Well. The movie has finally come out. Yee friggin gods is it is a depressing movie.
I enjoy a good post-apocalyptic movie. This movie is about the random unnamed, unskilled and uninteresting wandering survivors that the heroes of an actual post-apocalyptic movie see in passing.
This was ALL grey and depressing, bloody little else. There was no progress towards "something". Just a friggin journey that ends nowhere. Yes, I get the whole literary "deepness" of the movie. I have walked part of the scenery used in the movie, it's south of Pittsburgh on the abandoned stretch of the Turnpike. I couldn't stop thinking of what I could theoretically do with the place. This was just walking to stay warm. Gah!
Spoilers beyond here!
Why do they ONLY run into cannibals 99% of the time? Not one shred of civilization, good or bad?
Why are they always wet? Do these people not know how to make a poncho?
Why is the kid such a whining idiot? You'd THINK growing up surrounded by cannibals, starvation and the end of the world, the kid would grow a spine. He's always pissed that his dad is keeping him alive and making hard decisions. Every time someone is trying to kill them, it's always "Papa, no!" when the guy saves their bacon. I'm guessing that's the moral of the story? Kill yourself, be a defenseless sheep, or be a cannibal if SHTF.