Total Recall?

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