tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post7279667176532013011..comments2024-03-18T16:41:34.785+00:00Comments on Vapour Trails: The RoadSéamus Dugganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-50180665488217019882013-08-05T18:06:43.736+01:002013-08-05T18:06:43.736+01:00I do hope to rediscover my movie watching mojo. I ...I do hope to rediscover my movie watching mojo. I do love them but middle age, kids and an intermittent version of insomnia which involves short snatches of sleep without ever getting a full night's sleep have worn me down, temporarily. <br />Re Pacific Rim, the fact that the staff were hopeful that you would leaved is a review in itself, don't you think?Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-49120934255166434042013-08-05T12:39:43.610+01:002013-08-05T12:39:43.610+01:00"The Road" is also an option with "..."The Road" is also an option with "The old man and the sea" in the Leaving Cert Comparative course under the theme of relationships. Though I have Netflix I rarely watch movies for the same reason. I think asking people to concentrate for 90+ minutes is also disappearing. Went to the Odeon cinema in Portlaoise the Friday before last to see "Pacific Rim" (don't ask). It was a late showing and I was the only one in the theater and I think in the whole cinema. The staff kept coming in to see if I was still awake as they wanted to knock off early. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091760593702256387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-10779079633351647992013-08-05T09:07:11.702+01:002013-08-05T09:07:11.702+01:00Haven't seen the film, nor have I read or seen...Haven't seen the film, nor have I read or seen Children of Men. My inability to stay awake through films has severely reduced my film viewing. Casablanca is great though! And How Many Miles... I haven't read it for a long, long time and my memory of it is beyond patchy.<br />I didn't actually reread The Road but must do so soon. Just to remind myself of how high the bar is. Although I have also been lining up a reread of Blood Meridian and it's a couple of decades since I read that one. <br />Whenever I try to decide what to read next I just end up realising how very many books there are that I want to read. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500794647428701667.post-72338585731754031102013-08-03T23:51:41.498+01:002013-08-03T23:51:41.498+01:00I saw the film of "The Road" before I re...I saw the film of "The Road" before I read the book. I think one is as good as the other. The scene where the naked folk are kept in the basement as food is as well depicted in the film. It is what the film leaves out that makes it such a success. (you can hear the screams as the cannibals eat them but you are spared the gory details). The post- apocalypse genre has been done to death but my thoughts after reading this was: "this is what the end of the world will be like" . There are very few characters in it and the way they behave is incomprehensible to us in the comfort of our own armchairs.My favorite character is one we never see, the man who built the bomb shelter where they rest for a while before inexplicably leaving. <br />This book is now on as an option in the comparative section of the Leaving Cert. I presented it to my students last year as a possible option to compare to "Children of Men". The boys loved it, the girls turned it down in favour of Casablanca and How Many Miles to Babylon. More's the pity.Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05451737739428845374noreply@blogger.com