Moon is so cool. and it was directed by david bowies son.
My comrades and I decided to see a movie at 11:20 Friday morning, and Book of Eli was starting at 11:З0.
Really enjoyed it until the plot became focused on saving a bible, but I still enjoyed analyzing how religion is simultaneously vilified while being overtly glorified. Character development was good, post-apocalyptic setting was immersive, it could even take place in the same universe as The Road, the previous film we went to see…
Both are near-post-apoc. If you try to merge their settings, Book of Eli elaborates more on the apoc-agents, as The Road stays intentionally vague. The Road would take place two or three decades before Book of Eli. If we include with The Road the elimination of religion as told in Book of Eli, then it actually makes more sense with the father’s reticent sharing of faith.
Now, I know this forum isn’t full of artistic movie critics. So to help with my review of The Road, I can say [COLOR=‘SandyBrown’]cannibalism is aptly applied to the setting. To help with my review of how both films interact, I can say some habits of [COLOR=‘SandyBrown’]cannibalism from The Road have foreseeably diminished but not disappeared through time down to Book of Eli.
I’m confused. The ENTIRE plot was focussed on saving the Bible. Or as was actually the case, faith in general. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. Fantastic cinematography, great acting and a strong story.
Bro, the cover wasn’t even revealed until half-way through. The text, not even shown until the end. Of course it was probably religious in nature, I gathered that from the title, but the movie is easier to like when you overlook the fact it’s propaganda.
It couldn’t have been any worse if you stripped the religion from it and replaced the book with an encyclopaedia, or something of a more understandable value than just some doctrine to capture minds with. Then again, the movie needed a reason to have something rare and unique, and it would have been impossible to understand or sympathize with the intentional destruction of encyclopaediae.
edit: Also, preserving faith in general wasn’t really the message I got from it. Maybe that was the main character’s goal, but at the end of the movie you see all that was accomplished is expanding humanity’s archives. The scholar (who played another apocalypse-survivour in Doomsday, lol…) already had a Torah and Qur’an. He was excited to add a bible to his collection.
U-571, it is about the survived American sailor using German submarine to survive the German destroyer ship.
Amazing movie though.
You’re easily impressed, aren’t you 
Yeah, to me, a movie does not need to be 80% prefect to impressed me, only 40% could do.
My standards aren’t that high either… It’s simple “if I don’t facepalm through half the movie, then it’s a decent movie”. U-571 had me facepalm throughout the entire thing.
Just watched 12 Monkeys, very strange but compelling film. It also had Bruce Willis.
I saw Daybreakers (that movie about vampires in 2019 looking for a synthetic blood solution because humans are becoming extinct due to farming). It was interesting, but it was a weird combo of surprise-scariness and sci-fi with a story that revolved around vampires. Classical vampires, too (no reflection, have wings, hate garlic, not sparkly, etc).
I’d probably rate it 7/10
It has Willem Dafoe though, so that 7/10 should be a 17/10.
12 Monkeys was awesome.
And is it only me that skips all of Tiki’s posts because of his needless big words?
I also do this.
IMO only movie where Brad Pitt did a good act. CRAZY AS A LOONEY.
Stupid Comrade Tiki with his big words and his small confusing words…
He was a lunatic in Fight Club too, just in a different way.
I just skip them because I dont like him.
otoh, antichrist
I’m watching that on Friday. I’m hoping for some delightful homespun clitorectomy footage, apropos of nothing!
antichirst is annoying and bad unless you wanna see gary buseys penis