But the heavily stylized road-trip fantasy (complete with shooting stars and horses splashing through water) is a curio well worth your time.
"The logo combines the mathematical symbol for infinity and a stylized endless road," he said.
But "Purple Cane Road" is so stylized, so devoted to its own appearances, that it comes across as almost a commentary on itself rather than as something real, a novel whose characters genuinely cry out when they are hurt.
East of Drummond Road, Highway 420 features stylized light fixtures with the letters "ER", which stand for Elizabeth Regina and are a tribute to the Queen mother.
Traffic signs depicting a stylized E.T. wearing one were installed on selected roads around the United States.
His early works, mostly moody landscapes and seascapes, are highly stylized with dramatic tonal contrasts, as seen in The Road Roller.
The guy who did all the classic Bond movie title designs, Maurice Binder, stylized the title sequence with geometric shapes and bizarre transitions and road signs flying at your face.
When people say that violence (in " Django Unchained". in "Halo") is stylized, they don't really mean that it's stylized in the way that the violence in a Road Runner cartoon is stylized.
For every moment of breathtaking strangeness -- as when Leon, after a road accident, awakens in a field of kudzu strewn with manuscript pages -- there is an overly stylized scene in which literary self-consciousness suffocates lived reality.
With "Road to Perdition" they have created a truly majestic visual tone poem, one that is so much more stylized than its forerunner that it inspires a continuing and deeply satisfying awareness of the best movies as monumental "picture shows".
