Yeah, it's always funny how movies set in New York have characters eating Pizza Hut or Papa Johns or shit like that.
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Yeah, which is bullshit. Local pizza is the best. There's Nicolosi's at Hillcrest, Rocco's on South Main, Little Italy, Marianna Pizza Cafe, La Bella Via, Francesco's Italian Restaurant (known for their pizza and their gelato)... like 4 others I'm forgetting the name of... then maybe Pizza Hut or Domino's.
Also one time in animation, for a group of revolutionaries Lalouche's group SURE are brand loyal to Pizza Hut.
This one makes sense, as Japan doesn't have a ton of pizza places... and pizza is generally expensive as well for the same reason it's expensive in Hawaii: milk is in short supply, so cheese is too unless you want cheap frozen cheese from the mainland.
Lucy
When she has her 2001 a Space Odyssey acid trip. I screamed at the TV, "THEY HAD NO FUCKING HORSES!" When they showed the pre-Columbian Native Americans. Don't any of these movies hire a historian?
To be fair, that's the least terrible thing about that film.
Well, we all have our little pet peeves.
You can hardly blame them. Surely the writer shouldn't have made up a character too powerful for anything interesting to happen to.
And yet "OnePunchman" remains a classic...honestly that's the direction they should've gone with Lucy.
Lucy was great and the conflict versus the "villains" wasn't the point
I'd say it is a bit like what Deathwish would be like if Dr Manhattan were the protagonist. Which sounds boring to me, and is also what I thought about Lucy. The only positive I can give is that ScarJo's performance was very good, but it had nothing to back up.
Yeah, the 10% didn't bother me all that much, except it is super stupid and the movie leans super hard into trying to explain it and make it sound legit. Had it just been " this stuff inexplicably gives you super powers " then that would be fine, but no, it goes full force into bad science babble.
Morgan Freeman plays the world's worst scientist in this movie, and it really wants you to think he is an expert, so it starts with him giving a lecture inside this huge lecture hall full of professional looking students and other science people. And he goes on about how humans only use 10% of their mental capacity, but if they could unlock more cool stuff would happen. At 30%, full control of their own body would be possible, and at 40% control of other people.
Now wait, I hear you asking. Arbitrary numbers aside (really the % breakdown only exists here so you can gradually watch it go up to 100 through the movie) how the hell do you jump from control of your own body, which ok I suppose that seems reasonable, to control of other people? We've got no time for questions like this, because he keeps going. At 90%, full control of matter becomes possible!
HOW?! No reason is ever given, Dr Freeman (not from black mesa) just says it, and a room full of people who claim to have backgrounds in science ahh and nod and clap, clearly impressed.
y'all also realize all the science in jurassic park is also complete bullshit and they spend about 50 minutes justifying it. and every single Marvel movie, too
the how is even less of the point than the villains, sheesh
the how is even less of the point than the villains, sheesh
Yeah, but those lead into good movies
I'm fine with this kind of thing - as Charlie points out, lots of movies have bad science, but it can be fun or exciting or interesting. Lucy was none of those things.
Daniel Radcliffe is really showing his acting chops, and how much he loves to be in fucking weird movies.
Yeah, I love that after Harry Potter he was just like "eh, fuck it, I'ma do me."
Have you seen A Young Doctor's Notebook?
I'm amazed Radcliffe is a legit actor as well. Not because he's not talented, but because I REALLY expected him to be type-casted for life. Good for him!
Well, they probably try to typecast him, there just isn't much call for a 27 year old to play a teenaged wizard
I'm just sayin', Tim Curry had trouble escaping the "Doctor Frank'N Furter" role.
Did he though? He's always played whatever he wants, too. I wouldn't relate the Butler in Clue to RHPS at all, for example.
Or Hunt for Red October.
Or voice acting roles.
Or basically anything outside of RHPS.
Or Hunt for Red October.
Or voice acting roles.
Or basically anything outside of RHPS.
I just know it took him QUITE a while before he could comfortably talk about his role in RHPS, like 30 years after I think.
Dude his big break was doing the stage show before the movie, he loves RHPS.
I'm just saying what I read man, either an innacurate source, Tim changed his mind, or I'm from the Bearen-steen universe, all is possible in this horrible multiverse we inhabit.
If I remember correctly, it was Susan Sarandon that disavowed her RHPS role for a long time. I think it was only recently she came around about it, or didn't mind talking about it, at least.
And then later on he's typecast as the voice of Joker.
Honestly, I could be misremembering the two.