# Lucy: the movie with Scarlett Johansson - wow, what a dumb movie

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**Created:** [July 27, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-the-movie-with-scarlett-johansson-wow-what-a-dumb-movie/694186 "2014-07-27T21:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-the-movie-with-scarlett-johansson-wow-what-a-dumb-movie/694186/162 "2015-08-11T15:30:06Z")

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Well, I was on a (90s) Luc Besson kick, and I decided that - just for contrast - I would watch this thing by way of contrast, to see what he had been up to more recently.

Lord, was it bad.

It was almost bad enough to travel back in time and retroactively make all his _other_ movies into stinkers. 😃 Though apparently it made a megaton of money, so what the hell do I know?

The funny thing is that you could almost make a _good_ (albeit very short - like hour long TV episode short) movie out of it _simply by editing out all the exposition_. Just get rid of any hint of explaination as to WTF is happening - get rid, in particular, of the (truly cringe-worthy) ‘science-y’ speeches the director forced poor Morgan Freeman to make - hell, get rid of him altogether. Get rid of anywhere where they explain what the blue stuff they sewed into her was and what it was for. Leave all that to the imagination. 😃

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-the-movie-with-scarlett-johansson-wow-what-a-dumb-movie/694186/163 "2015-08-11T16:09:13Z")

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> [@Gothic](#):
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> How could everyone miss the satire in this movie?

…because it isn’t there? IMHO, you are giving this stupid movie way too much credit.

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