that a movie was being made of it and that Viggo Mortensen was to star in it. The trailer looks very intense and although seems a like it put more prequel scenes than expected. However, any scene with Charlize Theron is a nice bonus.

This looks like it will be most compelling.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:40:24 +0000

I’ve wanted to read the book for awhile and so I know a bit about it but when I heard they were making a movie I decided to wait, I like to read the book after the movie because otherwise the movie lets me down, this way I’m sure I’ll be entertained twice.

From what I understood I also thought the trailer seemed a little more action then I thought. However, I don’t think it over did it really, trailers are supposed to make people interested and if I never knew about the road I would look into it now and then decide if I wanted to see the the movie, which would still be yes.

By: Paul Young

Paul Young — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:20 +0000

Kofi is right. They are waiting for Oscar time to roll around. But to release a full trailer this early is weird to me. I understand the movie has been done since last year so all the footage is there but wouldn’t they have been better served to release a teaser instead?

They are trying to reach the action crowd with this 1st trailer. I’ll bet you a dollar to donuts the next trailer will go a different direction, sort of what they did with 7 Pounds.

By: woolycaveman

woolycaveman — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:00:00 +0000

I love the look and all, but I am a little displeased with the “action slant” they’re putting on it. I loved this book, we read it in school and it is the only one I have actually read/enjoyed this entire year. Also I loved “No Country For Old Men” I haven’t read the book yet, but I want to. I just hope this is a little truer to the book than the trailer. Although, this isn’t the worst thing they could have done, I mean there are some pretty actiony moments in the book. This is like the best worst thing they could have done.

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:03:09 +0000

@ Taylor

Have you read the book?..

I think the casting except for maybe Theron was pretty much on the mark..I think the man and the boy are perfect casting IMO…

?? mad mad much ??

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:48:05 +0000

1. completely miscast.

2. he fires a TRACER round out of a six shooter? ummm…

3. mad mad much?

4. ill wait for DVD

By: greenknight333

greenknight333 — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:45:03 +0000

Well I think from watching this trailer that misrepresentation is only a joke here. The trailer DOES CAPTURE the tension I felt while reading the book but it severely over emphasizes the importance of the cannibals. There were a few confrontations but they were brutal and quite barbaric. Also of Charlize Theron’s character, who I thought was nothing more than a footnote in the story,it is only implied what happens to her and then you have to infer a lot to reach any conclusion about her fate. Does she deserve her fate because she loses hope? The story is about survival but more from a baby boomer point of view whereby a man from that generation felt that taking care of the family (from a provider/protection) was the males responsibility and one they took very seriously.It is also about the subtle and definitely not so subtle relationship between father and son. The son trying to understand the father and choices his father makes and the father trying to temper the brutality and violence in a world where compassion and hope are lost, trying to show his son that he has not lost his humanity.

Great book!!!! I hope Vic is right and that the movie is like the book…

Great article Kofi. I was wondering why there had been no news on this movie for a while now.

By: cat

cat — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:33:28 +0000

it’s only a trailer. trailers are designed to bring people to the seats who aren’t familiar with the book. we, who are familiar with it already, will be going so they don’t need to lure us in. the trailer does it’s job.