Do Cowboy bepop And The anime ...Monster Monster is a series that’s right up your ally I promise you It’s grounded in reality and OMG you will love the main antagonist Trust me it’s worth your time Cowboy bebop is also worth a look too But monster has a lot of deep stuff in it
Ryan Hollinger hey mate, I love your stuff. Im not sure if you do have anything to say about them but if you do, I’d be really interested in your interpretation of the first two mad max movies (not the third though cos it was just garbage don’t @ me)
That's why games like The Last of Us are usually well received. I'm not a fan of the game in fact, but from what I know it's story gives off a vibe of hopelessness and struggling to stay alive, unlike in most other media where the main cast eventually starts killing every enemy in sight in a badass manner.
Thank you so much for doing this Ryan. I just finished the book a few days ago and watched the movie today. It turns out that the first shot of the movie (that takes place after the apocalypse) was shot at a state park 15 minutes away from where I live. I’ve been going there since I was a kid and have been to that same spot many times. It made the film feel even more personal in a way.
I read The Road when I was a freshman in Highschool a few years before the film came out. A book had never made me cry before. Once I heard that the film would star Viggo Mortensen, I couldn't have been more happy.
3:30 In the book it says that after a loud boom in the distance the lights went off, with the ash in the sky, lack of power, and burning world it is heavily implied that nukes were dropped or at the very least an EMP then a fire started at an unknown time after that
I know right? I think we all know EXACTLY what horse shit he was talking about. Nothing like glorifying suicide for a cheap easy boost in shock viewers.
SRS Art Productions yeah the first season had good ideas and executed them well enough to make me to want to watch the next episode (I haven’t watched the other two seasons yet)
To be fair, the locations filmed in Oregon are all tourist attractions (the waterfall, the shipwreck on the beach which normally is not covered in trash.)
People started to fantasise about wanting a zombie apocalypse with Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Funnily enough Snyder's Dawn of the Dead was like "fuck that, fast zombie apocalypse would suck".
@@RandallWhiskey yeah, for sure if a zombie apocalypse happened would be much worse than twd really really really really much worse it would be empty, rotten, depressing, lifeless, hopeless.
Summary of The Road: "I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep."
themutantlizard I was joking because the first reply said Star Trek the second said road now I’m back to Star Trek and you said the road hopefully the next person says Star Trek
Dear Ryan, This was the last real film I ever watched alone with my late father, at the end of it, this man who was strong like I didn't know what was sobbing on the couch besides me. Almost unconsolable, when I asked him what it was he just shook his head. "You'll know when you become a dad", now he's passed and I'm the father of a little girl and he's right. What an absolute gutpunch of a goddamn movie, even back then, but now, as a father. I can't even really put it into words, just.. what a great movie.
You reminded me of when I saw this with my father and his reaction. The pale thousand yard stare and pained expression he had as we talked about it. Now I'm tearing up. He's been gone for years now but I feel I understand him a little better because of this video and comment. So thank you.
I love this movie, seen it many times. I don't get he fatherhood perspective though because I'm not a breeder. However, I like the movie for other reasons mainly like many said that there is a strong possibility this is what's going to happen to earth, possibly because of humans. So is it sad, sure. Is it sadder than real life, only sometimes.
Remember that bit where Elrond warns his daughter about staying in the realm of men? This is kind of what he was warning about. That eventually men would destroy their world and she would be left in nothing but despair. So your friend is arguably right haha
I cried when the man died and left his son alone. I was thinking about the son, like His father was the only man in the whole world he could trust ,and now that hope is gone. Now he don't know whether a man will eat him or help him.
I assumed after the son saw the dog, he knew he could trust the family. If they were keeping a dog alive, that meant that they hadn't been so desperate for food that they'd eaten it. Hence, they (probably) wouldn't eat him
@@EroticOnion23 pretty sure if youre starving to death you wont wait to kill a dog if youve ran out of bullets. Also i think he knew to trust them because he remembered the dog from when they left the bunker, so he knew they were following him.
I read the book before I saw the movie. And when I eventually did see the movie, it was one of those rare times when a piece of cinema captured the mental image the book created perfectly. It's not a fun image, but it's still pretty cool.
TheMarckoguy35 that happened with me and The Boy in the Striped Pajama - except for the ending. Both the book and the movie had me in tears, though the movie moreso because I knew what was coming and started crying about 30 minutes in.
I 100% agree. The novel was amazing but the dread and tension from the cannibal's house scene is one of the most intense moments in cinema that I've ever experienced. It took the horror from the novel and brought it to life.
Viggo Mortensen went into full blown starvation mode to make this movie. His transformation was insane and yet people rarely talk about it. An incredibly dedicated actor.
@@Kruppt808 I'm not so sure. Those guys don't seem to do as well in darker/more serious roles which is a shame because they both have the chops to do more than play the loveable smart ass. Check out the movie Buried with RR. He did an incredible job in that one. The movie was critically acclaimed and yet it barely made a blip at the box office. Caveat: if you're claustrophobic do not watch that movie.
The book is even more depressing. That hurt didnt it? the boy said. Yes. It did. Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
Man I was 11/12 years old and my father Came to me and said "Hey son I got this new apocalyptic movie that seems very cool, wanna see it?" I saw the cover and though "Wow this movie looks cool, sure let's watch". Some time later i was in the floor. I swear to God I never cried so much in my entire life.
Kinda resembles the gray, but not really true, since we have more green than western europe & na combined. Maybe depends on how bad of a progress your country has made since 1991.
@@mignas As a swede who's been there alot I'd say the nature is more green and beautiful in eastern europe, but the cities have a grey and sometimes hopeless feel to them
@@pizzatime901 Ireland is made up of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Republic of Ireland is a fully independent country while Northern Ireland still belongs to the U.K.
My step-dad made me watch it when I was 10 and said it was me and him, it freaked me out then but now I kinda get what he meant, when it's just survival this is what humanity comes to, and u can't always rely on someone, it's a good story between father and son
I read The Road when I was 17, I read it in 1 day at my first ever job. I put the book down with tears in my eyes and a knock came at the door, I opened it and a man was there with his son on his shoulders. It was an incredibly cathartic and tragically beautiful moment that still haunts me more than a decade later.
I remember watching The Road a few years ago being utterly decimated by how depressing it was. But, yeah, I love the ending. It’s hopeful despite all the shit the kid and his dad went through. It’s a bittersweet ending, but I love it.
@@Brandon-eq7hk I disagree, the Mist's movie ending was far better, the despair when he realizes they could've survived if he were a bit patient was really haunting, it really makes you feel for the guy especially considering how hard of a decision it was to make
"the last page of the book should be a piece of notebook paper for you to write a suicide note on."- a quote from a friend after I loaned the book to him.
What’s that one short story it goes like this “the moment before every collapsed my mother told me to follow the train tracks so I did, I have seen dead families hanging from trees, dying children I wondered why my mother told me that, then I realized hell is a lot easier to live in when you have a sense of direction”
@@woahitscorrina I was surprised he got nominated for that after he stuck his foot in his mouth and dropped an N-bomb in a press interview about the movie.
I would say he is better off without it. The Oscars have been shit since since the early nineties. You can almost pinpoint the death to the year Frank Darabont got shafted for Shawshank Redemption.
I love this movie. It taps into the deepest, darkest parts of your being and forces you to feel emotions you’re normally too scared to even acknowledge exist. I feel alive after watching it.
I’d only discovered this movie a few days ago, and by god it ruined me. Really one of those movies that put me out of commission for a while. Thanks for this, ryan.
I watched this movie after becoming a father (about 6 months in roughly so for those in the know those were trying days) 6 years ago, one night I sat down and watched it because I thought yeah love zombie movies, apocalypse stuff, fallout sort of thing. My missus found me sobbing uncontrollably in the kitchen, to this day she won't let me watch it again.
I watched that movie about ten years ago and still not a week goes by that something doesn't remind me of it. The whole thing was heart wrenching, but the ending...that few frames focused on the face of a horrified/terrified young girl is haunting.
@@eltiko2670 They broke into a farm house and found out the people living there were canables. When the people comes home the man is about to kill the boy so he wont get slowly eaten. Then the prisiners in the basement escape. And the man and the boy run away in the confusion. The youtube clip is 'the road cannibal house'.
alex bez ahhhhhh now i remember yeaaaj ok brooo I watched the whole entire movie, but didn’t realize the prisoners was future canabal victims, makes sense now. Thanks
@@omaramer7022 A depressing and fucking dark story. Its about an AI that took over the world and kept 4 humans and made them immortal to torture because he is jealous of them. The ai knows he will never be able to experience human existence and hates them for that.
Eddie Depressy it was made to kill humans and it was best at it. Now it’s trapped forever on earth and trapped forever in existence. It’s gone mad due to its hatred and desire for death. Torturing them is just a way to express itself. Sorry, just wanted to add on to what you said because I think that AI is a deep character.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 There was three AI made from the cold war to wage it more efficiently. The United States, China and Russia. The AI of the USA was able to become sentient and so, swallowed the other AI to become the master. He went at war so efficiently than only 4 humans remained.
I told my friend about “The Book Of Eli” and he was like “naw my dude, you need to watch The Road”. He was right. Later I also bought The Last Of Us because I heard it was inspired by The Road. It too was awesome. 👊
lat of us best game ofall time forme cant wair forpart 2. its a masterpeice and the road is the best realiatic end of the world movies...its such a tough on emotions
What I liked the most about the road was the portrayal of the fathers undying love for his son. You don't really see the role of the father held up on a pedestal like this movie did. Men are always deadbeats or abusive or just downright evil in most movies. But in this one, the mother was the coward who took the easy way out and left the father no choice but to live on in a hellish world for the sake of the survival of his son. To me this movie was all about the role of the father and I loved it for that.
Fenris Maybe when I used the word coward that was a bit harsh. But the scene where he discovers his wife has killed herself made me feel like she forced him into a situation where he didn’t have that same luxury. I guess what I’m saying is, he could have done the same thing his wife did and take his own life and just leave his son to fend for himself in this new post apocalyptic waste land but for one he knew that there are worse things than death and if he died and his son got captured he would probably suffer a horrific fate. There were scenes in the movie which showed him doing little things to teach his son to survive, like taking a blanket off of a bed where there were two desiccated corpses and then immediately wrapping the blanket around his son. In that particular scene I saw it as him desensitizing his son to the idea of scavenging/looting from the dead. Little scenes like this told me he was preparing his son to be able to survive not just in this new environment but eventually without him because he knew he wouldn’t survive much longer and he had to prepare his son as best he could. Again, he didn’t have the luxury of taking his own life like the wife did lest he abandon his son in this hellish world with no preparation.
@@fenris8179 It's cool, sorry if I came off as too defensive. You are absolutely right about the intensity of this movie though. I remember there was another post apocalyptic movie that came out at the same time With denzel washington (I forget the name but he was blind in that movie) and I remember reading a review that specifically compared the two movies and recommended the road over the denzel movie and I remember following the advice and going to theater to see the road. A few months later I actually did see the denzel movie and I remember thinking to myself "man that review I read was soooo spot on, you can't even compare these two films." It wasn't that the denzel movie was bad per-say, it's just that the road was soooooo goood the other movie was ruined for me. I probably would have really enjoyed it had I never saw the road...
I always remember reading the book during my summer break and just feeling exhausted after finishing the novel. It depressed me as you care for these characters and want them to survive in a seemingly hopeless world, you really admire the fathers courage and dedication in trying to keep his son alive, making his death ever so more devastating. I recommend reading it but be warned it’s very sad
I’m not sure, but I think they planned on pairing him with their daughter. I think they were collecting children with the hopes they will grow up and reproduce to start repopulating the world.
@@allie_678 True as my Dad put it when we watched it they seen him as the future. Given their daughter is close to his age. It kinda gives some hope even if the future isn't fully bright it's a small hopeful chance humans can start over again
I don't think it's literally that, but it is a clear extrapolation of that same idea. Carrying the fire of goodness/humanity/divinity or whatever you want to call it out into a world that's dark and cold and hostile.
We read The Road in our Junior year of high school in our English class, and literally everybody felt worse than usual for the month that we were going thru this book, to the point where 5 people broke down crying after we finished it in class, so I say yes, it is.
And The Walking Dead. There's an Easter egg after the 4 get out of the sewer. There's a message written on the wall and it mimics the classic "Don't Open, Dead Inside."
@YeahOkayCertainly Appears in this video. When the man and the boy finds the canibals's basement. Probably the only reason why it shock me the most was because the book has such an awesome writing and I wasn't expecting any of the madness Cormac wrote. Every scenario in the book, since the basement, seems hopeless and then you realized how the father feels about the world and why he is so afraid about anything.
“The book doesn’t try to embellish them as monsters... with our only perception of them as villains is the fact that the father says they are.” Strongly disagree. The fact that they keep sex slaves is made explicitly clear in the book, and it’s implied that they keep their victims alive while eating them in order to abuse them (basement scene) The Father is trying to guide his son without losing himself, because he does not know what he is walking towards, but he marches on out of a sense of duty to “carry the fire,” to preserve good and light. He drops the fire (figuratively and literally) along the way, because the horridness of the world drags him down as he’s struggling onward. The cannibals, on the other hand, are not depicted as “just struggling to get by,” but as the total evil and wickedness that rules the world, seemingly undefeatable. And that’s sort of the message of the book (which runs through most of McCarthy’s work) - that frequently, when trying to good work in a world that is corrupt and brutal, it seems unclear why you should try. But McCarthy’s solution seems to me to be brutal and simple - you march on because it is your duty to carry the fire. It won’t be easy, there will be times that you lose yourself, but you carry the fire for hope’s sake, and you keep hope alive because it is your sacred duty, bestowed upon you from your unjust birth and carried until it can be carried no more.
I'm pretty sure that cannibalism is a universally accepted evil. There are very few societies that ever thought that eating other people for food was acceptable. However, the will to live is a strong one and people will resort to nearly anything to avoid starving to death. Also, I believe the already morally bankrupt will resort to it earlier than others, thus giving them an advantage once it comes to that.
Cannibalism is technically not evil if everyone in the world agrees that it is not. Cormac McCarthy’s antagonist in Blood Meridian is based off of this concept and I think that is what he was trying to explain in the video. If society doesn’t exist then right or wrong is however you want to view it.
Cannibalism is basically a cultural understanding. For some it's taboo while others embrace it. Not my cup of tea, if I'm honest. And the people in the basement where kept alive as meat, limbs removed when needed and not used as punch bags
I agree with ya. Scenes from the book, like"the head under the cake bell," or the tanker truck "full of corpses." Many times the man alludes to their being unreasonably cruel.(the death cults) The book is full of such examples, and one has to be pretty naive to miss them. To say that "the book doesn't embellish them as monsters," is enough to make one question if he ever even read it. I just can see how anyone could come away from it with that idea.
@@grassnoise7495 I disagree. The idea that there is no central good in people, with out "society" or "religion" is absurd. Just because something is excepted doesn't make it right. By right I mean just. The Judge in Blood Meridian, bear in mind was the archetype of Satan. One can view right or wrong however they please regardless. The problem with that is, at some point somebody gonna say "fuck this," and do your ass in.
Me: that dad looks familiar . . . *sees him smiling in his hood* *I drop to my knee and bow* My lord Aragorn, son of Arathorn! Hail the King of Gondor!
As depressing as it is, i think there's a lot of beauty behind it too, it's concepts are harsh but it shows that there's always gonna be hope no matter how faint, that's why I always loved the fire concept between the son and father. Even though the father may not believe in the concept he still tries to instill it in the son, and that's where all the hope comes from, the light that may never be there but is always worth fighting to get too
To me this story is about the great love the father felt for his son. "If he's not the word of God God never spoke" To the father his son was the only hope left on the world.
I watched this movie once. It was so depressing I could never watch it again. I hung the DVD out in my orange tree to keep the rats from eating the fruit.
My mother and I (keep in mind we watched the movie about 1000 times) we theorize that the mother and daughter were the people at the end of the movie. At the end the lady said they've been following them for a while (with the boy stalking them when they were visiting the fathers old house, the dog above the shelter). Since we never seen them die and the crazy earthquake right after, we thought maybe the guy with them saved them before they got killed, scared off the other people and manage to escape during the earthquake. Well that was the theory at least lol
@taylorlipinski4048 not to mention you can hear gunshots in the distance, the guy at the end was also armed to the teeth, had a bullet belt across the chest and a rifle in hand
Vapid Daily really :/ that makes me sad to hear. Thought the first season was pretty great. What is wrong with the second ? (If u Dont mind telling me )
@@creepysinisterpasta bad pacing, nonsensical story, lack of any tension. literally everything. apparently there's an entirely new creative team behind it, which explains why it feels like an entirely different show
This movie is a ROUGH watch, and I don't say that often at all it's so depressing and miserable this and Requiem for a dream are the two movies that are really can't watch again. I mean that as a strong compliment
Johnny got his gun. Its an old anti-war film and book which takes place from the perspective of a horribly wounded vet. When people ask me what the most horrifying piece of media is to me, I point to that book.
@@lilpp4791 I have a heavy history with addiction, heroin specifically so it cut deep for me. I quit 8 years ago. Anyway The Road is definitely worth a watch, it's fucking miserable in all the right ways.
I remember watching this with my dad when I was younger when it first came out on dvd. I think it gave me an early realization how much a father could love their child and what they would go through for them. Love ya dad.
Thank you for posting this. I happened on "The Road" years ago and had never heard of it, and thought it was one of the most amazing movies/stories I had ever seen. After purchasing it to watch many times over, I shared it with others who were horrified by it and just plain hated it. As a late-blooming wanna be writer, McCarthy strikes an inspirational cord in me, unlike any other author I love. He and this book, in particular, are the pinnacle of what writing is and should be.
It is SO depressing I refuse to watch this movie again. I saw it only once in my lifetime, it is available on netflix but I really don't want to watch it again and probably never will. In fact, I refused to watch this video, but I said to myself "Fuck it"
I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch it. I used to be "tough", you know, never cried at funerals, or sad movies. Then I had children. And things changed. Then, last fall we nearly lost our youngest son (he's okay), but that hit me really hard. I can't watch anything sad anymore, it's almost like it triggers PTSD. Maybe it is PTSD, I don't know. Anyway, someday I'll watch it.
I personally love this movie and think it sets a standard for realistic post apocalypse movies. Awesome acting, and amazing aesthetics too. Truly great movie
I remember reading the book my freshman year of high school, and crying at the end. I was only really used to happy endings in books, and I was at first just so dissatisfied with how it turned out. It stifled any hope of anything in my mind. That was until my dad and I talked about it the following day. He told me that it was still a happy ending because the father got his wish and the son got a chance at another life even though the driving force in his life vanished. Of course the world was still shit, but I guess that’s what makes the book so great in my mind, that There are multiple ways to interpret it. As well as the fact that I had that experience and grew from it, making it unique to me.
I really would start to hate myself if I knew I was dying and would have to leave my kid without me in such a world. The gut wrenching feeling of even thinking about it frightens me beyond belief.
The Road is my favorite movie I'll never watch again. Inspiring, but traumatizing. Its message stuck with me, but the journey to get to that message is just to painful to endure again.
I'm sorry he doesn't acknowledge you. I think you might be better off, without someone who leaves you behind for their own reasons. I hope it gets easier for you with time.
I chose to compare “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” for my English Literature A-Level, such a great author. His writing style was so unique and I’m very content with reading his novels.
The thing about the road is, it doesn't feel real. I can not imagine a world where nature just doesn't grow, where everything is dead. Even after a forest fire, nature will bloom sooner or later, in "The Road" it's the conplete opposite, nothing grows and it just shatters the idea that it could be a real world
I like how they left the world destruction ambiguous as there would need to be a lot of explanation involved, and rather they focused on the humanity and survival factors, which is what they wanted to portray anyway, the setting is important, if this was a story to be continued there would need to be further explanation, but as it stands its more than enough to transmit what they wanted.
