The 1st one in my book was much better, are you watching this movie on your PC and are having issue with it?
Bill

Jessica Biel was in the beginning, and is the girl in his dream.  The wife was always Kate Beckinsale.  

kidcrumb

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I am watching it right now and cant make heads or tails of it. Im just over 50 minutes in and saw that Jessica Biel is also in this movie. And, she is the lady in the beginning dream. Is it just me, or does Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel look way too similar in this movie? I am now confused because i dont know which scenes earlier in the movie were Biel, and which were Kate. Was the wife always Kate Beckinsale or did it switch after he went into recall?

 
Biel didn't appear until like half the movie.
 
It was all BS basically, "Big Brother" had it set up in case he went rogue they would eliminate him, So it's always been the undercover chick (Kate) up until half way into the movie.
 
I saw it when it first came out, So I'm not too certain about the movie.
 

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Jessica Biel was in the beginning, and is the girl in his dream.  The wife was always Kate Beckinsale.   

 
 
His wife was biel, wasn't she? Isn't Kate the fake wife?

I thought that it was a good movie. I never watched the original one. It confused me for like 10-15 minutes then I later caught on. 

I think Kate was always the wife. Which is why he didnt tell her about Biel when he saw her in the dream.
 
The first one is a good movie too. Over the top Arnold movie. I am glad though that in the reboot they added the 3-boobed chick again.

touche

I thought it was a very good movie.  I didn't have any trouble following it.  I also liked the original.

It is a good movie. I guess if you had not seen the original, it might be confusing a little.

This is so funny to see talking about Total Recall 2012 being confusing from ppl that never saw the original. 
The 1990 Original Total Recall movie worst complaints were how confusing the plot was which it was indeed confusing as well upon the first viewing.
 
I didn't see the 2012 version.  I will wait for it to come out on the Premium Channels on Directv.  I heard it wasn't as good as the original many times over.  I liked the original so I wasn't going to sink a dime into watching the remake.
 
I guess it didn't improved like the Batman movies have over time. 
 
Neither Melina (Rachel Ticotin) nor Lori (Sharon Stone) were the wife as he didn't
really have a wife.  Lori was brain implanted to be Douglas Quaid - Hauser (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wife in the 1990 version but it wasn't real as discovered half way into the movie.

I think the real question is, is the whole situation just his imagination due to the drugs injected to create the memories, or is this really happening to him? Because they had to push some of the drugs either way to get one of the two scenarios.

Sleepee

It really is pretty confusing, especially with like you said, the similarities between the two actresses. I caught it last summer with my brother, and we both agreed that the CGI is perhaps the only thing that kept us even remotely interested in it, but I wouldn't watch it again. Never saw the original.

I'm sorry but I guess kids really are getting dumbed down these day having all the answers on wikipedia or youtube
I saw the original one long ago and now that movie was confusing!!! It was a lot harder to figure out if he even left earth to go to mars or if he was dreaming or ****?
I think that's one of the reasons it became a cult movie.
To be honest all I remember is Arnie and lots of violence and the girl with 3 boobs which they also had in the new one
I like the newer one better for the better CGI and better looking girls personally
 

I liked the movie. It had a few visceral moments, and changed the typical plots up a bit so I never really could guess how many of the scenes would play out. I did watch the original though, so maybe that's why I did not find the new one confusing 
 

stephen92 

I think the real question is, is the whole situation just his imagination due to the drugs injected to create the memories, or is this really happening to him? Because they had to push some of the drugs either way to get one of the two scenarios.

 
There's a pretty big tell at the end of the movie that clues the viewer in to what scenario really happened... there's also a few hints dropped in along the way via the billboards.  Even so, the tell was done in a way that doesn't completely rule out the second scenario... so I felt it was really up to the viewer to decide on the ending.

Total Recall 2012 was a great movie.  No idea what any of you guys are talking about.  Also nothing about that movie was confusing at all.
 
Also Dredd 2012 did the Dredd comics justice.
 
This thread almost reminds of when Lost ended and people where confused, or when people where confused with Minority Report also

I understood Minority Report. 
 
I also understood Total Recall (Both of them).
What confused me for the first half of the movie was the Jessica Biel looks like the other girl thing.
 
the new dredd movie was ok. Other judge girl in it is super hot.