15 years ago, one of the best (and bleakest) postapocalyptic movies ever made drove away audiences
If stories about the end of the world weren’t fun to explore, then there probably wouldn’t be so many of them. Think ofThe Walking Dead, for example. No one would really want to live in a zombie-filled postapocalyptic hellscape. But it can be very enjoyable to watch the human characters fight back and dispatch the walkers.The Roaddoesn’t have anything like that in its vision of the apocalypse. There are no zombies to kill, nor thrilling adventures....