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Advanced Film Criticism, Monday, Period 1
"You know what's bad?" James asked the class. Without waiting for an answer, he said, "Drugs."
"...Yeah, yeah, I know, stay with me here. You know what else is bad? Bad science. Also, movies with Bradley Cooper. Just that guy's voice gets to me. Ugh," James said, since if he was going to be in a movie, it would be for Sony. "But sometimes if you take all three and mash them together, you get something dumb enough to be kind of entertaining."
"But just so we're all on the same page, we don't use 10% of our brains and if you ever claim that, have somebody slap you in the head since it's 90% empty and you're apparently not going to lose anything important according to you."
"Okay, let's watch the movie."
"...Yeah, yeah, I know, stay with me here. You know what else is bad? Bad science. Also, movies with Bradley Cooper. Just that guy's voice gets to me. Ugh," James said, since if he was going to be in a movie, it would be for Sony. "But sometimes if you take all three and mash them together, you get something dumb enough to be kind of entertaining."
"But just so we're all on the same page, we don't use 10% of our brains and if you ever claim that, have somebody slap you in the head since it's 90% empty and you're apparently not going to lose anything important according to you."
"Okay, let's watch the movie."
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An action-thriller about a writer who takes an experimental drug that allows him to use 100 percent of his mind. As one man evolves into the perfect version of himself, forces more corrupt than he can imagine mark him for assassination. Out-of-work writer Eddie Morra's (Cooper) rejection by girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) confirms his belief that he has zero future. That all vanishes the day an old friend introduces Eddie to NZT, a designer pharmaceutical that makes him laser focused and more confident than any man alive. Now on an NZT-fueled odyssey, everything Eddie's read, heard or seen is instantly organized and available to him. As the former nobody rises to the top of the financial world, he draws the attention of business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who sees this enhanced version of Eddie as the tool to make billions. But brutal side effects jeopardize his meteoric ascent. With a dwindling stash and hit men who will eliminate him to get the NZT, Eddie must stay wired long enough to elude capture and fulfill his destiny. If he can't, he will become just another victim who thought he'd found invincibility in a bottle.
Full summary here (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_pl_syn).
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"So what does he do? He's gotta outsmart everyone with his normal brain. And he does it by stabbing a guy and then drinking his blood."
"Because no matter how smart you are, a knife is still totally gonna kill you!"
"You're never smarter than a knife."
For the record, I love this stupid-ass movie.
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