Lucy

did i really like this film as much as i think i did? i can't tell... i was expecting crap or at least okay but then i got, what?, 80 minutes of entertainment. 80 minutes of pseudo science that if you think about it makes absolutely no sense but while your watching it it's pretty and fun. 80 minutes of what i thought was going to be a hardcore luc besson action flick but turned out to be a science fiction flick with spurts of action and influences of 2001 and other thinking man's sci fi.\ it was a perfect length held together by strong cinematography, strong directing, strong special effects... read more

let's get the obvious out of the way: yes, the 10% brain usage thing is a fallacy. it's a myth that has been disproven many times and conclusively. that being said, there are also not thunder gods who team up with men in flying metal suits and irradiated rage-monsters who battle alien invaders from another dimension. we also are not actually living in a computer-simulated fantasy where we're actually human batteries for sentient machines who conquered us hundreds of years ago. both of these premises are as ridiculous as the idea that we only use a portion of our cerebral capacity. the point... read more