Sunday, 17 January 2010

Book of Eli Thoughts

1. Borrowing the look of Fallout 3 wholesale (though stripping out the retro-futurism and twisted humour ie. what makes it interesting and distinctive) and then giving Malcolm McDowell a cameo at the end is...

2. Twist from Time Enough At Last not enough? Add in Fahrenheit 451 as well.

3. What is it about black actors reading Bible verses and making them sound awesome? If Sam Jackson and Denzel and maybe Morgan Freeman ever form their own church, I'd go.

4. Putting a filter on the camera and filming people walking through the California desert is good enough, apparently.

5. The wildly inappropriate aesthetic used for From Hell suits Book of Eli better, but is still rubbish.

6. Seriously, shots of the bridges could be screenshots from Fallout 3. The film could be machinima by the time the rocket launchers turn up.

7. I would pay good money to watch a film in which Mila Kunis walks about a post-apocalyptic wasteland kicking ass.

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