Turns Out the New Total Recall Recalls the Old Total Recall More Than a Little
Someone assembled footage from the old Total Recall and remade the new Total Recall trailer with it — and then put the two side-by-side. Sure, one is the remake of the other, so you’d expect them to have a lot of scenes in common… but man, it seems like they have every scene in common (well, except for the flying car falling, but the video editor has that covered, as you’ll see). It makes you wonder why they’d even bother to remake James Cameron Paul Verhoeven’s original, until you remember that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. On the plus side, Kate Beckinsale > Sharon Stone — even 1990 Sharon Stone — so at least the new Recall has that going for it, if nothing else. (Via Blastr)
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