Quote Originally Posted by Troy
Oh man, exactly the opposite! Stay away, trust me.

Those of you not finding the movie very preachy, by its very existence, the entire movie is a sermon. The whole motivation for Eli's travels and plot is entirely dogma-driven, however subtle it appears to you.
Yeah, true but I saw it from a different angle and my wife took a 3rd viewpoint. She saw Carnegie as a possible Anti-Christ who would use the power in a negative way, while I saw Carnegie as just wanting to control people, and the 3rd viewpoint is that the book was needed for good to continue in the world.

I doubt the makers of the movie really thought too much about the flip side messages, only that the bible would somehow save mankind.

Yes, the whole movie is a sermon but you can take away several conflicting messages from it as I did.

The last twist as to the book, not actually being a tangible item was pretty clever and I didn't see it coming. I just thought the one he hid behind the TV was a decoy or copy.