The Total Recall trailer looked NOTHING like the original Total Recall. What it DID look like was a cut-scene from a video game. And I'm not talking unfinished effects, but rather, design, pacing, staging, camera angles.
There was one showcase scene where Colin Farrell snaps into kung-fu mode, and the camera goes into a 360 shot as he disables a number of armed guards surrounding him.
EXCEPT
It's one of those artificial 360 shots, and Farrell evidently becomes a CG character doing superfast karate, with the camera moving in between columns to obscure his wiry computer movements. Which will look better when it's fully rendered. And likely NOTHING like an actual human being, and nothing like the actual Farrell, all for a cheap gimmick to turn Quaid into a kung-fu machine.
It was like a two minute scene, then a forty five second montage of sequences, and it looked ABYSMAL. Generic gray color scheme, ludicrous space battleships, running, shooting, everything looking the same, no style whatsoever.
They showed this after the trailer for the new Underworld (which, apparently, has morphed into Resident Evil, in more ways that one). Both had a video introduction by Len Wiseman. It made me fear for a future where every movie is made by Len Wiseman, or a clone of Len Wiseman, and it has incomprehensible PG-13 action, and Kate Beckinsale, and it looks like a shitty videogame.
I am ashamed at the nerds of Comic-Con not booing this shit out of the room.
