[Yet another remake] Total Recall
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I don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but I stumbled across this teaser trailer today:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/totalrecall/
To be honest I was kind of surprised (although I guess I shouldn't be). Just not the same without Arnie!
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/totalrecall/
To be honest I was kind of surprised (although I guess I shouldn't be). Just not the same without Arnie!
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I don't know what to expect from this though, the vistas look amazing and the movie seems cool but it's too early to get my hopes up/be disappointed.
@Justin: Yeah, I feel that too. The whole trailer is actually exactly like I pictured 'Our friends from Frolix 8's universe would be. There is even a clip in the teaser where they drop with their hover car and it reminded me a lot of a part in 'Frolix 8'.
see you at the party richter!!!!!
I think this one's going to be another ruinous mess. Some of the environments in the trailer look great, but I have no hope for this being anything but disappointing.
The original story never went to Mars
I don't know about anyone else, but for me, the 1990 Total Recall was awesome because of its sense of humor. 3-boobed chick, mutants, Schwarzenegger on Mars, etc. And I bet it was that way for a lot of other people.
But this thing seems to go down a very serious route, which makes it very hard to then take seriously because it's such a fluff story (assuming it's the same story as the first one). Just seems really odd to me.
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Probably. But I'm not talking about staying true to the original material. I'm just talking about making an entertaining movie.
But I can tell you right now that it won't be as good as the original......imo.
EDIT: You can probably count out any triple breast action as well. It'll be a 12a rated movie...
They are erasing the past!
Open your mind guis!
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To be honest, the Arnold movie was NOTHING like Philip K Dick's story at all.
This one looks way more truer and much more what it was SUPPOSED to be. Remember that this is the same author that wrote the story that inspired BladeRunner; so its meant to be full of depth and metaphors.
However, if you want satire you can always just watch the arnie one..
Leaving the cheesyness and oneliners to the original movie (not to mention everything involving Mars, real or imagined) gives an actual reason to take a look at this remake is all about. I'm at least a little intrigued to see how this business about the elevator through the centre of the earth fits into the basic framework of the narrative.
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Looks gorgeous! Actually looking forward to it. Massive fan of the original but I think we have to put that one out of our minds for this one.
but aren't ALL his short stories like that though?
-The new trailer does look epic though. It even seems to be focusing more on the paranoia that the original book made a huge point about. I'm even glad its not about Mars anymore, and the fact that he's in some sort of futuristic Eastern city, which seems like a slight nod to ANOTHER Philp K Dick book: The Man in the High Castle
All in all. This shit is way more true to what the old film was SUPPOSED to be. Less catchphrases and more "Oh Shit"
I think it's a bit early to say that this one will be more serious or less cheesy than the Arnie one (not talking about the original short story here). The Arnie one sure was wrapped in a big popcorn box, but when you look at it closely it is extremely well made and quite deep actually. I love how the image it gives of the future is very layered - cheese on top but totally creepy and broken underneath. Even tho neither or the two are realistic, I "buy" the creepy doll cab driver from the original much more than the glossy white robots from the remake. Also the Recall offices themselves were way more convincing in the original (ugly private medical office close to something you would see today) than here (baroque asian-themed boudoir). And ironically, even tho the set pieces didn't have the sleek factor of something made today, I felt like the original covered a wider "disbelief gap" between the real and the dream state (yay MARS!), as opposed to here where it feels more like a Bourne movie. Not that it is necessarily a bad thing - it's just less ... thrilling I guess.
I don't know, wait and see for sure, but this remake feels a bit cold and soulless. It sure is hard to live up to the original - such a fantastic movie!!
Good point. The hazy fantasy-esque situation where it sounds so dream-like on paper. The fact that he's a secret agent on "Mars" makes you constantly convince yourself its a ridiculous situation. I hope they find a substitute for that feeling.
The recall office in the Arnie movie is actually pretty much like it was described in the short story... Except for some topless woman working in the lobby.
You've got a point there, his whole dream state/agent life isn't as black and white as opposed to his former life from a visual viewpoint. The short story didn't provide much either which was sort of the point there, it's more confusing and paranoid(Like Dick himself) thus more ambiguous.
I don't understand what the point of calling it Total Recall is either. It seems to be taking parts from both the short story as well as the Arnie movie and in my opinion they should just call it something else.
I can't really make up my mind from seeing the trailer either... Some things confused me like how his wife looked a lot like the friend he finds later.. Maybe they're supposed to look alike. Other things look cool though such as the vistas and such. I think I'll just wait and see it when it comes out.
i think the point is to simply get people talking about it (just like we do now) and spread the word further. It's surely much harder to have it slip under the radar this way.
It's definitely not the first time movie makers do such thing, even if it's a pretty lame method of gaining publicity.
I guess i might watch it someday, though i don't think it'll have much to offer besides cool environments and amusingly cheesy action scenes.
Did any of you watch paycheck or impostor?
i'm curious what these were like.
True, but keep in mind we were kids for the Arnie one. I was born in 83, so I was like 7 when I saw that one. Much easier for a 7 year-old to suspend their disbelief than it is for me now.
And about the Bourne thing, I think that's the point though, right? That you're supposed to question whether a Bourne situation is going on, or is he just dreaming the whole thing. Though for me, with my jaded 28-year-old mind now, that pretty much proves that he's dreaming the whole thing. But who knows, maybe they'll make it plausible in the movie.
On that note, my little brother really loved the movie Inception. I told him it was cool and all, but felt really derivative to me. He thought it was the most original thing ever, and asked what else is similar. I said pretty much every movie with a twist, but especially Matrix and Total Recall. He didn't agree on the Matrix, but said he didn't see Total Recall cause it's a "dumb action movie". So we watched it. And he was totally shocked by the end of Total Recall at how deep it was, and how yeah, it was the same basic story as Inception. Only cooler, with more cheese, and more enjoyable.
Just a funny little story about the younger generation.
I've seen Impostor. It had some cheesy elements to it but it was alright. I haven't seen paycheck but if you guys are interested in seeing movies based on Philip K Dick's work you should see A scanner darkly. It's my favorite.
Not really. Many of us are doubtful but that's about it.
Haven't seen Imposter, but Paycheck is actually a very very good movie. I'm going to go ahead and state that its probably the only Ben Affleck movie I actually like other than 'The Town'. (p.s. I hate Ben Affleck)
I think Minority Report was a pretty good take on Philip K's novel too. They changed a ton, but the bones are there.
I think the brain reacts much like any immune-system, after so many explosive transformer and resident evil movies you start rejecting anything remotely similar
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