What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Two great's on the free weekend. Lucy,
and Equalizer. Lucy had me mesmerized,
it went by so fast. What a great story.

Equalizer is another vendetta movie, but
it's Denzel, so its about as above average
as you can get.

I'll watch both again for sure.

Quote: Evenbob

Two great's on the free weekend. Lucy,
and Equalizer. Lucy had me mesmerized,
it went by so fast. What a great story.

Equalizer is another vendetta movie, but
it's Denzel, so its about as above average
as you can get.

I'll watch both again for sure.

You're probably the only person who enjoyed Lucy then. It's been widely mocked for the absurd premise, the confusing ending and fact that Morgan Freeman's only reason for being there is to explain the silly plot to the audience. I saw it in the theater, and again on HBO, and it's about as dumb a flick as there ever was. I can buy that there's a drug that makes Lucy supersmart, but will it make her time travel and defy gravity too? When the drug packet breaks up in her stomach, she rolls up the wall and floats on the ceiling. Ridiculous!

The Equalizer I enjoyed due to Denzel. I must've rewound his various violent encounters with the Russians several times. Enjoyable, but thoroughly unoriginal. Vendetta movies are all the same.

Quote: Evenbob

Two great's on the free weekend. Lucy,
and Equalizer. Lucy had me mesmerized,
it went by so fast. What a great story.

Equalizer is another vendetta movie, but
it's Denzel, so its about as above average
as you can get.

I'll watch both again for sure.

I liked Lucy to a certain point. 1st 1/2 pretty good. 2nd 1/2 gets out these. The bad guys know she has these unreal powers yet they still go after her. lol
Equalizer was good. You get to see the creative ways Denel offs the bad guys without a gun

Quote: zippyboy

You're probably the only person who enjoyed Lucy then. It's been widely mocked for the absurd premise,

You shouldn't comment on movies you have
no hope of understanding. Lucy got a
66 at Rotten Tomatoes. Cost 40 mil to
make and made 460 mil at the box office.
Calling it silly and dumb speaks volumes
about you, the movie was neither. Stick
to the animated flicks, like Peanuts and
Muppets, and you'll do much better.

Quote: Evenbob

Calling it silly and dumb speaks volumes
about you, the movie was neither. Stick
to the animated flicks, like Peanuts and
Muppets, and you'll do much better.

As you've pointed out, I'll never understand Peanuts either. Maybe if I lost 50 IQ points it might be funnier? Peanuts is even less funny than Family Circus. Both "comics" ran out of ideas decades ago and should've ended, but they keep recycling the same tired story lines and people like you think it's genius.

Regarding Lucy, I can buy the idea of a drug making her smarter, so smart that she knows all knowledge everywhere, all languages, all math, everything. I get that. It's cool. So smart maybe that she can control her metabolism or tell her body not to feel pain. But how does it make her stop time and make people on the street move backward with a wave of her hand? Pull guns out of the gangsters hands with her mind and float them in the air? How can she move up the wall and roll around on the ceiling? What's all the exploding into dust on the airplane about? Go back in time to watch dinosaurs? Touch her ancestor "Lucy" and give the ape a zap of knowledge? Merge with the universe and turn herself into a flashdrive? Come on, Bob! I've seen it twice; I enjoyed it, but it's a dumb movie. Lucy probably overdosed in the cell when the bag broke and the whole movie was in her head.

What the writers should've done was have one (or more) of the thugs take some of the drug, get to 30-40% power to give Lucy someone to battle against. But she was godlike after the first 30 minutes and there was no conflict. Or they should've showed more scenes of how Lucy struggled with losing her humanity as she grew more powerful.

Lucy is the kind of movie that impresses a ninth-grader who has never seen science fiction before.

Quote: Evenbob

Lucy got a 66 at Rotten Tomatoes. Cost 40 mil to
make and made 460 mil at the box office.

Doesn't make it a good movie. But box office returns do explain something about the intellect of the movie-going public.

I re-watched Batman Mask of the Phantasm yesterday on Netflix. I hadn't seen it in years.

I was pleasantly surprised that it held up to my memories of it. And it does remain the best Batman movie ever, animated or not. Largely because it has a real story, beyond Batman investigating a crime and catching a villain (arguably he even fails at the latter, and I didn't care). But then the Batman animated series usually had stories like that, or at the least some character exploration. I would love to get this movie on DVD, and the original animated series as well. There are some really good eps, like "The Man Who Killed Batman,"

Some of the other movies made base don the series were ok, like "The Batman and Superman Movie;" though that was actually more of a Superman movie. One about Mr. Freeze was alright, but nothing really as good as "Mask."

The spinoff series, Batman Beyond, and the one movie I know of based on it "The Return of the Joker," were mildly less interesting in comparison. Though one really good animated series, The Zeta Project, spun off from Batman Beyond.



Trivia, in these movies and the animated series, who played the voice of The Joker?

Hint: he's not a prolific actor, but he's very famous for his work a long time ago.

Quote: Nareed

Trivia, in these movies and the animated series, who played the voice of The Joker?

Hint: he's not a prolific actor, but he's very famous for his work a long time ago.

Quote: zippyboy

You're probably the only person who enjoyed Lucy then. It's been widely mocked for the absurd premise, the confusing ending and fact that Morgan Freeman's only reason for being there is to explain the silly plot to the audience.

Quote: Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus:

Enthusiastic and silly, Lucy powers through the movie's logic gaps with cheesy thrills plus Scarlett Johansson's charm -- and mostly succeeds at it.

The critics found it silly, but it was a hugely profitable movie, earning over 11 times it's production budget in ticket sales.

Scarlett Johansson's first big budget film ( 7/22/05 The Island) also had an absurd premise and a simplistic ending, but had a production budget that was 3X as much as Lucy, and it made 1/3X the revenue of Lucy.

The industry naturally takes two very different views of dumb movies that make a fortune or lose a fortune.

'It’s an interesting thriller, a good role for Johansson, and the most interesting thing Luc Besson has directed in years. It would be a stretch to call it smart, but it isn’t stupid either, and Besson is sensible enough to allow the film to sprint with its idea until starts to get tired, and then stop.' Rotten Tomatoes

'Faster than the speed of light, Lucy is certainly the best film I've seen this summer.' Rotten Tomatoes

I could go on and on. They loved far more
than they panned. I loved it, it's a story
and not a test for Harvard. I took it in the
spirit it was intended. It was just the right
length, it never got old and was a very
fast 90 minutes.