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The Royal Game of Ur is just a background detail in the very beginning of Screamers - my first specialty was ancient history - so that kind of thing nerded me out big time back in the day.
As for Total Recall, Verhoeven wisely did his thing. The O'Bannon/Cronenberg version was much more ambitious and it was basically a kafkaesque political thriller - think of Parallax View except the antagonist and protagonist are the same and it's basically a infernal endless suffering loop.
The remake is just there. not great not awful. just like the Robocop remake - it never commits to do anything in particular. it got some good stuff in-between, the visuals are good and Kate Beckinsale is oddly effective as Richter character. It has the same bones as Verhoeven's movie so it's doesn't go wrong in that regard. The face change was a nice if underdeveloped touch.
Is there a community where people introduce themselves to each other, and... the populace at large? Seems like we've been chatting all the time this week (which is cool IMO), but I didn't know you had a BG in ancient history, and I love that. Maybe we could do a proper intro, somewhere?
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