The kids and I watched Total Recall last fall, and it was the first time I had seen it in yonks. I enjoyed it, but it was less satirical than I had hoped, compared to Robocop or Starship Troopers, for instance. It was breezier than I remembered.
Story goes that David Cronenberg was originally in pre-production to adapt Dick’s story. But once Schwarzenegger expressed some interest, the studio contracted him and gave him his pick of director. Being a big fan of both Dick and Cronenberg, I can’t help but wonder what that version would have been like.
BEING: The MENTIONS OF PHILIP DICK [begins to slowly read very long list]
PHIL: Jesus Christ, doesn’t anyone read the books anymore? Oh wait, there was one… Are you sure we can’t get, whaddayacallit, streaming here? Mary and the Giant? No fucking way!
So far I’ve seen five episode.
Its a little hit or miss… but over all I like it a lot! I want to re-watch them, there’s a lot stuffed into each episode!
I just HATE the credit/intro, which admittedly is a weird thing to complain about, but we are in the age of excellent intro/credits! Westworld, Stranger Things, hell even Godless and Hell on Wheels had excellent ones! (And while I never skipped the theme song of Voyager we would scream like banshees if a single note of the theme of Enterprise played!) It sets the tone for the show, and that tone should note be “the 90s reboot of Twilight Zone”.
As a fan of Paradise Lost, the story can only improve now that The Devil is on the scene. He always steals the show. Milton tried to redeem himself with Paradise Found but Jesus was no match for the Prince of Darkness] .
I have a colleague who has been hounding me relentlessly to watch this show. If you’re recommending too, I am moving it up in the queue. I didn’t know there was a PJ Harvey soundtrack.
She has a few songs in there, but she helped produce the soundtrack. The theme song is Nick Cave’s Red Right hand… and there are like about a million versions by different artists through out the series, including Harvey. It’s one of the few cases where a historical drama is marred by having modern music as part of the soundtrack. I usually hate that anachronism, but it works for this show.
And Tom Hardy shows up as the leader of a Jewish gang down in London, and he’s hella funny…
Currently in theatre to see Maze Runner: The Death Cure.
EDIT:
Fantastic. As a not-fan of the series, I love it. Basically Mad Max meets Ocean’s Eleven. I find zombie fiction to be pretty mined out, but here it makes for an excellent film. I give this an 7/10.
Finally got around to watching Moonlight… what a beautiful and engrossing film. It’s one of those that really gets under your skin. I feel like I’m going to be thinking about it and wondering about it’s meaning for a while now. It deserved Best film last year, easily.
