Escape to the Movies: The Road

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DaxStrife

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Damn, I love post-apocalypse cinema and thought this looked decent from the trailer. Vigo's casting should have tipped me off (seriously, has he done anything good since "Lord of the Rings?"). Didn't know it was based off a book, so I might go check that out at least.
 

wildcard9

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Moviebob, you are a hero amongst Nerds: Lone Wolf and Cub, Road to Perdition, Sly Cooper, AND Read or Die in the same review? Kudos, you crazy bastard, kudos.

BTW: nice work using Yoko as a stand-in for a bibliophile.
 

crotalidian

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Wouldnt LEON (The Professional) be considered a lone wolf and cub homage/rip off? Did that miss the point too. Shame if it did as i thought it was an awesome film.

out of curiosity do you have a plan to review Pirate radio as it looks like a real fun movie about a great piece of British radio/music history....

and I will remedy the fact i have not seen 12 angry men or the seventh seal.
 

Jonny49

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DaxStrife said:
Damn, I love post-apocalypse cinema and thought this looked decent from the trailer. Vigo's casting should have tipped me off (seriously, has he done anything good since "Lord of the Rings?"). Didn't know it was based off a book, so I might go check that out at least.
I believe he was History of Violence, which was really really good.
 

DaxStrife

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Jonny49 said:
DaxStrife said:
Damn, I love post-apocalypse cinema and thought this looked decent from the trailer. Vigo's casting should have tipped me off (seriously, has he done anything good since "Lord of the Rings?"). Didn't know it was based off a book, so I might go check that out at least.
I believe he was History of Violence, which was really really good.
Whoa, totally forgot about that. Thanks.
*Runs off to the nearest rental store*
 

Rigs83

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Jonny49 said:
DaxStrife said:
Damn, I love post-apocalypse cinema and thought this looked decent from the trailer. Vigo's casting should have tipped me off (seriously, has he done anything good since "Lord of the Rings?"). Didn't know it was based off a book, so I might go check that out at least.
I believe he was History of Violence, which was really really good.
So's Eastern Promises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_M8EOC4zA[/youtube]
 

Random Argument Man

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I wonder why you removed this episode last week after 45 minutes and replace it with Twilight...

Because you hoped for more traffic?
 
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I'm slightly annoyed that there seems to be a turn towards censoring the F word in videos.

Either leave it out (least favourite), reduce it to F- or lower that damn bleep sound, or let us have an 18 version.

Don't go all Atkinson on us. :(
 

oliveira8

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Random argument man said:
I wonder why you removed this episode last week after 45 minutes and replace it with Twilight...

Because you hoped for more traffic?
Or maybe he made both last week and The Escapist went with New Moon cause there was more hype around it last week and MovieBob had the Intermission script written for New Moon and not The Road?

Also last week this video wasn't edited.(There was no beeps.)
 

MB202

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If I recall, this is the first time MovieBob didn't say "See you next time." at the end.
 
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oliveira8 said:
Random argument man said:
I wonder why you removed this episode last week after 45 minutes and replace it with Twilight...

Because you hoped for more traffic?
Or maybe he made both last week and The Escapist went with New Moon cause there was more hype around it last week and MovieBob had the Intermission script written for New Moon and not The Road?
Or maybe I betted him he wouldn't.

Anyway...another post-apocalypse? Woop. Another film not to see then.
 

Mr.Pandah

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
I'm slightly annoyed that there seems to be a turn towards censoring the F word in videos.

Either leave it out (least favourite), reduce it to F- or lower that damn bleep sound, or let us have an 18 version.

Don't go all Atkinson on us. :(
Agreed. Also, I was kinda looking forward to seeing this movie...now...not so much. =/
 

Doug

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crotalidian said:
Wouldnt LEON (The Professional) be considered a lone wolf and cub homage/rip off? Did that miss the point too. Shame if it did as i thought it was an awesome film.
EDITTED - missed a word out.
Given it was a crap movie, probably not. But I've not seen Lone Wolf and Cub, so I for all I know, that could be the point.
 

AkJay

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Cormac McCarthy is an amazing author, and this is one of my favourite books. That is exactly why when i heard this movie was being made, i knew it would be a fuck-up.

EDIT: I'd also like to say that this movie is based off of a book, so yea, if in the book they are called "The Man" and "The Boy" and "The Boy" said "pup-up" then i applaud the director for not making a bastardized version of the book like so many others do.
 

The Great JT

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Liked that bit you threw in from Adaptation.

Plus, here's an idea, the framework's already there, so why not a Left 4 Dead movie? Yeah, yeah, video game movies will never be good, blah-blah-blah, but again, the framework's already there, the action's there, the characters could be extended upon in the context of the movie. What I'm saying is, "it seems like a bad idea, but with the right cast and crew it could work."
 

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DaxStrife said:
Damn, I love post-apocalypse cinema and thought this looked decent from the trailer. Vigo's casting should have tipped me off (seriously, has he done anything good since "Lord of the Rings?"). Didn't know it was based off a book, so I might go check that out at least.
Have you seen Vigo in A History of Violence? That was fairly entertaining! :)