09.04.09 FIVE NEW CLIPS FROM ‘THE ROAD’
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a hell of a book, the kind of thing you wish they’d make more movies out of instead of crap like The Lovely Bones. It’s about a man and his son (who never get names) wandering through a post-apocalyptic wasteland of cannibals and roving bands of outlaws. Though so far, reviews of the John Hillcoat-directed movie adaptation have been sort of mixed. I wasn’t a huge fan of Hillcoat’s last movie (The Proposition), but Viggo Mortensen is perfect casting. That dude has looking like the survivor of an apocalyptic cataclysm down pat.
It also stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as the boy. I don’t know much about this kid other than that he clearly has a couple of a-holes for parents. Really? It wasn’t enough to stick him with a hyphen, you also had to make his first name a misspelled version of crappy name to begin with it? AND you put an ‘I’ at the end? Was he supposed to dot that with a heart? You only had nine months to come up with something he wouldn’t have to drag around like wheelbarrow full of cement his entire life, so well done. Might as well have named him Stealmylunchmoney McPussy. Then again, that was my nickname, and look how well I turned out.
The Road opens October 16th.
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FIVE NEW CLIPS FROM ‘THE ROAD’
Getting tired of DNA? Fine, Steal!
Odd, how’d you know about Down’s Pat getting his Make a Wish Foundation visit from Viggo? I didn’t think anyone outside of my neighborhood knew him.
I have it on good authority that the cannibals in this film aren’t actually cannibals at all, they just saw Eastern Promises and got hungry for sausage.
Five for the road? I bet TKE4LIFE could tell you a story about that.
If you don’t hit play on these trailers, they look the same. If you hit play on these trailers, they look the same.
I’m no cannibal, but Kodyviggo sounds delicious.
We did WELL. We did WELL. Just because you’re living in a post apocalyptic world doesn’t mean you can bring that weak grammar shit in here, sonny boy.
Wandering through a wasteland of cannibals with my dad would seriously lessen my chances of getting eaten. And I mean that in a bad way.
Kodi doesn’t like the way they make him veal.
Kodi wants a pony.
Wandering through a wasteland of cannibals with my dad would seriously lessen my chances of getting my dick sucked.
Man who survive among cannibals is not a man of well-refined taste.
Viggo really gets the meat of the role.
Proposed tagline:
When you come to a fork in the road… RUN!
Hmmm, my book The Rode is about a horse with a gopher hole fucking fetish.
Not related at all.
When I go cannibal, I always go after the hobos. They are pre-marinated.
I bet in the post-apocalyptic world of cannibals that truck stops STILL have the best chicken-fried steaks.
What did the cannibal do after dumping his girlfriend?
He wiped his ass.
Uproxx makes me feel Canadian.
Bad names for Cannibals:
Stu
Chuck
Sandwich
Good name for cannibals:
Ralph
I would not trust a moyle named The Road. Or his clips.
Cannibals eventually get tired of having tiramisu for dessert every night.
Who was the exec producer on this? I’d like to meat The Road’s head.
Bus’up!
Oprah’s taint has ruined this for me.
Probably not the last time she’ll hear that this weekend.
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