[Alx]

Big fan of PKD here and have to admit... skewing closer to "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" would really not be a good thing. It's a short story that basically ends about ten minutes into the plot of Total Recall. This is one screen adaptation that far outshined the source material and expanded on it transcendently.

I agree, being faithful to the original doesn't always work when you adapt from a book to a movie, especially for sci-fi short stories. Most of the time those stories deal with a simple and original concept and let you think about it once it's over. They're not meant to carry a show for 90 minutes or more.
The best format for faithful adaptations would be short episodes, like in the Twilight Zone. And you wouldn't turn an episode of the Twilight Zone into a full movie without having to add a lot of content.

[TDK Rises]

What did you guys think of the trailer? I'd say decent...

[AgentChris]

Looks like cool summer movie.

[layzie1989]

Bryan Cranston as big bad = day one

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

It's available now:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/s...s/totalrecall/

[strafer]

It's available now: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/s...s/totalrecall/

That's the teaser dude.

[DieH@rd]

It's available now: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/s...s/totalrecall/

That's only teaser. This weekend they are gonna show 1 min trailer at some basketball game, and then full 2 min trailer on the web.

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

View trailers, the 2:25 minute trailer is there.

[TDK Rises]

It aired 15 minutes ago during the Heat/Celtics game. Looked pretty fun

[shira]

View trailers, the 2:25 minute trailer is there.

Its prob not up International
Are you US?

[chubigans]

It's available now: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/s...s/totalrecall/

Wow, really liked the action sequence where you can actually see everything happening instead of the shaky cam stuff.

Looks like lots of fun!

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Its prob not up International Are you US?

Yes.

[shira]

Yes.

Yeah its not up international yet

[DieH@rd]

Its not up for Europe.

[ryutaro's mama]

Bryan Cranston as big bad = day one

I don't think he's "big bad", it looks like he might be Kuwato

"Big Bad" should be Arnold in a perfect world.

[DieH@rd]

Just saw it. Looks great.

[sk3]

Looks pretty cool. No Mars though? Whats up with that.

[jett]

I guess Collin Farrel won't get his ass to mars.

I would say it looks okay. The greenscreen one-take scene was cool, although a bit too obvious in its fakeness.

[DieH@rd]

Looks pretty cool. No Mars though? Whats up with that.

Maybe he wont regain all of his memories, and in the last moments of the movie someone will tell him "get your ass to mars".

Perfect location for a sequel.

[MadmanUK]

Looks pretty cool. No Mars though? Whats up with that.

John Carter destroyed it.

[RobotsAnger]

Looks great to me. Loved the original. Will probably like this one as well.

[Incendiary]

This looks really good, actually. I'm surprised. Of course, I've always liked Colin Farrell as an actor and don't really have the distaste for him that some people do.

Between Lock-Out, Prometheus, and this, this looks like it's going to be a pretty good year for sci-fi action.

[Zophar]

This looks really good, actually. I'm surprised. Of course, I've always liked Colin Farrell as an actor and don't really have the distaste for him that some people do. Between Lock-Out, Prometheus, and this, this looks like it's going to be a pretty good year for sci-fi action.

Same, I was not expecting to really enjoy it. It'll likely not have any of the Verhoeven silliness we've all come to love but I'm fine with that, in this case.

[quadriplegicjon]

That looked better than expected. Some of the lines sounded really cheesy though... and Biels acting :/ but overall, not bad.

[Tom_Cody]

Wow, the scope of this looks so much larger than I had expected. I really can't wait to see this now.

Still kind of bummed that this doesn't involve Mars though...

[Alucard]

I think it looks good. The shots of the cityscape look fantastic.

[Jangocube]

Looks good so far.

[Neverfade]

I don't think he's "big bad", it looks like he might be Kuwato "Big Bad" should be Arnold in a perfect world.

Cranston is the big bad.

[quinntendopower]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Why oh god why.

go ahead, remake robocop and see what happens next motherfuckers.



nothing like the director of the shitty ass underworld movies fucking up a verhoeven masterpiece. is he going to use cool color filters too? ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

even brian cranston is participating in this quick cut overly flashy pile of shit, which means i must watch it and tolerate "colin can ruin entire movies farrell" and "jessica can't act her way out of a paper bag biel" out of cranston formality.

i am severely bummed out over this. :(

this is picketing material.

[lobdale]

I love the original, what does a remake do to it? Nothing, the first Total Recall will always be there to watch. Assuming this new one is pulled off with any competence, which it looks like it's gonna be, what fan of any movie wouldn't at least be interested in seeing another version of it just for kicks?

[krypt0nian]

Looks better than the Swartz shlock-fest.

[Scullibundo]

I love the original, what does a remake do to it? Nothing, the first Total Recall will always be there to watch. Assuming this new one is pulled off with any competence, which it looks like it's gonna be, what fan of any movie wouldn't at least be interested in seeing another version of it just for kicks?

Everybody says this, but my worry with remakes always comes out of the most unlikely vision of ancestors of ours two centuries from now, scouring a post-apocalyptic earth and finding a huge film archive and thinking that the much acclaimed Karate Kid as referenced in many sources of archaic film theory will be thought to be the one with Will Smith's son.

[GuitarAtomik]

I haven't seen Total Recall in forever but I actually liked that trailer.

[Zeouterlimits]

Me, name aside, I think it doesn't look too bad.

[dvdjamm]

[SquiddyCracker]

That is a pretty impressive prostethic, you have to hand that to them.

[thetrin]

Man, am I seriously the only person who thinks Verhoeven's movies are shit?

I mean, sure, they're hilariously awful, but that still makes them awful.

[Zombie James]

Man, am I seriously the only person who thinks Verhoeven's movies are shit? I mean, sure, they're hilariously awful, but that still makes them awful.

All of them? Total Recall is great and I think Robocop would have been a disaster in another director's hands, but I'm not a fan of Starship Troopers (at all).

[Magic Mushroom]

Total Recall is great in that eighties style violent actioner kind of way. Cool one-liners, great Rob Bottin make-up, fucking Michael Ironside and a nice ambigious ending.

Robocop is great period. It's a great action movie, with superb villains, inmensly quotable lines, an amazing score and as a satire of corporate greed it's more relevant than ever.

Starship Troopers is another great action film with effects that still hold up to this very day. It's also a great satire of right wing-ideology and a post 9/11 film before 9/11 actually happened.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19259...ed-future.html

They're fucking great.

Basic Instict was great as well, mainly for showing a naked Sharon Stone in her prime. A lot.

Many of his Dutch films are worth a watch as well, The Fourth Man (De Vierde Man) in particular.

This on the other hand doesn't look very promising.

[rhfb]

Did a search but didn't find an official thread for this so I guess this goes here.

Just saw this tonight, and it wasn't bad, but they could have done without calling it Total Recall. At least this wasn't trying to copy the original blow by blow, just paid homage to it in a few different ways outside of copying the scenario from the first. Cranston did well with what he was given, and I would have preferred to see more interaction between Beckinsale and Biel but whatever. Miles better than The Avengers for me at least.

Also, they could have called the movie Lens Flare: The Movie... if there was a drinking game built around taking a shot every time there was lens flare on screen you would be dead within half an hour. The lens flare and bad green screening were the only technical problems I had with the film outside of a few minor things about the world setup. Anyways, 3/5, enjoyable summer film, nothing more.

[syllogism]

Man, am I seriously the only person who thinks Verhoeven's movies are shit? I mean, sure, they're hilariously awful, but that still makes them awful.

No, they really are all quite bad except Black Book, which is good. Robocop is somewhat passable.

Yes, I liked them all when I was young

[TrumanBurbank]

Did a search but didn't find an official thread for this so I guess this goes here. Just saw this tonight, and it wasn't bad, but they could have done without calling it Total Recall. At least this wasn't trying to copy the original blow by blow, just paid homage to it in a few different ways outside of copying the scenario from the first. Cranston did well with what he was given, and I would have preferred to see more interaction between Beckinsale and Biel but whatever. Miles better than The Avengers for me at least. Also, they could have called the movie Lens Flare: The Movie... if there was a drinking game built around taking a shot every time there was lens flare on screen you would be dead within half an hour. The lens flare and bad green screening were the only technical problems I had with the film outside of a few minor things about the world setup. Anyways, 3/5, enjoyable summer film, nothing more.

[The Bookerman]

Did a search but didn't find an official thread for this so I guess this goes here. Just saw this tonight, and it wasn't bad, but they could have done without calling it Total Recall. At least this wasn't trying to copy the original blow by blow, just paid homage to it in a few different ways outside of copying the scenario from the first. Cranston did well with what he was given, and I would have preferred to see more interaction between Beckinsale and Biel but whatever. Miles better than The Avengers for me at least. Also, they could have called the movie Lens Flare: The Movie... if there was a drinking game built around taking a shot every time there was lens flare on screen you would be dead within half an hour. The lens flare and bad green screening were the only technical problems I had with the film outside of a few minor things about the world setup. Anyways, 3/5, enjoyable summer film, nothing more.

Seriously, I'm no Avengers apologist, but it's definitely better than Total Recall.

[BigNastyCurve]

Saw this last night. Mediocre, unnecessary remake.

[TheExodu5]

So, are the triplets actually shown, or just implied?

[Friedreich]

Shown. It had a great reaction from the audience.

[rhfb]

Seriously, I'm no Avengers apologist, but it's definitely better than Total Recall.

If you like comic book movies sure, but since I honestly only went to The Avengers for RDJ I enjoyed Total Recall as a movie more. I did say that this was my personal opinion right?

[xk0sm0sx]

Just saw it.

I enjoyed it, it has a great setting and I love that much of the action revolve around the setting.

But it's those stupid movies where you have to put your brain away. Plenty of stupid villians that makes you go "Why don't you just shoot him". I definitely didn't feel the money's wasted though.

How many times did a character slipped under a gap in the ground...