“You’re lucky I’m a vampire.”
It’s brilliant.another one they should have left alone. The remake just had no clue *what made the Arnie one good.I’ve just rewatched Total Recall and my god I forgot how good it is. It’s just the ideal 90s Sci Fi movie. The pacing is perfect, it knows when to be funny, serious, and batshit mental. So many great scenes, Arnie one liners, the performances are all top. There’s no ‘Good guy being good’ angle either. The action scenes are just Arnie mowing down person after person or killing them in the funniest ways, using that rando as a human shield at one point
I thought it was kinda fun actually. I mean, it's got nothing to do with the original and is much less good/interesting; but if you forget they got the same title and source material, it's a fun film in its own right.
Fair enough. I'm a fan of PKD and I think the movies made of his stories are always lacking. One thing they always forget is the absurdity in his stories. He likes to set up a complicated problem ("what if a secret agent is implanted with false memories, what if humans had to play a bluffing card game against aliens who were telepathic" etc.) and then uses human foibles and frailties to solve it. Total Recall / We Can Remember It For You Wholesale erred in using a big action star as the lead, as most/all PKD heroes were essentially beta males, often married to women who couldn't stand them, and often envious of their incompetent bosses. Total Recall (Arnie) was fun. The story is more about guilt and culpability when you don't remember what you've done, and how to tell the difference between real memories and implanted ones. PKD took a lot of speed while writing, it should be mentioned.
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I don't know how I missed this first time round,very enjoyable movie.
Love the film but it does suffer from the answering too fast syndrome that is so common in old films.
What do you mean by "answering too fast"?
What a film.
There's just something about it that makes it so watchable. Your last paragraph sums it up for me.Yeah, I like Dick as well. (Posts that feel sexual but aren't!) As you say, he's very good at picking a premise and making a story out of it. I actually think of him as a sociology/psychology writer first, SF second. (And his approach works much better for shorts than longs, I think. (No, not sexual either.)) Either way, I did read this story but don't remember a thing of it right now, so I'll just trust you on this.
Posts that sound sexual but aren't.Yeah, I like Dick as well. (Posts that feel sexual but aren't!) As you say, he's very good at picking a premise and making a story out of it. I actually think of him as a sociology/psychology writer first, SF second. (And his approach works much better for shorts than longs, I think. (No, not sexual either.)) Either way, I did read this story but don't remember a thing of it right now, so I'll just trust you on this.
Kathryn Bigelow directed Point Break?! What the hell?
I know right!
Did you read my sentence after the one you bolded?
Nah, was already highlighting it in bold!Did you read my sentence after the one you bolded?
How was Cooper’s nose?
Some of the angles made it look like a right honk, but mostly I didn't really notice
Such a Bradley Cooper thing to do to insist on a prosthetic nose. He’s an odd duck.
In old films people deliver the lines far too fast, without pauses to think about a response. This isn't the worst example but I seem to remember it being noticeable last time I watched it.
Can you tell me the nature of these scenes? I'm wondering if I should watch it with the partner. She hates rape/pedophilia etc in films.
Go' way to fuq! It the most Godawful crap of all fcuking time.
Totally agree. Genius.
Neither of those things happen. Here is what happens:
Yeah I'm not watching this with the partner
It should be fine watching with your partner Imo. More distasteful rather than unacceptable.
