Then again I'd also consider just watching a film of her observing paint dry.
But yeah, atrocious film, lol. The story had some potential, and so did some of the scenes, but...just wow. It amazes me that these people who are supposedly among the top of their field can allow sh*t like this to pass through.
You had a 40 mil budget to work with on this and that's the best you could come up with? I mean really???
Let me guess, it had no main character becoming the good guy? no main character falling in love with a secondary character? no main character defeating the bad guy? No small easy to understand storyline that won't bother to reach higher than the level it's always remained at?
Not the Hollywood trash that's always on the big screen and just the same unoriginal uncreative action movie garbage? too deep and out there for simple minds? That's sad.
We all have our opinions, but I strongly disagree with yours.
I know it hurts your feelings but yeah you really shouldn't take it so personally.
And I actually really liked the main character. Also couldn't have cared less about the main character "falling in love with a secondary character". And lol did Lucy not ultimately defeat the bad guy? No she didn't pull the trigger, but she obviously won. Well if you want to get technical, she sure as hell didn't lose. The story line wasn't complex at all like you're implying -- in fact it was dumbed down infinitely. She takes a drug that allows her to access more of her brain than anybody else. Oooohhh wow, so complex. Lol.
The film was poorly made. Period. Besson should have a restraining order put out against him for that debacle and shouldn't be allowed within 500 yards of a film set ever again. The special effects were atrocious. And like that another poster said, she turned into a computer blob for f#@k's sake, lmao. The film had potential but the it was imploded by the director.
Glad you liked it, though. To each their own.
It doesn't hurt my feelings, just upsetting that art like this can't be appreciated by the average movie goer, but art is subjective I suppose, some see garbage while others see a masterpiece.
I see, I probably assumed that, but most people who dislike Lucy always refer to how her character had no depth or dimension and was a complete robot, and wanted Lucy to hook up with the french police cop Del Rio to give birth to off spring and pass her information down to the next cell instead of what actually happened, but apologies.
Well, she did technically 'won' but it wasn't about winning, defeating the bad guy would be a primitive thought process which her thoughts were too higher to desire revenge, payback, it was pointless and would mean nothing, all she cared about was passing on her knowledge down to Humanity, like the cell that split and divided into two cells, then another two cells and so on.
Technically she wasn't using more of it, she was using what she already had to it's full potential, and it was very complex, the drugs were simply a plot device used to jump-start Lucy's spiritual evolution and become Enlightened, it was telling the story of a woman going down the path to become a God, something bigger than us, and through this metamorphosis she loses her humanity and becomes a creature evolved beyond basic logic and law, it's not a film that you just watch and go 'Oh Cool'... well, you can feel that way about it, but it also leaves you in deep thought, provoking thoughts that you probably never thought about before, thinking about the Human race and how much we've absorbed into materialism and the world we've created for ourselves, human desire and weakness, barriers blocking us from reaching the pinnacle of our Evolution, instilled ourselves with limitations and closed our minds from the impossible, or what we consider the 'impossible' in our minds, because we can't naturally see anything higher than what we already know, right? but this imagines the possibility that maybe there's more to this bubble we as human beings live within and could step out of it and perceive Life and Reality from the Universal perspective, where everything is broken down until everything is one, it's very spiritual and philosophical, and that's something I was able to appreciate very much, then again, I've always loved 'What If' films, films that go from what we only know to what we 'could' know or never know.
That's a shame, this was the first Luc Besson film I remember seeing and I loved it, a true genius of movie making and story telling in my eyes.
I thought the special FX were incredible, from the part where the drugs leak into Lucy's abdomen which lets you know that shi*'s just getting started, when Lucy saw the inner workings of a tree and placed her fingers into the bad guy's brain to scan his memories to collect the information of where the other drug's have been taken to, then the scale just kept going higher and higher, you didn't know what was going to happen, and the Time Travel sequence left me with no words, it all looked very realistic and alike typical space imagery that you can already see now, but the colours and trippy' visuals were just... Wow, and especially the part where Lucy's body turns as black as space itself, like she was becoming one with all matter, it was just... so surreal, IMHO of course, I'd probably have negative opinions of films you like, different opinions and tastes, we are all different and feel differently to different things.
She didn't turn into a 'computer blob' the last few percent of her Cerebral Capacity which was I believe 70% which basically was the beginning of the end of Lucy's physical existence, she was able to interface with the computers and travel the timescape to send her knowledge back to them via thumbdrive as an easy format that they could understand, and Lucy has disappeared into the space-time continuum, an interesting note that the black stuff that is what the computer was composed of and what was covering Lucy was representing carbon and melanin, these elements are everywhere in the Universe, as Lucy was covered by it, her entire being was becoming the Universe itself, hence the black material, you could even say that the CPH4 was a metaphor for carbon and melanin.
I stopped reading when you used the word “art.”
shareIt doesn't hurt my feelings, just upsetting that art like this can't be appreciated by the average movie goer, but art is subjective I suppose, some see garbage while others see a masterpiece.
I see, I probably assumed that, but most people who dislike Lucy always refer to how her character had no depth or dimension and was a complete robot, and wanted Lucy to hook up with the french police cop Del Rio to give birth to off spring and pass her information down to the next cell instead of what actually happened, but apologies.
Well, she did technically 'won' but it wasn't about winning, defeating the bad guy would be a primitive thought process which her thoughts were too higher to desire revenge, payback, it was pointless and would mean nothing, all she cared about was passing on her knowledge down to Humanity, like the cell that split and divided into two cells, then another two cells and so on.
Technically she wasn't using more of it, she was using what she already had to it's full potential, and it was very complex, the drugs were simply a plot device used to jump-start Lucy's spiritual evolution and become Enlightened, it was telling the story of a woman going down the path to become a God, something bigger than us, and through this metamorphosis she loses her humanity and becomes a creature evolved beyond basic logic and law, it's not a film that you just watch and go 'Oh Cool'... well, you can feel that way about it, but it also leaves you in deep thought, provoking thoughts that you probably never thought about before, thinking about the Human race and how much we've absorbed into materialism and the world we've created for ourselves, human desire and weakness, barriers blocking us from reaching the pinnacle of our Evolution, instilled ourselves with limitations and closed our minds from the impossible, or what we consider the 'impossible' in our minds, because we can't naturally see anything higher than what we already know, right? but this imagines the possibility that maybe there's more to this bubble we as human beings live within and could step out of it and perceive Life and Reality from the Universal perspective, where everything is broken down until everything is one, it's very spiritual and philosophical, and that's something I was able to appreciate very much, then again, I've always loved 'What If' films, films that go from what we only know to what we 'could' know or never know.
That's a shame, this was the first Luc Besson film I remember seeing and I loved it, a true genius of movie making and story telling in my eyes.
I thought the special FX were incredible, from the part where the drugs leak into Lucy's abdomen which lets you know that shi*'s just getting started, when Lucy saw the inner workings of a tree and placed her fingers into the bad guy's brain to scan his memories to collect the information of where the other drug's have been taken to, then the scale just kept going higher and higher, you didn't know what was going to happen, and the Time Travel sequence left me with no words, it all looked very realistic and alike typical space imagery that you can already see now, but the colours and trippy' visuals were just... Wow, and especially the part where Lucy's body turns as black as space itself, like she was becoming one with all matter, it was just... so surreal, IMHO of course, I'd probably have negative opinions of films you like, different opinions and tastes, we are all different and feel differently to different things.
She didn't turn into a 'computer blob' the last few percent of her Cerebral Capacity which was I believe 70% which basically was the beginning of the end of Lucy's physical existence, she was able to interface with the computers and travel the timescape to send her knowledge back to them via thumbdrive as an easy format that they could understand, and Lucy has disappeared into the space-time continuum, an interesting note that the black stuff that is what the computer was composed of and what was covering Lucy was representing carbon and melanin, these elements are everywhere in the Universe, as Lucy was covered by it, her entire being was becoming the Universe itself, hence the black material, you could even say that the CPH4 was a metaphor for carbon and melanin.
Well I'm glad you enjoyed it -- like I said I thought it had a lot of potential and I certainly enjoyed Scarlett's performance. I really enjoy films that aren't the norm, and this attempted to be that, but the production and direction was just too off for me. But yeah, it's just my opinion. I'm sure there were a lot of folks who enjoyed it (such as yourself), and more power to them.
shareAnd I accept your opinion, thanks for not making this too heated and turn into an internet fight. ☺
Have you seen the The Fifth Element? It's one of Luc Besson's older films and similar to Lucy but not as crazy, aliens and space travel, that sorta thing. 😉
I saw it many, many years ago -- I would like to see it again though to refresh my memory on it.
How did you like it?
I honestly don't understand why you didn't enjoy it, and also "many, many years ago" is kinda absurd because it only came out two years ago. Lol, you kind of seem pretentious to me, not to be mean or anything. I just don't think your reasoning behind not liking the film makes sense. :P
I disagree that it had a standard or "dumbed down" movie plot; I found it to be quite complex and original. It combined a lot of thought-provoking elements together in a very inventive fashion and strung them together cohesively across continents, languages, and several different knowledge banks including science, philosophy, and literature. Sure, the initial premise and catalyst for all of the events of the movie is technically "ridiculous" but we have to remember that it's a movie. Why do we watch movies? To escape and experience things we wouldn't normally experience. Would we normally experience what it's like to be thrown into a drug mule situation? I really would hope not, but if we did it would probably be best to accidentally ingest an enormous dose of a mind-altering drug that gave you the all-knowing power of the universe. LOL That being said, I definitely experienced a lot of things from this film that I think were pretty interesting and fresh compared to other movies, especially in the sci-fi genre.
I also found the overall tone of the film to be very interesting, very tongue-in-cheek humor, dark at times, and sometimes just borderline slapstick and shock out of how ridiculous things are increasingly getting. I thought they pulled off the progression of the story as well, from both Lucy and Morgan Freeman's character's perspective. The action builds and unfolds pretty naturally considering the supernatural and superhero-esque manifestations that are occurring as well as the mile-a-minute shifts in time, perspective, and space.
Anyway, before I get too into this I just really thought this film had a lot to offer and it bums me out you didn't appreciate it. Lol I hope that the next time you watch it you can take away at least something from it! :)
Well for starters, the "many years ago" comment was in response to the other poster's (gladoscake) comment/question about the movie, The Fifth Element. I wasn't talking about Lucy.
Look I really liked the Lucy character, and I swear, I really, REALLY wanted to like the movie. Maybe I should give it a second viewing and be more open minded about it. But regardless to each their own, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
It goes without saying, that Lucy is a very unique film, that can be either a bad or good thing, so not everyone is going to be able to get into it, in my case, it's a one of kind motion-picture gem.
shareYES, I am so glad that you share the same perspective. I feel like this film covered SO MANY DIFFERENT IDEAS and integrated them together almost flawlessly! In fact, I can't really think of any one thing that made me think, "Oh, brother." or "That's stupid." or something like that...I wanna watch it again ASAP!
shareAh, okay. Haha :P Yeah, I echo their sentiment, you should re-watch The Fifth Element. I actually didn't think I'd like it for some reason, and I was pleasantly surprised.
I hope my post didn't come off as rude, LOL I typed it late last night right after I watched Lucy. May have been a bit more defensive of the film than I intended to be. ;)
Nah you're fine
I was pretty harsh on the film and understand that fans of the film will go to bat for it
We all do for films that we like
Wow it's refreshing to have someone who isn't rude and condescending for no reason on here. You may be the most civil user that I've ever had a disagreement with on IMDB, period. :P Good job, sir keep up the good work! Maybe it's because we're both named Nick (but mine is spelled Nik). ;)
shareLol...cheers, my fellow namesake. I think "Nik" is a cooler version of the name by the way...one day I may have to knock that C off ;)
shareAccording to my brother, we watched it not too long ago, yet I have 0 recollection of it, he showed me the Diva Performance from the film on Youtube, which I was completely amazed by, reminded me of an Opera singer or Soprano but inside combined with a Sci-Fi theme.
shareI have a serious question gladoscake....have you seen the Netflix series Sense8? Given what I have read of many of your postings on the site for Lucy, I sincerely think you would get some interesting parallels of what would happen if this movie...or the character Lucy...was taken to the next level. Your thoughts on this? I may not be as articulate as you are but am interested in what you think.
P.S. I loved that you drew reference to her enlightenment similar to what Buddha received after shedding his ego and preconceived notions of what the world was/is. Also to Carlos Castaneda about separate realities. You have given me much fodder for thought. Thx.
Hmm, I looked it up, interesting, but not sure It's bigger than Lucy, maybe a bit smaller with the mind reading abilities? is there mind abilities? the description said they could connect their thoughts or something, Hmm.
Your quite welcome. Just sharing my mind.
Yes, the group of 8 people can connect their minds and even use each other's abilities (language, martial arts, lock picking to give a sampling) even at a distance of half the world away. I loved it. No, not as big as Lucy but quite smart. Films on location all over the world and reminds us that there is more we can do with our intelligence than live simple lives. There are also the expected bad guys trying to wipe them out as they don't want people to have connections other than their phones, laptops etc.; keep everyone generic unless you wield power. Get back to me if you chose to give it a try. I'd love to hear your thoughts. I enjoy your eloquence. Be well and be kind.
shareAh, I see. That's very intriguing, I'm very fascinated in even more 'realistic' views of the capability of increased human intelligence, I'll certainly give it a go, maybe even get my brother to watch it. Heh.
shareJust going to warn you that it's a little strange at first because you don't know that they (they don't as well) have these powers. That's what the opening scene is about. It can be hard to get into. There is also a lot of sexuality. It's written and done by the folks who brought you the Matrix movies. Enjoy...don't corrupt your brother!!
shareAgreed with the OP. Interesting premise and the actors in it are talented but their wasn't really much there. At the end of 90 minutes the only thing I take away is no matter how awful a movie it breezes right by if ScarJo changes outfits every few minutes.
shareFor what it's worth, I didn't particularly enjoy this film. Perhaps I expected more from Luc Besson, Scarlet Johansson and Morgan Freeman who have all made spectacularly good films in the past, but this film didn't really do it for me.
shareI watched it the first time because I adore Scarlett. But unlike you, I found the film to be fun and cute, and you have to admit, there is quality in the actors. I admit the first time I watched it, I didn't know if I liked it, but then it grew on me. I didn't find it atrocious in any way. But then again, I usually am not offended by any film.
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I liked her role here. she's at her best when she looks confused af
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