figured that you looked for it. Damned honor system fails me again.

well at least I'm honest myself

even posted the video that showed me the way to open my mind

yeah, talking to moving tripe isn't the best way in my opinion.

true

but it is a great conversational starter

BUT if it speaks back to you, it is then time to go NUTTS

harpo

meh, not really

then its time to be truly entertained

this raises the question: Harpo, have you seen Total Recall?

which version? the book? the first movie or the second movie?

harpo

Well, the novelization by the same name is merely a book based on an earlier script of the movie. The movie was based on a story called "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale". There's a remake planned, but it's still in pre-production. There was also a television series which was an attempt at a prequel to the movie, but it was more like BladeRunner, which was based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" written by the same author as the story I named above.

I mean the movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I have it on dvd, and yes i did watch it, I also have the electric sheep book, and the novelisation of the swartzennigger movie.

harpo

what did you mean by second movie? the pre-production one I mentioned or do you count the Schwarzenegger film as the second? In which case, what is the first?

Total Recall is the first, Minority Report is the second.

the swartz is the first to my memory, and I remember seeing in the video stores a movie called total recall that did not have swartz in it, and I have NOT seen minority report.

harpo

minority report - remove the main actor (can't remember the losers name) and replace with someone better and the movie would be awesome

Minority Report was a story by the same author as We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, but it was in no way related. Even then, Total Recall is much different from the short story and so even if they were related, it would hardly appear so on the silver screen. If you're thinking of them in terms of being related via the original author, then Blade Runner comes first.

I can not help you with whatever you saw in the video store. Maybe the pilot to the series.

Minority Report would be better without Tom Cruise, but I feel that Steven Spielberg's treatment of science fiction in the past years has been fairly weak. I think he's burnt out his best work in the genre and, although his other films are often great, should retire from creating more science fiction.

ET FTW

Philip K. Dick..lest we forget

quite an interesting character

Yeah well, everyone loves science fiction!

speaking of, any heard about the movie Neuromancer?

They'll start filming in Toronto in 2011.

They better NOT screw that one up.

Hadn't heard. Know who's involved?

no, but here's some random link about it

http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/05/18/william-gibsons-neuromancer-finally-coming-to-the-big-screen/

No, I'm thinking of it in terms of when Philip K. Dick was writing the script for Minority Report, he gave the movie the title Total Recall 2 before changing it to Minority Report.

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-mussoP delixE

I was born backwards

seriously, I was a Frank breach baby and the doctor saw no need to do a C-section

I can't help imagining whether this thread will be here in another 20 years...