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Episode #808: Lucy (2014) (Patreon)

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2025-07-01 04:00:04
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2025-08-21 18:45:57
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“The four of us are on a one-way bullet train to Stupid City” - Andrew on covering this movie for the show

On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza does indeed head to Stupid City as we’re talking about the really silly, really short, sci-fi thriller, Lucy! How totally great is Choi Min-sik in this movie? Precisely how many seconds is Morgan Freeman standing on-screen? When Lucy gets so smart, why is she still unable to understand and speak multiple languages? With the action and fight choreography being as fun as they are, couldn’t we have gotten more of that and less of Morgan Freeman giving that lecture? And do people at the front desk of a Westin care if you’re going to eat at the hotel restaurant? PLUS: Lucy visits all the best Times Square chain restaurants and attractions!

Lucy stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Pilou Asbaek, Lio Tipton, and Choi Min-sik as Mr. Jang; directed by Luc Besson.

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Dalton Barrett

I hated this movie a decade ago and have never revisited it because its awful

Will See

There should be a limitless x luci crossover on max that is improbably already 7 seasons in

Joey T

Not familiar with the movie, but I already bought my ticket for the bullet train!

Hard To Gwil

I was really hoping she turned into a dolphin

Catboyslim

I like to put this on to watch while I’m rowing, this and the beginning of Ghost in the Shell….I think what I’m really trying to say is Scarjo is hot and I love bad robots….

James

Really fun episode. I think the guys took some CPH4 because everyone was firing on all cylinders.

Matthew Lloyd

The pinnacle of hunan evolution, a USB stick.

Tony King

That subtitles issue pissed me off so much. I was about an hour in before I finally tried turning them off. No way was I going to go back to see what the Koreans and French had been saying. It was probably dumb like the rest of the movie anyway.

Catboyslim

I loved the scene with Scarjo sitting in an office chair reaching out to touch “Lucy” like God touching Adam’s finger in the Sistine Chapel. Only through science will we evolve into god like beings. This subliminal evolution suggestion shows up in the first M3gan movie. Towards the end of that movie they have the little 60 lbs girl put on broken robot arms to reach down to lift an adult off the floor, implying that only when humanity and AI comes together our acceptance of AI as the future will help humans evolve into higher beings….. or AI will become our overlords and murder us all.

Eren Keskin

Besson used 10 percent of his brain when casting Valerian. Dane DeHaan? Why??

Aaron Dowler

Instant classic episode, wow! Also realizing how much I confused this movie with Limitless for years

Tala Hobballah

I'm always impressed with how quick Andrew and Stephen are to shit on problematic directors. <3

James C Harris

This would be a better movie if it were about Lucy Van Pelt struggling to get her PHD in psychiatry

Wesley Hall

Dane DeHaan? That’s a name I haven’t heard in a LOOOOOONG time…

Gone

Lucy 2: Lucy Liu

MarkNM

Lucy is that rare movie that could have benefited from swapping in Milla Jovovich for Scarlett. Then there would be no pretense of having an audience attempt to take this seriously.

Busiris

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the weird subtitle issue, but unfortunately it never occurred to me to turn off the subtitles so I could understand what the French and Korean characters are saying, sigh. Oh it occurred to me that Besson did Valerian right after this which feels like WOW a total stay tuned in my eyes. Unfortunately, Besson couldn't keep that one under 90 minutes. It's well over two hours. @_@

Tala Hobballah

All of the Scarjo impressions are top tier.

RJ Cunningham

Morgan Freeman has an egregious lack of curiosity in this movie. He’s a professor of “what capabilities a brain has at certain percentages,” and when asked “what happens at 100%” he’s sincerely shocked and says “well I’ve never thought of that before.” One good thing about the movie is I gave it the undeserved dignity of pausing while taking a squeege, and seeing there was less than an hour left after the movie just started was what fueled me to continue

Emily B

I am sorry to report that dolphins have gone as far as inventing blowhole stuff, so humans definitely can't take credit for anal. Maybe Morgan Freeman was onto something??

David Thompson

Just got to the climbing the wall chained up scene, already stupid as fuck 😁

MarkNM

Lucy Limitless, played by Lucy Lawless

Erin Hardy

Raising Cane's is fucking garbage. I'm convinced that place is just a mob front with an air fryer in the back.

Deano Rezzz

I think this might be one of Terrence Howard’s favourite movies.

Tim O'

Never in a million years would I have guessed that Eric would compare this movie to The Tree of Life

Rylee Jeffers

I love I got all the way to the end and thought the episode crashed, but no it was just a very long pause after Andrew made a reference to the ending song 🤣🤣 been there dude!

JK

First time, my God that ending...I almost set off the fire alarm with how hard I was laughing

John Edwards

Oh, god, I completely forgot he directed that. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets has *got* to be a stay tuned at some point, right?

Jonathan Lyons

I can't really appreciate a premise when it is built on bullshit. And the bullshit was proven to be bullshit a long time ago too. The movie takes itself too seriously for me to enjoy the stupidity like cabin or to look past the bullshit as scifi like jupin. Great episode, though

Shawn

You know the boys have seen some sh*t when someone mentions a George C. Scott movie where a dolphin tries to assassinate a president and they hardly bat an eye.

Matt

I'm getting REAL TIRED of watching something on streaming, and someone starts speaking in a different language and now I'm playing a game of "is this a narrative device or is this streaming service just staffed by idiots?"

Tim Batson

Are we sure he didn't write the script? 😂

Jamie

David Ehrlich put this on his best of 2014

Z

Another entry into the ever-growing list of films in Morgan Freeman's "don't give a shit" era: the 2023 Zach Braff-directed A Good Person, co-starring Florence Pugh. It's so funny that Freeman has starred in not one, but *two* Braff films.

Tim O'

In the words of David Sims, "Fuck Ehrlich"

Craig

Happened to me with Kill Bill Vol.1 but it was on the DVD! (The scene where Uma goes into the bar and speaks Japanese)

Thomas Friedlander

Hundred percent agree. People busted a nut over the one that opened in DC's Union Station and I cannot understand it.

profondo robbo

I liked that much more than expected given the man's recent output - at the very least, I question whether or not there's enough material there to make it a Stay Tuned (outside of the obviously miscast leads, of course).

Busiris

Oh I definitely share those feelings, I kind of love it, cracks and all. I'm sure there's plenty in that 2+ hour spectacle, imo. I've seen them put out banger episodes with much less substance to work with.

Brandon

Ouch, this flick was bad. But then I turned on Beethoven. Oof! This month is a dumpster fire. Well done, boys.

Brandon

Not a fan?

Brandon

perhaps if u too nutted, u might have a better understand of Cane's secret (its in the sauce).

Brandon

Scarjo impression aided by four packs a day.

Brandon

Scarjo fan? Give me little sis, Pugh ftw

Ed Harris

It’s always nice to be listening to an episode about a movie. I know I’ve seen and just have to take your guys word for it on what happens because I don’t remember a damn thing about the movie other than it’s starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman is there to probably finance a new boat or something. There are some movies I will see at the used bookstore or used video store in Pasadena that make me wonder why I don’t own them. This is not one of those movies. Great job as always.

Josh

1:41:01 such a long pause while Andrew waited for any recognition, I thought my playback had stopped

Kureigu

I wonder if this film using the 10% brain thing was the studio dumbing the script down like they did with the matrix (batteries instead of processor/cpu memory) because without that brain bit you've got a movie that is about someone being rapidly evolved into a new plain of existence (possibly just dying, we don't know) and leaving all the knowledge they unlock for the rest of us to decipher, which seems like it could of been a lot more philosophical than what we ended up with.

Kureigu

This has been an issue in film for decades, no subtitles for non-English parts have annoyed me since I was a child. The streaming era makes it slightly worse as they will actually remove subtitles that were already built in to shows. My most hated example is an episode of burn notice where they removed the subs for Russian which was necessary for a lot of the jokes of the episode.

Lucy Steigerwald

Ok, I asked for this, but I still got a jumpscare when y'all addressed me directly.