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Limitless |OT| Cooper's Trooper
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LyleLanley
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The movie was surprisingly fun, I hope the show is done well.
Extra Sauce
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Cooper is recurring? Interesting.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
This was a pretty good pilot, a little cheesy, up until the final act when it shifts away from pilot mode and towards "wow this is going to be a weekly crime procedural" mode. I'll watch a few more, but the shift is quite palpable.
Stevetopsy
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Ew, all four of those review quotes are just dripping with cheese. You would think they were required to make at least one stupid pun or play on words per review. Rarely ever is anything like that every truly clever or funny and it just makes the writer come off as lazy and uncreative.
Baroquemantic
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This is good so far. It's very much like the movie, but knowing it becomes a crime procedural sounds disappointing.
Edit: Yep, that was a good pilot.
Edit: Yep, that was a good pilot.
Wait Cooper is actually on the show?
Didn't he turn into
a goddamn superhero at the end of the film?
brokenbeans
Banned
Ooo interesting I enjoyed the film will keep an eye on this before I jump in.
OdysseusVA
Banned
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and Cooper was a nice surprise. I'll tune in for a few more episodes.
BladeoftheImmortal
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industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
One thing I always wondered, what happened to the girl that the guy may or may not have killed in the movie? She got swept under the rug almost instantly.
I don't mind it at all too much but the actual procedural stuff will have to be really interesting to even work. Otherwise why is it about a dude with 100% brain use doing regular crime stuff? Also it will have to rely on what Bradley Cooper's character wants with the main lead.
Also the FBI pumping drugs into their subject would've been interesting had they not gone the route where they just basically removed all the side effects so that kinda just glossed that over.
The movie is very good, I don't know where you get that idea.
So hows the show? It's a procedural?
It's Dexter's sister and White Guy protagonist with beard #347917. Don't think we're in for anything significant in the acting department.
The acting wasn't great - but talking about actors.... Nina Sharp! It's been a while since I've seen Blair Brown (come to think of it, Fringe was probably the last thing I've seen her in).
Backwards Marathon
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So this is a show about a movie about Adderall?
Baroquemantic
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I watched the movie today and then watched the pilot. Pretty good movie. The pilot follows almost the same story early on. In Media Res opening. Main dude runs into a guy he used to know that gives him the drug. He finds that friend dead later. Between that and turning this into a procedural, it seemed rather uncreative. (Though I suppose the similar beats to the movie were intentional and not meant for people who had just watched the movie. And I like a lot of procedurals, so you never know this might be a good one.) Overall it wasn't bad. I'm going to see how it goes in the next couple episodes.
If anything it's a show about a movie about an extremely fictionalized version of Modafinil.
Pilot was pretty meh tbh. I enjoyed the movie but I'm not sure a procedural show in the same vein will be interesting.
Dedication Through Light
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Caught it today on cbs site, love the music for this and the whole problem solving aspect.
Curious of the development of NZT.
Curious of the development of NZT.
Baroquemantic
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I loved John Doe! It was one of my favorite shows back when it was on. I always hated that it got cancelled and the story was never wrapped up. At least I don't remember it being given a proper ending.a know-it-all that solves crime? This was already done by Fox years ago. At least this show is pretty good.
Napoleonthechimp
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Limitless always seemed like an unfinished story, so I'll be interested to see where the TV series goes.
Zeyphersan
Banned
It wasn't terrible, but that narration was
MulderYuffie
Member
I actually kinda liked it i'm going to keep up with it and see how this plays out pretty interesting so far.
Dedication Through Light
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This feels so videogamey and I like it, and also mike x ike kiss scene, nice
I loathe the movie, but this probably will avoid my problems with the movie just because so many of the movie's problems came from its structure.
That was the worst part for me and one of my least favorite endings in a movie ever.
Baroquemantic
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I'm liking this episode a lot more than the pilot, and I thought the pilot was pretty great.
Please, that was the best part... as soon as the movie started i thought
"oh there he goes bad ending because he probably stupidly screwed up or stupidly abused the use of the thing when he was on top of the world, so clichè" but thankfully he did what a super intelligent person would have done.
I'm sorry, but
handwaving away one of the main problems of the movie with a sentence about an offscreen laboratory and taking out the Russian gangster on the drug and his thugs through both ridiculous contrivance and their sudden stupidity
The main character didn't get out of trouble with intelligence, he got out with the script bending to his will. It doesn't help that the supposed genius only got into that situation because he didn't realize that repaying a loan from the mafia on time might be a good idea.
And maybe if the main character was charming or interesting I wouldn't be so down on the ending, but he wasn't, he was a bland mess with the charisma of sandpaper.
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