Hollywood out of ideas, remakes 'Total Recall'
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More often than not, the film would be a lot better if they simply stuck to the original book/story in the first place. By far the best examples are Total Recall, Battlefield Earth and, especially, Starship Troopers.
Oh, that last one so annoyed me. Rico was treated very badly - Heinlein's Rico would never have done something as stupid as pulling the Bug's claw out of Dizzy's chest. If he'd left it there until they could get her to surgery, she'd probably have lived. Instead he did more damage to her than the Bug did - those serrations point backwards for a REASON. She died in agony, for nothing.
And as for Breckinridge copping it during the live fire exercise - oh, come ON! And where was the military discipline and tactics described in the book? Where were the powered suits? Where, for that matter, was the central tenet of why only veterans could vote?
In the book, Rico was lashed, but for a damn good reason, and one he agreed with - he didn't come close to quitting because of it. He took his 5 (not 10) licks, admitted the mistake to himself, and that was that.
As for Carmen - oh, dear. What kind of pilot can't see a dirty great asteroid bigger than her gorram ship coming straight for them, relying on instruments? Wash would never have done that.
And Zim taking a demotion just to get on the front line - nonsense. Either a) such an experienced and capable trainer would be left where he was needed, or b) he'd be out there at his proper rank. Certainly no trooper would be sent out there if s/he hadn't even finished boot! "Who are all these kids?" indeed - at that point he was only 19 himself and hadn't even finished basic training, yet he's a gorram lieutenant?! I despair, I really do! It needs a remake - by someone who knows what s/he's doing!
Battlefield Earth - I've only seen bits of it. That's all I want to see. The original story was actually well worth reading; say what you like about Dianetics, at least Hubbard could write.
Total Recall - 'a man is defined by his actions, not his memories' - utter nonsense. Empirically flawed; memories make the man. Quaid was a very different man from Hauser. Mars' moons are captured asteroids that barely deserve to be called moons and are barely visible from the surface. Don't even get me started on the absurd effects...
Enough. This is getting O/T. Offhand I can't remember seeing a remake I liked. Could've just said that in the first place, I suppose. :)
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Originally posted by Anonymouse:
More often than not, the film would be a lot better if they simply stuck to the original book/story in the first place. By far the best examples are Total Recall, Battlefield Earth and, especially, Starship Troopers.
I kinda agree, and kinda disagree on Starship Troopers. Filming the book as is wouldn't have been a very good movie, either. It's just not written in a way that's very adaptable to cinema.
Sure, they could have come closer, but I think as adaptations go (key word being "adapt") I think it was solid, and in some ways better than the book (I much prefer the satirization of the fascist state the film presents over the glorification of it in the book). Sure, I'd have liked some powered armour, and the white washing of the cast sits wrong with many (though I chalk that up to satire again), but I think it's a pretty good movie made from a book not really suited to a movie.
Your complaints about Total Recall don't even make sense, though.
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Seems Covid was what pushed it all over the edge?
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Before Corona you had silly hollywood remakes and reboots of ...Video Games?
they made Pixels a 2015 film which seemed to be about Pac-Man?..or maybe some Donkey Kong Tetris thing come to life...it made $244 million
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Also coming the Sega game Sonic 2 as a movie, Minecraft The Movie, Asteroids and The Sims
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I actually liked Pixels.
It was the same movie Adam Sandler has been making over and over again since Billy Madison, but it had good special effects and Peter Dinklidge is awesome.
And one can't help in 2020 to think that the Peter Dinklage character was a dig at Billy Mitchell's lifelong lie of being the best at Donkey Kong and some other arcade records from the 80's, even though it wasn't widely considered a fact that he had been lying for decades about his "accolades" until a few years after the film was made.
The new-ish owner of Twin Galaxies is actually suing him for millions of dollars now in civil court, as it is believed that he conspired with some other known cheats and lifelong friends to boost the value of the Twin Galaxies website before selling it.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Video games and Japanese Anime
A Japan animation 'Demon Slayer'?
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The anime movie 'Demon Slayer' broke box office records. That shouldn't come as a surprise.
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Good.
Anime ain't woke.
Take a look at the comic book industry too.
The only US books that are selling are the ones that indie creators are putting on kickstarter and similar platforms. Outside of that, it's all Manga.
Nobody buys Marvel and DC's woke bullshit.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Highlander reboot will finally start filming in January
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Awesome. A Highlander reboot is just what everyone in 2024 wants somebody to make.
Can't wait to see the gay black one-legged female midget they got playing the lead.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President. 
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fentanyl heroin meth remake of 'The Crow'
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