[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Total Recall ***NOW WITH POLL!*** (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/12/2011 10:31:42 PM EDT
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Had the DVD and didn't even realize it. Popped it in, kind of interesting seeing all the billboards that are outmoded even by today's standards. Sony Trinitron, Fuji Film, and the like.
The advertisement about "Tomorrow's Fuels, Tomorrow's Prices!" could have been taken from an Obama speech. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'm digging the non-CGI special effects. Good stuff. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Every modern computer-cartoon abortion makes me miss old style special effects a little more. Blade Runner has my favorite special effects ever. Can you imagine how great modern special effects would be if built on a foundation of model effects, and CGI was used only to polish and supplement it? |
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I'm digging the non-CGI special effects. Good stuff. Every modern computer-cartoon abortion makes me miss old style special effects a little more. Blade Runner has my favorite special effects ever. Can you imagine how great modern special effects would be if built on a foundation of model effects, and CGI was used only to polish and supplement it? They would be amazing. Sad to think of the past SFX masters passing on in the future, and their craft being forgotten. Just watched Blade Runner again a few weeks ago. It has held up well. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'm digging the non-CGI special effects. Good stuff. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Every modern computer-cartoon abortion makes me miss old style special effects a little more. Blade Runner has my favorite special effects ever. Can you imagine how great modern special effects would be if built on a foundation of model effects, and CGI was used only to polish and supplement it? Actually a lot of the stuff in the latest star trek movie was classic effects. The skydiving scene was done over a huge mirror. |
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Quoted: The issue is that CGI makes movies MUCH cheaper to do , so they 'can spend the money else where', which means paying actors obscene amounts.Quoted: Quoted: I'm digging the non-CGI special effects. Good stuff. Every modern computer-cartoon abortion makes me miss old style special effects a little more. Blade Runner has my favorite special effects ever. Can you imagine how great modern special effects would be if built on a foundation of model effects, and CGI was used only to polish and supplement it? They would be amazing. Sad to think of the past SFX masters passing on in the future, and their craft being forgotten. Just watched Blade Runner again a few weeks ago. It has held up well. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Every so often, a movie will come out that doesn't use much CGI , so they do exist , just not often.
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Verhoeven and Lucas should get together and all the bad film energy they own would create a black hole and we would not have do deal with either of them again. 
Why the f**k does Verhoeven feel the need to put something in each of his movies that looks like a female genitalia but isn't? Does he have issues? 
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Quoted: Had the DVD and didn't even realize it. Popped it in, kind of interesting seeing all the billboards that are outmoded even by today's standards. Sony Trinitron, Fuji Film, and the like. Product-placement in movies like that wasn't about predicting the future, but about making money in the present. But yeah, even 2001 has its share of out-dated companies (e.g. PanAm). |
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Cheesy, horrible movie IMHO. Like all Verhoeven movies I've seen except Robocop. Blasphemy. Whatever. It sucked. In comparison to all of the Oscar winning films you've directed, I suppose? What a lame, idiotic argument, dude. So I have to have designed and built a car in order to say the 81 Chevy Chevette sucked? |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Cheesy, horrible movie IMHO. Like all Verhoeven movies I've seen except Robocop. Blasphemy. Whatever. It sucked. In comparison to all of the Oscar winning films you've directed, I suppose? It was cheesey as hell and it sucked. Let's all those diving movies you've directed, champ. |
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I never knew so many people thought he was actually a spy. The memory doctor gives away then ending when he's in the chair ("Blue skies on mars?") A couple of problems with the pure vacation. When he was picking his "ideal woman," it actually showed Melina's face when he was done with his selection, but it had already selected "sleazy" and "demure" on the screen before he said it. If the techno-babble of the doc about killing someone in his mind that he would encounter post-implant fucking his brain up held true, then what would happen with his wife when he came out of it and "remembered" her being dead? That makes me lean towards the schizoid embolism. ETA: I guess I should have added an "Undecided" option as well. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I'm digging the non-CGI special effects. Good stuff. Every modern computer-cartoon abortion makes me miss old style special effects a little more. Blade Runner has my favorite special effects ever. Can you imagine how great modern special effects would be if built on a foundation of model effects, and CGI was used only to polish and supplement it? They would be amazing. Sad to think of the past SFX masters passing on in the future, and their craft being forgotten. Just watched Blade Runner again a few weeks ago. It has held up well. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile  |
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Cheesy, horrible movie IMHO. Like all Verhoeven movies I've seen except Robocop. Blasphemy. Whatever. It sucked. In comparison to all of the Oscar winning films you've directed, I suppose? What a lame, idiotic argument, dude. So I have to have designed and built a car in order to say the 81 Chevy Chevette sucked? Unlike the Chevy Chevette, which universally sucked, Total Recall was an entertaining movie and grossed over $260 million. Some people liked it, some didn't. Your opinion is that it sucked. I wasn't making an argument; I asked a question. You obviously didn't like the question. Too fucking bad. Raw nerve, perhaps? |
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Cheesy, horrible movie IMHO. Like all Verhoeven movies I've seen except Robocop. Blasphemy. Whatever. It sucked. In comparison to all of the Oscar winning films you've directed, I suppose? It was cheesey as hell and it sucked. Let's see/watch all those diving movies you've directed, champ. I'll show you mine, if you show me yours, ace. |
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Cheesy, horrible movie IMHO. Like all Verhoeven movies I've seen except Robocop. Blasphemy. Whatever. It sucked. In comparison to all of the Oscar winning films you've directed, I suppose? What a lame, idiotic argument, dude. So I have to have designed and built a car in order to say the 81 Chevy Chevette sucked? Unlike the Chevy Chevette, which universally sucked, Total Recall was an entertaining movie and grossed over $260 million. Some people liked it, some didn't. Your opinion is that it sucked. I wasn't making an argument; I asked a question. You obviously didn't like the question. Too fucking bad. Raw nerve, perhaps? The Chevy Chevette was the best selling small car in America in 1979 and 80...so by your definition, that means it did not universally suck. I didn't like your question because it was an idiotic one, and a lame argument. Too fucking bad for you. |
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I remember thinking as a young teen how awesome the gun-porn in it was, even back then I recognized the Muzzleite bullpup stocks on Mini-14's though. However, I did not have the Internet to school me the Muzzelites were flimsy junk. And I knew about the Calico's from the gun rags of the day.
The coolest and most unique guns in the film were the Goncz pistols. Those were pretty cool. CDNN even had a stash of the later Claridge Hi-Tec's that had bought the rights to the Goncz for like $399 up until early last year. I was sorely tempted to buy one as a conversation piece. The Streetsweepers dressed up to look like Pancor Jackhammers were pretty funny. The best thing though is you can always be a hit at any Halloween party really easily. Just wear an old Army M65 field jacket, and have a grody looking doll stuffed in your waistband. "QUAIIIIIID STAAAAART THE REAAAACTOR... QUAIIIIIID...." 
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