Anya ,'Touched'
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How often do they talk about this crap?
Often. It's Morgan Freeman's entire area of research and Lucy's brain access percentage is used as interstitial title cards.
I have to give Luc Besson some credit though - his movies are always interesting in some way. Both Fifth Element and Lucy wonder about humanity's next step, but I think Lucy is much more grim. And Lucy herself is very much the anti-Leeloo.
I hate the whole "we only use 10% of our brains" nonsense and I know Lucy uses this to explain her powers. How often do they talk about this crap? Because I could tolerate some mentions....
This is why I never watched it.
That and Scarlett Johansson wearing only one blank facial expression throughout the whole trailer no matter what was going on kept me away.
How often do they talk about this crap?
CON. STANT. LY.
I did a little inner asterisk to keep from screaming.
MOVIE: "Blah blah only ten percent blah."
MY INNER MONOLOGUE: " *at one time."
I mostly enjoyed the movie, but you do need to go in with part of your brain (90%?) turned off.
snerk
I more-or-less watched Lucy on TV (while simultaneously playing on my iPad) because Hubs wanted to see it. Decent enough mindless amusement. Although if you tried to take it seriously, I suppose it could be pretty good unintentional comedy.
We do have people that occasionally use most of their brain at one time; they're called epileptics.
Speaking of kick-ass Besson heroines, Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec, which unfortunately never got a U.S. release, is streaming on Netflix until 8/11. Perhaps it is no more believable than Lucy but at least Buffistas might appreciate the steampunk aesthetic.
Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
I covet all of her outfits and hats.
Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
Does it have subtitles?
I enjoyed some parts of Kingsman mainly because the person I was with was really enjoying it; if I'd been watching it alone I would've been bored and irritated. The violence was too ridiculous to bother me, it was just stupid. And then they killed off Colin Firth, who was the only character I found interesting at all, so I didn't really care what happened after that.
I have Lucy on DVD but haven't gotten around to watching it. That's another one that I was really looking forward to when I first heard of it, and then was disappointed by (10% of our brains!) before I ever even saw it. I should go on and watch it so I can sell the DVD.
Ant-Man was one of my favorite marvel movies yet.
I agree with Gris. Astonishing, for a movie and a character I expected to loathe.
I'm planning on seeing Mr. Holmes this weekend. It's showing on one screen at 12:35 at my local theater. I don't know if I'll like it, simply because I want Sherlock Holmes to be immortal. I'll probably cry. Mission: Impossible is taking all the cinema real estate this weekend. I haven't seen any of the others, and I doubt I'll see this one. Fantastic Four is only on one screen already, which tells me it's really not doing well; Ant-Man has limited showings but it's still here, which tells me it's doing okay.