I'm a christian and I do think it kind of ruined the movie with the religious part AFTER they escaped.

"Or does the movie "The Book Of Eli" resemble Fallout so much? When i first saw the previews to that movie I thought it was "Fallout the movie" or something."
Resemblance?
Don't see it.

How is Mad Max similar to Fallout?

Lack of Natural Resources.

Thats about it.

I know you don't see the resemblance, but many people do. I'm one of them. My point was that you yourself said that Fallout 3 (post-apocalyptic setting, lone wanderer, heroic figure, gunfights, raiders, importance of water, self-justified villain; society of moral ambiguity, hopelessness, fear, and illiteracy) and The Book of Eli (post-apocalyptic setting, lone wanderer, heroic figure, gunfights, raiders, importance of water, self-justified villain; society of moral ambiguity, hopelessness, fear, and illiteracy) resemble each other, but assert that they aren't similar. Trying to argue semantics or something?

The movie was good until I realized he'd been getting all those headshots and being a general beast without the ability to see. I don't care how good your hearing becomes you'll never be able to get a headshot at that distance without sight. Oh and the part where god was leading him on a journey across the country was pretty crap too. Seriously wtf. :rolleyes:

Oddly enough it was still better than half the crap I've seen lately.

Some people believe in that stuff, like me.

Honestly I'm too tired from work to even answer back to this since it will most likely force me to use my brain to put words together so I'll get back to you later when I have more energy or tomorrow.

But in "that" sense, yeah, they're similar.
But I meant it in a different way

So you never traded with merchants in the "original" Fallouts? Or slept at all in abandoned places?

Besides, Fallout 3 isn't the only Fallout game it resembles.

I saw them both.

Book of Eli was a fun action movie. Unfortunately, it really stretched our suspension of disbelief at the end. I'm not one who gets easily offended at religious dogma either.

The Road had a great atmosphere of the immediate results of some kind of catastrophic event, but that's all I can credit the movie for - was the atmosphere. It's kind of slow and plodding, even for a movie that's supposed to be more cerebral than an action flick. But even the moments where I was supposed to be shocked came up short.

wasn't trying to bash religion I just didn't realize what kind of movie it was when I bought it. I'm not buying that god talked to the guy and told him how to find the last bible on the planet...which I'm pretty sure is impossible considering how many there are and it just happens to be written in braille. Also I'm not buying that god made a blind man the ultimate killing machine with the ability to headshot people who are behind cover from a hundred yards away with a handgun. Sorry but my BS detector was beeping constantly after I realized he was supposed to be blind.

loved the film The Book of Eli, and i love the game Fallout New Vegas! my in-game character is called Eli too and ive done a pretty good job making him look like Eli too :woot:

Yeah pretty much agree with you. Movie had so much potential to be a classic. But then they pulled that blind-man-on-a-devine-mission-from-God stunt and destroyed everything. It really came up short in the end.

In the world of the Book of Eli, there may have been alot less bibles printed than in real life.

And the things he was able to do are almost impossible for anyone in real life to do, blind or not. How else would he have been able to do what he did? You have to use your imagination when watching any movie, especially a action type of movie.

lol its a movie though! haha its not suppose to be what you think would REALLY happen in REAL life. im sure theres plenty of movies you like that have situations that flat out just wouldnt happen.

The book of Eli was, in my opinion, a great movie. I found it to HIGHLY resemble Fo3, but thats just me.

I know you weren't trying to bash religion and personally I find religion to be heinous considering the plethora of stupid and heartless things people do in the name of it (as well as those that do similar things because they assert that there isn't a God or all-powerful deity).

I do believe things like that could happen though. The movie never says Eli is completely blind for instance. It's possible that he can still see shapes, so the absurdity of a totally blind man shooting people with such accuracy isn't nearly as far-fetched as it may initially seem. I never say things are impossible either. From a purely atheistic viewpoint, Eli finding a braille bible and surviving the trek across America would look like pure luck more than anything.

Besides, it's a movie. If I hated every movie that showed a character doing something that people would consider impossible, I'd have hated Lord of the Rings, Man On Fire, Independence Day, Hot Fuzz, etc etc.

I'm not a big fan of having a plot twist that doesn't make sense just for the hell of it. The guy being blind just wasn't necessary for the plot and would've been better without it.

LOL sounds a bit like my first apartment

I thought it was good. It adds to the fact that he is not meant to be "just a man". At first he is bullet proof, but when a bullet takes him down, you understand by the end, that it was meant to happen, he was meant to get shot and have just enough time to finish his mission, he was a man being backed up by something more powerful than man.

However, what I thought they COULD have done without is the girl dressing up exactly like him to go face the wastes, that was cliche and kinda dumb, I thought.

True, that really had no point whatsoever.

Seriously, I mean what was she gonna do? Go out and find more bibles?


They had a printing press and were MASS PRODUCING them.


It seemed to me like a dumb excuse to set another "bad-ass" loose at the end.


Doubt she was bullet proof...

Some of it is reminiscent of Fallout 3 stylistically. I noticed it 15 minutes into the movie sitting in the theater.

Story wise they're nothing alike.

I wonder how many people would be averse to the Book of Eli if the main character had been a Bhuddist monk following the golden path of zen bhuddism instead of Christianity? Or if it had been some fantasy fictional deity instead?

Just like Fallout...and every post-apocalyptic game and/or movie that's been done in the last 50 years. :rolleyes: