Thank you for your honesty! Always a fan.

I agree, I was pretty underwhelmed by the reveal of him being blind, it's an ok movie but not one of his best. Thanks for not pretending you loved the movie.

You definitely have to lean into the mysticism BS of the movie to really love it. Otherwise it's really just kind of a poor man's M. Night movie where the twist is interesting in that it makes you reconsider all the crazy action before - but only a little bit, because again it's in the context of the supernatural/religious. I know personally when I first saw it I was kind of in awe of it but these days I've become a great deal more honest about the power of belief...and how it's really just insanity.

A very good, very underrated Denzel movie is "Man on Fire".

You was almost sad when the bad guy order to burn the DaVinci code book..well he knew already that is a book full of lies and nonsense.

or he could just read brail and be partially blind and not fully blind. the movie never explicitly states that he is blind. would be cool if it did. it implies it at times and then shows the complete opposite at other times. what it does SHOW and TELL is that he has FAITH which is more than seeing.

​@@drewskiwest5284they show his milked over eyes closeup. Hes blind.

I like how they showed us that over and over but nobody saw it. He tripped up the step and ran into a table in the very first place he loots.

He wasn't blind Remember the finding the boots on the guy hanging and he saw the boats or how about when he was looking in the cars for people's feet to find boots or how about he saw the mouse. He wasn't blind. In an interview thy Eveb said he wasn't blind. A lot of people just like you thought it was blind but it was not bit shows That when people have faith in the bible they can memorize Things in their head to keep the faith in their heart

@@BM-hb2mr technically he could be 90% blind or still unable to se the body but 100% smell it. I like to think he's not 100% blind because opening scene shows him hunting a cat from range and 1 shooting it with a makeshift bow n arrow.. Now I know losing one of the core 5 sensed strengthens your other ones.. But him being 100% blind implies he's supernaturally protected AND enhanced. In combat and survival. Which is why I believe he can BARWLY SEE shadows n shapes. Cuz he wss pre war.. perhaps losing majority of sight from the mukes radial light blasts. It has tons of contradictions regarding his vision... In the end it only matters to KJV Bible Christians believing he's blacked out blind and one of the gods in the old or new testaments imbued him with powers. So trying to look for logic n practicality is difficult when religion is involved.

I do think that it is a different experience once you know, but I think there's a couple times where he reacts/acts like a sighted person (which the movie infers to be divine intervention). I don't want to sound critical at all since I really do love the movie and these things were portrayed this way to make it seem as though he was sighted. In the beginning there's two things: he is able to strike the cat with a bow and arrow perfectly from like 30 yards away despite not being able to see or hear clearly since he is wearing a gasmask and the film shows how loud his breathing was (to him inside the mask it would be even louder), and when he reacted to the corpse hanging in the closet as a jump scare. He 100% should've smelled that and not reacted that way. In the town shootout, he snipes a guy that was behind him and on a rooftop effortlessly (divine intervention). Really any time he fire a gun and hit someone would be impossible, but can be chocked up to divine intervention.

@@primary2630 The only times that Eli acts as a sighted person, is when his eyes are shifting or looking directly at people when he hears them, but that's because he used to have sight. He still unconsciously activates his eye muscles to "look" in the direction of interest, unlike people who are born blind and never needed to develop the muscle activation to look in any specific direction. Gas masks are masks, not helmets. They're made to protect the eyes, nose, and mouth. They cover the face only. So, his ears are still exposed to the natural enviroment. He was able to strike the cat, and the goons in the shoot out, later on, due to his hyper-developed senses, empowered by his faith. Making his actions implausibly successful. The corpse serves as both a jump scare and as misdirection, to make us assume that Eli reacts to what we as the audience see. In reality, it's the door that fell off the hinges that make Eli jump. The sudden loud noises made him think that there was more going on than he expected from the smell alone. If you look closely, you can see his head shifting back and forth between the doors, as he's frantically tracking the sound.

It´s pretty obvious in the first time, if you use your brain.

Agreed 👍🏼

I think she would love man on fire, definitely my favorite Denzel, Washington movie of all time

That's the biggest plot twist that I love about this movie

No he really wasn't

@@BM-hb2mryes he was as per the screenwriter Gary Whitta in interviews

I read that Gary Oldman was considered for the Truman Show, before Jim Carrey was cast

That was my experience with "Prince of Egypt". Just because I don't consider Christian mythology to be non-fiction, doesn't mean the story can't be emotionally powerful or awe inspiring. Heck, The Matrix was critically acclaimed but I think most people didn't consider it to be true.

Civilisation has collapsed. You are charged with saving human knowledge. You must select one book. What do you choose? The a to z of agriculture, medicine, science or engineering? Nah, the bloody bible! 🤦

Also atheist and I agree with your statement. My biggest issue is the fact the book is the King James Bible which is considered a very inaccurate translation. I guess it was chosen over the NIV or ESV bibles as they aren't as well known.

⁠@@hingethunderchristian here, the Kjv is not inaccurate, but it does contain more verses than a regular, more recent translations like the niv, esv, lsb or my favorite nasb because throughout the time of scribes copying manuscripts there were additions of other verses, and wording, some think out of malice but others don't based on the fact that most of those verses are from another one of the gospels that contain them and they think that these verses where written so that people without access to the other ones may know something that was really said by Jesus and not quoted there or something written by the authors. but overall the kjv is one of the closest literal translation, the guy who wrote the kjv wrote it from more limited manuscripts (you can check James White's videos on the kjv) as oppose to the ones that produced the newer translations. but today there are available 6,000 to 5,800 manuscripts and portions of Greek (original translation) manuscripts (depends on how they're counted) and although there are many variations (millions) those variations according to textual critics like Dan Wallace and James White plus more, those variations don't affect majority if the text, Dan Wallace spoke of 99.9 or 98.9 percent of the meaning or essential doctrines are not affected, but the variations are spellings of names differently, different ways of wording the same thing in greek, and misspellings from scribes, also where there are at times "Christ" they put "Jesus Christ" or vice versa (that's considered a variation) but overall there are thousands of other manuscripts of just the new testament in other languages. plus (i heard Bruce Metzger argues for this from Voddie Baucham's "why i believe the Bible") argue that 95 or more percent of the new testament can be reconstructed based on the quotations of the early church fathers from their writings. check out James White debate with Bart Ehrman and Dan Wallace's debate with Bart also, along with Dan Wallace's video "is what we have today what they wrote then?". but overall the Bibles today contain footnotes that speak to different wordings or what other manuscripts say, etc.... also Mike Winger has a video on the addition of verses or different wordings on his channel called "how the Bible was changed"

Why don’t you start a cult where you can worship the word “underrated” since it seems to be everybody’s favorite word nowadays

@@nsasupporter7557 dafuq?

@@nsasupporter7557 This comment is so underrated!

Atticus Ross is the name of the guy responsible for the soundtrack, he is a very talented film score producer. He captured the feeling of holiness and being in an apocalyptic landscape. All is lost, but also not lost.

@@Rubiks_LIVE That guy is going through his anti-theist phase, don't worry he will grow out of it and cringe at it in retrospect like the early sceptic community on KZfaq that worshipped Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, and Dennett. Looking back the "New Atheist" movement... yikes did they get it wrong. There influence is almost dead and most of their ilk devolved into radical leftwing cultists and they shat all over the secular beliefs they thought would flourish in the absence of religion.

Really good insight

I'm not very spiritual in general or religious at all, but whenever a hard ass mf quotes a line from the bible you know shit is going down

This! but if I know KZfaq right, I'm probably gonna get around 200 comments saying how wrong I am, which is why most reactors just say we like every movie we've reacted to 🥲

@@CentaneYou don’t have to explain yourself. Many of us appreciate the honesty.

@@Centane Why would comments cause reactors to lie? Isn’t the whole point of a reaction channel to show your reaction and opinion? Btw, we can usually tell when they are lying and that is when we move on to someone else. Too many started out good but turned in to phonies

@@MrMpa31 I've spoken to several reaction creators, and they've mentioned that it's alot of hate comments if u do not love a movie. And I notice it myself now too 😂 It's also a reason why people have turned off comment notification so they do not read new comments, since it gets quite overwhelming

@@Centane Don't worry about it. A lot of people including myself didn't think it was that great and it has all the stuff I love. Love Denzel. Love apocalypses. Love Gary. It was visually cool. Didn't think Mila should have played that part though. She seemed more like a spoiled kid than an indentured servant.

thank you so much! this was truly a very nice read 🥹❤️

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a great choice... denzel go an oscar for it... not an equalizer.... but so much better... and based on real events....

Not exactly. He wants to do what people have done since the start. He will use the actual words to gain authority and then bend the people to his own will. He will preach the actual powerful words and then twist their meaning to fit his own means.

@@kroanosm617 valid point, i can see that explanation too. I just think it would be easier for him to just make the rules up himself, so he wouldn't have to justify why it's ok to kill for him, despite the words saying "though shall not kill"

no thank you! 💕

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The message of the movie essentially was that the book was not responsible for the end of civilization, it's those that use the book(s) and pervert it's message to gain power. Plus the idea of controlling people by denying "books" or knowledge.

Fallen is such an underrated movie!

Apocalypse Now would be great to see

I've heard some people assert that he was blind through the whole movie, but I can't agree with that. His eyes simply appeared to be too functional at many points throughout for me to believe that. Others say he can simply read braille, having learned it for some unspecified reason before the War, but that doesn't sound like a very interesting story. The theory I like the best is that Eli was blind, but God gave him sight when he charged Eli with his task.

He was blinded by a nuclear blast.

There are many subtle clues that he is blind, or at least mostly blind. He didn’t see the sign at the cannibal couple’s house. He didn’t know that all the lights were on in the room until Solara told him. He only shoots at a target once they’ve shot at him. He only takes down the guy at the bar after the guy touched him. I agree, he probably wasn’t born blind, though.

@@batbrick3949also at the beginning when he opened the door to the hanging body, the door fell scarring him, he didn’t see the body he smelled it, and had to feel the body to find the boots. And when he came across the trap at the bridge with the high jackers, he moved into the shadow to fight them because its harder for them to see him, people say how would he know he is the the shadow? Because he wouldn’t feel the heat from the sun on his face. Thought that was a nice touch when I rewatched it

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