More Redundant Remakes - Total Recall

So hopefully right now you're thinking "hang on that wasn't made too long ago?" Not even twenty years and it is my aim by the end of this to convince any one that thinks this is a good idea that their wrong.

Paul Verhoeven's 1990 Sci Fi action film is to be the latest on a long line of proposed remakes of classic 80/90's films that still hold up to today and require a remake about as much we need another Rush Hour film.

Based on a Phillip K. Dick story "Remember it For You Wholesale" the film starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone looking all sorts a good. It was hugely successful making about $260 million worldwide, remember this is 1990 the average ticket price is probably less than half of what it is today, a lot of f*&cking people saw this film, it recieved high critical priase and won an Oscar for Special Acheivement In Visual Effects, the film still holds up extremely well, benefitting from a time where no one gave a damn what a mothers league in a small town thought of gratuatous violence and how it effected the children that saw it because of their negligence. Total Recall is a brutal bloodbath of a director given free range to not give a shit, Schwarzenegger head explodes within the first 5 minutes! Theres an alien with 3 breasts, crazy telekinetic martians, random bystanders just blown away with no remorse, the film needs a remake about as much as another great Verhoeven film, Starship Troopers needed it's two inept sequels.

Little known fact after the success of the film, a sequel was written starring Schwarzenegger's character and based on another Dick story. The script was not filmed but the story was taken and changed drastically to give us the only Tom Cruise film which is just about bearable because you are kind of able to forget its him you are watching, Minority Report.

Thanks to TheHollywoodReporter for the bad news, the person behind the prosposed remake, Neal H Moritz (whose company which is now incorrectly named 'Original Films') reasoning for remaking the film is that "the advancements in technology and state-of-the-art visual effects can help tell the "Recall" story in a fresh way." This is a horrible reason to remake a film that more than holds up, this idea of new technology advancing movies is great to talk about but why not try to use that new technology towards new stories like The Matrix, instead of using it to disrespect great films with inferior clones.

If you still think that this remake is a good idea watch the trailer below