I suggested Man from Earth for the next movie 2 review. Has zero action zero gore zero violence BUT somehow is or was for me anyway riveting entertainment. We'll see what TAZ sayz.
I'm still thinking about his concept - that bad acting makes horror flics better because you don't mind when the people get gruesomely killed. but for me part of the entertainment is feeling some attachment to the characters, and then feeling some emotion when good or bad happens to them. even grief is entertaining i guess at some level as long as it's vicarious. A vent for repressed emotion?
I'm really eager to see what they did with The Road. That's one of the few books i literally re-started as soon as I finished it. You're just so pulled into an intensely horrible but also somehow beautiful world - and the father-son connection is so deep and core and yet subtle. I never understood starvation til I read that book. In the trailers I've seen the kid looks right, but taller than I pictured him. Not sure about the father. Poor Pittsburgh - the perfect site, the director said, for this end-of-the-world cannibalism-festival flick!
