Cinematic Excrement: Episode 70 - Total Recall (2012) 

Replacing Schwarzenegger with Colin Farrell is like replacing Tom Hanks with Adam Sandler.

The part about them referring to Australia as "The Colony" is somewhat amusing if you're familiar with the country's history as a penal colony. It's not a laugh riot by any means, but worthy of a small smirk.

To get from Australia to Brittan in 17 minutes you'd have to average 28,000 miles per hour. There's also the impossibility of traveling through the eath's core with extreme pressures and temperatures.

Oh come on, Smeghead, have you never been to The Bar? I love their Beer beer and Burger burgers!

Something that really bothered me about this movie that you didn't mention is that, just like the original, the big climax is an attempt to save the innocent civilians from being killed by the bad guys, except the original actually gave us some time with Quaid interacting with the civilians and giving us a chance to get to know them. That way, we're emotionally invested in whether they live or not.. With the remake, we don't care about the bystanders in Australia who the bad guys are about to kill -- they're just a bunch of people we've never seen before.

This remake was just pointless:Arnold did it better in the early 90s and the remake couldn't top it.

Oh also i wanna take this time to say R.I.P Roddy Rowdy Piper :"(

Of course the special effects for the original Total Recall were great. The guy who did the effects was Rob Botin, who did the effects for John Carpenter's The Thing. As soon as I saw that in the credits, I thought "Oh yes, this movie's gonna look awesome!"

The point of the genocide plotline is to point out how people in less developed countries are often seen as expendable. Again, see the Britain/Australia relationship. The movie's point is all the problems in its world arise from people thinking of themselves and not considering the consequences.

Am I the only one who has the suspicion that this movie didn't start out as a remake of Total Recall in the first place? But because marketing, they shoehorned in elements from Total Recall at some point after production started.

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The closest anyone has come to Dick's story is a Mamaduke cartoon I saw in print years ago. Marmaduke is asleep in his doghouse when a tiny spaceship lands. The tiny aliens get his paw print on a peace treaty and fly away. The confused dog goes back to sleep.

As Film Brain joked in his review “See British Imperialists, just wait a few years and we can get back our old colonies”

The Colony actually does work as a name because Australia was literally just that back in the day. Plus it invokes the allegory they're going for better: a place for the refuse of society according to the rich.

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Fun Fact: Len Wiseman also worked on the miniature effects for Quest of the Delta Knights which is featured in one of my favorite MST3K episodes!

Honestly, Australia's reaction (

For many years, I didn't know this version existed. I miss that.

This movie is one of my guilty pleasures, I love it. I love the idea of living space being the move valuable resource on the planet at the moment, and having to get creative w/ building upwards and out, using the high powered magnets to double the highways, the glowing tattoos, and the hand phone! that you can throw up onto any glass surface? W/ the way they're making phone smaller and smaller but w/ more convenient features, I feel like this is a possible thing in a century or so.

You'd be a great director, smeghead. You're brilliant.