The Book of Eli

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Warning: Spoiler alert (and potty-mouth) in the comments :-)

I wrote this post over a month ago but seem to have forgotten to finish it or publish it. I thought I would share the first part of the post here, and might complete it some day...

Hubs has been wanting to watch The Book of Eli for a while now, but he sold it to me all wrong.

Hubs: "Can we watch The Book of Eli?"
Wifey: "What's it about?"
Hubs: "It's a post-apocalyptic mov...."
Wifey: "No thanks."

And now I admit, I shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss it. I think it has instantly become one of my favourite movies now and I want to watch it again. I would really recommend it to... anyone!

Posted by Renae at 4:50 PM Comments

6 comments: to “ The Book of Eli ” so far...

  • Anonymous August 19, 2010 at 6:06 PM
     

    Ahhhh! That made me laugh. And laugh. And laugh.
    (Actually I'm still laughing).

    That's exactly the sort of thing that might happen in our house :)

  • Renae August 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM
     

    Hee hee. What sort of movies does Burfit try and get you to watch? Or vice-versa?

  • Amy August 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM
     

    We saw it the other night, and I was a little disappointed. I appreciated the basic premise, but felt like there were a few things that could have been improved.

    *Disclaimer: I did fall asleep about halfway through, and missed about 20 minutes of the movie before being rudely awoken by a particularly loud fight scene. So I 'may' have missed something

  • Renae August 20, 2010 at 9:11 AM
     

    After the movie was over, I just sat there for 20 minutes going "wow". It really had a profound effect on me that's hard to describe, and it stayed with me for days/weeks after. I had to tell EVERYone about it! :-)

  • Anonymous August 22, 2010 at 4:16 PM
     

    I can't really think of a good example but "post-apocalyptic" is more than likely a turn me off. He's slowly learning which words to avoid :)

  • Pat August 24, 2010 at 2:40 PM
     

    Some idiot recommended The Road to me over The Book of Eli. In said movie there was a distinct lack of awesome fight-scenes and Denzel Washington. Both of which TBoE duly supplied. I have no idea how The Road was nominated for any of the awards it was.
    What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, great at the end with him being blind and all. Have a shit one anyone who hasn't seen it.
    Pos.

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