according to imdb, angelina jolie was cast as the lead but dropped out. johansson's a better choice imo.
Saw it at 10:30 last night here in Katy. Movie probably won't make much money, and kind of disappointed in the ending... Spoiler She turns into a flash drive, huh?
Yeah, if you hated Transcendence, you'd probably want to steer clear from seeing Lucy. Visually it's very interesting and the action scenes are very very impressive. The car chase had me on the edge of my seat.
i wanted more, but still an ok movie nonetheless. short on time and felt super rushed. Spoiler with all the cerebral capacity percentage talk, i would have expected a more gradual progression to badarsery. she went from scared crapless to dark phoenix kick are a too quick imo. oh well. she's still a bad, bad beeyotch (would have been awesome if that was the movie's theme song). for my very slight disappointment, at least i got a lucy iphone cover from the xd showing at cinemark (which i can't use).
Here is the context of the original "10% of your brain" quote. The first thing is that your brain is made up of hardwired functional units. There are parts of your brain dedicated to making decisions (called executive function), parts that only show activity when you are afraid, parts that deal with visual functions, which can be broken down into parts that deal with shapes, colors, detecting movement and so on. Those parts are totally dedicated and hard wired - the cells in the visual cortex dealing with seeing shapes can't really be re tasked to doing things like formulating speech syntax. They are locked into circuits for visual processing. Imagine you are doing something - imagine you are smelling a flower. When you sniff, the part of your brain dealing with odors lights up. Maybe you'll visualize a red rose in your head, and the parts of your brain that deal with recognizing a rose and processing colors like red and green light up. Maybe the word "red" will pop in your head as the speech center lights up. However, there is a part of your brain dedicated to making difficult moral decisions. No need for that circuit here, so it stays dark. In fact, most of the frontal lobe functions deal with things like appropriate behavior, and they are all not relevant. There is a sensory portion of your brain specifically dedicated to processing physical sensations in your left butt cheek. No need for that while smelling a rose. There is a part dedicated to taste, and a part for the physical sensations of eating that aren't relevant, and so don't show electrical activity. So the original figure of "10%" was given out as an estimate of the percentage of functional units of your brain that are active at one point. It was only an estimate given by someone a long time ago. If your brain starts using more that 10%, you are showing abnormal electrical activity. Things like synthesia, where your brain activates the visual cortex, causing you to see colors when listening to music would be a benign example of the things that happen when you "use more than 10%" (which again was only quoted as a vague reference number.) As far as I know, the only possible time you see massive increases occur, you are talking about things like grand mal seizures, where functional units that you don't need to operate right now, like each individual circuit dealing with moving each individual body part all start going off at once. This is why people with seizures talk often about smelling things that weren't there - because too many portions of the brain started activating at once, parts that weren't relevant to the person right now for the task at hand. If Lucy was using 90% of her brain, her brain would basically be running out of control. Over time, if I took a running fMRI of brain activity, I would see that as you do different things more and more of your brain would get used - eventually showing that 100% of your brain became activated at one time or another. But because specific tasks only require a limited percentage of the things that your brain can do, you will show roughly 10% at any one time.
This 10% thing is weird. How does using the brain allow a person to perform psychokinesis? The only thing I can think of is perhaps the synapses firing -ie, charge flowing- in specific patterns causes effects in higher dimensions that lead to consequences in our world. Maybe it is related to quantum entanglement, that certain properties of matter can communicate with eachother instantaneously through space. But all this would mean that thought has real observable effects in the observable universe, and things like praying for an outcome influences the probability of it occuring. Very intriguing stuff.
the trailer makes it look like a post-superhero movies, 'la femme nikita', with a drug/sci fi theme to make heavy use of cgi.
