Total Recall (2012)

[Endless Soul]

Originally Posted by Urzu 7

I don't know about three boobs. That just seems really weird to me.

Seeing is believing. Make sure you watch the unedited version.

Endless "Consider that a divorce!" Soul

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

why

why must you do this, Failywood?

Ugh IP necromancy.

Anyone else notice how familiar those robots looked?

Hahaha their from ME2 XD that white space ship looked pretty close to ME's too.


but no Arnald means no sales, sorry failywood.

[Nightbat®]

Well, in honesty, the original TR was somewhat badly executed and could have been more than an action flick (even with AS as the main star)

But really, this is actually getting irritating, those old geezers in the upper chairs could use a heartattack or 6 and make way for some new blood

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

*read the first page*

OMG people! Does three-boobs hooker the only thing you remember from the movie!!

I personally, was having nightmares of Arnold’s lady-mask and exploding faces when I first watch it on TV (I was ten at the time). Also, how about picking-out-a-golf-ball-sized-tracker-from-Arnie’s-nose scene? I definitely remember those more than the 3-boobies.

[Endless Soul]

I remember when I saw it in the theater when it came out, at the point where the giant fan was slowing down and mutant mom and mutant little daughter look at each other, it was supposed to be a serious moment. Well at that moment someone shouted out "I LOVE YOU!" and had the whole theater laughing.

Endless "Memorable moments" Soul

[Nightbat®]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

*read the first page*

OMG people! Does three-boobs hooker the only thing you remember from the movie!!

A 3rd boob would be handy

but only if it were on the back


...for taking your lady dancing

[Kyuu]

Originally Posted by Obelisk ze Tormentor

OMG people! Does three-boobs hooker the only thing you remember from the movie!!

Either that or Ahnuld's character freakin' out in the middle of the Martian desert waiting for the oxygen to... cover the planet. Or something like that.

[Vexx]

Heh, actually the most solid memory I have is the viewer's "wtf?" realization at the very, very end of the movie

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Endless Soul

I remember when I saw it in the theater when it came out, at the point where the giant fan was slowing down and mutant mom and mutant little daughter look at each other, it was supposed to be a serious moment. Well at that moment someone shouted out "I LOVE YOU!" and had the whole theater laughing.

Priceless moment.

Originally Posted by Nightbat®

A 3rd boob would be handy

but only if it were on the back


...for taking your lady dancing

Now that's just.....weird.

Originally Posted by Kyuu

Either that or Ahnuld's character freakin' out in the middle of the Martian desert waiting for the oxygen to... cover the planet. Or something like that.

There's nothing like Arnie's near-exploding face in the morning in Mars.

Originally Posted by Vexx

Heh, actually the most solid memory I have is the viewer's "wtf?" realization at the very, very end of the movie

Ah, that too . But that very element was further explored in Dark City, I guess. It's kinda like The Matrix' prototype.

[Kyero Fox]

they can't make the remake better than that XD

[Ithekro]

There was a Total Recall series for a little while. In 1999, there was the Canadian made Total Recall 2070.

[Master_Yoma]

When they make remakes it some how all way get 100 time worse then the original movie

[Vexx]

Welllllll, not necessarily but I have to go back to the mid-20th century for an example:
The Thing... the original 1950s movie was taught and paranoid, but they simply lacked the special effects to pull off the monster. I tend to view it more as a metaphor attacking McCarthyism of the time. The 1980s movie remake was total paranoia with the special effects and it holds up better.


Oh, the guy who writes "GU Comics" had an amusing comment:

I've watched the trailers, and read some about Total Recall and I'm lost for the changes that are being tossed about. No I don't expect the same movie. But like the Ninja Turtles, if you're going to change it too much, why even call it a remake? It's not. It's a Total Rewrite.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by monir

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE--HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO







Your homework is to watch Total Recall. The movie features a chick with THREEE boobs!!!!!! *notice the number of exclamation points at the end of that sentence* Oh, and Arnold in his vivacious steroid glory.

I do remember this movie for having Michael Ironside , also the horrible effects of the lack of atmosphere of Mars on people.

[Soverence]

I just can't see this movie being great without Arnold , all the scenes you guys have been posting with him are great! XD. I don't care that they keep remaking movies, I am just going to keep ignoring them mostly, but I wish hollywood would actually start making some original content instead of more and more remakes.

On that note though, I liked the first recall but the trailer to this one just makes me think already that they have failed -.- , i don't know, maybe it will be good and I will bite my tongue afterwords.

[Vexx]

Sometimes a remake makes sense because the technology has changed that dramatically or the sensibilities no longer match up with what is presented on screen (e.g. many movies of the 20s/30s may present black stereotypes average viewers won't be able to judge within the context of the time.... or the change from black'n'white to Technicolor)

Hasn't really happened here. They'd have been better off titling it something related to the original Phillip K Dick novel source (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale) - call it a new interpretation of that. Calling it "Total Recall" is just some backhanded "yeah, it'll be like Arnold and Mars and stuff... but doesn't have any of that,yeah" o.O

The original Phillip K Dick plotline is already pretty amazing without embellishment:

Spoiler for Plot Summary of PKD's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale":

Originally Posted by from wiki

Douglas Quail, a simple and ordinary man, wishes to visit Mars. Unable to afford it, he visits a company, Rekal, Incorporated, that offers implanted memories ("extra-factual memory"). The attempt to implant some exciting Mars memories of Quail as a secret agent reveals that Quail actually is an undercover government assassin with a mind full of dangerous secrets. The Rekal staff quickly get Quail out of their office; he heads home and finds certain physical evidence to support his new old memories. His handlers initially seek his death but instead Quail, being an assassin, avoids this and goes on the run. Unfortunately, he has an implanted device which can be used to read his thoughts. He therefore makes a deal in which the memory of his Mars mission is replaced by a false memory of his deepest desire as analyzed by psychiatrists - that he saved the world from a Martian invasion at the age of 9. The Rekal staff begin the memory-implanting procedure, and run into the same problem as they did earlier - the incredible memories they are about to insert are already there and real.

[killer3000ad]

2nd trailer.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

I guess my issue is that this new film doesn't look that different from the last one. It is like buying a sequel football videogame that was updated slightly from the year before; it is sort of new, but not really.

I am sure they will put in an ending that is different from the previous film. But still...

I just can't justify a movie ticket.

[mangamuscle]

The irony of this remake is that the original's script adaptation languished in shelves for twentry (or so) years (at one time Gena Hackman was thought as the main character) until Arnold read it and said <bad pronunciation>I want this done!</bad pronunciation>. Now it is (again) twenty years later and instead of risking their money in another sci-fi classic they simply will do a re-hash, sorry but I think the special effects of the original were good enough, this was not one of those movies where one walked out of the cinema thinking "Damn, if they had a bigger budget or if the special effects were more advanced, it would have been a great movie". Then I think all the great animes that could be done with all that wasted money >_<