Lucy - Luc Besson's new movie that looks like a sequel to The Fifth Element.

[Magician]

I don't know which studio bought the distribution rights, but I've seen the trailer over and over again on tv and it isn't scheduled to release for weeks. Scarlett Johansson, sexy as ever. Luc Besson at the helm of a sci-fi/action flick...should be entertaining from start to finish by default. Morgan Freeman, adding another name that the Murican audience recognizes and appreciates to an otherwise fully French cast. I don't know about the rest of you, but I like what I see.

 

[Taiso]

I will go see it if the general concensus is that it's good. Any sense of tension drained right out of me the second she walked into a room, did a hand gesture or whatever and everyone just fell down.

How am I possibly supposed to worry about what happens to a character with god powers? It's the same problem I had with Alice in the Resident Evil movies-if she could just do a sexy look and pose and the room explodes and there's no satisfactory explanation in the movie that limits the use of such an ability, why isn't she just doing that all the time?

I'm really hoping they explore more of the bad side effects of a person being able to use too much of their brainpower. It's really the only way I think I could care about this movie. Yeah, Scarlett's hot but I can see her being hot in a lot of stuff.

Plus, Besson is very hit or miss for me.

 

[LoneSage]

movie that looks like a sequel to The Fifth Element.

you sure do like to set yourself up for disappointment

 

[cannonball]

I just looked up this Besson guy and I like the stuff he's worked on in the past (some of it). I'll see this when it hits redbox like everything else. I'm sure it will be entertaining.

 

[Kid Panda]

I'd like to see a sequel to The Professional using Mathilda's character again grown up....considering she is

 

[ki_atsushi]

lol, looks absolutely ridiculous.

Why is it always assumed that there's some kind of supreme knowledge to unlock in our brains? Knowledge comes from experience, not from within.

If we used 100% of our brains (we actually do... just not for cognition, which is what I'm assuming they're talking about), people would still be just as lazy and dumb. Stupid movie premise.

 

[Karou]

so she has some sort of (strong)telekinesis going on right?
why does she bother with a gun then? if you can throw a bunch of guys around, couldn't you tear out and project bullet sized things anywhere you went?

 

[Magician]

you sure do like to set yourself up for disappointment

Just think of it as being one of my character quirks.

On que, without missing a beat.

Although, I'd say once out of every ten times the hype train arrives as scheduled.

 

[Taiso]

lol, looks absolutely ridiculous.

Why is it always assumed that there's some kind of supreme knowledge to unlock in our brains? Knowledge comes from experience, not from within.

If we used 100% of our brains (we actually do... just not for cognition, which is what I'm assuming they're talking about), people would still be just as lazy and dumb. Stupid movie premise.

There's actually a significant bit of research into the possibility that humans could be capable of things like telekinesis, eidetic memory, telepathy, ambidexterity and even things like pyrokinesis, immovability and incredible reflexes and reaction time. And there are scientific theories to support many of them, although some of them seem far fetched at a glance.

Most of what you see in movies is just these ideas pumped up on steroids and turned into science fiction premises. Akira, Scanners, Mobile Suit Gundam, etc., etc. etc. They don't all specifically state that these powers come from being able to use more of your brainpower, but many of them find their roots in the study of the human brain and how much of it is accessible through evolution, either forced or natural.

My problem with this particular interpretation is in that Lucy is shown having all of these amazing powers. So where's the tension? This is a Luc Besson movie, so I'm not seeing the potential for a person breaking down, being unable to function, going externally catatonic while being internally within their own world.

Doctor Manhattan is still the best representation of a super intelligent person just getting 'bigger' than the world they live in and growing more and more detached from humanity.

I'm interested in the pitfalls of all this psychic power rather than the power fantasy. Akira did a great job of showing that. The manga vastly better than the movie, but even the movie did a decent job of it.

 

[Karou]

these amazing powers. So where's the tension? This is a Luc Besson movie, so I'm not seeing the potential for a person breaking down, being unable to function, going externally catatonic while being internally within their own world.

ohhh thats why she'd have a gun! Thanks.

''stuff'' may have been more common/existed before, ''norms'' probably were jealous/and called it scared (like gun control now-eventually people having been able to have guns will seem like a joke to the ''box people''?)and got rid of the weirdos? the weirdos say thats what flouride is for you know to supress stuff, it is poison. if you believe in anything ethereal it isn't to hard to make the stretch that living things could manipulate ''something'' without physical contact. believing in anything gives it more power...you're maybe at least still, one who would ''cheer'' for a sports team? Uri Geller was presented as authentic when I grew up anyhow?

 

[ki_atsushi]

There's actually a significant bit of research into the possibility that humans could be capable of things like telekinesis, eidetic memory, telepathy, ambidexterity and even things like pyrokinesis, immovability and incredible reflexes and reaction time. And there are scientific theories to support many of them, although some of them seem far fetched at a glance.

Ambidexterity, Reflexes and reaction time are one thing, but there's no scientific evidence to support telepathy, telekinesis, or pyrokinesis. You've been reading too much Stephen King.

There's no direct connection from the brain to the outside world (other than through your body of course), so that stuff is impossible.

 

[Taiso]

Ambidexterity, Reflexes and reaction time are one thing, but there's no scientific evidence to support telepathy, telekinesis, or pyrokinesis. You've been reading too much Stephen King.

There's no direct connection from the brain to the outside world (other than through your body of course), so that stuff is impossible.

Bro, the point I'm trying to make is that it's not a stupid story because of the accusation that it's not founded in some form of real world study and theorization. Many of the powers she displays are related to the studies and theories posted regarding the ability to use more of one's brain power than is available to most of humanity.

It's a stupid story because if she can give a sexy look and knock a room full of people out, why should I even be worried what happens to this character? Where is the tension? Does anyone really want to watch a movie where a person blinks and people die and that serves as the 'action'?

They really should have saved the god powers for the movie, and used the trailer to build tension.

 

[evil wasabi]

Zero interest.

But 9000 points of seething disdain.

 

[Taiso]

Zero interest.

But 9000 points of seething disdain.

Why not just go to 10K? I mean, why hold back?

 

[evil wasabi]

Because limits make things interesting. Unlimited power is silly and masturbatory.

 

[ki_atsushi]

Bro, the point I'm trying to make is that it's not a stupid story because of the accusation that it's not founded in some form of real world study and theorization. Many of the powers she displays are related to the studies and theories posted regarding the ability to use more of one's brain power than is available to most of humanity.

It's a stupid story because if she can give a sexy look and knock a room full of people out, why should I even be worried what happens to this character? Where is the tension? Does anyone really want to watch a movie where a person blinks and people die and that serves as the 'action'?

They really should have saved the god powers for the movie, and used the trailer to build tension.

Ok, I see where you're going. I do agree that this movie suffers from the same problem that Superman does. Invincible=boring.

However, the whole "human brain potential" thing is way played out too, and it's rubbish.

I think I'm gonna go watch Scanners and Firestarter now.

 

[Taiso]

Because limits make things interesting. Unlimited power is silly and masturbatory.

Well, there are more than 10K points of disdain to hand out. 9K is just a curious number to me.

 

[Xian Xi]

Plus, Besson is very hit or miss for me.

Same here. I like some of his stuff a lot and hate some of his stuff a lot.

 

[Chempop]

Despite being a Besson fan this looks pretty blah from the trailer. La Femme Nikita is still my favorite Besson, closely followed by The Big Blue and The Professional.

 

[SNKorSWM]

It's about as hilarious as having superman resorting to firing a gun to get a job done.

 

[evil wasabi]

Well, there are more than 10K points of disdain to hand out. 9K is just a curious number to me.

You have to keep in mind I'm a site Vegeta who likes to have fun.

 

[Naika]

I see Choi Min-sik from Oldboy here as well. He's probably requisite villain fodder in this case....

 

[Taiso]

You have to keep in mind I'm a site Vegeta who likes to have fun.

You'll never be second best in my book, Wasabi.

 

[evil wasabi]

Thanks man, but I am only tops while Kabob trains with King Kai.

 

[SML]

I'll agree that a premise doesn't need to be realistic for a movie to work, but I'm still surprised that the premise of this movie is what I considered to be a widely stigmatized folk belief. I regularly use the statement "Albert Einstein once said we use only 10% of our brains." for a whole routine on logical fallacies, etc., in my classroom.