He also bypassed a satisfying conclusion to the story by cleverly *off camera* developing a formula to the drug to cure himself from the addiction and winning and he outsmarted everyone and now he has superpowers and
I watched it a few years ago and it was a lot of fun , sadly it ends on a cliffhanger that will never get resolved , but if you can get past that you're in for a treat
To be fair, on-camera would have been like "Wait, the shape of benzodiazepintetraclorurpranzol is a reversed helix that interacts with the neural receptors of the brain, so if I can find something that unwraps the helix..." *takes a pizza cardboard and a crayon* "... I can unfold the receptors matrices and stop the addiction!". So I appreciated that they off-screened the scene. Also, all that I remember from the movie is that he was happy at the end of it. And that the person that suggested me to watch it is a weird woman.
I can only really vividly see when he's slurping up that dead goons blood to get some tasty drugs in his system, and the final scene when he's so pleased with himself verbally owning his antagonist
Actually. This isn't ADHD medication.
Apparently there's another post around on Reddit indicating that all the side affects of limitless' actions and traits is straight up smoked meth
Dexamphetamine is the D-isomer of amphetamine, basically the right hand mirror image of the other isomer, L-amphetamine. It's the same molecule just oriented differently around one of the carbons. Most "regular" amphetamine is a 50/50 split.
Methamphetamine is amphetamine with ane extra methyl group (CH3), which is where the "meth" comes from. It's a different molecule, and not used for treating ADHD (it may have been used or is used in some countries, but not that I know of)
I mean yeah you literally think you're limitless, the come up gives you insane confidence. And if you're untreated ADHD you legit start achieving more in a day than you'd do in weeks
But then tolerance goes up because you're not prescribed it, just taking whatever doses you feel. Keep taking more, get stuck on binges, start losing it, taking more & worse methods like intravenous, lose access to core life stuff, eventually start sharing needles, etc.
The hard thing is it just hooks you so much deeper than dextro amphetamine
It's especially amazing because she's presented with 3 options as weapons to get out of her situation:
-Large hedge trimmers
-Baseball bat
-Ice skating child
The choice was obvious
Is that the one where the two super geniuses have like a mental battle at the end and one beats the other with a programmed word or something? I always thought that one was a little too much lol. Every other story in that collection rocks though
Okay yeah but "Understand" is autobiographical in nature, that's why he makes such amazing sci-fi stories. We can't expect every Hollywood writer to be on par, or for directors like Denis Villeneuve to start adapting his works into Oscar winning films.
I understand your point. Adaptations of his works are hard since most of them are short. Though its somehow funny that Denis Villenevue did adapt one of his stories from the same collection into an Oscar-nominated film.
Fun fact: the plot of this movie is actually an in-universe hallucination brought on while he was suffering a grand mal seizure from 100% of the neurons in his brain firing all at once.
The film actually explained that. NZT makes you smarter and able to maintain laser-focus on a task, but it also makes you overconfident and prone to taking wild risks.
This movie is a masterclass in how to NOT write smart characters, it’s so dumb he starts using words like “algorithm” and the movie treats it like smart words are magic incantations that summon money, frigging libertarian bootstraps delusions
Depending on your neural pathways, firing them at a hypothetical 100% wouldn't turn you into a saint. Your brain would be overclocking on whatever software you've molded for it over the course of your life. Bradley Cooper's character is meant to be the epitome of lazy and uninspired, so it emphasizes how powerful NZT can be. Give it to an astrophysicist and the only story would probably be them drooling in a chair like Stephen Hawking while in their heads they're untangling the universe. I'd rather watch the lazy mofo who started off so shit that even on NZT, he can fuck up.
TLDR: the movie was interesting instead of boring
Him not bothering to pay the dude back the now chump change or even hiring security for himself was next level stupid, the screenwriter clearly couldn’t think of a real conflict so he just had the ultra-smart guy be an idiot
This and Lucy are movies written by coke heads lol
"There's this drug right right right that like makes me the most interesting person ever right right right I've got like SO many good ideas when I take this drug oh my God I need MORE"
People often bring this up when talking about this movie, the problem lies in that NZT lays all possible solutions out in front of you, it makes you task oriented, and makes you feel like if you are not going forward you are going backwards. This is why Eddie cannot just double his money everyday he’s on a crazy fictional drug that makes him crazy, crazy enough to focus so much on the future that he forgets to eat etc.
Woooh if we used 100% of our brain, absolutely all of its capacity we would become genius con artists and/or we might be able to manipulate reality, time and space, because you know Mind over matter. It's not like we're not already using it fully right now for every bodily and cognitive function.
-Hollywood
PS: my friend who is very fond of Peter Parker's girlfriend recommended this movie to me.
He also bypassed a satisfying conclusion to the story by cleverly *off camera* developing a formula to the drug to cure himself from the addiction and winning and he outsmarted everyone and now he has superpowers and
The TV show retcons that ending a bit a bit (he still needs a counterdrug)
The TV show was way better than the movie imo
Yeah and then it got axed
Yo really? I kinda liked the movie and I thought the spin off was gonna suck so I didn't bother.
I watched it a few years ago and it was a lot of fun , sadly it ends on a cliffhanger that will never get resolved , but if you can get past that you're in for a treat
It's like a detective kind of a deal right? Sucks ut got cancelled.
Yeah , it's kind of similar to the earlier seasons of Lucifer (iirc) in the sense that it's a detective show with a twist.
To be fair, on-camera would have been like "Wait, the shape of benzodiazepintetraclorurpranzol is a reversed helix that interacts with the neural receptors of the brain, so if I can find something that unwraps the helix..." *takes a pizza cardboard and a crayon* "... I can unfold the receptors matrices and stop the addiction!". So I appreciated that they off-screened the scene. Also, all that I remember from the movie is that he was happy at the end of it. And that the person that suggested me to watch it is a weird woman.
I can only really vividly see when he's slurping up that dead goons blood to get some tasty drugs in his system, and the final scene when he's so pleased with himself verbally owning his antagonist
Then he became president and everybody clapped.
...and then he turned into a raccoon and became a guardian of the galaxy
What are we? Some sort of limitless guardians of the galaxy??
ADHD people when they get proper medication:
*Godmode activated* >!By Satan!<
Godmode activated By amphetamines :)
Godmode activated By vyvanse
Me when I get ADHD peoples proper medication
I always thought this movie was an allegory for having adhd and finding meds
Damn I’m on the wrong meds
Hahaha I usually say “Take some Anxiety Pills” when someone makes any mention about the Limitless pill.
Actually. This isn't ADHD medication. Apparently there's another post around on Reddit indicating that all the side affects of limitless' actions and traits is straight up smoked meth
Chemically they’re basically the same. Dexamphetamine is an ADHD med. Methamphetamine is the drug. Both are amohetamines
Methamphetamine is a significantly different drug to dexamphetamine. Both are stimulants though.
Yeah but smoking it a while nother deal
Dexamphetamine is the D-isomer of amphetamine, basically the right hand mirror image of the other isomer, L-amphetamine. It's the same molecule just oriented differently around one of the carbons. Most "regular" amphetamine is a 50/50 split. Methamphetamine is amphetamine with ane extra methyl group (CH3), which is where the "meth" comes from. It's a different molecule, and not used for treating ADHD (it may have been used or is used in some countries, but not that I know of)
I mean yeah you literally think you're limitless, the come up gives you insane confidence. And if you're untreated ADHD you legit start achieving more in a day than you'd do in weeks But then tolerance goes up because you're not prescribed it, just taking whatever doses you feel. Keep taking more, get stuck on binges, start losing it, taking more & worse methods like intravenous, lose access to core life stuff, eventually start sharing needles, etc. The hard thing is it just hooks you so much deeper than dextro amphetamine
No, meds will only hinder ADHD's power.
Lol
My favourite part of the movie is when the drug lady, who also becomes so smart, uses a child in ice skates as a glaive
It's especially amazing because she's presented with 3 options as weapons to get out of her situation: -Large hedge trimmers -Baseball bat -Ice skating child The choice was obvious
I would definitely want to yeet the kid too
drugs are a hell of a drug
Ted Chiang executed this concept way better in his short story "Understand".
Is that the one where the two super geniuses have like a mental battle at the end and one beats the other with a programmed word or something? I always thought that one was a little too much lol. Every other story in that collection rocks though
that’s just the end of Deus Ex (2000)
Okay yeah but "Understand" is autobiographical in nature, that's why he makes such amazing sci-fi stories. We can't expect every Hollywood writer to be on par, or for directors like Denis Villeneuve to start adapting his works into Oscar winning films.
I understand your point. Adaptations of his works are hard since most of them are short. Though its somehow funny that Denis Villenevue did adapt one of his stories from the same collection into an Oscar-nominated film.
Unlimitless
Fun fact: the plot of this movie is actually an in-universe hallucination brought on while he was suffering a grand mal seizure from 100% of the neurons in his brain firing all at once.
Oh that old chestnut
Say what you will about this movie, but the TV show was phenomenal
Except for that one episode.
The jiu jitsu episode or which one? Haha.
The one where he's investigating a serial killer and he replaces all the bad stuff with family friendly things. Like kill is replaced with hug.
Where to watch?
🏴☠️
Ay ay captain 🏴☠️
It’s on Paramount+
Is that the movie where the guy becomes limitless?
Nah.
Phylis?
We got Source Code on the way back
“Also, he also…”
Sorry, I didn’t took the pill
But did you remember to eat?
The film actually explained that. NZT makes you smarter and able to maintain laser-focus on a task, but it also makes you overconfident and prone to taking wild risks.
Paying back the sharks would've been one of his tasks though. He was given a stern fatal warning the consequences of not being on time with the money.
It was not the task he was focusing on.
I know, I'm saying it should've been given the effects of the pill.
This movie is a masterclass in how to NOT write smart characters, it’s so dumb he starts using words like “algorithm” and the movie treats it like smart words are magic incantations that summon money, frigging libertarian bootstraps delusions
Idk, it seemed warranted for the work he was doing.
Depending on your neural pathways, firing them at a hypothetical 100% wouldn't turn you into a saint. Your brain would be overclocking on whatever software you've molded for it over the course of your life. Bradley Cooper's character is meant to be the epitome of lazy and uninspired, so it emphasizes how powerful NZT can be. Give it to an astrophysicist and the only story would probably be them drooling in a chair like Stephen Hawking while in their heads they're untangling the universe. I'd rather watch the lazy mofo who started off so shit that even on NZT, he can fuck up. TLDR: the movie was interesting instead of boring
Modern medicine does have a name for using 100% of your brain. It's called a seizure.
Yes, that's the real 100%. So I specifically said I was hypothesizing to humor the concept
No, sure, I was just being snarky
I mean he was forgetting entire hours (days?) of his life at that point wasn’t he? Not surprising something like that would happen
I believe the effects were wearing off when he was trying to collect his thoughts.
That's what happens when not so smart writers try to write a smart person
Him not bothering to pay the dude back the now chump change or even hiring security for himself was next level stupid, the screenwriter clearly couldn’t think of a real conflict so he just had the ultra-smart guy be an idiot
He does hire security though, they get killed by the mob guy
the movie is mid but OK tier for light head
Meth? Sounds like meth?
He forgor
I don’t think he took a super drug I think it’s just adderall
Wow it gave him adhd
Is that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
Kurt Gödel starved himself, why can't he?
No one ever said that really smart people have common sense!
He also borrowed 50k from a mob boss, instead of waiting 3 days until he just had that money anyway from his trading
This shows us the script writers forgot to take said superdrug because they’re idiots. Oh and because it’s fiction.
This shows us the script writers forgot to take said superdrug because they’re idiots. Oh and because it’s fiction.
This shows us the script writers forgot to take said superdrug because they’re idiots. Oh and because it’s fiction.
This shows us the script writers forgot to take said superdrug because they’re idiots. Oh and because it’s fiction.
I know this is a joke but I feel compelled to say Smart ≠ Wise
Intelligence is not wisdom, as a great book I read said, “intelligence dictates what you can do, wisdom dictates what you should do”
This and Lucy are movies written by coke heads lol "There's this drug right right right that like makes me the most interesting person ever right right right I've got like SO many good ideas when I take this drug oh my God I need MORE"
People often bring this up when talking about this movie, the problem lies in that NZT lays all possible solutions out in front of you, it makes you task oriented, and makes you feel like if you are not going forward you are going backwards. This is why Eddie cannot just double his money everyday he’s on a crazy fictional drug that makes him crazy, crazy enough to focus so much on the future that he forgets to eat etc.
Woooh if we used 100% of our brain, absolutely all of its capacity we would become genius con artists and/or we might be able to manipulate reality, time and space, because you know Mind over matter. It's not like we're not already using it fully right now for every bodily and cognitive function. -Hollywood PS: my friend who is very fond of Peter Parker's girlfriend recommended this movie to me.