Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson

Whoa.

They lost me at "Humans only use 10% of their brain!".

Oh, that old chestnut?

Huh...I have the feeling that there are a few Plot Holes already present and that they're going for a Inception meets The Matrix visual and movement style.

Also, 10% of the brain. Not sure if Artistic License or Critical Research Failure.

It's like Limitless crossed with the Black Widow movie we're never gonna get.

The 10% of the brain thing turned me off too, though I do have to say they are going a lot further with it than usual. Rather than just getting "smarter" she's getting tons of super powers.

The 10% thing is bullshit as well know, but other than that, this actually looks very interesting and creative.

I'll probably watch it.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

Too high a hurdle of sheer lazy stupidity for me to bother with, and I have notoriously low standards.

She looks either scared or bored in every second of the trailer. She has nothing and no one to care about, no friends or allies. I like Scarlett Johansson but there should be more to a story then "woman does cool things."

Well, she has something to care about: escaping from her kidnappers and deal with the issue with Morgan Freeman.

Could this movie go for a "be careful with the power you have" angle?

This was written and directed by Luc Besson, whose films can be a mixed bag.

edited 5th Apr '14 6:22:58 PM by DS9guy

Yeah. When he's good, he's really really good. But when he's bad he's horrid. (I know I ripped that off of some kid's book but I am beggared if I can remember which. )

Sure it's bullshit, but does it really matter? It's just classic B-movie science, like getting bitten by a radioactive spider. Nothing wrong with that, I think.

As for this movie, I dunno. I don't really like the part where she goes from from powerless and cowering in fear to a super-composed badass in less than a second though. A short build-up would have made a much better scene.

Like, maybe a kind of psychedelic trip where she suddenly starts thinking and perceiving so fast that everything looks slow-motion, or something.

Anyway, I really prefer it when "suddenly a super-genius" type stories (not that there's a lot of those, I guess...) focus on the intelligence-increase instead of tacking on a bunch of psychic powers, though. A lot more interesting that way, I think.

edited 6th Apr '14 12:01:02 AM by CassidyTheDevil

Then again it's a trailer. Maybe the movie does show a slow transformation.

edited 5th Apr '14 7:06:17 PM by Gaon

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

Considering one of the lines was "What happens when she reaches 100%?", I'd imagine it might be more gradual than we think.

I think it'll be interesting. Though, I think she seems a bit bored, that could be her character. The trailer shows more of the concept than who she is as a character as far as I can tell.

Could be interesting.

I'm a critical person but I'm a nice guy when you get to know me. Now, I should be writing.

I think the boredness is a way to display that her mind evolution is making her less human, as she says herself in the trailer ("Everything that makes me human is slipping away").

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

So, are you saying Big Fat Liar is based on a true story?

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

Will see.

So why is a white woman the main character of a film set in Taiwan?

Uh but less facetiously, I really hope that there's some Asian characters in this film that aren't bad guys or get killed by Lucy because wow that would be questionable if that's all they did in the film.

And wow film you really couldn't have tried to find another explanation for the superpowers origin besides 10% of the brain?

edited 6th Apr '14 10:49:14 AM by Hermiethefrog

The trailer is a bit vague but I got the impression she was kidnapped and led there by the Oriental bad guys.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

The word oriental can be considered derogatory. They're Asian or East Asian bad guys.

Yeah, not impressed with what I'm seeing. The story is something that has been well covered and they are tacking on superhero powers over top of it. I've read that Scarlett Johansson has also been actively avoiding the Love Interest roles and with that in mind it comes across as something of a vanity project, she took it because she gets to kick ass and nothing more.

Language thing. Portuguese (I'm brazilian) usually usually works by Occident/Oriental rather than West/East, so it's frequent to call something "Oriental" or "Ocidental" (I used in this case because despite the movie being set in Taiwan, we are not clear on the villain's actual ethnicties).

"All you Fascists bound to lose."

If you're calling a thing oriental it's one thing. Calling a person or people oriental is where you'll get problems.

edited 6th Apr '14 1:18:53 PM by stingerbrg

The controversy never arose in any conversation before this one, so I was legitimately unaware.

"All you Fascists bound to lose."