Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: The Cooper vs. De Niro ending – 'I see everything, Carl. I'm 50 moves ahead of you and everybody else.'
• Shea: The come-up montage after Eddie first takes NZT – especially the editor's three increasingly excited voicemails.
• Chris: The montage where Eddie cures cancer, learns piano, and starts day trading.
• Abbie Cornish chased in Central Park – she takes NZT and slices a guy with a little girl's ice skate.

• Bill: The premise ages great every year – the biohacker era makes the 'limitless pill' question more relevant than ever.
• Shea: The clever plotting around Vernon's death and finding the stash, and the line that 'the pill works better if you're already smart'.
• Chris: The discovery of the NZT community – people who've been taking it are all dead or sick.
• The limitless knockoff supplement market – fake NZT pills and YouTube ads.

• Bill: De Niro on autopilot – 'I don't feel like he's 100% into this movie'.
• Bill: The movie should have been rated R – more violence, more sex. Shea disagrees.
• The 'Limitless' CBS TV series – canceled after one season.
• Bill: If you really break down Eddie's 'sounding smart' speeches, they don't hold up.

• Shia LaBeouf was initially signed in 2008 – Bill: 'This movie just doesn't work with Shia LaBeouf.'
• Best all-time pick: Shea picks Will Smith (circa 2004). Bill and Chris pick Tom Cruise (circa 1992-93, The Firm era).
• Chris: Jeremy Strong would be amazing. Shea: Jake Gyllenhaal would be great.

Bill: Tomas Arana as the Man in Tan Coat – 'Really trying to look evil as he's running'.

• Andrew Howard as Gennady the Russian loan shark.
• Tomas Arana as the running bad guy/bodyguard.

• Bill: Andrew Howard (Gennady) – 'I like when the limitless drug kicks in and he's got nicer clothes'.
• Chris: Johnny Whitworth (Vernon Gant).
• Shea: Abbie Cornish.

• The film's visual techniques include fractal zooming, jump cutting, out-of-body scenes, and motion control photography.
• Bill: 'Not surprisingly, not an incredible amount of research to be found on this movie.'

• Bradley Cooper – Bill says American Sniper, not this, but 'Limitless' is his action Apex Mountain.
• Abbie Cornish – Bill says yes, 'this is right when she was having a moment, then Brie Larson market-corrected the shit out of her'.
• Chris: Apex Mountain for the 'guy version of the 'Pretty Woman' glow-up montage'.

• Chris: The cops don't frisk Cooper at the murder scene – he has $18,000 and drugs in his back pocket.
• Bill: Would the New York Post really profile Eddie after only four days of stock trading success?
• Shea: If Eddie was so smart, why didn't he just pay off the Russian loan shark on time?
• Bill: Three dead guys in Eddie's apartment, tied to arms dealers, and a year later he's running for Senate.

• Unanimous yes – either a sequel movie or a 10-episode Netflix series, but Bradley Cooper must be involved.
• Chris's pitch: Cooper becomes the new Carl Van Loon figure, and a new guy shows up on NZT-2.
• Bill: 'We have so many sequels we don't need. This one is like, I'm ready to go back in this world.'

• If you could take anyone at any point in their life and put them in 'Limitless' – who's the best choice? Shea: Will Smith circa 2003-04. Bill and Chris: Tom Cruise circa 1992-93.
• The cops are coming – where do you hide NZT in your apartment? Was the oven the best place?

• Bill: The prop bag of fake NZT pills, or an Eddie Mora for Senate poster.
• Chris: Eddie's novel – 'I definitely want his novel'.

Bradley Cooper – unanimously.