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'2012' and 'The Road' lead doom boom on screen

'The Road" opens with the sound of explosions and the vision of a fire that obliterates the sky. Is it a nuclear holocaust? Planetwide environmental disaster? Rogue comet? The thing about the post-apocalyptic wasteland in the film, which opens Nov. 25, is that whatever turned Earth into a pestilential wasteland is never really specified.

So, as a father and son (played by Viggo Mortensen and...

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