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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Sorry, Len Wiseman. I saw your footage at Comic-Con and while it did look very slick and high budget it also felt like it had no personality. Is there room to make a serious-minded version of Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember It For You Wholesale? Absolutely. In fact, I would have killed to have seen David Cronenberg’s version of this story he was gearing up for in the late ‘80s with Richard Dreyfuss in the lead. What Paul Verhoeven did was crazy in only the way that insane Dutchman can pull off.
It feels like Wiseman’s trying to do a serious version of Verhoeven’s film, not adapt the actual original source material. Sue me if that sounds completely lazy and disinteresting to me.
So, let’s look back at the crazy fun of Paul Verhoeven’s film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Today’s pic has Schwarzenegger sharing a Mars Burger with Verhoeven.
Thanks to Marko Marin for sending this one along! Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
Forget it, Jake. It’s tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic!
-Quint
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bitches.
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The remake will go the way of Conan
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Aug. 29, 2011, 6:42 p.m. CST
Second! but that's not the taxi driver!!
by the_shitweasel_with_a_quizzical_brow
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Remakes are soul-less cash-ins and total wastes of time, but this is one of the few movies that deserves one. Arnold's a megastar, but a better actor would rock a story like this. Even the directing and cinematography were bad. Everything was bright red or neon. If Mars really looks like Saved by the Bell, I'm cool w/ staying on Earth.
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That table saw to the face injury is healing up nicely.
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But they are feeding, right? So that's something...
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you misled us dammit! Jk
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Are you sure that's him? His make up is completely different in the film.
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reminded me of late porn star/Happy Days cast member Jack Baker. Same look, hair and voice. Both had that sort of crackhead vibe going on.
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but it's sad to think that just a few wee years later Ah-Nuld would be porking fat, ugly, mexican maids and doing preggo cream pies into them. How could you, Arnie. Back in the day all your Venice Beach whores looked like Sharon Stone (even the one you and your pals gang banged at Gold Gym)
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But for the love of God, don't eat the veg on Mars either (DOCTOR WHO shout out!).
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Isn't that who Cronenberg wanted to do his version with?
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Get your ass to Mars!!
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Totally ripping Star Wars' font.
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Considering how brief the "original source material" is, I'm not sure we can get too worked up about them not being 100% faithful. Technically, they could just tack on the twist ending and still claim it was closer to the original story.
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Why?
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Heaven.
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Ugh, go fuck yourself already, Hollywood.
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Wiseman's going to go one better than the tri-tit. Behold ... the tri-clit! Unfortunately, they'll only talk about it and not show it.
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Aug. 29, 2011, 8:32 p.m. CST
Unfortunately, yelsaeb, they have done too much production on the remake.
by THE_CHOPPAH
Otherwise, the lessons of NuCONAN and FRIGHT NIGHT in name only would weigh heavy on the suits' coke-addled minds.
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Aug. 29, 2011, 8:34 p.m. CST
I'd love to see a Cronenberg-Verhoeven pact centering on two of the directors' lesser films.
by THE_CHOPPAH
Cronenberg remakes THE HOLLOW MAN, while Verhoeven remakes THE DEAD ZONE.
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he didn't have to worry about his penis telling him what to do, he would be a pretty decent guy.
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But first let me eat dis Mars burger aaaaahh-eeeee-aaaaaaah!
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Kohaaaagen! Da peeeple need a real director! Aaaaaaah-eeeeee-aaaaah!
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Aug. 29, 2011, 9:10 p.m. CST
Great pic.And HW is remaking this masterpiece? in Cohaagen's voice:
by KilliK
FUCK THEM.
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movie is a pile of shit which disgraced Dick's novela,that Arnold is a steroid freak with the charisma of a used condom,that the remake will be better because it will be more faithful,yada,yada,yada.
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because it only starts on Mars; then our protagonist travels halfway across the Galaxy as his psychosis grows. The last sentence is a true classic; let me paraphrase. "He knew that he had truly arrived back at the Earth he had always loved when he sat on his veranda, and watched the oak trees migrate south in the autumn." That's PKD!
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And no, not the one on the mutants face.
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The beefy central american girls serving up craft services always put a smile on his face.
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The original Total Recall is awesome in the subversive way that only Paul Verhoeven can do. A remake by Len Wiseman? Really? Whose dumbass idea was that?
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Aug. 29, 2011, 10:12 p.m. CST
Why the hell do you continually hide the name of the movie that the behind the scenes pic of the day features?
by aicnmscott
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Neil Blomkamp. Len Wiseman is the 21st century Tony Scott, just a professional lenser, who shoots competent action on time and on budget with no insight or depth.
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Seriously, I'm passing into that stage of life where I think about sandwiches and make epic hoagies with stacks of bacon on 'em and shit.
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Pro tip.
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Sums up Hollywood and this constant remake merry-go-round. I hope Disney's done John Carter right.
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Son, you can keep that particular combo, I think I'll stick with cheese n' pickle...
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Arnold was a movie icon and casts a long shadow even to this day. The movies he made were not popular despite him, it was always because of him and his power to carry a movie. He had a huge screen presence and charisma, whatever you may think of his acting ability. He MADE these movies popular, and they were written (or rewritten in the case of Total Recall) to take advantage of his larger-than-life persona. You can't simply strip that away for a remake and then expect you will have a hit on your hands. Something like Total Recall would need to be heavily reworked to the point it should not even have the same name. I bet the money men on this Total Recall are nervous as hell after seeing how badly the Conan "remake" has fared (if they had not linked it so strongly to the Arnold version they may have had a chance). I hope the idiots who periodically murmur that they may be remaking Predator or (god help them) Commando with some uninteresting actor like Sam Worthington have all noted that you can't remove Arnold from an Arnold movie and expect it to do well. His movies were a genre unto themselves.
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The are so inherently Arnold that they cease to be any thing, but Arnold. The one-liners, the goofy performances...don't bother. To remake this is lame and lazy. The violence will be gone, the weirdness diluted and the Verhoven slant, dulled. WHY?
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Boy those kids go back a long way.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 7:35 a.m. CST
Pictures a fake. Arnold never ate bread! Carbs are the enemy.
by welcometothepartypal
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Aug. 30, 2011, 7:44 a.m. CST
its ahnoold, verhoeven, and one of ahnoold's illegit nanny kids having a burger.
by vulturess
or is that the nanny?
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Aug. 30, 2011, 8:26 a.m. CST
Quint, the minute Wiseman was attached the remake was dead to me
by AlienFanatic
Wiseman HAS no new ideas. He's the motion picture equivalent of a copy machine. He takes what he's seen in other films (lighting, angles, color) and runs it through his little scanner and pumps out a passable, if washed out and uninteresting, copy. And the nepotism he displays by constantly casting his wife is beyond sad. I'm sure she can get roles on her own, as demonstrated by the drooling and ogling that goes on every time her name is mentioned on these threads. I suppose it's a way to pump up their income as well as providing him some stress relief in those lonely hours aboard his Star Wagon. I can't wait to see the remake fail hard and hopefully it'll FINALLY kill Colin Farrell's leading man career once and for all. (Fright Night's crash and burn was a beautiful spike in the endzone for anyone still hoping he'd be a boxoffice draw.)
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I never saw Colin Farrell as a big Hollywood lead actor. I always prefered his character work in small films personally. He is a good actor and a fellow Irishman. I think Farrell would have been much better served if this remake was being directed by someone with talent and a vision like Neil Blomkamp. But alas not. Wiseman didn't cast his wife in this remake did he? Ah-nuld's version would have sucked too if it weren't for the twisted irreverant violent mind of Veerhoven. If Wiseman had directed Ah-nuld, the first Total Recall would not be fondly remembered at all.
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How stoned does he look? Not as stoned as his mutant friend, I'll grant you.
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makes me lose my shit in this movie. So funny. Paul just lets him go bananas and chew the shit out of the scenery. Love it.
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Premium member of THE HACK PACK.
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Wiseman isn't even Tony Scott, he's more like Craig R. Baxley. The moment Wiseman shoots anything as good as The Last Boy Scout, Revenge or True Romance let me know.
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2 are good, 3 is too many. burp
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Bashing continues. Geek fever continues to spread. I have liked his movies quite a bit and can actually make up my own mind as opposed to "riding the hate for the sake of hate train>:(" I'm sorry but Underworld was great stylized fun and Live Free or Die Hard (uncut) Was excellent! Yeah Excellent. I loved it. But whatever continue hating * His pants are hiked a bit high LMAO geeks can criticize anything!
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:07 p.m. CST
I've got to hand it to you Quint, that's the biggest mind fuck of all.
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
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Arnold is the attraction. Total Recall would have still done well at the box office because of Verhoven. However it was a blockbuster because of Arnold. Why don't studio execs get that? It's amazing what a hot as hell wife and a sucessfull hacky TV show (Hawaii 5-0, a remake) will get you in this town.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:19 p.m. CST
@Cinemajerk Oh yes Wiseman DID put his wife in Total Recall...
by AlienFanatic
She plays the role, of all people, of Lori (the hot wife/double agent role that Sharon Stone played in Verhoeven's film.) I'll admit I've never found Beckinsale attractive, but she's also never come across as the femme fatale that the Lori character appears to be. TBH, having read Dick's story, the Lori character isn't even a factor, really. It was mostly invented by Verhoeven and the TR screenwriter. That said, if Wiseman really is pursuing more of a remake than an original take on TR, Beckinsale is a pale imitation in the role that Sharon Stone was born to play. There simply isn't an actress on the planet, aside from perhaps Megan Fox, with the combination of slutty/sly that Stone had. (Disclaimer: I'd never say I'd cast Megan in anything, only that she's got the same half-lidded look that Stone perfected.)
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:24 p.m. CST
Wiseman sucks because he sucks, not because movie geeks say he sucks.
by Cinemajerk
LOL. But come on. Underworld was a CGI crapfest and an excuse to shoot his hot wife in slo mo. WS ANDERSON does the same thing with his hot wife Mila Jovavich in the Resident Evil crapfests. Come to think of it, I always thought they were one and the same person. Slick slo mo imagery totally devoid of emotion or suspense.
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Without Veerhoven, Total Recall would have been the running man. Fun because of Ahnuld....but not NEARLY as memorably violent and twisted because of Veerhoven.
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There is a FANTASTIC article I linked to from IMDB today over at guardian.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/28/mark-kermode-multiplex-blockbuster While it's terribly long, and more than a little arrogant, it absolutely NAILS how Bay, Wiseman (though he goes unmentioned), Verbinski (by association with the POTC franchise), and others have vastly dumbed-down cinema over the past fifteen years. While it's fun for some to joke about the neckbeards here and on other AV forums, I find that a great number of the folks here appreciate films of all kinds. You'll find them just as adamant about some obscure cult film from the 50's as from something made five years ago. I read a post by some young kid as I was looking at the new "CGI Yoda" over on another site and the guy was absolutely in LOVE with all of the updates Lucas has made. He would love to erase all the "old guy" parts played by Sebastian Shaw and replace him with Christensen. In fact, he wanted to see Padme added to the "dead Jedi" sequence at the end of RoTJ because he loves Padme. THAT is the type of person that Wiseman, Bay, et. al. seem to cater to and it's absolutely lowering the bar, over and over again, for the appreciation of cinema. My wife chided me today for railing against a system that I cannot control, and I admit I'm tilting at windmills, but the lack of critical thought by today's directors (aside from true ingenues like Nolan, Wes Anderson (a personal fave), Gilliam, and others) is making folks like me pine for the 70's when directors and studios actually took chances and released an incredible number of thought-provoking and innovative film. I fear that if we keep letting tools like Bay wow us with their glossy, vapid blockbusters we may never see that level of creativity again, outside of a few exceptions.
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...too slimy now.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:32 p.m. CST
...and if I hear, "Oh, it's just a popcorn flick" again...
by AlienFanatic
I swear, that's like saying "Well, I hate the taste of dog shit, but at least it's free."
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If anything, I meant something like Virtuoso. Hell, maybe he's an innocent little girl, but I doubt he'd appreciate that comparison.
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remakes of remakes. Oh happy day...
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:52 p.m. CST
The original is a staple of 80s culture (even though it was released in 1990)
by Billy_D_Williams
Loud, aggressive, cheesy, violent, over the top, but with a fantastic hook for the plot...Verhoven got it all and its why the film is so fucking great...its like watching some mad genius' wet dream of a film come to life. The remake will be some watered down corporatized and sanitized version, a pale imitation of the original...Wiseman doesn't have the talent contained in Verhoven's testicles.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 12:55 p.m. CST
You like Melina right? Well you get to fuck her every night.
by Billy_D_Williams
I love how the film is so blase about its vulgarity.
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I am not Hauser! I am Quaid!
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Anyone know how they're gonna redo Quatto? CGI, I'll bet. Verhoeven didn't need no stinkin' CGI, he had that slimy baby puppet. Hell, he had a sticky-out-eyed Ah-nuld puppet, an Ah-nuld puppet to pull out a tracking device from its nose, and that "Two weeks, urrrrr" fat lady puppet. "Get ready for a surprise..."
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Arnold meant to scream "Die, Benny!!!" as he was killing Benny with the drill
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Aug. 30, 2011, 1:32 p.m. CST
[grabbing Arnie's dick] ' "What have you been feeding this thing?" '
by Nasty In The Pasty
"Blondes."
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is the new The Thing remake, but hey, the Thing from another world's gotta eat.... <br><br> BTW, love these behind the scenes pics- keep em coming, but can you guys also post behind the scenes you tube clips?
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Aug. 30, 2011, 2:13 p.m. CST
Dont lump gore Vabinski in with Wiseman, Bay and Anderson.
by Cinemajerk
Verbinski at least has some sense of intelligence and humour. He is not just style over substance. So please dont lump him in with those others.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 2:24 p.m. CST
Die Hard 4 sucked shit! That wasn't John McLane..
by welcometothepartypal
Insert any actor, the story would be no different. This is coming from a guy named welcometothepartypal. Than you have Kevin Smith? WTF is that guy doing acting??? He sucks the life out of every scene he's in. Justin Long? my god! Who the hell did he blow? Walking on a jet fighters wing????? No, my friends. Nothing has equaled the awesomeness of the first.
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I just watched this movie on Blu-ray Saturday night. It's hard to believe that it's gonna be 22 years old next year. It still works, warts and all! Real trip: seeing Dean Norris in "Mutant Tony" make-up knowing that he's a fat, bald DEA agent on "Breaking Bad", now. (And that his co-star on that show, Bryan Cranston, is going to be Cohagen in the TR re-make!)
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Beat me to the joke!
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Aug. 30, 2011, 4:05 p.m. CST
For a while, Jonathan Frakes was attached to direct "Total Recall 2". Would've rather watched that then a remake
by ChickenStu
Frakes showed he had potential with the excellent "Star Trek: First Contact" and he pushed the violence and dark humour as far as it could go with a PG-13 franchise movie (which like TR, had an excellent score by Jerry Goldsmith). That film could've been golden.
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Aug. 30, 2011, 4:08 p.m. CST
This BTS pic's headline should have been GET YOUR ASS TO MARS FOR A JUICY BURGER
by lv_426
Where's Benny man? He could use the exposure. He's got four kids to feed, and he also needs the money so he can go back and fondle the three-tittied mutant some more.
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...but he couldn't wait to toss them.
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BLONDES!!!! Eaaaarrrrrruuuugggghh!!!!!!!!! DEW IT! COME ON!!!! DEW IT NEOW!!!!! I want to meet Mel Johnson Jr. At a convention...or it'd be even cooler if next time I was in NYC and I got in a cab, he was my driver...I want to fuck a mutant.
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