A lone wanderer travels the wastes, carrying with him the secret to restoring a postapocalyptic world to its former splendor, and a vast assortment of killing implements, all. Once you have, you will understand why so many people are comparing it to fallout 3. Eli is pretty old, and given that the brotherhood would be only forming and collecting in the early decades after the war, it wouldnt be too hard of a stretch to believe eli possibly had an experimental type of vats using an implanted device. Just finished watching the book of eli movie for a second time. I really enjoyed this piece, and wow, it brought a lot to the table. Eli and solara are surrounded and dragged out of the house. Redridge recovers the book, with a locked flap, and gives it to carnegie, who releases solara. A bodeen this book was the sequel to the compound, were the billionaire father of a family stages a fake apocalypse, and forces his family too like in a gantic compound underground for six years believing that they were the only survivors of a nuclear war. Plus, they decided to ripoff some excellent source material, which is better than ripping off something like transformers 2, which must have been written by someone who.
Its a lot like fallout but with a higher grade of tech, for instance a lot of people can access a net remotely through their brain and there is a artificial afterlife that is like. Fallout pretty much follows and copies a lot of postapocalyptic literature dating back to the 1940s. If fallout 4 is too optimistic and happy for you, this is the mod to make things more. As a book of interpretation, this book, also called the book of eli, seeks to.
They make everything in the entire movie impossible and incomprehensible. Im also having an issue with getting the normals to. If there is one thing hollywood knows how to do, its rip off something popular. Essentially, it automatically changes the shade settings so that you get a harsher, more depressing landscape, as seen in the film, with sunlight bleaching the land and everything radiating a sickly sepia tone. Jan 16, 2010 alcon entertainments action adventure film the book of eli is a warner bros. With denzel washington, mila kunis, ray stevenson, gary oldman. The weapon does about the same damage as an upgraded version as the unique chinese officer swords, and it has a regular blade mod, as well as a serrated, flame blade, and serrated flame blade. You may have heard of the book of eli, a postapocalyptic action tale coming in january and starring denzel washington.
The book of eli falls prey to several of the problems that the road had, and while it wasnt as big a failure as that film, its still a lot of apocalyptic wasteland to get through. Jan 01, 2014 the fallout is still a wonderful psychological thriller that will play with your head. Eli had been such an interesting character, but it felt like the fallout was a regression of his character. The colours work great and help give off the correct mood for the book of eli. This is no more apparent than in the recent denzel washington movie the book of fallout 3, err sorry, i mean the book of eli. When logged in, you can choose up to 12 games that will be displayed as favourites in this menu. I really enjoyed book of eli, and im actually currently playing through fallout 3 for my first time right now.
He lives on an earth that was fried 30 years before by the sun because of a war that ripped a hole through the ozone layer. I swear to god some day you idiots are going to say that the road warrior is a fallout 3 ripoff and that mad max was based on the lone wanderer. I completed the modeling and texturing of the weapon pretty easily, but whats causing me a lot of problems is bringing it properly into fallout 3. One reader noticed the films resemblance to fallout 3. The book of eli continues hollywoods obsession with postapocalyptic tales, and in many ways feels like it belongs in the same world as the road. Really good performances by denzel and that 70s girl.
Bible, book of eli, denzel washington, fallout, fallout 3, gary oldman, jesus, michael bay, mila kunis, transformers the apocalypse appears to be progressing nicely. Just because of its similarities doesnt mean its a rip off. In the fallout, the book takes place above the ground. As a big fan of the fallout video games which book of eli seems to fullout rip off the art direction from and the 1975 flick a boy and his dog, im really enjoy the current popularity of postapocalyptic movies, and this one seems to use the best elements of westerns and quest movies to its advantage, too. A postapocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across america in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. The fallout is still a wonderful psychological thriller that will play with your head. The book of eli fallout 3 the something awful forums.
Denzels the book of eli looks dope, because it looks like a. The book of eli is a film which takes place in a futuristic post nuclear wasteland caused by a nuclear war, almost identical to what has happened in the fallout series. The book of eli is kind of like watching the book of mormon filmed and rewritten as a futuristic action movie, except with fewer hot bitches. It fantasizes a world in which everything has been. At the end where eli and mila kunis get to alcatraz island, eli had already lost the book, but memorized the whole thing and is telling the contents of the book to the book manufacturer.
This movie is the closest ive seen to a real life fallout landscape. The movie itself hardly touched on anything christian aka jesus, it merely romanticized aspects of religion for entertainment, such as bullets miraculously going through him, blind men walking by faith and not by sight, etc. Nov 14, 20 the characters in the fallout were disappointing as well. Looks pretty bad ass to me, but then again, i am a fan of fallout 3 and denzel anyway. Feb 22, 2014 jesus and the book of eli part 1 remember the book of eli. The book of eli takes us to a painful place a place where humanity loses its humanness. Daniel starts to make a book called book of the dead and he researches all of these people ho have died to try and figure out if his brother died heroically or accidentally. Jan 06, 2010 eli, the 15yearold son of a billionaire technopreneur, has spent the last six years with his family in the massive underground shelter his father has built, knowing that nuclear war has destroyed the world he knowsand killed his grandmother and his twin brother, who couldnt reach the compound in time. The book of eli is a 2010 american postapocalyptic neowestern action film directed by the hughes brothers, written by gary whitta, and starring denzel washington, gary oldman, mila kunis, ray stevenson, and jennifer beals. So im working on my first mod which was a copy of the machete used by eli in the film book of eli. Fallout 3 seems the new movie the book of eli has taken quite a few cues from fallout 3.
I agree with your opinion about book of eli xd but yeah the postapocalyptic scenery is nothing new, or nothing fallout out came up with. Just cause it take place after the bombs, or whatever happened in that film, doesnt mean its instantly fallout. The illustration style is unusual for this movie and i like it. After all, this is a studio who missed out on a bonus from publisher bethesda because their game, fallout. All he needed was a german shepard and a pip boy to look like the lone wanderer haha. Ok, so i saw the book of eli today, and its basically a fallout 3 movie plus some wierd bible. The bridge where he witnesses the gang killing the couple, the rusted cars that are abandoned on the highway, the crumbling gas station, all reminded me of fallout 3, nv and 4. The book of eli bts the look of eli 2010 denzel washington, mila kunis movie hd duration. The book gives insight into eli s family life after, which is a little psychotic given what they went through together things go horribly wrong wen the family is stalked by an unknown source, giving an unsettling feeling from beginning to end.
The book of eli starring denzel washington as eli, mila kunis as solara and gary oldman as carnegie. Eli came out in 2010, just a year after the road starring vigo mortensen. Book of eli has far more in common with the fallout series than just being set postapocalyptic. If anything, were only going to hear more and more of it due to all this 2012 paranoia. It aims to reproduce the look of the moovie the book of eli. The first trailer for the postapocalyptic drama the book of eli has finally hit the web this week. I would recommend this book to people 12 or older, because it has some bad. The book gives insight into elis family life after, which is a little psychotic given what they went through together things go horribly wrong wen the family is stalked by an unknown source, giving an unsettling feeling from beginning to end. The book of eli is a little like the popcorn version of john hillcoats adaptation of cormac mccarthys postapocalyptic novel.
The book of eli can be best described as a mixture of man on fire, kung fu, mad max and fallout. The ugly get uglier and humanity splits into the hunters and the hunted. It was one of a spat of post apocalyptic dramas with washed out color and characters who care more about surviving to the end of the day than dental hygiene. Theres also a conspiracy involving elis dads company, which he is set to inherit, and a very shady businessman who is trying to keep control of the company at all costs. The book of eli the unofficial fallout movie with a crazy twist. Sexuality you could always look at your fathers playboys, ronnie said. I loves me a good western and the book of eli fits the bill. New vegas on the xbox 360, a gamefaqs message board topic titled the book of eli. Jul 25, 2009 if you havent seen the trailer yet for the book of eli, you really should watch the hd video below. Oct 16, 2015 the legends of the duskwalker is a pretty good series as well along with its first book three.
New vegas all roads by chris avellone, wool omnibus by hugh howey, zombie fallout by mark. If you really loved the film the book of eli, then this is the mod for you. Im at a loss for words, so let me say these right away. The cast denzel, gary oldman, mila kunis is basically impossible to beat. The book of eli trailer starring denzel washington film junk. Which is why im excited for denzel washingtons movie the book of eli. Appart from the visuals in general such as highway overpasses, the look and feel of the wasteland and eli being the lone wanderer, we have the andale cannibals, raiders, and brotherhood scribes on alcatraz. First of all, if there is a nuclear armageddon, i am afraid it will likely be the result of two powers with different interpretations of the book.
Page 1 of 2 book of eli machete havoc issues posted in fallout 3 mod troubleshooting. Popular fallout books meet your next favorite book. The holey machete its totally not the machete from book of eli youtube. The movie is slightly the same as fallout 3, but it has its own touches to the story. I mean, the book of eli did have good acting, a great cast, nice aesthetics, fun action sequences, and a tolerable storyline.
Bodeen presentation conclusion summary main characters point of view figurative language evaluation genre setting all in all, this is a great book that many people would enjoy. The book of eli is a movie set in a post apocalyptic world about a guy named eli, played by denzel washington. This is a simple reshade preset there will be a more detailed enb preset later on to give the game a complete different look. The film follows eli, though he is never directly named it is still heavily implied, a man on a quest to bring the final copy of a. The book of eli certainly brings to mind that other monstrosity among american postapocalyptic films, i am legend, which also weds the genres conventions with religious nonsense. Washington stars as our stolid protagonist, eli, journeying westward with his canteen, a large machete, a couple guns and a special leatherbound book. The road fallout 3 movie the book of eli fallout 3 movie. Its a good book about a merc taking a mother and her son to his father. Children of men, 12 monkeys, and escape from new york are all postapocalyptic i havent seen the others you mentioned yet dont seem similar to fallout at all. Short machinima based on the film the book of eli, hope you enjoy.
Damnation alley by roger zelazny ive got to admit, i gave up on this book about halfway in. The book of eli was, in my opinion, a story promoting the merits of faith. I love fallout 3, and i dont think it was a rip off. Rex yanakakis conducts a social experiment on his own family. Check out the video below to see what the buzz is about. Jesus and the book of eli part 1 worldviews, worship.
Jun 18, 2010 book of eli and fallout 3 a fan made trailer. The plot wasnt really moving along, and it was to a large degree a weird mashup of a young adult book explosions. In case you were wondering, yes, that is a good thing. I think the number one barrier is the fallout fanbase has a tendency to want dialog options, but that is simply not required here in the first place.
After eli is about a boy named daniel and his brother eli just died in the army. In the book of eli why did denzel washingtons character let a woman get raped and her father or husband get murdered. Eli also has to have some sort of implanted vatstype system from before the wars happened. But then he meets another girl and keeps her from getting raped mila kunis character. Perhaps its the freshness of that movie, and the popularity and respect afforded mccarthys book, that will make the road so prevalent in any evaluation of the hughes bros. Eli, reproduced in the preceding pages to this introduction, is a book of prophecy, written by the anonymous author eli. Carnegie threatens to kill solara, to the dismay of redridge. Aug 23, 20 the fallout is not just about recovery, though thats a good part of it. Meanwhile, gary oldman opens the book which turns out to be a copy of the bible in braille.
If theres one thing you know i love, its fallout 3. Bodeens highly anticipated, thrilling sequel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. By patti maguire armstrong patti maguire armstrong is an awardwinning author and was the managing editor and coauthor of ascension press bestselling amazing grace series. The book of eli is loosely based on someones play through of fallout 3. We enter into in a gritty world devoid of either protection from the elements of nature or a government.
It grips your attention, and then at the end throws in several wtf. From being called queer to looking for playboys the boys in this book are eager to talk about all things sex. There is also an oral tradition of eli, which i have on good authority, and which has helped guide me in the writing of this book. A lone wanderer travels the wastes, carrying with him the secret to restoring a postapocalyptic world to its former splendor, and a vast assortment of killing implements, all of which he wields with unerring accuracy. The characters in the fallout were disappointing as well. The book of eli is a tough one to call you may find yourself liking or disliking it based on your particular point of view. Plus, they decided to ripoff some excellent source material, which is better than ripping off something like transformers 2, which must have been written by someone who was functionally retarded. Prison island needs a book of eli and snake plissken reference then. And a lot of people want this bookpeople who act like fallout raiders. I can say it really enhanced my love for postapocalyptic media and really really made the wait for fallout 4 much harder. Eli has in his possession the last surviving bible in the world, and he is on a mission he believes was given to him by god, to head west to where it will be safe. The book of eli is, for good or ill, a perfect, complete knockoff of fallout 3 the video game.
As eli tries to determine who the family can trust, he learns the nightmare of the compoundand his fathers experimentmight not be over. For fallout 3 on the xbox 360, a gamefaqs message board topic titled why do people say the book of eli is the fallout movie. The book of eli returns at fallout new vegas mods and. The first is when the antagonist gets a taste of his own medicine. The love of eli a dystopic reshade at fallout 4 nexus. The atmosphere may be new to you, but its definitely not something fallout pioneered. Its been a while since the hughes brothers have directed something for the big screen 2001s from hell, to be exact, but this looks like a movie that will probably put them back on the map. The story revolves around eli, a nomad in a postapocalyptic world, who is told by a voice to deliver his copy of a mysterious book to a safe location on the west coast of. I did sort of like the arguments and tension between eli and eddy, but nothing was ever really resolved in a way i could get behind. While i am legend might only be 34 of a decent filmthe theatrical ending is badyou can see the proper ending on the home.
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