andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 4, 2012 22:10:08 GMT -5
Well looks like it going to bomb. But really can u really say u are shocked about it. The trailers made it look average
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DragonMasterP
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Post by DragonMasterP on Aug 4, 2012 22:23:50 GMT -5
No "Get your ass to Mars", no buy.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Aug 4, 2012 23:41:20 GMT -5
Phillip Dick and Collin Ferrel can't win. Supposely this movie was closer to the book, but I guess those old enough to remember the original chose to stay home. I would too because as the OP said, it looked like another average futuristic action fiction.
On the plus side, this is a win for chicks with 3 boobs.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Aug 4, 2012 23:44:57 GMT -5
I really, really, REALLY hope it bombs. I like Colin Farrell, but Len Wiseman is a no-talent hack.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 4, 2012 23:54:27 GMT -5
It just looks like a horrifying flashback to the start of the last decade when every scifi action movie was a matrix rip off
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Post by mizerable on Aug 5, 2012 0:04:47 GMT -5
No "Get your ass to Mars", no buy. I really wish NASA took that seriously to heart. That could have been our generation's JFK declaration to go to the Moon. "Get your ass to Mars" should have been just that, the next step in space exploration. But yeah, back to the movie, I'm not surprised it was critically panned, the same way I won't be when the new Robocop probably will either. There's a certain charm in Verhoeven's movies, that when you don't follow it, you're going to make an inferior movie in just about every way. Just about everything they did with this movie was dumb, Colin is a poor substitute for Arnold, the movie is PG-13 instead of R..and it looks like it takes itself way too seriously. A recipe for disaster when it comes to what made the original so great.
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Post by Ryanar on Aug 5, 2012 3:12:32 GMT -5
I will say Kate Beckinsale looks gorgeous in the trailers.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 5, 2012 3:13:29 GMT -5
What's really shitty is that the same producer as Total Recall is also producing a Starship Troopers remake
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Post by Mr. Self-Destruct on Aug 5, 2012 3:25:50 GMT -5
What's really s***ty is that the same producer as Total Recall is also producing a Starship Troopers remake Why are they remaking Starship Troopers in the first place? The original isn't a classic or anything, and every single one since has just been terrible.
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Post by theryno665 on Aug 5, 2012 6:51:56 GMT -5
Looks very "meh" to me. I just got the original on Blu-Ray and the guy at Best Buy was like "Like, well, at least the special effects will be good" but even then, does it really matter? The original FX are super-dated but they're still memorable while the remake is going to make it look very homogenized. If you don't try to set it apart, then why bother doing it in the first place?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Aug 5, 2012 7:58:09 GMT -5
It just looks like a horrifying flashback to the start of the last decade when every scifi action movie was a matrix rip off Pretty much this. I saw the trailer before TDKR and my immediate reaction was "this is coming out 15 years too late".
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Aug 5, 2012 8:01:58 GMT -5
I'm skipping it because I don't want it to ruin my fond memories (of a lifetime) of the original movie.
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Post by 4real on Aug 5, 2012 8:07:40 GMT -5
It looks OK but it basically looks like the same movie just without Arnie. Plus I can't take Colin Farrell seriously after 'In Bruges'. Nothing he will ever be will top that for me.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Aug 5, 2012 8:17:18 GMT -5
It looks bad. Like so paint-by-numbers and unintresting.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Aug 5, 2012 8:18:16 GMT -5
It looks like they took all the fun out of the movie to try to turn it into a summer blockbuster.
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Post by theryno665 on Aug 5, 2012 8:24:19 GMT -5
It looks like they took all the fun out of the movie to try to turn it into a summer blockbuster. I'm sure they don't try to do this on purpose but sometimes it seems like they do. Wouldn't you want to try to make a movie look MORE fun so that MORE people will go out and see it?
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Post by Push R Truth on Aug 5, 2012 8:32:34 GMT -5
SCREEWWWWW YOUUUUUUUU
aka. New version blows non-martian balls
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Post by Lukin Stontmehn on Aug 5, 2012 10:34:51 GMT -5
I got 5 kids to feed, man !
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Post by Michael Coello on Aug 5, 2012 10:45:44 GMT -5
Why make a Total Recall movie and take out Mars?! Putting it in boring old future Earth is just dull.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2012 10:47:08 GMT -5
I wish they made a movie, even a short film, that followed the short story a bit more.
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