Quintus 5,391 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Howdy, Quaid. If you're watching this, that means that Kuato is dead, and you led us to him. I knew that you wouldn't let me down. Sorry for all of the shit I've put you through, but hey, what are friends are for? All I want to do is wish you happiness and good living, old buddy, but unfortunately, that's not gonna happen. You see, that's "my" body you have there, and I want it back. Sorry for being an Indian giver, but I was here first. So, adios, amigo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I haven't seen Inception yet but I can guarantee you Total Recall has it beat in the best score category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 27,216 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 LOL. How can you compare these 2 movies? One is a fun sci fi romp and the other is a deadly serious intellectual/political/dreamscape thriller. I dunno. I liked em both quite a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 388 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Femme Fatale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 27,216 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Oooh I love Femme Fatale. Great movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 319 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I agree w/ Jason, even though both films deal w/ manipulation of the human mind, they ultimately don't deserve to be on the same level of comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 Why not? They share more than just 'dreams' as a concept - indeed, both movies also happen to use corporate espionage as the central plot device. Just because one masquerades as 'high brow' sci-fi (when it doesn't have stuntment firing machine guns out of car windows windows, that is) doesn't make it beyond comparison, with an Arnie star vehicle; especially when the Verhoeven movie is easily the smartest movie of Arnie's career. If anything, I admire the way Total Recall leaves any pretentions the K. Dick novel may have had and got on with the job proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corellian2019 319 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 If you read Philip K. Dick's short story, you'll agree that the film adaptation, as entertaining as it was, did the source material a disservice. Bottom line: "Inception" had brains and action all the way through, "Total Recall" had brains at the beginning but ultimately abandoned them for mindless over-the-top action towards the end. I still love "Total Recall", though, as it still holds a special place in my heart for being either the first or second Schwarzenegger movie I ever saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 126 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Inception is totally an updated Total Recall, mixed with a bit of eXistenZ and The Matrix. While the middle part of the film went in a more complex (almost P.K. Dick-ish) direction that I was hoping would lead to an equally complex and ambivalent ending, the simplistic ending of the film was ultimately just the same as in eXistenZ and Total Recall. Throughout both Total Recall and Inception there are more than enough hints that it doesn't end in 'reality', yet both leave it in so-called doubt (though Total Recall does the trick somewhere in the middle, in Inception it's the last shot). That said, Inception is the better movie, has a much, much worse score. But if left me hugely disappointed with its obvious ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AC1 3,565 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Don't we need to compare Inception with James Cameron's Strange Days? At least, that's what I heard the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 859 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 You could, although you know what is real and what isn't in Strange Days. The only "mystery" is figuring out who the killer / bad guys are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 44 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 If Inception looks half as dated in 20 years as Total Recall looks now I'll be very surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 It will do, it's normal. Then again, I still love the seedy commercial look of Total Recall. It's has the same photographic style as Robocop - another movie which blows a stuck up movie like Inception out of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,064 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Inception. blows a stuck up movie like Inception out of the water. Your opinion is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 You're right in that it is my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,476 Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Common Cohagen you got what you wanted. Give this people ayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,391 Posted July 22, 2010 Author Share Posted July 22, 2010 That's got to be the best internet forum Arnie impression I've seen. At first I was like what is this jibberish?; then the penny dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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