re: Total Recall(1990) vs Total Recall(2012)

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It was ok to watch for a new sci fi flick. But the cheesiness you say about the original is what makes it so much better. They did it on purpose.

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Well it was an 80s movie as well. But look at its contemporaries for scifi action/chase movie. Running man for instance, they were in the same category of movie, scifi chase movies with social commentaries. (And with Arnold of course.) But Total Recall is far superior in so many ways. Cheesiness goes hand in hand with so many genres in the 80s, but comparitively, the first Total Recall was just a much more successful film, regardless of its time relative faults, than the recent version.

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But the cheesiness you say about the original is what makes it so much better. They did it on purpose.

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They didn't mean for it to be cheesey. That shite was serious business back then.