Talk:Road, The

Is this article solely about firearms in the movie adaption?

Or may we mention elements of the novel as well? 58.7.224.121 13:32, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Is this based off of the Cormac McCarthy book?-S&Wshooter 22:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes it is. The guy won a Pulitzer Prize for the book.

The page has all the images I could grab from the movie; most of it needs identification, however. If you've got a positive ID on anything in the page, give it a shot. -ZeoRanger5 01:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

This looks depressing as hell.

It's very depressing. --Jcordell 21:23, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Yeah it's an excellent film, but at the same time by the 1 hour mark I was ready to take their suicide pistol and turn it on myself. -Nyles

That's kind of the whole point of both the book and the movie, in a way. Unlike most post-apoc fiction which takes the Mad Max approach, this film is intended to be dreary and depressing in its depiction of a planet and human race that's truly dying. Spartan198 (talk) 17:32, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

If you're up for this kind of "Dying Earth" film genre, go watch The Day After or Threads (the British version of the former, so depressing it was never aired more than once on British television). Unlike The Road those two films explicitly deal with nuclear war. No "Mad Max" atmosphere in those films at all.--Mazryonh (talk) 23:17, 27 August 2016 (EDT)

I've heard of The Day After, but haven't seen it yet. I've been keeping an eye out at my local FYE for a DVD or Blu-Ray copy, but so far none have popped up. Generally, though, what interests me the most in the post-apoc genre are "After the End" (as TV Tropes calls it) works like The Road, The Book of Eli, The Postman, and I Am Alive. It becomes even more appealing to me when the actual end part is shrouded in mystery with only small hints and tidbits here and there. It isn't the apocalypse itself, it's the deconstruction of our society and the "human animal" that intrigues me. Spartan198 (talk) 22:57, 28 August 2016 (EDT)

Did you read the novel The Postman is based on instead of seeing the film adaptation? The film for The Postman flopped and didn't do any favours for Kevin Costner's film career (then again, neither did Waterworld). A common link among the films you mentioned is that the government is largely MIA during the course of their stories. A film like By Dawn's Early Light is different in that it focuses on what the world's governments did during the middle of a nuclear war, and should be more well known.

You should still watch The Day After because like Threads it shows the "Dying Earth" genre on a more personal level (it's not like the Father and Son in The Road die of radiation poisoning, for instance). Speaking of missing details about the apocalypse, do you think this film would have been better if the film just ended after the Boy meets the Veteran and the Boy says the film's signature line? --Mazryonh (talk) 16:53, 29 August 2016 (EDT)

Spares

The Father: You point up, then just pull the trigger.
In a chilling scene, The Father demonstrates to his son how to quickly commit suicide with the pistol.

The Father rescues his son from a cannibal who tried to take him at knifepoint.

Rather than let his son be eaten by cannibals in a house the two of them tried to take shelter in, The Father prepares to do the unthinkable as he hears the cannibals approach his hiding place.

Unknowns

Cannibal's Rifle

The Rifle the cannibal in the ski mask is using doesn't look like a Ruger 77 but a Remington 7400 of 760 can anyone Confirm?--Balin21 (talk) 18:12, 28 August 2016 (EDT)

Error with the revolver?

When the man is pointing his gun at the cannibal he shoots, you can clearly see 2 rounds in the cylinder on the left(when the barrel is pointed towards the camera). Shouldn't you only be able to see one round as the other is chambered, or whatever the nomenclature is for a revolver being ready to fire? --Slemke1998 (talk) 17:13, 17 June 2018 (EDT)