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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Ah, Paul Verhoeven once more. Although that crazy bastard isn’t in this pic, but I do love this movie. Can you imagine a film like Total Recall being released in the current studio climate? Here’s something that is bigger than life, a convoluted, ambiguous science fiction action adventure movie that is rated R, filled with morally corrupt “heroes” and near cartoon villains, but shot in an eerily realistic way.
Granted, we still haven’t seen Philip K. Dick’s story the way it was meant to be seen, but much like another Verhoeven adaptation (Starship Troopers) I love the movie I got and can’t fault the man too much for branching out because I am just enamored by his particular storytelling ability.
I’d love to know more about the David Cronenberg version that was to start Richard Dreyfuss (and if anybody has a dimension-skipper that can take me over to whatever crazy dimension is home to that particular reality let me know), but I’m happy with what I got.
Today’s picture features the great make-up man, Mr. Rob Bottin, goofing off with one of his crazier effects in the picture. All the suffocating on Mars’ surface scenes freaked the 10 year old me the fuck out and the eye-ball popping still gets under my skin. Thanks, Mr. Bottin! And thanks again to “Greekgeek” for finding this image and sending it my way!
Here’s the pic! Click for the bigger version! Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic features everybody’s favorite bumbling Inspector! See ya’ then!
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
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Is that a person with lots of makeup or a prosthetic?
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Still awesome, looked amazing. And STARSHIP TROOPERS... god I love that movie and the balls it must have taken to pull it off. A hundred million dollar satire. So awesome.
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Was Arnold dreaming the whole time or not? I was too young to be that aware when I saw it.
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I did a powerpoint presentation in college about the 10 reasons Total Recall is the greatest movie ever, along with pictures and video.
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I'm just sayin'...
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Actually it wasn't...But it was a simple business writing class. 5 minute presentation on anything you wanted. Surprisingly mine was the most thought out.
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I was probably too young to see a movie where there's a fleeting glimpse of a character with three tits, but whatever...
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SPOILER ALERT! Many things in the movie tell us that Arnie's Char is dreaming. When entering Rekall his adventure is described from start to end by the office-man in advance. Then regarding the plot point that the power plant on Mars is a super-secret, there is no explanation why this exact alien power plant can be seen as a picture on a screen just before Quade gets his memories implanted. So yes, it's a dream, even PV thinks so iirc.In the end it doesn't matter, as the speculation is all the fun. I love this movie because of its ideas, but to be honest i really DIG it because of the no-holds-barred-action, especially the elevator-chase.
See you at the party, Richter! -
As well among the best Arnold has made.
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That alone makes it a superior movie.
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I have a friend who told me that, when he saw the movie in the theater, this scene caused him to laugh so hard that it was contagious to the point that the whole theater was laughing. Probably not the intended effect.
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...is the Talkbacker of the Day. Congratulations, Exasperilious. We recognize the passion, creativity, and hardwork you put into a blow-off PowerPoint assignment that your professor probably gave when he was hungover or simply more concerned with his personal life than his teaching. Yesterday's honoree was AsimovLives. Until tomorrow...
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Great movie. I wish Verhoeven would return to sci fi.
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"Looks who's talking."
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Shit. You beat me to it.
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I'd like to thank all the talkbackers for this incredible award and a special thank you to Paul Verhoeven. See you at the party, Richter!
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I'm not sure how "Total Recall" qualifies as being "shot in an eerily realistic way", but it is a fun movie!
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I just watched my copy of Robocop unrated last night. Perfect film. Not a single flaw.
Total Recall, pretty much the same. I wish someone would step up and do hard core violent sci-fi again. Sure, in Total Recall and Starship Troopers Verhoeven strayed way off the source material but damn if they aren't some great movies. -
I can't get enough of Robocop...it's fantastic. It's really got heart too.
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because he couldn't get the rights to Judge Dredd. That's why robocop rips all of dredd's lines. Your move creep! A Verhoven dredd with a 200 million budget and an entire mega-city of bug nuts Verhoven characters getting slaughtered. Runaway lawmasters, boingers with blood and guts all over their boing balls as they squash citizens from skyscraper heights, runaway genetic themepark dinosaurs, apocalypse war!!! Bring it Verhoven you crazy fuck!
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get your ass to mars
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Sep 26, 2010 11:59:22 AM CDT
Paul Verhoeven is one of the most misunderstood directors
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
American mass audiences don't get him, by and large. Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers are a trilogy of the most outrageous, satirical and intentionally funny genre films ever seen in mainstream cinema. Hollow Man is the only dud movie he ever did, and yes, that includes Showgirls.
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one of Arnold's best. I disagree that it was all a dream however. When he first flipped out in the Recall office, the salesman said he was just acting out the secret agent part of the trip, yet the tech lady said that thet hadn't implanted it yet.
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But again, it beats most movies, hands down. So dense with ideas. It's wonderful in HD.
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Then who the hell am I?
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That's just it. We are seeing it from Arnolds' perspective. In his "implant" that is how it plays out.
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Sep 26, 2010 12:06:19 PM CDT
The tech lady could have said that as part of the implant
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
To make it more convincing. Everything after the fade out as Arnie drifts off too sleep is suspect. My preferred ending is Arnie preferring to get lobotomized with the white light instead of going back to his mundane, blue-collar life. But then again, he was getting to bone Sharon Stone in her prime so how mundane was it really?
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but Robocop is better. Any movie with Michael Ironside can't be bad.
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I'm gonna go a little crazy here.... Consider dot a divorce! YOU BLEW MY COVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You gotta lotta nerve showin your face around here.............. Is that midget half price or what?????????? Young, tight slutty Sharon Stone being kinky 'drooooooooooooooooooool' TRIPLE TITTED WHORE! DID YOU FUCKIN HEAR ME! A FUCKIN TRIPLE TITTED WHORE!!!!! Fuckin chick from Poltergeist with throat cancer appearing out of some dudes' chest and talkin shit with Arnie!!!!!!! An ugly as fuck chick who will read my palm, my aura which says I'd still bone the shit out of her! Jonny Fuckin Cab! and last but not least, Benny the fuckin Father of the year.....
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I guess it could go either way, but i still think too many things point to it being real. Sharon Stone seemed suspicious from the beginning.
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Now Im off to Venusville cos im getting off to an early start.....
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would a company that was going to give you a implanted memory that was to feel real and be a postive experience, give you one that made you remember people in your family (i.e. your wife) as evil?
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Sep 26, 2010 12:27:24 PM CDT
I wouldn't want a guy like Quaid screwing my old lady.
by sailor_ripley
You saying she likes it? No, I'm sure she hated every minute of it!
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"American audiences" made Robocop and Total Recall domestic hits. I was there opening day for Starship Troopers, loved it, wish it made more money.
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Too bad the studios have learned that most people don't "get" satire. At least, not enough to create mega-buggeted ultra-violent sci-fi masterpieces of tonge-in-cheek satirical wildness (Teaching them that was Starship Troopers' fault. It's only one). As for Hollow Man, it was just a poor movie. It could have been so much better, and lots of hints throughout that it could have been. It just meandered aimlessly in structure, until it decided to become a standard slasher flick. Ugh. A rare disappointment, Mr.Verhooven.
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Line gets me every time.
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Arnold is Quaid. He used to be a dick. He is deprogrammed after his visit to recall. Shit gets real.
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Sep 26, 2010 12:35:58 PM CDT
Starship Troopers blew my fuckin mind
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
I was already a massive fan, Robocop was a masterpiece, Total Recall.... well look above. I saw Troopers on acid and it was the greatest experience of my life, eclipsing the birth of my son, my graduation from Stanford and mans first steps on the moon. Needless to say I vomited.....................
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You are exactly right. It is ultimately the story of the redemption of an evil man. Ronny Cox fucked up by dumping Quaid like that. He didn't want to go back to the way he was. Like one of the lines in the movie, "A man is defined by his actions, not by his memories". If it were all a Recall dream trip, it would be an utterly pointless movie.
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I think those movies were hits because of different reasons - people taking the violence and sex on the level, and in Total Recall's case, Arnold's presence didn't hurt, either. But I think the black comedy and satire went over the majority of the audiences' heads. Starship Troopers was not a big hit, which is a shame. I don't think people got that Verhoeven had cast vacuous soap actors as a joke - to nail the point of the fascist military by making all the soldiers young, aryan and attractive.
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Those are some of the things the scientists are saying before they implant him. Pretty accurate foreshadowing which suggests the rest of the movie is recall. However the secret agent portion hadn't been implanted yet. So my theory is Arnold's character simply likes the idea of being a secret agent thats why he suggested it in the first place. He get lobotimized some-time after he kills the recall agent that tries to give him the pill
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you should work for Reader's Digest dude....
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Fuck you, you asshole!
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Boddicker in Robocop? It seems like the obvious choice but I am so glad Smith got the role because Boddicker is easily the most sadistic, ruthless, evil, villain in cinema and Smith pulls it off like no one(Ironside included)could have.
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Sep 26, 2010 12:40:31 PM CDT
Sodomy_Joe_Shitpants.. close but no cigar...
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
"I'm sorry ma'am but I am NEEDING IT!" is the proper Arnold pronunciation....
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Sep 26, 2010 12:41:57 PM CDT
Sailor Rip... I too always that about Ironhide
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
and yet I too am glad ..it be.. he?
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They never respond to my letters. I know, it's weird right?
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Sep 26, 2010 12:42:50 PM CDT
SCREWWWWW YOOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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Sep 26, 2010 12:43:47 PM CDT
Verhoeven wanted to cast Kurtwood Smith
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
and Ronny Cox in TR, reprising their chief bad guy/henchman arrangement as in Robocop, except this time they would be playing different characters. That would have been cool to see, though Ironside was equally good. Actually, Ironside was considered for the role of Murphy in Robo, as was Verhoeven's favorite leading man at that point, Rutger Hauer.
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oops wrong flick...
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as weird as a woman with only two breasts....
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Sep 26, 2010 12:47:32 PM CDT
I was disgusted that Quaid turned down the three breasted
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Martian. What a waste. He could have whipped it out and had a titty fuck while he was waiting for Melina.
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lmfao @ your poltergeist chick comment.
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Sep 26, 2010 12:48:25 PM CDT
Sweet.. was hoping it hit someone....
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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Sep 26, 2010 12:54:53 PM CDT
wow my douchebag-like ego has killed the talkback
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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Sep 26, 2010 12:55:50 PM CDT
Or maybe that's what my ego wants me to think?
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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Sep 26, 2010 12:56:18 PM CDT
Have you brought any fruits or vegetables to the planet?
by sailor_ripley
TWO WEEKS!
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Sep 26, 2010 12:57:13 PM CDT
this is all too confusing.... I'm off to bed
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
ooh I almost forgot ....if yer mamma rocks up Fuck off you Cunting Slag!!!!!
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Sep 26, 2010 12:59:40 PM CDT
Have you brought any fruits or vegetables to the planet?
by jehovahs_witness
Just him.
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Rob Bottin. His work is right up there with the genius work of Rick Baker and the recent work by the KNB guys. Did he retire? Fall off the face of the earth?
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Uh uh sweetheart, we're getting you fixed.
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...in Total Recall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jaA7qA0ErE (remove any spaces)
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once more for old time's sake? you can tie me up....
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is it still on or did they abandon it?
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"Sue me, dickhead!" "We hope you enjoyed the ride!"
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I saw yesterday CON AIR and that hot latina who was playing the hostage guard looked familiar to me but i couldnt remember in what other movie i had seen her.
Now i was reading this talkback and it hit me: she was the hot brunette rebel and girlfriend of Arnie in the movie.
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Nah...I'm gonna pay. I'll tip, too.
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Say that five times really fast. Rachel Ticotin, Rachel Ticotin, Rachel Ticotin, Rachel Ticotin, Rachel Ticotin.
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Sep 26, 2010 1:36:05 PM CDT
"oohhh, baby, you make me wish I had three hands!"
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Bennie was hilarious. I want to see a spin-off where we follow his taxi rides on Mars for a day with different customers, on the hustle and pimping martian hookers.
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"THEY'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!!"
Total Recall rules!
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"BEN-EH! VHERE AH YOUH, BEN-EH?!"
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But I thought Cronenberg wanted William Hurt to star? I've never heard anything about Dreyfuss, although that WOULD be amazing.
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Sep 26, 2010 1:44:06 PM CDT
One of the last great practical effects showcases ever
by nasty in the pasty
Virtually no CGI (maybe the full-body X-Ray screen), all done with models, animatronics, matte paintings, and makeup. The movie STILL looks astonishing even two decades later.Plus, the first of three stellar colaborations between Verhoeven and Jerry Goldsmith. Too bad the music got so buried under sound effects that Goldsmith swore off action movies for years afterwards.
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Especially after they got to Mars. I think they reused the Mars sets for "The Adventures of Pluto Nash".
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Sep 26, 2010 1:53:26 PM CDT
All Verhoeven's movies have a gaudy, cartoon look
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Brightly lit, kind of cheap and plasticy, yet expensive. Suits the tone of his movies.
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And there is some great drama in this movie. When Cohaagen realizes that Quaid isn't going to regress to his former self and he gives the order to kill him that really adds a lot of weight to the story and in that one line you realize that Cohaagen and Quaid really were good friends and it hurts Cohaagen a lot to have him killed. You also realize in that scene that Richter(who probably worked under Quaid before he was put on Earth and is now the top enforcer on Mars)never liked Quaid and is happy to kill him.
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Duz dish look liike uh deloowshun?!
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she was Ana Lucia's mom. she still looks good too, a mom/daughter 3some with them would have been pleasurable.
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It's funny to think that their eyes and everything would go back into place when the air was coming back in.
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make a b-movie on a big studio budget and still make it work. Above, Jehova's Witness quoted Repo Man, and at times I think there's a real fraternity between that film and the work of Verhoven. Both use the conventions of "low" art in order to pose complex questions. The only difference is that Verhoven somehow manages to get big budgets for his films.
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Totally agree! I love the Verhoeven blockbusters. TROOPERS looks goddamned prophetic when you realise it was released in 1997. I remember seeing that at a preview screening at the National Film Theatre in London - Verhoeven was meant to be there be had to cancel. Anyway, the moment the film finished there was this amazing vibe in the audience. We'd expected to see something like Independence Day, but what we got was this amazing satire that nonetheless was also an incredibly exciting blockbuster. The guy's amazing.
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Man, I quote this movie everyday. And I do give fuck about the strange looks I get.
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...has convinced me to download the movie from iTunes (iTunes and Amazon unfortunately don't have it available to rent), which I hate because I won't have it on a disc and I know I'm downloading it only because I want to watch it NOW. No patience. I don't own the movie on DVD, and I'm not even sure if I have a VCR player and the movie on VHS any longer. I used to. I guess I can't complain in this age of instant downloads; at least I get to watch it right now even if it costs me.
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Where is he now? His last work I remember was from Fight Club.
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Sadly, his brand of on-set animatronic and makeup effects wizardry just doesn't have a place in today's all-CGI, all-the-time mindset. You can bet the upcoming Thing prequel is gonna be a CGI abomination.
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I'd say it's one of the better ones.
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was outstanding as well. Sloth waking up and twitching completely took everyone by surprise.
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Love this talkback.
I got the impression from some sites I've browsed that Bottin is a bit of an asshole, at least when it came to his treatment of artists that work for him. Still, I worship the work he did. -
Quade: "So ... you're married."
Summer: "Yeah. Crazy, huh?"
Quade: *BAM* "Considerdettadivorce." -
We will ever see these great over-the-top big budget B-movies again? 'Fraid not.
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WTF are you talking about? So far this summer we had Machete, Piranha 3D, and Iron Man 2.
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hit the showers
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Great behind the scenes pic!
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but do prefer Robocop. After watching TR again, it does feel a bit dated and of it's time, more so than Robocop. Definitely entertaining, immensely quotable Arnold plus trademark over-the-top Verhoven qualities, but after reading Dick's short story (We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, strikingly different than Total Recall) and of the failed possibilities pre Arnold's involvement, its hard not to wonder what coulda been-maybe more a psychological sci-fi espionage thriller compared to Verhoven's action/camp choice, which was still enjoyable in it's own right. Makes me nervous to read about the studios attempting a new Total Recall, if that's even still on track?
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Hit the showers? Are you gay?
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my friend and I have a "game" where we photograph random women (whenever a camera is present) who bare any resemblance to the "Two Week" lady. We're thinking it will make a helluva photoscrapbook, in its own perverse way.
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...might be in the running to be a Talkbacker of the Day this week if he's even half-serious about that messed up "game." I'm both proud and ashamed of my fellow talkbackers right now.
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You ever FUCK a mutant?
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Hahaha... Yeah, I was almost ashamed to admit it. But it's quite the conversation starter at bars-you'd be amazed! I kid, I kid. But hell, it could even be an Amazing Race-style contest if one were to really get serious about it.
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"You mean the Pyramid Mine?
I used to work there, 'till they found all that alien shit inside..." -
"You mean the Pyramid Mine?"
"I used to work there, 'till they found all that alien shit inside..." -
You won't know whether you're comin' or goin'
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Why does every Arnold movie have to have a cliched showdown with a video game boss?
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Thats a behind the scenes pic you should show. Whats wrong with this site lately???
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on youtube, yet I guess we'd rather see another crap black and white pic from some old movie we've seen 100 times already.
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Got nothing else to say.
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About an hour into it. A catfight is presently going down. "Doug....honey? You wouldn't hurt me, would you sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married..." ***He shoots her in the head*** "Consider that a divorce."
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You blabbed Quaid, you blabbed about mars!
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"Total Recall" was the ONLY film nominated for Best Visual Effects in 1990.
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It's boiling ACID!!!
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making anything a tenth as exciting, intelligent and provocative as Robocop, Total Recall or Starship Troopers?
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While cool geek stuff goes on in the news they rather put up boring behind the scene pics. They barely review films these days. Fire all the current writers and hire new ones Harry!
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I was kinda hoping that he'd spend the rest of the movie with a huge stretched nostril.
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My favorite director, now and forever!!!
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#2-David Cronenberg
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You ever fuck a mutant?
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Priorities for Survival, #1-sex(with girl preferably) #2-see total recall(on drugs, lots of drugs) #3-food #4-sleep #5-watch football(ya know,SPORTS)
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WHY THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU STILL HERE, I MEAN REALLY, FOR FUCK SAKE, PUT THE FUCKING INTERNET DOWN AND DO SOMETHING IMPORTANT TODAY!!! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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...but every subsequent viewing has made it better and better.
I don't think I really got Paul Verhoeven until Starship Troopers & listening to his DVD commentaries in the late '90s.
I remember thinking that the sets looked plastic and cheap back in 1990 -- and this was after a year or two of pre-release hype about the expense of the film. Of course now real, cheap-looking sets are 1000% better than flat, expensive virtual sets. -
Turkish Delight?? "A guy's got his cock stuck!!!!" Verhoeven and Hauer, baby!
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When he wakes up he has a lobotomy.
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Don't worry, it's self-guiding.
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I was at the gym today, and when I was in the lockerroom, this guy was totally naked, and I saw his pee pee. True story.
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Sep 26, 2010 6:31:56 PM CDT
rbatty, yeah the sushi line I mentioned is from Repo Man
by jehovahs_witness
But I wasn't comparing Repo Man to Total Recall. I simply went and had sushi today, and I was considering not paying. I did, though....pay that is...
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...they did have an awesome shoutout to Total Recall a few episodes ago when the guy was telling himself to "Getcha ass to Mahs!!" in the film reel.
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and? you had a bit of saliva dropped from your mouth?
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Yes, I said, "Patoooeey!" and spit in the nearest waste bin. And then I said, "Cover yourself, knave. I only like vagina...you cannot tempt me with your testes," and I stormed out.
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There's not enough pressure in the human body to make your eyes and tongue bulge out that way in a vacuum, let alone the light pressure of the Martian atmosphere.
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The cab driver was played by Robert Picardo - the Dr. on Voyager. He was also in Innerspace and Gremlins II.
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Sep 26, 2010 7:08:11 PM CDT
The eye bulging scientific inaccuracies can be explained
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
By the movie all taking place in Quaid's dream. Therefore, the vacuum sequences are playing off his nightmares and sunconscious fears of what it would be like to suffocate on the surface of Mars. The same with the OTT violence in the movie. It's all a heightened, absurd fantasy of Quaid's.
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Johnny Cab? I didn't know that. Cool.
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Rachel T: "What you been feeding this thing?" as she grabs Quaids crotch.
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Sep 26, 2010 7:52:14 PM CDT
Total Recall was Arnie's last truly great film
by bp_drills_america_a_new_asshole
As much as I enjoy T2 and True Lies, I consider Total Recall as the last truly great Arnold "vehicle" - let's face it in T2 he was always playing second fiddle to the T-1000. Total Recall was the conclusion of ten years of great Arnold piledrivers that started with Conan, peaked with Terminator and Predator and ended with Total Recall.And of course Verhoevan was on top of his game. Look at the scene where Quaid sticks the arm restraining bolt through the head of that scientist - it still makes me squirm to this day. As noted above, cartoon characters and plastic looking sets with hyper real violence is what makes TR so memorable.
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One of the best action scores in history. RIP Jerry.
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You're right about the score.
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Yep, if you look close, then even modeled the actual cab driver after Robert.
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And True Lies was his last great film period. Write those two out and Arnold barely escaped from making cheesy, though entertaining, action flicks for the hard-core action crowd. The trio of TR, T2 and TL allowed him to move into more sophisticated, epic scale action, which in a perfect world he would have continued with potential greats such as Crusade, With Wings as Eagles, and I am Legend. Instead we got reductive crap like Eraser and The Sixth Day and End of Days, which he had long since progressed past. He was just rehashing past glories at that point.I don't how anyone could say Arnold was second fiddle to the T-1000 in T2, as spectacular as that character was. Arnold DOMINATES T2 and is in every scene - it is the utter iconographic peak of his screen persona, returning to his signature cult role and cementing it once and for all across the world for all times. T2 is, and always will be, his defining moment.
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Sep 26, 2010 8:20:53 PM CDT
I would have liked to have seen the following
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
aternate filmography for Arnold in the 90's, post True Lies.1995 - Crusade, directed by Paul Verhoeven. 1996 - With Wings as Eagles directed by John McTiernan (though I think Frank Darabont was also mooted). 1997 - Face/Off, starring Arnold and Sly, directed by John Woo. 1998 - I am Legend, directed by Ridley Scott. 2000 - True Lies 2, directed by James Cameron. 2001 - King Conan: Crown of Iron directed by Millius. 2003 - Terminator 3: War of the Machines, directed by James Cameron. Then he would have had an epic run up until his governorship, instead of almost fading away to a B-list star in the latter 90's/ early 00's.
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When I think of how smart the story was and how dumb this movie was...I wept for what could have been.
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1999 - Planet of the Apes remake, directed by Oliver Stone. Last Action could have been a good movie with a better script. Spielberg was offered it at one point. Arnold in his prime working with Spielberg around 92 on a better version of Last Action Hero would have been colossal.
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Sep 26, 2010 8:32:32 PM CDT
Eraser would have been a good Arnold movie
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
If it was sandwiched between, say, Raw Deal and Predator. An 80's vibe is all over that movie. But when it came out it felt like Arnold was regressing, that he'd been stung with the flop of Last Action Hero and that he was just reverting back to formulaic 80's style action again as a safety mechanism, at a time when the whole John Woo or Matrix aesthetic was just starting to creep into American action cinema and was making Arnold's style look obsolete and dinosaurian.
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...when Gabriel Byrne fucked that mother and her teenage daughter at the same time....one with his penis...and the other with his tail....remember that? That was awesome.
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....but the director seriously fucked up the tone. His choice of music is a prime example. At the start of the movie during an action scene, there's honky tonk music playing. Then at the end when Arnie is shooting the baddies at a construction site, "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones is playing. Totally drains the scene of any tension. However, the end where he goes all Terminator on the baddies...that part is decent, and the music there is appropriate. The lighting on Raw Deal is also very drab. Looks very cheap.
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Sep 26, 2010 8:38:23 PM CDT
They made Arnold like a deadbeat cop in EOD
by turd_has_risen_from_the_grave
Like Martin Riggs or John McClane. That type of role doesn't work for The Oak. Then Collateral Damage looked like the sort of action thriller that Harrison Ford had probably rejected, and Arnold got sloppy seconds. What was he thinking picking those turkeys? They didn't play to his strengths AT ALL.
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And "Joseph P. Brenner? What's the P stand for?" Arnold/Kaminsky (draws on stogie): "Pussy".Raw Deal was cheap shit but had some funny moments. And the scene where he 'suits up' to the 80's synth score is fucking awesome.
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Sep 26, 2010 8:42:47 PM CDT
Been a while since I watched EOD or Collateral Damage....
by jehovahs_witness
....but I didn't think they were that bad. They were decent, but forgettable, and not the type of movies I wanted to watch a second time, so I haven't. But his others....Eraser, 6th Day, Batman and Robin....pure garbage. As for Jingle All the Way....among the Christmas movies on TV around that time of year....Jingle All the Way isn't that bad. The worst thing about it is Sinbad....and how the movie horribly defies the laws of physics.
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It's not a TUMAH!!
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I really enjoyed it up until the bad guys came to town. Then it became bullshit.
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But yeah, they added a tacky action plot to it.
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confused.i always had the impression that this movie and Running Man which was also very cheap,came out way out before his Commando and Predator movies which had better production values.
I was surprised to find out from imdb that they came after/between the above films.maybe these two movies were made from Cannon? heh.
Oh and i just noticed that Arnie had at least 3 (4 if you count Collateral Damage) latina babes as his female companions in his flicks.lucky bastard. -
At least TR tried to play with the idea of mixing reality and dream THROUGHOUT the movie,and leaving the question about the movie being a dream or not to be answered by the audience.
On the other hand with INCEPTION,not only we dont even know if it was ever the intention of the director to play with the idea of what is real and what is dream,since his film,though self-explanatory,it was completely bloated thus it lost its focus,BUT even if it that was his intention,the only thing that he did was to use the cheap and completely failed trick of the spinning top at the end of the movie,and nothing else.
and the ignorant Nolanoids keep comparing him to Kubrick.jesus christ. -
Robert Constanzo. Also played the cop who gives John McClane a ticket at the beginning of Die Hard 2 ("Merry Christmas, pal!") and was the voice of Detective Harvey Bullock on Batman: The Animated Series. "Glory-hoggin', long-underweak geek..."
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Loved his cameo as "Matt" in Piranha, lowly singing "Show me the way to go home...". Fun.
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I didn't know what to think. Rocked my world...
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Seriously WTF was that movie even about? For my money, in the "is it reality?" genre, give me Total Recall every time!
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Must have been for the original NES. God, it sucked. I couldn't even get past the X-ray machine, which was pretty early in both the game and movie.
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and I love Robocop, Total Recall, hell I even like Basic Instinct in a trashy sort of way. But man what the fuck was he smoking when he made Showgirls? And im sorry but Starship troopers was damn dissapointing, I had rerad the book beforehand and was thus expecting something that good, but it contained little of what made the book really good. And why did he cast it full of shitty soap actors. The actiona dn fx were awsome indeed, and the gleeful violence was fun, but talk about vapid, one dimensional characters, and stripping away the whole point of them being the mobile infantry....
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So...yeah.
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was how much Michael Ironside was going on Ham Tyler autopilot.
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And here's the link to Cronenberg's TR script (if it doesn't work, remove any spaces):
http://rapidshare.com/files/421599912/Total_Recall__Cronenberg___Undated___Unprod.___Scan_.pdf -
http://hotfile.com/dl/72037411/7aeadd4/Total_Recall_(Cronenberg)_Undated_Unprod._Scan.pdf.html
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I started watching it again and after 5 minutes thought wtf is this? it looks like a shitty TV show.
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It was hard as hell...and I know it got terrible reviews, but I always liked it
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Oh how I love Total Recall. The was shit though..
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He's totally looking like Mick Foley in that picture.
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They both bring so much to the films they collaborated on. If only we could get more films like that today instead of the vapid studio shit that gets pumped out every summer.
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Sep 27, 2010 7:20:54 AM CDT
Yeah, I watched Showgirls recently on Instant Netflix....
by jehovahs_witness
....I scanned it really for all the nude scenes, and you know, it delivered. Lots of tits, and the swimming pool scene of Elizabeth Berkeley getting fucked was quite nice for a soft core movie. So it delivered in that sense....I always thought people were disappointed because there was a lack of nudity in the movie...but that wasn't the case....
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I remember something about a tear (or bead of sweat, don't remember), and hearing that was the key scene since you don't cry or sweat in dreams.
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He was out in Mars atmosphere, and was able to BEAT FUCKING VACUUM for several minutes.
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scenes redone with modern fx, maybe on Blu-Ray. I'd also like to see Aronofsky's Robocop film.
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What have you been feeding this thing? Blondes. It's still hungry.
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Like that scene where you have to kick the shit out of the Sharon Stone character BEFORE the elevator doors open. If you don't defeat her before then, the doors open and the bad guys just keep shooting into the romm until you're dead. You can't stand up, you can't shoot back, you can only make a futile run at the door until you get killed. What BULLSHIT.
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Classic trash. Damn Elizabeth Berkely has some killer body on her back then didn't she? The lap dance and the fuck scene was enough to put her on your "Gotta fuck the hell outta that actress" list.
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Didn't even nominate any other film. They just handed the award to Total Recall. I'll never forget that.
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I always got the sense that the events in the movie were actually happening and that it wasn't all just a dream sequence. I don't really have anything to hang that on, but it seems like any movie looking to confuse the viewers about whether this is the main character's reality or not doesn't do itself any favors by featuring scenes where the main character is not present. Why would Quaid dream scenes about other characters without him being present?
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Comparing a movie like Iron Man 2 with Total Recall kind of illustrates my point.
I just meant to say that action movies like Robocop, Recall and Troopers are one of a kind and that it's sad they're not made anymore. -
If I were Quaid and I woke up from Rekall's "dream vacation", I would be pretty pissed off that they'd given me memories of being betrayed by my real-world wife, and then murdering her. Lawsuit ahoy.
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...i.e. Robert Picardo. Gremlins II and Innerspace? While it's worth pointing those out as an aside, surely a much more important geek reference is his werewolf role in The Howling, most obviously at the centre of one of the two candidates for Greatest Werewolf Transformation Scene Ever?
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"El vengador del futuro" - "The avenger of the future".
Fantastically undescriptive. -
is Arnie with a wet towel on his head.
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Preview scenehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Vjmjqx6_U
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End of Days at least was unlikely to be the classic everyone seems to think it would have been. The script was mooted for Scotts version misses the point as much as Will Smiths did.
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rather than EOD. EDIT BUTTON!
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judging from the bright light during the final seconds of the movie, it's somewhat obvious that it's a dream and quade is more likely lobotmized.How's that for a mind fuck?
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the greek title for Demolition Man was: The Master of the Game.yep.
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and I'm not sure if the top at the end actually is falling before the fade to black. and someone claimed you can hear it fall. but you can't. fuck. Massawyrm was right!
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Sep 27, 2010 6:56:14 PM CDT
Sixth Day wasn't too bad... can't go wrong with Rapa & Schwartza
by tigger_tales
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How does the bright light make it 'somewhat obvious'? You can say that that's what convinced YOU that it was a dream, but if you can't see that Verhoven purposefully left the ending ambiguous (the reason we're discussing it all these years later) then this conversation ain't gonna get too far.
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Whole lotta dummies in this thread. With RPLocke leading the charge as usual.
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It's much cooler and more fun to think of it that way. (Also, we see things happen with other characters while Arnie is unconscious...)
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Does this pic looke posed to anybody? Every now and then, I get the feeling that the on-set photographer tells a director and whoever he is talking to to look "Hollywoody."I remember an old paperback book in the eighties called "The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (by Alan Arnold?) which showed Mark Hammill in his Bespin outfit minus the shirt shown "rehearsing" the duel with David Prowse. What made me think it was fake was that Prowse was in street clothes and glasses, while Hammill looked like he was taking a break from shooting.Anyway...cool pic.
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