The Road

[labrat]

Just watched The Road. Now in serious need of anti-depressants. This film seems to have borrowed a lot of its post apocalyptic details from FO3

 

There are just too many references to the FO3 world, but without the laughs. (Super Mutants would have provided comic relief).

 

OK, a lot of things could just be generic - cannibalistic raiders, dead trees, dodgy water, lack of animals, skeletons in beds, the general ruination, but they all seem pretty close to the FO3 depiction - closer than coincidence?

 

And there are definitely details that seem to be deliberate nods to FO3

 

e.g. Raiding the coke machine, stacked car forts, flyovers, the first-aid box in the bunker......

 

and I'm fairly sure that there are a lot more, so if anyone else has seen it and agrees with me it might be amusing to list the FO3 (or NV) references. I believe that someone else in another thread said The Book of Eli also uses a fair few Fallout references, is that so?

[Guest Loogie]

The Road was a book before it was a movie, and Fallout 3's designers took heavily from it. I think what you're seeing is Fallout 3 and the movie taking from the book.

[labrat]

I think what you're seeing is Fallout 3 and the movie taking from the book.

 

Cheers Loogie, that makes sense (.....though, in my experience film makers aren't necessarily big readers - so it's still on the cards that they took some of their visual cues from the game).

 

I might try the book if I see it, but I suspect that it would be even bleaker than the film (as the producers of films tend to insist on at least a semblance of a happy ending whatever the director wants).

[Guest Loogie]

Oh, the book is absolutely brutal. There's a scene where

 

 

a group of guys are keeping a pregnant woman hostage so they can eat the baby once it's born

 

 

and that's a pretty average day.

[johneb]

Really, if you thought the movie was gray, brutal and depressing read the book, which is written in a strange no punctuation style. But keep the xanax handy.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Yeah, strange coincidence, I watched the film just two days ago too. Really amazing stuff, that is my kind of apocalyptic movie, none of that over the top nonsense we get on most movies. I draw the line at 28 Days Later, tastefully done lol.

 

Also, I would highly recommend "Threads" a 1980's nuclear war movie about post war life in a bombed out Sheffield. Seriously, seriously depressing stuff.

[Ark of Truth]

WOW reading this I don't wanna read the book holy shit they ate the baby?!

[johneb]

WOW reading this I don't wanna read the book holy shit they ate the baby?!

 

There's one scene in the book where the father happens on a campsite, accidently frightens away its occupants and sees a headless baby corpse on a spit over the fire. (yeesh...)

[sen4mi]

Oh' date=' the book is absolutely brutal. There's a scene where

 

 

a group of guys are keeping a pregnant woman hostage so they can eat the baby once it's born

 

 

and that's a pretty average day.

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That sounds silly.

 

 

If you are pregnant, you are going to eat a lot. So (if you ignore the ick and horror factors) we have here people so hungry that they are wasting maybe 10 times the food they are getting back. But perhaps it is just so horrible that people will stop thinking when they hear the description of the situation?