So, I figured I'd do a little movie reviewing. Entertainment news has bored me lately. I do that shit to keep an audience. However, I'm taking a break from that sort of writing because it isn't what I want to do. Same reason I don't have a Twitter account. Frankly I don't give a shit what anyone else does or thinks in this world but me. Call me selfish. I call it being 22.
I'll be honest. I went into Limitless with very low expectations. That usually helps any movie I see. It most certainly did for me.
I'm not here to give you a regurgitated plot summary. If you don't know what the movie is about or any background on the actors in it, look it up.
This movie surprised me in many ways. I figured March release date, not much to see here. Your average hour and thirty minute piece of shit with a mediocre performance from everyone involved. However, I found myself pleasantly refuted.
The Good:
- Bradley Cooper: Solid performance. Believed that he was an out of shape, struggling writer within the first 3 minutes. My guess is that he stopped brushing his teeth and ate nothing but fast food
for about a month. Convincing. Takes NZT, the Bradley Cooper we all know and love hits the screen. Dude is seriously gorgeous. Any haircut he had, handsome. Words that came out of his mouth, I heard him. The role was really written for him. Usually I don't respect anyone that isn't a character actor, but I like Cooper's spunk. And by that I mean have a man crush on em. And by that I mean I want to kiss him on the mouth.
- Screenplay: Thank God it was nothing like I expected. I was expecting something close to, if not, a Tyler Perry production. Again, I was wrong. It wasn't stupid. Keeps you on your toes from start to finish. Finance scenes were very believable. Violence, loved it. What I liked most about the script was how smart it was. There was no point in the movie where I said to myself that I didn't believe any of the things I was seeing was questionable. Now, that's not hard to do with the movie's concept, but I don't care. Any good screenplay evokes a response from the viewer. I mean I wanna fuckin run 10 miles and reorganize my stock portfolio, so I think it did the trick. I liked it. Not love, but liked it.
The Bad:
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Cinematography: Cheep zoom transitions and bad lighting issues lost me in a few scenes. I don't really need the fucking zoom from one end of New York to another. And if I want it, I want it to be clean and short, not some fucking cheap ride through windows with one or two pedestrians catching my focus. The lighting. Just fucking cheap for me. We get it. He's on and off NZT. I need the lighting change once, not 100 times. One quick one in the beginning and middle and I'm set. Other than that, let the actor show me in his performance what the fuck is happening to his mind.
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That I Don't Have Any NZT: I admit, I was seduced by the drug. Who wouldn't be? A pill a day and I could basically achieve anything I wanted to. Who wouldn't take it? Obviously idiots would say they wouldn't but that's because they are stupid and shouldn't be allowed to talk. From the fe drugs I've done, NZT reminded me most of Adderall. So if you want to see Limitless, I totally recommend seeing it on adderall. I saw it while I drank a large diet Pepsi and I'm basically re-evaluating my life.
Alright, I ran out of diet Pepsi so I'm done.
Random song today is off of Breezy's new album. Shit gets me going for Spring.
"I know what time it is, cuz you coo coo."