The Book of Eli
Feb. 15th, 2010 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
musingaloudYou know, I liked it. It wasn't earth-shatteringly great, but I enjoyed it. I did know the spoiler and I'm glad I did, because I liked watching it unfold, knowing the secret. My son said he heard the best thing about it was the spoiler at the end, though, so I don't know. But I'm still glad I knew.
The only thing that *really* bugged me, and this bugged me a lot, was the sepia tone to the landscape. I get what they were trying to do with the post-apocalyptic world, but it was just annoying to me. Because they kept shooting the sky, and you could tell it was a regular blue sky with fluffy white clouds, but they'd taken the color out. I think if the sky was post-apocalyptic, it would either be more like low clouds, high fog, or else more bright than usual, to the point of washing to whiteness. All the people wore sunglasses or goggles outside, like the sun would burn, so why would the sky be sepia-toned, then?
Okay, looks like the cut isn't working. So don't read further if you don't want to know. Ok, now it's working! I think.
The other thing I wasn't quite sure of was Gary Oldman's character wanting the book so he could control his people. Wasn't too sure his reasoning was quite right, or true to what a character in those circumstances might want. But on the other hand, it's probably more than accurate that a tyrant would try to control through religion. It has been done a time or two before, hasn't it. Plus, who came through and burned all the bibles after? If there's no society and no government anymore? Maybe all those people died? I also thought at one point that Denzel was walking into what used to be Los Angeles, but then they ended up on the northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge, coming into San Francisco, so that wasn't right. And I don't think they ever really explained well enough about the people with shaking fingers. Everytime he met someone knew, they held out hands and said, I'm not one of them, look at my hands. And then at the end, you had to pay *really* close attention when they kind of tossed out there real quick about what caused the shaking hands.
Ok, that looks like a lot wrong with the movie. And I do know that the reviews aren't so great. But those were really minor things, really, and overall I liked the movie. Denzel and his mighty weapons were pretty awesome, and they didn't go the blood spattering route, thank goodness.
The only thing that *really* bugged me, and this bugged me a lot, was the sepia tone to the landscape. I get what they were trying to do with the post-apocalyptic world, but it was just annoying to me. Because they kept shooting the sky, and you could tell it was a regular blue sky with fluffy white clouds, but they'd taken the color out. I think if the sky was post-apocalyptic, it would either be more like low clouds, high fog, or else more bright than usual, to the point of washing to whiteness. All the people wore sunglasses or goggles outside, like the sun would burn, so why would the sky be sepia-toned, then?
Okay, looks like the cut isn't working. So don't read further if you don't want to know. Ok, now it's working! I think.
The other thing I wasn't quite sure of was Gary Oldman's character wanting the book so he could control his people. Wasn't too sure his reasoning was quite right, or true to what a character in those circumstances might want. But on the other hand, it's probably more than accurate that a tyrant would try to control through religion. It has been done a time or two before, hasn't it. Plus, who came through and burned all the bibles after? If there's no society and no government anymore? Maybe all those people died? I also thought at one point that Denzel was walking into what used to be Los Angeles, but then they ended up on the northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge, coming into San Francisco, so that wasn't right. And I don't think they ever really explained well enough about the people with shaking fingers. Everytime he met someone knew, they held out hands and said, I'm not one of them, look at my hands. And then at the end, you had to pay *really* close attention when they kind of tossed out there real quick about what caused the shaking hands.
Ok, that looks like a lot wrong with the movie. And I do know that the reviews aren't so great. But those were really minor things, really, and overall I liked the movie. Denzel and his mighty weapons were pretty awesome, and they didn't go the blood spattering route, thank goodness.
