Total Recall?

Me? I'd be fine doing 10-15 without breaking sweat, and a lot more if I thought about it for a while. Even though I never saw many of them again after I left.

I have no way of proving this, it's just a theory I have.

Arthurs, Bailey, Baran, Barber, Drinkwater, Grahame, Heather D., Heather M. (not twins), Lee, Schoonerad, Siegler, Singh, White, Williams

it's funny, there's product placement for both coke and pepsi in this

it's the future

this movie rules

yes.

Last time I watched this was at Incheon airport, all these Korean families sitting around with us waiting for the plane. It was a truly exceptionial experience.

don't get me started.

This shall be one of my first Blu-ray purchases. I own the VHS, but never bought the DVD.

As for Trevor's original question, yes, I can remember the names and faces of nearly everyone I went to school with and entire conversations from over a decade ago. It's not necessarily as welcome an ability as you might think, but it might come in handy someday, I suppose.

no no wait... DO get me started. Please. The only dumbshit-but-awesome movie better than this is Die Hard, but I could be convinced otherwise.

No way, nothing tops TOTAL RECALL. We can learn very important lessons about future trips to Mars from this movie.

Yeah, Die Hard is not better. RoboCop, maybe.

Which is to say the only thing that can possibly be better than Verhoeven is other Verhoeven.

this movie ain't dumbshit, and there's even a coupla proto-Doom, Raimi-like POV shots

"See you at the party, Richter!"

Also, apparently they still have miller lite in the future

this movie ain't dumbshit

ok, I retract one half of that. You decide which half.

I love this movie, obv, so go easy on me.

http://www.sea.fi/foto/total_recall.jpg

Twwwoooooooo Weeeeeeeeekkkkks
-- Carey (Carey), Monday, 1 September 2003 01:16 (3 years ago) Link

otm

the only thing that can possibly be better than Verhoeven is other Verhoeven.

taken on its own terms... ok, yeah.

I keep trying to get my girlfriend to watch Robocop, but it's just not a big priority for her. How can I make her understand unless she's seen it? I can't DESCRIBE it, obviously. This must be some kinda universal nerd question.

Tell her than the dad from that 70's show is secretly psychopathic.

you have a girlfriend?

Tell her there's a girl with three titti...aw shit, that was Total Recall and that mostly only works on dudes.

You have tried to communicated how fucking funny RoboCop is? Most people like to laugh, does she like that kind of dark humor?

I keep trying to get my girlfriend to watch Robocop, but it's just not a big priority for her.

This could be the title of a "Women are From Venus" style relationship advice book.

Yeah, come to think of it I have never heard a woman talk about RoboCop. Ever.

you have a girlfriend?

Two things

1. fuck you
2. you may know her, at least around ILX.

oh great you're internet dating Aja

I can't resist the 13-yr-olds.

I feel bad now. Should have just left that post as "fuck you."

Have I mentioned that Total Recall is the best Schwarzenegger performance ever?

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c633.jpg

I'll leave Marmot and/or shakey to handle this

Also, i get a kick out of how there's at least two different readings of "We Can Remember...." out there. One by Keir Dullea, one by the late William Hootkins(Porkins from Star Wars)

Both are worthwhile.

"We Can Remember...." out there. One by Keir Dullea,

YSI?

This could be the title of a "Women are From Venus" style relationship advice book.

I keep wanting to read this, but I'll just roffle at your comment for now.

I really can't remember Total Recall. I know I watched it, but I just have any... well recollection. The same with RoboCop. I vaguely remember it, hence why I know I watched it, but specific scenes or storylines remain a mystery. :-( I really should buy both on DVD. I've been wanting to do this for ages, but haven't so far.

I'll leave Marmot and/or shakey to handle this

There are a few things I thought to say but decided against all of them.

wuss.

Anyway, there's an audiobook of Keir Dullea reading "Minority Report and other stories" floating around on the torrent networks. It's pretty good.

I just don't have much of a vested interest in riling up kenan.

Just you wait, my young apprentice, someday the feeling will begin to boil up within you.

remake time : (

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ifa2d2edd233df646a9db6b5c8ef251e9

ENOUGH

it'll never happen

give it a couple weeks

That's nice.

Tracey Morgan as Benny plz

http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/Farrell-Led-Total-Recall-Remake-To-Cost-http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/Farrell-Led-Total-Recall-Remake-To-Cost-$200-Million/57287.htm00-Million/57287.htm

Colin Farrell’s comeback blockbuster, the remake of 1990 flick Total Recall, will have a reported budget of $200 million, reports The Toronto Star.

The flick will shoot in Toronto from March, with Underworld and Die Hard 4 helmer Len Wiseman calling the shots. Farrell bagged the part after other actors, Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy were also mooted for the lead. Farrell was apparently Wiseman’s choice all along, and the studio eventually offered the Dubliner the part a couple of months ago.

That is a huge budget, even by blockbuster standards. Wiseman is a capable director, but he never really showed what he could do with the last Die Hard. Apparently, according to some reports anyway, Bruce Willis ran that set. Farrell has been doing brilliant work for the past few years, hopefully this continues the trend.

fuck hollywood forever

won't happen

was reading today about a proposed adaptation of geoff darrow's shaolin cowboy (animated, to be directed by darrow), and i thought, "won't happen, not in a million years." this, on the other hand, i'm prepared to believe. it shits my head to think of it, but i can see as how the money people might smile.

colin farrell can't star in a 200 million remake of a beloved arnold film

it is against the laws of the universe

Need to get Wikileaks and 4chan on this to shut this shit down.

So gonna happen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/

filmed in toronto. they should call it toronto recall.

not set on mars http://i.imgur.com/wP9f5.gif

directed by the Underworld guy http://i.imgur.com/wP9f5.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/wP9f5.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/wP9f5.gif

Uses cgi city recycled from batman trufact.

Think my weirdest one was recognising somebody I was at school with in the dole office from behind. Must have been somewhere between 5 + 8 years after I was at school with them.
Must have been the way they walked or something.

Need to point out that the thread starts off being about something completely different to what it winds up.
The Schwarzenegger movie was recently on heavyu rotation on Sky 1 +2. It's now been replaced by The Core

trailer trailer http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/totalrecall/

http://i.imgur.com/wP9f5.gif

sorta pumped tbh

yeah this cld be fun

How good is the original really anyway

...

the original is a masterpiece, pal

Yeah, no kidding. They're nearing the apex of unnecessary remakes.

Is it on Criterion? Is it on Netflix Instant?

I must admit that Total Recall's absence from the respective homes of Armageddon and Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie pretty much invalidates its status as a classic. Well played, my friend. Well played, indeed.

...

adamrl 1 -0 Deric W. Haircare??

back of the net

i'm just worried about how quickly the gap is closing in terms of time lag between originals and remakes, at this rate the first Harry Potter remake will be 2015

Well, the first Harry Potter is more than a decade old. You don't expect kids today to sit through some draggy old person's movie that isn't in 3-D, do you?

I think the preview looked better than I remember Total Recall being (a few zingers aside.)

i don't get it... where exactly will quaid get his ass to

Certainly not the choppah.

this looks fucking awesome

i think the basic plot is pretty hard to make a bad movie out of

seems like they wanted to set this in the blade runner universe, visually speaking, almost make it a companion piece or something

that said, when are we going to get to move on from this greenish dusky matrix style late 90s lighting? ever?

greenish? teal + orange still hott in 2012 was my impression.

also still hott in 2012: unarmed guy roundhouse-kicking out half a dozen trigger happy flak jacketed troops with drawn sidearms.

no that's true, greenish giving way to touches of teal and orange, but still the whole thing reeks of a certain swathe of "gritty" video games, the vast majority of which even now have never really escaped this very specific immaculately dingy aesthetic

that said i am going to see the hell out of this

like, i sort of liked it in the original that rekall basically looked like a real estate agency (safe, inoffensive, cheerful, maybe even republican) rather than what we have here which is what, some kind of desaturated holistic loading dock

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU1ODI0NDU1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzEwMzM1Nw@@._V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg Kaitlyn Wong ... Seductive Woman (uncredited)

tri-breasted?

Funny, I just re-watched the old one not long ago. This looks totally useless. I like Colin Farrell a lot, but I don't like the deadly Wiseman/Beckensale team, particularly the useless former. Granted, it's a trailer, but it plays like a video game cut scene.

http://i.imgur.com/1eI7y.jpg

I want to live in all these futuristic cities

layered city reminded me more of fifth element than blade runner tbh

layered city reminded me more of fifth element than blade runner tbh

― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:36 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Looks like these films in a three way with Minority Report. Also Harold (from '& Kumar' fame!).

I paused and checked out the city also

cgi back muscles

im thinking this one is gonna be low on laughs unlike verhoeven's versh

If that hologram disguise or whatever that Farrell is using near the end of the trailer doesn't malfunction and start repeating "TWO WEEKS" then gtfo tbh.

xp - exactly what I'm sure my problem with it is going to be, the original was great because it was so damn funny, even in the minor scenes like the Johnny cab one

im thinking this one is gonna be low on laughs unlike verhoeven's versh

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:18 AM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark

this wld be p unfortch

well it's in keeping with that "90s grittiness"

im thinking this one is gonna be low on laughs unlike verhoeven's versh

This is the main source of its seeming suckiness.

i've nothing against po-faced sci-fi, as long as it's thoughtful. this just looks like it's going to be wall-to-wall roundhouse kicks, explosions, and implausible escapes from scenes of extreme peril. all with colin farrell's runty face to the fore.

it does look like it's going to be really impressive visually, which kinda redeemed Avatar

colin farrell's face is not really impressive visually.

But in 3D his nose hairs will comfort your eyeballs.

going through the trailer frame by frame, im thinking this might be the first fully realized cyberpunk movie since johnny mnemonic ghost in the shell. +1 stoked

Before Verhoeven, there was . . David Cronenberg's "Total Recall."

Oh man, that would have been incredible

including an elaborate dream sequence where he morphed first into the sphinx and then into a kind of phosphorescent vagina

Oh, Cronenpaws...

haha

why didn't they cast paz de la huerta as the 3-boobed lady

man fuck this

Friend of mine who saw it at a press screening: "Every bit the nonentity you're expecting."

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/funny-gifs-weeks.gif

original was bad enough

I enjoyed this.

original was bad enough

retroactively claims to satire = ass-covering

retroactive even

said the same sort of "it was meant as a joke!" thing about Showgirls iirc

just imagining rutger hauer's 'i've seen things' speech from blade runner as delivered by arnold.

i call this one toronto recall

did u see it? any good?

http://oi46.tinypic.com/21oa5xs.jpg

burn

NOBODY'S GONNA HARSH-A MY STOKE

I saw it on friday just 'cause. Not a total waste of time, the pacing is competent, good CGI cityscape design, and it is still a brilliant plot. But none if it is insane enough, and you've seen it all before.

I'm in the camp that has fond memories of the original even if it plays it a bit more safe than Fourth Man / Robocop / Starship Troopers. The first one is saturated with clues that the protagonist has suffered a cerebral hemorrhage he finds preferable to his real life; you don't leave the film going "The ending was completely implausible" because it's got characters inside the film ridiculing anyone who would ever find any of it plausible. Those issues are present in the new film, but it's less intrinsic and comes off in a more cliched 'but perhaps it is all a dream' kinda way

>But none if it is insane enough

ha ha _none of it_

or is it

I read the novelization before I saw the original Total Recall (somehow my library had it 5 months before the movie came out?) and therefore never actually noticed any type of "maybe it's all a dream" duality in the story because it's not really played up in the novelization from what I remember

...you read the Piers Anthony novelization first.

Surprised it wasn't a slew of bad puns about dongs.

Piers Anthony novelization of a PKD short story??

The film was novelized by Piers Anthony.[29] The novel and film correspond fairly well, although Anthony was evidently working from an earlier script than the one used for the film, and was criticized for the ending of his book which removed the ambiguity whether the events of Total Recall are real or a dream.

and there you go

http://www.amazon.com/Total-Recall-Piers-Anthony/dp/0380708744

Only 1 cent! Get it now!

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable read whether you liked the movie or not., January 22, 1999
By
Michael Dawson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Total Recall (Paperback)
This is an excellent book for those who saw the movie and thought "This idea had potential." The Piers Anthony version of this story is superior to both the movie and the screen play. This book gives insight into the mind of a alien race and what it might expect from a species that considers itself mature enough for space travel. Mr. Anthony puts a relatively new face on the oft used concept of colonialism extended to interplanetary colonization. We see that the downtrodden are not always forgotten. We are also given the opportunity to wrestle with the question, of what makes a person themselves; is it ones actions(past, present, or future) or is it ones thoughts and ideas (remembered and forgotten). While the "Total Recall" story is taken from a short story entitled, "We can remember it for you wholesale." Piers Anthony offers a fresh look at the timeless concepts.

lol thank you Wikipedia

the novelization came out in 1989, branded completely independently of the movie, and then the movie was released in 1990 and the book was rereleased as a movie tie-in

>therefore never actually noticed any type of "maybe it's all a dream" duality in the story because it's not really played up in the novelization from what I remember

so go ahead and spoil it for me, in the Anthony book... it is not a dream?

A Piers Anthony novel of a script based on a PKD story is nearly as funny as Fred Saberhagen and James V. Hart's Bram Stoker's Dracula, based on the screenplay by James V. Hart, based on the novel by Bram Stoker.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511aLNQRXRL._SS500_.jpg

so go ahead and spoil it for me, in the Anthony book... it is not a dream?

It is rather emphatically not a dream, there is zero ambiguity about this

and I think reading the book first grossly influenced how I interpreted the movie because it never actually occurred to me until this recent revive that there might have been ambiguity about whether it was real or not in the movie

^^^why the movie is shitty in a nutshell

do you recall how the woman with three tits was literarily depicted in the novelization?

she was depicted as a woman with three tits

although it was slightly unclear as to where the third tit was, I kept thinking it might have been where her belly button should be

in a row is standard. unracked tits require special mention.

in the new film, the three-breasted hooker shows up before his visit to Recall, which removes any doubt as to whether or not she is real

makes you think

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/tv/blogs/the-stream/2012/08/total-recall-director-paul-verhoeven-interview.html

GQ: You're not involved in the reboot of Total Recall. Are you curious to see it?
Paul Verhoeven: Moderately.

GQ: That's it?
Paul Verhoeven: I saw the trailer. It's difficult to judge a movie off of three minutes. But I had the feeling there was an essentially different look—more serious, in fact. I had the feeling there was not much, let's say, funny things happening.

GQ: The director, Len Wiseman, has admitted as much. Was there humor in the original script?
Paul Verhoeven: That had a lot to do with the choice of Arnold. Before we started, Patrick Swayze was involved. Arnold had been pursuing the project for years. In the original script, Quaid was an accountant. He was boring. Arnold is not an accountant. It would not work that way. We felt we should adapt the script. With Arnold, the tone should be a touch lighter. A little bit winking.

GQ: Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and RoboCop are all being remade. Do you feel vindicated?
Paul Verhoeven: I feel completely depressed.

GQ: Really?
Paul Verhoeven: It's depressing in the way that you feel that you're already dead and buried. Basically, you are transported out of the window.

GQ: Will they remake Showgirls?
Paul Verhoeven: I strongly doubt it.

not much, let's say, funny things happening.

it's fun to imagine those answers in a herzog voice

...or a verhoeven voice?

verhoeven > herzog

; )

also what, starship troopers is being remade? fucking cocks

verhoeven > herzog

lol

Every response by Verhoeven in that interview is fantastic.

I like the phrase "transported out of the window."

lack of ILX discussion prob means this isn't worth much other than beautiful CGI cityscapes?

from everything i've heard, there's nothing redeeming about it

NOT
LISTENING

will probably see Verhoeven's in the next week as new print is playing NYC.

wherer/when??

xpost I saw the original. I forgotten it completely so decided to see it again. Ah nostalgia. I absolutely loved it. Not as much as ST but still really fun movie.

SEE YOU AT THE PARTY RICHTER!

The original is like a regular touchpoint among me and my co-workers. Invitations to parties and other events are often met with "GET YOUR ASS TO MAHS, QUAID." A colleague recently discussed a trip to the doctor with his two-year-old daughter by noting that they turned down all vaccines except "the anti-Kuato one." Asking someone to do something ends with "Quaid … start the reactor …" etc

It's a weirdly quotable movie, maybe because so few of its lines hit home as genius one-liners but all of it has a sort of odd, funkily-delivered sensibility, making really ordinary lines much more memorable. Years before I saw the movie, I was working at a bookstore and took down a special order for a customer named Richter; my assistant manager saw the note and went "See you at the party... Richter." When I finally saw the movie I spent the whole time waiting for that line - if it's not in the remake then I have absolutely no interest.

i misrememberd the quote of the cab scene as "DIE, BENNY, DIEEEE" with arnold ripping out benny's face flesh from his skull. but Benny can't have been the cab driver because the cabs are robopiloted.

i really love the original; i think it's my favorite arnold. he's hilarious in it without losing his dignity. and the scene where the bad guys pop in the videotape and his face comes up -- HI, QUAID -- and he just looks totally bereft and horrified is really really funny and really really creepy.

FWIW, when it's edited for TV, the scene where he drills Benny to death is changed from "SCREW YOU" to "DIIIIE BENNYYYY."

Agreed Arnold is great in this, kind of annoying how most of the reviews I've seen of the remake sort of brush him aside as musclebound bad-actor Arnold - - this is one of his comedy roles, lot of personality there!

sat through the remake of this on a whim; it is absolutely terrible
couched in psychobabble, terrible looking TEH ASIANS DONE TOOK OVER set dressing, endless and pointless ken and barbie character building that goes nowhere, fatuous editing, dumbfuck action sequences, plot points telegraphed light years in advance and some of the worst special effects that money can buy
i am a great fan of the original but occasional fanservice bullshit like a decoy "two weeks" lady and triple titties don't help. fake out ending is dumb as hell and the lack of ambiguity about the live v memorex plot twist (spoiler: IT'S ALL REAL) renders the entire exercise more generic than you would suppose
in short if you missed it and were thinking about it: it's boring and you should not waste your time
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oh and LENS FLARE over and over and over wtf

acting was not so much bad as just boring and glowering throughout

Would be really cool if threads stayed on the same core subject throughout and reading the start of this it has been totally changed. So I thought I'd do the decent thing and go along with the starting topic.
Was trying to think through people I had been through the 3 schools I was at & 1 6th form college with. & several from my infants turned up again in my 2ary school but I can remember quite a few of them.

Would be interested in seeing how many of a list of classmates from various stages I could put a face to.
Funny thing that a friend of a friend wound up playing music together with my best friend from 2ary school about 10 years later. & neither of them had any reason to know of the other's existence through paths that would have connected with school.
So, nothing to do with Mars at all.

I know taht I have managed to recognise people after several years gap. I once saw the back of a guy in the dole queue and realised it was somebody I'd known at school several years earlier and hadn't seen since.

Thread drift is awes also total recall refers cleanly to either so nbd no arbitrary value judgements.

i could prob reel boys 1c off in order tho, the 24 strong class i attended for one year in 93. And last week i met a friend i hadnt seen in three years and as we chatted i checked if her mobile was still the same from memory, some things just stick once i learn them i spose? Wish that cramers rule of determinants stuck as fast tbh.

oh, i get it, i'm dreaming! this is all part of the delightful vacation your company has sold me.

Mr. Quaid, can you hear yourself? She's real because you dreamt her.

"swallow this." "what is it?" "it's a symbol!"

do you recall how the woman with three tits was literarily depicted in the novelization?

― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Monday, August 6, 2012 3:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she was depicted as a woman with three tits

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Monday, August 6, 2012 3:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

although it was slightly unclear as to where the third tit was, I kept thinking it might have been where her belly button should be

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Monday, August 6, 2012 3:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Djp’s post re the tits was my exact experience also. I remember hearing about the tits in the movie on the playground and being surprised when I finally saw them

I can’t believe anyone hates the original movie in this thread. One of the greatest movies ever. I like in the ebert review how he gets at Arnold’s acting being central to its appeal

Consider it a divorce.

My biggest criticism is that the mutant village subplot doesn't tie into the rest of the movie. It's a holdover from the Cronenberg project. It ended up being an excuse to have the triboobed lady.

great revive lol