Audio Reviews - Limitless - Audio Review

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  August 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Santos said ...

  Any movie that has someone using a little girl wearing ice skates as a weapon is fine by me.

• August 14, 2011 at 3:52 PM, said ...

  I liked it but I can't say it was a must-see. The reason for that is I felt the best way for it to end was to have all the ramifications collide in such a way that everything turns out terrible for everyone involved. But no, according to this having an addiction is okay and everything will work out in the end! One problem was involved random forgiveness from a villain, another involved the protagonist carelessly getting away with murder, one plotline ended in a Hollywood scuffle. The Deniro plotline lead to ass-nowhere. I didn't like the way they tied shrugging together. Up until than though I liked the style the film had. I enjoyed seeing what this drug did to people, but the fact that the movie felt the need to give this guy an unrealistically happy ending is irksome to me. Low Matinee

  
  
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  April 11, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Niall Potter said ...

  Sex on NZT... not gonna lie that sounds damn good :)

  *minor spoiler*

  Unless you end up killing her... FAIL

• April 11, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Niall Potter said ...

  Yup this was good. I like how Cyrus does his Better Than Sex rating, even though this didn't even come close for me, just a high full pirce. Co-Host gives it to everything that he loves, which is fine but films like District 9 and Black Swan do not get Better Than Sexed by Cyrus, even if he loved em to bits...
  So you know when one gets it like this or Crank 2 it must be something REALLY special.

  
  
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  March 27, 2011 at 1:17 PM, said ...

  @kevin miller

  Haha, alright then. I was just surprised to hear someone have a negative opinion of this movie after all the praise everyone is heaping on top of it. But yeah, comparing Wanted to Sucker Punch is a pretty apt comparison.

• March 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, kevin miller said ...

  @John Henry Eden v2.0

  lol, yeah. my grammars is weaks.

  i meant to compare Wanted to Sucker-Punch. i wish this site let you edit your posts...

  
  
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  March 27, 2011 at 5:13 AM, said ...

  @kevin miller

  Wait, so are you comparing Wanted to Sucker Punch or Limitless to Sucker Punch when you refer to thirteen year old circle jerks?

• March 27, 2011 at 4:02 AM, kevin miller said ...

  ugh, Wanted sucks ass.

  and a film's "trying" to be real is irrelevant. it doesn't matter that it's not "trying" to be real, what it is trying to be is awful.

  to mention the films basis in reality alone, the reasoning for the characters' super powers made NO SENSE. adrenaline, that's it? really?

  and i don't know why we're comparing this movie to Wanted. we could, however, compare it to Sucker-Punch. both movies are only seen at 13 year old boy circle-jerks.

  
  
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  March 24, 2011 at 5:35 PM, randy said ...

  You are acting like wanted was trying to be real, Wesley was at the point that he just didn't give a shit about anything anymore and taking the pain wasn't a big deal to him at this point.

   

  The people in the movie are like superheros with powers, they have special gifts that others don't have and wanted sets up very early on that nothing that happens is going to be real, a guy jumps out a window to another building in lie the first 5 minutes.

   

  The father plotline is flawed, I just think wanted was very funny and the director is pretty talented, I went and watched his earlier films after wanted and he certainly can do pretty incredible stuff with a camera, the acting also raises wanted up.

   

  Everyone in the cast was an acomplished actor and gave their characters more, Macavoy sold me on Wesley and made him seem like a dude that I understood.

   

   

• March 24, 2011 at 5:07 PM, said ...

  @moses-18

   

  Moses, don't be angry, don't smash our ten commandments again!

  
  
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  March 24, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Moses-18 said ...

  Never, ever mention Wanted and this movie in the same sentence.

   

  Wanted was crap!  I get madder every time I see it on television.  There was so much money on effects that could have spent a little on sweetening the story.  The protaganist of Wanted, Wesley was completely unbelievable.  No one would take that much stabbing and bullet holes from a group he just met. The premise of a Father who had spent a lifetime spying on his son and never actually went to meet him is flawed.

   

  Limitless was an incredible, though flawed, piece of cinema.

  Better Than Sex, as Cyrus said.

• March 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM, said ...

  @Fungusmonkey

  Shoot this motherfucker!

  
  
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  March 24, 2011 at 2:37 PM, LunaticLMD said ...

  I saw this movie last night.

   

  I give it a full price!

• March 24, 2011 at 1:59 PM, randy said ...

  I was waiting for you Peter, you never dissapoint.

  
  
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  March 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Fungusmonkey said ...

  Maybe it's because Wanted was seriously crap, had terrible acting, cheesy dialogue, poor CG fight scenes, and couldn't hold a candle to the book it was supposedly "adapted" from. It sounds like Limitless didn't suck, so that's probably the reason why it got a better rating.

   

  Just my $.02, though.

• March 24, 2011 at 4:31 AM, said ...

  I enjoyed it, but there wasn't enough at stake for me to say it's a must see. There really wasn't much of a plot. It was just a window into the life of Bradley Cooper on NZT. Since they didn't reveal his ambitions until the end, I spent most of the movie wondering where it was going and not caring about his outcome. It's refreshing that a mainstream movie avoids the save the world or defeat some evil corporation plot, but since there isn't any deep insight to replace this void with, the result is a bit forgettable. 

   

  Also, how did he forget to pay back his loan shark, especially when he's on NZT?

   

  Despite my complaints, I enjoyed it. So much of it was well done. I give it a high Matinee.  

   

   

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 10:04 PM, randy said ...

  Well it's good to know you can actually get replies on comments you make here, you have no idea how many websites don't take the time to act like the members matter at all.

• March 23, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Korey From Spill said ...

  I agree Randy. I love talking movies, that's why I became engaged in this discussion. Don't take it as an attack at all. I was just messing around with that "pissed off" statement.

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, randy said ...

  Well to be fair, wanted also had the fight club narration, guy working in office, hating his boss and becoming something more, getting balls along the way.

   

  I just wanted to hear your opinon on this and I didn't say the pissed off thing as an attack on what you guys said really, I just always was confused by the dislike for wanted and I guess I understand a little better now why you liked limitless more.

   

  I really just wanted to talk about it,cause I do enjoy talking about films and comparing them to others, I also think using a one review to compare to another isn't always the way to go.

   

   

   

   

   

• March 23, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Korey From Spill said ...

  Randy, you know what really pisses me off? When someone takes one element from a film and randomly uses it to make an argument for a movie they love. If we were to base Wanted just on it's visual style and compare it to Fight Club then we can do that with any film. From your opinion we can compare 300 or Watchmen to Fight Club.

   

  Actually I'm kidding. I'm not pissed, and I certainly don't begrudge you your fondness for Wanted. However, for me Limitless had a narration style, interwoven with a story that made me not only believe the protagonist more than I ever did in Wanted, but also made me like him better. I never found myself caring much for the characters in Wanted. And while both stories are farfetched I thought the script for Limitless was much more tight and clever to where I didn't question the story as much.

   

  Speaking of visuals, in Limitless they seemed to compliment the story, where in Wanted the effects overwhelmed the story. That's not to say you shouldn't enjoy Wanted, just understand it was a different experience for me.

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 9:20 PM, randy said ...

  I'm not making an argument on opinon, I just left my comment hoping that one of them might see it and think about it because that's part of being here.

   

  I'm not telling them to change their minds and I don't think they will, I just left how I feel and anyone can take it as they want, but I was never trying to say that they had to change their opinon for me to be happy.

   

  Like I sad, it might give someone a differen't opinon on it now and it's not entirely a terrible point or conversation to have with one of them if I or someone else ever had the chance.

   

  Didn't wanna email one of them, maybe I will just go talk to Leon or something at Spill.con

   

   

• March 23, 2011 at 9:11 PM, said ...

  @randy Then its a matinee for you. The point you're missing is its an opinion. No one is kissing their ass [at least not me.] I'm just saying that you want them to find a middle ground between what you want and what they said but thats not what reviews are about, its about a [hopefully educated] opinion on something.

   

  Yeah, there is a possibility they will change their minds down the road when they have had some time away from it but that doesn't mean the rating on the site will change and it doesn't mean it will change my opinion or anyone elses.

   

  I don't even remember the review of Wanted, and I don't even think I listened the whole review of Limitless. It doesn't matter really because in the end we are all going to make our own judgments on the movies and sometimes they align with others and sometimes they don't.

   

  To you, Wanted was a matinee and thats totally cool cuz its your opinion and it means everything to you. I remember rolling my eyes every time Jolie was on camera so to me it might be some ol' bullshit. I don't remember the movie well enough to judge it but I don't see myself going out of my way to see it again. Thats my opinion, which means nothing to you but means everything to me.

   

  Besides, you can't call a movie a matinee if it isn't in theaters anymore. Its either a "buy it" "rent it" or "fuck it" and thats a whole other can of worms.

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, randy said ...

  That makes it atleast a matinee, I just wanted some middle ground because I think it's a movie that maybe one of them will look back on now and think about in a differen't way.

   

  Look at Indy 4 or Terminator 4, Korey, Cyrus and Leon all changed how their ratings and how they felt about the films way after the fact.

   

  Korey has changed his opinon on no country for old men now aswell, I just think the spill crew has changed a lot and would actually give wanted a higher rating today if it cameout and was the exact same thing.

   

  Limitless is smarter and maybe even a little better on visual levels, but it's the rare better than sex rating from Cyrus and what they said about both movies that really confuses me.

   

  I'm not a big wanted lover or anything, I actually think they like reading our comments and maybe looking at things in a new way sometimes, the comments aren't just here for us to praise their reviews all the time.

   

   

   

• March 23, 2011 at 8:30 PM, said ...

  @randy

  Wanted was a rental in the sense that it was just big dumb fun taking the form of a 15-year old's wet dream. Having seen this movie, I can say that Limitless is a lot smarter than that.

  
  
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  March 23, 2011 at 7:40 PM, said ...

  @randy it just resonated differently for them.

   

  Wanted the movie has no choice but to be compared to Wanted the graphic novel. Even if it is standalone it is based on previously made material that has weight to it.

   

  There are 2 ghost in the shell movies, 3 manga series, and a 2 season animated tv series. All of which are essential standalone but there is no way you can look at one without thinking of the other, without comparing it to the other.

   

  You can like them all, you can hate them all and you can like one over another but it is almost impossible to unbiasedly look at one without looking at the others and compare and contrast.

   

  "I'm not saying that wanted should be liked because it did the same things limitless did"

  "they tried to say that wanted ripped off fight club and yet praise limitless for doing it"

   

  they thought one did it better than the other, its as easy as that. Theres ripping off and then there are similarities.

   

  Again, just their opinion. Try not to let it get to you, they say things I don't agree with but that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

   

  Keep it real man!

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