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I haven't seen Limitless. Is is better than Lucy?

posted 8 years ago by craysellers
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Could it be better? Lucy is mind-boggling, smart, well-acted, and I watch it every chance I get. But I've read several 'synopses' of Limitless, and it sounds like the same movie.
If a movie has a plot line where a drug can make the main character use 100% of his/her brain, would I want to watch Bradley Cooper or Scarlett Johannson? Scarlett rocks in that movie. She's kind of 'street' with marginal hygiene, smart but not intellectual: everybody knows this girl! It informs without being preachy. It dares to stereotype the 'science-as-shown-in-movies' role by casting Morgan Freeman as the ultimate authority on where philosophy meets neuroscience, but it totally works.
If you haven't seen it, remedy that!
How does Limitless compare to Lucy?

[–] maawan 8 years ago

I have seen both and limitless I think is way better than Lucy because of a better screenplay. Though I am not much of Sci Fi genre fan but Limitless is quite a good thriller movie.

[–] aniruddhgaming 8 years ago

Lucy is better visually, but Limitless is better when it comes to story and screenplay. Lucy is like she gets the drugs in her system and practically becomes God at the end. Limitless makes more sense and its not like Eddie is just making his enemies fly or something. He becomes way more smarter, but still a human.

[–] chicago85 8 years ago

Limitless has a much lower body count. Lucy was like a shooting arcade game.

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else

[–] FromIMDB-1 7 years ago

As you'll find elsewhere, we already do use 100% of our brains: the 10%/20% thing was made up nonsense long ago, and just keeps getting quoted 'cause we love to think of ourselves as having 10x hidden potential.

Anyway, both are fantasy movies about something that does not, and is not likely to, exist, but Limitless is a lot closer to reality than the time traveling, becoming-a-God-at-the-end craziness of Lucy.

Also, while Limitless has a classic problem of the writers not being as smart as the guy they're writing (which leads to all sorts of stupid plot holes) Lucy is spectacularly pretentious AND creates a character that is invulnerable to any actual harm by 20 minutes into the movie. That makes it so, so boring, as you watch a telekinetic demigod waltz through situations being able to do whatever she wants with no actual fear of being stopped. Except for the airplane scene, which was genuinely disturbing... for about 30 seconds. Then, back to invulnerable murder goddess.

[–] metalnsteak 7 years ago

Lucy is moronic at best, this one at least tries to envision the biochem breakthrough despite very flawed decisions of the main character.