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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52021579 Brazil 12/27/2013 07:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | MARTIAN TIME-SLIP is never mentioned when people talk about Total Recall, read a bit: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51985355 [link to tashqueedagg.wordpress.com] Have you realized in Total Recall the black mutant is the traitor and in the remake the "friend" is the black traitor? In Capricorn One the black astronaut dies. In original Planet of the Apes the black astronaut dies first and Taylor thought they were travelling near ORION while the astronauts in Rise of the Apes they got lost going to Mars, the black dude also dies. In Mission to Mars, the black astronaut is the one who got a bit crazy on Mars but he is not the one decoding the Aedipus-sphinx message of Cydonia Face. Usually even Philip Dick's fans forget to mention Martian Time-Slip when dealing with original movie with Arnold. Read about slavery in Australia perhaps inspiring the author: [link to tashqueedagg.wordpress.com] I liked the looks of the remake which was more like a combo of Blade Runner, Black Rain and Minority Report than Total Recall itself. The slums inspired by an architectonic complex in Canada and Asian cities looked awesome. The agressive female character was more beautiful than the female Terminator. I enjoyed the twist of the same scenes: the changing face due to a collar device rather than a head inside a head which peels off like orange crust; the fluorescent tattoo on a woman's back instead of the secretary changing the colors of her nails; the teardrop rather than a drop of sweat [...] (I'd like to see the book reference of a naked blonde secretary with her boobs changing from blue to orange) [...] I liked the homenage but when people didn't see the point of introducing the three-boobs woman who is not an alien, my response is nowadays there are people who enjoy sex with animals, with obese fat women, eating excrement, having sex with dwarf people and so on, so we don't need an ET scenario for that woman, specially since we know some people enjoy having sex with people with double penis or huge tits and so on. HOWEVER the remake LACKS the sense of doubt present in the original and Philip Dick's books. There should be a questioning all through the movie and not just in a couple of scenes. Collin Farell tries his best but this was not his fault but the script. And though he's a good actor unfortunately he doesn't have the charisma. Arnold is not a good actor but in the movie he is always confused as he should be and his size fills the canvas. The violence is incredible as it fits with God of Mars who is a god of war, a killing machine. Chopping off human arms sticks in our neurons more like cutting off a single robot's arm. But I agree the original even by today's standards is GORY and perhaps more suitable for male audiences. The elevator looks fantastic but not the heroes surviving as if they were SUPER HEROES and I don't mind really the improbable future creation of such device against all scientific odds. But watching on the big screen the Martian pyramid releasing icy blue clouds with oxygen being released upon Martian red terrain was STUNNING and if I were to RECALL a similar cinematic image, I think in Cecil B DeMille's The 10 Commandments, the SINAI and Moses within a red and orange cloud climbing off the mountain after receiving the flame messages from God. This is exactly what I thought when I saw original Total Recall at the movie theatre. Cydonia altered Face in the film Mission Mars was NOT that impressive. |
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User ID: 37926162 United States 12/27/2013 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | MARTIAN TIME-SLIP is never mentioned when people talk about Total Recall, read a bit: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 51985355 [link to tashqueedagg.wordpress.com] Have you realized in Total Recall the black mutant is the traitor and in the remake the "friend" is the black traitor? In Capricorn One the black astronaut dies. In original Planet of the Apes the black astronaut dies first and Taylor thought they were travelling near ORION while the astronauts in Rise of the Apes they got lost going to Mars, the black dude also dies. In Mission to Mars, the black astronaut is the one who got a bit crazy on Mars but he is not the one decoding the Aedipus-sphinx message of Cydonia Face. Usually even Philip Dick's fans forget to mention Martian Time-Slip when dealing with original movie with Arnold. Read about slavery in Australia perhaps inspiring the author: [link to tashqueedagg.wordpress.com] I liked the looks of the remake which was more like a combo of Blade Runner, Black Rain and Minority Report than Total Recall itself. The slums inspired by an architectonic complex in Canada and Asian cities looked awesome. The agressive female character was more beautiful than the female Terminator. I enjoyed the twist of the same scenes: the changing face due to a collar device rather than a head inside a head which peels off like orange crust; the fluorescent tattoo on a woman's back instead of the secretary changing the colors of her nails; the teardrop rather than a drop of sweat [...] (I'd like to see the book reference of a naked blonde secretary with her boobs changing from blue to orange) [...] I liked the homenage but when people didn't see the point of introducing the three-boobs woman who is not an alien, my response is nowadays there are people who enjoy sex with animals, with obese fat women, eating excrement, having sex with dwarf people and so on, so we don't need an ET scenario for that woman, specially since we know some people enjoy having sex with people with double penis or huge tits and so on. HOWEVER the remake LACKS the sense of doubt present in the original and Philip Dick's books. There should be a questioning all through the movie and not just in a couple of scenes. Collin Farell tries his best but this was not his fault but the script. And though he's a good actor unfortunately he doesn't have the charisma. Arnold is not a good actor but in the movie he is always confused as he should be and his size fills the canvas. The violence is incredible as it fits with God of Mars who is a god of war, a killing machine. Chopping off human arms sticks in our neurons more like cutting off a single robot's arm. But I agree the original even by today's standards is GORY and perhaps more suitable for male audiences. The elevator looks fantastic but not the heroes surviving as if they were SUPER HEROES and I don't mind really the improbable future creation of such device against all scientific odds. But watching on the big screen the Martian pyramid releasing icy blue clouds with oxygen being released upon Martian red terrain was STUNNING and if I were to RECALL a similar cinematic image, I think in Cecil B DeMille's The 10 Commandments, the SINAI and Moses within a red and orange cloud climbing off the mountain after receiving the flame messages from God. This is exactly what I thought when I saw original Total Recall at the movie theatre. Cydonia altered Face in the film Mission Mars was NOT that impressive. i just watched this for the first time yesterday. i watched it twice. your review is spot on! forever's gonna start tonight |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52021579 Brazil 12/27/2013 09:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Now, I encourage you to watch both films, one after the other and you will see much more. When Arnold was gonna be injected (the violent reaction came as an earlier consequence of the agency erasing his real deeds on Mars so Arnie was not even injected with new memories), there's a "new" implant: MARS WITH BLUE SKIES which is actually the REAL THING NASA HIDES WITH RED FILTERS and some images taken from Edgar Rice Burroughs, the one who created John Carter adventures on Mars. In the remake a fat ugly woman somehow resembled the fat woman at customs' airport and spoke the same words if I RECALL correctly "two weeks" (unless is Collin Farrell's character). |
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User ID: 37926162 United States 12/27/2013 10:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | am watching original as we speak (full movie is on youtube) will let you know my thoughts later. :-) i think it's cool to make an attempt to articulate these things intelligently rather than how most people talk about movies these days: "it SUCKED!" the end. haha forever's gonna start tonight |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52021579 Brazil 12/27/2013 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is not a stupid idea like some have commented. If hypothetically it were possible to drill a through tunnel and have an elevator like in the movie it would be free energy movement which does jot require fuel. On one end of the earth a mass that is the elevator falls because of the gravity of the earth which would be somewhere close to the center. Once the huge elevator begins to fall it gains speed and inertia through gravity pull. Once it passes the gravity center it should have the inertia and speed equal to that which allowed it to fall to the gravity center, so it would essentially slingshot to the other side and stop in the same distance from the point where people were shown to be weightless as the distance from the other side of the planet and the center. It may even be called slingshot effect. Same principle was observed in space and used in some movies here an asteroid or a spaceship is pulled towards the sun or bug planet and then suddenly circles around the planet and flies into a different direction.p because in space there is very little if any friction it is most easily illustrated there. In the movie we have to assume there is no friction of the elevator against the walls of the tunnel, but that's why it is sci-if. Most likely there would be friction that would slow down the smooth elevator movement. I imagine it would use something like electric rails use to move hyper fast bullet trains in Japan. They mice so fast because there is almost no friction between the rail and the train. Technically this could be what they use in the movie.. If their tube is vacuum sealed also the speed would be very fast, and more efficient than any plane. That is my guess. But real world obstacles probably would not allow anything like it to happen because of the extremely hot [...] (5000 and plus degrees, Sun's surface that wouldn't only MELT whatever built at the earth's core but VAPORIZE IT so the would be workers wouldn't ever reach even 1/4 part of the distance) [...] and unstable earth core, and there is also tectonic plates movement which would mess up the tunnel quickly. Of all things I would not criticize this concept in the movie because too much of science fiction is bullshit fiction anyways. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52021579 Brazil 12/27/2013 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Even though Australia and Britain are not directly opposite each other, a tunnel going through the Earth from one to the other would pass very close to the centre. The temperature of the Earth's core is around 5700 degrees, the same as the surface of the Sun. At this temperature every substance that we know would not only melt but vaporise. Even if some magical compound could be invented to line the tunnel, how the hell would you dig the tunnel in the first place, and what would be the effect on people passing through that temperature on the way? They would be roast chicken before they a quarter of the way there. In addition, while the free fall towards the centre would not have too many adverse effects other than nausea (people would be weightless for the duration of the fall) the ASCENT to the surface would involve such massive G forces as to probably disembowel them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52021579 Brazil 12/27/2013 03:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Was it Michio Kaku prima donna the one with the elevator-the fall idea? UK is not an antipode to Australia so they couldn't drill an almost straight tunnel from one end to the other. The antipode of Australia would put them out in the middle of the Atlantic between the west coast of Africa and Central America. The antipode of the UK would put you in the Southern Ocean close to Antarctica. If hypothetically it were possible to drill a through tunnel and have an elevator like in the movie it would be free energy movement which does jot require fuel. On one end of the earth a mass that is the elevator falls because of the gravity of the earth which would be somewhere close to the center. Once the huge elevator begins to fall it gains speed and inertia through gravity pull. Once it passes the gravity center it should have the inertia and speed equal to that which allowed it to fall to the gravity center, so it would essentially slingshot to the other side and stop in the same distance from the point where people were shown to be weightless as the distance from the other side of the planet and the center. It may even be called slingshot effect. Same principle was observed in space and used in some movies here an asteroid or a spaceship is pulled towards the sun or bug planet and then suddenly circles around the planet and flies into a different direction.p because in space there is very little if any friction it is most easily illustrated there. In the movie we have to assume there is no friction of the elevator against the walls of the tunnel, but that's why it is sci-if. Most likely there would be friction that would slow down the smooth elevator movement. I imagine it would use something like electric rails use to move hyper fast bullet trains in Japan. They mice so fast because there is almost no friction between the rail and the train. Technically this could be what they use in the movie.. If their tube is vacuum sealed also the speed would be very fast, and more efficient than any plane. That is my guess. But real world obstacles probably would not allow anything like it to happen because of the temperature and unstable earth core, and there is also tectonic plates movement which would mess up the tunnel quickly. Of all things I would not criticize this concept in the movie because too much of science fiction is bullshit fiction anyways. Even though Australia and Britain are not directly opposite each other, a tunnel going through the Earth from one to the other would pass very close to the centre. The temperature of the Earth's core is around 5700 degrees, the same as the surface of the Sun. At this temperature every substance that we know would not only melt but vaporise. Even if some magical compound could be invented to line the tunnel, how the hell would you dig the tunnel in the first place, and what would be the effect on people passing through that temperature on the way? They would be roast chicken before they a quarter of the way there. In addition, while the free fall towards the centre would not have too many adverse effects other than nausea (people would be weightless for the duration of the fall) the ASCENT to the surface would involve such massive G forces as to probably disembowel them. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52066269 Brazil 12/28/2013 06:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Running Man......The year is 2017. The world economy has collapsed. The United States has sealed off it's borders and has become a military controlled police state which controls TV, movies, art, books, communication and censorship. Not bad for a movie that was made in 1987 Total Recall, Armold has to adapt his hand as if having a reptilian hand to activate Martian's core mechanism... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52066269 Brazil 12/28/2013 06:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.chemistryland.com] And the CHAIR maybe inspired by Montauk experiences, chair tied to wires and computers like in Minority Report short story. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 52332381 Brazil 01/02/2014 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Can you imagine Patrick Swayze being the star? The original film was gonna be filmed in Australia and Arnie Schwarzenegger made possible to be the main actor and find the proper diretor. Even giving his own $$$ because the studio wanted to delete the few exterior scenes on Mars done with "miniatures". The weird huge Mexican architecture helped a lot in the making plus the incredible special FXs in times when CGI was just beginning. Watch this 30 minutes vídeo of the making of the film: People usually forget the movie was a combo of two stories written by Philip Dick. Not just We Can Remember It For You Wholesale BUT ALSO Martian Time-Slip. Mars was present in both stories. The remake wiped out Mars which is like making Batman without Gotham City; Flash Gordon without emperor Ming in planet Mongo; like doing Gladiator in Bolívia ruins rather than Rome or Ulysses filmed in the Mexican jungle instead of Greece. |
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