Escape to the Movies: Total Recall

[octafish]

I might see this in about two weeks...

...two weeks...

...Two wEEks...

...Twwwwwooo Weeeeeeeeeeeks...

I'd rather watch an episode of Sea Quest while playing Splinter Cell...too much is not enough Ironside.

 

[Callate]

I'm going to hazard a guess that this particular episode was composited of an unusually large number of takes, and thus the varying levels of accent.

No problem with the content of the review itself, however- I'm hearing "boring" out of a lot of other critics' mouths as well, so I'd hardly leap to call it a case of bias.

 

[irmasterlol]

Aw yeah. Boston Bob is back. I think you should contrive a reason to do a split personality character just to make use of that sexy accent and your broadcast voice.

 

[themilo504]

Nice video but there?s one thing I disagree with luigi isn?t a fox he?s a kitsune look it up and you understand.

 

[Don Reba]

I have to say, Bob's list of what summer movies were great, flawed, and terrible made me most skeptical towards the rest of the review.

 

[Revolutionary]

I love the Boston accent slips. I really shouldn't but I do.

 

[Hitchmeister]

I went to see this yesterday, as usual completely disregarding Bob's assessment, and it's not a bad movie. However, nothing about it is good enough to justify it's existence. It doesn't do anything significant better enough than the 1990 version to make it worth watching. It's just more expensive, and not quite as fun. If this looks good to you, I highly recommend that you watch Arnold again instead.

Unnecessary remakes are becoming a depressing trend.

 

[Lionsfan]

I didn't see the most important of questions addressed in this movie.

Does the remake have the 3 boobed chick?

...Seriously, that's all I wanna know.

Yes, but you don't see full frontal with her. That's another stupid thing is that they made this a PG-13.

That made me happy...and then angry...and now just angry

I'm gonna go now. The internet is no place to be randomly angry over trivial matters.

I didn't see the most important of questions addressed in this movie.

Does the remake have the 3 boobed chick?

...Seriously, that's all I wanna know.

Yes, but you don't see full frontal with her. That's another stupid thing is that they made this a PG-13.

Oh what? Bullshit! Thats the only thing anyone really remembers about the original. Why would you do a thing like that?

I don't know what movie Aiddon saw, but the 3-boobed chick is in there, and yes they give you a frontal shot.

 

[Lazarus Long]

I am not at all surprised.
No, I take that back. The fact that there is an elevator shaft straight through the planet surprises the hell out of me. I cannot Flat What hard enough.

Also, to be fair, the First Class sequel is, as far as I have heard, simply subtitled Days of Future Past. I'm cynical enough to assume the plot will be completely unrelated.

Also also:
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[The Deadpool]

I guess the schwartz really wasn't with them. All I can say about this film is: Thanks for the mammaries.

And your accent was coming through wicked thick in this review Bob.

Yeah, this is the most his Boston accent has ever come out in video...

Not nescessarily a bad thing btw...

 

[MBE]

Moviebob, please choose an accent and stick with it! Who do you think you are, Kevin Costner in "Prince of Thieves"?

 

[DeMorquist]

Wait its "Against the Rules" to compare a remake to the original?

Lies....and Bullshit...

If you go and remake a movie...and the old one had a good standard and was awesome...then damn straight you can...

 

[ace_of_something]

The 'lens flare' thing made me laugh a lot harder than it had any right to.

 

[Domoslaf]

On the topic of Colin Farrell in serious/sad roles, has anyone seen "In Bruges"?

Colin Farrell is really amazing in that one and I won't say a bad thing about his acting after watching it. Have to completely agree with Bob, he's just not being cast right.

 

[zombflux]

Make up your mind Bob, do you have an accent or not.

I'd stick with not.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

As i thought, generic sci fi movie. Although i am getting fed up with the over the top choreographed fight sequences in every movie. Its getting boring. Best fight in a movie was in Versus, just because the main character was using boxing. Boxing zombies. Heehee.

 

[RubyT]

Is there some escapist insider joke I'm missing about the reviewer's accent..?

 

[gardian06]

bob is biased, and from Bohston got it.

Ok I can tell Luigi is a fox. what did people think he was? did they think he skinned Tails, and only kept one?

EDIT: after reading this weeks intermission I would like to clarify the first 3 words of the post. I can Bob biased based on him spending the first quarter of the review talking about how the original version of the movie was "the shit", and then spending the rest of the review saying that this remake is "shit". this shows a direct disdain for the remake before he even started talking about the movie that he was going to.

This is stupid. He is showing disdain for the remake because he watched it and didn't like it. But you are a scrub and a scrub likes to shout out "bias!" whenever someone disagrees with them.

I never said that I disagreed with Bob I said that he showed direct bias, and basically even stating it himself "...one of those things that my generation overstates the awesomeness of..." (4:56), and "...the last great action movie of the 80s, or the first great action movie of the 90s..." (4:58). I felt that this remake didn't fail as a remake which was the first jump that even bob made I felt it failed as an action movie. its cases like this that I would like to bring up Bob's own "Star Wars Episode 1: 13 years later" review where he talks about how nostalgia can cloud opinion, and then leads to undue disdain.

And jumping at me because I disagreed with bob, and state a reason for it that you go and call a "scrub" I can respond with similar, but I wont sink to that level I will just point you to Jim's video for this week

 

[Fearzone]

I thought it was good, not great. If I had to choose one to watch again, I'd pick this over the original. This one had a good cyberpunk/film-noir vibe, that repeatedly recalled Bladerunner and not in a bad way, and that alone made this movie immersive. Add to that decent action, serviceable acting, and hot female leads, and it is easily worth a watch if you are a science fiction fan.

My only wish is that they condensed the action more and filled it with more characterization and story, as with the sci-fi greats of yesteryear.

Also I'm not sure they got the physics of the "Fall" right. If it was in free fall to the center of the earth, with some mild added lift bringing it back up to the other side, there would be zero gravity for half the ride and weak gravity for most of the rest of it, which we didn't see.

 

[Sovereignty]

Your accent came out really strong here. I wish you would do entire episode with your real voice. I think everyone else would agree.

I wouldn't for one. I can't stand the accent, no digs against him, but it just doesn't flow well. Made this review hard to sit through because of the constant shifts back and forth.

I'd rather there be no accent, but if you have this sort of back and forth thing going on... Just stick with one.


As for the movie, the original was pretty awesome. It didn't seem to be actively trying to be serious. This one? The trailers just reeked of "Look I'm Jason Bourne! I mean, LOOK I'm Jason Bourne... FROM THE FUTURE!"