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Evildrider
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on: April 02, 2014, 12:48:08 PM

Luc Besson brings us ScarJo as Lucy.

Trailer.


Looks pretty good.  I'll see it.
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Reply #1 on: April 02, 2014, 01:15:54 PM

YES.

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Reply #2 on: April 02, 2014, 01:23:59 PM

Sweet, it's Limitless with the female version of Bradley Cooper and uh, jedi bullshit.
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Reply #3 on: April 02, 2014, 01:26:57 PM

I was about to say Limitless and the Matrix.

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Reply #4 on: April 02, 2014, 01:29:05 PM

TETSUOOOOOOOO!!
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Reply #5 on: April 02, 2014, 02:04:18 PM

I was thinking this was about Lucille Ball (or at least the behind the scenes of "I Love Lucy"). I'm disappointed.
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Reply #6 on: April 02, 2014, 03:01:04 PM

My first thought was Scarlet playing that chimp that learned sign language.

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Reply #7 on: April 02, 2014, 03:09:06 PM

TETSUOOOOOOOO!!

Yeah this was the first thing I thought of too. Which doesn't really bode well, I pretty much hated that movie.

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Reply #8 on: April 02, 2014, 03:43:59 PM

Besson's track record has been pretty has been pretty spotty the last 10-15 years or so.
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Reply #9 on: April 02, 2014, 03:47:52 PM

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Reply #10 on: April 02, 2014, 05:15:59 PM

TETSUOOOOOOOO!!

Yeah this was the first thing I thought of too. Which doesn't really bode well, I pretty much hated that movie.

I liked the soundtrack!

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Reply #11 on: April 02, 2014, 06:17:46 PM

It's a good soundtrack.  I was just listening to Kaneda's Theme the other night for some reason.  Maybe that's why my mind went so quickly to Akira when I saw that trailer.

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Reply #12 on: April 02, 2014, 07:06:58 PM

Is this based on a book or just random stuff thrown into a movie?

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Reply #13 on: April 02, 2014, 07:47:16 PM

I will like it, but I don't think about movies like this too deeply.

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Reply #14 on: April 03, 2014, 07:20:30 AM

So I'm watching this with my gf and we go

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"She is basically a smart phone"
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I think I'll pass.
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Reply #15 on: April 03, 2014, 07:34:58 AM

Is this based on a book or just random stuff thrown into a movie?

Wondering the same thing.

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Reply #16 on: April 03, 2014, 07:37:57 AM

Looks good on the whole, but jesus wept I wish that "Humans only use 10 % of their brain" thing would go away. It's a dumb old trope and wildly, insanely incorrect.
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Reply #17 on: April 03, 2014, 07:50:43 AM

Looks good on the whole, but jesus wept I wish that "Humans only use 10 % of their brain" thing would go away. It's a dumb old trope and wildly, insanely incorrect.

I believe it's that conscious thought takes up 10% but the other 90% is used too, just by shit like, breathing.

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Reply #18 on: April 03, 2014, 07:52:36 AM

Looks good on the whole, but jesus wept I wish that "Humans only use 10 % of their brain" thing would go away. It's a dumb old trope and wildly, insanely incorrect.

I believe it's that conscious thought takes up 10% but the other 90% is used too, just by shit like, breathing.
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Reply #19 on: April 03, 2014, 08:25:02 AM

You mean it's a movie with a bunch of explody bullshit non-science?  That's novel.   why so serious?

Hell, 100 minutes of ScarJo is almost worth the price of admission on its own. 

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Reply #20 on: April 03, 2014, 08:59:27 AM

Looks good on the whole, but jesus wept I wish that "Humans only use 10 % of their brain" thing would go away. It's a dumb old trope and wildly, insanely incorrect.

I believe it's that conscious thought takes up 10% but the other 90% is used too, just by shit like, breathing.

That's also wrong--for one, it's not as simple as "conscious" and "autonomic", but even stuff that's conscious by a pretty precise definition can light up a whole bunch of the brain. Doesn't really matter, it's just that I'd love someone to come up with some nice shiny new 21st Century tropes for "I can haz superpowers" besides "I use 90% of my brain" and "I fell into radioactive water".
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Reply #21 on: April 03, 2014, 09:01:08 AM

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Reply #22 on: April 03, 2014, 09:37:33 AM

Looks good on the whole, but jesus wept I wish that "Humans only use 10 % of their brain" thing would go away. It's a dumb old trope and wildly, insanely incorrect.

I believe it's that conscious thought takes up 10% but the other 90% is used too, just by shit like, breathing.

That's also wrong--for one, it's not as simple as "conscious" and "autonomic", but even stuff that's conscious by a pretty precise definition can light up a whole bunch of the brain. Doesn't really matter, it's just that I'd love someone to come up with some nice shiny new 21st Century tropes for "I can haz superpowers" besides "I use 90% of my brain" and "I fell into radioactive water".

Yeah but still.

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Reply #23 on: April 03, 2014, 11:32:00 AM

Hell, 100 minutes of ScarJo is almost worth the price of admission on its own. 

This is how I feel.

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Reply #24 on: April 03, 2014, 02:20:22 PM

I've always loved Beson's action schlock, even the shitty ones like Crank 2, so I'll be all over this.

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Reply #25 on: April 03, 2014, 09:28:13 PM

Hell, 100 minutes of ScarJo is almost worth the price of admission on its own. 

She hit the wall a solid five years ago. She may as well be a grandma now.

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Reply #26 on: April 03, 2014, 10:14:13 PM

That looked really goddamn awesome.  I'm in.
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Reply #27 on: April 03, 2014, 10:40:55 PM

Hell, 100 minutes of ScarJo is almost worth the price of admission on its own. 

She hit the wall a solid five years ago. She may as well be a grandma now.

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Reply #28 on: April 04, 2014, 01:19:30 PM

Well you win the internet with that gif.
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Reply #29 on: April 05, 2014, 12:39:56 PM

It's looking a bit too much like transcendence except with a female lead.  It could be a better movie but two of these coming out in a relatively short time frame can't be a good thing for the second one released.  That and there are only a couple ways "rapid human evolution" can turn out.  One they ascend to a sort of godhood and leave humanity to it's petty squabbles, leaving us with an important lesson or someshit.  Two is flowers for algernon where they return to their original state and the third is that mankind is not prepared for such wonder and destroys it before it can fully mature, thus proving we are small minded animals still.

It's just a plot that seems to have been done so many times it's no longer interesting or novel.

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Reply #30 on: April 05, 2014, 02:23:31 PM

To me, Transcendent looks like an update of Lawnmower Man, and Lucy looks (as noted) Akira-ish ... kinda.  This is one of those false equivalents, like saying Bagger Vance got overlooked because it came out at the same time as Green Mile, and there were too many "magic black man" movies.  Bagger Vance was overlooked because it had a weak story.

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Reply #31 on: April 05, 2014, 04:07:47 PM

Looks awesome. Like some others, I'm wondering if this based on some source material, or new. Don't care since I'll see it either way, just curious.
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Reply #32 on: April 06, 2014, 04:09:00 PM

I'm actually interested in this.  Might be another superhero movie, but preview looks great.
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Reply #33 on: April 07, 2014, 05:04:03 PM

It looks interesting, but once I got over my initial reaction that this wasn't Under The Skin (I honestly this was the one where she was an alien), I started making Limitless comparisons. It looks like it was created as a competitor to Transcendence. Limitless is one of my, if not my most, favorite films.
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Reply #34 on: April 07, 2014, 06:36:10 PM

Transcendence looks like Lawnmower Man with Johnny Depp.  Not really a compelling setup for a movie.
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