Lucy

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ECGORDON

Sunday, July 6, 2014 11:23 PM

The 10% brain-use theory is a long discredited fallacy. Even though neurologists don't know what happens in the majority of the regions of the brain, that does not mean those areas don't have a function or that we don't use them.

The latest trailer I saw for this makes me less inclined to see it, at least in theaters. Morgan Freeman's character says, "When she reaches such-and-such % of brain use she'll be able to manipulate matter...blah, blah, blah. At another level she'll be able to control others...blah, blah, blah." All very ridiculous assumptions. This may turn out to be a decent action/adventure movie, but that's about it. I don't expect it to have a well-written story arc.

THGRRI

Sunday, July 6, 2014 11:40 PM

Can I just add, Morgan Freeman? He always brings a lot to a movie.

si shen

AURAPTOR

Monday, July 7, 2014 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
The 10% brain-use theory is a long discredited fallacy. Even though neurologists don't know what happens in the majority of the regions of the brain, that does not mean those areas don't have a function or that we don't use them.

The latest trailer I saw for this makes me less inclined to see it, at least in theaters. Morgan Freeman's character says, "When she reaches such-and-such % of brain use she'll be able to manipulate matter...blah, blah, blah. At another level she'll be able to control others...blah, blah, blah." All very ridiculous assumptions. This may turn out to be a decent action/adventure movie, but that's about it. I don't expect it to have a well-written story arc.

THANK YOU !

And that's a big issue w/ me, and despite Scarlett and Morgan , I'm not sure that's something I can over look. It seems to be an significant part of the film, as she uses more and more of her brain. It's like a count down, but in reverse, to the point of impact where she's " 100% " , or some such.

I'd almost rather go see Transformers4

( OK - that's just me being silly )

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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SECOND

Monday, July 7, 2014 10:54 AM

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It's like a count down, but in reverse, to the point of impact where she's " 100% " , or some such.

This one minute trailer very clearly shows more and more rules of actual physics being violated the closer and closer Lucy approaches the magical 100%.

There has got to be a plot twist at the end of the story: something like Lucy is actually experiencing only a simulated reality where there are no rules. I love how, in this trailer, Lucy can change hair color and length as she is walking down a hall. It is a dream. There will never be a reality with that possibility.

Maybe the whole story is Lucy's brain wired to produce hallucinations in Morgan Freeman's laboratory.

Lucy is R-rated. That kind of story has already been done before, except with a male lead, the famous Tom Cruise in R-rated Vanilla Sky (2001). www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/ Many people did not understand the plot twist of Cruise's brain being wired to a computer at the end of that movie, even to this day.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THGRRI

Monday, July 7, 2014 10:58 AM

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it yet but I think there is significance in the name Lucy.

si shen

SECOND

Monday, July 7, 2014 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by THGRRI:
I'm not sure if anyone mentioned it yet but I think there is significance in the name Lucy.

si shen

Name Lucy
Meaning: Light, Illumination.
http://babynamesmeanings.info/index.php?gender=&name=lucy
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Lucy

So . . . She is the Enlightened One. Very thrilling. Not really.

Also Lucy (Australopithecus) at the dawn of womankind could be movie Lucy. She represents someone new on Earth.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

AURAPTOR

Monday, July 7, 2014 7:37 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Lucy. ( Australopithecus )

Evolution.

If that's truly a nod to one of our ancestors, how clever !

From earlier in the thread.

BYTEMITE

Monday, July 7, 2014 7:55 PM

Also could technically be sort for "Lucifer", but it's probably the Australopithicus one, since I guess she's supposed to represent a new stage of human evolution or something.

Side note: Imagining that Lucy is sort for Lucifer in Charlie Brown comics CHANGES EVERYTHING.

SECOND

Monday, July 7, 2014 8:49 PM

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Side note: Imagining that Lucy is short for Lucifer in Charlie Brown comics CHANGES EVERYTHING.

Side note to side note: the creator, Charles Schulz, is dead. But Peanuts goes on. That is something diabolically unnatural. www.peanuts.com/
http://bigmac1212.deviantart.com/art/Humorous-Charles-Schulz-Quote-339
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 1:32 AM

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Yeah, Limitless with Bradley Cooper came to mind. Imagine the amount of stimuli entering the brain pan..........Would it be so awesome as depicted in the movies?

SGG

I tried to watch Limitless, but man, it was darn near cartoonishly predictable. I soon grew bored, and tuned out.

A couple of thoughts...

This idea that humans only use 10% of their brain, seems to be a running theme through out the movie. Only one problem. It's been debunked. I have no issue w/ saying humans don't use their full potential, that's not really the question. We don't. But this nonsense that she's using more and more of her brain, and " what will happen when she gets to 100% " ... rubbish.

And this drug they put into her... I wonder if we'll find out what it is, or does it remain a mystery ? Reminds me of the glowey object in the brief case of Pulp Fiction. That was never revealed in the movie, was it ? The combination to the lock was '666 ', for what ever that's suppose to matter.

I think it's called McGuffin, from the Unobtainium root.

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As for Lucy, it seems like , for what ever reason, they don't get the package out of her, or they do, and too much of the substance has entered the bloodstream, it's damage done. I wonder if they'll fully explain what she was exposed to, and whether it was intended to affect people that way. My guess is that no, its use was for something else entirely.

Is Lucy related to River Tam? Seems a similar storyline. Didn't notice before the catalyst was a drug.

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