It reminded me of 2001, The Matrix and Akira and not in a good way.
My reaction right at the end of the movie was that it was two different movies mashed together: a shitty-yet-pretentious sci-fi pic and a wanna-be John Woo action pic. Except instead of being like peanut butter in my chocolate and chocolate in my peanut butter, it was like getting tuna in my chocolate and chocolate in my tuna. 
Saw it. It was pretty dumb. All the characters, even the law-enforcement guy, also seemed surprisingly nonchalant about the massive numbers of people getting mowed down by gangsters.
Johannson has acquited herself by carrying plenty of films; arguably she had the best scenes in Iron Man 2 (aside from Sam Rockwell’s “Hammer Dance” and Tony Stark synthesizing a new element in his basement over a weekend using a 5m cyclotron jury rigged from components bought on Amazon; clearly, CERN should be recruiting Stark instead of SHIELD). And of course she’ll be headlining the Black Widow movie slated for a 2016 or 2017 release.
As for Lucy, anyone who didn’t see broad idiocy from the trailer alone wasn’t paying attention. The pitch for this film was clearly a mashup of Johnny Nmemonic and Limitless with the same character Morgan Freeman has played in every low grade conspiricy thriller/sci-fi actioneer since Chain Reaction, even if it wasn’t immediately apparent that it was directed by the hackmaster Luc Besson.
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Is it bad to be ridiculous? I once saw a Morgan Freeman film where he gave a speech about a magic loom that told him to kill people, it was fine.
Incidentally, Scarlett Johannson has been in some odd movies recently. Under the Skin, for example, incredibly weird.
We saw this yesterday. I didn’t necessarily go straight to “dumb”, because I was already prepared to dismiss the brain capacity premise as such. I will say it kept my attention through the whole movie, and some of the action was good. I’m also not necessarily ready to dismiss it as bad, either. It was unusual, and different, but not easily categorized besides that. I don’t know that I’ll recommend it, or watch it when it comes out on cable, but I don’t feel like I totally wasted 85 minutes.
To quote Spinal Tap “there’s a fine line between clever and stupid.”
About 15-20 minutes in I decided that this was another comic book translated to film, and ignored the terrible, terrible science. It was fast, relatively exciting, and Scarlett did a good job, especially during the kidnapping at the beginning.
Does Scarlett use at least 100% of her hotness capacity?
FINALLY the key question is asked!
The only bit of integrity this movie had is that it didn’t exploit Ms Johansson’s remarkable epidermis.
Don’t forget “Scanners”, “Carrie”, “Firestarter”.
Yeah, but it sounds so plausible the way Mr Freeman says it!
I guess why not? She’s already been in 4 Avengers-based films and has her own Black Widow film coming out. Plus critically acclaimed indie films like Lost in Translation and Her. Plus a couple of Woody Allen films. Even a crappy Michael Bay explosionfest. Unless she plans on going for an Oscar by playing a deformed trans-sexual MMA fighter/high school guidance counselor fighting against corporate corruption, I would assume the only thing left is to play whatever weird-ass roles strike her fancy.
Don’t be giving people ideas! :eek:
Seriously, ScarJo clearly likes to take on risky roles as well as lucrative roles. Good on her, I respect her for that.
'Twould be more-or-less true if they added, “at any given time.” You use all of your brain, but different parts have different functions – one bit for walking, one bit for talking, etc. If neurons in all regions are firing at once, what you have there is an epileptic seizure, not a paranormal ability.
Ah, but if you could control the seizure and channel that power…
Sorry, can’t finish the thought - it’s just too stupid.
She doesn’t have to be naked to be hot.
Really? I’ve been assuming Lucy was a high-tech remake of the short story Flowers for Algernon (Also a movie called Charly), but I haven’t actually paid attention to the commercials. I’ll have to look up Ted Chiang’s “Understand”.
No, but it’s never a bad thing, surely.
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I think this movie has done more to dispel the 10% brain myth than anything in the history of science education, since almost literally every article or review written about it has debunked the myth (can we go after the left/right brain myth next?)…
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Though the technobabble was indeed annoying* I generally enjoyed the flick on a purely visceral, action movie level. It’s no Bourne movie but it worked.
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ScarJo kicked Hercules butt, and there will be a Lucy 2 (and it will be terrible).
*I have to admit that the line that annoyed me more than any other was when she diagnosed her roommate’s kidney problem and a key part of her advice was to “eat organic.” I wanted to throw something at the screen at that point.
That was pretty spot on. I agree with you 100% about the spoiler. It’s a magic potion that in huge enough quantities turns the user into a god, and the best the drug syndicate’s marketing department can come up with is there’s year’s hot new party drug? :dubious: Then again to international drug syndicates even have a marketing department (or product testing). 
In all this was a fun move, as long as you keep reaping the MTSK mantra. Speaking of; this movie is just begging for a Riffing. Preferable with Mayim Bialik as a guest riffer.