Total Recall remake

[Deckerd]

Then I say confusion to them!

 

[Kegg]

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is a pretty decent PKD story. Total Recall is an overall pretty mediocre film, though; but I'll admit Arnold action vehicles are not usually to my taste.

I like the idea the film toys with that its preposterous action plot is just the deluded fantasy of a deeply boring man who ends the film mentally damaged; but toying with reality and one or two hamfisted attempts at satire cannot save a mostly boring film.

A remake could be the next Minority Report, which I'm similarly apathetic to; it could be far worse then the original Total Recall, but I guess there's always the glimmer of a hope that it might not be garbage and even could be better so forgive me for not being apopletic with rage at this news, more or less.

There's nothing inherently wrong with remakes. The problem in my experience is just that, for whatever reason--and with a few notable exceptions, like The Maltese Falcon or Ben-Hur--most remakes seem to be inferior to the originals.

Interesting exceptions as either work are also based in literary antecedents (as is Total Recall). Granted, Ben Hur obviously owes far more to the previous film then the novel (and it strays more from the novel then the previous film), but still.

 

[Christopher]

The problem in my experience is just that, for whatever reason--and with a few notable exceptions, like The Maltese Falcon or Ben-Hur--most remakes seem to be inferior to the originals.

That's simply Sturgeon's Law -- 90 percent of everything is crud. That happens to include remakes along with everything else. So when people see that 90 percent of remakes are bad, they blame it on their category -- which doesn't make any sense. Most original movies are failures too, but that doesn't mean making original movies is a bad idea. It just means that it's hard to make a good movie, period.

I bet if you made lists of all the remakes, all the adaptations, all the sequels, and all the original movies made in the past ten years, and rated them all in terms of quality, you'd get a similar ratio of good to bad movies on every one of the lists.

 

[Python Trek]

As long as the new film has an exploding fat lady head, I'm there!