[mimi]

boring

[Heir Apparent]

TiffJane, on Feb 8 2010, 12:03 PM, said:

I was thinking trying to remember if everything he did coulda been done by a blind man.. and for the most part it seemed so but what I don't understand him doing blind is the arrow shooting...

He could hear the cat walking across the leaves and it hissed right before he shot it.

During the shoot out, the bad guys shot first. He didn't kill the last man, although he was standing in the same spot from the beginning cuz he lowered the gun. Eli couldn't hear him.

He could hear the bird flapping it's wings.

I wondered why he didn't take the arrows out of the girl's attackers but he probably wouldn't find them without letting the girl know he was blind.

[***pika***]

bajanempress, on Feb 6 2010, 12:07 PM, said:

Why pika?
Many hints were dropped to that effect in the movie. He never said "do you see that?" once he always said "do you smell that?" it was little hints to tell you that his other senses were highly amplified.

There was nothing in the movie to suggest that he was sighted we just assumed he was because it is the norm. And before anyone says it is unrealistic because of how he was picking of baddies. Now really even a man with sight couldn't have taken on the men he did, how he did, as I said before it's a movie.

By the way I liked the part with the people who ate humans :(

because now the movie is just unbelievable.

[bajanempress]

So if he could see that would have made it believable? Seriously? Like you thought yeah this could happen and then when you found out he was blind that is what made it unbelievable?

[***pika***]

er. yeah.

that doesn't mean I don't get the gist of the movie. I can't say I enjoyed it more or less now that I found out that he was blind. It just seems silly to me really.

[bajanempress]

I don't think it would be believable for a man who could see to fight an entire bar of men and win, get shot and walk to San Francisco without medical treatment and be able to recite the entire Bible word for word by memory.

So I find it funny that people would say that the only thing that would make this movie unbelievable is that the man couldn't see.

I not saying you didn't get it but movies are an escape and aren't meant to be believable unless you watching a documentary. It surprises me when movies get slammed for not being believable because if one wanted reality one would watch a reality show or the news.

[anomaly]

You seem to have two buckets to drop the events of this movie in, [realistic] and [unrealistic]. Other people just have different buckets. For me for instance there is [ believable ] [ feasible ] [physically possible] [ too convoluted to be true I will allow for artistic liscense ] and [ unreasonable ] .. amongst others.

Were he not blind it would fall in to the first 4 buckets. But you see this blind thing? It goes in the last bucket. And unreasonable does not work in "serious" movies. You see the twist in that movie The Perfect Getaway? When it happened I dropped it in the unreasonable bucket, but as it was clarified it went somewhere down the line of buckets.

[bajanempress]

I never said it was believable but I don;t think many movies is be believable. Bucket o no bucket.

[***pika***]

bajanempress, on Feb 8 2010, 11:03 PM, said:

I don't think it would be believable for a man who could see to fight an entire bar of men and win, get shot and walk to San Francisco without medical treatment and be able to recite the entire Bible word for word by memory.

So I find it funny that people would say that the only thing that would make this movie unbelievable is that the man couldn't see.

I not saying you didn't get it but movies are an escape and aren't meant to be believable unless you watching a documentary. It surprises me when movies get slammed for not being believable because if one wanted reality one would watch a reality show or the news.

yuh know I totally understand what you are saying.. but to do all of that and be blind too... somehow all the superhero stuff he did in addition to that.. just made it too much....

DISCLAIMER: This is not meant to offend any blind persons reading this post.

[blackstar]

the action was somewhat plausible by hollywood action standards up until the shootout, that's when it crossed into comic book/anime territory. I could still dig it though.

[TiffJane]

***pika***, on Feb 8 2010, 11:59 PM, said:

DISCLAIMER: This is not meant to offend any blind persons reading this post.

:o

[Solidus]

Unbelievable? Don't you all have faith? :o

Honestly, there is a lil something in the bible that said if you have the faith of a mustard see all things are possible.

I attribute it to that.

When I think back to it there is nothing really that he does that he must attribute to sight.

[Miss. Naughty]

hmmm im still in the process of watching this

[D.Cexter]

I just watched this film today..I still can't really wrap my mind around the whole blind thing still to be honest. I'd skim through the movie quickly again when time allows..but..wow.