Powerful and moving

[Perversion]

I hate to sound like a blurb on a movie poster, but has anyone else seen The Road? This is probably the best film I've seen in a long, long time. I want to read the book now.


I'll take the forthcoming Mora comment, and still say that this film moved me to tears twice. More than tears, actually. More like quiet sobs. Even though there is some "action," this is definitely not an action film. It's more of a quiet meditation on the human spirit, what a person is capable of, and what constitutes being a good person.


That and, how difficult it is for a good person to retain his resolve in the face of overwhelming circumstances. I'd go so far as to call this film a masterpiece.

[John Mora]

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After reading the book, I saw the movie and was like, "Yep, this is the book, all right."

[Shard]

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I read the book fairly recently. Is there anything to be gained by watching the movie too?

Also, someone here posted an excerpt of Blood Meridian and I was thinking I needed to search that out. I didn't realize that was also Cormac McCarthy.

[Perversion]

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I just read that Todd Field, the director of In the Bedroom is apparently filming a movie version of Blood Meridian.

[John Mora]

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I read the book fairly recently. Is there anything to be gained by watching the movie too?

Not really.

[Perversion]

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You suck, John Mora.

[John Mora]

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Well, you've read the book, so I'm eagerly awaiting your equally informed opinion on the subject.

Oh, wait.

[Perversion]

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I'm glad I've not yet read the book. As you are aware with Let the Right One In, I read the book first, and the film adaptation was a slight letdown. So I'm happy that I'm going about this one the other way around.

[Hrafn]

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Read it, kinda want to see the movie, but yeah, at best it'll be a small disappointment. Very good book, y'know. I wonder how it will work for the person who sees the movie first? I know with Fight Club, I went movie and then book, and ultimately enjoyed the movie a bit more. Also true with Forrest Gump, except in that case it was a lot more; that book was not all that great, really.

[Perversion]

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Life is like a box of troll bait...you never know what you're gonna get.

[Magus]

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Also true with Forrest Gump, except in that case it was a lot more; that book was not all that great, really.

neither was the movie

[John Mora]

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neither was the movie

I wanna go BACK IN TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME

and be retarded

[Czechs Mex]

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A snob is someone who adopts the worldview of snobbery — that some people are inherently inferior to him or her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, beauty, etcetera. Often, the form of snobbery reflects the snob's personal attributes. For example, a common snobbery of the affluent is the belief that wealth is either the cause or result of superiority, or both, and a common snobbery of the physically attractive is that beauty is paramount.

Snobbery did not exist in mediaeval feudal aristocratic Europe, when the clothing, manners, language and tastes of every class were strictly codified by customs or law. Snobbery appeared when the structure of the society changed, (after 1789) and the bourgeoisie had the possibility to imitate aristocracy. Snobbery appears when elements of culture are perceived as belonging to an aristocracy or elite, and some people (the snobs) feel that the mere adoption of the fashion and tastes of the elite or aristocracy is sufficient to include someone in the elites, upper classes or aristocracy.

However, a form of snobbery can be adopted by someone not a part of that group; a pseudo-intellectual, a celebrity worshipper, and a poor person idolizing money and the rich are types of snobs who do not base their snobbery on their personal attributes. Such a snob idolizes and imitates, if possible, the manners, worldview, and lifestyle of a classification of people to which they aspire, but do not belong, and to which they may never belong (wealthy, famous, intellectual, beautiful, etc.).

A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an arriviste, perhaps nouveau riche or parvenu, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language. The snobs in response refine their behavior model. William Hazlitt observed, in a culture where deference to class was accepted as a positive and unifying principle, "Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtaken by it, William Hazlitt observed, adding subversively, "It is a sign the two things are not very far apart."" The English novelistBulwer-Lytton remarked in passing, "Ideas travel upwards, manners downwards." It was not the deeply ingrained and fundamentally accepted idea of "one's betters" that has marked snobbism in traditional European and American culture, but "aping one's betters".

Snobbism is a defensive expression of social insecurity, flourishing most where an Establishment has become less than secure in the exercise of its traditional prerogatives, and thus it was an organizing principle for Thackeray's glimpses of British society in the threatening atmosphere of the 1840s than it was of Hazlitt, writing in the comparative social stability of the 1820s.

Snobbism is universally disdained wherever it is detected, inculcating a feeling of self-righteousness in those who identify themselves as free of the taint, which may bolster a sense of group solidarity, expressed as consensus.

[Ms. Porkchop]

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I read the book awhile back and patiently awaited the release of the movie. However I must have been in a coma when it was in theaters because I never once saw it advertised at the theater....

It'll probably make me cry but then again right now even commericals can make me cry if they are the least bit sappy.

[Perversion]

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I never once said Forrest Gump was a bad movie. Sappy, sure. And it really does not hold up to repeat viewings. But it's okay to watch once.


And The Road is far from sappy, Porkchop.