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Limitless
Gray_Area:
I saw this last night, off the cuff from a site suggestion. Though it had some weak story spots, I thought it was pretty decent. Anyone here seen it?
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on May 29, 2012, 09:40:03 pm ---I saw this last night, off the cuff from a site suggestion. Though it had some weak story spots, I thought it was pretty decent. Anyone here seen it?
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Yeah, thought it was interesting, but the abandoned, unresolved plot-line about him possibly murdering a woman really bugged me. I assume that was one of weak story spots you refer to. Whole thing could have been "tighter," especially how they portrayed his relationships. Worth a watch for sure.
shmokes:
God, I've been especially cumudgeonly lately. I thought it was awful. It was riddled with plot holes, but the one that just ruined the whole movie was that he was constantly doing retarded things, which kind of ruins the whole, "I'm a bajillion times smarter than anyone else in the world," dynamic. At every turn I was like, "WTF . . . why . . . would you do that?"
Had potential, but a film with a premise like that has to be written by a much smarter person than whoever wrote Limitless.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 29, 2012, 10:27:32 pm ---God, I've been especially cumudgeonly lately. I thought it was awful. It was riddled with plot holes, but the one that just ruined the whole movie was that he was constantly doing retarded things, which kind of ruins the whole, "I'm a bajillion times smarter than anyone else in the world," dynamic. At every turn I was like, "WTF . . . why . . . would you do that?"
Had potential, but a film with a premise like that has to be written by a much smarter person than whoever wrote Limitless.
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This. I pretty much had a huge issue the moment he was "dumb" enough to borrow from a loan shark and then proceeded to "not" pay him back. I'm pretty sure that if you made bajillions in the stock market you'd be smart enough to pay the loan shark back 20k. At that point I was angered by the obvious attempt at suspense and action with the story involving said loan shark.
Gray_Area:
It's hard to say what, even augmented, people would do in certain situations. In the story, people could still get distracted with their new greatness.