Title: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 15 March, 2012, 10:26:02 PM
Post by: Goaty on 15 March, 2012, 10:26:02 PM
I knows there pointless for remake of Total Recall (I love the original film with brilliant ending...)
BUT here the Foreign (the site looks Russian, but video looks Chinese/Japanese? But I am Deaf to know what audio it is) Comic Con? version of teaser trailer. Some effects looks Minority Report.
Total Recall Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OKF3NskN9yM#!)
BUT here the Foreign (the site looks Russian, but video looks Chinese/Japanese? But I am Deaf to know what audio it is) Comic Con? version of teaser trailer. Some effects looks Minority Report.
Total Recall Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OKF3NskN9yM#!)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Spikes on 16 March, 2012, 12:57:48 AM
Post by: Spikes on 16 March, 2012, 12:57:48 AM
Wouldnt have minded checking that out, but the teaser has now been removed by Columbia.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 06:01:18 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 06:01:18 PM
First teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNlaWwBszlk&feature=player_embedded
It is scheduled to be released in the United States and Canada on August 3, 2012.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Jared Katooie on 27 March, 2012, 08:28:43 PM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 27 March, 2012, 08:28:43 PM
I do not approve of this.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Pyroxian on 27 March, 2012, 08:50:45 PM
Post by: Pyroxian on 27 March, 2012, 08:50:45 PM
I wonder how much of the original story this one uses, given that the original Total Recall was onyl the first two pages :)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 09:01:36 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 09:01:36 PM
There's no Mars in the short story likewise the new film.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: chris_askham on 27 March, 2012, 09:05:08 PM
Post by: chris_askham on 27 March, 2012, 09:05:08 PM
I've no love for the original movie, so quite happy to look forwards to this one.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 March, 2012, 09:57:47 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 27 March, 2012, 09:57:47 PM
Chris: you're clearly a sick man. Possibly some sort of deviant.
I like how they've basically made a trailer for the trailer. Not so keen on the reappearance of The Awesome Horn, that thing that goes "BLAAAARRRRRRNNNNN!" repeatedly in trailers for action movies rather than an actual music score. I would go so far as to say it gives me a negative impression of the film.
I like how they've basically made a trailer for the trailer. Not so keen on the reappearance of The Awesome Horn, that thing that goes "BLAAAARRRRRRNNNNN!" repeatedly in trailers for action movies rather than an actual music score. I would go so far as to say it gives me a negative impression of the film.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 10:05:13 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 10:05:13 PM
Almost every studio now makes trailers for trailers. The Zimmer-Horn is now a dramatic staple in trailers just like the fast fade to and from black. Horrible.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 27 March, 2012, 10:07:06 PM
Post by: Goaty on 27 March, 2012, 10:07:06 PM
Even many trailers shows everythings of the films!
Good trailer by the way!
Good trailer by the way!
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 10:23:24 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 10:23:24 PM
A new poster for your bedroom Jared.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: blackmocco on 27 March, 2012, 11:37:42 PM
Post by: blackmocco on 27 March, 2012, 11:37:42 PM
This looks shit but Jessica Biel's arse is in it so I'll go see it. If I can sit through that Chuck And Larry Get Married abortion I can make it through this.
Yes, it's that simple.
Yes, it's that simple.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 12:48:16 AM
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 12:48:16 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 27 March, 2012, 10:05:13 PM
Almost every studio now makes trailers for trailers. The Zimmer-Horn is now a dramatic staple in trailers just like the fast fade to and from black. Horrible.
I refuse to call it that. I insist we call it the Awesome Horn.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 28 March, 2012, 12:55:15 AM
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 28 March, 2012, 12:55:15 AM
It's called the Zimmer-horn.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 01:08:47 AM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 01:08:47 AM
Quote from: Professah Byah on 28 March, 2012, 12:48:16 AM
I insist we call it the Awesome Horn.
This is the Zimmer-Horn:
There is no debate.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 28 March, 2012, 01:13:11 AM
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 28 March, 2012, 01:13:11 AM
BWWWAAAAARRRRRM
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: klute on 28 March, 2012, 08:44:32 AM
Post by: klute on 28 March, 2012, 08:44:32 AM
I'm wondering if they will have any of arnies one liners in there as a homage......
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 09:24:13 AM
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 09:24:13 AM
The original is incredibly bad but with a lot of redeeming amusement value (not least the HO Scale train set standing in for aerial shots of Mars) , so I'm not remotely concerned by a remake. However, the look of this is atrocious. The foreground lighting in that scene of Biel's butt in front of an explosion would have stood out as shoddy in an episode of Bablylon 5 (maybe I did spend too long on the freezeframe), and the cityscapes look like they're from a PS2 cutscene. What are they up to?
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Mardroid on 28 March, 2012, 03:44:22 PM
Post by: Mardroid on 28 March, 2012, 03:44:22 PM
Liking the original as I do, (it's cheesy, but I just love that twisty plot) I'm not keen on the idea of a remake.
I do like the visuals on that trailer though.
I do like the visuals on that trailer though.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 03:48:32 PM
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 03:48:32 PM
How anyone not like the original film's twist ending?
And it was good violent film as well!
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 04:52:27 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 04:52:27 PM
There wasn't a twist at the end of Total Recall - he wasn't dreaming.
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Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
Not exactly a twist but a revelation.
The worst aspect in a lot of these 80's sci-fi action fests is Arnie, he's just awful.
The worst aspect in a lot of these 80's sci-fi action fests is Arnie, he's just awful.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JamesC on 28 March, 2012, 05:35:52 PM
Post by: JamesC on 28 March, 2012, 05:35:52 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
Not exactly a twist but a revelation.
The worst aspect in a lot of these 80's sci-fi action fests is Arnie, he's just awful.
Fuck you man! Arnie's awesome!
Arnie made loads of classics in the 80's - Terminator, Commando (my favourite), Total Recall, The Running Man, Predator.
The man has star quality!
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 05:58:43 PM
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 05:58:43 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 28 March, 2012, 05:35:52 PMQuote from: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
Not exactly a twist but a revelation.
The worst aspect in a lot of these 80's sci-fi action fests is Arnie, he's just awful.
Fuck you man! Arnie's awesome!
Arnie made loads of classics in the 80's - Terminator, Commando (my favourite), Total Recall, The Running Man, Predator.
The man has star quality!
And classic lines! "Stick around"
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 06:07:06 PM
Post by: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 06:07:06 PM
QuoteThere wasn't a twist at the end of Total Recall - he wasn't dreaming.
It doesn't definitively come down on either side, does it? Much like the ending of Inception, you can decide for yourself what really happened, what was 'real' and what was just a dream.
QuoteThe man has star quality!
Strongly agree - he's a terrible actor, but is such a star that he transcends acting ability.
Couldn't give a monkeys about the remake - not with the godawful Len Wiseman directing and what appears to be some seriously generic art direction.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 06:20:01 PM
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 06:20:01 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 06:07:06 PMQuoteThe man has star quality!
Strongly agree - he's a terrible actor, but is such a star that he transcends acting ability.
It defies all reason, but yes, whatever 'it' is Ahnuld has plenty.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 06:23:22 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 06:23:22 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 06:07:06 PMQuoteThere wasn't a twist at the end of Total Recall - he wasn't dreaming.
It doesn't definitively come down on either side, does it? Much like the ending of Inception, you can decide for yourself what really happened, what was 'real' and what was just a dream.
TR doesn't really push this aspect of the story -more a plot device rather than a thematic- whereas Inception always teetered on the edge of waking-up. TR feels more about Martian civics than the 'dreaming' and the story gains little in the end if there's a question of whether it all turns out to be a dream or not, so it's a bit of a moot point I feel.
Quote from: JamesC on 28 March, 2012, 05:35:52 PM
Fuck you man! Arnie's awesome!
The man has star quality!
Star quantity, maybe, and only when his mouth's shut, but if he stood still long enough he'd get wood-worm.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 06:26:24 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 28 March, 2012, 06:26:24 PM
Arnie is a brand rather than an actor - you know what you're getting going in.
If it's a dream, why does so much happen outside the experience/POV of the main character? Some of it even happens while he's unconscious, and at no point in the film does he ever discover what happened when he was out cold even though it informs how events unfold, like the bit in Recall HQ where the techs twig that he's been implanted with false memories and then wipe his recent memory and bung him in a taxi. The dream angle doesn't actually hold up to logical examination, the only real argument in its favour being that the rest of TR is so dumb it makes as much sense as anything else, though by this rationale every action film is the dream of the central protagonist.
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Quote from: radiator on 28 March, 2012, 06:07:06 PMQuoteThere wasn't a twist at the end of Total Recall - he wasn't dreaming.
It doesn't definitively come down on either side, does it? Much like the ending of Inception, you can decide for yourself what really happened, what was 'real' and what was just a dream.
If it's a dream, why does so much happen outside the experience/POV of the main character? Some of it even happens while he's unconscious, and at no point in the film does he ever discover what happened when he was out cold even though it informs how events unfold, like the bit in Recall HQ where the techs twig that he's been implanted with false memories and then wipe his recent memory and bung him in a taxi. The dream angle doesn't actually hold up to logical examination, the only real argument in its favour being that the rest of TR is so dumb it makes as much sense as anything else, though by this rationale every action film is the dream of the central protagonist.
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Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 06:29:05 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 06:29:05 PM
That Zimmer-Horn needs tuning.
If Cronenberg had made Total Recall it would have been a dream.
If Cronenberg had made Total Recall it would have been a dream.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 06:32:09 PM
Post by: TordelBack on 28 March, 2012, 06:32:09 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 28 March, 2012, 06:29:05 PM
If Cronenberg had made Total Recall it would have been a dream.
....Or would it?
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 09:06:18 PM
Post by: Goaty on 28 March, 2012, 09:06:18 PM
Quote from: Professah Byah on 28 March, 2012, 06:26:24 PM
If it's a dream, why does so much happen outside the experience/POV of the main character? Some of it even happens while he's unconscious, and at no point in the film does he ever discover what happened when he was out cold even though it informs how events unfold, like the bit in Recall HQ where the techs twig that he's been implanted with false memories and then wipe his recent memory and bung him in a taxi. The dream angle doesn't actually hold up to logical examination, the only real argument in its favour being that the rest of TR is so dumb it makes as much sense as anything else, though by this rationale every action film is the dream of the central protagonist.
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That's fine you give option and stick with it.
But this ending was "Was it or not?" as if you can recalled, as when Arnie about to get Total Recall, you can see the things on the monitor, with his choice of trip to Mars, including the option of being a secret agent and discovering alien technology, and choice of woman, with pictures of Mars mountain AND Alien Ice Air Rector on the monitor as he fell sleep...
so was it all real or dream? I don't know... that what I like about this film.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Ancient Otter on 28 March, 2012, 10:58:23 PM
Post by: Ancient Otter on 28 March, 2012, 10:58:23 PM
According to Paul Verhoven in the commentary on a DVD:
[spoiler]The bit at the end where everything fades to white? That is Douglas Quaid undergoing a lobotomy. His whole adventure is a implanted memory going wrong.[/spoiler]
Love that film. The scenes set on Earth at the start? Shot in Mexico City - the city area with the escalators was an military officers training academy. Don't know what the Rekall building really was though.
[spoiler]The bit at the end where everything fades to white? That is Douglas Quaid undergoing a lobotomy. His whole adventure is a implanted memory going wrong.[/spoiler]
Love that film. The scenes set on Earth at the start? Shot in Mexico City - the city area with the escalators was an military officers training academy. Don't know what the Rekall building really was though.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 12:01:28 AM
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 12:01:28 AM
If it is a dream Quaid is having, why do we see his wife talking to someone after he's left the room? How do we see the Recall salesman having a natter with a customer in another room when Quaid is having a freakout elsewhere? Wouldn't Quaid know he was seeing other people's experiences and know it was a dream? The stuff on the screen in Recall HQ is more easily explained away as coincidence, or an in-joke, or even as dis/information, as Quaid is later talking to some nameless schmoe on a train who's able to tell him there are alien artifacts inside the Martian pyramid - the artifacts are a known quantity long before Quaid gets into the chair at Recall, and it would make sense for someone making believable fantasies to include stuff like that in the simulation.
But it's probably a bad idea to get hung up on the internal logic of an Arnie flick, isn't it?
/retunes blarn horn
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But it's probably a bad idea to get hung up on the internal logic of an Arnie flick, isn't it?
/retunes blarn horn
BWAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 March, 2012, 12:24:31 AM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 March, 2012, 12:24:31 AM
Quote from: Professah Byah on 29 March, 2012, 12:01:28 AM
But it's probably a bad idea to get hung up on the internal logic of an Arnie flick, isn't it?
Tis but you could lazily say the whole thing's a dream and therefore nothing needs logical explanation.
Quote from: Professah Byah on 29 March, 2012, 12:01:28 AM
/retunes blarn horn
BWAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN
Cease and Desist Order for audio infringement.
Zimmer-Horn © MMXII
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Beaky Smoochies on 29 March, 2012, 03:25:54 AM
Post by: Beaky Smoochies on 29 March, 2012, 03:25:54 AM
Quote from: Professah Byah on 28 March, 2012, 04:52:27 PM
There wasn't a twist at the end of Total Recall - he wasn't dreaming.
Quote from: Ancient Otter on 28 March, 2012, 10:58:23 PM
According to Paul Verhoven in the commentary on a DVD:
[spoiler]The bit at the end where everything fades to white? That is Douglas Quaid undergoing a lobotomy. His whole adventure is a implanted memory going wrong.[/spoiler]
I always thought he was dreaming, and Verhoeven said in an interview once that the whole 'is he/isn't he' was the hook that interested him in the whole project, a study in psychosis or so he said. Even when we witness events that Quaid isn't present for, well, he's DREAMING them isn't he...!?
Quote from: JamesC on 28 March, 2012, 05:35:52 PM
Fuck you man! Arnie's awesome! Arnie made loads of classics in the 80's - Terminator, Commando (my favourite), Total Recall, The Running Man, Predator. The man has star quality!
It's just a shame he didn't team up with Paul 'mad as a goose on stilts' Verhoeven again to do Crusades in 1994, if you've read the script for that thing, it would have been just outrageous, not to mention a massive hit as well (probably on the sheer controversy it would have generated alone), but Carolco thought $120m was too much and decided to spend way more than that on Cutthroat Island and Showgirls , say no more really...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Art on 29 March, 2012, 04:12:37 AM
Post by: Art on 29 March, 2012, 04:12:37 AM
How Total Recall 2 almost got made:
http://io9.com/5887350/we-almost-got-total-recall-2-in-the-1990s
http://io9.com/5887350/we-almost-got-total-recall-2-in-the-1990s
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 29 March, 2012, 09:38:24 AM
Post by: Goaty on 29 March, 2012, 09:38:24 AM
New poster with bit of crop up...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: TordelBack on 29 March, 2012, 10:00:30 AM
Post by: TordelBack on 29 March, 2012, 10:00:30 AM
There's literally nothing about that Inception 2 poster that I like.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 29 March, 2012, 10:20:23 AM
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 29 March, 2012, 10:20:23 AM
Race Traitor.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 March, 2012, 10:25:34 AM
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 March, 2012, 10:25:34 AM
Looks just like the Source Code poster with a bit of Inception thrown in for good measure-imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery!
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Tiplodocus on 29 March, 2012, 12:54:51 PM
Post by: Tiplodocus on 29 March, 2012, 12:54:51 PM
Arnie* was one guy that could always make me buy a cinema ticket in the early to mid eighties. He's pretty much aware that he can't act much and that we know this but often makes the most of this (e.g Terminator and Red Heat - an oft overlooked gem). Then some idiot convinced him he should do comedy.
* And Robert De Niro. Probably telling of their careers that you can hardly get me to watch them if they come on telly these days.
* And Robert De Niro. Probably telling of their careers that you can hardly get me to watch them if they come on telly these days.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 01:13:35 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 01:13:35 PM
Arnie started doing comedy around the time his regular script doctors took off to make movies of their own rather than salvaging loads of rotten drafts and then never getting writing credit (or royalties). I think they might have been the blokes who wrote the first two Predator movies, and the thought of what Commando would have been like without their input is genuinely frightening if you think about it: an indestructible German comes down from his mountain retreat to murder dozens of people, though he clearly singles out blacks, foreigners and gays? You can sort of see why Arnie went for that script initially, and why it needed a bit of tweaking to be something other than utterly horrifying.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 March, 2012, 02:16:14 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 29 March, 2012, 02:16:14 PM
Quote from: Professah Byah on 29 March, 2012, 01:13:35 PM
an indestructible German comes down from his mountain retreat to murder dozens of people, though he clearly singles out blacks, foreigners and gays?
A missed oppurtunity.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 29 March, 2012, 03:08:19 PM
Post by: Goaty on 29 March, 2012, 03:08:19 PM
Now the motion poster?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O2N4qTHJUI8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O2N4qTHJUI8)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 04:35:25 PM
Post by: Professor Bear on 29 March, 2012, 04:35:25 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 29 March, 2012, 02:16:14 PMA missed oppurtunity.
I do apologise.
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Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Spikes on 29 March, 2012, 05:48:07 PM
Post by: Spikes on 29 March, 2012, 05:48:07 PM
This remake looks a bit poo.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 March, 2012, 07:35:35 PM
Post by: dweezil2 on 29 March, 2012, 07:35:35 PM
visually the teaser looks like a mash up of other peoples ideas-unless it's an attempt to create some sort of synergy with Minority Report and Blade Runner, in which case bravo.
Stiil the name's Len Weisman and Kate Beckinsale hardly inspire confidence- as much as I liked her dad in Rising Damp.
Stiil the name's Len Weisman and Kate Beckinsale hardly inspire confidence- as much as I liked her dad in Rising Damp.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 29 March, 2012, 08:04:39 PM
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 29 March, 2012, 08:04:39 PM
Phil-Dick-ien in it's intricacies.
They seem to be questioning the nature of reality itself ala Matrix which certainly takes it away from the Austrian Plank vehicle the first film was.
That said I do enjoy the first 45 mins of the original Total Recall so I'm glad this one is set entirely on Earth.
Wonder what the twist will be?
Sorry Quaid your life is just a dream?
Follow the yellow brick road?
It's the Jerry Springer Show and Colin Farrel's is unknowingly going out with a transgender transvestite ?
I'm actually looking forward to this.
They seem to be questioning the nature of reality itself ala Matrix which certainly takes it away from the Austrian Plank vehicle the first film was.
That said I do enjoy the first 45 mins of the original Total Recall so I'm glad this one is set entirely on Earth.
Wonder what the twist will be?
Sorry Quaid your life is just a dream?
Follow the yellow brick road?
It's the Jerry Springer Show and Colin Farrel's is unknowingly going out with a transgender transvestite ?
I'm actually looking forward to this.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: judgefloyd on 30 March, 2012, 12:03:02 PM
Post by: judgefloyd on 30 March, 2012, 12:03:02 PM
I'm in the 'Arnold was great in the 80s camp. The original Total Recall is just about perfect, except for....No, no, it's perfect. Remaking it is phenomenally pointless and my prediction is that the remake will be worse than the Get Smart movie. So do sing out if it's worth watching.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JamesC on 30 March, 2012, 12:42:51 PM
Post by: JamesC on 30 March, 2012, 12:42:51 PM
Will this film have any three breasted women or mini Danny Devito lookalikes growing out of people's bellies?
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: klute on 30 March, 2012, 12:55:36 PM
Post by: klute on 30 March, 2012, 12:55:36 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 30 March, 2012, 12:42:51 PM
Will this film have any three breasted women or mini Danny Devito lookalikes growing out of people's bellies?
If it feature's the above and this -
QuoteMelina: Hello, Hauser. Still bulging, I see. What you been feeding this thing? Quaid: Blondes. Melina: I think it's still hungry.
I'll be a happy man shallow but happy :)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Jared Katooie on 01 April, 2012, 12:28:38 AM
Post by: Jared Katooie on 01 April, 2012, 12:28:38 AM
"See you at the party Vincent!"
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 01 April, 2012, 11:03:23 PM
Post by: Goaty on 01 April, 2012, 11:03:23 PM
Full trailer here, looks not bad... still got that Minority Report style...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/totalrecall/ (http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/totalrecall/)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 02 April, 2012, 09:05:32 AM
Post by: Goaty on 02 April, 2012, 09:05:32 AM
YouTube version;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWMhADqlPYg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sWMhADqlPYg)
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Mardroid on 02 April, 2012, 08:37:32 PM
Post by: Mardroid on 02 April, 2012, 08:37:32 PM
Sigh. Apart from the Mars stuff it looks like it follows the same plot. Expected though, I suppose it being based on the same material. Hopefully they'll provide another twist to it.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: I, Cosh on 02 April, 2012, 10:10:47 PM
Post by: I, Cosh on 02 April, 2012, 10:10:47 PM
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 29 March, 2012, 08:04:39 PMOr, you know, its ostensible source material.
Phil-Dick-ien in it's intricacies.
Quote from: IAMTHESYSTEM on 29 March, 2012, 08:04:39 PMSorry IATS, I am picking on you purely as a representative of the rest of this thread. I've always thought Total Recall was the perfect mix of dumb Arnie blockbuster and reasonably smart sci-fi and the multiple potential levels of reality was always a part of the story. I'm genuinely surprised to see so many people here dislike it.
They seem to be questioning the nature of reality itself ala Matrix which certainly takes it away from the Austrian Plank vehicle the first film was.
Not really fussed about a remake either way. Will probably see it at some point. More importantly, this thread gives me yet another chance to post a link to the best website of all time:
http://www.getyourasstomars.com/
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 02 April, 2012, 10:21:18 PM
Post by: Roger Godpleton on 02 April, 2012, 10:21:18 PM
Cranston is in this. I will probably see it.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 02 April, 2012, 10:26:45 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 02 April, 2012, 10:26:45 PM
"I don't think there is much of a challenge at all. I think the script is better. We certainly have a tremendous upgrade in our lead actor." -Cranston on Total Recall.
I'm not arguing.
I'm not arguing.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 April, 2012, 10:27:36 PM
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 02 April, 2012, 10:27:36 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 02 April, 2012, 10:10:47 PM
Sorry IATS, I am picking on you purely as a representative of the rest of this thread. I've always thought Total Recall was the perfect mix of dumb Arnie blockbuster and reasonably smart sci-fi and the multiple potential levels of reality was always a part of the story. I'm genuinely surprised to see so many people here dislike it.
I still watch it when it comes on TV! :D
I certainly don't hate it or the re make and there is that really rather questioning moment when you think 'Well is it all a paranoid fantasy?'
By the way How did 'he get his ass to Mars?'
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 04 April, 2012, 07:29:40 PM
Post by: IAMTHESYSTEM on 04 April, 2012, 07:29:40 PM
DOUBLE POST!
New Trailer excitement!
http://youtu.be/gA-18LuLDEQ
New Trailer excitement!
http://youtu.be/gA-18LuLDEQ
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 24 April, 2012, 09:57:58 PM
Post by: Goaty on 24 April, 2012, 09:57:58 PM
Original Total Recall on ITV2 now.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 April, 2012, 10:37:52 PM
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 24 April, 2012, 10:37:52 PM
"Harry from vork is trying to keel me!"
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 24 April, 2012, 10:41:05 PM
Post by: Goaty on 24 April, 2012, 10:41:05 PM
THAT how you do bullet holes in the bodies! As now it all CGI :-(
Poor backpack man in the Escalator...
Poor backpack man in the Escalator...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Professor Bear on 25 April, 2012, 01:37:15 AM
Post by: Professor Bear on 25 April, 2012, 01:37:15 AM
Verhoeven was notorious for using gallons of fake blood for gunshot impacts - mainly because so much of it turns into a red mist when splattering out of people on the set that it doesn't show up very well on camera, so he just kept making his FX team use more and more for the splats. If you look at the corpses in his films shortly after they've been shot, there's probably more blood around them than could fit in a human body.
Bwwwrrrn. Eh, me heart's not in it...
Bwwwrrrn. Eh, me heart's not in it...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: locustsofdeath! on 19 June, 2012, 10:05:50 PM
Post by: locustsofdeath! on 19 June, 2012, 10:05:50 PM
After watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIduDF61WlM&feature=player_embedded
File this one under "What the fuck is the point?"
Oh, right. To have Matrix fight scenes with Stormtroopers.
File this one under "What the fuck is the point?"
Oh, right. To have Matrix fight scenes with Stormtroopers.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: radiator on 20 June, 2012, 08:43:19 AM
Post by: radiator on 20 June, 2012, 08:43:19 AM
The sad thing is, is that this will make tons more money than Dredd.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2012, 08:44:25 AM
Post by: Goaty on 20 June, 2012, 08:44:25 AM
Quote from: radiator on 20 June, 2012, 08:43:19 AM
The sad thing is, is that this will make tons more money than Dredd.
Ya think? not see Dredd 10 secs teaser yet?
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: radiator on 20 June, 2012, 08:55:00 AM
Post by: radiator on 20 June, 2012, 08:55:00 AM
Dredd will probably be the better film, but it can't compete with the big hitters.
They'll spend more advertising Total Recall than the entire budget of Dredd combined.
Dredd could end up making more profit, of course...
They'll spend more advertising Total Recall than the entire budget of Dredd combined.
Dredd could end up making more profit, of course...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Radbacker on 20 June, 2012, 11:39:07 AM
Post by: Radbacker on 20 June, 2012, 11:39:07 AM
Also Dredd is R in the US and this remake is PG, so half the audience have easier access.
Personally think this looks alright but it's in my basket for why remake as well, naught wrong with the original i watched it just the other day.
CU Radbacker
Personally think this looks alright but it's in my basket for why remake as well, naught wrong with the original i watched it just the other day.
CU Radbacker
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 07:58:37 AM
Post by: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 07:58:37 AM
Trailer B - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_9uxohMTI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_9uxohMTI)
It's got three boobies! lol
It's got three boobies! lol
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: James Stacey on 28 June, 2012, 09:50:39 AM
Post by: James Stacey on 28 June, 2012, 09:50:39 AM
Quote from: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 07:58:37 AMBWAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNN
Trailer B - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_9uxohMTI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_9uxohMTI)
It's got three boobies! lol
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Mudcrab on 28 June, 2012, 03:34:45 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 28 June, 2012, 03:34:45 PM
Some funny similarities with Dredd here, especially on youtube:
"It's a rubbish remake of the 90s one" - People with no idea of the origins of the story
"No Arnie, no deal" - 90s muscle-man fanboys
"It's a rubbish remake of the 90s one" - People with no idea of the origins of the story
"No Arnie, no deal" - 90s muscle-man fanboys
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: bluemeanie on 28 June, 2012, 04:09:20 PM
Post by: bluemeanie on 28 June, 2012, 04:09:20 PM
Saw the trailer in the cinema yesterday. Seeing it on youtube it was "Yeah, looks cool enough" on the big screen though it looked REALLY good. Loved how the city etc looked, and gotta admit to being a bit of a Colin Farrell fan which reminds me... need to buy Fright Night.
Not seen the 3boob trailer. Think I'll hold off watching any more as I'm pretty sure I'll be going to the flicks for this one
Not seen the 3boob trailer. Think I'll hold off watching any more as I'm pretty sure I'll be going to the flicks for this one
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 04:25:40 PM
Post by: radiator on 28 June, 2012, 04:25:40 PM
QuoteSome funny similarities with Dredd here, especially on youtube:
"It's a rubbish remake of the 90s one" - People with no idea of the origins of the story
"No Arnie, no deal" - 90s muscle-man fanboys
That would be a valid comment, if not for the fact that Total Recall 2012 explicitly references and echoes the 1990 film*. By trying to have their cake and eat it - claiming that they are re-adapting the original story while trading off the visual cues of the Arnie version - they leave themselves completely open to this entirely valid criticism.
By contrast, DREDD seems to be doing everything in its power to distance itself from the 1995 Stallone version - and that's why people get bent out of shape about it.
*Side by side comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIduDF61WlM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIduDF61WlM)
As for me, the appeal of Total Recall was always about the demented, garish excess and schlocky Rob Botin practical effects. Take all that stuff away, I'm not really interested. If there were a proper filmmaker involved then I might be interested in seeing a more cerebral take on the material - but with Len Wiseman at the helm I couldn't care less about seeing a watered down 12A rehash, with nothing to add but slow motion fight scenes and excessive cgi. I've ordered the 1990 version on Blu Ray and will watch that instead.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: brendan1 on 28 June, 2012, 04:32:55 PM
Post by: brendan1 on 28 June, 2012, 04:32:55 PM
Quote from: Mudcrab on 28 June, 2012, 03:34:45 PM
Some funny similarities with Dredd here, especially on youtube:
"It's a rubbish remake of the 90s one" - People with no idea of the origins of the story
"No Arnie, no deal" - 90s muscle-man fanboys
Lots of differences too: Total Recall was ace and made lots of money. Judge Dredd was shit and didn't.
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 10:10:14 PM
Post by: Goaty on 28 June, 2012, 10:10:14 PM
Well likely the best Total Recall is on ITV2 now...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Beaky Smoochies on 30 June, 2012, 08:25:45 AM
Post by: Beaky Smoochies on 30 June, 2012, 08:25:45 AM
Paul Verhoeven must be spinning in his grave, oh wait...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 04 July, 2012, 08:34:41 AM
Post by: Goaty on 04 July, 2012, 08:34:41 AM
Oooh new trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbodk7S2KA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbodk7S2KA)
[spoiler]Hope they dont same to Judge Dredd! :-\[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Hope they dont same to Judge Dredd! :-\[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Sapperjack91 on 04 July, 2012, 11:26:50 AM
Post by: Sapperjack91 on 04 July, 2012, 11:26:50 AM
This film looks amazing!
i love the Arnie film but my god was it cheesy!
so by the looks of things this is going to be darker more action packed!
i love the Arnie film but my god was it cheesy!
so by the looks of things this is going to be darker more action packed!
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: judgefloyd on 07 July, 2012, 11:21:40 AM
Post by: judgefloyd on 07 July, 2012, 11:21:40 AM
I saw a trailer the other day. It looked a bit over CGI'd to me
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: JOE SOAP on 03 August, 2012, 02:15:07 PM
Post by: JOE SOAP on 03 August, 2012, 02:15:07 PM
Reviews don't seem to be good. Looks great but:
"Ironically, for a movie touted as being about the nature of memory, it is surprisingly forgettable".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90MzmfZAP5U&feature=player_embedded
http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/total-recall-review/#ixzz22ULNZcIS
http://ie.ign.com/videos/2012/08/01/does-the-new-total-recall-suck
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57403
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/review-total-recall-remake/
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/showbiz/music/total-recall-review-charity/
"Ironically, for a movie touted as being about the nature of memory, it is surprisingly forgettable".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90MzmfZAP5U&feature=player_embedded
http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/total-recall-review/#ixzz22ULNZcIS
http://ie.ign.com/videos/2012/08/01/does-the-new-total-recall-suck
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57403
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/review-total-recall-remake/
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/showbiz/music/total-recall-review-charity/
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: Goaty on 03 August, 2012, 02:50:44 PM
Post by: Goaty on 03 August, 2012, 02:50:44 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 03 August, 2012, 02:15:07 PM
Reviews don't seem to be good. Looks great but:
"Ironically, for a movie touted as being about the nature of memory, it is surprisingly forgettable".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90MzmfZAP5U&feature=player_embedded
http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/total-recall-review/#ixzz22ULNZcIS
http://ie.ign.com/videos/2012/08/01/does-the-new-total-recall-suck
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/57403
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/08/review-total-recall-remake/
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/03/showbiz/music/total-recall-review-charity/
That what I expected...
Title: Re: Total Recall (2012)
Post by: klute on 05 August, 2012, 10:00:57 AM
Post by: klute on 05 August, 2012, 10:00:57 AM
Quote from: Sapperjack91 on 04 July, 2012, 11:26:50 AM
This film looks amazing!
i love the Arnie film but my god was it cheesy!
so by the looks of things this is going to be darker more action packed!
For me that was what made a lot of 80's action heroes/films great