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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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[andalus.livejournal.com]

and Akira.

saw it on date night. hopped into a late showing of Hercules afterwards, because the price of a movie ticket is only worth it if you take in a double feature. but hercules! terrible, but way less hilariously bad. Hercules was almost good.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Right! Right! Akira in spades. And Blade Runner through that, with a Firestarter chaser. And maybe Neuromancer? Can't remember what the Akira takeaway is.