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Lucy to use 200% of her brain in the sequel

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TheGreatDirector said:
I really hated this movie. I was actually gonna make a thread after I saw it of how badly put together this film was. Knowing this is getting a sequel actually is pretty upsetting. I don't even understand how they could considering
Lucy pretty evolved into not having a body
. I don't want more Animal Planet footage. I don't want more monotone dialogue or stupidly thought out action sequences.
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These were so well integrated into the movie as metaphors, I enjoyed it.
 
I think the best part of the movie happened in the first 15 minutes when ScarJo is scared shitless and begging for mercy.

She is indeed a great actress.

but the role was boooooring as hell as her brain got more powerful.
 
plasmawave said:
They should do a sequel to a much superior film, Limitless.

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But Cooper didn't even turn into a god
sphinx said:
I think the best part of the movie happened in the first 15 minutes when ScarJo is scared shitless and begging for mercy.

She is indeed a great actress.

but the role was boooooring as hell as her brain got more powerful.
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She was pretty much emotionless through the rest which was sort of the point but also didn't make for a fun protagonist.
 
The drugs run out so she now has to put twice the drugs in her stomach for two different druglords. Double the action, double the fun! Double the profits?
 
plasmawave said:
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"Hey the villain who is taking the genius drug still acts like a complete idiot and hands me his ass on a platter, now let me solve the entire conflict of the movie offscreen because I'm magic"

Bradley Cooper is awful, the character he plays is awful, the movie is awful. It's wish fulfillment of the worst kind, where a complete loser lucks out on a compound, becomes the best at everything, makes some mind-numbingly stupid mistakes despite being a supposed genius, and never suffers real consequences that are supposed to come for him. Also, there's a completely superfluous and hilariously bad chase scene where his former fiance uses an ice-skating kid as a weapon.
 
Limitless was okay. A drug that basically just makes you super focused isn't a terrible idea.

Lucy turned into Neo. It was dumb.
 
D4Danger said:
Limitless was okay because it was basically just a drug that made you super focused

Lucy turned into Neo. It was just dumb.
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Super-focused except when it comes to remembering loans from the Russian mafia apparently. That's another problem with the movie, and any other movie with a "super-intelligent" character: Your character is only as intelligent as the writing. When Bradley Cooper somehow forgets to pay off that loan or when the Russian mafia guy goes up in his face and takes his sweet time actually trying to kill him, you realize they're not really written intelligently.

But yeah, at least Limitless made sense. Lucy had a character gaining superpowers from opening more of her brain because... Fuck if I know. Apparently reaching 90% of your brain lets you do tentacle hentai with computers.

The entire "Accessing more of your brain" is such a stupid concept that I feel like it's impossible to make a good movie about it.
 
Alphahawk said:
People get too worked up about the bad science of the first movie, it's a fun and a solid 3/5 star movie. I'm interested to see where they go with the sequel.
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I always hear this. Where's the fun in a movie where the protagonist becomes untouchable in the first 20 minutes?
 
what if someone uses 300% of the brain

or imagine 1 million % of the brain

wait

what about

infinity % of the brain

WAIT

what about infinity times infinity % of the brain

i think i have an idea for a villain
 
I envy people who call Lucy the worst movie they have ever seen. I wish Lucy was the worst movie I've ever seen but as it stands I enjoyed Lucy quite a bit. Probably because I've actually seen movies that are MUCH worse.
 
triplestation said:
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How the hell did Waterboy get facts about the brain more correct than that first POS movie? The medulla oblongata is where happiness comes from, if we could control it (the idea of controlling your brain doesn't make sense but lets overlook that for a second), you won't get any special powers, but you can make yourself endlessly happy which I guess would actually count as a pretty cool power to have.

Most functions of the brain are non-cognitive and would not lead to anything too special if we could control it all. Maybe if we could control it all and have them all contribute towards cognitive functions rather than their natural autonomous ones, then who knows what'll happen. You'd probably die because your brain isn't sending signals to your body's natural functions but you'd be really smart for like a minute. The movie would've still had problems if they dropped the "100% of the brain" trope and just went for "it gives you powers", but atleast it wouldn't have insulted the audience's intelligence.
 
Regarding Lucy... that movie had no business being so boring considering the "zaniness" of the story.

It had like one or two action scenes. Nothing impressive.
 
This movie is godawful, after loving Limitless I was looking forward to something similar, only to encounter this shut. Thankfully limitless is getting a sequel TV series so I'll enjoy that instead
 
Lucy was okay, but I couldn't get on board with the "plot is so dumb that it's fun" approach nor did I really enjoy the action scenes. It was neither good nor bad - just mediocre.
 
Lucy was just ok. I liked the science about it outside of the brain myth.
Don't see how they can continue since she becomes omnipotent at the end.

I'm not looking forward to a Columbiana sequel. Zoe is not believable as an action star.
 
Lucy was probably the absolute weirdest major film I've ever seen. It didn't work much at all, but I'd watch a sequel just for the lunacy of it.
 
Axiology said:
I always hear this. Where's the fun in a movie where the protagonist becomes untouchable in the first 20 minutes?
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It's not that kind of thing. It's not Lucy vs this or Lucy vs that? It's Lucy vs herself. she's slowly losing her humanity and she knows this. Even if she doesn't know what's going to happen she knows that her human form is dying. The conflict is can she spread her knowledge and make amends before her time is up.
 
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