It's alright if you don't take it too seriously. The second one is particularly fun and has Jared Harris as probably my favorite portrayal of Moriarty.
Dreamcatcher started the mainstream version of all that stuff. But Lector was the first big practitioner of it IINM, they just named it on screen. Clear Jesuit schooling/tutoring at work from whatever weird eastern euro background he was from.
Could argue that Fight Club is the result of one of those guys having a psychotic break (or more specifically a "Psychotic Leak" of his buried Jesuit Alt). Jack/Tyler are Lector-teir organizational and tactical geniuses.
I didn't expect to enjoy The Hunt. But I really, really enjoyed it. And this scene is hilarious. I don't know if she's autistic or not, but I enjoyed her weirdness.
Its veteran shit. She was always trying to be polite, but then she has to turn on the kill switch and its awkward. I've known people like that who have seen serious shit, want to be nice, but then have to go into that mode. They either turn into emotionless hulks or they're almost apologetic as they beat someones ass
I think it's a movie where the leading character overcomes significant challenge by using a particularly honed skillset. Any setbacks that occur are due to random bad luck or events completely out of the leading character's control. Basically, they do the best possible set of actions any human could in an adverse situation. They also don't have any interpersonal or emotional flaws that act as a setback towards the challenge presented by the movie and they usually adhere to a rigidly consistent set of morals even if these aren't entirely virtuous.
Due to the incompetence of Kevin spacey's character. That seriously gle over your head? They spell it out. Pacino has a minutes long monologue on it... Incredible how dense people are.
Limitless gave me a legit existential crisis when I first watched it.
I don't think there's another movie quite like it. Unlike Lucy, which turns into a schizo sociopathic trancendent entity almost immediately, it combines mostly plausible skill aquisition and application in a seemingly attainable package. It just makes you feel like shit, like you were robbed of that level of advanced vonneumannesque self-actualization and stuck in a perpetual state of 2SD midwitism by your subpar genes and the rudimentry state of nootropics and medical technology.
>like you were robbed of that level of advanced vonneumannesque self-actualization and stuck in a perpetual state of 2SD midwitism by your subpar genes and the rudimentry state of nootropics and medical technology.
You can microdose shrooms and gobble addy right now and basically limitlesspill yourself but you'd probably still be a loser because you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic.
I immediately started microdosing lsd, along with adderall and modafinil in different combinations for a time and it was absolutely nothing like it. It just gives you the ability to not procrastinate and lowers your social inhibition somewhat, it doesn't make you smarter at all.
People shit on this one but Knowing is great as far as understanding and realizing something nobody else does, and frustratingly not being able to do a damn thing about it
I liked Lucy. The best thing about is how uncaring Lucy becomes the more power she gains, so towards the end nothing around her matters at all as she's basically a god.
Fracture
The professionals 1966
Spartan 2004
The unit tv series
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1932
That scene from Michael Clayton
The day of the jackal
Nine Queens
Crimson Tide
> I know what's going on. We got a bunch of fricking vampires out there, trying to get in here and suck our fricking blood. And that's it. Plain and simple. I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires," because I don't fricking believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is fricking vampires. Now, do we all agree that what we are dealing with is vampires?
The girl was cute. I wonder why I never saw her doing anything else.
Is this as laughable as the Sherlock Holmes TV series with Benedict Cumberbatch?
It's kinda silly, but less up it's own ass than the show.
It's closer to that than Elementary, with magic slow time super thinking.
It's alright if you don't take it too seriously. The second one is particularly fun and has Jared Harris as probably my favorite portrayal of Moriarty.
It's funkino
SOMEBODY POST THE SCREENCAP!
ok
Elementary my dear Watson.
way better than the series, the series also stole the score from the movie which might make it a little odd at first
I NEED TO GO TO MY MIND PALACE
Dreamcatcher started the mainstream version of all that stuff. But Lector was the first big practitioner of it IINM, they just named it on screen. Clear Jesuit schooling/tutoring at work from whatever weird eastern euro background he was from.
Could argue that Fight Club is the result of one of those guys having a psychotic break (or more specifically a "Psychotic Leak" of his buried Jesuit Alt). Jack/Tyler are Lector-teir organizational and tactical geniuses.
>they just named it on screen
*never
it's an action movie with sherlock holmes, it's kino
Also Constantine if you want John Wick vs. Demons
When are they coming out with the 2nd one ffs
Tuesday
god I loved Peter Stormare as the devil. An underrated performance
21. MIT kids card count.
I didn't expect to enjoy The Hunt. But I really, really enjoyed it. And this scene is hilarious. I don't know if she's autistic or not, but I enjoyed her weirdness.
Its veteran shit. She was always trying to be polite, but then she has to turn on the kill switch and its awkward. I've known people like that who have seen serious shit, want to be nice, but then have to go into that mode. They either turn into emotionless hulks or they're almost apologetic as they beat someones ass
I feel like Watchmen counts
Those might actually be the only ones, everyone here going to list action movies dogshit. He said competency and the context is all skills.
This movie had no right to be that good.
It was Venom but better.
venom was already better than all the marvelslop combined.
This is what Venom should've been like. It even stars budget Tom Hardy.
you could also do half of Michael Mann’s filmography
Movie: The martian, Chevalier (didn't finish it but the start fits the bill), catch me if you can
Not a movie but shows: White collar, the mentalist, leverage
I'd like some suggestions too, but I'm fine with any medium.
>but I'm fine with any medium
This. Anyone know of a videogame game with this theme?
Cape Fear. Prison Break. Escape Plan with Stallone.
What about the stealth smartypants movies, where some dumb or minor character turns out to be le clever operator?
Usual Suspects is the big one, but other stuff like The Drop and Den of Thieves fit the bill.
oh, and spoiler for those last two.
Limitless is my favorite movie in this genre, it's just a very digestible popcorn flick that flows so easily. I must have seen it a dozen times.
Molly's Game has a similar vibe, though it's not quite the same kind of movie.
>Molly's Game has a similar vibe, though it's not quite the same kind of movie
Cleavage KINO
Peckinpah's The Getaway.
What qualifies this genre?
I think it's a movie where the leading character overcomes significant challenge by using a particularly honed skillset. Any setbacks that occur are due to random bad luck or events completely out of the leading character's control. Basically, they do the best possible set of actions any human could in an adverse situation. They also don't have any interpersonal or emotional flaws that act as a setback towards the challenge presented by the movie and they usually adhere to a rigidly consistent set of morals even if these aren't entirely virtuous.
A character thats too smart for their own good. Good Will Hunting is a good example.
I assume a character unlocking their full potential.
Don't the chinks have a whole genre about that? I think it's called farming or something.
The Limitless TV show was actually pretty enjoyable and was a continuation of the movie, Bradley Cooper shows up a few times which is neat
Whiplash
Burn Notice, for the most part.
Phenomenon
True dianetikino.
Taken
Is this just Flowers for Algernon?
The main character in Flowers for Algernon is named Charley.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Who the frick is competent in that movie?
Ricky Roma. Top salesman and didn't come to the sales meeting to get his butthole chewed out by Alec Baldwin.
But the one sale he made during the film fell apart at the end
Due to the incompetence of Kevin spacey's character. That seriously gle over your head? They spell it out. Pacino has a minutes long monologue on it... Incredible how dense people are.
Yeah well maybe if I had the fricking leads I could get somewhere
peak is Lucky # Slevin
The Matrix 1-3
Repo Men
Crank
flowers for algernon.
Limitless had a tv show didn't it?
all 8 seasons of house
>physicist
>brain surgeon
>test pilot
>rock star
>action hero
Is there anything buckaroo can't do?
Drive a truck, and have a living wife
Being reluctant to admit what you are would seem to fit the bill
why didnt he have the brains to think to make more of the drug?
He did, he basically tells Robert Deniros character at the end that he not only made more but perfected it
He did. That’s one of the final plot points, he contracts out a lab to mark an endless supply.
have you even seen the film?
No I don't watch movies
in lucy doesn't she become an octopus or some shit at the end lmao
a usb drive
The Nutty Professor.
And also the loose Professor. The story of a semi attractive nerd chick who turns herself into a 10/10 buxom b***h.
Limitless gave me a legit existential crisis when I first watched it.
I don't think there's another movie quite like it. Unlike Lucy, which turns into a schizo sociopathic trancendent entity almost immediately, it combines mostly plausible skill aquisition and application in a seemingly attainable package. It just makes you feel like shit, like you were robbed of that level of advanced vonneumannesque self-actualization and stuck in a perpetual state of 2SD midwitism by your subpar genes and the rudimentry state of nootropics and medical technology.
>like you were robbed of that level of advanced vonneumannesque self-actualization and stuck in a perpetual state of 2SD midwitism by your subpar genes and the rudimentry state of nootropics and medical technology.
You can microdose shrooms and gobble addy right now and basically limitlesspill yourself but you'd probably still be a loser because you talk like a gay and your shit's all moronic.
I immediately started microdosing lsd, along with adderall and modafinil in different combinations for a time and it was absolutely nothing like it. It just gives you the ability to not procrastinate and lowers your social inhibition somewhat, it doesn't make you smarter at all.
>talk like a gay
>your shit's all moronic
That film is pure incompetency kino, best quote this thread 10/10
Altered States is better.
>70 replies
>nobody posts the obvious
Man of Steel
Brightburn.
Spider-Man
Hulk
homosexual
Being John Malkovitch.
NOBODIES
BITCH
The best part of Flowers for Algernon was waiting for the smart pill to wear off so his girl friend would realize she was fricking a moron.
By the way,
>Benjamin Button
>Rise/Dawn/War of the Planet of the Apes
I'd argue Machete qualifies
>Lawnmower man
>Phenomenon
Meet the Robinsons
Jack (the Robin Williams one)
Project Almanac
Chronicle
If you're in the mood for something animated, I recommend Bots Master.
People shit on this one but Knowing is great as far as understanding and realizing something nobody else does, and frustratingly not being able to do a damn thing about it
I liked it
that episode of futurama where fry drinks so much coffee he accelerates and saves everyone from a fire
Don't you mean the episode where he gets gas station worms, or maybe robot devil hands.
>competency porn
you mean reddit
btw i see lot of great examples thru all the thread
i congratulate my fellows redditors
I liked Lucy. The best thing about is how uncaring Lucy becomes the more power she gains, so towards the end nothing around her matters at all as she's basically a god.
thats what makes it shitty though.
Its not that she didn't care, she just didn't see the need to emote anymore because of her focus on understanding everything
Fracture
The professionals 1966
Spartan 2004
The unit tv series
The Scarlet Pimpernel 1932
That scene from Michael Clayton
The day of the jackal
Nine Queens
Crimson Tide
Good taste
Honestly, from dusk till dawn
> I know what's going on. We got a bunch of fricking vampires out there, trying to get in here and suck our fricking blood. And that's it. Plain and simple. I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires," because I don't fricking believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what I saw, is fricking vampires. Now, do we all agree that what we are dealing with is vampires?
We need more characters like him in horror movies.
Apollo 13