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Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #154623  by Zeus
 Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:26 pm
I just don't know if I can. The new Total Recall stars Colin Farrel with two of the hottest women in Hollywood (Biel and Beckinsale), Bryan Cranston as Cohagen, and even Bill Nighy as Kuato. The real problems are:

1) you're trying to remake a Verhoven film. That mad Dutchman was brilliant in making odd movies work well. There's a reason no one's ever remade a movie of his
2) it's Len Wiseman. The Underworld movies were OK but it's not like there's a good pedigree there
3) freakin' Colin Farrel. I don't hate the guy or anything but he's trying to take over from Ahnold, not exactly the guy to do it IMO

I really want it to be good as in the right hands, I think a Total Recall remake would be phenomenal (so would Robocop; very sad to hear Aronofsky pulled out of that one, he's one of the few I would trust to remake Verhoven). But Len Wisemen, really? The previews, once they're released, will hopefully quell my fears, I just don't have faith they will
 #154874  by SineSwiper
 Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:25 am
Ugh... there hasn't been enough time to remake that movie. I swear they are lowering the bar for the age of films that they remake.

Also, the two hottest women in Hollywood are in fact: Scarlett Johansson and Olivia Wilde. I wouldn't be offended if somebody mentioned Christina Hendricks, Mila Kunis, Elizabeth Hurley, or Mary Elizabeth Winstead, though.
 #154895  by Imakeholesinu
 Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:51 pm
Wilde yes, Kunis is second.

I want to say that if they ever have to re-make the alien films, Mary Elizabeth Winstead should be Ripley.