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LUCY - directed by Luc Besson, starring Scarlett Johannson, music by Eric Serra
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ComputerMKII
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I'm watching a Luc Besson interview on French television. He just admitted that he 10% theory was false so he's not as stupid as I thought 
……forgetit
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Yeah, saw this Friday. It's shit.
il Diavolo
Banned
"Time to go."
The delivery of that line paired with the conversation that preceded it. I almost died.
The delivery of that line paired with the conversation that preceded it. I almost died.
WordAssassin
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He actually doesn't though? He says we use 10% of our brain's capacity. I wouldn't mind watching it again to be sure, but I feel preeeetty sure that he doesn't say that - I was listening for it but he's always talking about capacity.
It's like you have a car engine, and you only drive 65mph but the car is capable of driving up to 120mph. You're not "just using 10%" of the car's engine, but you're only using a fraction of the engine's capacity.
No, the critics understand that the premise is ridiculous.
Laughing Banana
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Man, if "ridiculous premise" is outright banned as a reason to create movies, we will have so many less good movies around to enjoy.
Black-Wind
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I'm pretty sure I heard that to.
It was around the time he was presenting to that group of people.
Well, you asked for this by getting in a bitch fit over a fictional character in a fictional movie using magical drugs and telekinesis.
WordAssassin
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You heard what too, that he says we only use 10% of our brains, or that we only use 10% of our brain's capacity?
He's doing the lecture at the school or whatever, yeah, and then he talks in front of a slide that says 15% but they must have cut that part out because next thing we know he's talking about 20% and there's a slide about dolphins. He talks about echolocation and then goes on to 30%, where he surmises that we'd have total control of our own bodies, beyond that we'd be able to control other's bodies, then he brings up telekinesis, and then someone asks about 100% and he admits that he has no idea. The whole time I kept waiting for him to say the classic line but I'm like so sure he never does, he only ever says capacity.
I'm open to being wrong I'm just like... so sure I'm not. I wish there was a script or something online so I could verify since I do have some self doubt.
Just wanted to point out, I think you don't know how superpowers work? At lot of them that involve telekinesis, telepathy, etc use... their brains. Like that is where that power originates from. Actual fringe science, science fiction, comics, that shit always, always is a mind power. So in the world of the movie, where gaining more control of your brain and accessing more of its latent functions, happens when she ODs on this drug, her getting "powers" from it make complete sense. Like the entire study in the real world on telepathy, it's a brain function. The theory of telepathy and telekinesis being latent brain functions is like, THE theory. That's where those powers come from. Not your hands or your chest, your brain. The actual real world fringe science theory is that if we had greater control over our brains, we could communicate via thought and move objects with our minds. The premise of the movie may be ridiculous, but that's not the part you should be taking issue with.
As for the second part, she doesn't stop time. She becomes time. It's a take on another fringe science theory about humans (or other creatures) eventually evolving out of our bodies and simply becoming pure energy.
Black-Wind
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WordAssassin
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I knew it! Thank you.
In a science fiction film? My WORD
Eric Serra doing the music for this? Goddamn, i'm gonna keep an eye on this movie then.
I've watched shitty Luc Besson movies before anyway, that ain't gonna stop me.
Lèon's soundtrack is amazing.
EDIT: Lol people are going at this movie with a vengeance, for that 10% line.
Didn't know that sketchy science in a sci fi movie, was so outrageously taboo.
I've watched shitty Luc Besson movies before anyway, that ain't gonna stop me.
Lèon's soundtrack is amazing.
EDIT: Lol people are going at this movie with a vengeance, for that 10% line.
Didn't know that sketchy science in a sci fi movie, was so outrageously taboo.
godofcookery
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I saw this recently. I jump on the side of ok/like I would say. I really enjoyed the fact that he took his starting press and ran amok. courage of his convictions. I liked the journey she went on, even though i don't really like her portrayal at first.
IN addition, these unlocking power movies have a bunch of cliche, "i am nonchalantly awesome" scenes, that feel really awkward.
people need to calm down about this 10% business. just call it gamma radiation instead. that should help.
I would have like to have seen her use some of the languages she learned too. I do also feel like they could have spent less time with Morgan Freeman's speech. Also her need for revenge seemed out of place, I figured she'd have grown out of it by then?
people need to calm down about this 10% business. just call it gamma radiation instead. that should help.
Hmm,
she only went back to the drug lord to find out where the other bags went, she didn't even kill him. She didn't care about revenge at that point, let alone at the end
I though the movie's start was a lot stronger, it had the right mix of humour and tension, and Lucy was actually likeable. Once her transformation begins, she turns into a robot (besides her phone call to her mum and keeping the French cop around because he reminded of her being.. um, human? ). Also Lucy was way overpowered even when she was at 20%, no sense of build up.
godofcookery
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re: spoiler. oh right. okay, that makes sense.
Yea, i can see the lack of buildup being an issue, watching her slowly start to have a sense wonder at her own abilities, then lose her humanity a little more gradually would be been neat.
but she did go from crazy powerful, to outright godlike, so i liked that curve.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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I watched this today.
Im not one to shit on Sci-fi movies, even the more implusible ones, but this was easily one of the most nonsensical movies ive seen in a long time. It failed in narrative, structure, setting, pseudo-science, storyline everything. Even if you ignore the fact the basic premise is wrong, it is still a very bad movie. Comparing this to limitless, its like night and day.
Bad. just fucking bad.
Im not one to shit on Sci-fi movies, even the more implusible ones, but this was easily one of the most nonsensical movies ive seen in a long time. It failed in narrative, structure, setting, pseudo-science, storyline everything. Even if you ignore the fact the basic premise is wrong, it is still a very bad movie. Comparing this to limitless, its like night and day.
Bad. just fucking bad.
Napoleonthechimp
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Pretty much this.
There was nice directorial touches that you don't see every day in Hollywood movies but my god... the central concept was beyond dumb. And after watching it I still don't understand the point of the movie.
Also, what was going on in the plane scene? Her body started to come apart, she snorted more of that chemical and then... what? She woke up? Okay.
Make no mistake, the execution is perhaps even shoddier than the core concept.
Christopher
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Where I mentally "checked out" of this film...I liked the concept but it just went out the window from there.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
.........has she ever not looking good?
SolidChamp
Banned
Living in Taipei, I can appreciate some of the cinematography and camera work.
That, along with Choi Min-Sik (one of the best actors working today, as evidenced by I SAW THE DEVIL) are really the only saving graces this movie has.
Scarlett Johannson was pretty good in the role, but boy was she short changed by such a shitty, nonsensical script. And dat ending...WHAT in the actual FUCK?!
P.S. Luc Besson is a hack, for the few left who are not in the know. Leon wasn't as great as people make it out to be, and The Fifth Element was easily his only truly good film. Before LUCY he directed this awfully phoney, melodramatic piece of shit called THE LADY which couldn't be bothered to do a real examination of the accomplishments of Aung San Suu Kyi. It was embarrassing for everyone involved. It's funny because the lead actress in that film said Aung San Suu Kyi didn't even say anything after seeing the film, she just gave her a hug.
That, along with Choi Min-Sik (one of the best actors working today, as evidenced by I SAW THE DEVIL) are really the only saving graces this movie has.
Scarlett Johannson was pretty good in the role, but boy was she short changed by such a shitty, nonsensical script. And dat ending...WHAT in the actual FUCK?!
P.S. Luc Besson is a hack, for the few left who are not in the know. Leon wasn't as great as people make it out to be, and The Fifth Element was easily his only truly good film. Before LUCY he directed this awfully phoney, melodramatic piece of shit called THE LADY which couldn't be bothered to do a real examination of the accomplishments of Aung San Suu Kyi. It was embarrassing for everyone involved. It's funny because the lead actress in that film said Aung San Suu Kyi didn't even say anything after seeing the film, she just gave her a hug.
MarkMclovin
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She looked dirty in Cap 2. It looked like she desperatly needed a wash.
But she was still round. Couldn't contain myself this whole movie.
Guess I will watch Lucy then. Turning my brain of and having some fun.
What?
And you have never seen Nikita?
Then there is Joan of Arc, which was also nicely done.
I disagree on Léon the professional. What was bad about it? I mean seriously.
I would actually rate Fifth Element worse than those 3.
Oh and there also was "Le Dernier Combat", which was his 2nd movie. Which was also nice.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
And yet I am willing to bet 99% of straight dudes still would that version.
Hell, maybe some of the gay ones would too, hahaha. She's just an absolute gorgeous, and no matter how they beat her up or anything that gorgeousness wouldn't just gone.
dapperbandit
Banned
Yeah this movie was laughably bad. Entertainingly bad, even.
I liked the bit where you got snippets of shagging rhinos and boars on screen as Morgan Freeman talked about reproduction, just in case you didn't know what he meant.
I liked the bit where you got snippets of shagging rhinos and boars on screen as Morgan Freeman talked about reproduction, just in case you didn't know what he meant.
This is so true D:
Freewheelin'
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Saw this earlier tonight.
It was fun, but from reading most of the impressions in here....yeah I'm gonna have to go with it being unbelievably stupid, lol.
*SPOILERS*
2/5
It was fun, but from reading most of the impressions in here....yeah I'm gonna have to go with it being unbelievably stupid, lol.
*SPOILERS*
It was paced poorly, no build-up (just gains her powers instantly after taking the drugs, would have liked to see her discover her powers and slowly gain a perspective of who she is and what she could be)
Also, she should have done way more with her powers. and lol at her turning into a USB stick at the end hahahahaha jesus.
Also, she should have done way more with her powers. and lol at her turning into a USB stick at the end hahahahaha jesus.
2/5
lmao i laughed at your second line of the spoilers, too. ridiculous.
regardless of how ridiculous this movie was
i. fucking. loved. it. seriously. i legit loved it. my girlfriend was like "really?"
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