I loved "Lucy" SPOILERS!

[Particle_Man]

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I didn't care about the 10% thing, just accepted that as star trek style technobabble.

I did notice that she was never motivated by revenge, which I found interesting.

She seemed interested in survival at first, and then her purpose was to find a purpose, and then she agreed to share the knowledge she had gained. And then, having done that, she ascended and basically became the universe, almost bhudda enlightenment style.

It was particularly fun for me as I thought it was going to be a straight up action flick, and I got some cool art film stuff in there too.

 

[Janx]

I thought this thread was about Lucile Ball's show.

 

[Umbran]

I admit I haven't seen the movie, and don't plan to. Usually, I can swallow technical inaccuracy well enough, but the 10% I could not.

If you really have to blow away real science to make wacky adventures happen (like in, say, The Core), I'm good with that. The real world doesn't allow what you want to do, so you make up some complete nonsense and move on. That's how I can give a pass to any movie that does FTL travel, for example - breaking known science is necessary, as the story just doesn't work otherwise.

But here, they didn't *have* to blow away real science, at least, not in that false-meme perpetuating way. Anyone with a lick of understanding of neurology or cognitive science (say, someone with a Bachelor's degree in biology) could have come up with a bit of good-sounding pseudo-scientific gobbledigook that would have done the same job better, and allow us to easily hand-wave the brokenness. The failure to do that speaks to some lacks in the moviemaking, such that I don't have much desire to see the thing.

 

[Particle_Man]

Ah, but this gobblygook acts as a good marker. Every so often a certain percentage flashes across the screen to show that Lucy is getting a new set of super powers. It is fun to keep track.

 

[Crothian]

The one thing I did not like even more then the bad science was that Morgan Freeman's character states his theory of what will happen as the percent of brain activity increases and then Lucy shows that is exactly what happens. So, there is no surprise with her abilities to the viewers. We know exactly what is going to happen with her abilities.

The other part of the movie that failed for me was that Lucy got boring. Scarlett does a great acting job at the beginning showing fear and confusion but then the emotions go away and that did not help the movie at all.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I admit I haven't seen the movie, and don't plan to. Usually, I can swallow technical inaccuracy well enough, but the 10% I could not.

Well, if the 10% thing is too much for you, I must advice you to avoid watching this movie at all costs. The 10% brain us BS is the least of the crimes against science this movie makes. This movie is like watching a modified version of Passion of the Christ, with science taking the role of Christ. It's 3/4 of a movie where science gets beaten down savagely, and the 1/4 of the movie science dies a slow death.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

The other part of the movie that failed for me was that Lucy got boring. Scarlett does a great acting job at the beginning showing fear and confusion but then the emotions go away and that did not help the movie at all.

Apparently using 20% of your brain turns you into a sociopath.
I have to agree with you, at the beginning, her acting was fairly good. She was an interesting character, then she get's "use" of 20% of her brain, and she suddenly become emotionless, feels no pain, and knows kung fu.

Maybe I missed it, but how did she find out about Morgan Freeman's character?

 

[Crothian]

Maybe I missed it, but how did she find out about Morgan Freeman's character?

In her flat she was using the room mates computer to read everything she could on the brain. She learned of him doing that research.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

In her flat she was using the room mates computer to read everything she could on the brain. She learned of him doing that research.

Ah... so I didn't miss it. My brain, functioning at 11% just blocked it due to the lamez.

 

[Scrivener of Doom]

(snip) The other part of the movie that failed for me was that Lucy got boring. Scarlett does a great acting job at the beginning showing fear and confusion but then the emotions go away and that did not help the movie at all.

My wife and I just finished watching it and I have to agree.

I described it as, Scarlett stopped acting. I think it would have worked better as an action film from beginning to end.