Comments on: Total Recall Remake

By: DrNastySnatch

DrNastySnatch — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:24:16 +0000

I cannot fault the directors cut of blade runner. A true masterpiece in my opinion. I’d be so excited if ridley scott was for handling the remake of total recall.

By: DrNastySnatch

DrNastySnatch — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:16:14 +0000

I “totally” disagree. The original is fantastic and brutal, and another adaption on the novel is always welcome. A scene for scene remake would be absurd, but there is definitely potential here. Not sure about Len Wiseman as the director, but I guess the first underworld movie had its moments.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:36:04 +0000

“Imagination is out there, lurking about. Consider this: for every remake, reboot, or rerun, there is always room for something new.”

Within 48 hours, I had no idea that those words would come back to haunt me.

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From WENN/IMDB:

Badgley Eyes Blade Runner Remake

5 June 2009 9:10 AM, PDT

Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley is hoping to follow in the Footloose footsteps of his co-star Chace Crawford – he’s eyeing his own Hollywood remake with Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner.

Crawford signed on to star in the remake of Kevin Bacon’s 1984 dance film Footlose earlier this year after High School Musical star Zac Efron pulled out of the cast.

And 22-year-old Badgley is keen to make moves of his own on the big screen, in a re-write of Ford’s 1982 sci-fi film.

He tells the New York Daily News, “I’ll be the first guy to star in the remake of ‘Blade Runner’!”

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Blade Runner, is of course, based on Philp K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep”

It’s the first I heard of it, so maybe it’s just a wish on the actor’s part (who does he want to play, anyway? Deckard? Batty?) Now, could it take place in the “world” of Blade Runner? Sure. But a remake? Weighing it against the TMB rules for a remake..I’m not sold. There’s really not much more to say. The FX cannot be “improved” in my view (it was mostly production design and model work- and meant to be appreciated. CG won’t have the same effect, and won’t linger on a shot for more than three seconds.

I’m sure TMB will do a post on the matter sometime today or during the weekend, or Monday. I will hold my wrath until then.
Still, I find myself between a rock and a hard place.

By: Matt Keith

Matt Keith — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:48:17 +0000

I loved the original and this is just unneccessary. I kinda like the choice of director…”Equilibrium” was awesome, but “Ultraviolet” was just stupid.

By: AndyS

AndyS — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:26:07 +0000

No I’m not, it was made during the 80′s. Thus its entire art direction and look is from the 80′s, not the 90′s. The time a movie comes out is irrelevant, it has to do with when it was made.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:14:57 +0000

Hollywood is largely populated with boneheads that couldn’t make a good decision to save their life.

Mystery solved John.

By: D. R. Martin

D. R. Martin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:35:58 +0000

I can understand why Hollywood keeps remaking older films that have had some success–they’ve been vetted in the marketplace and it’s a lot easier than taking a chance on something new. But there’s absolutely no need to remake Total Recall after only 20 years. It’s a SF semi-classic and one of Arnold’s best outings. (How can it not be, with him emerging from inside a giant fat woman suit?) Not the greatest Phil Dick movie. (That honor goes to Scanner Darkly, IMO; much as I love Blade Runner.) But it has enough Dickian weirdness to satisfy nicely. Unless the remake is raking in the praise, I have no plans to see it.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:38:41 +0000

Not everything announced is going to become a reality.
Not every remake turns out to be a terrible film. There are exceptions. As far as Horror goes, despite one overdone long scene, I wound up liking My Bloody Valentine as a horror film. But then again, anyone could have improved on the original film.

Imagination is out there, lurking about. Consider this: for every remake, reboot, or rerun, there is always room for something new. There is also plenty of room for non-remakes and sequels as well.

By: ret.ro.bot

ret.ro.bot — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:38:35 +0000

Maybe they think that in the era of better special fx they can make a truly classy, “dark”(hollywood buzzword), movie for the next generation of movie goers. This movie will most likely put late teens and early twenties movie goers in the seats like nothing else… ESPECIALLY if they’ve never heard of the old movie.

It makes sense to me. I’m in. I love Equalibrium and have faith that this will be pretty cool, at the minimum.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:29:18 +0000

oh yea and verhoeven I guarenteed will not be apart of this and all of his projects (even starship troopers) though with flaws, were sick films and extremely political. This one was his “fun” flick but still gorey fun. That gory fun will become bullshit and over done with wayyyy to many special effects that just dont feel “real” or even attempting to impress anymore