Total Recall (2012)

[Cookie Monster]

Could have sworn we had a thread for this. Whatever.

Here's a new trailer:

 

[Tennyo]

What I didn't know about this.

This was not a movie that needed to be remade IMHO.

But hey, at least they kept the chick with three boobs. Is it bad that until they showed her that was the only thing I was worried about?

 

[Lex]

Wow, this looks like it could be pretty interesting.

 

[Alessa Gillespie]

GET YOUR ASS TO MARS

 

[Zee]

What I didn't know about this.

This was not a movie that needed to be remade IMHO.

To be a film truer to the original story, yeah it did.

 

[SoulReaper]

A Total Recall remake with Colin Farrelll. I just woke up and my day already's fucking ruined. Hollywood, please die of AIDS.

 

[Interslicery]

GET YOUR ASS TO MARS

They actually arnt going to mars. It'll be closer to the original in that sense.

 

[Hisako]

iirc the original novel took place on mars?

sooooooo

well at least they aren't trying to copy the original film. That was a timeless classic.

 

[Zee]

Nope, he doesn't go to Mars! He wanted some Mars memories implanted because he couldn't go.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I'm pretty excited about this. It looks friggin pretty as hell too.


X

 

[Ghost X]

I'll still watch this film, but I'm less hopeful than I initially was. I think it'll just be an average film.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Wtf was the point in this?

 

[Tetsujin]

Money, dear boy.

Although I'm really getting annoyed by the movie industry's "monkey see, monkey do" tactics.

"Oh hey, rebooting Batman worked so well, that must be the magic formula for making movies successful! Let's do the same!"
"Which movies are we going to reboot?"
"ALL OF THEM."

 

[Alex]

At least Colin Farrell is a pretty decent actor when he's given the right material.

This is still far less heinous than the planned remake of Starship Troopers.

 

[Glaurung]

I know the trailer was full of nifty special effects and computer animation, and still left me cold. Maybe I'm too biased towards the original movie.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Quaaaaade turn on the reactor

 

[Geostigma]

This is still far less heinous than the planned remake of Starship Troopers.

I really liked where they were going with starship troopers 3, they had mechs and bug gods :<
o.O

Ill watch this movie but I feel like this trailer is one of those that "shows you everything".

 

[Octo]

Why didn't they call it 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale'?

I mean, I've not actually read the book, but I did read Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep and while I enjoyed it, I think it would have sucked big time if Blade Runner had more closely followed that plot.

Also...did she actually say 'I give good wife?'

 

[Ⓐaron]

This is still far less heinous than the planned remake of Starship Troopers.

I did not need to know this existed.

My day has been ruined.


Anyway, yeah, there's a possibility this might not suck, at least if they follow more closely to the original story than the original film did. Of course, they might do that with Starship Troopers as well, but the difference in Starship Troopers' case is that that could not possibly be an improvement.

 

[anothercid]

One of the trailers contains the line: "Oh, by the way, you haven't even begun to see me try to kill you."

There is no hope for this movie.

 

[Interslicery]

One of the trailers contains the line: "Oh, by the way, you haven't even begun to see me try to kill you."

There is no hope for this movie.

At least she gives good Wife.

 

[looneymoon]

This movie was fucking aggravating as hell.

Stupid ass overdone worthless insight on how the male gaze of the world is the right way to see things.

Dumb movie made for dumb boys who think they're intellectual to mentally jerk off to.

 

[Ghost X]

^I've decided not to bother watching it, but now, looneymoon, you've made me most curious in as far as your second paragraph is concerned.

 

[looneymoon]

I'm gonna read the short story to see if it offers a better view of the story, but the way the movie presents the ideas are really dumb.

Story can simplified as, "bored guy is tired with his shitty life so he makes up a memory where he's a super awesome cool spy who saves the world from evil tyranny and gets the perfect dream girl who is so much better than the wife who turned out being the she-devil."

Even worse if you assume it wasn't just a made-up memory. Either way, the ambiguity of truth seemed to be a plot element lazily inserted to desperately make this film more than just "patriarchal hero fantasy and how awesome it is to shoot guns and stuff." Guess what? Whether or not the whole thing was real or not doesn't exactly eliminate that terribly shallow message :/

 

[Ite]

Shallow messages are much better delivered by Arnie on Mars. In drag.

Haven't seen the remake, but what I liked about the Arnie one was that if it *was* fake, he threw everything away because he wasn't satisfied, and at the end of the movie he gets lobotomized. The movie seemed pretty self aware and making a pretty good commentary on American Exceptionalism. Very old school sci-fi.

The new one looks like Michael Bay wrote a movie so that two chicks could rip each other's bodices open in an elevator. Girl power!