The Road to… Oh will you just leave me alone!
Has anyone else gotten sick of all the hype surrounding the “Road to Perdition”? I have mildly wanted to see this movie since I saw the preview a couple of months ago and remembered that they filmed part of the movie a mile away from where I used to live in IL. Now I find I am already getting sick of it. David Letterman, God love him, has had every single person associated with the film as a guest this week (tonight’s guest is Gaffer Bill Mulrooney and Monday we get Best Boy Davie McDavieson). I opened up the newspaper today to see the phrase “The Road to Oscar!”, so I put the paper down and turned on the radio only to hear more glowing praise for Hanks and Newman and Law. Finally, when I opened up the Parkay this morning the usual “Butter” voice was replaced with “Road to Perdition–it’s Oscar-tastic”. If all the gushing is correct, film audiences across the nation will achieve Nirvana within the first 15 minutes of the picture.
The sad thing is, is that I will probably go see this movie this weekend (if only to see how they used the town of West Dundee). I guess the brainwashing worked. I am such a sheep. Baah!
