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I'm really disappointing that they took themselves so seriously, but I'll still watch it. Nothing better to do this weekend anyway lol.
 
Saw it, was a lot of fun even though it's missing the humor of the original. Lots of good action but kind of felt soulless.

nOoblet16 said:
It was enjoyable but it's an unnecessary remake. And it's a shame that they never explored the alternate possibility, there were a couple of moments but you always know that this is real and not a memory/dream.
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Why would you think this?
 
Watched the movie: Didn't like the story, liked the action(Len wisemen can direct cool action scenes but that's it.) Enjoyable movie for the action, but it's not a very deep one.

Pro's:

Liked the nods to the arnold flick
Shoot out's were cool.
Kate Beckinsale is damn hot, even as a cold hearted bitch.
John Cho's character, although a brief apparition, was cool.


Con's:

-Written by Kurt Wimmer

-a Scene was pretty much stolen from Bourne Identity
The Bank scene where Bourne finds his drop box

-Esthetically a cluster fuck(Didn't like the fevela look of Australia ughhh, Cluttered with shit and disorientating)

-Also The big secret that Quaid has in his head is retarded
Personally, if it was about finding something that could get rid of all that chemical warfare shit that's covering 90% of the planet, it would have been a much better reveal. What Quaid had in his head actually meant something in the 90's movie.

-Robots act too much like terminator's.

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No kuato or Benny.

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Scene where Harry asks Quaid to shoot melina is probably the worst scene of the movie. Nothing makes sense.

Will pick up blu ray in a bargain bin for 7$
 
Disaster

Moviegoers give Sony's "Total Recall" remake a problematic C+ CinemaScore; Fox's family entry "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" earns an A-.

WOM is not good.


Imdb: 6.3
Rt:31

It is expected to make less than 25 million ow and end up not even making its budget
 
Sorry. No. Total Recall was one of my favorite movies as a young teenager. Lots of nostalgia there, and this thing looks like a turd. Also it doesn't look like they're doing anything particularly interesting with the story, and the nods to the original make me want to puke.

The only way they could make me less interested is if I suddenly found out that they replaced Johnny Cab with Jar Jar Binks.
 
I remember when the director of Battleship blamed The Avengers for it's poor box office instead of his movie being crap.
The director of this movie will probably do the same thing. Blame TDKR instead of taking the heat for your film being garbage.
 
Just got back, I really liked the visual style of the movie. Although it's very "Len's Flare: The Movie 2". But it worked for me.

It's not spectacular, but I was pretty entertained. It's completely different than the original. And man, Kate B. is really hot in it.
 
layzie1989 said:
How was Mr. Cranston?
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Good, underused, not much time in the movie at all. Played a good bad guy though. Kate Beckinsale really stole the show IMO.

I kept thinking of Mirror's Edge during parts of this. Run run run! There's a great elevator chase/fight scene.
 
The special effects were nice. But Christ, it was pretty boring. There seemed to be no energy at all from anybody and the action scenes felt limp. The best part was the early
apartment scene where Colin and Kate fight and the following chase scene.
Kagari said:
It wasn't bad. The entire time I was thinking Colin Farrell would play a decent Nathan Drake though...
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Ha, I thought the same thing. Mostly when he was in
the apartment after getting back from recall
. The combination of the light, his shirt and hair plus the following
chase scene
had me endorsing him for Uncharted. At least physically.
 
I saw it yesterday. This was such a bland movie. There was lots of action and explosions but it was just mediocre. Biel and Beckinsale were beautiful but that wasn't enough to save it. Farrell was wooden and his performance was forgettable. I wanted to like it but I couldn't. Cranston was on autopilot as Cohagen. Visuals were uneven. Plot was goofy. Take this for example:

1) Why would that future world be able to finance and build a tunnel through the Earth (to link the Morlocks with the Eloi) instead of spending that time and money to build back the badlands?

2) How the fuck did building crews survive in the core of the Earth while building that shit out?

3) Why the fuck were there pristine looking cars from the present? I saw a Fiat on the ground level scene in a movie taking place in 2083!!!

It was the equivalent of eating a rice cake for me. It was something to eat in them moment but it was unsatisfying and instantly forgettable.

Some of the people in my group were falling asleep towards the end.
 
Just saw this movie. Extremely boring and poorly edited.

The dream that opens the movie completely kills any doubts you might have had about what was real or not, leaving only room for the plot twist that Houser was a triple agent. It especially makes the scene where Harry tries to talk Houser down REALLY REALLY stupid.

The Fall is even more ludicrous than going to Mars. The entire final action sequence was like a giant "fuck you" to the laws of gravity and physics.

Was it just me or did the world just seem very artificial. Especially during an action scene near the start, it looked like they were running around on a sound stage with painted sky backdrop.
 
I watched it today. Thought it was fun. Won't be as good as upcoming sci-fi (Looper, Elysium) but it gave me what I wanted for my $7.25.
 
Movie was soooooo boring. The movie should have been about Kate Beckinsale. And poor, poor Bryan Cranston. Is this the best Hollywood will offer you?
 
I really wanted to like this but after the scene where they said a tunnel through the earths core gets you from one side of the planet to the other i was out. I can't figure out why ever action scene was just so boring. Only thing i could think was they went on to long and repeated the same action over and over again.
But everyone i went with said i was stupid for not liking it.

Also please someone explain how your oppressed by people where you know where they are coming from? just close the magic earth tunnel
 
Thread exists? Good.

WOW! What a load of horseshit. Jesus christ! I'm so glad I didn't pay a single penny to watch this miserable pile of excuse of a movie. The good things about the movie is the look and feel of it. I love Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I love it a lot. This movie felt like it took place in Dues Ex universe and I loved staring at the props and the CGI and the sheer beauty in this dystopian world with so much potential. Too bad all went to waste. Waste!


Here's some of my grip with this movie. I'll spoiler tag everything just in case:

The story and dialogue. Good god! It was so dull and stupid. Movie spends half the time dumbing down everything for the audience yet spends the other half not giving a fuck, and we should take it blindly cause "its the future. Shit happens, OK!"

So many cheesy, cringe-worthy scenes. They tried to combine so many elements from other movies (Minority Report, The Island, Blade Runner and much much more) that they lost track of the original source and the existing movie. Them making throwbacks to original movie was the only thing worth watching, really. It was like watching a movie made for TV.

The "plot twist" was so poorly done. The "OMG MAYBE HE IS STILL AT REKALL" did not work. At all! The original, though cheesy as well, is done so well and is so enjoyable to watch. You can watch it and enjoy it from beginning to end. No need for insane explanation and no need to make simple things so complicated. The whole existence of "United Federation" and "The Colony" and "The Fall" is just plain stupid and they had to spend the opening two minutes explaining that stupidity. Even after watching that stupidity being explained, I couldn't believe what the fuck they just explained.

The piano sequence. OH MY GOD. Am I watching a movie directed and written by Hideo Kojima?!

The highway sequence. Even worse!

Dragging the mystery behind who Quaid is was even worse. "You don't know who you are?! I can't tell you right now! Gotta go!" "We don't have much time! Don't ask questions!" "What do you mean you kill those people, baby?" "You shouldn't have come here! There's no time!" FUCK!

Hammond being a police officer who puts him on chair was LAME! Characters coming and dying with no consequences is stupid. Hell, I thought Jessica Biel died already in the car crash, and I thought Quaid died in the end but no, he's OK. The explanation of "Rekall" was UGH. The ending twist that Kate Beckinsale is alive was LAMER. "There is no scar in your hand!" OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Audience gets it now!

...

"Freeze! Drop your weapon! Oh it's him! Sir, are you OK? You just committed murder and blew up shit loads of stuff but we will just let you stand there and look cool, sir."

And don't get me started with The Fall, but I'll just accept it as "Possible" since "It's the future and I don't know jackshit OK!". I'll just talk about the gravity change for now. Were the people who told Quaid to put the gun so fucking stupid that they didn't hear the warning?! Anyone and everyone could put two and two together yet Mr. and Mrs. Quaid are the only smart ones. Speaking of Mrs. Quaid, she appeared EVERYWHERE and ANYWHERE. "Lets take this fancy elevator that can go to any building nearby. Whoops, there she is. Let's turn right. Whoops, there she is again. Let's jump off a blown elevator into the lobby, whoops there she is pretending to cry. Let's get in a car, there she is again."

I can go on and on about what is wrong with this miserable pile of doucheshit but I'll stop right there cause the more I think about it, the more it's pissing me off.
 
Jamesways said:
Good, underused, not much time in the movie at all. Played a good bad guy though. Kate Beckinsale really stole the show IMO.

I kept thinking of Mirror's Edge during parts of this. Run run run! There's a great elevator chase/fight scene.
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LOL.

I totally disagree with you on Cranston. He was terribad.
The fight scene with Farrell was cringeworthy.
RagnarokX said:
Just saw this movie. Extremely boring and poorly edited.

The dream that opens the movie completely kills any doubts you might have had about what was real or not, leaving only room for the plot twist that Houser was a triple agent. It especially makes the scene where Harry tries to talk Houser down REALLY REALLY stupid.

The Fall is even more ludicrous than going to Mars. The entire final action sequence was like a giant "fuck you" to the laws of gravity and physics.

Was it just me or did the world just seem very artificial. Especially during an action scene near the start, it looked like they were running around on a sound stage with painted sky backdrop.
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There was just too much running and jumping period. How many scenes did they have on a flippin obstacle course? I thought to myself "didn't we just see them doing this?".
 
tarius1210 said:
LOL.

I totally disagree with you on Cranston. He was terribad.
The fight scene with Farrell was cringeworthy.

There was just too much running and jumping period. How many scenes did they have on a flippin obstacle course? I thought to myself "didn't we just see them doing this?".
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Well, clean, stylistic buildings, standoff with swat cops, run run run! hah.

You are right about that last fight scene with Cranston. I thought about that cheese after I wrote the post. Leader/mastermind/martial artist all of sudden?

For me it was worth the 5 buck morning movie price for the visuals. And Kate Beckinsale.
 
1. The colony could have just blown up the entrance from the Fall to
stop the invasion
.

2. Why would any leader want
kill his labor force? It made no sense.

3. The chancellor in a fist fight? Lol ok.

4. No way
the chancellor is seen in the forbidden zone or leads the robot army to war personally. I know why the plot has him do this, but it's not at all feasible.
 
Totally 100% disappointed never before was I so happy to see the credits to get out...lifeless flashy and dull
 
I didn't hate the film. I thought they were creative in their designs. The locations, the set designs, the tech, those aspects of the movie are all quite good. The action scenes were shot well and the cgi enhancements weren't offensive most of the time. I liked Kate Beckinsale in this, she's determined and vicious and also quite lovely.

That covers the positives I took away from my viewing today. The movie otherwise is a routine sci-fi action flick that takes the subtext from the original and puts it far into the background, where it's almost unnoticeable. Watching the movie you're never guessing whether it's real or all just a Rekall implant. It's too bad because that ambiguous subplot was part of what I really liked about the original.

Another plot thread that's worse off here is the struggle between the oppressed and the oppressors. You never get the feeling that things are really bad for those who live in the Colony until the final act when the much needed sense of urgency kicks in and the shit must hit the fan in accordance to action-movie formula. In contrast to the original film, the inhabitants of Mars seemed like they were fucked. People were turning into mutants because of poor protection from the environment and the fact that Cohaagen had easy access to air distribution.

In this regard the change in setting from Mars to different Earth regions hurts the film. As much as I like location designs, the Colony slums actually don't look that bad, as far as futuristic slums go. It's a mix between Blade Runner Deus Ex: HR, with some Asian influences from perhaps Ghost in the Shell and that one colony city from Serenity. The problem with the slums here is that it looks like a decent place to live. Quaid's apartment ain't bad. I wish I had a place with a sprawl like that. Same goes for his neighbors' homes. In one chase sequence, Quaid busts through his neighbor's house and it wasn't as as quaint as I expected it to be. The No-go zones by comparison were the real wastelands. More of the movie should have been set there and the Resistance should have been given more screen time. Also, the central conceit of the film, The Fall, is preposterously stupid and spits in the face of science and physics. And the final battle that takes place in this location is about as creatively bankrupt as you can get. It makes the showdown between Quaid and Cohaagen from the original look brilliant by comparison. Speaking of the characters...

They are boring and poorly developed, which is especially frustrating when it comes to Cohaagen and Mathias (this film's Kuato). These characters are shadows of their original selves. It's a crime how little Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy are given to work with. Cohaagen in the remake is not much of a threat even though he participates more in the capturing of Quiad and the stupid conquest of the oppressed colony inhabitants. Colin Farell is a much better actor than Arnie ever was, but his Quaid is less interesting due to how the new film handles his development. None of the other characters outside of Beckinsale's are given much to do.

Enjoy the first act because that's the film is at its most creative and interesting. The movie is really just one chase scene to another after the first 30 minutes. From that point on, it's just rather dull.
 
The worst part of the movie:
That bullshit over-emotional, reality-questioning scene when Harry and Mrs. Quaid visit Quaid and Melina (which, if you're wondering, is the name of Jessica Biel's character which I don't recall being mentioned in the movie, ever). The over-acting was just ridiculous! The original was better in some ways where the guy breaks a sweat. Sometimes the plot of this movie doesn't make shit sense. "You gotta kill her to get out of this fantasy, Harry! She is the reason behind this!" Wait... how the fuck did Harry know that Quaid saw Melina in his dream? He never shared the context of his dream to anyone except "I feel like I'm running from something". And why would they be asking him to kill her when she knows where Matthias is? Surrounded everywhere, he shoots Harry in the head and runs in slow-motion dodging all the bullets from police that has completely circled them. "Goddamnit, Harry". LOL!

WonkersTHEWatilla said:
I didn't hate the film.
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I read one position thing and ridiculous amounts of negative, and you didn't hate it?
 
tarius1210 said:
LOL.

I totally disagree with you on Cranston. He was terribad.
The fight scene with Farrell was cringeworthy.

There was just too much running and jumping period. How many scenes did they have on a flippin obstacle course? I thought to myself "didn't we just see them doing this?".
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Cranston is kind of shitty outside breaking bad. Maybe it's because he only gets shitty roles and is too focused on playing Walter white. I dunno. He's always a complete nonentity in movies.
 
shagg_187 said:
I read one position thing and ridiculous amounts of negative, and you didn't hate it?
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I am apathetic towards it, which is how I feel towards many action flicks of its ilk. It's dull but inoffensive and is easy on the eyes. Takes a lot for me to really hate a movie.
 
Saw it with some friends.

There's some cool future-tech and nice effects, but that's really it. The whole "Fall" thing, the resistance, Matthias, and such feels like it's barely there. I can't remember if Bill Nighy had a single line. It should have kept the real/Rekall thing more ambiguous as well.

Surprised they got the three breasts into a PG-13 movie.
 
i watched the original a few weeks ago and enjoyed this more. Maybe my reaction would be different if I actually watched the film when it was released. Kate was great. Jessica as well. Nice to see her on the big screen again. The gadgets were great. It would have been nice if we got more screen time with them. Felt for the guy when he realized it was a dream. I think he really wanted that to be his reality.
 
Prologue said:
i watched the original a few weeks ago and enjoyed this more. Maybe my reaction would be different if I actually watched the film when it was released. Kate was great. Jessica as well. Nice to see her on the big screen again. Felt for the guy when he realized it was a dream. I think he really wanted that to be his reality.
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who says it wasn't??
 
Prologue said:
i watched the original a few weeks ago and enjoyed this more. Maybe my reaction would be different if I actually watched the film when it was released. Kate was great. Jessica as well. Nice to see her on the big screen again. The gadgets were great. It would have been nice if we got more screen time with them. Felt for the guy when he realized it was a dream. I think he really wanted that to be his reality.
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Probably not.

I know plenty of "kids" who love the original.
 
WonkersTHEWatilla said:
I didn't hate the film. I thought they were creative in their designs. The locations, the set designs, the tech, those aspects of the movie are all quite good. The action scenes were shot well and the cgi enhancements weren't offensive most of the time. I liked Kate Beckinsale in this, she's determined and vicious and also quite lovely.

That covers the positives I took away from my viewing today. The movie otherwise is a routine sci-fi action flick that takes the subtext from the original and puts it far into the background, where it's almost unnoticeable. Watching the movie you're never guessing whether it's real or all just a Rekall implant. It's too bad because that ambiguous subplot was part of what I really liked about the original.

Another plot thread that's worse off here is the struggle between the oppressed and the oppressors. You never get the feeling that things are really bad for those who live in the Colony until the final act when the much needed sense of urgency kicks in and the shit must hit the fan in accordance to action-movie formula. In contrast to the original film, the inhabitants of Mars seemed like they were fucked. People were turning into mutants because of poor protection from the environment and the fact that Cohaagen had easy access to air distribution.

In this regard the change in setting from Mars to different Earth regions hurts the film. As much as I like location designs, the Colony slums actually don't look that bad, as far as futuristic slums go. It's a mix between Blade Runner Deus Ex: HR, with some Asian influences from perhaps Ghost in the Shell and that one colony city from Serenity. The problem with the slums here is that it looks like a decent place to live. Quaid's apartment ain't bad. I wish I had a place with a sprawl like that. Same goes for his neighbors' homes. In one chase sequence, Quaid busts through his neighbor's house and it wasn't as as quaint as I expected it to be. The No-go zones by comparison were the real wastelands. More of the movie should have been set there and the Resistance should have been given more screen time. Also, the central conceit of the film, The Fall, is preposterously stupid and spits in the face of science and physics. And the final battle that takes place in this location is about as creatively bankrupt as you can get. It makes the showdown between Quaid and Cohaagen from the original look brilliant by comparison. Speaking of the characters...

They are boring and poorly developed, which is especially frustrating when it comes to Cohaagen and Mathias (this film's Kuato). These characters are shadows of their original selves. It's a crime how little Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy are given to work with. Cohaagen in the remake is not much of a threat even though he participates more in the capturing of Quiad and the stupid conquest of the oppressed colony inhabitants. Colin Farell is a much better actor than Arnie ever was, but his Quaid is less interesting due to how the new film handles his development. None of the other characters outside of Beckinsale's are given much to do.

Enjoy the first act because that's the film is at its most creative and interesting. The movie is really just one chase scene to another after the first 30 minutes. From that point on, it's just rather dull.
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Pretty much my thoughts as well. It's a fun action flick, but... a little shallow plot and character development wise. Doesn't hold a candle to the original. For me, it really all fell apart after Quaid got captured. It was more enjoyable before that.
 
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