Lucy movie review
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- What could you do if you unlocked more than 10% of your brain capacity?...well....Scarlet Johansson shows us! Jeremy reviews "Lucy"!
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Plot twist: Lucy was just high all the time
LMAO 🤣
Nasha 💀
If I could use 100% of my brain capacity, I would use it to debunk the myth that we only use 10% of our brains.
JojoBlue that contradicting lol you already know the answer. Thats not funny its just dumb
You only need to edit 100% with 101%
@@RocksmithPdl shut up you're boring
interesting paradox
So...basically Limitless.
a good movie
Ya I liked it too
But better
except actually sci fi
on crack
Lucy = Limitless ?
And Lucy is an overpowered Mary Sue.
No go see the movie
Limitless is better because it has real undertones and themes. It made you question if he was himself or even possessed at a certain point.
Lucy = Lucifer.... watch the movie again and maybe you guys will understand
chris bruwn wtf lmao
To everyone who wont watch this because of the 10% of brain usage myth: thats like saying you wont watch an Alien movie because aliens dont exist.
But aliens probably do exist out there somewhere. It is almost impossible for them not to, so that we can run with. Our minds can run wild with the theories of what different life forms could exist out in our vast, nigh endless universe.
TheDeadlyMagikarp Aliens do exist, though not in the way we think they do, 'Aliens' as you'd say can range from intelligent beings to bacteria. Anything foreign to our planet that is living can and will be considered "Alien"
Yes, anything not from our world be it bacteria or any other form of life not from our world can be considered alien. I am speaking of developed life forms, not necessarily sentient but you know, the ones we have in film.
I was just saying that we can grasp those kind of stories because while it is fiction, it isn't necessarily impossible. In fact quite probably that something developed does exist. It's almost impossible for there not to be, considering how vast our galaxy is, let alone the entire universe.
Yeah, but the concept of aliens has at least some merit to it. It's not completely ruled out. Plus, there's enough possibility there that we can kind of give it the benefit of the doubt. Us using 100% of our brains is a confirmed fact. There isn't really anything to work with there since there's no suspension of disbelief that we can give it.
We don't know that aliens don't exist. And that's completely different.
Myth busters did the 10% thing. 30% is what we actively use at any one point.
We would never ACTIVELY use 100%... Each portion has different uses. Unless your doing super advanced maths, in a different language, while balancing on a ball on a tight rope and using every muscle, while being poked and having every different pain receptacle being hurt.
Also, Jeremy is spot on with the whole not caring about characters that are super op. S'why I can't get Into superman or the flash
Jeremy was also right about when questioning why does Lucy need help from the cop. I saw the trailer and I asked how does she have any problems.
Also I should correct myself.
We would never actively use 100% of our conscious brain simultaneously.
Ace Ventura Kyle Morrissey2 hours ago (edited)
+UNI BUST Yup. Most of it is unconscious and running in the background. Stuff like heart rate, and making decisions about what things in your vision are objects and what things are background, etc.
I copied and pasted cause I was lazy
Ace Ventura I looked around at the comments. So far, no one has said that but you
TRY USING 20% OF YOUR BRAIN. YOU'LL FIND IT.
the end of this movie reminded me a lot of Akira
isnt this concept copied from Limitless?
I thought limitless came after Lucy?
Limitless was out in 2011, Lucy was released in 2014
+Zenowerk Probably talking about the TV show
+Daniel Collins the tv show is adapted from the limitless movie lmao
+Ricardo Carmine They are similar but I say Lucy and Limitless are different movies
If I could use 100% of my brain capacity, I would try to use it to figure out women.
You'll need far more than 100% my friend. Better luck figuring out quantum physics.
Oen713 haha very funny. Except there is no such thing as luck.
Loool
We already use 100% of our brain, the 10% thing is a myth. I am telling you this so you know the truth of your ignorance, that since we already use a 100% of our brain, it is therefore not humanly possible to understand women.
Raven Blood we use 100% but not willingly, if you could use it all willingly ud be able to control your hormones and do stuff like block away pain, increase you strength by unlocking ur full muscle potential and maybe even increase your healing ability
No we use 10 percent. "The Myth" is that we don't use every part of our brain which we do. But we don't use all of every part. I think it's actually less than 10%. But it's a misunderstanding. The brain is not used to it's full potential as no parts of the brain are fully operational. Hope I cleared some stuff up :)
You know I can type in the comments on youtube a bunch of stuff about the sun one day growing arms and legs and skipping all the way to Pluto destroying everything in the process. But naturally no one would believe me if I didn't have Studies, quotes, links, ect. ect. to back up the nonsense that I say, or to put it simply.
Proof please.
what you just said is also a myth. we use most of our brain all the time. Theres no limit to what we can use at a time, we just dont because its useless and theres always some of it that we dont need at any one point.
We actually use quite a bit more than 10% of our brain for just clenching our fist. Then add in all the breathing, heart pumping, digestion, seeing, hearing, feeling, etc. that we're not consciously doing all the time, and you will get much much higher than that.
Some people(like me) are the ones who believe we're using a small part of our brain because we want to be more than what we are.
Humanity have a long way of evolving and changing the world just the way we are but that's not enough... At least for me.
We want be much more than our current human form.
was really hoping for the final showdown to be between some other bad guy that injects that shit into himself and is like a godly person like Lucy and they have this incredibly tense fight scenes and earth destruction and shit but honestly this movie was really very disappointing. for a concept so cool they didnt really do much with it in terms of action.
Yeah she barely had any interaction with the villains at all, and when she did she didn't even bother killing them since all she cared about was the drug. I was expecting this to be some kind of huge power-trip fantasy where she starts off getting revenge on the drug dudes who kidnapped her and then the ass-kicking would escalate from there. Instead she kicks zero asses except that of a random taxi driver and some poor guy on a hospital bed.
am i the only person who really liked this movie? all the "cool shit" and the sci fi philosophy made the movie for me
Nice breakdown. Couldn't agree more, and that's why I never went, and never want to see it. It has "wait for bluray" written all over it. And I have a question b/c I haven't seen it -- if this drug has this awesome effect, why didn't the dealers or her enemies use it too? Or are the effects unique to her in some way, like say due to her body's distinct reaction to the drug?
How can you agree if you haven't seen the fucking movie dipping shit!
josh scott I dunno. Perhaps it has something to do with a prestigious screenwriting college program I've gotten into, or maybe its the many screenplay expos, seminars, and conferences I've been part of... - OR - wait, maybe it's just plain common sense. Oh well, I wouldn't expect someone sporting the untrained eye, and whose most intelligent response to my comment is one of belligerence. *_-. Cheerio chap.
Meg butterfly Don't see it. It's not good. If you're a college student, it's insulting to your intelligence, not only in the field of science, but also the "philosophy" it tries so damn hard to present. I thought it'd be cool if there was an enemy to be reckoned with, but nah, the conflict is nonexistent. Instead, here's a bunch of criticism and observation on the human condition, which isn't deep except for people who didn't finish middle school.
The movie explains all your questions I just finished seeing it excellent movie really makes you think I suggest seeing it but you want to wait go ahead don't listen to haters tho.
It was an awesome movie go see it if you like reading science books. Even though this is fiction its a great story and not the action you might have expected.
I HAVEN'T BEEN IN THE MOVIE THEATER SINCE THE MATRIX RELOADED -- FUCK I WAS SO EXITED TO GO TO THE MOVIES TO WATCH THIS SHIT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY $20 DOLLARS FOR A SODA $30 FOR POP CORN I WAS SAVING FOR 2 WEEKS!
So you haven't been to a movie theatre in 11 years and this is the movie that made you think "Wow I have to see this!!!" Oooooooookay............
Because watching a movie without pop corn is impossible.
21nickik true!
sistematic1 thanks for the life Story?
sistematic1 thanks for the life Story?
Personally think the 'message' of this movie is being missed. First off, it's a fucking movie, so yeh, crazy shit happens that can't really happen. DEAL. WITH. IT. It's a movie. If you wanted facts, watch a documentary. A lot of people like district 9 but you don't get people telling you 'yeh, it's a bit shit though cos 'prawns' don't really exist'. This whole 'we only use 10% of our brain' shit; I'm no scientist so I don't know if it's true or not, or how much of our brain we actually use, but like, there's a whole load of stuff out there that we can't see/hear. You think about how much of the light spectrum we can see (if you look it up you'll find we can see shit all, only what we really need to see to survive), but like infra-red, micro-waves, gamma-rays, x-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet... they all exist, in our world, all around us, but we can't see them without the aid of technologies (some other species can see/hear more than us). Now think about the stuff we still can't even detect using technology: dark matter, dark energy - and apparently this stuff makes up something like 95% of the universe! And we can't even see or detect it! And FRACTALS MAN!!!! Look them up, they're crazy. That part in the film where they're talking about how maths and numbers are just a way for humans to quantify stuff, and that numbers don't actually exist or some shit. If you look up fractals you'll get the idea. The film touches on a lot of legitimate scientific theories, but because IT'S A FUCKING FILM made to entertain, it obviously exaggerates... A lot.
Going back to the 'what we can and can't see'. It'd make sense that we evolved to be this way. And I should state now, this is just theory as far as I know. If we could see all this stuff it'd be fucking sick, but, also very distracting. If we were still living in jungles and trees, and some predator was stalking us, it's probably best we didn't/don't see all this stuff, and only see what directly effects us. It keeps us sharp to the surroundings that effect us. Maybe once, wayyyyy back in time, an earlier species could see it all, and we evolved in a way that diminished the receptors for these frequencies due to the fact that it helped our survival: the ones who could see and were distracted by all the 'other stuff' were killed off by predators, whereas the ones that couldn't see it, weren't distracted and were more focused on the predator.
When people take psychedelics (LSD, shrooms etc) a lot of people claim to see shit. That's because we have receptors in our brain that do some chemical/electrical stuff when the 'drug' is taken. Now... why is this? Why do we have these receptors? (I guess at this point I should again say I'm no scientist and most of what I'm talking about is learnt from watching documentaries... A lot of documentaries). But some people think that we used to create these chemicals/electrical things in our bodies, and that enabled us to see all this stuff, but then, as I said before, we evolved not to see them as the animals that produced less of this stuff were more aware of predators and survived over the animals that produced more. And if you've ever seen anyone on psychedelics you'll know that they'll get very easily distracted by the simplest things, like their hands. And chat shit about how fucking amazing cool the shit they're seeing is. But we still have the receptors! We only stopped producing the chemicals. Why else would they be there? (I'm not saying that's the only reason they could be there. Genuine question, if you know another reason they might be there then I'd really like to know). Anyway, I'm drunk and my heads starting to pound so that's my rant over. Hope you enjoyed the film (I did), and if you didn't, maybe watch a documentary or two about dark-matter, dark-energy, space/time, fractals, or just the cosmos in general. Might make a little more sense... Maybe Or maybe I'm just a crack-pot and the film is just shit and nonsensical. But, from my way of thinking, we know pretty much fuck all about the universe we live in, and there's a whole other world out there! PEACE Xx
thumbs up!
Lucy took the pre-existing idea of increased brain function = superpowers from Stargate and make it the focus of a movie. LOLLLLL
The same we do every night, Pinky - TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
their pinky pinky and brian brian brian brian brian.
That's actually a common misconception. We actually do have access to all of the different parts of our brains, just not simultaneously. We only use about 10% at a time.
Jeremy Jahn
You shouldn't humiliate yourself so publicly.
What is the matter with using your brain?
The movie tells a story many of you should reflect more upon. Your mind. It is meant to be used.
It saddens me that the concept of thinking for yourself, is being mocked so openly.
Go watch the movie again, and see for yourself what it tries to tell you.
It is a very deep and sophisticated movie, and with an open mind, you'll get it.
Luc Besson is many things, but moron is not one of them.
Many people are oddly comparing the movie 'Lucy' starring Scarlett Johansson to 'Limitless' with lead actor Bradley Cooper. However this is not the case, even while the two movies share some basic similarities such as a drug genetically enhancing a person's capabilities. I believe that they are significantly different. Where 'Lucy' failed to excel was not only the abrupt and horribly thought out and confusing end, but where it really failed was how quick the movie ended where it started to get interested. The plot of the movie was incredible as many would agree however it lacked that action that everyone was hoping to see from the trailer. It also had some unnecessary parts that made the movie drag along and switch between interesting parts and boring ones as well. The movie as a whole is not half bad, however, it could prove to be a disappointment. Sorry for the long read 😞
ok i saw it like an hour ago... It's a brilliant movie. It is more for the sciencey type person which it why i loved it!! XD
That is an insult to science, my dear :)
how?
Christian how?
Jada Fields it is scientifically in acurate on so many levels
jason weerawardena *inaccurate
Can someone explain the ending...like sperms flying everywhere
Ikr
If I could use 100% of my brain capacity I would watch more Jeremy Jahns movie reviews.
Actually the myth that people only use 10% is an insult, you're calling people stupid. Lol, no disrespect. But people do use 100% of their brains.
I use my brain, dont care for the percentage.
"Unlock the full potential of our brain" I'm sure we can improve the performance of our neurons, but to unlock the full potential would mean letting ALL of our neurons fire at ONCE... Which just isn't possible since that's not how neurons work. You would just have a violent seizure and break your body.
I liked the movie. Although it didn't really have a plot...but I still enjoyed it. It was a fun movie. At the end though, when she said "I am everywhere." , she essentially become "God" right? since her body was no longer useful after she unlocked 100%? Since she was gaining all this knowledge, she put it onto a super USB. So with the way it ended, do you other people reading the comments think there will be a 2nd one? How the hell will Morgan Freeman and the other doctors, and the cop for that matter explain what they saw? Sorry if this comment got pretty lengthy lol.
Movie just kicks you right in the nuts with the ending.
I like the philosophical meaning of this movie and the possible truth of our universe... Makes ya think...
We use 100% of our brains, we utilize 10% at any given moment...of any given combination of parts of it. But we USE 100%, just not at all times.
If I hear someone say "brain capacity" one more time I'm gonna flip. This movie was ridiculous.
in my opinion and this is coming from a 14 year old. It really changed my mind of how I see the universe and its not because I think the graphics are cool, its telling me that everything is life changing because when u hit the end of the road, it might be in darkness forever or you can see something that will be..... life changing.
I actually enjoyed that movie a lot. Had a great time with a great actress, great action scenes and, as you put it, "a lot of cool s*** happening" :)
Reminded me of a sloppy Limitless rip off. Worth watching though
We already use 100% of our brains.
"Of our 100% we use 10." That's actually a myth based on poor research.
Watched the film a second time. Not once does anyone say that they can't USE 100% of their brain. They ask the question, what if we had ACCESS to 100% of our cerebral capacity... ACCESS! Our body is controlled by our brain... but do we consciously control our brain? Not all of it no. Do we consciously tell our cells to reproduce, our heart to pump blood round our body, our bodies to feel pain? No. This is all programmed deep in our brain, in areas which we don't have conscious ACCESS to. So, what if we could get shot by a bullet, tell our brain to shut of the pain receptors in that part of our body and pull out the bullet with our fingers without batting an eyelid.
I think the film is implying that this would be the next stage of our evolution; to gain CONTROL of our brain and thus the cells in our body. ...maybe.
I sometimes get confussed with your rating system.
What is a worse rating?
It's a good time... If you're drunk. or
You'll forget in t minus... (However long it is)
I agree complete it was fun to watch but no story and no threat
Saw the movie.
Barely passed biology so i didnt even know what was going on
So as to disclaimer all the prudes, spazzing about the 10% myth, what would I do if I could expand my brain capacity 10 fold?
Figure out where the drug came from in the first place because nobody ever did get around to doing that.
I agree completely.
The 10% thing is a myth ..that movies keep PERPETUATING!
It is a common misconception that we only use 10% of our brains. We use our entire brain everyday. Basing a movie off of that false fact made this movie much too difficult for me to watch.
Sounds like Lawnmower Man with Pierce Brosnan.
They wrote the script and its like at the end they just gave up.
It started off strong you right but the end wasn’t good
Yeah but, it was cool.
PEOPLE ALREADY USE 100% OF THEIR FUCKING BRAIN. This means this movie makes no sense. I will not be watching Lucy.
MrGhostofdoom
And maybe in The Room, people who act like Tommy Wiseau are fucking normal.
dinoboyoutuification I refuse to believe that a universe like that exists.
*****
Well we dont use 100% of our FUCKING brain, so it isnt that unrealistic
ya, I think it's more like we don't use 100% at one time, just 100% throughout the day - but ya I agree
*****
Read a book on neurology.
well... if i had use of 100% of brain capacity then i would INSERT BAD A$$ THING HERE. but here is what i wouldn't do.... TURN INTO A FREKING USB THATS WHAT!
Lol
You do use 100% of your brain the 10% thing is a myth
It's not a myth. Those who say it is are attacking a straw man.10% refers to the percent of maximum concurrent usage of the brain.All of our brain cells are used at some point but not at the same time.
Wasnt there a movie called Limitless with Bradley Cooper that had the EXACT same premise?
Yes....yes there was
or a kids movie called Matilda as well
yea but in that he only got really smart, like REALLY smart. In this she can change time and control stuff with her mind and shit
I was thinking the same thing. Limitless was awesome and the character was easier to relate to. This chick becomes a god because of her brain....ehh...
Yeah and it was 10x better than this.
We use 100% of our brain capacity. the 10% myth is old :)
skycaptain39 yes we do
skycaptain39 ok fine YOU use only 10% of your brain while the rest of us use 100%
okay I was wrong
skycaptain39
you ever seen a brain activity scan? A fuck lode more than 10% is lit up at any given time, even during sleep.
Nicholas Knudson I said I was wrong
If you guys saying you use 100% of your brain use 100% of your brain, wtf are you doing here arguing? Go find a cure for cancer or some shit, do something useful. Get tf off the Internet!
That would be pretty pointless seeing as they already have a cure for cancer
mrprotoman145 i don't think they have an actual cure, some cancers can just be stopped first some are chronic n can't be stopped only treated.so all u can do is live with it not cure it for those people who have it tuff
Where are u get your information? when was there ever a cure for cancer and how would so many people still be dying of it if there was one. get your facts straight
Bishoy Yacoub There are many proven treatments for cancer (depending on type of cancer) including the "cheap" DCA. Most are patented by big pharma. Recently India lost a court battle because they planned to sell a generic form of a cancer treatment, the company that made the "cure" doesn't want it being sold in generic form. It is naive to think that if they found a cure people would be cured. The reality is it costs about $92000 USD a year for treatment.
You're an idiot. That's the nicest way I can put it. What you said makes zero sense. Look in any neuroscience book and read how our brains use 100% of our brains, not exactly at the same time, but we do have access to all of it. No part of the brain is not used.
We already use 100% of our brain capacity...
thats true lol. nature wouldnt take the time to evolve 90% of our brain, and waste the absurd amounts of energy it takes to fuel said brain and make it useless. the fact is that we only use sections of our brain at a time for individual tasks but the entirety of it is used for one thing or another at certain points.
i honestly thought this "10% of our brain" nonsense had vanished from the public consciousness along with Pluto being a planet and polio being incurable.
the director's next movie: george washington and his amazing wooden teeth!
We get to watch Lucy slowly but surely become just as smart as you'd expect a person to be. It's a thrill ride.
***** do you have any idea how many movies are based off myths?????
My thoughts exactly!
You know guys... I think he knows by now about the 10% of brain usage myth... you don't need to keep posting the same bloody thing...
If fewer people commented about it, it would appear as though fewer people cared about it.
Are you sure? He doesn't talk like he knows.
Eipok Kruden which is fine by me. Should care about it anyway. It's fiction. Cody Graves of course it doesn't look like he knows because he didn't... I'm saying NOW he does after looking at the comments...
" *That whole "we only use 10% of our brain" is bullshit.* "
IT'S A MOVIE, A MOVIE, A FUCKING MOVIE
A MOVIE
IT'S A MOVIE.
+NewZero Games Well you're clearly using less because I don't get your point. Yes, it is a movie. It was in the cinema and stuff happened, so yes it is a movie
+NewZero Games It's hard to take a movie seriously when it sets itself up in the "real world" as we know it but its whole plot is centered around pseudoscience that everyone knows is false.
Especially when they try to make the characters sound smart when talking about it, which makes it even more dumb.
+NewZero Games Limitless is also a movie, and it managed the same idea way more intelligently.
+NewZero Games A movie which is based on reality, not fiction, what was a wrong decision
so it's a TV show?
Well, we actually use 100% of our brain all the time... so yeah...
I know, but think of it this way (to numb the pain of thousands of people believing the 10% brain use garbage) the movie is focusing on how it can be used more efficiently/streamlining the motor functions and such in the mind with that drug and how using certain areas of the brain in conjunction with each other that normally don't work together to obtain different brainwave patterns that actually affect reality at high enough levels.
[Making this shit up as I go along here.]
We only use 10% AT ONE TIME. But yeah you are right if we could not use 100% of out brain the human race wouldn't have come far.
yes but not all the time, we use 10 percent at any given moment
if I may, to keep this to a civil conversation, please read the link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth
I know it is a Wikipedia article, but that is fine for a general background to the situation.
Dracomancer273 Yes, people, please read that and LEARN something before I go mad over your stupidity.
Limitless did the 100% of your brain thing better.
Go read "Understand by ted chaing .
No it didn't.
Hollywood originality at its finest.
Limitless 2.0
I swear to God. 90% of people who hate this movie hates it just because of the "10% brain" thing.
Yeah I agree
I do kinda agree. Like its a science fiction film....it's not meant to be realistic
Not really. That claim doesn´t bother me too much. The movie is just too action-heavy, there is hardly any tension in it, it´s over the top what Lucy can do (especially at the end of the movie), there´s no twist in it and it´s just overall quite boring for me. I´m just not an action and science fiction movie fan.
@@vanishingstone1637 which is okay. People have their own specific tastes and things that appeal to them
Well... not to nec this thread but I saw it yesterday and hating the 10% thing kinda means you hate the whole premise of the movie. Also they fudge biology so much aaaaaahhhhh
No suspension of disbelief. At all.
Have you seen the new youtube update allowing GIF banners? (See my channel as an example)
***** Haha, I swear it's real, works only on computer :D
***** he isnt bullshiting
Thats amazing!
***** I checked his channel, it is an actual gif.
***** Dude it's true. There is actually a .gif there.
I actually sympathised to Lucy. Especially in the end, when she fully gives up her humanity and enters the void
This movie was brilliant and quite moving with a lot of unanswered questions
She lost her humanity after the phone call to mom. After that she... just was there
Wasn't that done already in Limitless? I haven't seen Limitless but I know that's the concept of the movie
This is basically Limitless turned up to 11.
Strider119119 don't you mean turned up to 100%
Kevin Johnson *SOMEBODY* obviously hasn't seen "Spinal Tap."
Limitless is done better. It has a more real feel to it.
Limitless was a great movie to watch!
I find the overall concept of this film, "When you get to 100%, you get super powers", i find that really really stupid and silly it def turns me off=/ Def seems to be a good accurate review.
Scarlett johansson is still hot as shit though =D
***** YES! I am Super human now and i can do anything now lol
Yes we have 100% it's just, we don't use it all together.
well shit is hot!!!
Yeah, why do we have our telekinesis locked away?
For a reason just look at chronicle now that's a reason why god limited our brain capacity .
20% of the time, I use 7% of my brain's capacity, every time.
"That doesn't make sense" 😏
You tried
You are very funny
Hahahahaa-ahahahahahahahaha
Finally a blond that can actually use 100% of her brain! (Everyone can use 100% of her brain!)
Shutup u gaming nerd
iman Last not much of an insult giving gaming is one of the top markets in the world right now and nerds movies are best sellers
And then there's the logic nazi
iman Last hail logic
Wow RUclips needs to fix this shit these comments are not in order fuck u google
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Not me a comic con because I CAN'T FUCKING GO!!!"
Go back to fucking tumblr.
"Not me at comic con because I can't fucking go Who?"
You're not alone I CAN'T FUCKING GO TOO
BECAUSE IT"S FUCKING SOLD OUT!!!
At least some of you got the opportunity to go there, I live in Australia so it's a bit hard.
lol
Story was meh, Scarlett Johansson was meh (as always), overall the movie was meh.
If our brains worked like that in the movie (they don't) and I got those powers, I would steal shit. Get money, get alcohol, get cookies, get a penthouse, then do *stuff* with Christa in said penthouse that involves the alcohol and cookies.
After that... maybe start a new major religion with me as their Goddess.
>Get cookies
This chick is going places.
back off bitch shes mine
adel885 -_-
*grabs Christa and the cookies*
Mine. ಠ_ಠ
Ymir xD
Ymir leave the cookies alone
God the comment section is annoying, its like everyone on here are trying to attempt to be science experts.
I know, right?
You don't need to be a science expert to know the 10% myth is just that, a myth.
Lateralusmaster Yeah, we get that. We don't need 300 people telling us the exact same thing.
No, everyone commenting has taken a psychology course; and had their asshole professor ask how much of our brains do we use. They answered 10% and the professor called them all dumbasses.
Atleast thats how my psych prof did it lmao
Story: 1/10
Vissuals: 6/10
Acting: 4/10
Mindless fun: 5/10
Total rating: 3/10
I can only describe it as moronic, plot-holly and pretentious.
Sergei-Kanev-Music I'm not sure if you had a point other then just to mindlessly insult. If you liked the movie, fine, but I was not impressed in the least. It was a story I have seen multiple times played out in 40 minute sci-fi episodes from as early as 1998. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't original then either. Regardless, it could still have been a good movie if they had been at all competent. The character arches was jumbled. The science was dumb enough for a gradeschooler to laugh at. The bad guys served no purpose other then to be Lucy's punching bag. Their involvement to kick off the story made no sense. Lucy, despite her supposedly great intellect, constantly did stupid things and used scientific terminology wrong. The CGI would have been impressive if the actors didn't all look like they were lost on a green screen stage, unsure where to look. The plot itself looked like it had been put into the blender and taped together afterwords. I could go on and be more specific, but I don't think this movie even deserves that time of me.
Herr Nandor Ad homonym. Please be more constructive if you want to be taken seriously.
***** s-f? SciFi? I love science fiction! Ender's game, star trek, star wars, foundation saga, blade runner... Book or movie or comic, I love good sci fi. What I don't like is pseudo science, posing like science. Or movies that are simply bad on more or less every way it can be bad. Tell me one thing, that you think this movie did good?
***** I think we are working with different definitions. But ignore the "science" for a moment and just look at the narrative. Why didn't Lucy kill the mob boss after stabbing him through the hand, for example?
***** You have my sympathy.
Will you review the Dwayne Johnson Hercules movie?
Many people are trashing it... i personally don't give a single fuck, i gonna watch the shit out of it , cause looks like a more badass and awesome Clash of the Titans that was a fun monster movie for me.
Junone King Trash? It has 71% on RT so far.
Hewylewis I never called it trash.. i am very optimistic about this film. Can't wait to watch it.
Wow did you even watch the end of the video he clearly said he would do it when he gets back from comic con.
Hewylewis
71% is pretty bad, its will going down. I think it will ended 60%
If somehow you could use all of your brain at once without having what's called A SEIZURE, you would be totally insane and 100% not useful, if not catatonic. And you certainly wouldn't be emotionally deprived, you'd most likely feel everything at once, which would make you cray cray. There's a REASON we don't use all of our brain at once, that's how it's SUPPOSED to work.
***** And you know this how?
LadyDivine Have you actually done so research? I doubt it by your grammar.
If you aren't having a seizure, then i'm not sure what is happening. I'm thinking you might be a bit unhinged though.
coolpumas1000000 So you'd rather side with the guy that said ''Nope.'' than the person which named a myriad of reasons as to why this movie is stupid?
LadyDivine www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ Here is the proof, you're welcome. Next time do research.
As soon as he explained the premise with the 10% thing, I could immediately see all the RUclips geniuses start correcting the myth. *pushes glasses up* "ACTUALLY, the idea that we only used 10% of our brain is incorrect. We use 100% and I'm forgetting that this IS A FUCKING MOVIE".
Ah, Hollywood. Raising a generation of retards for their profit like the good old days.
Condescending Wonka I don't appreciate your condescending tone, Wonka.
rochat hahahaha! Thanks for making me chuckle there sir.
Condescending Wonka i would like to disagree but..
lets make a movie that revolves around the "fact" that the world is flat and see how good the movie is.
Ah, the old "10% of the brain" myth. Hollywood refuses to let that go.
I've just watched the whole movie and yep! It's crap.
It's basically all looks, but not personality. I agree with the reviewer, the story stops becoming relevant once the protagonist meets Morgan Freeman and devolves into a mindless LSD/firework/idiot fest. The movie never has any tension to speak of due to the fact that the bad guys don't do crap. And I especially hate Johansson's character, Lucy. I know what her character trait is and I don't like it. She barely considers anyone else and kills too many innocents to be considered any type of protagonist.
2/10. Atheists hate it, Christians hate it, scientists hate it, and the director was on drugs. All it as to offer is pretty CGI and nothing else. Oh, and it gets too heavy-handed with the whole evolution thing at the end of the film.
I'm surprised Jeremy didn't mention how the movie has the same exact concept as Limitless.
I was trying to remember the name of it, thats the one where he takes the drug to do basicly the same thing, he gets like super rich from stocks in like a week.
God this movie sucked..... I mean it was dogshit
Stop freaking out because you use more than 10% of the brain. It's a movie! People are praising Dawn of The Planet of The Apes and it's not realistic.
the thing is that dawn of the planet of the apes was a good movie story and acting wise, so it distracted most of us from the unrealistic parts. Lucy didn't have much of a story of what little it had so the unrealistic parts stood out.
Bruce Marlon hahaha, right? The entire plot of Planet of the Apes is ridiculous. However, saying a movie has a ridiculous plot isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes wasn't realistic? I didn't notice anything unbelievable in that...
jwilliams7596 Bruce Marlon I don't think he was saying it was realistic. He was saying that it was well enough written and acted for the outlandish nature of the story to work in the confines of being a sci-fi/fantasy film. This 10% of your brain crap is a completely ridiculous premise. Anyone who's taken a basic neuroscience course (or even a cog-psych course) could point out every problem with that theory, and it's hard to get over. Are "scientific" movies really ever scientifically accurate? No, of course not. But this one operates on such a ridiculous premise and takes it so seriously that it's almost impossible to get any enjoyment out of it. Like that scene where she tells Morgan Freeman that his research on the brain is "a little rudimentary?" It's not just ridiculous -- it's annoying. It's annoying because it's condescending to the viewer while simultaneously being outrageously inaccurate. I have no problems with movies with ridiculous premises, but when a ridiculous film also insults the viewer, I take more of an issue.
In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, we all know damn well that it could never happen, but people freak out about this because it is a very common myth, and we don't want this misunderstanding to continue spreading
That's why I like Batman better than Superman. Superman can do anything, no one can kill or hurt him so why should I give a shit? Everyone can relate to Batman but no one can relate to Superman. (I'm not trying to start a fan war and please don't spam me with replies about me being a dumb-ass)
I feel the same with Capt America and Iron Man, yes iron man can die but he is also to OP and never suffers.
Captain*
Will Potter I know what Capt stands for.
That why batman vs superman would be UNFAIR AS SHIT and it should not happen. But it's going to happen any way :(
I don't think anyone can relate to Batman either, I mean a bunch of people have had their parents killed, but because Batman has a lot of money, he can play dress up and beat up petty thieves and crooks when he can probably do something MUCH better with that money.
I got EXACTLY what I wanted from Lucy, and WAY MORE. It was super bad ass fun times. It had a very loose plot, and amazing things going on, that's all you need.
top 5 of 2014:
5. Maleficent
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Edge Of Tomorrow
2. X-men: Days Of Future Past
1. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
TOTALLY Agree!!!!
You forgot How to train your dragon 2.
Similar to my list, just replace Maleficent with Godzilla
Agree, though i never saw Meleficent.
I hated Maleficent. The movie completely ruined her character and the story, in my opinion. Some of the things that made Maleficent so great was that she evil, she knew she was evil, and she enjoyed being evil. Actually, now that I think about it that wasn't Sleeping Beauty from Maleficent's point of view, it was a completely different story that just ported the names from Sleeping Beauty over.
I'm fine them taking artistic license but they changed way to much.
Limitless did it. Yawn.
Exactly!
I knew this premise sounded familiar...yup, Limitless.
So because 1 other film did it in an entirely different plot and context that means another can't do it too? ..Do you like only watch maybe 5 films in your entire life then?
Chromosoner it's not that another movie can't do it too. I mean they can do the same thing but it just shows that they're being lazy and coping someone else's story.
P.S. limitless did it better.
Robert Eli
Scarlet Johansson is so freaking hot and for that this movie is a 10 out of 10
"...of our 100%, we use 10."
This is false, in every way. The entire movie makes no sense because it is predicated on an outdated urban myth which has been proven false time and again. I understand that's it's science fiction, but this movie just seems like science bullshit.
Your profile pic work perfectly with your comment
What exactly is the difference between science fiction and science bullshit?
James Isaac Neutron Science bullshit actively insults the viewer's intelligence and knowledge of basic science. At least with Planet of the Apes we're given some decent pseudo-science with gene therapy being delivered via a virus - something that is actually being researched. From there it gets silly by using an aggressive viral strain and lack of lab control, but the premise isn't awful from the get go.
James Isaac Neutron A real Science Fiction premise can't be completely deconstructed in the span of a 30 second Google search.
Agreed totally, I made a similar gripe after watching the trailer. The thing I am curious about is whether they ripped off some of the anime series Elfen Lied. The main character who is telekinetic in the anime series is named Lucy and it seems to me more than a little bit of a coincidence in basic theme even if the movie is radically different.
I use 100% of my brain every goddamn day. It's less "awesome shoot-outs" and more "just a fact of being a normal functioning human." Luc Besson needs to learn how to research his films before actually, you know, filming them.
You mean fantasy? Because the key component for something to be "science fiction" is that, and try to stay with me here, the fiction has a scientific basis.
It's a movie not a documentary.
TheKevlar4 It's exactly that kind of dismissive logic that has allowed Hollywood to sink as low as it has. Movies, my friend, are the evolution of art. They are the most easily accessible and powerful form of human expression that we have at our disposal. And when you say stuff like the above, you're telling the execs that put this crap out, "No, it's fine. I wasn't planning on thinking anyway. Just keep shoveling this crap down my throat because clearly, I'm too stupid to know any better."
I feel like the point of the movie is the message and making you think, not to argue about the % of our brain that we use.
It made a terrible job at that.
Yeah it wasn't really thought provoking... Lucy asks a question at the end and the movie didn't do anything to help you as the viewer to answer it. Do drugs and take over the Matrix?
Douglas Rosa If you have a background on french phenomenology and quantum mechanics, you would have thought differently.
ptolemy008
Enlighten me.
Firstly, the contrast between having and being in the early part of the movie with the dolphin example. The distinction is taken from Marcel. Having relates to the objectification of people and things in the world including oneself. In contrast, being relates to the awareness of the subjectivity of things in the world. The movie uses the dolphin as an example of something that uses more capacity of the brain than human beings, yet it adheres to the idea of being, i.e. the dolphin does not treat its body as an object in the world, rather it sees its body as part of itself, part of a supposed subjectivity, that enables it to develop instruments biologically instead of artificially. Humans on the other hand adhere to the idea of having, of the objectification of the world in order to understand it. This simplifies the things in the world in one way or another. The benefit is that humans can develop instruments that are seemingly outside of its biological capacity, although not really since the end of the movie shows the possibility of developing a computer biologically. As such, this idea of having and being is a direct challenge to science, which sees the world in terms of objects, championing the artificial notion of objectivity as a measure of truth. However, this notion of objectivity as measure of truth is again denied by the movie in the latter part, wherein it has a scene explaining how the objectivity of mathematics and physics loses their meaning outside the context of the human being. Then the movie proceeds to claim that the only meaningful notion that can be extracted from mathematics and the sciences is that of the notion of time. However, time, as was presented within the movie, is relative to the state of mind and the mode of being of a given entity. Once a human being transcends both states in the quantum level, time begins to lose its meaning for the human being. As such, the human being stops its mode of existence as a being in time and loses its historicity in the process. Moreover, the human being also loses its mode of existence of being in the world in favor for a mode of existence that can only be describe as being with the world or maybe even being as the world. This idea relates to that of divinity, if we see God or a god as something in the world but outside of time.
If I could unlock more of my brain I would watch limitless
The fact that no other characters pose any physical threat to Scarlett Johansson’s character really takes the enjoyment out of the movie, it’s like when your playing a video game and you turn on a code that makes you completely invincible and you just run around killing enemies who have no way to hurt you, it’s fun for like 2 minutes and then you’re just like “Alright, this is boring”
So its limitless?
My thought exactly!
Yes but more unrealistic
If I could use 100% of my brains overall power.... Being able to see data streams (and understand them) as it goes through the air such as wireless internet waves, radio waves, et cetera, would probably be extremely legit. Being able to consciously change how my appearance looks, being able to change the retina in my eyeballs so I can see like a crocodile or cat at night, clearing rooms just by waving a hand.... There's too much for me to say... But I can tell ya, one would be capable of becoming the ULTIMATE spy. ;)
Aw is that what they show her seeing in the trailer, data streams? I thought maybe they were strings from string theory, like she could see how the universe works. I guess I have a big imagination.
*****
Note to self, you cannot be a wizard ninja...damn.
Then what's stopping you? Get to it already. Use that brain of yours.
We do use a 100% of our brain yet not all of it is used conscientiously. Examples are as follows: breathing, blinking or our heart pumping are done in your brain stem. The reason we cannot "see in the dark like a crocodile or a cat" is because we simply do not have the DNA for the concentrated amount of color cones and rods needed to see as well as they do in the dark. Your DNA acts as a blueprint to your cells and those cones and rods that cats have are not on that "blueprint". Our DNA only allows us to see certain waves on the electromagnetic scale, radio waves or "data streams" as you refer to them, are not within the range of which we can see with the cones and rods we were provided with in our DNA. Its is not simply because we don't use all our brain...
Wolfinte Be more conscientious, then.
Again with that 10% bullshit.
Well just think of it as 110% make so you can enjoy it
Using 10% of our brains is wrong. Using 10% of our brain CAPACITY is debatable but not wrong. Get it?
Thats why u are here commenting on this when u can do a 100 billion things that nobody can do at this point of time dipshit. U only use 1% and my spelling.. Its just short-form.
We definitely can't use 100% of brains in a conscience state because if we could we'd be able to access memories from our childhood that we didn't know we had in our sub conscience like Lucy did. For that reason I believe the 10% part science has argued before. What I'm upset about is that most reviews are not talking about the 3 main points of the movie. 1) Time is the only constant in the universe. It makes everything else possible. 2) Humans would rather have than be. Humans, by nature, would rather have the world than be one with it. And 3) Unlocking 100% could possibly give you an understanding of time, space, and matter giving you control of it. This is why Lucy could time travel, teleport, and control matter. A very deep movie I thought. The action was just "10%" of the movie ha
You are not an authority on this, Science is. If you would do just a little research on this subject from reputable sources you would know there is nothing in this movie that could be remotely considered "deep".
Who said I was an authority? Dude I'm a business major in college that thinks the movie was more science than action.
Christian The movie isn't really about science. What we call science is the tool we use to find answers, we know and understand the concept of time and space, based on what science thought us. What I believe he meant with "deep" is what this movie presents, the potential we have, evolution, unknown future. Most people look at this from an objective point of view and fail to conceive something more out of it.
I don't get it, there's already a movie about this subject and it was badass! You know which one I'm talking about with Bradley Cooper and Robert Deniro: "Limitless".
The thing that struck me about lucy is that she's like Goku. As time goes on they get more and more ridiculously powerful with even more powers and upgrades.
The movie was just annoying and dumb
Why does everyone hate this movie? I thought it was so unique and amazing acting
Adam Stockley me too
Because it was so boring. There was no tension throughout the whole movie, I knew Lucy would win at the end since no one is matched for her. I nearly fell asleep watching it. Rather watch Birdman.
I already use more than ten percent. The whole ten percent thing is a myth.
Interesting. The 1000 times this has already been said didn't really sink in until you came along and said it again. Thank you.
^^^^^ lmfao
I watched the movie last Friday & I have to say it was good but they should have made the movie little bit longer because the ending was kind of lame! I think they should have should more fighting from Scarlett than using her plain powers like The Matrix!
I agree. The movie was good but it seemed like it ended too quickly.
I agree, I liked it too. But when the credits came up I was thinking: "What? That's it? What more happened?"
I was almost like they weren't sure how it should end.
i was so dissapointed int the ending ,,,,,
*****
When she had the ability to time travel and she traveled all the way through time to the beginning of the universe, she then combined herself with the cells that started the universe. Now that part was cool, he is talking about right after she did that. A guy asked "where is she" because she disappeared, then she responded in a text saying "I am everywhere." I would say that the ending just ended a little too abruptly.
*****
Well I thought it was worth watching. Even though the ending was a little strange it was a pretty interesting movie.
Limitless was waaay better, Lucy was way too unrealistic and dumb.
A 30 second plot with the world's dumbest dialogue stretched over 80 minutes of 2005-era special effects. Big disappointment from Luc Besson.
This movie is not for people who like to reality-check movies. PERIOD. I agree with this reviewer because the movie only exists to see her do cool shit. She does things that will never happen in real life and Morgan Freeman totally pulls a bunch of scientific sounding things out of thin air. Theoretical stuff that many people will think is total B.S. and get upset. Otherwise it's a great movie and definitely in the scifi genre.
Yep I liked the movie too really.
If I could use 100 percent of my brain, I'd forget this movie, and I can so I just did.
I laughed so fucking hard during the 2nd half. I love sci-fi, it is my fav genre.. but only if it feels consistent within the rules of the movie's premise/universe will it be fun or exciting to follow. This felt like a fantasy of that geek in school. "Oh man.. you know what would kickass? This chick gets affected by this dug.. .and like.. like.. she gets uber smart, man.. 100% brain power and shit... how cooool would that be? "