Total Recall?

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

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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.

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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.)

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