Total Recall?

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 It's now been replaced by The Core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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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