The Book of Eli

I actually never watched training day. I had plained to, but my favorite gatherings tend to feature movies in the living room that you can't hear because of the group talking and laughing in the dinning room. So that kind of kept me away from that one. Also Denzel's speech when he accepted the award for the part also kept me from looking at it alone. I think the biggest problem with Book of Eli is that it was marketed as an action movie as opposed to a Sci-fi spiritual, because that's basically what it was. I think the way people were turned off about the story being about a religion would have kept many from seeing it, so its a hard one there. Again, I liked it, but I didn't go into it expecting nonstop action, in fact I went in not knowing what to expect aside a futuristic setting, and Denzel.

My ex-BF said the same thing about the first Matrix, and I do remember some other people I talked to calling Eli slow. I should say I hadn't actually seen any previews for the movie. I saw the poster and my brother talked about the film a lot, so that probably added to my enjoyment, not knowing what would happen next. I said that to say I think a lot of folks might not have liked the film because it was marketed as an action movie and we are used to these films being filled with constant fight scenes and explosions. Now that I really think about it some more plot could have enriched the experience, like scenes showing the collapse of society, as opposed to people just talking about it... still I kind of liked the slowness, it gave the sense of an empty planet. Thanks for commenting.