One of the hardest movies to watch for me.

All i can say is: perfect book, and perfect movie

Viggo is a great actor. God damn, to think he was Aragorn after watching this film. Such great skills as an actor.

I'm not into worshiping celebrities, I don't even own a TV or follow the MSM. But I remember Viggo Mortensen about 10 years ago coming into Finnegan's Pub in Madrid while I was working there. He ordered a bottle of beer and seemingly just came to watch a soccer match on TV, I don't even know which teams were playing. There was just a couple of regulars there and myself when he came in. One of them went up to him and asked for an autograph, he said "sure" and signed the piece of paper he was presented. I saw celebrities in real life a couple of times and what I found sobering about him was that he didn't have any little court of ass-lickers around him. He was there on his own, didn't say anything, simply watched the match and left.

The book will blow your mind even harder

the boy was played amazingly. never questioned his performance once. absolutely brilliant.

Just read the book & brought me here. Beautifully written & the horror is in my head.

This is a post-Apocalyptic film unlike any other I've seen, focusing more on emotions, than anything else. I find it to be sorrowful and even a bit frightening how ravaged the world really is. The depravity and inhumane resolve of some people is shocking but very realistic. Anyone who watches this will have this stuck in their head for a while.

Bullshit I've worked with him and he's a great guy. What you see is what you get with Viggo, and he does not work with Prima Donna's. He only works with people who enjoy life as much as acting. Val Kilmer is a man full of vanity, and himself. Trust me.

Just started reading McCarthy. Started with the road. So amazing. Read child of God. Now, I'm on to blood meridian

he doesn't seem very full of himself... he definitely seems reverent of mccarthy

this movie made me cry.....so did the book...amaazingg

nobody is talking about how thoroughly read through, bookmarked, highlighted and sticky noted his copy of the book is

The backdrop of why the man and his son find themselves in the situation they are in is utterly irrelevant. This is essentially a love story of a man and his only child. Let us not forget that toward the beginning of the tale the mother of the family chooses suicide over survival. The Father chooses to suffer and in turn to teach hardship with the purely optimistic intention of ensuring that some remnant of reason is involved in the re-population of the planet. In short - the Father is the Hero of the piece.

Great book, great film, both made me cry and that doesn't happen often.

"you carry the fire?"

VIGGO MORTENSEN SO AWESOME IN THE ROAD FILM !!!!

This was quite the movie. McCarthy is one of our best writers in our time. The cast is excellent.

That womans voice cleared up my tinitus !

Amazing book, still need to see the film

Ok. I am not trying to bash the guy. If you'll notice, I admire his work; in fact, I couldn't believe what a great job he did in Eastern Premises. If you haven't seen it, check it out.

2:21 DESTROY THE RING!!

great movie with an absolutely atrocious trailer

@ProfessorAR Would you care to elaborate? I found it beautifully filmed, brilliantly acted and faithfully adapted from the book. I appreciate that nothing can compare to the book but I thought that the film was brilliant. The Hurt Locker certainly shouldn't have beaten it at the Oscars etc.

Vigo did great in this movie.

the lamp in the background tho

The original BOI :D (God of War reference...)

This and grave for the fireflies were the two most depressing masterpieces I’ve ever watched.

@TeamFruit He did get nominated for Eastern Promises.

Question: if he read the road then have he read LOTR novels before the filming of the epic trilogy

This movie/book shows if nuclear war happened it would literally reset humanity to the stone ages. All our infrastructures, technology and knowledge that accumulated all these millennia would be lost.. well maybe stored in bunkers.. but all the things we complain about today, they're literally luxuries compared to a post-apocalyptic world. It would be like living in Medieval Dark Ages again but honestly.. probably worse since we have no knowledge or preparation of how our medieval ancestors lived. The remaining survivors which honestly would probably be 0.001% of the population of Earth would harbor all the suffering and loss, grief on their shoulders and it'd be up to them to learn from our mistakes. With no knowledge of agriculture they would most likely live like the ancients on nuts and seeds, berries etc. Nature would replenish itself again and humans wouldn't be the dominant species anymore. It would take a million years or so for us to get back to where we are today... But what difference would it make then? Would our future selves choose the same thing again?

@MrAIexJones I haven't read the book, as a stand alone piece of work the movie is very well made.

I loved the book and the movie, also to note the music is superb as well. I watch the movie at least 1 a month. I always cry, and im a 37 year old man. Charlize theron ( the woman) was death's whore, its to bad she gave up :(. I guess if u knew it was comin u wouldnt know what u would do until it came.

I can't wait to see the movie!! He looks very good :)

Brilliant movie, I see as protest against the whole stupidity Hollywood produced in the Last past years, Garbage is not just the polution we produce, but the kind of art we allow been trhrown in our heads( See the McG's Terminator Gayzation, or 2012). Let's give to the art credit, and not culture Trash.

@sykeo123 But that wasn't "crap"...he just stated his views on the video...I admire your determination though! =)

Anybody can explein me in the end ir the film , there Is a futuro with the family AND with the beattle.

can anybody tell me why the world depicted in the book and movie is destroyed? just natural disasters or some kind of nuclear fallout or something? ive read the book and movie and still cant find anything.

Cant wait to see this. he's lookin rough!

And the actor who played the boys name is....?

such an incredible movie. blew my mind.

go read the book

Probably the best and the most depressing book/movie I've read/watched about fatherhood.

the movie is awesome, but the novel is devastating

@moses1424 "The book" always is

They put too much makeup on him. Alot of his good looks is in the lines in his face. Well...atleast to me. Love Viggo!

I would say that the book is unfilmable. HIllcoat's version is good, but misses on the key points in the novel.

@sykeo123 Why are you being rude?

ok.

HAHAHA! Hence the popularity of those movie-things known as "Transformers" by Michael Bay

Viggo is so depressed because he actually read the book five times. I read it once and never again. My favorite book of all time but once was enough for me and that's why it's a masterpiece of if post apocalypse horror.

The narrator sounds dead inside

Smash Hit

The Book Of Eli was another great post-apocalyptic film. What I liked about it, and I wish The Road had more of, is a spiritual theme. It entertained the idea that there is something greater than man out there, something that is divine in nature.

I'm probably out on a limb here but......I found the book very hard going , the style and the prose just did not float my boat . I stuck with it but was glad when I reached the end .

@MikailaBaggins And she can't pronounce the name Cormac either!! But then again, neither can most Americans. Owen Wilson can though....

They cast the boy too old.

I don't hate the movie, but I thought it was a terrible interpretation of an amazing novel. Really missed the mark. Just my opinion. The book is very worthy of its Pulitzer. The movie is worth a rental and that's about it.

The book is SOOOOO much better.

don't get all heated up. I said he was a great actor: but, sorry, I feel he is somewhat too aware of his good looks and too self conscious in interviews. But, I still like his work.

Why does the female narrator speak in that weird tone

He looks much better with the Aragorn look. He looks like he injected too many botox here.

The book was great, but I haven't seen the movie yet. Viggo is a great actor, his best acting being his role in Eastern Premises, but when he does interviews, you can tell he is full of himself. So, knowing his vanity, he probably demanded the make up.