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Lucy with Scarlett Johannson (wholly crap)
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Terial
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It's been a looong time since i've seen Akira, where did he get his abilities from and why ( i honestly don't remember, i have the DVD, may have to rewatch).
Perhaps you think they should not be mentioned in the same sentence because it was a fairly new awesome concept back when Akira was released (then again i don't know your age and Akira was released in 1988 (i was in High school at the time))
so why is it that they can't be in the same sentence? Person gets powers, grows in power over time, goes on rampage. Just cause you hold a special place in your heart for a movie that is now common place fantasy does not make it untouchable.
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It's not about being untouchable at all and it certainly doesn't hold any special place in my heart. My remembering of Akira was that Tetsuo's powers had nothing to do with ingesting drugs but you can prove me wrong, and that the telekinesis connection between this movie and Akira is a weak attempt to claim they are in any way similar.
and I was 4 in 1988.
Gavinmad
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Well seeing as how that typically results in a pretty fast death for the mule, it wouldn't be much of a movie.
TrollfaceDeux
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i'd watch this.shoulda given boogie the drug, by the end of the movie he coulda transformed himself into scarjo
I think the issue for some is that 90%+ of the entertainment our culture produces is simply moronic crap.
Drakurii
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The issue is with internal consistency. This movie doesn't have it. It's supposed to take place in the real world, vs the marvel movies for instance, which take place in their own reality, not ours. In the real world, the 10% brain thing is bullshit, no matter how much of your brain you use it doesn't give you telekenesis, and drugs don't work that way. If they'd just not mention the specifics, as Caliane mentioned, I'd happily turn my brain off and watch shit fly around the screen as ScarJo waves her hands and boobs around.
The other side of it is tone. They're probably trying to go for a more "serious, dark and gritty" tone by mentioning all the science-ish stuff. "Look how dark and grimly serious our movie is as people are impossibly flung around the screen! Scarlet's scowl here proves it! And it's not fun or funny AT ALL! This one can't miss, guys."
Basically it's just hollywood studios showing again that they don't know what they're doing. They seem to have no idea why some movies work and others don't. I won't rage at this, however, I'll just roll my eyes, pirate that shit later, and then actually go to the theater to see the good movies.
The other side of it is tone. They're probably trying to go for a more "serious, dark and gritty" tone by mentioning all the science-ish stuff. "Look how dark and grimly serious our movie is as people are impossibly flung around the screen! Scarlet's scowl here proves it! And it's not fun or funny AT ALL! This one can't miss, guys."
Basically it's just hollywood studios showing again that they don't know what they're doing. They seem to have no idea why some movies work and others don't. I won't rage at this, however, I'll just roll my eyes, pirate that shit later, and then actually go to the theater to see the good movies.
Alex
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That's a large amount of assumptions based off a trailer. And who's to say that this movie isn't also ground in another reality just like the Marvel movies? Who are you to make that distinction? I'm not defending the movie necessarily, I just get tired of things getting condemned based off of such limited information.
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Who am I? Just a guy with $20 bucks in my pocket making a decision whether or not to go to the theater and see a movie based on a trailer. AKA, the Audience.
You could have a point in that the trailer just sucks, and the movie will be good. That's rare though. Usually it's Good Trailer/Good Movie, Good Trailer/Bad Movie, Bad Trailer/Bad Movie.