For my first one, might as well share what I'm currently watching as I'm typing this.
The Book of Eli, is set in post-apocalyptic America and is about a man putting his faith before anything else. That he was "told" to head west and has been wandering about for the last 30 years searching. All he has is his backpack, his gun, his beast of a machete and a book. That book is what drives him walking the walk and talking the talk. That book is also what Gary Oldman, is trying to get his dirty hands on to enslave the minds of the lost and weak minded folks he's been in control of. Mila Kunis, is a waitress bent on working for the man for sake of his mother's position. Yes, the story is heavily weighted on Religion and God. On Good vs. Evil. There's this scene in a bar, where he's outnumbered and surrounded. He recites a passage from the Book of Genesis:
"...and to dust thou shalt return." Kind of coincidental that it was Ash Wednesday when I started watching this. As for the whole passage, It's meaning is when God expels Adam & Eve from the Garden of Eden. Not meaning God is going to reign havoc on whoever recites this before a battle. It's just Denzel being a bad ass.
Now some people may say Denzel Washington always plays the same role in every movie. Man on Fire, Training Day, American Gangster, Unstoppable, John Q... That, "I don't give a ****. I've got nothing to lose," mentality. Even if the movie itself isn't like that, he may come off as that type of person in those films. But for me, "The Book of Eli," was slightly different in a way. It took me watching the movie a second time to fully realize how good he played this character as Eli. Now if you haven't seen this movie, forgive me for spoiling it. At the end of the movie, it's revealed that the entire length of this film of him protecting the sanctity of the last King James version of The Holy Bible was that he was.......friggin' blind the whole time!
It was definitely a "wtf" moment for me and I'm sure that the rest of the people in the theater when I first saw it would agree. So it was only natural, that I'd watch it a 2nd time and try and point out tidbits on his blindness.
He feels the vibrations of the dinner he's been waiting for. BAM. He smells out an ambush from 30ft away. BAM. He never acts/shoots first so he can hear where the attacker comes from. BAM. IMO it was well done. But I am just fan amongst many.
