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[proximoception]

Re. Lucy:

BWAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Julie's convinced Tommy Wiseau had to have been in on it somehow, maybe as script consultant. It's that ridiculous.

Sort of a mashup of Limitless, Altered States, Tree of Life, 2001 and The Matrix. But way dumber than the single dumbest second of any of those. There is a lot of evidence that Besson doesn't have a good grasp of the difference between cells and atoms (!) for one thing. Or perhaps he understands the difference but doesn't want to believe in it? The thinking is that muddled here. And Johansson's performings of the various (hilariously conceived) stages of mega-smart are pretty priceless.

At one point many of her cells try to escape - by flying away - because they've become so smart independently that they feel individual immortality is a more viable persistence strategy than reproductive-minded cooperation. They change their minds when they become smarter still though, so no worries.

Every line of her post-transformation dialogue should be smooshed into a youtube video. It would be an instant classic.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Have you seen the opening set piece of Sharknado 2?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Still haven't experienced Sharknado 1.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Imagine a passenger plane flying through a tornado that is a swirl of sharks. The plane has trouble when a shark hits one of its engines. Tara Reid eventually hangs out of the plane, holding on with one hand while she shoots a hand gun with the other hand, and a shark zipping by in the tornado is able to move aggressively through the air of the tornado and bite off the hand holding the gun. Tara's hand-free arm then spurts and shows bones and tendons.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Ow.