Once again, National Zero is open to any and all suggestions for a different Friday night open thread format or feature or whatever you want to call it going forward. But don’t mistake that openness for a lack of confidence in this one, because YouTube’s free movie catalog has at least another four, maybe even five months’ worth of damn solid picks, and that’s just at the current point in time.
Limitless (2011) is like “Adderall: The Movie.” Adapted from a much bleaker and more cynical 2000 novel by Alan Glynn titled The Dark Fields (which is a much more badass-sounding name), stars Bradley Cooper as Eddie Mora, a loser who discovers a fictional super-Adderall that turns him into a mental uber-mensch who nonetheless still does some really stupid shit to get himself in a number of jams running on his (not limitless) supply of pills to play hard on Wall Street. Robert DeNiro, Abby Cornish, and a low-rent John Malkovich clone round out the cast of the over-the-top thriller.