{"id":2277,"date":"2014-07-23T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:55:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:55:35","slug":"movie-review-lucy-what-the-really-what-a-dumb-no-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/movie-review-lucy-what-the-really-what-a-dumb-no-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Lucy &#8211; What the&#8230;Really?  What a dumb&#8230;.. (No Spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVt32qoyhi0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to attend an early screening of Lucy yesterday (July 23, 2014), for free, and I still feel as though I got ripped off. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have any special connections to get into the screening. \u00a0I just printed out a ticket, showed up to the theater early with friends, and just waited in line for close to two hours in the hot humid weather. \u00a0Never in my life am I doing that again. \u00a0Not only was the waiting uncomfortable, but seats were hard to find, and the concession stand lines were so long and slow, that I didn&#8217;t get to eat my usual movie grub. \u00a0Next time, I&#8217;ll pay my $10.00<\/p>\n<p>So onto the movie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lucy, is a poorly made movie, a movie that&#8217;s hard to watch at times, and thus&#8230;a waste of time; I want an hour and a half of my life back.<\/p>\n<p>While the trailer looked very cool, the actual movie was freaking unbelievably stupid because it failed upon all aspects of movie making: \u00a0directing, editing, writing, and even acting. \u00a0The director, Luc Besson, is an action director from France, best known for movies such as The Transporter, The Fifth Element, and Taken; all pretty fun movies in my opinion. \u00a0In my book, Besson&#8217;s strength lies in creating &#8220;Great Revenge Movies.&#8221; \u00a0Lucy unfortunately is just not at the caliber of any of his previous creations.<\/p>\n<p>The problem lies in the fact that Lucy is a movie that doesn&#8217;t have 3 acts to it, meaning your usual beginning, middle, and end. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a movie that surprisingly only has a first act, which is stretched into 1 1\/2 hours. \u00a0 Because there&#8217;s no clear second or third act, there&#8217;s no true ending to the movie, no real antagonist capable of jeopardizing Lucy or her loved ones, and by halfway through the movie, there&#8217;s no real conflict. \u00a0This was possibly done on purpose because Lucy is most likely being considered as a franchise. \u00a0Or maybe it was ignorantly done to be called &#8220;artistic..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To stretch a movie with only one act to 1 1\/2 hours, there&#8217;s a lot over-the-top artistic editing and voice-overs by none other than Morgan Freeman. \u00a0 When Besson sticks to his guns, and returns to best talent, action directing, Lucy is a thrill to watch. \u00a0But as Lucy gained more use of her brain, the movie just got dumber&#8230;confusing&#8230;and so dumb I literally wanted to pick the gum off the bottom of my seat and start eating it. \u00a0 People who would enjoy this movie wholeheartedly would most likely be those who I \u00a0consider overly artistic. \u00a0Meaning, those who can stare at art that consist of a dot on a wall and learn the meaning of life. \u00a0I think they would be the only type of people who could enjoy film-making that is waaaaay out there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pity because Besson truly created a great character, possibly a new superhero that we never had seen before. \u00a0 He just didn&#8217;t give her a great script to flourish in.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. in case you are wondering, we humans do use 100% of their brain, not 10%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth\">THE 10% BRAIN MYTH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to attend an early screening of Lucy yesterday (July 23, 2014), for free, and I still feel as though I got ripped off. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have any special connections to get into the screening. \u00a0I just printed out a ticket, showed up to the theater early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}