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Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 11-30-2009, 07:37 PM:

After an unspecified catastrophe wipes out most of civilization, a man and his son walk from Pennsylvania to the Carolina coast, trying to eat, stay healthy and avoid scavengers and cannibals.

Not at all the feel good movie of the year, and pretty damned difficult to watch in spots. But I appreciated this film much more than the usual run-o-the-mill apocalypse movie, it's so much more realistic than crap like 2012, and zombie stuff like I Am Legend and 28 Days Later. It's hard to use the word 'plausible' in talking about an end-of-the-world movie, but watching this you get the feeling that if it were to really happen, it would probably go down exactly like this. The performances were all top-notch. It's only playing on 111 screens, apparently because the studio (Weinstein/Dimension) got cold feet over it, it's release has been pushed back a couple of times now. Really unnerving stuff, but the best movie I've seen all year, so far.

Posted by Kurt Zupin (Member # 2751) on 12-02-2009, 10:08 AM:

So I've been meaning to read the book for awhile now and just haven't had time. Even though its a pretty short book and a quick read. After watching this great movie last night, I had to stop on the way home and pick up the book. Once again Viggo turns in an Oscar worth role as "Pappa" The lengths that he go's to become his characters are astounding. Nice little cameo's in this. One thing I can say as even though this was a great movie, I don't think I will ever watch it again. Atleast not for a while. It is very depressing and really makes you think about humanity and what would really happen if all of a sudden we were thrown in to the Dark Ages. Very Scary indeed.

4.5/5 [thumbsup]