TheRedSnifit
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It does an incredibly poor job of conveying this; she simply spends the second half of the movie doing random super stuff and talking in an obnoxious monotone. Or maybe I just fell asleep and missed that part, I dunno.
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Lucy to use 200% of her brain in the sequel
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It does an incredibly poor job of conveying this; she simply spends the second half of the movie doing random super stuff and talking in an obnoxious monotone. Or maybe I just fell asleep and missed that part, I dunno.
Escape Goat
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We dont even get to know Lucy before shes co opted by her God-brain. Whatever happened to her didnt matter because I had no idea who she was. If that really was the real conflict in this film they still failed spectacularly. So what if she failed? Nothing was at stake once they recovered all the drug mules.
Human Resources
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all i want is for this movie to be 100% more French and weird
i think Luc can do it, but i'll settle for Megaton
i think Luc can do it, but i'll settle for Megaton
Batman 89 was pretty bad.
Astral Dog
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Lucy battles Jesus and then God, she discovers God was once a human that could use 300% of his brain
I dunno. I didn't mind that bit, as totally unrealistic as it was. What bothered me was her crawling all over the ceiling while overdosed with the drug because... we gotta show her changing somehow.
Extra Sauce
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So you have to die to enjoy this movie?
Escape Goat
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It probably helps.
way more
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It was a universal computer. A computer that dicated nature appear as a USB drive to access it.
Wow. GAF enjoyed Limitless and they harp on Lucy. The clearest example of what we are dealing with on the Movie GAF side of things.
lastflowers
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It was a bad movie, but I enjoyed watching it in theaters during a matinee. I don't plan to ever see it again, and will probably not watch the sequel unless bored out of my mind on a 10 hour flight.
Lucy is the PERFECT movie for this article :
Stop Telling Me to Turn My Brain Off During Movies
excerpt :
What the hell is this movie about.
Time travel, becoming a super computer and crawling on the ceiling? I need to watch this.
WordAssassin
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I really liked the visuals but yeah the plot was fucking weird and the power balance was WAY out of whack. She gets like all of her abilities by the time she hits 20-30% of her brain and then the remaining 70%, fuck all happens to distinguish her becoming more powerful.
I'd watch a sequel though, just to see what other cool crazy visuals they'd do. The part where she started like... disintegrating in the plane bathroom was cool as fuck.
I'd watch a sequel though, just to see what other cool crazy visuals they'd do. The part where she started like... disintegrating in the plane bathroom was cool as fuck.
way more
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That was written in defense on his treatise Ranking Every ‘Jurassic World’ Character From Dumbest to Least Dumb
Summary: The guy who wrote the listicle on who is dumb in a Jurassic Park movie tells us there also exists smart movies. List-bro should accept that his bullet point criticism exists on a level shallower than JW. How about stand behind a review that does more than list errors. The author sounds likes he's trying build a resume so he can get hired by Cinema Sins or Uncle Todd's Big List of Technical Mistakes.com
lastflowers
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Not necessarily. Not at all. This is not how I always watch movies, and it's asinine and reeks of elitist presumptuousness to assume everyone watches movies the 'right way'. Stop telling me how I am supposed to enjoy my entertainment. Clearly 'The Raid's epic characters and story should be thought of during the entirety of its runtime. In fact, I think Mad Max: Fury Road is a very similar movie to Lucy, except visually more cohesive and less pseudo-science.
Can we not.
Please no more of this.
What? The CGI and past visions stuff was the ONLY even remotely redeemable part of the movie. The entire rest of it was trash, but at least you got to see a old cgi New York or whatever lmao.
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But how did she do it without a magical remote control or car? Bad science.
I thought Lucy was fun. I was actually a bit surprised that the movie did not feel super focused on Scarlett Johansson's body. There was one scene where she used that, but otherwise I recall it being more focused on her using her powers.
It remains one of the movies I saw the most people objecting to one aspect about -- the percentage of a brain thing. I've seen so many movies with weird or implausible setups, bad science, or whatever, it didn't phase me. I guess a lot of people who know some basic science found that ruined it for them? Gravity really annoyed me possibly for sort of the same reason, and other people love Gravity, so who knows.
It remains one of the movies I saw the most people objecting to one aspect about -- the percentage of a brain thing. I've seen so many movies with weird or implausible setups, bad science, or whatever, it didn't phase me. I guess a lot of people who know some basic science found that ruined it for them? Gravity really annoyed me possibly for sort of the same reason, and other people love Gravity, so who knows.
twinturbo2
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I'd pay money for that.
Isn't Lucy's final form literally the entire universe?
twinturbo2
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Like the drunk guy in the bar picking a fight with Rhonda Rousey, eh, big deal.
hobblygobbly
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The main thing that killed this movie for me was the 10% brain usage shit. I loved Johansson's performance.
HomerSimpson-Man
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Lucy became ridiculously powerful and all god-like. How do you follow that up?
If they removed the premise of brain percentage and straight up said it was abnormal mental behaviors and capacity influenced by a outside experimental chemical reaction, it would have been neater as a premise to take; you more or less take the same outcome just the same.
If they removed the premise of brain percentage and straight up said it was abnormal mental behaviors and capacity influenced by a outside experimental chemical reaction, it would have been neater as a premise to take; you more or less take the same outcome just the same.
200% agreed.
I don't mind a curve stomp movie, man against God an all that, but the Morgan Freeman parts were painful.
I was hoping for an ending where her messing with time actually had consequence. A single atom out of alignment far enough back would make for a very different future. Got USB ports instead. Wasn't even Type-C.
Much superior, in the sense in which a 2/10 is superior to a 1/10.
XANDER CAGE
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Lucy wasn't that great but I found it really strange at the time how many people were falling over themselves to point out that they knew the "you only use 10% of your brain" thing is a myth. No shit it's a myth, I don't see why using an old adage as the premise for a fantasy flick is such a big deal. There were plenty of other issues with the movie more pressing than that.
HP_Wuvcraft
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And afterwards/simultaneously you turn into...god/EM-waves/whatever. The ending was hilarious and I wonder how they'll retcon it in Lucy 2 and then surpass it.
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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I actually enjoyed this movie. Why are people so serious about the science part? Do you get insulted by every csi-fi movie?
Make her God and someone vs her as the hero like Lawnmowern Man 2
Because the movie focused on it more than cool action stuff.
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