I just discovered this thread. I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie yet, but if you avoided seeing it for the reasons you mentioned here, I would recommend actually watching it. Especially this one:
I’m sure the protagonist of Limitless will learn humility and either return to his original life or a slightly shinier version thereof or die in a tragic self-sacrifice, rather than changing the world, because it’s not a story about changing the world.
I noticed—I was very surprised indeed. (I also appreciated the “I can’t think my way out of a knife!” bit—the power of intelligence, indeed.) It’s more unambiguously positive than the original ending, even—definitely not what I was expecting. This kind of story is inevitably going to end up being about someone who changes the whole world, and hey, that’s what the movie fades out on. I’m impressed.
I just discovered this thread. I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie yet, but if you avoided seeing it for the reasons you mentioned here, I would recommend actually watching it. Especially this one:
It’s a bit more imaginative than that.
I noticed—I was very surprised indeed. (I also appreciated the “I can’t think my way out of a knife!” bit—the power of intelligence, indeed.) It’s more unambiguously positive than the original ending, even—definitely not what I was expecting. This kind of story is inevitably going to end up being about someone who changes the whole world, and hey, that’s what the movie fades out on. I’m impressed.