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LUCY

It's been long and well-established that the "10% of your brain" thing is bullshit. So, why is there now a movie based on it?

LUCY's Wikipedia page has "normal 10%" linked in the sentence that describes the movie's plot. Appropriately enough, that link takes you to the Wikipedia page for, "Ten percent of brain myth."

There are many, of course, but what are some of the worst movie plots you can think of?

 

[Loofy]

lol just saw the commercial 5 minutes ago and thought the same thing. They mustve dug out a script from the 90s.

Also.

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

 

[slit]

The Truman Show. I liked the movie but the plot is absurd.

 

[lazygecko]

I'm usually not one to really ponder over how stupid a film's premise is, as long as it's executed good enough. But The Purge was really something that crossed the line for me. People aren't going to stop commiting crimes just because nothing's illegal for one day.

 

[bro1]

LUCY

It's been long and well-established that the "10% of your brain" thing is bullshit. So, why is there now a movie based on it?

LUCY's Wikipedia page has "normal 10%" linked in the sentence that describes the movie's plot. Appropriately enough, that link takes you to the Wikipedia page for, "Ten percent of brain myth."

There are many, of course, but what are some of the worst movie plots you can think of?

Ha! I'm 38 and when I was a kid this was a premiss if all bad sci fi. I am dying to see this movie as it is every dumb argument my friends and I had in middle school. This films speaks to the inner 13 year old in me. Big guns, big boobs, and a freeman narration. I am going to celebrate this movie on every level.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Going by the previews, The Purge and Let's Be Cops.

 

[Xpike]

lol just saw the commercial 5 minutes ago and thought the same thing. They mustve dug out a script from the 90s.

Also.

lol what does that even mean

 

[G-Fex]

Going by the previews, The Purge and Let's Be Cops.

HAHAHA THE PURGE.

So ..dumb.!

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Speed

A terrorist puts a bomb on a bus. If the bus goes over 50mph, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50mph, the bomb explodes.

Dumb as hell, but the film is one of the best action films of the last 30 years.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Also Speed with keanu and sandra bullock "Oh we can't drive less than 55 MPH or the bus will explode!" Just drive the bus to an empty parking lot and let the military shoot it with missile you fucking idiots.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Also Speed with keanu and sandra bullock "Oh we can't drive less than 55 MPH or the bus will explode!" Just drive the bus to an empty parking lot and let the military shoot it with missile you fucking idiots.

But that would kill all the passengers.

 

[Grizzo]

Speed

A terrorist puts a bomb on a bus. If the bus goes over 50mph, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50mph, the bomb explodes.

Dumb as hell, but the film is one of the best action films of the last 30 years.

Also Speed with keanu and sandra bullock "Oh we can't drive less than 55 MPH or the bus will explode!" Just drive the bus to an empty parking lot and let the military shoot it with missile you fucking idiots.

woah you guys both thought about the same movie at the exact same time

 

[FloweryMarston]

come on, the premise of speed is awesome

 

[Messypandas]

And they're both wrong. Because Speed is awesome.

 

[BertramCooper]

Elysium.

God, where to start...

 

[DarkFlow]

Also Speed with keanu and sandra bullock "Oh we can't drive less than 55 MPH or the bus will explode!" Just drive the bus to an empty parking lot and let the military shoot it with missile you fucking idiots.

How would that help? They going to do 55mph donuts? Plus wtf at missiles.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

The gold would have lost its induced radioactivity after like a month.

Elysium.

God, where to start...

BUT MODERN-DAY METROPOLIS. DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT CLASS STRUGGLE?

So disappointing.

 

[cr_blah_blah]

Also the terrorist guy says if he sees anyone getting off the bus he'll blow it up. So they can't just let people off.

 

[Kinvara]

Came here to post Lucy and it was in the very first post.

I am pleased.

 

[kai3345]

10 Percent of Our Brain is one of the laziest and dumbest writing tropes

 

[JJDinomite]

Hostile

edit meant hostel lol

 

[Rubbish King]

 

[DarkFlow]

Hostile

Only move I've feel asleep watching in a theater.

 

[El Daniel]

All crime is legal for a day sounds dumb as hell (The Purge) but when I first heard about it I thought it could be great when done right.


Unfortunately, it wasn't done right.

A shame we will never see a Crank 3.

 

[ghst]

weren't people turned into hyper athletic, super strong predator zombies in the doom film by introducing an extra chromosome?

someone really didn't research that.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

And they're both wrong. Because Speed is awesome.

I said the premise was stupid, but that the movie was awesome. Speed is a great example of "It's not what your film is about, but HOW it is about it." Speed is a damn masterpiece of action/thriller cinema.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Total Recall remake and "the Fall" - stupidest plot device ever.

 

[Delta Assault]

 

[daycru]

It's fake. Chewbacca never existed either.

 

[BadAss2961]

How would that help? They going to do 55mph donuts? Plus wtf at missiles.

They got the bus to an even better place than a parking lot, they took it to an airport runway.

The whole point was that getting there while staying above 50 was fucking hard.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

BUT MODERN-DAY METROPOLIS. DON'T YOU KNOW ABOUT CLASS STRUGGLE?

So disappointing.

I've read it's also supposed to be a commentary on illegal immigration.

 

[Anustart]

Titanic. A ship that big would be unsinkable.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

I'm usually not one to really ponder over how stupid a film's premise is, as long as it's executed good enough. But The Purge was really something that crossed the line for me. People aren't going to stop commiting crimes just because nothing's illegal for one day.

It kind of makes sense. From what the first movie shows, those who commit crimes on days outside of the Purge get strict punishment. Alluding to death for even the smallest of crimes.

Purge comes around, people get the idea that they can just wait to do their crazy shit and not get in any trouble. Hate your boss? Wait til the Purge to kill him, then get a promotion the next day because he's dead and there is nobody better. Lust after the secretary? Wait til the Purge, break into her home and do whatever you want, then show up to work the next day and everything is back to normal. So on and so on.

Plus, these crimes would overlap so I'm sure that after the first few Purges the 100% psychopaths would mostly be killed or taken out of the picture.

It makes sense. Everybody gets all of the shit out of their system once a year with no consequences. Why mess up your entire life when you can just wait a few months and be okay?

 

[DarkFlow]

I said the premise was stupid, but that the movie was awesome. Speed is a great example of "It's not what your film is about, but HOW it is about it." Speed is a damn masterpiece of action/thriller cinema.

Then they made Speed 2.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

I've read it's also supposed to be a commentary on illegal immigration.

 

[Sanjuro]

Mrs. Doubtfire |OT|

 

[a Master Ninja]

Going by the previews, The Purge and Let's Be Cops.

The premise of "two guys put on cop costumes and see what they can get away with, things quickly spiral out of control" isn't terrible. Sitcoms like Always Sunny have used it.

Jaws the Revenge, where the shark stalks the Brody family around the world is a dumb premise. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a dumb premise.

 

[Ri'Orius]

X-Men. "Every now and then evolution... jumps!" Into eye lasers and full-body ice transmutations.

Batman. Do I even need to explain?

Captain America: some guy in the 60's invents a serum that turns a wimp into a superhero... and then nobody can recreate it, or anything remotely like it. For half a century.

Yet for some reason Lucy gets people up in arms about its premise...

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Then they made Speed 2.

They made a Speed 2?

 

[BertramCooper]

I like Escape from New York (though it's not one of my favorite Carpenter films), but it has a really stupid premise.

You could dump convicts on any random island. Why the hell would you choose Manhattan?

 

[a Master Ninja]

Captain America: some guy in the 60's invents a serum that turns a wimp into a superhero... and then nobody can recreate it, or anything remotely like it. For half a century.

Don Draper invented it for the Vietnam War?

 

[BrokenEchelon]

They made a Speed 2?

And a third one:

 

[DarkFlow]

I like Escape from New York (though it's not one of my favorite Carpenter films), but it has a really stupid premise.

You could dump convicts on any random island. Why the hell would you choose Manhattan?

Didn't it have some kind of disaster?

 

[Messypandas]

I said the premise was stupid, but that the movie was awesome. Speed is a great example of "It's not what your film is about, but HOW it is about it." Speed is a damn masterpiece of action/thriller cinema.

True. But why is the premise dumb? It wasn't solely about the ransom remember, it was to taunt and test Reeves' character. That why he tells him the location of the bomb and conditions of the bus, to play a sick game with him as punishment for humiliating him years before.

If he just wanted to blow the bus up, he would have done it like he did with the one at the coffee shop at the start. He was intentionally trying to fuck with people.

 

[ghst]

I've read it's also supposed to be a commentary on illegal immigration.

what was that? i can't hear you over this bach concerto i'm listening to as i swan around in my colonial space villa feeding caviare to flamingos.

 

[-COOLIO-]

its a game but.... arkham city. a city for prisoners? really?

actually i guess for movies i could say escape from LA/NY. same deal right? i have'nt seen the movies.


oh oh, and death race / gamer.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Oh and this one:

I love Signs, but the concept of Alien's having the technology to come all the way here during a massive invasion and then not be able to open doors and be easily killed by what makes up an incredibly large portion of the earth is pretty dumb.

EDIT: God dammit.

LOL

 

[Hatchtag]

I love Signs, but the concept of Alien's having the technology to come all the way here during a massive invasion and then not be able to open doors and be easily killed by what makes up an incredibly large portion of the earth is pretty dumb.

EDIT: God dammit.

 

[BertramCooper]

Didn't it have some kind of disaster?

If it did, I definitely missed it. And I haven't seen Escape from L.A., if anything in that explains it.

I guess it's probably just a reflection of how crime-infested NYC was a few decades ago.

 

[plasmawave]

LUCY

It's been long and well-established that the "10% of your brain" thing is bullshit. So, why is there now a movie based on it?

LUCY's Wikipedia page has "normal 10%" linked in the sentence that describes the movie's plot. Appropriately enough, that link takes you to the Wikipedia page for, "Ten percent of brain myth."

There are many, of course, but what are some of the worst movie plots you can think of?

It's basically a rip-off of Limitless which was handled much better.
By much better I mean there's no time slowing ability or instant hair color change ability.