Months and months of anticipation have lead to the Thanksgiving weekend and the release of The Road. The big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel from the director of The Proposition has been on my to-see list since its existence first came to my attention long ago. So imagine my supreme disappointment when no theatre anywhere close to me was showing it. For those not savvy to the name John Hillcoat, then certainly McCarthy would yield some interest given the deserved response to No Country for Old Men. This goes without mentioning Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Robert Duvall. What a disgrace to the state of cinema when the screens are crowded with 2012, Couples Retreat, Planet 51, and Twilight. What’s disappointing is that we are not talking about some independent arthouse film with limited audience but a $20-30 million dollar budgeted film with names, visuals, etc.
I don’t know who’s to blame, nor do I really care, I just wish that good movies came out and not bad ones. Add to this that over the weekend I hunted down a copy of the fantastic, flawless, under-appreciated and totally ignored Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Best Buy? Only on Blu-ray. Meijer? Negative. I guess I should not be surprised when hundreds of copies of trash line the shelves consuming much mismanaged space.
Enough complaining, but not really. The studios listen to what the audiences say and the only way they hear us is in sales. Paranormal Activity was demanded by popularity and made its way to wide release. If only we had such decisive voice on everything we saw.
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