tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post6799030394727460842..comments2023-10-31T11:52:48.235-04:00Comments on The Rhetorical Situation: On the Impending Movie Version of The Roadsolonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05929873120291212602noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-31306046844981306332009-04-08T10:06:00.000-04:002009-04-08T10:06:00.000-04:00Why would anyone read this on a beach?This book ru...Why would anyone read this on a beach?<BR/><BR/>This book ruins the concept of the beach.<BR/><BR/>That's like reading Misery while hobbled in a bed surrounded by Hummel figurines.The Roof Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260741198333694048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-83568567188224621432009-04-06T23:21:00.000-04:002009-04-06T23:21:00.000-04:00I read this over the summer on the beach in Mexico...I read this over the summer on the beach in Mexico, and I've no intention of seeing the movie. Ever.nicheplayerhttp://nicheplayer.net/avablognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-56175859159459712042009-04-03T13:50:00.000-04:002009-04-03T13:50:00.000-04:00Roof, Harrogate would like to talk to ye about _Al...Roof, Harrogate would like to talk to ye about _All The Pretty_ sometime soon over cheap Scotch. He might be able to convince you that the book is up to something different altogether....<BR/><BR/>Still not the kick in the heart that The Road is, though.harrogatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026095215683554629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-64257778358011780092009-04-03T13:25:00.000-04:002009-04-03T13:25:00.000-04:00It's so good that I hated All the Pretty Horses wh...It's so good that I hated All the Pretty Horses when I tried to read it.<BR/><BR/>Nihilistic, numb horror which toips its cap to love is beautiful, romantic melodrama which has a cameo of injustice is atonal.The Roof Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260741198333694048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-63662421470643654362009-04-03T11:03:00.000-04:002009-04-03T11:03:00.000-04:00Hmmmm. A thought occurs.Rated R for unashamedly t...Hmmmm. A thought occurs.<BR/><BR/>Rated R for unashamedly tipping its cap to Love?harrogatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026095215683554629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-80143384051348029752009-04-03T10:58:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:58:00.000-04:00Roof, Harrogate is teaching it again this summer. ...Roof, Harrogate is teaching it again this summer. Third time in the last two years. Harrogate is truly a masochist when it comes to The Road, for it hurts him newly each time that he thinks about it, let alone reads it. Indeed, in some ways _The Road_ even surpasses _Blood Meridian_ in its power to flat-out destroy--but with the added bonus that unlike Blood Meridian, The Road unashamedly tips its cap to Love. <BR/><BR/>Damn it is such a great book. Even the most laconic undergradas, Harrogate has noticed, tend to relent before its power.harrogatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026095215683554629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-70210048777541577922009-04-03T10:49:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:49:00.000-04:00RATED R for making me weep while mowing the lawn a...RATED R for making me weep while mowing the lawn at the image of them sharing the last warm can of Coke pried loose from a busted vending machine.<BR/><BR/>RATED R for graphic imagery, like the receding image of a dying man in a rear-view mirror clamped onto a shopping cart with a wobbly wheel.<BR/><BR/>RATED R for bones in dead campfire ash.<BR/><BR/>RATED R for the cries of the all-but-dead lifting from a below-ground abattoir.<BR/><BR/>RATED R for one bullet left.The Roof Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260741198333694048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-75557643409677961152009-04-03T10:26:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:26:00.000-04:00Roof: of course Harrogate thought of you in includ...Roof: of course Harrogate thought of you in including that detail. "Heh," indeed.harrogatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02026095215683554629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-34482225569413998702009-04-03T10:24:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:24:00.000-04:00The MPAA just has a problem with anything that cou...The MPAA just has a problem with anything that could be categorized as "eating + baby"The Roof Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260741198333694048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-6470330846126427622009-04-03T10:23:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:23:00.000-04:00RATING: R (For graphic subject matter, including c...RATING: R (For graphic subject matter, including cannibalism and infanticide)<BR/><BR/>You know, as compared the the movies that get the R for saying "fuck" or have a tit in them.<BR/><BR/>It's all the same.The Roof Almightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08260741198333694048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-11541673671719956952009-04-01T21:58:00.000-04:002009-04-01T21:58:00.000-04:00Charlize Theron: Boring. Viggo Mortenson: Could b...Charlize Theron: Boring. Viggo Mortenson: Could be really good--or really bad. Robert DuVal: Always great (even in _Something to Talk About_).supadiscomamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14079643987472915145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31982716.post-1780888529094734652009-04-01T17:16:00.000-04:002009-04-01T17:16:00.000-04:00Don't get your hopes up. I said exactly the same ...Don't get your hopes up. I said exactly the same thing about the movie version of Beloved, and believe me, they screwed it up.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18353657968740060474noreply@blogger.com