Total Recall?

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."

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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?

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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
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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.

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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