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Are you looking forward to the new Total Recall?
The Guardian ^ | Monday 2 April 2012 | Adam Boult

Posted on 05/13/2012 8:11:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

When rumours of a Total Recall remake started circulating a couple of years ago, Guardian writer Ben Child gave voice to sentiments felt by many fans of the original film:

Total Recall hardly needs a remake. While it was one of the last big-budget movies before the CGI revolution, its over-the-top look has helped it stay timeless. Furthermore, modern Hollywood simply has no equivalent to Schwarzenegger – that preposterous, yet magnificently magnetic screen presence. Who could carry off the mix of silly and serious required to make this an exciting adventure?

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To: MinorityRepublican; calcowgirl; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; tubebender; hedgetrimmer; forester; ...
I have already endured, as have all other CA conservatives, the "Total Recall" that installed the "Terminator" that fooled even many good CA FReepers into thinking he was a conservative. His speech to the 2004 Republican convention sold this "bill of goods" to the entire nation!!!

The end result of such a faux CONservative is that he was more destructive to the conservative movement here that even Gray Davis which, of course has now led Californians into giving Gray's old boss, "Governor Moonbeam" into the governorship once more.

Furthermore, Arnold allowed another faux conservative, Pete Wilson to advise him far too often in far to many issues and that just made matters worse than if we'd had a commie-crat Governer that could have motivated what legislators we had into stopping the commie-crat like we did Gray Davis on the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that Gray even vetoed 2 or 3 times!!!

I had dreamed of the day we could recall "Dim Bulb Davis" and replace him with an honest-to-goodness conservative with winning ways that would lead to a conservative renisance in CA like we had between Pat Brown and Jerry Brown... Ronald Reagan.

Tom McClintock would have been such a man but all the amateur king makers even here on FR let Arnold seduce them into thinking that Tom couldn't win the election. They created an obvious "self-fulfilling prophecy" and the rest is now a devastating liberal history for the tarnished "Golden State!!!"

Now all we're left with here are "lamentations" in a public policy leach field!!!

21 posted on 05/13/2012 8:46:56 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("GovernMental austerity first, THEN conservative prosperity!!! Austerity breeds properity!!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A remake of Total Recall?

That’s silly. It’s not old enough to merit a remake, and it was well done in the original. There’s nothing that new technology really has to add.

Though... If anybody is listening... If you want to remake something then please fortheluvvaGod please remake Titanic.


22 posted on 05/13/2012 8:49:41 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: BillyBoy; Anybody; Everybody; All

A lamentable ping!!!


23 posted on 05/13/2012 8:49:46 PM PDT by SierraWasp ("GovernMental austerity first, THEN conservative prosperity!!! Austerity breeds properity!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

McClintock would have lost in a landslide anyway.


24 posted on 05/13/2012 8:54:33 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hollywood? Why don’t they make a movie about the birth of Obama.....or.....how Obama saved us from people making 150K+.....or how Obama cured all diseases with National Health Care.....or...How Obama “”equalized” America???


25 posted on 05/13/2012 8:56:51 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: WoofDog123

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, AKA Blade Runner, is a very futuristic novel when the Earths ecosystem has been almost totally destroyed. In the book, there is a very, very high price paid for real wildlife, but the robotic versions are almost as pricey.

The book I always wanted them to adapt would be very hard to do, because it’s very involved.

Ubik


26 posted on 05/13/2012 8:56:51 PM PDT by djf ("There are more old drunkards than old doctors." - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: frogjerk

“They just cannot come up with anything original anymore.”

Total Recall was a much less than faithful adaptation of We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. So first off, the movie was itself not original. The “remake” has the opportunity to be an adaptation of the story, not of the first movie - ergo the first only gets dibs on respect because it was first, not for any other claim to canonicity. If the new one plays loose with the original story, well, so did the first movie.

Arnold never seemed correct for the role. He was too ... massive. Colin Ferrel has a more normal look in the trailer, more fitting of the character.

Yeah, the first movie’s effects were the night point of the pre-CGI era. That’s nice. It’s 2012, and I’d like to see the story rendered in a far more sophisticated detail.

I’ve read the short story, and per this thread may just read it again this week.
I’m looking forward to the remake - has a chance to do the story better justice. The trailer looks great.


27 posted on 05/13/2012 9:05:10 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: MinorityRepublican
..... Strangely .... I kno a bit about this flick. Worked on it ... There are a few ... And intreresting changes and concepts to the film ..... OK .... The new audience and generation will see something and different than what we of old saw.

So ... My question to all here is ..... If a story can be told and maintain the original concept ... And REVEAL the concept and maintain that concept and pass it on to a NEW generation of leaders .... ..... Should we cast it asside .... Or pass it on to the successors?

...... The future of this world just may rely on what we do NOW .... To laugh and jeer at it now .... May be to the demise of this ideal and the future ..... And destiny of this world :-(

..... Choose wisely.

28 posted on 05/13/2012 9:05:15 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: freedumb2003
* 12 Angry Men

Already a remake, 2 of them.

29 posted on 05/13/2012 9:11:36 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Ramius
"It’s not old enough to merit a remake, and it was well done in the original. There’s nothing that new technology really has to add."

I certainly agree with you......but on the same note, how can Hollywood possibly release a new 'blockbuster' "Spiderman"????? I mean, the last three of 'em were all done in the last few years or so.........so it's time for a remake? They didn't get it right? Their CG wasn't good enough?

The ONLY time I've seen such a strategy work was with the "Batman" franchise. The first few sucked hugely; a different Batman every time with increasingly idiotic scripts.........but when new directors took on the subject with Christian Bale as the Dark Knight, it suddenly got very interesting (vs. stupidly camp).

30 posted on 05/13/2012 9:12:11 PM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Only if they get the damn physics of decompression right....


31 posted on 05/13/2012 9:14:26 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Ramius
And Rnull winning saved California or put the nails in California coffin? ...The recall was California voting for a last shot to be saved..and they got a fake and phony party placeholder...

you say Tom would of lost?...Well how did we win with Rnull?...we didn't we still lost and we didn't ever try Rnull 2003 is Rommey today..sold the same old way for the same old rino reason...we win we loose we loose we loose

32 posted on 05/13/2012 9:18:32 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: MinorityRepublican

33 posted on 05/13/2012 9:20:30 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gads, if they’re so hot to do CGI make Ringworld already!

They could start with Protector...


34 posted on 05/13/2012 9:26:31 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: AmonAmarth

I cried when Sharon Stone died. That woman is hotter than a Venusian afternoon.

Rachel Ticktin (sp?) wasn’t bad either. Quite the athlete.


35 posted on 05/13/2012 9:29:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MinorityRepublican
Will she be in it?


36 posted on 05/13/2012 9:32:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: frogjerk
They just cannot come up with anything original anymore.

Why bother with writing a brand-new script when there's over 80 years of archives available for writers in Hollywood?

37 posted on 05/13/2012 9:33:51 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: frogjerk
They just cannot come up with anything original anymore.

Absolutely correct. Hollywood has gone from cannibalizing old TV shows to cannibalizing comic books and is now digging up it's own rotting corpses for another go-round.
38 posted on 05/13/2012 9:49:16 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Charles Martel

I went to school with her and saw her a couple years ago at a HS reunion, she has a 6’+ tall son and her husband is her size. Very nice family.


39 posted on 05/13/2012 10:50:31 PM PDT by Chainsawj (Looks like I have NOBODY to vote FOR, I'll just vote againest the dems.......AGAIN.)
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To: WoofDog123

He wanted something to care for and as a status symbol.

In a way his need to have a pet might might have be prescient insight into the way people have pets as substitutes for children.


40 posted on 05/13/2012 10:52:05 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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