I hate Total Recall. Moronic movie, without any of the wit or subversive cleverness that Verhoven brought to Robocop or Starship Troopers.
I blame Schwarzenneger, who's a wonderful, charming screen presence but shouldn't have any influence over the content of the movie. (I'm just guessing that it's his fault.)
Also, I still can't believe that Total Recall won a special Academy Award for visual effects! It's the fakest, cheesiest, ugliest big-budget sci-fi movie I've ever seen.
June 21, 2012 7:06 PM
From toplessrobot, Someone assembled footage from the old Total Recall and remade the new Total Recall trailer with it -- and then put the two side-by-side. Sure, one is the remake of the other, so you'd expect them to have a lot of scenes in common... but man, it seems like they have every scene in common (well, except for the flying car falling, but the video editor has that covered, as you'll see). It makes you wonder why they'd even bother to remake James Cameron's original, until you remember that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. On the plus side, Kate Beckinsale > Sharon Stone -- even 1990 Sharon Stone -- so at least the new Recall has that going for it, if nothing else.
"Turns Out the New Total Recall Recalls the Old Total Recall More Than a Little"
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I hate Total Recall. Moronic movie, without any of the wit or subversive cleverness that Verhoven brought to Robocop or Starship Troopers.
I blame Schwarzenneger, who's a wonderful, charming screen presence but shouldn't have any influence over the content of the movie. (I'm just guessing that it's his fault.)
Also, I still can't believe that Total Recall won a special Academy Award for visual effects! It's the fakest, cheesiest, ugliest big-budget sci-fi movie I've ever seen.
June 21, 2012 7:06 PM