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Lucy

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Thu, 2014-07-31 22:26

Chernoborg Chernoborg's picture

Lucy

Okay, saw this the other day and I rather enjoyed it. Yes, the science is completely wonky - which is usually a huge pet peeve of mine - but it didn't seem to matter as much here. More interesting was the story of a person undergoing a "hard takeoff exponential growth towards super-intelligence" and how she dealt with the world around her. Relevant to Eclipse Phase, I'd say there's some insight into exhuman and post-human modes of thought and I'm toying with the idea that the exsurgent virus isn't trying to destroy humanity but hyper-evolve us. We're just not quite capable of achieving that state yet.

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Sat, 2014-08-02 01:58

DivineWrath DivineWrath's picture

Could you provide a link? It

Could you provide a link? It is good internet conduct to provide links for things that might be vague.

Sat, 2014-08-02 08:18

Chernoborg Chernoborg's picture

Oh bother, I never said it

Oh bother, I never said it was a movie! Here's a trailer. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bN7ksFEVO9U

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Wed, 2014-08-06 15:39

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

The end was horrifying to me,

The end was horrifying to me, as I expected Exsurgent virus stuff, and it looked inhumanly scary. Not a bad movie though, lousy science aside.

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Sun, 2014-09-14 11:10

Leodiensian Leodiensian's picture

What I found most interesting

What I found most interesting, and a little depressing, about Lucy is that (leaving aside the incredibly soft science) it's one of the rare pro-science sci-fi movies. It clearly and unequivocally states "science and knowledge are Good Things" and despite what Lucy's going through ending up being quite destructive, never portrays her as a monster. She's got a clear goal of giving her knowledge to Dr. Science (or whatever Morgan Freeman's vestigial character was called) because she's worked out that's the most good she can do in the time she has left. Compare it to, say, Transcendence where Johnny Depp gets too much Science on his brain and turns into a scary robot monster, and the Luddites were right all along, or any of the million sci fi films where science is used to explain and create monsters.

Sun, 2014-09-14 19:04

Chernoborg Chernoborg's picture

Very true. The conscious

Very true. The conscious decision she makes to not only survive but then share the knowledge she gains is what drives the second half of the movie. Of course, I jokingly interpret the last scene where Morgan Freeman is holding the space!USB as him thinking "We are going to be SOOO rich!" On a related matter I've wanted to put up the link to one of the concept artists page. http://www.artofben.com/

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Sun, 2014-09-14 22:30

Zarpaulus

Leodiensian wrote:

Leodiensian wrote:
Compare it to, say, Transcendence where Johnny Depp gets too much Science on his brain and turns into a scary robot monster, and the Luddites were right all along, or any of the million sci fi films where science is used to explain and create monsters.

I thought the ending of Transcendence was, Luddites kill Johnny Depp, again, utterly destroying civilization in the process, and it turns out he was good all along but scared idiots screwed it all up!

Mon, 2014-09-15 15:53

MAD Crab

I ended up watching

I ended up watching Transcendence last week, and that was my take on it as well. The movie was a tragedy about our fear of anything we don't understand. Of course, the AI was carrying the idiot ball and completely failed to explain what he was doing to his wife. Or his friends. And apparently despite being super intelligent and knowing exactly what the other guys were doing (They have my source code! really?) being entirely helpless to secure his own damn brain. So, still not a great movie.

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Thu, 2014-09-25 19:28

The Doctor The Doctor's picture

Zarpaulus wrote:

Zarpaulus wrote:
I thought the ending of Transcendence was, Luddites kill Johnny Depp, again, utterly destroying civilization in the process, and it turns out he was good all along but scared idiots screwed it all up!

That was what I took away from it as well. Blindness, sickness, paralysis and even death were cured, and the only thing that baselines could think about was how to erase those cures from their world. Typical.

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