I've done drugs and I've never heard of being able to permanently change your brain so it's like you are on drugs.
share...you're all taking it far too seriously, it was just okay, neither was it Requiem For A Dream nor American Psycho which it was trying to be.
6/10 for the really good camera work.
"I've done drugs and I've never heard of being able to permanently change your brain so it's like you are on drugs. "
The ending sucked - sure. But your comment sucked, too.
I have written comments, and I've never heard of not being able to write more than a couple of lines of irrelevant detail IN the ending, in a comment that's supposed to explain WHY the WHOLE ending sucks.
To a movie plot, it doesn't matter what _YOU_ have done or what _YOU_ have heard. You may not have heard of teleportation devices or invisible energy shields either, but they are widely used in fiction. So get over it.
That is not the reason WHY the ending sucked - if that's your only complaint about this movie, you are probably the target audience..
In my opinion the ending sucked for different reasons altogether - THAT detail is completely irrelevant and overshadowed by other factors, and I don't think anyone should even mind such a creative freedom. Besides, why couldn't something alter your body chemistry in a way that your body will eventually start producing a substance? The body is a miraculous things, being able to produce all kinds of things, substances, and even vitamins, if given the chance! So why not a drug?
But in my opinion the middle sucked too, and the beginning, well - it sucked.
It's an entertaining flick, but only if you are on a drug that LIMITS your intelligence severely, or you are able to take it as just a mindless entertainment, or if you are not that intelligent to begin with.
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I thought that the ending was excellent because it didn't end on the trite cliché that everyone expected.
The "Oh you thought that you could take a short cut to success but you have to pay the devil in the end".
Instead we got a proud FU to all of the people that expected that.
Its like vigilante movies where we all identify with the victims pain, cheer him on when he illegally starts killing bad guys, but we know he's either got to be discredited in the end, or something bads supposed to happen to him.
A big thankyou to the writers for not bowing to this !
I recently saw a DVD in a retail store that listed an unrated version included with an alternate ending, along with the original PG-13 version in the same package.
Has anyone seen this, and if so, what is the original vs unrated ending?
Actually, MDMA has been linked to an increase in the number of neurons a person has before taking it and after taking it. To put this another way, MDMA seems to somehow increase brain activity by somehow increasing the number of neurons.
I think the ending is purposely open ended. If Morra is still on them, then he knows, in his enhanced state, that if he tells Van Loon that he's off of them, Van Loon no longer has anything to hold over him. This lie (if it is a lie) gets Morra completely off the hook with Van Loon.
This also runs counter to the "crash" the movie depicts when Morra "comes down." Suddenly Morra is in a permanent enhanced state even though he is no longer taking NZT. It is possible, but it's suspect. You can also see, in the final scene, that Lindy doesn't believe Morra when he tells her he's done with the drug.
It wasn't the ending I was expecting, but that does not make it a bad ending.
Watta ya lookn here for?
M not a fan of the "happy ending " cliched movies which end on a happy note just for the sake of it.... The last 10 minutes kinda spoils the whole of the gruesome plot the movie carried for over a 100 minutes..
This man was a "good for nothing wannabe" before he had the "magic pills".. For a second even if i believe he was able to get over his addiction, why didnt he have the side effects his ex-wife face.. It has been 2 years she quit the pills, and her condition was pathetic...The pills turned her face from a damsel to a tadpole .... And look at Bradley Cooper.. He was able to retain all his supernatural powers after he managed to QUIT .... Wish life was so easy......
Nevertheless, was a very nice movie to watch.. I wud rather enjoy watching it without the ending...as if it never ended....
He was a published writer that experienced a creative problem in case you missed that.
shareNZT effects the synapses of the brain. Most recreational drugs effect the receptors and neurotransmitters. Synapses can be altered permanently. It's called functional plasticity. Receptors can be altered if you introduce a drug that substitutes a neurotransmitter (your body produces less neurotransmitters), but they'll return to normal when you stop using the drug (albeit this process can take a while and be painful).
shareDrugs like LSD have definitely changed my world perspective positively forever. What i've gained from it is limitless because I use my changed brain everyday. (unfortunately, it led down a horrible road to which i am now 3 yrs clean and happy from that non-sense)... but still
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The ending: He said he tweaked the NZT and tapered off of it, maybe the tweak created a new drug technically not called NZT, but a clean version of it, so he wasn't lying... he's off NZT.
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