The Book of Eli - an upcoming Post Apocalyptic movie.
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[QUOTE=Warren Holzem;19433408]Well fuck this movie then.
The goddamn Bible is responsible for more human suffering than anything that's ever been written.
It never saves humanity, it just makes shit worse. The book should have been a fucking Farmer's Almanac or Plato's "The Republic"[/QUOTE]
I think you can turn off your atheist rage-o-meter enough to just enjoy the damn movie.
Don't turn it off too much though or else you may find yourself in a homophobic protest.
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[QUOTE=Warren Holzem;19433547]How would the Bible save humanity?
What practical knowledge does it contain that would help anyone in a post-apocalyptic setting?
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I'm pretty sure they'll explain it in the movie.
[QUOTE=Warren Holzem;19433547]How would the Bible save humanity?
What practical knowledge does it contain that would help anyone in a post-apocalyptic setting?
Try using your brain to understand why this is a shit concept for a film instead of blindly attacking people because they disagree with you.[/QUOTE]
Dude it's a fucking movie anything can happen if you think of it. King Kong is a shit concept, so why just say this is worse just because it includes a book. You are the one looking stupid not me.
Do they even say how this book is so important?
Pulled from a discussion about this on another board:
[quote]The movie is supposed to take place 30 years after some nuclear armageddon. Appearently it's been leaked that in the story the Book of Eli is the last remaining Bible. Supposedly Denzel's & Gary Oldman's characters are the only two people left in the country that actually know what the Bible is - which seems like a load since only 30 years has passed.[/quote]
There is no way you can explain it so that the Bible is essential to saving humanity outside of some gay religious salvation context. It does not contain any practical knowledge, and is not even a particularly good book of moral doctrine.
Also I just noticed everyone has sunglasses on, why in the hell are they wearing them?
Because it's badass that's why
[QUOTE=Mr.2007;19433608]Dude it's a fucking movie anything can happen if you think of it. King Kong is a shit concept, so why just say this is worse just because it includes a book. You are the one looking stupid not me.[/QUOTE]
The book is the main fucking focus of the film.
Hell, the book is the fucking title of the film.
[QUOTE=Warren Holzem;19433652]Pulled from a discussion about this on another board:
There is no way you can explain it so that the Bible is essential to saving humanity outside of some gay religious salvation context. It does not contain any practical knowledge, and is not even a particularly good book of moral doctrine.[/QUOTE]
It says they're the only one's who know what the Bible is, so no one else really knows of it's contents. I'm guessing it's become sort of like a legend that the book will be the answer or something. I don't know, no one here's seen the fucking movie yet.
[QUOTE=pie_is_good;19433561]I'm pretty sure they'll explain it in the movie.[/QUOTE]
Doubtful.
Most likely it will end with the book being delivered and then the big reveal that OMG ITZ DA BIBLE and then cut to the credits.
[img]http://www.beyondhollywood.com/uploads/2009/09/book-of-eli-trailer-3.jpg[/img]
unusual role for denzel washington
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[QUOTE=Mr.2007;19433663]Also I just noticed everyone has sunglasses on, why in the hell are they wearing them?[/QUOTE]
there's a hole in the atmosphere that caused the apocolypse -- they're protecting against uv rays.
A movie about the bible, with the message "Believe"...
Move along people, just more preachy christian shit.
[QUOTE=Waals Vander;19437452]unusual role for denzel washington
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there's a hole in the atmosphere that caused the apocolypse -- they're protecting against uv rays.[/QUOTE]
Wow...Whoever made this movie must have a PhD in Extreme Science skills
[QUOTE=Adsone;19438528]A movie about the bible, with the message "Believe"...
Move along people, just more preachy christian shit.[/QUOTE]
Starting to look that way.
I'll be waiting until reviews start coming in, and I get reliable word on whether it's just Christian shilling or not.
So the badguys finally kill Eli and get his infamous book which turns out to be the last bible in existance, the main badguy sees a book of stories and throws it away and walks off into the sunset.
[b]Alternate ending[/b]:
The book is actually a dummies guide for repairing a post-apocalyptic world infested with rabble, only Eli is a selfish prick and doesn't like to share while he could actually be doing something useful with it.
The Combine are after the book, maybe it can translate Gordon's vocal cords.
[B]if you want to talk about the bible get the fuck out of my thread[/B]
[QUOTE=Publius;19445434][B]if you want to talk about the bible get the fuck out of my thread[/B][/QUOTE]
Too bad the movie is about the Bible, eh?
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To be honest I'll probably go see this.
Even if it has a kinda lame premise, it looks pretty interesting.
[QUOTE=Warren Holzem;19447890]Too bad the movie is about the Bible, eh?[/QUOTE]
just because you saw a bible in one of the trailers means that the book of eli is a bible?
not like theres more than one book in the world or anything
This movie was simply amazing.
I get my thread closed and banned for this really >:(
This was a good movie. It was somewhat religious without trying to push the audience into becoming Christian. I liked it.
Not really, it was basically saying that do what you believe and whatnot, the bible was just the output.
At the end, [sp]there were copies of the Qur'an and the Torah at Alcatraz[/sp]
I thought it was a great movie. There were a bunch of wtf moments and at the end [sp]he was blind the whole time.[/sp]
I'm not religious at all, but this movie was done really well.
Albeit a lot of religious phrases but they suited the parts they were said in.
[sp] It was hinted at a LOT during the movie, you really didn't pick up on that? Here: He didn't shoot the cat immediately, he had to hear it purr or whatever. When his ipod ran out of battery, he was clicking all the buttons like he didn't know which one was which. He was wearing sunglasses most of the time. When he was at the cannibals' house, he had to kick the stairs and click (some blind people actually taught themselves sonar, in real life). Even then, when he was caught, he said he didn't see the obvious "No trespassing" sign. When the girl gave him food at Carnagie's hotel room, he told her a specific way of how people got blind, the nuclear war. I think there are more, I can't remember[/sp]
Just another shallow preachy movie that will probably end with all the main characters looking up at the sky and the camera zooming out rapidly from top view prior to the closing credits.
[QUOTE=ShnitzelKiller;20097903]Just another shallow preachy movie that will probably end with all the main characters looking up at the sky and the camera zooming out rapidly from top view prior to the closing credits.[/QUOTE]
irony
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