Book of Eli Movie Review by Confused Matthew and Temporary Ryan

[AirCanMaster]

Part of the thing about this being a non-summer release is that the preaching aspect really comes before any conflict that sets apart the protagonist and the antagonist. A respectful drama and action movie rather than an action movie that tries to be sentimental towards its preaching methods. If there was a quirk in its method, it is like they developed upon the concept of Waterworld to make a movie that holds up for its time. It is much better than Waterworld though, just not as fast.

[NoTroubleMikeG]

If I had a bible after the apocalypse, I would be grateful for the toilet paper bestowed upon me.

[adamtv13]

@NoTroubleMikeG lmfao so true!

[615Deathdealer]

Im an athiest but I still like it.

[buc555]

I disagree about the action, I thought the action was pretty standard and rarther poorly shot in parts. I don't believe for a second Eli was blind. The whole thing with the Bible was done well, I liked the twist and the ending was good. But for an action movie it never really had me gripped or tense.

It felt similar to Waterworld in terms or story and Terminator Salvation in terms of look, neither of which I really cared for.

Overall it needed more and better action but was otherwise ok. 7/10

[TheCrististar]

the end was unbelivable ....dump movie

[oogrooq]

Faith is never a good thing.

[MRdaBakkle]

When they put the Bible on the shelf of Alcatraz there is also a Torah, and I believe a Koran too. So it wasn't just about preservering the Bible but Historical artifacts. 

[toomasio]

Mila Kunas really hurt this movie...

If she wasn't in it..it would bring it a little above "meh".

It's not necessarily her fault...it's the casting director's fault.

[stormbird451]

I don't think that the hand-shaking is unique to 'human meat' but to a diet exclusively lean meat, which is what 'human meat' would be. I was watching an ep of 'Survivorman' (plane crash in Alaska) where he talked about it.

The movie did have a 'Fallout' vibe to it. I would have loved to have seen Harold.

[BalladoftheWindfish]

I don't know if I necessarily agree with faith being used for either good or evil, I think it can only be used for good if it is really faith. Faith is a theological virtue, a gift bestowed on man's heart that man can rationally ascent to, or not. Once man ascents to it, how could it be anything but good provided that it is actual faith and not pretending at faith?

[IsaacBickerstaffEsq]

@BalladoftheWindfish "how could it be anything but good provided that it is actual faith"

If you have faith that the Sun won't come up tomorrow and thus the world itself will come to an end unless you rip someone's still beating heart from their chest?

[ManThatSeesMovies]

The Rundown?

[JOtruba]

Best fallouts are Fallout 1,2

whatever bathesda created is NOT fallout.....

As for movie i kinda like if somone makes you think about whatever they pressent to you so i am now inclined to watch it .)

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@JOtruba *sight* That is such a ignorant statement. If it was not for bethesda we would never see any future fallout games. and if you gonna bash at least get the company name right! Shut up and get job working for IGNorant.

[JOtruba]

@Se7enBeatleofDoom

meh typoes happen

i do have a work and if game is made solely for proffit is it better to enver have it... Fallout allways (untill bethesda came allong) had some meaning, something deeper than mere gameplay, but this thing chose to follow popular stream, abandoning the (semi?) originall thought leacing mere gameplay. do not get me wrong in most games that would be enough but in Fallout that is dissapointement.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@JOtruba Well i guess a father sacrificing the needs of humanity to raise his only family and child in the safety. And in return the child have make a choice if mankind deserves to spare the fate of extinction or not has no meaning to it. People behind the great Elder scrolls series know nothing about making a meaning full RPG? You putting them for doing something new and and saving a series that deserves to be brought back. There First person RPG long before fallout.

[JOtruba]

@Se7enBeatleofDoom

never said th ganme is bad.. i said it is bad fallout .P bessides FPRPG is strange combination that i do not like

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@JOtruba You said not meaningful. And have you even played fallout 3? And you do know some of the first computer RPG were in first person right? And yes out date both fallout and The Elder scrolls series. Have you even gave them a try? Not just the elder scrolls but he might and magic series as well.

[JOtruba]

@Se7enBeatleofDoom

i did play some of the first RPGs not sure if it were elder scrolls (Stonekeep i am certan of playing) but pretty sure it were in first persson view, Might and magic series i most probably played only by playing its ofshoot series Heroes of... Aye not meaningfull in context of Falout (1 and 2).

[onlyashadow1121]

Your reviews are crappy when you pull other people into it, you talk to the other guy and talk about off-topic stuff a lot.

[Riotboy1]

2010 part 2??? WTF!

[ResistDeception]

I love your channel!

But I'm'na have to disagree on your claim that this movie didn't get preachy. It preaches humanism.

The Hughes bothers pay obvious homage to Dan Brown's gnostic novels in this movie. "The DaVinci Code" even makes an appearance. The Bible is portrayed as a "weapon" of control and manipulation, which would better serve mankind under the study of the gnostic academic ellect, on a shelf next to the Torah & the Qur'an. It portrays anyone who wants 2 spread gospel as pure evil.

[Asher8328]

Really surprised this movie got a good review.

[solesurvivor5]

bELIeve...they should have tried beLIEve, beliefs are lies

[confusedmatthew]

@solesurvivor5 A lie is the difference between what you say and what you think. An erroneous statement is the difference between what you think and what is. Beliefs - therefore - cannot be lies; only mistakes.

[solesurvivor5]

@confusedmatthew Yes, but if a beliefe is created from the beggining to be a lie to confused others in the name of self gain(Which can and has probably happened), wouldn't that stgill make it a lie regardless whi beliefs it to be true?

[featheon]

What was so great about the action in this film? Was it the quickly-established and often repeated cliche of the single-, wide-shot sordfights, or the CG house getting shot up by bullet-cams for 5 minutes too many?

[demonicfork]

I think he did to many things to be blind. Like he stands on the cliff and pointed out the cannibal couples house. Like. Does he have echo vision?

[agremna5]

@ around 4:50 he asks about the other religious documents in the world: In the final sequence, after Eli has died, Malcolm McDowell's character places the finished, printed Bible on a shelf next to a Quran, a Torah (I think), and a few other religious texts.

[guitaristdude0]

totally agree about the fallout comparison i was playing it before i watched it and was like damn this is cool lol

[starwarsfan117]

did ryan metion fallout?

great game...i wish i had played the older ones

1 and 2

lol

[capitancoolo]

@starwarsfan117

<-- TR

you can get fallout 1 and 2 bundled for about 20$

I highly recomend that purchase.

[starwarsfan117]

@capitancoolo ok ill think about it

although im not used that format of gamplay

i mean sure i love rpgs dont get me wrong...its just iv seen the combat in that game

only vats?

i mean iv played fa 3 but i didnt allways use vats

idk will i get used to it in time to like the game?

[kranktank]

you saw trailers for this movie and thought it looked like The Rundown? why?

[capitancoolo]

@KnightofDuroch

<-- TR

I dont know what a cad is, but I totaly deserve that. I have no idea why I said john hughes. I was thinking john singletary, and somehow got him mixed up with john hughes. In any case, I feel like a tool, considering 'ferris buellers day off' was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I am facepalming myself for my own blatant stupidity.

[Firelordzerien]

this is a good movie? are you kidding me THIS WAS A TERRIBLE MOVIE, the words trite, cliche, and predictable come to mind. and also THE TWIST IS ABSOLUTELY THE WORST TWIST EVER, and in the end it makes no got dang sense. And also the excuse that "after the war everyone burned their bibles" is the most silly excuse for why there is no religion. That is absolutely PREPOSTEROUS, just look at how many people who survived the holocaust are still Jewish (hint MOST OF THEM)

[ProphetTenebrae]

@Firelordzerien I have to say, I agree that the twist went beyond even Shymalan's worst clangers.

And the notion ALL religion would be wiped out is pretty silly too... but I suppose you have to give it suspension of disbelief for setting the scene... at least until the twist.

[falseprophecy]

@Firelordzerien The premise is why I didn't end up seeing this movie. Not because I'm an evil atheist who thinks faith is stupid, but because I know too much about history to think faith is so disposable. Most people don't turn away from religion in times of crisis; the majority of them become more religious. I could buy a minority of people in post-apocalyptic America feeling God had failed them, but not everybody. Some have been actively waiting for God to bring about the end!

[Drowsong]

When it comes to faith (belief without evidence), touting up how much good and bad it might do is missing the point.

If people do good things because of faith, they're doing good things for the wrong reason. There are secular justifications for every good deed, so faith is not necessary for good.

Ultimately even that is missing the point. Belief in god might make someone do good works they otherwise wouldn't...but that doesn't mean the belief is actually TRUE.

[Zenjamin]

..... ?

Huh?

Im an spiritual person. Really dig and respect christanity, thats not why I disagree. But.....

Ug.

Ok. Thats enough.

Unsubscribe.

[ginsengaddict]

"hail lord xenu"

ooooh, matthew's gonna get sued

[CENSOREDFORSEX]

@PostITnoteGUY I am arguing the negative my friend, can you give me some things that are good about faith?

[confusedmatthew]

@CENSOREDFORSEX Mind if I field this one?

Faith played a major role in the inspiration and actions of Dr. Martin Luther King who impacted the civil rights movement in my country significantly. He was also inspired by Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Ghandi who were also inspired and guided by their faith (although the extent of Lincoln's real participation in any religion is in subject to debate).

I suppose it could be argued that faith can motivate others to do good to their fellow men.

[CENSOREDFORSEX]

@confusedmatthew A few people did good things in the name of faith (I think those guys would do great things regardless because they were great people though). But even if they did good things because of faith, isn't that kind of outwayed by all the wars and genocides caused by faith? Faith can make some people do some good things, but way more people have died to religions and faiths than saved by them. Plus faith is irrational, believing things without evidence is stupid.

[confusedmatthew]

@CENSOREDFORSEX That may be true. But all I was responding to is your question of what good faith has ever done. As I said in my review, faith can be used for good as well as evil ends. That it has caused more evil in the world than good is unfortunate, but does not ultimately effect that point.

[Juggern4ut20]

@CENSOREDFORSEX I find this to be such an ignorant argument. Here is why you are incorrect. First, Faith does not do anything. It does not cause war, it does not cause genocides, people cause those things. And people would cause those exact same things independent of faith. If you magically took religion and faith out of history, there would be just as many wars and genocides just over different things. Also, science was created to prove gods existence.

[MRdaBakkle]

@Juggern4ut20 Case in point Hitler and WW2. Was started to gain Germanys power back. No religion influenced him. WW2 would still be around. No matter what people will dumbasses. Your comment was great, one of my fave south park episodes go god go transports us to a world w/o religion and they still fight a war. Over what what atheists should call themselves. My point humans are dumb and it dosen't matter what you believe or not believe.

[h8uall66]

@MRdaBakkle

No religion influenced Hitler? Read "Mein Kampf"

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: You obviously have NOT read Mein Kampf, for you have no idea what his beliefs & motives were.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Seriously? Do yourself a favor. Go to the Gutenberg project website, look up Mein Kampf, and just search for the many, many religious statements he makes. Seriously, you live in the digital age and you thought you could fool people with some lame jive like that?

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: I take it you are one of those people who if you saw a man wack his hand w/ a hammer then yelled out, "God damn it!" You'd say that was a religious statement. Basically all Hitler means by any God is a kind of uncaring fate. The notion of God really only was cosmic projection of his own egotism. He despised all traditional religion. He regarded Christianity as just another Jewish plot to weaken the Aryan spirit. He basically thought he was hurrying evolution on its natural course.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

No, I'm able to distinguish nuance. Hitler was clearly a religious man, it's all right there in his book. It's not ceremonial deism, it's an unshakable faith in Jesus Christ and the explicit rejection of evolution in regards to mankind. He believed that animals had evolved but mankind was the special creation of God. If you believe that Hitler considered Christianity a Jewish plot or that he was furthering evolution then supply the relevant documents.

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: You can distinguish nuance & you respond in ernest to an obvious sarcastic exaggeration as though it were serious comment! This is too rich. Go read a book on the Nazis. They all made many statements over the years. If you think one book which was probably ghost written for Hitler, as mere bit of propaganda, can explain Nazism, you're even more limited then your original statement made you seem at 1st. You've really made my day. It is alway pleasant to laugh at laughable things.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Running away from my simple request, I see. That's what I thought. You've got some balls though. When I call your bluff, you double down. Provide the evidence or shut it.

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: You want all the evidence that the Nazis were a left wing secularist even atheistic movement to be crammed into a Youtube comments section. You really are quite a silly person. I suppose such a request serves the emotional need you have to insist that Hitler was somehow inspired by religion. Nothing I could say would in anyway serve to persuade you that he wasn't. Why don't YOU show me any clear evidence that religion "inspired" him? Then you'd have to specify which religion it was.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Yep, running away and making excuses, just as I suspected. That's a lot easier than backing up your assertions, isn't it?

You: "Hitler was trying to further evolution."

Me: Got any evidence of that?

You: "Stop being silly! You prove that he wasn't! There's not enough space! Waaaagh!"

Not interested in your excuses. Put up or shut up. We both know you're not going to put up, so I'll just being ignoring your excuses until you do.

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: Go find some other dim witted teeanager to start a flame war. I really have no interest. You're so ignorant & bigotted, any attempt to explain anything to you is a waste. You obviously are too ignorant to even understand that you're asking me to prove a negative. If you wish us to believe Hitler was religious, you have the positive duty cite which religion he followed, show where he espoused its doctrines, & how he followed its teachings. You obviously can not I win by default.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Wrong. I'm not asking you to prove a negative. I said "If you believe that Hitler considered Christianity a Jewish plot or that he was furthering evolution then supply the relevant documents." That's not asking you to prove a negative. You're just running away because you can't provide those documents. Stop making excuses, it's pathetic. And no, I'm not going to answer your question until you man up and answer mine. I'm not falling for your dishonest tactic. Answer or shut it!

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: How am I supposed the answer your patently stupid question if I don't even know what religion is supposed to have influenced him? I will take that as an admission that you can't prove your absurd assertion. It is simple if you actually know anything about logical catagories & valid argumentation. Hitler was religious is a POSITIVE assertion, Hilter was NOT religious is a NEGATIVE assertion. I can't prove a negative assertion. If you don't demonstrate how he was religious, you lose.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

You're obviously very confused. I never asked you to prove that Hitler wasn't religious. I'll type it again, since you are having so much trouble with this simple concept. YOU, VictorLepanto, claimed that Hitler "regarded Christianity as just another Jewish plot to weaken the Aryan spirit. He basically thought he was hurrying evolution on its natural course." I'm asking you to back up that statement. Got it? Or do you need it typed up for you again?

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Also, I ignore people that answer questions with questions. It's a juvenile diversionary tactic. You were asked a question. Answer it. Trying to change the subject is cowardly. You do not need to know what religion I think Hitler was to demonstrate that he thought that Christianity was a Jewish plot and that his goal was to further evolution. Enough with the pathetic excuses and games. Be a man and behave forthright and true.

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: We are all born ignorant, but some of us go down from there. You have no clue do you? Why don't you just google on the subject of proving a negative. I am trying to point out to you that it is A LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY to prove a !@#$%&*@! negative. Is your neglected brain to shrivelled grasp a concept like that? It seems so. I assumed you were a reasonable person at the beginning but you obviously are not. So I am trying to explain to your dim mind that no one can prove a negative.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Hello? Anyone home? I'm NOT asking you to prove Hitler wasn't religious. I'll repeat it again. I'M NOT ASKING VICTORLEPANTO TO PROVE THAT HITLER WASN'T RELIGIOUS! I'm asking you to provide evidence for your assertion that Hitler believed Christianity was a Jewish plot and that his goal was to further evolution. 3 times I've clarified that for you. Stop playing dumb and respond.

[VictorLepanto]

@h8uall66: This will be my last attempt at communicating w/ you. I say attempt b/c you're so invincibly ignorant it probably impossible for facts to penetrate your mind. The Nazis believed EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy! Capitalism was a Jewish conspiracy, Communism was a Jewish conspiracy. Democracy was a Jewish conspiracy. I can hardly go through the whole body of Nazi proganda & post it here on Youtube comments section. Go watch a video on what the Nazis believed, read a book.

[h8uall66]

@VictorLepanto

Sorry, but we're still not there yet. You just covered your first assertion with another assertion. Where is your evidence that Nazis believed EVERYTHING was a Jewish conspiracy? Where is your evidence that Hitler was trying to further evolution? "Look it up" isn't good enough. You can give me a source if you want and I can check the source myself. But you can't expect me to accept your "just so" stories.

[NGTitaly4Life]

@Juggern4ut20 thats like saying people dont kill people. guns kill people. religion is a weapon. and it took millions of peoples lives

[Juggern4ut20]

@NGTitaly4Life No, it's exactly like that saying. Guns (as well as Religion in your instance) are a weapon, a tool, a means to an end, but they are not the perpetrator. Again, in that flawed logic, you would also be against nations (since nationalism kills people), against currency (after all money 'kills' people), cutlure, etc etc. People can and will use any reason to kill each other and to blame the reason is taking the blame away from the culprits.

[NGTitaly4Life]

@Juggern4ut20 lol your exaggerating my point. Then what u would be saying if nationalism and stuff kills people then birth kills people, cause if there wasnt birth people wouldnt die. thats taking it to a way too far extent. All im saying is that religion has been a cause for millions and millions of deaths! no one in the world could deny that EVER.

[InterestsDivided]

@NGTitaly4Life Anyone with an education could deny that. If Religion caused conflict therefore religion would support it. Yet these claimed genocides and wars in the name of religion either contradict or ignore their own beliefs. So again, people are the cause and you are no different.

[arthereld]

@CENSOREDFORSEX The fact that some things done in the name of faith was good, proves that religion is not the real problem but how people use it. Yeah, it's the "guns don't kill people..." thing. Throughout history you can see this. At most, you can criticize religion for being an "enabler". But the true motivation for all those wars you're talking about is power. Human nature has an unhealthy obsession for power, and without religion humans would simply find some other way to attain it.

[BalladoftheWindfish]

@CENSOREDFORSEX That faith has caused more evil than good is hardly self-evident, and, in fact, I'd say a borderline retardation of actual history. Far more good has been done in the name of faith than evil, far more good.

And your view that faith is irrational is very dated. You need to update your view so that we can all move on from that canard.

[welker831]

@CENSOREDFORSEX To play a bit of Devil's advocate though, faith has been more and more corrupted over the years, probably truly dying around the beginning of the 21st Century (even though it still exists, but not as positive inspiration)

[nightwishfan1991]

I thought this movie was ok, didn't think it was bad I just walked out of the theater and said meh. It's funny becuase that same day I went to go see Daybreakers(expectations were low like really low) and I fucking loved that movie which made me forget this movie until you guys brought it up.

[magundah14]

dude make a review of 100 Million BC !!! it's the worst movie of all time, but it's so funny how they try to make it a serious movie, but they fail hard!

[ManThatSeesMovies]

why is there more comments and ratings than views??????!?

[KmegaDude]

@ManThatSeesMovies welcome to youtube

[scionlightning]

I don't find it a surprise really when you like an openly theistic movie, Matthew. Don't know your position on the whole 'is there a god' malarkey but you've shown a tendancy of leaning one way. So not big surprise there.

I hated the movie.

[confusedmatthew]

@scionlightning "Tendency" implies that I have done multiple reviews on movies that have theological connotations and have favored more pro theistic movies than anti theistic ones.

To the best of my knowledge I have only reviewed one movie with an openly theological content, which was Knowing, and the preachy nature of that film got on my nerves like nobody's business.

My reasons for liking this film have nothing to do with it being "openly theistic". It was simply wicked awesome.

[scionlightning]

@confusedmatthew oh yes you have. There's the shitstorm of the whole anti-thesitic message in Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass fiasco in which you openly preferred the alagorical theism of the CS Lewis Cronicles of Narnia.

And let's not get the point skewed, you have said in your review of Knowing that it was the misconception that you were going to see an action movie when you actually got to see a alagorical represenation of the Rapture(paphrase there)

I hated that movie as well.

[0637085966]

this is an pendeho film

[CENSOREDFORSEX]

There is nothing good about faith. Faith is believing things without evidence. If no one believed things on faith this would be a much smarter, more rational world.

[KnightofDuroch]

lol Ryan's such a cad. "I think John Hughes is one of the Hughes brothers." *facepalm*

[snake2006]

It was released shortly after new year.

It was so good that I bought the Blu Ray/DVD combo pack.

And Fallout sucks though.

[5HanSolo]

What's interesting, is that Denzel not only choreographed, but did all his own stunts and fighting. So, when you say it's shadowed and a stunt-man is doing it, it's the lighting.

[ocelotecpatl]

If the director had balls, he would've gotten a good book like the Popul Vuh or Chilam Balam.

[confusedmatthew]

@ocelotecpatl I thought the director had balls by suggesting that anyone would bother to preserve Wagner. lol.

[TheSilhouette]

@confusedmatthew

Lol, exactly.

[dudehaha3000]

I thought the movie was alright at best. I like the action a lot, however the plot holes and over all plot were just terrible. It's kinda sad really, this is a movie should have been great.

[fillep]

Are you kidding? The dialogue is fucking TERRIBLE, the plotholes are just as many as a regular cheddar cheese and the action isnt even that good. It's not even interesting. Did you loose something, Matthew?

[bwones]

I've been wondering from some time now, I think this review proves it, but I need to ask you anyway! Are you religious? What's your religion? Do you believe in a God? Which one? Why?

[confusedmatthew]

@bwones I've made it a point not to reveal my theological orientation. The second anyone becomes aware of where my beliefs (or non beliefs) lie, they may automatically call bias.

Those who are religious may accuse me of being bias against Knowing. Those who are atheist may claim I am bias against The Golden Compass.

I cannot take that risk. But I can assure you that no matter what i am, I am NOT an apologist. If something is bullshit, I will say so regardless of my personal leanings.

[bwones]

@confusedmatthew Ok, I understand ( at least I think I do ). Thx for your response. Keep up the good work. Cant w8 for the next part of 2010: TYWMC! ;-)

[MRdaBakkle]

@bwones For one why would it matter what he is?

[sugarpsycho]

great review i agree.



[Saren157]

The Twelve Monkeys proves that Bruce Willis can indeed act!

[dastoll85]

You guys should watch The Road its not an action movie but IMO it has far more emotional impact than Book of Eli

[Tulljfette]

What the hell has happened with the requested reviews?? Finish them so i can request one for you!!

[adr58]

Keep up the good work Matthew :D I'm sure your fans would like to see a picture of you but you must have good reasons to keep your identity a secret. (lion king fans? lol)

[Vameon]

This movie has one of the worst endings I have ever seen.

[elgreco75]

Great Review guys, but you mentioned at one point what happened to the other religious books. At the end when the Malcolm McDowell character books the Bible on the shelf you can see other religious books like the Torah and the Koran. So all religious books were banned/burned. For the purpose of this movie they obviously picked the Bible because the movie is aimed at American Christians.

[CMajors1]

"The Road" with Viggo Mortensen was far, far, FAAAAARR superior to Eli.

[Ryoku75]

You're going at a good rate Matt, can't wait for what you have to say on "Ghost in the Shell", I know that it bored me.

[KajiCarson]

I don't agree with Matthew's statement that faith can be used for good and bad. I don't know if this means that Matthew endorses faith per se (and not just the way it's used in the movie), but I believe that faith is inherently a bad thing (and a bad motivation).

Philosophy and science, for example, can only begin where faith ends.

[PaladinHero]

It might be an ignorant question, but...have you considered doing a podcast? You could discuss a lot of topics and you've assembled an entourage of interesting personalities with which to co-host the show. Might be something you could get into and not take up too much of your time.

[happosai27]

oh gawd! you never played a fallout game x.x im shocked sir! good that fallout new vegas is coming out soon lol

[happosai27]

i liked this one too. its kind of like "fallout: the movie" but with religion and a certain lack of powerarmor but with a good and interesting story that wasnt done like this a tousand times before

[Foebane72]

AHEM, Matthew... 2010? Why don't you finish THAT first?

[wildvenisson]

The reason why they get the disease from being cannibals is the same reason that cows got BSE and such. I love that saying "hollywood has mad cow disease", the idea that hollywood sometimes needs to eat itself to survive.

[TheMelonColony]

What happens if you eat nuclear human flesh? Do you get the shakes AND super powers? They call me the earth quake

[cuntscab555]

he's blind? i watched it 3 times and didn't see that. the woman is blind

[CIarKent]

@cuntscab555 you can even see in the poster he wears a blind man's glassess. apparently all his other senses are hyper enhanced that's why he can do all the stuff he does. but there are many clues in the film about the things he can't see

[Croga15]

@cuntscab555 how did you not figure he was blind...the bible is in brail SERIOUSLY!?!

[Killermike2178]

@confusedmatthew But if you want a good, solid action flick, I recommend Sin City. It was very faithful to the graphic novels it was based off of, and it truly worked as an action-noir film. A lot of memorable quotes in that movie. And I'm not just recommending it because it was filmed in my hometown, Austin, TX. I really think you would enjoy it, especially Mickey Rourke's performance.

[cuntscab555]

human meat is safe so long as you don't eat the offal

[cuntscab555]

dead presidents is a great film

[petrino]

but for everyone else... god is imaginary.

[Krypto282]

Faith for power or for 'how it should be used' this is true but the morale was so fucking ludicrous it basically said; that the only way a society can work is through religion. Yes the action was good, but it had a lot of problems, and the fact that he was blind, was fucking stupid. Maybe I'm a tad biassed as an agnostic, but I'm pretty sure the idea was that god guided him, not god gave him his sight back. Remember that scene where he got shocked as he found the dead body in the closet?

[FlowinEnno]

@Krypto282 dude, spoilers?

[bullsnake70]

@Krypto282 I'm pretty sure he was shocked because the body smelled bad.

[Krypto282]

@bullsnake70 Oh yeah when I smell a dead animal my heart skips a beat too, aromas can be utterly shocking at times!! But also, as if anyone can believe all the bullseyes he got with his bow. Was god guiding it? if so when he got it through that guys crotch did god do that? Man, god is sadistic, isn't he

[shmendri]

my favorite action movie would be the dark knight it had good action and good humor

[MrDamian12345]

They filmed this near my hometown.

[Gradient14]

good review?

I was wondering when you will continue 2010?

[Killermike2178]

@confusedmatthew Did you see The Expendables?

[confusedmatthew]

@Killermike2178 Not yet.

[Killermike2178]

@confusedmatthew Rent it, don't buy it when it comes out. Just watch the last 20 minutes on loop 5 times if you just want action. Otherwise you are in for a snoozefest. Hell, it might just make your to do list for the same reason Iron Man 2 did.

[andrewyoun3]

@confusedmatthew

Its kinda shit lol

[laurent214]

@Killermike2178 Hi Mike, did you like The Expendables? I hated it, it is a pile of crap ;)

[Killermike2178]

@laurent214 If Sly could have made the last 20 minutes the whole movie, I would have loved it, but it unfortunately fell flat for me. I did not want to see Jason Statham bitch about his relationship problems and have his off-on again gf show up in 2 scenes and have her disappear from the movie, never to be seen again. Guess what, Mr Stallone, that's not a plot, that's exposition. And don't get me started on Jet Li blubbering like a baby, saying he should get paid more, since he's so short :P

[laurent214]

@Killermike2178 You got that right dude! :)

[goku48071]

I must be the the only person in the world that saw the problem with this movie. you can't burn all the bibles, i think that's a huge flow with is movie. it's based in a world that could happen, but the bible is to comin of a book to make it that rare

[WARMAKER1814]

people were all like "omg I didn't know the book was a copy of the bible" when it didn't really matter when it first came out. I saw it a few days after release and was like damn I couldn't believe he was blind :O

[DJDREXTV]

This is my 1 problem with Matthew. He does branch out and watch non white movies.

[Rmlohner]

I really didn't care for this film. Did they honestly expect people to be surprised that the book is the Bible?

[cdutta1990]

O_o woah, the cannibalism threw me off. It kinda reminds me of the movie, Day Breakers. But wow, "you eat certain number of human beings, you could get a disease" interesting...

[ZeldaWolf2000]

I really enjoyed this movie. Mostly because I can read braille so the twist at the end was really cool :) cool review

[ncruhk]

I'm not sure... but I'm pretty sure about half of this 'review' is actually talking about other movies instead of this one... : /

[SunnyC247]

Great review.

BTW why was Ryan coughing?

Is he sick?

[capitancoolo]

@SunnyC247 I've been sick for the past week. I'm getting better though.

[Sgtcrispytoast]

I really enjoyed this movie. Just starting the review and I hope you liked it to Matthew.

[TheCaveman16]

Denzel, more like Denzealot

[wowitsethan]

Love you'r reviews :D

[juniorgod321]

Have you seen Mulholland dr.?



[the777joker777]

I need to see this one...been meaning to for awhile.