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*sigh* Why mess with something good? Oh yeah, because Hollywood is out of any new ideas.

 

'Total Recall' ready for revival

 

Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of "Total Recall," the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...a3dcb5babb90fda

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*sigh* Why mess with something good? Oh yeah, because Hollywood is out of any new ideas.

Yeah, I agree. Total Recall seems pretty tame now, but back in the day it was unlike anything seen before. One of the greats IMO.

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Nothing wrong with a remake, or even a rehash, so long as its good. Better that they try with a good Mars story than something that's bad.

 

Typing that I am left in the position of trying to think of any good Sci-fi film on Mars that isn't Total Recall.

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Aside from a few (about three) remakes I don't turn my head in disgust at, this "let's reboot a series, or remake an older movie imploring newer ideas" is dreadful. What happened to the days of film-making when everything was incredibly cheap and low-budgeted? So low-budget that you'd be able to see someone who doesn't look anything like Arnold Schwarzenegger attempting to escape certain things in a certain place (Ahem: Terminator 2) that made the movie great because it didn't rely on useless special effects and super-unnecessarily dramatic explosions and whatnot.

 

Robocop comes to mind, which is also being remade, but is being remade to the effect where it has absolutely nothing with the original movie, and let's not forget about Scream, another movie that's being remade.

 

I barely watch TV now because of this reality TV crap, after a while I'll stop watching movies as well because of this "Hollywood no longer has any active creativity or originality" era.

Edited by r3d c0m3t

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Sometimes when I watch a movie I feel like I have already seen it

Like cop movies it's always the same ole bad cops taking advantage

of the situations killing the gangs and full of corruption.

 

this would be good for a remake of a Mars movie IMHO

http://www.criterion.com/films/821

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/

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