This is a trailer for a trailer guys. And I’m totally covering it. I don’t know what to tell you… this world’s in trouble and I’m a part of it.
I’ve always refused to run the EW teasers where the footage is in a little box or cut amongst shitty interviews, so I can at least feel good that this is an actual trailer and — all things being equal — actually has as much or more footage than most true teasers.
All that said, I know how sad this is.
Man, I can’t imagine the Sony execs have ever been more pleased with themselves as they are for greenlighting the Total Recall remake that doesn’t include Mars.
Okay well, yes, that is all big-budget science fiction stuff that you would anticipate being in this kind of blockbuster remake. Len Wiseman is doing his thing, but 30 seconds of money shots isn’t even enough to be cynical about if one were so inclined. Even thinking movies have explosions ya’ll.
I do kind of like that shot right after the little 5th Element hover car swoops down, where it looks like you actually get a sense of gut-lifting inertia. That’s kind of cool.
Check back Sunday.
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So is the Inception “Ediath Piaf slowed down” music cue the new “Neo bending backwards dodging bullets”? Sure, it’s not the exact same music but….
It sure seems to be. Maybe they’re counting on a Pavlovian response to that cue. When President Obama and his eventual opponent start using it in their election commercials, then we’ll know that it’s gone too far…if it hasn’t already. DUNNNNNNNNN!
A lot of movies have been using that ploy to use the Inception BWAWM sound to market their films, making them feel like more important works of art than they really are. It tends to work. Anyways, I just watched the original Total Recall a few weeks ago. It surprisingly still holds up. This looks like Minority Report to me. I do like that the chair has the same look and feel to the original one.
If those terrible spoof movies wanted to actually be smart, they’d have some scene of a King walking out in slo-mo to address a huge crowd and rather than the usual medieval fanfare, his music guys do the Inception “Bwaaaaah!!”.
I actually completely forgot this was a Len Wiseman joint, til it reminded me with every particle of it’s being, that it was a Len Wiseman joint. I always though the dodgy FX integration was caused by the budget restrictions on Underworld and the general chaos of the Die Hard shoot. But nope, that’s his actual style. Oh, and his wife of course.
So we get BWAWM and no MAHS. I don’t expect to be happy on Sunday (well, outside Game of Thrones starting up again).
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