Book of Eli : Fallout Series Discussion

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:48 pm

Would have been a great example if the post you quoted had statements actually DIRECTED at a forum member instead of a general comment about society. But alas, no insults or name calling were pointed at anyone here. Kind of ruins a perfectly good rant. What a shame. :evil:

I'm just telling you that that stuff isn't allowed here and the moderators enforce it very harshly. Politics and religion are banned, as well as name calling of any kind. As for flame baiting, well, look at your response to his. You freaked out a bit. Just a tiny bit, but still. Enough to be snarky. Now imagine some easily offended user comes through here and sees that. They could go ballistic and then there's even more of a problem. I'm not saying it's just you doing it. I didn't even say you were doing all of it. I was just making a general comment. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't have even bothered.

But yeah; no major freak-outs yet. That's definitely a record.

Yeah like me! I'm a Christian and practice my faith as closely as humanly possible!

More seriously however, Expresate has a point. You can get warnings even if you try to hide what you're saying in a snarky comment. Take it from me, I know from experience.

When in doubt, don't do it. If you don't think you're doing something wrong, don't act surprised when you find out that you've been banned.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:43 am

Blind Deathclaws have perception 9

Cause they deathclaws.

Blind still means wopass to the Deathclaw.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:56 am

I wish Melee combat was like Book of Eli.

Oh, and...

The most Fallout-y part of that movie was the old cannibal couple in an idealistic white house in the middle of the desert. Now THAT didn't make sense, and it SCREAMED fallout. It had trap doors, and they had the shakes and [censored], they even kicked a little ass with the stockpile of automatic weapons they had.

Bull-balls awesome.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:10 pm

Cause they deathclaws.

Blind still means wopass to the Deathclaw.

well i managed to sneak directly into a blind deathclaw. I wasnt paying any attention into what i was doing. Obviously i died quickly and extremely violently.

Also the religious comments have been civilsed which suprises me from this forum.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:10 am

I wish Melee combat was like Book of Eli.

Oh, and...

The most Fallout-y part of that movie was the old cannibal couple in an idealistic white house in the middle of the desert. Now THAT didn't make sense, and it SCREAMED fallout. It had trap doors, and they had the shakes and [censored], they even kicked a little ass with the stockpile of automatic weapons they had.

Bull-balls awesome.

Cannibals in real life have the shakes..

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:38 pm

Cannibals in real life have the shakes..

Its actually a disease that can be caught from other humans not a direct result of eating people. Its a neurological disease called kuru.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:19 pm

it is a lot like fallout, like the society and everything, but fallout is far less serious, and I loved that movie, especially when eli just cut all those duds up

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:57 am

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the following movies:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483607/

If you haven't seen them, check out the trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AiKOhAEbAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJMjiCxHLdg

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:35 pm

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the following movies:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483607/

If you haven't seen them, check out the trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AiKOhAEbAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJMjiCxHLdg

Both of those are good entries. Taken all together I think the films and games compliment and reinforce each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28video_game%29

Another good game from the past.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:37 pm

Both of those are good entries. Taken all together I think the films and games compliment and reinforce each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28video_game%29

Another good game from the past.

That game was terrible. :ninja::P

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:07 am

Cannibals in real life have the shakes..

Man who cares?!

its still pretty cool, and fallout-y.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:28 am

That game was terrible. :ninja::P

Terribly awesome! Got to remember that was back in the Apple II E and the Commodore 64 days. Hell they didn't have enough memory to have the text in game so it came with a book you had to read.

I still have my old Apple. It's got my baseball card collection from when I was a kid stored on 10 5.5" disks. LOL.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:44 pm

Terribly awesome! Got to remember that was back in the Apple II E and the Commodore 64 days. Hell they didn't have enough memory to have the text in game so it came with a book you had to read.

I still have my old Apple. It's got my baseball card collection from when I was a kid stored on 10 5.5" disks. LOL.

I was kidding. It's one of my favorite games ever and was literally Fallout's daddy (mommy?). Notice my forum avatar and stated location are both references to that game...

It's one of my fondest memories of gaming in the '80s.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:40 am

I was kidding. It's one of my favorite games ever and was literally Fallout's daddy (mommy?). Notice my forum avatar and stated location are both references to that game...

Yeah I knew you were kidding. Just wanted to tell the kiddies how good they have it without saying it. Opps! :facepalm:

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:58 am

i dunno why but i loved the book of eli had to watch it twice tho cus it was sort of heavy the 1st time

it does have simirlarities to fallout 3

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:03 am

I think you might be reading into it too much. An objective person is able to separate their personal religious views from their evaluation of a work of fiction. It's not necessary to agree with something on a moral or religious level to evaluate it fairly as a film or piece of literature. In fact, coloring your opinion of a work of fiction based on whether or not it falls in line with your religious, moral, or political views is a marked sign of a lack of emotional maturity.

I just thought it was a clumsy, cliche, heavy-handed, inconsistent, and poorly-written script, which is too bad because the camera work, art direction, and overall production values were very good. Why does it need to have anything to do with religion? It's just a classic case of a strong effort by the technical direction and actors being soured by a bad script. My opinion, of course.

What's wrong with the film's story being about religion? You just said said,

"It's not necessary to agree with something on a moral or religious level to evaluate it fairly as a film or piece of literature."

But then one of your complaints about the film was that it involved religion.

The obvious stance to take there would be to say that it wouldn't be The Book of Eli if it didn't involve religion. There would be no bible for Gary Oldman's character to chase, so it would have to have a different story. Which would make it a completely different movie, would it not?

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:37 am

Blind Deathclaws have perception 9

Lol. Maybe they are on a divine mission too...

About BoE, why are you all so sure that he's blind...? Just because he reads braille dosen't mean he's blind, does it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember it being determined in the movie that he is for sure...

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:26 am

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the following movies:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119925/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483607/

If you haven't seen them, check out the trailers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AiKOhAEbAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJMjiCxHLdg

The Postman was an excellent movie but Doomsday was just... I don't know. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would've been. It felt like a wanna-be Resident Evil movie, and all those svcked.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:33 am

Lol. Maybe they are on a divine mission too...

About BoE, why are you all so sure that he's blind...? Just because he reads braille dosen't mean he's blind, does it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember it being determined in the movie that he is for sure...

He's is blind in the movie.. Seriously, he just is lol. It couldn't be implied any more heavily if the writer carved it into the side of a brick and threw it at us.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:21 pm

I was reminded of A Boy and his Dog, after watching Eli. Enjoyed the former a bit more but the latter has it's moments.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:34 am

Lol. Maybe they are on a divine mission too...

About BoE, why are you all so sure that he's blind...? Just because he reads braille dosen't mean he's blind, does it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember it being determined in the movie that he is for sure...

His eyes are colored grey, And his eyes are dialiated.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:17 am

I'm just telling you that that stuff isn't allowed here and the moderators enforce it very harshly. Politics and religion are banned, as well as name calling of any kind. As for flame baiting, well, look at your response to his. You freaked out a bit. Just a tiny bit, but still. Enough to be snarky. Now imagine some easily offended user comes through here and sees that. They could go ballistic and then there's even more of a problem. I'm not saying it's just you doing it. I didn't even say you were doing all of it. I was just making a general comment. I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't have even bothered.

But yeah; no major freak-outs yet. That's definitely a record.

Yet the guy who just called all atheists ignorant is not?

Nevermind not worth it. I just find his comment (not the person I'm quoting, sorry) very insulting and extremely ignorant which is ironic.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:12 am

I enjoyed the movie and thought it shared a bunch of similarities with the series, especially from an artistic standpoint.

» Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:43 pm

Since when is finding shelter, listening to music, getting clean water, and getting something that's broken repaired exclusive to Fallout?

The OP didn't say it was exclusive to fallout. He simply said that the movie resembles the game, to which it does. He didn't say it was fallout, he simply said it was like fallout. The movie and the fallout series have the same theme and that its every man for himself in a deserted wasteland. There is killing, gangs, territories, scavenging, bartering, trading etc.... i could go on. Again the OP simply said the movie resembles fallout. Look up the definition of the word and then you will agree with what he said.

» Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:15 am

If we're going to talk about crappy movies I'd like to mention http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097138/ (featuring Jean Claude Van Damme) has anyone seen it? It's quite funny once you realize you shouldn't take it seriously.

If you're looking for a good movie that is really close to the Fallout atmosphere then you should watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/.