28 November 2009

Opening this weekend: The apocalypse!

"The Road" is finally out after over a year in delays -- bad, very bad sign, but tell me this trailer doesn't clutch at your heart:



It's an action movie for the art house! Then again, a special operative for this blog went to see it on Thanksgiving Eve with his folks and gave it a review of "Meh" which was not in any case the reaction I had expected someone to have to it.

For those of you who prefer slightly smaller scale disruption, Rebecca Miller's adaptation of her own novel THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE is also out, featuring Robin Wright Penn as a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

1 comment:

Special Operative said...

Basically, the movie didn't know what it was doing for the first third and if you didn't read the book it would actually be pretty boring (as was the case with my dad). Also, I never thought I'd say this phrase, but "there was too much Charlize Theron." When it finally got going and just stuck to the story of Viggo and his kid then it captured some of the book's power but too much time was already wasted. And the settings looked like relatively normal rural PA and lacked all the ash McCarthy says covers everything.

In other words, "meh." Or as mom said, "It didn't even give me nightmares. But the book did."