The Book of Eli/YMMV

• Anvilicious: Surprisingly averted. Although the whole thing could've easily turned into a Christian tract, it takes enough time to point out that religion/The Bible can just as easily be used for evil purposes and to mislead people. At no point is "save the Bible, save the world" insinuated. Indeed, at the end of the film, the Bible is placed on a shelf at the end right between the Torah and the Koran, among other religious texts and some technical/scientific ones, suggesting that the message is about idealism, those who corrupt ideals for their own ends, and the importance of literacy and education.
  • One reviewer who enjoyed the movie mentioned that's one thing he liked about the movie. That the bible could've been replaced with virtually any holy text, and the movie would've worked out pretty much the same.
• Awesome Music: The main theme "Panoramic" by Atticus Ross, that combined with the awesome desolated post-apocalyptic landscape with green clouds, back hair chills guaranteed.
• Complete Monster - Carnegie. The man whores out his stepdaughter and later threatens to kill her (after promising her to his right hand man), and physically abuses her mother in order to extort information from her. And that's just what he does onscreen.
  • Solara actually tells Eli that she and her mother "belong" to Carnegie, meaning they're considered his property rather than a wife and stepchild. So, yes, Complete Monster has earned its rightful place on his business card.
• Magnificent Bastard: Despite being the most evil son of a bitch in the movie, Carnegie does have a certain charm to him that makes one see why people are willing to follow him. Being played by Gary Oldman certainly helps.
• Moment of Awesome: Eli seems to perform one every other scene.
  • The Reveal concerning Eli's book, also a Funny Moment.
  • Claudia gets one when, after basically cowering in fear of Carnegie the whole movie, allowing her daughter to be whored out as part of a job offer, and mostly just staying out of his way, finally gives him a thorough dressing down once he finds out that the Bible he's sacrificed so much to get turns out to be written in braille. She tells him his leg is infected and that he will most likely die of gangrene in a few days, that he's lost so many men that the ones he still has are doing nothing to stop the formerly intimidated townspeople from tearing up his bar, and then she walks out on him. Seeing her stand up for herself was one of the best parts of the movie.
• Serial Numbers Filed Off: The beginning of the trailer was enough to (briefly) fool some audience members into thinking that they had made Fallout 3 into a movie. Sadly not the case, but it should be interesting to note that the film's writer, Gary Whitta, Former PC Gamer editor-in-chief, is a self-proclaimed fan of the game. That being said, this may be as close to a Fallout 3 movie as we're ever going to get.