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  • Film review : Book of Eli
     OP - July 18, 2010, 09:26 PM

    Starts off okay, a bit of gore.  Fight scenes are obscured a bit by making them silhouettes but you can still see more or less what's happening.  I recommend you watch the film until he leaves the bar, and then turn it off because fuck all happens after that.

    The story is that this guy lives in a post apocalyptic world and possesses a book which can save humanity.  Take a guess which book it is?  The bible!  Not only is it the bible but specifically the New King James version.

    It's a 2 hour prosletysation for Christianity.  Utter fucking wank.

    Treat it like leprosy, at a time when Jesus isn't around to cure it Smiley

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #1 - July 18, 2010, 09:27 PM


    It's a 2 hour prosletysation for Christianity.  Utter fucking wank.



    I don't think it really was, though on first glance it will seem that way.

    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #2 - July 18, 2010, 09:30 PM

    i watched it due to a recommendation from here. *meh* it was al-right. I just found it ridiculous that no one else had a copy. all they had to do was go into a hotel in san fran  looked in one of the bedroom drawers and they would have had one courtesy of the gideons. 

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #3 - July 18, 2010, 09:33 PM

    Wasn't anything exceptional in my view.  Though I liked the twist near the end.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #4 - July 18, 2010, 09:36 PM

    I don't think it really was, though on first glance it will seem that way.


    The message of the film was basically this

    1: People did not appreciate what they had.
    2: There was a big war.
    3: People blamed the bible and burned them all (and other religious books too presumably)
    4: They were all wrong because bible god told Eli where to find a saved book and sent him to a place where they print books.
    5: Don't worry Christians around the world, bible god cannot be defeated, his word will live on forever.

    PS: Christianity was the correct religion.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #5 - July 19, 2010, 01:23 AM

    I haven't even been able to motivate myself to watch this film, even though I've been bored and trawling for movies to watch so many times.  It just doesn't appeal to me to watch a film about religion being something that can save humanity.  Just how many times can this story be told?  plus denzel washington bores me as an actor.  He is not a versatile actor by a long shot, seen one of his films then you have seen them all.

    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #6 - July 19, 2010, 02:02 AM

    The message of the film was basically this

    1: People did not appreciate what they had.
    2: There was a big war.
    3: People blamed the bible and burned them all (and other religious books too presumably)
    4: They were all wrong because bible god told Eli where to find a saved book and sent him to a place where they print books.
    5: Don't worry Christians around the world, bible god cannot be defeated, his word will live on forever.

    PS: Christianity was the correct religion.


    I think it's more a story *about* one man's faith instead of a movie promoting a faith. And isn't one of the core subjects in the film how religion is exploited to control - ie the main villains desire? At the end of the movie the Bible is put in an archive next to the Quran and other holy texts.

    Sure there are religious themes, but I don't think it's as proselytising as you are stating. I think the religious content is light enough that both a secular and christian person can watch the film and take away their own message.

    And anyways, religious or not - it really wasn't such a great film.

    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #7 - July 19, 2010, 10:10 AM

    I think it's more a story *about* one man's faith instead of a movie promoting a faith. And isn't one of the core subjects in the film how religion is exploited to control - ie the main villains desire? At the end of the movie the Bible is put in an archive next to the Quran and other holy texts.


    However, throughout the film Eli is protected by some supernatural force - implying (very strongly) that bible god is ensuring the bible is preserved and therefore the Christianity was the correct religion.

    And anyways, religious or not - it really wasn't such a great film.


    It was damned boring.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #8 - July 19, 2010, 01:45 PM

    However, throughout the film Eli is protected by some supernatural force - implying (very strongly) that bible god is ensuring the bible is preserved and therefore the Christianity was the correct religion.


    Yeah, but then again there was nothing actually magical going on. Could easily be blind chance.

    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #9 - July 19, 2010, 01:51 PM

    If it had been a copy of Dianetics, it would have been much much more entertaining Grin

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #10 - July 19, 2010, 01:52 PM

    Yeah, but then again there was nothing actually magical going on. Could easily be blind chance.


    He got shot in the back of the neck with a bullet and didn't die, and it was blind chance? Cheesy

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #11 - July 19, 2010, 01:53 PM

    I thought in the movie there was a line where the vilian said "It's a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and desperate!"

    I don't think the movie is about Christianity.
    I don't want to explain further because I dont want to spoil

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #12 - July 19, 2010, 01:55 PM

    He got shot in the back of the neck with a bullet and didn't die, and it was blind chance? Cheesy


    Did he?? I forget that part, I slept through half of that film.

    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #13 - July 19, 2010, 01:57 PM

    I thought in the movie there was a line where the vilian said "It's a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and desperate!"


    Yes, that's why the bad guy wanted it.  Eli was being protected by bible god all the way through the film though + he was led to the book by a voice in his head.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #14 - July 19, 2010, 01:59 PM

    It's a shit pretentious film.

    Only good thing about the Hughes brothers is Menace  II Society and that they got their asses kicked by Tupac.
  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #15 - July 19, 2010, 02:07 PM

    and that they got their asses kicked by Tupac.


    did they?

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #16 - July 19, 2010, 02:13 PM

    Quote
    He had also been slated to star in the Hughes brothers' film Menace II Society but was replaced by Larenz Tate after assaulting Allen Hughes as a result of a quarrel.


    In the interview Pac said the other one ran like a bitch.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #17 - July 19, 2010, 02:15 PM

    Yes, that's why the bad guy wanted it.  Eli was being protected by bible god all the way through the film though + he was led to the book by a voice in his head.

    yea But at the end the book it was just another book added to the library , I understand what you are saying after he spelled out all the book he died etc but you can look at it both ways if you want

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #18 - July 19, 2010, 02:18 PM

    The movie is about faith. Writer said so himself. The film makers were uncomfortable with the overt Christian symbolism in the film and asked another writer to re-write but Denzel made them bring back the original writer and keep that shit in place.
  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #19 - July 19, 2010, 02:19 PM

    yea But at the end the book it was just another book added to the library , I understand what you are saying after he spelled out all the book he died etc but you can look at it both ways if you want


    Shot in neck, nothing happened.  No, the film was clearly indicating the superiority of the bible.  Ask yourself, would it have been the same film if it had been about the Bhagivad gita?  I think not Smiley

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #20 - July 19, 2010, 02:46 PM

    It was a bad movie.
  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #21 - July 19, 2010, 04:46 PM

    ***SPOILERS***********

    Looks like none of you watched it properly!

    he wasn't shot in the neck, that shot went though his jacket, that why he  turned around and stared the other guy down and that's why the other guy didn't shoot him when he had the chance, as he thought he was being protected by some higher power.

    At the end, the bible went on a shelf next to the torah and quran


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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #22 - July 19, 2010, 04:55 PM

    ive seen both good, and terrible denzel movies. but would give this flick a
    view.. (pls no spoilers on the film yet)

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #23 - July 19, 2010, 05:15 PM

    We need the [spoiler]spoiler[/spoiler] tags in these forums Tongue

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #24 - July 19, 2010, 05:21 PM

    sorry my bad, i didn't realise to put the spoiler tag on their as i thought people where commenting and reading if they had seen it.

    Apologises.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #25 - July 19, 2010, 05:43 PM

    *** SPOILERS ***

    he wasn't shot in the neck, that shot went though his jacket,


    To be precise, through the collar.  Are you saying that he had an armour plated collar on?  I don't think so.  And then of course there was the scene where the massive machine gun completely ripped through the wooden house to a point where it was structurally unsafe, the old couple were ripped apart by the bullets but Eli and his female companion were just fine.

    The guy took a bullet in the back of the neck and didn't even flinch.  The film clearly showed he had supernatural assistance.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #26 - July 19, 2010, 05:46 PM

    fine it went through his collar, but not trough his neck. no higher power was lookng out for him, he got lucky dodging bullets

    he didn't dodge that one near the end did he?

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #27 - July 19, 2010, 05:56 PM

    fine it went through his collar, but not trough his neck.


    No, but it would have hit the back of his neck.  There is no way his collar would have protected him against a direct hit like that.


    no higher power was lookng out for him, he got lucky dodging bullets


    Direct hit into the collar at the back of the neck, and it went through the collar.


    he didn't dodge that one near the end did he?


    That's because he wasn't supposed to.  He was valuing the book over a human life, he saw his own mission as more important, that's why he was made to take the bullet.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #28 - July 19, 2010, 06:04 PM

    he had a collar not a turtle neck if i lean my to one side there is a space where a bullet can pass though without touching me. it didn't hit him square on the neck, because he would be dead.

    the point was he wasn't invincible.there was no higher power looking out for him. the same reason he didn't get involved when he was ontop of the overpass and heard the biker shoot some people dead for books. he didn't want to get involved cause he knew he'd be killed.

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  • Re: Film review : Book of Eli
     Reply #29 - July 19, 2010, 06:07 PM

    SPOILERS SHIT FILM SPOILERS SHIT FILM SPOILERS SHIT FILM

    Er no there was a higher power because a voice spoke to him. and the man was fucking blind through the entire film.

    SPOILERS SHIT FILM SPOILERS SHIT FILM SPOILERS SHIT FILM
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