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LUCY - directed by Luc Besson, starring Scarlett Johannson, music by Eric Serra

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anaron

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89 minutes, Rated R

63% on Rotten Tomatoes

Trailer (and the hilarious parody)

Damon Albarn - Sister Rust by Eric Serra LUCY Soundtrack

Reviews:

Roger Ebert.com's Matt Zoller Seitz:
Nevertheless: "Lucy" is a fun, confident work. It's fast and tight and playful even when it's sadistic and violent, which is often. It lasts about 90 minutes and change but feels longer in a good way, because every second is packed tight. It's full of itself, yet it still keeps winking at you. It wants to be taken seriously, but not so seriously that you don't laugh at (and with) the sight of Lucy strolling into a gunfight wearing nosebleed heels, or making enemies writhe like marionettes on invisible strings. The movie is alive. It pops
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AV Club: B+
"The first half of Lucy contains the most energetic and purely entertaining filmmaking Besson has produced since The Fifth Element, packed with pulpy action, pseudoscience, title cards, sped-up montages, and teasing associative cuts. (A turn in a conversation is interrupted by a close-up of a mousetrap, an explosion is replaced by a man exhaling cigarette smoke, and so on and so forth.)"

"Calling the whole thing dumb would be a disservice, but not because there’s anything especially smart going on under the movie’s surface. Rather, the sheer weirdness of Lucy’s imagery—a telekinesis-assisted car chase, a USB stick containing all the knowledge of the universe, people growing animal limbs—prevents it from registering as run-of-the-mill summertime “dumb fun.” It comes across, instead, as a directorial flight of fancy, an imaginatively goofy take on an already goofy idea, exaggerated by Besson’s blunt style and an uncommonly fast pace."
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The Dissolve: ★★★

The Wire: The Wonderfully Demented 'Lucy' Crosses High-Octane Action with ‘The Tree of Life’

NPR:
Lucy is a welcome reminder of just how much Besson's wry sensibility as a filmmaker adds to movies like this. It opens with a shamelessly prurient extreme close-up of cell division while Eric Serra's vaguely porn-y slow-jam score bumps and grinds along.
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TIME REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlet.
Taking place in less than a day, while simultaneously synopsizing three million years of human evolution in a hurtling 82 mins. of screen time, Lucy tops its only competition, Tom Cruise and Doug Liman’s underappreciated Edge of Tomorrow, as the summer’s best, coolest, juiciest, smartest action movie
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Vulture: In the Outlandishly Entertaining Lucy, Scarlett Johansson Becomes One With the Action-Movie Universe
 
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Ceebs

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Here is what I said in the other thread:

Yeah so went and saw this today. I am pretty sure I had a big stupid grin from the sheer batshit inanity going on in this movie. I have no clue if what I watched was good, but I enjoyed every minute of it.
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I think I agree with the TIME review about it being in the same class as Edge of Tomorrow. It is just a unique and fun summer movie.
 
Razorback

Razorback

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It really bothers me that they are going full steam ahead with the 10% of the brain thing. When I first saw the trailer, I let it slide thinking it would just be a throw away line to explain the cool super powers. But they went ahead and made it the tagline.
 
SJRB

SJRB

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Queue 50 posts with people being faux offended about the 10% thing. It's a science fiction movie. Let it go.

I'm pretty surprised by the reviews, I was expecting the movie would be destroyed. Seems there's more to the movie than the trailer let on. Actually really interested in seeing this.
 
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Mattamus-Prime

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SJRB said:
Queue 50 posts with people being faux offended about the 10% thing. It's a science fiction movie. Let it go.

I'm pretty surprised by the reviews, I was expecting the movie would be destroyed. Seems there's more to the movie than the trailer let on. Actually really interested in seeing this.
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Razorback PT said:
It really bothers me that they are going full steam ahead with the 10% of the brain thing. When I first saw the trailer, I let it slide thinking it would just be a throw away line to explain the cool super powers. But they went ahead and made it the tagline.
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ComputerMKII said:
The tagline alone makes me not want to see the movie.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvc7dzGgcs
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It has begun...
 
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msdstc

Incredibly Naive
It's a ridiculously stupid movie, with some really cool moments and some really funny bits. I feel like it fell flat at points, and it struggled to get across the tone, but it's worth checking out if you're bored.
 
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Blizzard

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For anyone curious, there may have been some impressions in the other thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=846080&page=7

My comments after seeing it:
Blizzard said:
I just got back from seeing it. It is flat-out crazy. I don't know anything about the director, but they seemed to have had fun.

It really is a psychadelic mix of violent martial arts/gunfight/Inception/Matrix stuff, thriller action movie stuff, transhuman stuff (probably a much more effective take than Transcendence), National Geographic animal scenery, and cosmic Carl Sagan space imagery.

I don't know that I could say it's a GOOD movie, but whatever it is, it seems to have free reign. Perhaps unexpectedly, though some moments do involve looking at Scarlett Johansson's legs or (clothed) breasts, her attractiveness really doesn't seem to be the focus of the film.

About that ending scene:
I loved the "hole in space" effect on the USB stick. I want one like that!
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Blizzard said:
I forgot to mention this -- in the movie they make it very clear what happens with that taxi driver:

He says something like "my leg!" after falling down. It's not at all like the gangsters, who get instant aimbot headshots through doorways when Lucy feels like it.
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andthebeatgoeson

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Just finished watching. Mainly for Scarlett. Kinda fun but wasn't worth the ticket for me. I wanted more action with Lucy. Not matrix but just wanted her to wreck some shit. No dice. I enjoyed the imagery, the quirky imagery to smack you over the head with their point but that was it. The pacing was off. The tension was lacking, the villains were weak but illogically over powered. Like 24, something pulls you out and call bullshit. Unlike the Fifth Element where you just enjoy the show.

My main enjoyment was Scarlett. Just eye candy. Would red box.
 
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TheVisualizer

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Just got back. Overall slightly disappointing.

Most of the interesting stuff was revealed in the trailers and there wasn't much movie here.to enjoy despite the interesting premise.

I was surprised how fast it got started and how fast things wrapped up. I think it could have used more character building for Lucy prior to her evolution to show how drastic her personality and aspirations changed. Worth a watch still.
 
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Camp Lo

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TheVisualizer said:
Just got back. Overall slightly disappointing.

Most of the interesting stuff was revealed in the trailers and there wasn't much movie here.to enjoy despite the interesting premise.

I was surprised how fast it got started and how fast things wrapped up. I think it could have used more character building for Lucy prior to her evolution to show how drastic her personality and aspirations changed. Worth a watch still.
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Glad it's still worth a watch. I'm about to go check it out now. My expectations are minimal.
 
bengraven

bengraven

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Besson directing.

Serra back doing music.

Fuck, if only Jean Reno was in this - I'd be a happy boy.

Human Resources said:
Luc Besson, Eric Serra, Rated R Sci-Fi with negative reviews that call the film ludicrous and silly YOU HAD ME AT BESSON
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Fuck yes.

Been a Besson fan since even before Leon.
 
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dark_inferno

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Just came back from the sneak preview. This movie was fucking stupid in every way possible. Cheesy dialogs everywhere... the beginning was okay but when the first 20 minutes are over the film goes full retarded.

I would give this movie 3/10.

Edit:Im on my phone right now. Will write a bit more tomorrow if you guys want it.
 
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andthebeatgoeson

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TheVisualizer said:
Just got back. Overall slightly disappointing.

Most of the interesting stuff was revealed in the trailers and there wasn't much movie here.to enjoy despite the interesting premise.

I was surprised how fast it got started and how fast things wrapped up. I think it could have used more character building for Lucy prior to her evolution to show how drastic her personality and aspirations changed. Worth a watch still.
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Forgot about that. The shoe horned a phone conversation to do it but overall, no development.
 
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Absoludacrous

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Saw this earlier today. Was pretty terrible. Movie has a really bad identity issues, to the point that the action felt incredibly throw-away and unnecessary. Not to mention anything even slightly interesting was shown in the trailers.
 
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Camp Lo

Banned
I don't know what to think of the movie. At 60% and up I was holding back laughter at the pretentious absurdity of it.

The end was a fucking farce but it was fun to follow 1 through 60%
 
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nynt9

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This movie was awful. I was already turned off by the premise and went "well maybe it will be dumb fun" but it was way worse than expected. No plot/character/ending. Choi Min Sik was badass as usual but underutilized. The plot was absolute bullshit and it didn't even resolve. And most of the scenes made no sense even given the stuff that already happened in the movie.
 
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JdFoX187

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Really enjoyed it. Scarlett did a great job. The premise was a little thin, but it added just enough to keep everything moving forward. There were a couple "what the fuck" scenes and the ending is still leaving me scratching my head. But I enjoyed it.
 
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anaron

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5th and 6th UPDATES, 6:05 PM, 6:40 PM: I’ve been watching the gross estimates rise all day on director Luc Besson’s Lucy, which is great news for its star Scarlett Johansson and for Universal Pictures which is distributing. As of 6 PM PST, the sci-fi actioner is on course to bring in a $15M to $17M Friday (which includes the 2.746M late night gross last night) for a revised estimate of anywhere between $37M and $42M
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http://dlvr.it/6QtlHt

So happy a female R rated scifi film is doing well

GIMME MY BLACK WIDOW MOVIE NOW MARVEL
 
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