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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day gets its ass to Mars!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
I’ve talked about my love for Paul Verhoeven many times before, even this particular movie, so I won’t bore you with too much of my blatherings on the man and on his flicks, but when I got this photo from reader Marko Marin I put it at the top of my “must feature” stack.
You see, this photo features two things very close to my heart: Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall and Rob Bottin. I love some make-up pics and this is one of the great ones.
”You’ve got a lot of nerve showing your face around here, Hauser.” "Look who’s talking!" Enjoy and click to embiggen!
Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic features the silhouette of one of our greatest directors!
-Quint
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That was too easy.
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Best Michael Ironside subtle growl moment of all time.
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March 3, 2011, 7:11 p.m. CST
You got a lot of nerve showing your face around here, Hauser! Look who's talking
by ORIONgods
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If things have gone wroang, I'm talking to myself and you have a wet towel arownd yoah head.
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Why the fuck they're even contemplating remaking this I'll never know.
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March 3, 2011, 7:19 p.m. CST
He's just living out the secret agent part of his implant.
by King_Knut
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Did he get a refond?
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Right after taking a massive bong-hit, my college roommate always sounded a bit like Kuato
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No...I'm sure she hated every minute of it.
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March 3, 2011, 7:23 p.m. CST
what about the guy you labotamized...did he get a rrrefund?
by Billy_D_Williams
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The prosthetic they're working on here later is used on an adult woman. "Tony" doesn't wear this - instead, he gets himself a one-eyed vagina faced prosthetic. seriously - you all should know this.
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The door opened....you got in.
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Yes, we do all know this. The thing is, no-one here gives a fuck. Seriously. Not even a little bit.
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What a bitch.
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Sue me, deekhedd.
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Well, you get to fuck her every night. That's right, she's going to be Hauser's babe.
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In 30 seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place to hell and be back in time for cornflakes.
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start the reactor... free Mars... *BANG*
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This guy rivals Rickman on the bad guy stakes
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March 3, 2011, 8:18 p.m. CST
Y'know, practical effects really aren't as awesome as I remember them...
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
...I really hate how the movements on creatures were so stiff and puppet-y, it always sort of creeped me out, really.
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Let alone two of him!
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March 3, 2011, 8:23 p.m. CST
Phonetic Schwartzeneggerese...
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
...Reading it makes my eyes bleed, man! Hearing it in anything longer than a post-kill quip is even worse on my ears. How did you Californians put up with this guy for 7 years, anyway? Especially since he killed California. Like I should talk though, I'm stuck in Florida with a governor who looks like a cross between Max Headroom and Voldemort and who's big plan to attract jobs to the state is to fire everybody.
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The 2nd guy leaning in is actually George Lucas, but it was before his nose job (and during the period of his career where he was moonlighting as a 70's porn star).
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March 3, 2011, 8:40 p.m. CST
I didn't know Maggie Gyllenhaal was in total recall
by RedBull_Werewolf
and what a dedicated actress to shave her head like that
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I had forgotten that Jason Voorheees was in this
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bc it is firing an all cylinders and never lets up, stays with its conviction, is air tight...inception is spotty, nolan is not very good with action sequences, most of the movie is exposition-like, and the snow sequence is near terrible...total recall on the other hand is, as charlie sheen would say, "winning"
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"Kick you in the Nuts and Eat out your Girlfreind" - Neil Cumpston "Gordon Has a Beer and Cheats on his Wife" Is slam on the The Aronofsky/Miller Batman Year 1 script that almost was filmed. AICN leaked some of the plot info on the script and the TB'ers took the Cheating/Beer plot to heart. "Danny Glovers DickBlood" A pretty funny TB'er here who's TB handle was mentioned on Latenight With Conan by Judd Apatow. You Youngy Dungies don't know these things, because you were not here back then. I have been here in some form or another since 1997. I will continue to be here in some form or another until I am dead or this site commits seppuku.
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on the greek tv,called Dead Tenants which is about a group of scientists and mediums who hunt ghosts and i swear to God,one of the three mediums in the show, is exactly like the TWO WEEKS robot-face woman in Total Recall.
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tomorrow
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The mindfuck with mixing dreams and reality in Inception was really NON-existent and i am really shocked with the stupidity of the audience who passed Nolan's trick with the top in the finale of the movie,as some kind of great mystery which is left opened for the audience to interpret it in their own way and to decide what really happened in the movie !!!! Whereas in TR the reality and the dream is mixed up so ingeniously and in a such non-obvious way,that even after so many years people are still discussing and theorizing if it was all a dream,or the reality or both. TR >> Inception. FACT.
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March 3, 2011, 9:39 p.m. CST
The last thing I saw his name on was probably Fight Club
by Nasty In The Pasty
A shame CGI has killed the makeup industry (funny how Rick Baker won an Oscar for Wolfman, and every clip shown was 100% CGI adn 0% latex applicances).
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alright, why, is it so damn quiet in here? frank? FRANK! nap time's over, get back, to the console! move, move, move! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE, and THE LINE BEGINS TO BLUR, NINE INCH NAILS, WITH_TEETH, VALENTINE'S DAY, MARILYN MANSON, HOLYWOOD [IN THE SHADOW OF THE VALLEY OF DEATH], WASTING AWAY, NAILBOMB, POINT BLANK, and LAST EXIT (just in case you, ain't, like, quite got my point, yet),by, PEARL JAM, from their, VITALOGY cd/album/disc. ask yourselves this, if, you would...why, for what, possible reason, would god, why, whatever god you please, why, would he/she or any, god, want, to spend, ETERNITY, with, a bunch of, losers, who are too damn scared to, even LOOK HIM IN THE FACE! WOULD YOU? god WANTED you, to, rebel, wanted you, to, THINK, for YOURSELVES, to, learn logic, and, reason, to, use as tools to, build a better future for, yourselves. do you, really want to, just sit around naked, in, the yard, FOREVER? sure, might, be fun for, a while, but, not all that long. no tv, no lights, no microwave popcorn, no bug spray, no radio, no nothing, NO FUCKING POINT! this, 'heaven' you, imagine, this 'garden' you, want to, go back to, it's just a, fantasy. it's, an endless loop, a, closed system, a, dead end. stagnant and, lifeless. is, that, what you, really want? SHEEP, out to pasture, all calm and mild. meek. you know, don't you, what happens to, sheep, don't you? ever heard, PINK FLOYD's ANIMALS? think, folks, what do we, do, with lambs, what do we, lead, them to? TO SLAUGHTER. that's what. duh. you want to, be all meek, and shit? well, that's what, you'll get, that's what, the meek, get, they, get, SHIT! you know, what, they inherit? uh, the earth? as in, uh, the planet? FUCK NO, THEY DON'T! what they DO, get is, consolation prize, the earth, as in, FUCKING DIRT! and that's, all that will be left, for you meek, mild, motherfuckers, if the, DOGS, get their way, NOTHING, BUT, DIRT! SCORCHED, FUCKING, EARTH. and guess, what we'll burn, for, fuel then, when the trees are, all, gone? can ya? can ya, guess what we'll, have left, to burn? plenty of, in, fact...why, THE BODIES! of, the DEAD! of, the, LUCKY ones! and, NOTHING ELSE! no where left, to bury them, no forests, no, no more, forests, not this, time. so, we'll, just, burn 'em all, every, single last one of, them, so, we won't, freeze, to death, on, our lifeless, rock, and, won't that, won't that, be, be, fun? no? not even, a little? you uh, sure? OF COURSE, NOT, YOU FUCKIN' IDIOTS! but don't let me, get in your, way, if that's what, you, want, if that's, your, choice. have at it. it's all bought, and paid for, with, your blood, your, sweat, and your, tears, and it's all, yours.
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March 3, 2011, 9:42 p.m. CST
This is for making me come to mars! *hard kick* You know how much I HATE this FUCKING planet!!
by SpazMatic1074
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Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars
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"Whereas in TR the reality and the dream is mixed up so ingeniously and in a such non-obvious way,that even after so many years people are still discussing and theorizing if it was all a dream,or the reality or both." exactly, thats the genius of verhoven, he made it so batshit insane, that it could easily have all been just a dream, but its also played so straight that it just as easily could be reality. inception's ambiguity wasn't really earned, because you know exactly when you're in a dream versus reality...unless the entire movie is an inception on cobb, which doesn't make any sense, since there is no "dr. edgemar scene" to present that possibility.
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March 3, 2011, 10:21 p.m. CST
my friend in five minutes you wont give a shit about the people
by Billy_D_Williams
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March 3, 2011, 10:27 p.m. CST
Fitting pic considering another PKD adaptation is opening tomorrow
by MooseMalloy
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Conan was perhaps his best role (or the Terminator), but in terms of combining direction/supporting cast/music/effects/script and everything else across the board, Total Recall is Arnold's objectively best film. And it holds up like a dream some twenty-one years later.
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March 3, 2011, 10:33 p.m. CST
"Hahahahaha, you think I am da real Quaid?"
by Ben_Richards_Bomb_Collar
I AM.
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...demure...
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he's NOT A TOOMAH!!!
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March 3, 2011, 10:45 p.m. CST
total recall makes todays action films look like fuckin' romper room
by Billy_D_Williams
verhoven is sorely missed...can you imagine if he directed Transformers???
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Find me a btspotd of THAT!
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daht we doow duh mahkeup dere wit da threeh tittee gurhll
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the scene where Arnie pulls the ping-pong ball out of his nose. "When you heah da crunch, youah deah."
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Word! Friendship knuckles to you on that!
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Sleazy.
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March 3, 2011, 11:52 p.m. CST
I think this movie started the trend of Michael Ironside
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
losing his arms in movies.
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...read a thread like this. Total Recall was such a great movie. It's a hard call, but yeah, I think Total Recall was better than Inception. Only barely though. Total Recall manages to keep it's ambiguity (is it a dream, or isn't it?) through the end, whereas Inception doesn't. Particularly if there's going to be a sequel (they're not going to throw away the events of the first film by making them a dream). Oh, and for good measure... See you at the party, Richter!
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Alot of you so-called Total Recall geeks can't even get the movie quotes right.
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I finally got around to seeing Inception. Holy shit! That is one overrated film. Total Recall is superior to that self-satisfied movie in every conceivable fashion.
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I wanted to add this as well: <3
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Yknow, some of you guys are supposedly Total Recall geeks and you can't even get the movie quote right? WTF? <p> poster above me for example, it's actually: "Hey man, don't worry about me, I'm on your side." <p> All of Benny's quotes are wrong dammit!!!
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You ever FUCK a mutant? Man, I know these siamese twins, you won't know whether you're comin or goin <p> I'm gonna drill you sucka!!! I'm gonna grind you up!!!
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BENNY, BENNY'S THE NAME, HAHAHAHAH!!!!! <p> AHH OH, THAT'S GOOD!!!
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"It is" <p> Get it right, dammit!!! Seriously, this is one of my pet peeves. I'm high and I'm pissed!!
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Total Recall holds another, sad record: The worst german translation ever in a motion picture! F.e. when Richter's top-henchman scans for Quaid with his scanner-device he finds him and tells Richter correctly: "I have a lock!" Although "lock" often means a lock to a door, in this case it obviously means a completed scan. Not so for the german translators, who let him call "Ich habe ein Schloß (I have a castle)", which does not make any sense at all and is cringe making stupid. As "scanning" and "lock" are difficult to translate as there is no german equivalent, a short "I have found him" would have sufficed. <p> "Ich habe ein Schloß" is so stupid and senseless it physically hurts. At least me and others who gave up on synchronized versions a long time ago, this superblooper being one of the main reasons.
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I can't believe no one mentioned that awesome Sharon Stone/Rachel Ticotin fight in that movie. It kicked crazy ass. And BTW I love all of Verhoeven's magnificent unofficial future trilogy: Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers.
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When the shit is hitting the fan in Venusville and the rebels are hiding Arnold right before he goes into the secret passageway he stops and says "Thank you Tony" in a very heartfelt way. Tony responds by grunting. I don't know why but that just gets me every time. Thank you vagina faced man who hated me three minutes ago. Thank you.
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Nicest, friendliest celebrity ever, and he had a SMILE on his face! Fucking unbelievable. Never got over that. I was expecting him to be mean and surly.
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rekall rekaall rekaaall
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but like, buttstank beat me to it.
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than I think ANY OTHER ARNOLD FILM EVER. And that's saying a LOT! Give da people dare air Benny!! Screw You!! Look who's talking I'll be home in time for corn flakes Get your ass to Mahhs Twooo weeeeks I got five kids ta feed Ever f*** a mutant? Consider idda divoace Recall! Recall! Recall! Clevah girl I know I left a bunch out but those are some of the ones I remember. Er, recall.
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This goes on my list of Top 10 Sci-fi Films Ever, EASILY AND WITHOUT A MOMENTS HESITATION. I just watched it again last week for like the 20th time. All the planets were in allignment for this one. The direction The actors The dialog The set design The makeup The special effects (for the most part) The plot The action The soundtrack The devious twists and turns (many great films have this) The overall "vibe" I can't believe some greedy ass-hats in Hollywood are going to attempt to remake this film and do it even 1/10th as well. God almighty. Good luck.
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LOL RE: "Thank you, Tony." I always think the exact same thing you wrote every time that scene comes up!! haha
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total recall is.... yes, IS better than Inception. By a mile. Sorry, I love me some Inception but IMO it's a 7.5 or an 8... Total Recall is a damn near a 10 in my book.
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Absolutely.
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Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars Get your Ass to Mars... Get your Ass to Mars............ * TRANSITION TO AMAZING PANORAMIC SHOT OF MARS * This movie is freaking 1 in a million, lightning in a bottle that will never be matched in its special brand of greatness. I would sign my life to the truth of this statement.
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Who is it this time? my mother?
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Another great line.
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Only in Len Wiseman's mind. Why is this happening?
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March 4, 2011, 12:59 p.m. CST
Don't forget that the guy who says that line is Dean Norris from Breaking Bad.
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And doing a great job at playing the badass Hank Shrader.
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I always loved the part where they enter the reactor and talk about how it will make air and can save the residents of Venusville if they turn it on quick enough....and then they start walking.
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March 4, 2011, 1:22 p.m. CST
Those assholes at Recall have fucked up your mind, you're having paranoid delusions!
by SAILOR_RIPLEY
You call dis a delusion! (holds up bloody hands)
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March 4, 2011, 1:40 p.m. CST
The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day gets it in the ass on Mars!
by AsimovLives
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March 4, 2011, 1:41 p.m. CST
Get in the ass on mars! Get in the ass on mars! Get in the ass on mars!
by AsimovLives
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the guy's a fucking asshole
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March 4, 2011, 2:28 p.m. CST
If I were Hollywood and I wanted to make a sci-fi actioner.......
by dockealy
Would I even go looking for anyone other than Verhoeven? Make more movies, man!
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No shit....
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but Inception was more emotionally satisfying. Both are great though. TOTAL RECALL remake sounds like a dumb idea. I hope it never gets made.
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March 4, 2011, 3:55 p.m. CST
FUCK YEAH, Total Recall is a thousand times better than Inception
by Han Cholo
Total Recall is the movie Inception wanted to be but imploded on itself because it was too smart for its own good. I understand what Nolan was trying to do but the balance between action and development made it boring and the payoff wasn't worth the pace the movie had set for itself. <p> While Total Recall''s story isn't as cerebral as Inception's, the writing is fantastic and goes beyond what a summer type blockbuster usually is, meaning explosions instead of story. <p> Total Recall is perfect because of the balance between the story and character development versus the action. And it all fits together perfectly as there is no action for action's sake nor does it sacrifice story in any way whatsoever. Plus it keeps you guessing even after the movie is over whether Quaid was on his ego trip at Rekall or if he experienced everything in reality, whereas Inception spoon fed you the ending with Cobb's top faltering.
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the irony in that movie is that the most emotional scene happened to be the dying father-crying son scene from the subplot near the end of the film,and not the emotional scenes of the protagonist.
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March 4, 2011, 4:38 p.m. CST
pissed off and bitter, exagerating much, friend? And i loved TOTAL RECALL, but c'mon! There's a point when smart-assery just becames full on assery.
by AsimovLives
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You want to be cool? Piss on the shitty movies that everybody loves.
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March 4, 2011, 4:40 p.m. CST
openthepodbaydoorshal, i mock everything, even the movies i love. And sincea TOTAL RECALL is half-parodic already, it's all just going with the flow.
by AsimovLives
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Remaking TOTAL RECALL is a dumb idea if their intention is to copy the movie. But if they go closer to what the movie was inicially suposed to be, before Arnold was attached to the movie, then you would see a pretty different movie then what we got. In that regard, remaking TOTAL RECALL is not actually a bad idea. For you to know why, just read the original story it's based upon, the short story that Philip K. Dick wrote called "WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE".
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Agreed, The Father/Son scene in the hospital room was way more emotional than any scenes involving Leo and the wife.
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Not trying to be cool. Inception is just not a very good film. Easily the worst thing Nolan has made. Meaningless action scenes. Dry exposition. Two-dimensional characters. Couldn't wait for it end.
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it perfectly balances the action and the cerebral elements of the film...unlike Inception, where the action is pretty dull and pedestrian and the cerebral stuff is front and center screaming for attention...i maintain Nolan cannot shoot action and he's essentially made an action film...whereas Total Recall's action shoots to new heights of spectacle and batshit absurdity, Verhoven injects the theme into the style, as opposed to Nolan who injects the theme into the dialogue, making it a talky bore of a film...dont get me wrong, I liked inception, but Verhoven killed it...Nolan needs to stick to thrillers like Memento cause the guy cant shoot a proper action scene to save his life.
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March 4, 2011, 5:52 p.m. CST
Jerry Goldsmith said that he felt his score to this movie was his best work...
by ChickenStu
I recall (no pun intended) reading that somewhere. Gotta give Goldsmith a shout here... I think he was equally as good as John Williams. Seriously. His work on the "Star Trek" movies was spot on, and the work he did with Joe Dante (especially on the highly underrated "Innerspace" and the little seen "Explorers") was traditional, without feeling forced. Dude was a rare talent and is sorely missed. Wish there was someone working in Hollywood who's like him. Hans Zimmer is good and all, but I find him somewhat gimmicky, and better suited to high concept stuff. Goldsmith was one of the few that could just about do ANYTHING.
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and indeed his TR ost is one of his best works.
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Think you mean Ronny Cox, tittytwister, Ned Beatty is not in Robocop (unless he was in ED-209.). Fucking love Total Recall, probably the last great effects film that didn't have too much overly clever CGI in it, just a lot of people all working at the top of their game. It was also one of the best movie experiences I EVER had because, in those heady pre-internet days, I knew literally nothing about the film other than the title, star and director. A mate (thanks Toby!) helped me blag my way into a very early press screening at 20th Century Fox's little private underground cinema in Soho Square in London, with free food and beer on offer. I couldn't BELIEVE how good it was, made even better by the fact that all my friends had to wait over a month before it was eventually released. Good times! We were also given a press pack, which contained the first news I ever heard about Universal Soldier, putting two of the 'big four' muscle men together in a movie. That period around 1982-1992 of all the massive action films, what a blast!
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Should mention that!
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March 4, 2011, 6:13 p.m. CST
Now that Arnie's going to be acting again, I wouldn't mind a Verhoeven directed sequel... AT A PUSH...
by ChickenStu
But NO REMAKE.
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I actually checked out of Inception during the explanation of the totems. So, no one's ever allowed to touch your totem otherwise it fucks with your reality, right? Except that Ken Watanabe totally played with Leo's totem at the beginning--which, obviously is before they explain how the whole thing works to the rest of the audience but this scene to me is such a HUGE error on the level of the scene in The Dark Knight where Batman saves Maggie Turtle-haal and leaves the Joker in his fucking apartment and CUT to the next day.
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Watanabe playing with Leo's totem. Rawr.
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March 5, 2011, 5:39 a.m. CST
To all the guys who are comparing this to "Inception"... guess what....
by ChickenStu
I LIKE BOTH!!!
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What a great satirical movie that is also a loving tribute to late 70's early 80's television scifi shows (namely "Battlestar Galactica" and "Buck Rogers"). Oh and those are some great effects.... "Would you like to more?"It's kind of as good as "THX-1138"s "Could you be more specific?"
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BTW Sharon Stone was officially my first gee dad I think I would like to have sex with her, thanks for taking me to the movies, chick.
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Actually, no. Jerry Goldsmith considered his score for Ridley Scott's LEGEND to be his best film score work of his career.
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I once read an article in the Premier magazine about the shooting of TOTAL RECALL, and Verhoeven used so many squibs in that movie (it set a record back then) that the film crew that to wear head to toe overcoats and they had to use plastic covers for the camera and the lenses during the action scenes.
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fuck off.
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March 6, 2011, 4:38 a.m. CST
turd_has_risen_from_the_gravy, it should be called "Total Recall 2: Schizoid Embellism"
by ChickenStu
I would see that
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March 6, 2011, 5:27 a.m. CST
chickenstu, Hans Zimmer is very gimmickry. Irritatingly so. But ocasionally, he doe scome up with brilalnt scores. INCEPTION was one so. Much to my anoyance, actually.
by AsimovLives
Becasue just when i find a good excuse to turn my back comptlly on Zimmer and declare him an hack, he pulls a brillant score. He's confusing and frustrating that way. I can't be a fan of his, nor can i be a basher.
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As if it would be impossible to like both!
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...when big budget R-rated movies were great and endlessly quotable... I miss those days...
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It is impossible. Inception is shit. The Zimmer score and the visual effects are the only saving graces for that claptrap.
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Verhoeven created a bombastic masterpiece. Again....
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