Rogue just sent over word of their new film Limitless, which stars Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. The gimmick is thus- Cooper plays an unsuccessful writer who is offered a pill that makes him smart, turning him into the perfect version of himself. Rather than using the 20% of our brains that we normally use his synapses are firing in places our brains haven’t even HEARD of. Course it’s not easy to just become perfect and rich and get women, there’s always a catch.
There’s a new trailer out for the film, but it’s one of those horrible ones that gives away every plot twist so if you want to go into this one blind, stay away. If you want to giggle when Cooper tells De Niro how many scenarios ahead of him he really is, brave on.
The one big thing that should make you irritated here is that the film propagates that ridiculous myth that we only use a small percentage of our brains. It’s simply not true. Sorry, dummies, your brain is operating at full capacity. But it’s amusing to note that it takes Cooper 100% of his brain to think to shave, or change his clothes.
Anyway, Limitless hits theaters March 18th.
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The whole "20% of our brain" idea is such utter stupidity. I can't believe a movie is being made about it. What's next? A Stretch Armstrong movie?
It's not that we use "only 20%" of our brains, it's the fact that most people are governed either by their left or right hemispheres at any given time (some tasks use left, some right). The theory is that if you could manage to use both hemispheres at the same time, there is unlimited potential for the human mind.
Am I really the first to say that the rest of the brain is taken up by curds & whey…?
Maybe the twist ending is that the pill was just a placebo effect?
Most people are not "governed" by a hemisphere. It's amazing how many stupid myths out there people believe, probably because they read some unsourced, CNN opinion piece about how to tell whether you're right or left brained, or some other dumb shit.
LOL. How is this not called "Cocaine: The Movie"? Every douchebag life-change cliche ticked off. Unless it's another veiled Scientology promo? Does he end up doing meditation and pseudo-religious shit at the end? That 20% of your brain thing is a total Motivational line of BS.
Me no likey Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper stinky. Stinky like poo poo.
Mr. Riviello, do you just not care about the run-on sentences, egregious syntax and douchebag turns of phrase, or are you doing it on purpose?
So by linking to a webpage, you have completely dissmissed the theory that we only use 10% of our brains? If you look at the comments, the author responds to people's questions, and clearly has no idea what they are talking about… I also have to question anyone who would allow their sceintific analysis to be published with brown/dark text against a black background. Thanks for the update though!
When I read your description I thought you must surely be describing a comedy. Then I watched the trailer. They are playing this serious? WOW
The brain is absolutely not governed by one hemisphere over the other. That's utter nonsense. Look at an MRI of the brain during even simple tasks, and the brain lights up like the Vegas Strip
I do like the shaving and cutting hair = smart person conclusion. I've heard Da Vinci was supposed to have the highest estimated IQ of anyone in history and from everything I've seen it seems like he did a lot of shaving and cutting his hair. And that Einstein… so well-groomed.
This film looks pretty bland… BUT as someone that uses medication for mental and social anxieties I am intrigued. There is a bit of truth to meds being able to turn a person into something beyond what they are capable of without them.
If you *do* foolishly activate both hemispheres of your brain at once, you'll end up having to fight the Antimatter Lazarus in that corridor for all eternity. There is, of course, no escape. How would it be? Trapped forever with a raging madman at your throat until time itself came to a stop? For eternity. How would it be…?
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