"LUCY" new film by Luc Besson (2014) starring Scarlett Johansson & Morgan Freeman

I wouldn't do that. BTW, only hate, no really, really. 1-10 and 10 being great, I'd give it a 2-3.

 

Point taken...

 

FWIW
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lucy.htm

$40 million budget

 

Apparently you like to jump to unfounded conclusions.

I didn't realize that expressing an opinion was 'crapping' all over a thread. Perhaps if you brushed up on your critical thinking and reading comprehension skills, you would be able to argue my specific comments rather than making generalizations and personal insults. Calm down.

 

Remember, only happy happy.

 

I did read your comments and was not making a personal insult so no need to insult me. But you are just repeating over and over that you did not like the premise, thought it was a dumb movie, etc. we get it. Expressing the same opinion over and over. It's enough in my opinion.

 

Well, I guess "billion" was a nice round figure. But that's some LAZY writing! Hell, as you say the least they could have done was a google search. There's no excuse for that kind of lazy writing in these days of the web. I remember spending months in libraries researching ESP for a screenplay. Jesus. LAZY writer. I'm with you on this one. When you make an effort to put come real facts into your screenplay it helps sell that illusion of reality, which gives it greater weight all-around. Special effects teams spend months animating the glistening of hair on a wet dog so it looks real, but a writer can't even bother to look up the best estimate of when life began on earth for an introductory monologue? Jesus.

 

I don't get why people take movies so seriously, expect them to be 100% true-to-life. When are they gonna realize that it is just a movie?

Did anyone take movies 100% seriously in the past? During the vintage era of Hollywood?

No wonder many movies have been bombing lately. Too many people are caring way too much about whether or not a movie is 100% accurate, instead of just sitting back, enjoying, and realizing that it is just a movie.

 

I believe everything was based on true science in the Shaggy Dog and Son of Flubber.

 

Son of Flubber was wildly inaccurate but its predecessor,The Absent Minded Professor, was remarkable in its pinpoint accuracy of the science on display as history proves.

 

Sorry if I appeared to insult you, that was not my intent.

 

Hell yes!

 

New designer drug for the club goers in Amsterdam. Ah the blue crystals. When your 40 percent (or was it 50? thank god for that percent meter) into your trip you can see lines in the air. And then things get really hairy.

 

No worries.

 

It's citizen kane with a drug bag inserted underneath the skin.

 

Under The Skin - a running theme for Scarlett.

 

I think there's a happy medium where it's sorta/kinda correct, and then they come up with a fictitious situation that's entertaining and has a decent plot and believable stories. The problem in the case of "we only use 10% of our brains" scenario is that if they had said, "most human beings are relatively stupid, but this drug will make you ten times as smart as Einstein," it wouldn't have been something they could sell on a movie poster.

 

Can't help but notice that the reviews and audience rating moved up in its second week. It's now rated fresh on Rotten Tomatos.

 

I thought the same thing.... perhaps we'll get an extended cut on DVD.

 

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You know I did think it was really short- IMDB had it at 90 minutes, but I was only in theater for about hour and a half (including lots of trailers). It might even be slightly shorter than 81 minutes. Has anyone timed it? Not a movie I'd want to see again though.

 

I'm generally a fan of Luc Besson's work. I left the theatre feeling that this could have been a whole lot better, and yes, longer too. It had a definite thrown together feel. Also, as previously mentioned, the writing could have benefitted with tighter integration to known facts. I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone but a hardcore Besson fan.

 

Even though I've enjoyed a bunch of Luc Besson movies, I resisted seeing "Lucy" because it just looked dopey. However, the praise it got encouraged me to give it a shot.

Ugh.

Pseudo-intellectual claptrap + bad exposition + enormous plot holes + ridiculous fantasy notions + bad CG + boring action = Mazzy owes me $10!

 

I read a review that said "We don't assume that Besson used more than 10% of his brain's capacity for writing the screenplay for this movie". But it also said that it's good fun with nice visuals. I'll probably watch it when it comes out on blu-ray.

 

Maybe they were just rounding out all of earth's "life" with that number. The earth and some cells may have been around 4 billion years ago, but human life has only been around for a tiny fraction of even 1% of that time.