The catholic bitch on the road again
The Road (2009)
Let’s quote the IMDb’s synopsis : « A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food–and each other. ».
You may have read the book, and if so, you’ll be disappointed. Oh, Viggo Mortensen, you played it right. Oh, Kodi Smit-McPhee, you’re amazing. Oh, Charlize Theron, the fact you weren’t in the movie so much was a good idea. The plot is strong (thanks Cormac McCarthy for that), and the image processing is awesome. But this kind of happy ending ? I mean… really ? It could have been a great movie. But it’s juste another post-apocalyptic melodrama.
Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Don’t get me wrong : this is a bad, bad, bad movie. So bad, in fact, that it’s been banned out New-Zealand. But it’s also the best movie I’ve seen this year (take that, Avatar).
Take two Catholic schoolgirls, tell them to go door-to-door selling religious paraphernalia, and put one psychotic drug-dealer, one sexually-frustrated stammerer, and one lesbian-whore behind one of those doors, and you’ve got yourself a cocktail even Tarantino could drink (featuring an awful lot of blood and porn, that’s not a movie for Catholic schoolgirls, don’t tell I didn’t warn you). The picture quality is bad, the music is terrible, the Fx are even worse, but who cares ?
