On The Road - Movie trailer

[Tara Brady]

It's beautifully shot and probably worth seeing but it's a hard movie to
love. There's a nifty walking motif, some interesting performances - I'm a
fan of Stewart's frowny face - and nice folk period flourishes. But Salles
is faithful to the source in a way that seriously foregrounds Moriarty's
dismal use of women. The novel made me think he was an equal-opportunities
mooch; the film made me think of Henry VIII's unluckier wives. And of
course the entire cast is wildly, anachronistically twenty-first century
pretty even when naked. Which is most of the time. As a sucker, I quite
liked the Twihard Fear and Loathing bits.

Tara


On 8 August 2012 20:26, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Expecting to not like the movie because you're not a Kerouac fan is
> vastly different than because of it being "derivative."  Was Kubrick's
> Lolita too derivative?  Or John Houston's Moby Dick?  Remaking a movie
> (or even a TV show) is also vastly different that adapting a novel or
> memoir to film.
>
> I've not yet read any Kerouac.  Don't know if I ever will.  But if the
> movie is good, I might...
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> > i don't know ... in an era when hollywood refuses to release nothing
> other than films based on something else (tv shows, novels, comic books) -
> it just looks like more of the same crap to me. and i've never been much of
> a kerouac fan. burroughs is the only really beat writer who pushed beyond
> the limits of the genre into something universal.
> >
> > but, you know, i'll probably see it anyway.
> >
> > PG
>
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