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Post by spooner5020 on Jan 24, 2018 16:50:37 GMT
I'm very in the middle with this remake. It's like I can't decide if I like it or hate it. The cast is really good and so are some of the ideas,but it was like they couldn't decide if they wanted to be different from the original or if they wanted to stay close to the original,but in a different setting. Seriously there are so many callbacks to the original that it's almost distracting.
I feel like this would have worked so much better if they tried to just update the original. Keep it on mars,but make it serious. The director missed a really good chance of making mars look really cool in the remake. Instead he wanted to go in the lamest way and just make it take place on a futuristic earth.
While it's not the worst remake it's certainly not the best and it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. 6/10
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jan 24, 2018 17:37:48 GMT
Like most recent remakes of classic movies, it is forgettable.
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Post by Lynx on Jan 24, 2018 18:51:25 GMT
I agree with Taylor. The originals were much better. Footloose another example of fair to middling.
There's only one movie I've ever seen where the remake was either equal or better than the original....and I bought them both....."Cape Fear". Look it up and watch them both....I know you'll agree.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 25, 2018 2:51:05 GMT
Yeah disliked this alot. The 1990 movie isn't one of my favorite Schwarzenegger movies but this had no imagination. No Mars, no aliens, hell it wasn't even rated R.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jan 25, 2018 2:57:08 GMT
Yeah disliked this alot. The 1990 movie isn't one of my favorite Schwarzenegger movies but this had no imagination. No Mars, no aliens, hell it wasn't even rated R. Yeah taking out mars was the final nail in the coffin. You know everyone wanted it remade just to see what they would do with the mars and the aliens. So when the director decided he didn't wanna go in that direction he spat in the face of the fans. It makes me wonder what Jj Abrams would have done with this. |
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Post by politicidal on Jan 25, 2018 4:13:43 GMT
Yeah disliked this alot. The 1990 movie isn't one of my favorite Schwarzenegger movies but this had no imagination. No Mars, no aliens, hell it wasn't even rated R. Yeah taking out mars was the final nail in the coffin. You know everyone wanted it remade just to see what they would do with the mars and the aliens. So when the director decided he didn't wanna go in that direction he spat in the face of the fans. It makes me wonder what Jj Abrams would have done with this. Something fun at least I'm sure. |
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Post by Vits on Jan 26, 2018 21:30:52 GMT
Why would you rate a movie after only watching half of it?
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Post by James on Jan 26, 2018 23:07:01 GMT
I can 100% agree. In fact I'd also give it a 6/10. It seemed like a faithful remake but it didn't even know what it wanted to be. The setting is also pretty dull in contrast to the unique world the 1990 original gave us. Plus, too serious and no memorable one-liners!!
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Post by spooner5020 on Jan 27, 2018 3:20:31 GMT
Why would you rate a movie after only watching half of it? What I meant in "the middle" was I don't like it,but I don't hate it. So I felt very in the middle. |
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Post by spooner5020 on Jan 27, 2018 3:25:07 GMT
I can 100% agree. In fact I'd also give it a 6/10. It seemed like a faithful remake but it didn't even know what it wanted to be. The setting is also pretty dull in contrast to the unique world the 1990 original gave us. Plus, too serious and no memorable one-liners!! It was almost too faithful and that was one of the problems. They could have gone in a very different direction,but instead it was like someone literally said "let's remake Total Recall. Keep everything the same just take out mars and the one liners. |
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Post by Vits on Jan 27, 2018 9:03:28 GMT
What I meant in "the middle" was I don't like it,but I don't hate it. So I felt very in the middle. Oops!  |
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Post by poelzig on Jan 27, 2018 9:23:51 GMT
Why would you rate a movie after only watching half of it? What I meant in "the middle" was I don't like it,but I don't hate it. So I felt very in the middle. Malcolm? |
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Post by bluerisk on Feb 4, 2018 13:44:43 GMT
I'm very in the middle with this remake. It's like I can't decide if I like it or hate it. The cast is really good and so are some of the ideas,but it was like they couldn't decide if they wanted to be different from the original or if they wanted to stay close to the original,but in a different setting. Seriously there are so many callbacks to the original that it's almost distracting. I feel like this would have worked so much better if they tried to just update the original. Keep it on mars,but make it serious. The director missed a really good chance of making mars look really cool in the remake. Instead he wanted to go in the lamest way and just make it take place on a futuristic earth. While it's not the worst remake it's certainly not the best and it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. 6/10 After I'd read the discription (UK /Australia only - rest of the world is gone) I was done with this jingostic crap. |
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