The part about them referring to Australia as "The Colony" is somewhat amusing if you're familiar with the country's history as a penal colony. It's not a laugh riot by any means, but worthy of a small smirk.

Oh come on, Smeghead, have you never been to The Bar? I love their Beer beer and Burger burgers!

Something that really bothered me about this movie that you didn't mention is that, just like the original, the big climax is an attempt to save the innocent civilians from being killed by the bad guys, except the original actually gave us some time with Quaid interacting with the civilians and giving us a chance to get to know them. That way, we're emotionally invested in whether they live or not.. With the remake, we don't care about the bystanders in Australia who the bad guys are about to kill -- they're just a bunch of people we've never seen before.

18:22 That's not an elevator system, it's a Wonkavator system.

Of course the special effects for the original Total Recall were great. The guy who did the effects was Rob Botin, who did the effects for John Carpenter's The Thing. As soon as I saw that in the credits, I thought "Oh yes, this movie's gonna look awesome!"

To get from Australia to Brittan in 17 minutes you'd have to average 28,000 miles per hour. There's also the impossibility of traveling through the eath's core with extreme pressures and temperatures.

Replacing Schwarzenegger with Colin Farrell is like replacing Tom Hanks with Adam Sandler.

The closest anyone has come to Dick's story is a Mamaduke cartoon I saw in print years ago. Marmaduke is asleep in his doghouse when a tiny spaceship lands. The tiny aliens get his paw print on a peace treaty and fly away. The confused dog goes back to sleep.

Fun Fact: Len Wiseman also worked on the miniature effects for Quest of the Delta Knights which is featured in one of my favorite MST3K episodes!

As Film Brain joked in his review “See British Imperialists, just wait a few years and we can get back our old colonies” Seriously don’t know what to make of that plot point.

The Colony actually does work as a name because Australia was literally just that back in the day. Plus it invokes the allegory they're going for better: a place for the refuse of society according to the rich.

For many years, I didn't know this version existed. I miss that.

This movie is one of my guilty pleasures, I love it. I love the idea of living space being the move valuable resource on the planet at the moment, and having to get creative w/ building upwards and out, using the high powered magnets to double the highways, the glowing tattoos, and the hand phone! that you can throw up onto any glass surface? W/ the way they're making phone smaller and smaller but w/ more convenient features, I feel like this is a possible thing in a century or so. I tell myself that they could basically take apart the rest of the world to build it all since everywhere else is empty and uninhabitable. I feel like this movie's biggest flaw is calling itself a remake of Total Recall, they could've made a few little tweaks here and there and called it something else, then it wouldn't have been compared to it's superior predecessor.

This remake was just pointless:Arnold did it better in the early 90s and the remake couldn't top it.

Oh also i wanna take this time to say R.I.P Roddy Rowdy Piper :"(

15:29 A virtual recording that can only answer the "right" questions? Hey! That's like "I, Robot," another film I'd rather be watching.

You'd be a great director, smeghead. You're brilliant.

Honestly, Australia's reaction (22:50) is the most realistic aspect of this movie.

Dude, you nailed it! Especially the hair wrap and the last scene where you comment about Beckinsale being married to the director.

Bar? Highlander II did that as well. "McCloud goes to bar to have drink..." - Spoony.

The special effects in the original were amazing

I can't wait until the Cinematic Excrement for the new Ghostbusters movie. Should have a fun time with that video.

Even though this film is forgettable, the hover car chase scene was AWESOME to see in the theater.

Those lens flairs are such a dumb idea. It's just pointlessly adding a defect to the shot.

The fall is actually theoretically possible. Assuming that you can survive the core and assuming you can force it away from the core (otherwise ud be stuck there, so powerful rockets or something) youd keep falling towards the surface on the other side of the planet until you came out the hole, as long as someone catches you your good, otherwise youd fall back straight down the hole and out the other side hoping for someone to catch you. Which the movie actually does show. Suprisingly. Neil degrasse tyson made a video about it i think through cosmos.

Is it me or is there a long break between each episode of cinema excrement? Great series of shows. Keep up the brilliant work.

i´ve got 4 kids to feed !

There was one thing that really struck me as weird (not bad, just weird) in the 1990 version. The big fight with his wife goes on for quite a while and they almost kill one another. Then,exhausted, they finally stop and just sit down and converse. I didn't know what to make of it

Love the disclaimer at the beginning!!!

No mention of how he managed to carry an unconscious Melina all the way from where he crashed his car to his old apartment covered in blood through busy streets without anyone noticing.

New Cinematic Excretment! Quick! Watch it before the Copyright Hammer falls!

Thumbs up for Kevin Owens shirt.

15:15 In their defense, the idea of "interactive recordings" has been done before. Star Trek: The Next Generation did it pretty well.

6:23 - 6:32 That made me laugh so hard I had to pause the video to get over my sheer laughing fit. Come on Filmmakers, that makes absolutely no sense! The earth isn't like a giant apple that you can just drill a hole through, there's multiple levels of rotating flows of molten rock that wouldn't consistently remain open long enough to set up some kind of intraplanetary (intra- as in on the same planet) train line, and how hot it is (the outer core being the same temperature as the surface of the sun), goes without saying (you could not insulate the walls against heat like that). How do these hollywood writers constantly continue to get jobs when it's pretty clear that they all failed their fourth-grade science classes? And lastly, if it didn't work as a plot element in "The Phantom Menace", it's most certainly not going to work here.

Could have just called it The United Colonies of Australia. lol. Or something similar.

J.J. Abrams: I like lens flares Weisman: Sit down boy and hold my beer

Yes, smeghead. I've had many dreams of being in a movie with Jessica Biel.... Just wasn't an action movie.

I can imagine Jessica Biel having a meeting with a movie executive who's a bit like both Alan Partridge and Tony Hayers, and he's telling her, "You have a proven track record for starring in mostly bad films."

I'm definitely the minority on this, but I liked this movie. I think the handphone is not only plausible but possible in the future, with the way we're glued to our phones, the fact that they keep getting smaller or skinnier or somehow more convenient for the hand to hold, eventually, it'll be easier to just implant a phone into one's hand. And being able to project onto any glass surface? Makes sense if we're talking convenience, you can find a pane of glass almost anywhere, and we can already cast from our phones to tv screens, and the purpose would serve the same as Facetime, Skype, etc. do now. I also like the idea of building upwards since living space is the most valuable commodity in that universe, when you can't expand outward the only other direction to go is up. They use high-powered magnets in everyday objects like cars so it's feasible to think they use it to hold up their buildings like there highways. They can scavenge the world for supplies as long as they have enough oxygen, that's how I imagine they got the supplies to build The Fall and stuff. Lastly, and in retrospect, I look at the magnetic cars driving under the highway as like the sleeping pods on Passengers, they've never failed before and so are assumed to never fail at all. I mean really, it would take someone pretty stupid, desperate, or suicidal to test the theory of the magnets failure.

great video!

The wikipedia entry on the original novella says that for the 1990 movie, they secured the rights to the source material from Philip K Dick, and it was loosely based on it, while the 2012 remake was based solely on the 1990 movie and didn't even credit Dick. My opinion is that it was based on the 1990 original, made by someone who didn't even understand that movie.

Cinematic Excrement Great review. Looking forward to the next. I hope, judging by your clue, that it's Jupiter Ascending. I enjoyed that movie for its over-the-top anime insanity, but it's definitely not good. Also, please consider reviewing the Conan remake in the future. I've been wanting you to tackle it since your Conan the Destroyer review.

Wait, wait, wait....they did a Conan remake? When in the devil's house did this take place?

Total Recall and Starship Troopers are my "bucket of ice cream".

15:20-an interactive hologram of someone who'll only tell you the answers to the questions you ask if they're the right questions? That's a ripoff of I, Robot (at least the movie, I don't know if the hologram device is in the book).

Everyone laughed when the colony came up on screen at the cinema (I live in Australia). Then I had a sinking feeling. That this movie wasn't going to be as good.

That Kevin Owens shirt though. Great review!

"You can't swipe it out for the newest model!" Two words: HAND. TRANSPLANTS. I see Apple's newest fad!

You know, Smeghead, I really don't get how come Hollywood hasn't snatched you there yet: Everything bad about these movies - you guys made them interesting.(hope I didn't say it wrong) P.S. Never saw Total Recall in full length, and now I'm really glad I no longer have to! Thanks a lot!

They looked so weird with their hand phones like when we were little kids and we were too old for a play phone, but not too old to pretend.

931 Lens Flares. Amazing we don't go blind watching this.

It's funny that you mentioned Minority Report because Minority Report was originally going to be a sequel to Total Recall.

I knew it was gonna be this one.

oh, that Total Recall -- totally agree

A phone implanted in your hand sounds exactly like where wearables will eventually end up, the glass is a. probably not random and b. done for the audience. Also, why are we questioning tech in a sci-fi movie?

Am I the only one who has the suspicion that this movie didn't start out as a remake of Total Recall in the first place? But because marketing, they shoehorned in elements from Total Recall at some point after production started.

I do admit, the phone hand is pretty fucking cool, despite the fact that you'd probably have to chop your hand off whenever you want to update haha

The core of the Earth has extreme pressures and temperatures, molten iron under extreme pressure. "The Fall" is not possible.

you are reviewing this movie in a kevin owens t-shirt. SUBBED!!!!!

22:29 Those look like cheap knockoffs of the Stormtroooper outfits.

Big thumbs up for saying Verhoeven properly!

Futuriest Future That Ever Futured should be the name of a TVTrope page.

So glad Kate will never be in an Underworld movie again.Thank u gawd.

I just realized: Kate Beckinsale and Bill Nighy in a Len Wiseman film? It's this just an Underworld reunion?

Love that KO shirt!

Imagine if the remake went more into the psychological side of how the "not knowing what is real and what isn't" confliction messes with the main character. Add a layer where regardless of what is the truth, he now has more respect and appreciation for that traditional lifestyle, showcasing that he has made peace with his mid-life crisis.

"Super Dystopian Brothers" - I wanna play that.

I think the magnet cars are like the sleeping pods in The Passengers, they've never ever failed, until now.

18:57 I watched this video to see if you missed it. You did. After an hour runtime of chasing and searching, she tells Quaid she can bring him to see the head honcho. And like skipping through the nearest door, there they are!

I knew you were going to review this film.

was it normal glass though? if i remember, didn't he press his hand to a billboard who were already showing holographic images? i just though that the glass was a screen that read the palm and showed the video feed.

I didnt know you were a Kevin Owens fan, Smeghead! Nice!

is it me or does the presenter look like a johnny cab?

I've got to give it to you, very witty humor :)

OH PLEASE LET THE NEXT REVIEW BE GALAXY QUEST!!!

05:31 - "Oh I love going to Bar. I usually order sandwich and have drink." ^_^ hehehe

7:30 thats how wearing glasses is most of the time lol

It's that time of the month.

The elevator system is reminiscent of the death corridor in galaxy quest

The events of the original movie are not a fantasy in Quaid head because their are scene where he is not present. However from Quaid's point of view it's not really clear as to whether the events of the movie are real since from his point of view everything that has happened to him could be a hallucination.

All I remember from the Conan remake is they went into his backstory more.

About climbing outside "the Fall": The travel time is 17 minutes (1020 seconds) Travel distance: 12742 km/7917 miles (theoretical assumption) That gives them a speed of 12490 m/s (~45000 kph/28000 mph)! They exiting the vehicle right after passing through the earths core, the temperature is ~5000° C/9000° F The surrounding pressure at that deepth is ~3 600 000 atmospheres (Pressure at the Titanic wreck is ~377 atmospheres) Possible? Nah

According to universetoday.com, the average diameter of Earth is 7,926 miles. The movie says that The Fall travels this distance in 17 minutes. Using the formula that I’m sure we all remember from high school, distance = rate x time, we see that The Fall travels at a speed of 466.24 miles per minute or 27,974.4 miles per hour.

A short doucumentry on the fall would be a good special feature on a special edition on a new blu ray.

The point of the genocide plotline is to point out how people in less developed countries are often seen as expendable. Again, see the Britain/Australia relationship. The movie's point is all the problems in its world arise from people thinking of themselves and not considering the consequences.

You should review Inspector Gadget.

The stamp on the arm does raise a new question, why didn't his "friend" trying to talk him down tell him to check his arm to see if the stamp was there or not? In the original the ambiguity was there, not to mention that scene was much more intense. It wasn't bad but a lot of it didn't feel a bold as the other film was, also that woman who effectively takes on Michael ironside's role was doing almost everything and was nearly everywhere, she is literally a movie example of a mary sue.

Crazy to think back when the remake came out the original was 22 and now its 32 even the remake is turning 10 this year.

I never noticed the lense flares when I watched this😆😰

The "I give good wife" bit kinda makes sense when you consider the guy who made the film was her husband at the time, I think this movie was a way for him to show off his hot wife, she's supposed to be the secondary antagonist I thought, yet she's in it more and lasts longer than Cranston, who I thought was the Big Bad

Well the old one is pretty obvious it all went down in his head too. The straps they use at recall on his arms are like Velcro, but when quade wakes up he rips a metal restraint off the chair. Also “blue skies on mars that’s a new one”

That elevator system reminded me of The Cube. If you ever have the chance you should review it and its weirdass sequel...

I believe I recall that they had an alternative "recording" where they had another actor play Carl Hauser. Which if true, would explain why no one recognized the most important spy/agent/(what ever he is) the evil government had (and I'm talking about his fellow spies who surely some of them would know him on sight)

Actually, the implant phone could be invisible until activated. Use a subdermal film of graphene a few molecules thick as a substrate. Add metalic layers so the upper and lower surfaces act as a thermocouple, generating power from the differential between your body heat and the outside air. Electronic components, light emitting elements, even an antenna can be created by modifying and doping the graphene sheet. The result is a flexible phone that is invisible and can't be felt by the person it's implanted in.

Another video game this steals visiually from: the robot soldiers look exactly like Sith Troopers from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

10:30 I swear to god, for a second I thought you said 'Bill Nye'.

Forgot they even made a Total Recall remake.

interactive recording with a message that only responds to the right questions...didn't that happen in i, robot?

I'm gunna roll around on the floor now, kay?

Kate Beckinsale’s performance in this film was absolutely horrendous