Comments on: Happy Trails: Full Length Trailer For ‘Total Recall’ Arrives To Mess With Your Memory

By: Nadir Ahmed

Nadir Ahmed — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

this film looks like a total rip off of 'Minority Report' which ironically starred Colin Farell as well, and that poster is a replica of the 'Source Code' poster with Jake Gyllenhall, the film revolved around memory loss as well. Total Rip off, but im still gonna watch it.

By: Messment

Messment — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Man, that's ugly. No excuse for that kind of bombastic lameness at this point in film technology.

By: MMS

MMS — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Supposedly Mars isn't part of the novel, wasn't aware of that, so could be the film, in this regard, is closer to its origins..

By: MMS.

MMS. — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Does this remake at all deal with a Mars narrative? Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but the trailer seems to allude to no such aspect in what is either seen(a visual non-distinction that's to worry about if Mars portions are indeed incorporated in the trailer) or told. It's one thing if Sony downplays anything about Mars in the trailer in the wake of the lackluster JOHN CARTER box office performance, perhaps not surprising from a marketing point of view, but it's another matter if this element has been entirely omitted from the remake. If it's just a decoy to distract from any Mars references it could explain the overly action centered trailer that takes story snippets here and there, to much confusion or simplification, to leave one fill in the blanks based on the original Verhoeven film – if indeed Mars is part of the remake.

By: crazy eyes

crazy eyes — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Alright!
Real to life scramble suits!
it's about time!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

What made Paul Verhoeven's film work was the camp elements in both story and special effects. (Total Recall was fun but it wasn't exactly an artistic high for Verhoeven) This new version looks far too earnest and serious. I suppose the CGI is nicely rendered in the trailer but it doesn't really look like mars or gives a feeling of anything other than another generic futuristic city. ie. non distinct.

By: zatopek

zatopek — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

What's with Kate Beckinsale's facial expressions?

This looks like another ass-raping-Philip K. Dick to impress the video game crowd movie, or something.

By: Clinch MacDougall

Clinch MacDougall — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Surprisingly impressive effects, but in service to a cliched production design. Already looks like the least essential film of the summer.

By: Huffy

Huffy — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

The main problem with this (and a lot of modern Sci-fi pictures) is that everything looks unremarkable. CG should be giving filmmakers an unlimited canvas to paint unique and unforgettable worlds on but often it's doing to opposite and making them lazy. Here there's so much industrial crap piled on in the background that everything is a bland, grayish blur. This could be my practical effects-bias shining through but the original looked ten times more distinct. Of course being from the 80's it had that whole aesthetic that looks fascinating from today's point-of-view; I suppose that in twenty years people will love the way our idea of the future looks.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

Jesus, that looks shit.

By: Russell

Russell — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

"And it's also interesting to note that we see none of Bill Nighy's Kuato"

At the 1:35 mark.

By: reg

reg — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

looks like they filtered speilberg's "minority report" thru "underworld" to me.
no question, ferrell's a better actor than arnuhld but that's says next to nothing. wiseman has nowhere near verhoven's humor (or nerve). and, is that jessica biel replacing rachel ticotin? man, that's like replacing a bobcat with a kitten.

By: KitCon

KitCon — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

I hadn't considered it before but this is places it w/in radar.

By: Bobhoff

Bobhoff — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:45:19 +0000

"And it's also interesting to note that we see none of Bill Nighy's Kuato or Bryan Cranston's Vilos anywhere here, as it seems Sony is keeping the presentation of the storyline as simple as possible for the moment."

That's Bryan Cranston in the final shot of the trailer.