Verehoven did a good job on it, it carries all his signature movie making style just like Robocop and Starship Troopers. You don't really see movies like this anymore.
@@nathanielmcdanel7227and captain of the seaQuest in season 3 seaQuest 2032. Very memorable villains also in Scanners (making people's heads explode) and Space Hunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (as lead villain Overdog)
Schwarzenegger on set noticed that Michael Ironside (Richter) was talking on his phone a lot. Turns out that Ironside's sister had just been diagnosed with cancer. Schwarzenegger spent an hour on the phone with her giving advice about diet and exercise to help her through treatment.
@@AuspexAO yeah but he is sure better than maga crowd, im glad he put his clear views across about fascism and how it affects countries and people if t is not stopped, I think he helped his own people understand and go off trump a bit.
@@alastairwallace6153lol fascism!!! You can't even define it Alastair. Please give an example of when Trump or MAGA crowds were fascist? Cause I can give several examples of democratic or left leaning groups being fascist.
Twice in this movie, Arnold was in 4 on 1 fights. Both of them beautifully choreographed. At no point, was one of the villains standing around, waiting for their turn to get punched. This is the sort of choreography missing in modern cinema.
@robbob5302 - Also, all based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick! - the guy behind stories that were later make into the movies/TV series, such as: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers (the ones with Peter Weller, the same actor from the Robocop and more!), Next (the one with Nicolas Cage), Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, Impostor, or even series such as "The Man in the High Castle". But also in this case, we had Paul Verhoeven doing it (the guy behind Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct, RoboCop, and so on) but also at that point Carolco Pictures, with Mario Kassar (the producer behind Rambo, Terminator 2, The Doors, Angels Heart, Basic Instinct, Universtal Soldier, or Stargate). Edit: grammar...
Never generalize. It always depended on the movie. Lots of villains waited around for Bruce Lee, while John Wick is known to show simultaneous attacks.
This might be an all time great Cassie quote. Along with her Predator reaction where she was like, "Oh no, he damaged his Buzz Lightyear arm thingie!" 😂
This original is light years better than the remake. “What is the work of genius the first time is the work of a tinsmith soon thereafter.” - Tom Clancy
Problably not exactly in this case... as Arnold definitely wanted to be a "movie star", but not necessary to be a good "actor" as such, and he was aware of his own limitations regarding acting (think along the lines of "action hero" > yes, "classic acting" > probably not). He took classes, also ballet ones, but nothing like a professional school. But there are some funny stories from other actors attending something "Juilliard School", such as Alan Tudyk ("Firefly", or recent "Resident Alien") who was commenting about voicing the Chicken in one of the animated movies (famous line > "I went to Juilliard for this") - all in a good way, with a bit of funny sarcasm, as he was getting paid for it anyway :)
The fact that this movie is still remembered, talked about, and rewatched after more than 30 years later proves it’s the far superior film as the remake was a generic sci-fi action flick that quickly became forgotten. Paul Verhoeven (Robocop & Starship Troopers) is excellent when it comes to social commentary wrapped in ultra-violence. He’s also not afraid to push the envelope. That’s why movies like Robocop and Total Recall are so unforgettable. To answer your questions Cassie, Total Recall is suppose to take place in the year 2084, when humans have developed technology for space travel and colonization of other planets. The mutants were the result of high radiation levels on Mars and poor shielding of a cheap dome that didn’t provide enough adequate protection. As for the briefcase, I don’t think you have to worry about that since it was probably sucked out into the vacuum when Richter shot the dome. As long as Quaid still has his ID’s and the money his was given, he should be just fine.
@@aaronrichards9313 Hollywood remakes are invariably cynical cash-grabs by clueless hacks who think audiences are dumb and will happily waste money to watch inferior versions of films we've already seen. The money squandered on inferior remakes would be better spent on original films.
[Edited for clarity] This entire remake era is incredibly disappointing and stupid. Movies, TV shows, music. It's weird. I was listening to the group that covered Toto's song, "Africa." Why did they bother? They sang it Exactly the same way. What's the point of remaking it with almost no difference? And Beyonce trying to sing "At Last" was Painful, and honestly, disrespectful. Then again, I suppose we can't know which will work and which will suck until it's done... Unfortunately But, Alien Ant Farm's cover of "Smooth Criminal" and Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence" are rare because they equal or surpass the originals, which are great to begin with.
People always remember Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor, but to be fair Verhoeven and writers from Robocop and Total Recall also give us two great heroines: Louis and Melina.
TOTAL RECALL original is by far the superior film. Verhoeven is the king of sharp commentary packaged in blockbuster brutal movies. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers are easily dismissed action blockbusters! BUT all have STEEP messaging, commentary and satire. I love this movie on multiple levels of engagement!! I know its not your cup of tea but glad you watched this classic!
Almost all of Verhoeven's movies were underrated at the time but grew on to be timeless classics. How all of his movies only won 2 golden globes, 2 cesars, 1 oscar and 0 BAFTA's is a mystery to me.
Total Recall is the only Verhoeven sci-fi movie with a happy ending, where the revolution happens and the system is overthrown, but it was all a dream!
The driver mentioned the air being the problem, so i'm guessing they didn't turn the oxygen (02) to ozone (O3) which can deflect the ultra violet / high radiation rays that can cause mutations.
@@hughtube5154 No. Oxygen/Ozone is not the issue. (Spoiler alert) Before the event at the end of the movie the Martian atmosphere is as now - thin, mostly C02 and virtually no protection from solar and cosmic radiation plus there is little or no magnetic field on Mars. Earth's magnetic field deflects most solar radiation. The mutations among the humans on Mars are due to radiation exposure from space. Sorry Elon. Colonizing Mars is not just a matter of getting there.
The nostalgia goggles don't matter: the remake didn't have Arnold's charisma or Verhoeven's gonzo attitude as a filmmaker. There's no replacing the former and they didn't understand that the latter is about far more than action scenes.
@Eidlones I like both versions for different reasons. Doesn't make the remake bad like so many people claim it to be. Watching it without thinking of it as a remake actually makes the new movie way better.
Wow. Never thought Cassie would be so invested in these kinds of movies nor that we'd hear her say that the guy, "...really was an a-hole" or "Have you seen your muscles?! You should not be losing! Get him!" 🤣 Love to see it ❤
Dark City has that concept. Alien beings looking for understanding by playing with human memories. Placing them into different ppl while they are sleeping. Then restarting the day.
That's a great film to react to. However, Proyas should have mentioned that he got the idea from the novel Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - famous Russian sci-fi writers.
One theory is that this really IS the secret agent memory. There's a part when he is in Recall where the technician is reviewing the package and says "Huh, Mars with a blue sky", and that is the scenario she's looking at, which happens to be the "end" of the secret agent mission.
Yeah I've heard that one too and it's a common thing with PKD stories, where he questions what exactly is reality. See also the likes of Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, etc.
I think it is a schizoid embolism personally, every time I watch it there's something else, like this time I noticed the guy say at 21:38 warn him that "one minute you'll be leader of the rebel cause and the next you'll be Cohaagen's bosom buddy" it was bad enough already, as we know for a fact that guy works for Recall as he's in the advert on the train at 4:13, so what's the most likely possibility, that Recall has a fail-safe mechanism including the guy from the advert (who would function as a familiar face to customers), or that the leadership of Mars found the dude from the Recall advert, flew him to mars and had him try to trick a dangerous man with a gun, why would the Recall actor agree to that to begin with? All of this is added to the fact that Quad buys the "blue skies on Mars" package, the package includes him being a secret agent, describes Melina and has him saving the planet.
The only "face" that haunted me for longer was the face of that poor Nazi schmuck who gets melted by the Ark's wrath, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark!" Compared to that, the faces in this flick are preschool-caliber effects. lol
The instant recovery reminds me of the space with no suit scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy. They instantly look fresh from the hair and makeup trailer.
I try to incorporate 'Get your ass to Mars' into general conversation as well, even if there's never actually an opportunity to use it with any sort of context.
Same. I say it all the time. I actually do have five kids, my daughter passed away 10 years ago so actually I've got four kids now. So it makes that line even more appropriate is in the movie Benny f**** up and says he's got four kids to feed and then Arnold Lassen what happened to number 5?
My reaction at 15:30: HOLY CRAP! THAT'S GUL DUKAT! Seriously, it had been so long since I last saw this movie that I didn't even realize that Marc Alaimo was in it.
my dad loved this so much he taped it on vhs, cut out all the gore, overdubbed all the swearing so he could watch it with us children. i think i saw it in that form when i was about 10 years old.
rediculous... my parents (mom and step dad) just rolled the damn movies as they were, i was about 11 when Total Recall came out , but the first really graphic and nudity rich movie i saw , was Return of the Living Dead when i was 6 or 7 . and i saw it with my mom and step dad.
@@DenverStarkey Some parents are different and dont want their kids exposed to adult stuff early on until they believe they can handle it. Also, different generation too as a lot of us as kids grew up on R rated action flicks that were ironically turned into Saturday morning cartoons complete with a toy line no less. Good times.
Total Recall would receive a Special Achievement Oscar for its visual effects, which were state of the art at the time. Quite an achievement since its not always easy for the Oscars to recognize sci-fi films.
What do you talking about? 2001, Star Wars, Alien, E.T., Cocoon, Aliens, Innerspace, and The Abyss won Oscars for Visual Effects in previous years. Total Recall won without competition, and that was the "special" thing like Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
@@suebob16 all films are sci fi. And the Oscars always loved to nominated scifi films in sound,m sound effects and visual effects. Several won before Total Recall
This was one of the last major blockbusters to come out before CGI effects took over. Even then, CGI was starting to creep in...such as in the animation of the x-ray skeletons in this movie.
50 people have probably already mentioned this but Total Recall, Minority Report and BLADE RUNNER are all movies based on Philip K Dick stories. Good job noticing the connection. All 3 stories are written in a similar style but the movie adaptations are all very different from each other (and quit different from the stories).
The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly and Impostor are also remarkable adaptations of Dick's works IMO. Screamers and Paycheck are not bad either, and then, Nicolas Cage's Next is... well it has its funny moments, haha.
I haven't seen any of these. I will have to check them out. I don't really like PKD's writing style but I love the concepts that he came up with. And I love to see what movie-makers do with his material.
Arnold is not a great actor -- he's not a BAD actor, but not a great one either -- but he has loads of charisma and impeccable comedic timing. That's why he's such a legendary movie star.
True, but in context, he's pretty incredible. English is not his native language. Imagine if De Niro or Brando tried to act in Austrian for example... They probably wouldn't be as convincing as Arnie is in English. :) Even after becoming fluent, that's going to have an impact on one's performance.
He also attached himself to a lot of good projects. Films like "Terminator", "Total Recall", and "The Running Man" had solid scripts and competent directors. They weren't just star vehicles. A good film can elevate an average actor. But a great actor can rarely save a terrible film.
@@AMortalDefiant In the earlier years, for sure, but he moved to the US in 1968 when he was still only 21. I think DeNiro & Brando would be fine if they were fluent in a 2nd language. DeNiro seemingly had limited or no Italian/Sicilian language skills before doing some scenes in the language in the Godfather II. There are (mostly European, unsurprisingly considering how geographically close so many different languages are) actors that regularly act in multiple languages, including academy award winners. Sometimes in ridiculous numbers, such as Max von Sydow who made movies in at least 7 languages. And of course a bunch of other German, Spanish, French, etc actors who had lauded performances in Hollywood movies, albeit many probably spoke English as a 2nd language earlier than Arnie. Arnie's success is certainly impressive, and the fact that his acting may be quite limited perhaps only makes his success *more* impressive. Personally I think his differences are what made him unique, & sometimes definitely helped with comedy. Likewise Jackie Chan, despite poor english skills throughout his career.
Philip K. Dick who wrote this original story wrote Blade Runner which you were probably thinking of, and Minority Report. He also wrote The Adjustment Bureau which you’ll definitely enjoy and should invite Cassie for. It’s more your style. He also wrote the novel for A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey jr, and Woody Harrelson.
He also wrote The Man in the High Castle, which has featured 4 seasons on Amazon Prime. It is a shame that PKD never experienced how appreciated he went to be.
Fun fact: the guy on the train that was a miner in the pyramid, in real life the actor used to be a drummer for guys like Bob Dylan and in the band First Edition w/ Kenny Rogers.
Sir Alexander Dane : Could they be the miners? Fred Kwan : Sure, they're like 3 years old. Sir Alexander Dane : MINERS not MINORS. Fred Kwan : You lost me. Sorry, couldn't help myself and had to do it 🖖
@Cassie: Useless Trivia: the 3-breasted woman was played by actress Lycia Naff who also appeared as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek: The Next Generation on two episodes in the 2nd season, one of which you watched for P.I.B. (she was the girl who spilled hot chocolate on Captain Picard's uniform that Q cleaned up).
"You blabed Quade you blabed about mars!" Btw fun fact the guy who played the voice of the Johnny cab (Robert picardo) is a star trek veteran playing the EMH in both star trek voyager series and star trek first contact and yes Jerry goldmesh did do the OST of most of the trek movies
Paul Verhoeven the director is well known for having EXTREME violence in his movies and this one is no different! Robocop and Starship Troopers are two other examples of his. But, they are done so well. When I saw this in the theater in 1990, the whole theater cheered and screamed throughout the whole movie. It was awesome! When it was over we all applauded and me and my friend actually watched it for a second time that same day. It was that good. We did the same thing for Robocop a few years earlier.
Extreme violence is a signature of Paul Verhoeven's directing style. It's supposed to be over-the-top. I saw this movie first-run in the theater and have loved it ever since. Arnold puts in a nice effort here as the protagonist, with a great supporting cast including MIchael Ironside as Richter, Sharon Stone as Lori, and Ronny Cox as Cohaagen. The debate rages on as to whether the events post-Recall are reality or implanted. I love uncertainty. Nice reaction!
One of the great things about this movie are how certain everyone I talk to is on whether this was all an implanted experience or whether he was really a sleeper agent. When you see that level of argument on what really happened and it’s intentional from the movie makers then you know it’s a great movie
It's all implanted. Every single thing that happens is exactly what he wanted from his implanted memory. Him waking up during the memory implant and shouting "YOU BLU MY CAVAUH!!!!" is the start of the memory, and the blue skies on Mars is the end.
@@Aethelhald sure, but I've also seen the argument he wanted that implanted memory because he subconsciously remembered that life. There are strong arguments in both directions and that's what I love about this
it was real. the recall place didn't know anything about his wife, but she was in it, proving it was real. the fact that it all happened like he paid for was part of the irony/coincidence.
I like that you said that you can't unsee the eyeball thing,, trust me, 30 years later and it randomly haunts my dreams and is still the first thing i think of whenever Mars is talked about. Good luck ever sleeping again. Rest of the film = awesome.
10:48 - You hit the nail on the head with The Truman Show and Minority Report these were both stories that were also adapted from Philip K Dick stories. The Truman show was inspired by "Time out of Joint" and Minority Report was a Novella of the same name. Philip K Dick produced 44 novels and 121 short stores, and pretty much every work has served as inspiration for other sci-fi authors. The Screamers series, Paycheck, Imposter, The Adjustment Bureau, Next, The Crystal Crypt, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Radio Free Albemuth, and A Scanner Darkly were all pretty heavy adaptations of his work as well. The Man in the High Castle inspired a very well liked Black Mirror episode and then was re-done again as an entire series for Amazon. Finally you have countless Sci-Fi TV/movie authors, directors, producers, and novel writers who cite a Philip K Dick work as their primary inspiration for some of their works (Including people like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg). There are also many more works that Amazon has been working on turning into ideas for movies and series...I believe an adaptation of Clans of the Alphane Moon has been moving forward recently.
Great recap. The mutants were the offspring of the first colonists on mars. They are human but because of the cheap domes and not enough air to filter out cosmic rays it caused the mutation. According to one of the producers, he confirmed that the movie is indeed a dream sequence. The only part that’s real is Arnold at the beginning up until he goes to recall that’s where the dream begins.
That poor dude on the escalator. My man was just on his way home. Ronny Cox makes such a great villain. "In thirty seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes."
WHY cornflakes???? That selection of food choice always bothered me as a kid, when I first heard it! I remember being like, up for hours afterward, unable to fall asleep, trying to think about all the food that I would RATHER EAT than stupid cornflakes (which I despised as a kid, lol)!
"Who told you to THINK?! I don't give you enough information to THINK! You do what you're told, THAT'S what you do!" I had that line on one of those little recorder pens they had back in the day. Always good for a chuckle if someone was having a bad day :)
Jerry Goldsmith once said that he included a not-so-subtle hint that it was a dream at the end of the film, just as they kiss and the screen fades to white (not the usual black, interestingly). It's the little, chirpy musical motif that also appears in connection with Rekall Inc.
Come to think of it, the background in the end must be hacky on purpose too. Those hints could still be for creating ambiguity, though. I still prefer to think it was real. Imagine waking up and all the heroics and good you did was just imagination: The bad people still in charge and no air on Mars, you remember having killed your wife and friends because they were in on it. Hell of a recruiting tool for the underground.
If he said that he lied. There are multiple scenes without Douglas Quade. How does someone's dream include events where the dreamer is not even present?
@@andrewburch1671 If it is a dream, we are shown the world of the dream, not the dream itself. It's not a FPV movie either. It could be JG's own interpretation he just went with and it doesn't really matter that much. Also, the effect might not be part of the written score but added in editing for atmosphere, ambiguity, mindlovemakery or something - not that I even ever noticed it myself, I think. If you want to raise questions in people's minds, a little ambiguity goes a long way. If it's too neatly wrapped up, you're losing a lot of that.
@@andrewburch1671It doesn't necessarily have to be a lie. JG is the music composer, so what he thinks may be a little different than what the writer(s), director, and/or producer(s) have in mind. And the those who are crafting the movie aren't always aware of the minute details the composer adds because they're not musicians; so they're mostly focused on overall and individual themes than "Easter eggs" the composer creates
it's not a dream. there are scenes played out where Quaid is unconscious and other characters are talking. If he was dreaming the film would follow him entirely without those scenes existing.
These old 80's and 90's movies were great fun 😭 lol No doubt, a lot of it is nostalgia, but I'm guessing i would still love it even if i was watching it the first time 😊
The director of this movie is Paul Verhoeven who also directed RoboCop another very graphically violent movie. After this movie he took the blonde, Sharon Stone, from this one and put her is a very cool, sexy, police mystery film called Basic Instinct. If you haven't seen that one you should. It has one of the most talked about scenes in any movie, ever.
I was working as a projectionist in a resort town theater when this movie came out. I got to watch it twice a night for 2 weeks straight. It never got old.
It is actually funny. This film has 2 of 3 Cardassian leaders during the Dominion War in it. Marc Alaimo as the legendary Gul Dukat, and Mel Johnson Jr. as Legate Broca.
it was real. the recall place didn't know anything about his wife, but she was in it, proving it was real. the face that it all happened like he paid for was part of the irony/coincidence.
I can see that, based on Cassie's facial expressions, it's not one of her favorite movies... and there's nothing wrong with that. It's an honest reaction and a fun one at that. Thank you for your reaction, Cassie!
"idk if i can unsee their faces like that" hahaha. Exactly how i thought at about 10 years old watching this with my older siblings. That baby thing on the stomach haunted me lmao
The name kuato comes from the Mexican word cuate, which means friend or comrade since much of the filming of this film took place in Mexico City, at the Churubusco studios.
That sums up what a holiday trip is at the end, nothing else but just a memory of an experience. (That and a bunch of photos no one really cares to look at). And in the grand scheme of it all, it is also our whole life.
When you see the end scene you have to recall the earlier clerk saying, "Hey, Blue sky on Mars, that's a new one" Makes you wonder, was it a dream or was it all happening for real?
Another movie which deals with brainwashing is the 1962 “The Manchurian Candidate” which starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. It was remade in the 2000s with Denzil Washington, Liev Schreiber and Merril Streep. Both are great thrillers
The guy you’re trying to think of the name is Micheal Ironside. he’s been in quite a few things, including being the voice of Sam Fisher in the splinter cell games, but he was also in the next karate kid as the aggressive teacher, and he was in one of the terminator movies
Cassie. In case you haven't notice, this film was directed by Paul Verhoeven. The same director who did the ultra violent, classic sci-fi film "Robocop". The gun blast sound effect in "Total Recall" is the same one used in "Robocop". The actor Ronny Cox, whom the director had worked with in "Robocop" appeared in this film as Vilos Cohaagen. In "Robocop", he played a corrupt OCP executive or #2 OCP guy, who actually hired Clarence Boodicker (Kurtwood Smith) to do his dirty work. He was the very last guy to be shot by Robocop in the high rise office building before free falling to his death. You recognized Jerry Goldsmith, the composer, in the opening credit. Before Hans Zimmer and other current composer, there was John Williams ("Star Wars", "Jaws", "Indiana Jones", "Saving Private Ryan") and Jerry Goldsmith. As you remembered, Jerry composed the theme to "Star Trek". Like John Williams, he has a long list of soundtrack scores as well. Other movie themes done by Jerry Goldsmith that I remember: 1. Star Trek (most or if not all of the films with the Kirk crew and Picard crew) 2. Poltergeist 3. Planet of the Apes 4. Rambo 1 thru 3 5. Patton (classic war film - add it to your bucket list) 6. Tora Tora Tora (probably the most accurate war film about the events leading to the Pearl Harbor attack - add it to your bucket list)
The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven also directed "Robocop" which is why Ronny Cox appeared again in a villainous role.as Cohaagen. The guy who played Richter, Michael Ironside, was originally cast as the lead in "Robocop" but that didn't work out so he was brought back for this one. He was often cast in bad guy roles on TV and in the movies through the '80s and '90s. I've always thought that this was still all an implanted memory of Quaid's "vacation" as a secret agent. Even though there were a lot of complicated twists and turns in the program It pretty much played out the way the Recall people described that it would.
@@berlinkozyreva My understanding is: the film was constructed in such a way that it's equally plausible for Quaid's adventure to be real, or a fantasy. The film doesn't ••compel•• you to accept that Quaid's adventure is a fantasy, but the closing shot, with a bright light of perfect whiteness growing in intensity to fill the screen as the last thing we see, was a deliberate choice and seems very 'fantasy-like.' ...My understanding also, is that the Director had the personal bias that Quaid's adventure IS in fact a fantasy, but constructed the film so as to give the audience the option to interpret it either way. The film DOES have point-of-view shots where Quaid isn't around (where other characters take action). Many (but not all of them) occur before Quaid makes the trip to the Recall memory-implanting service. So an additional point of ambiguity, is we don't know if events up to that point in the story are real, and if a fantasy begins only when Quaid is strapped to the chair at Recall.
@@tranya327 no it's not plausible you dream of crap that that you aren't in like cohaggen giving the order to finally kill Quaid or if Quaid dreamed Lori called Rictor why was he surprised when she tried to kill him minutes later?
The mutant in the bar, Tony, (you got a lot of nerve showing your face around here) is Dean Norris, most well known as Hank on Breaking Bad. Total Recall was one of his earliest movies. He also pops up in another Schwarzenegger movie - Terminator 2 - as the leader of the SWAT team.
I find it hilarious that, despite being the most expensive movie ever made up until then, that the "self guiding" apparatus for removing the tracker through Quaid's nose is just a pickle picker 🤣
"Do you ever freakin' recover from what just happened to their faces!?" I love how she always says exactly what I thought when I first saw these movies in the theater as a kid.
@@synaesthesia2010 Well, it doesn't even have to be in the theater but she still says whatever I was thinking when I first saw it. It's just that she also picks so many of the movies I happened to see in the theater. :)
Cassy : " Tell me which one you like better, this one or the remake ? Take off your nostalgia goggles ! " My nostalgia ears hearing Ahnold : " Aaaaagggghhhhhggghhhaaaaaghggaagggaaahhh ..." 😅
Thirty years later and people are still talking about this movie. No one ever talks about the remake. There's a reason for that.
Verehoven did a good job on it, it carries all his signature movie making style just like Robocop and Starship Troopers. You don't really see movies like this anymore.
IMO even the RoboCop remake was better than that pile of crap, lol.
What remake? Never happened.
I never saw the remake, so why talk about it? It didn't really need one, but I'm sure there was some merit to the movie, just not enough appetite.
@@leok7193 well it completely changed the setting , and lacked any of the humor of the original.
Sees Michael Ironside
“I think he was the villain in another movie”
Michael Ironside is always the villain in every movie
Not true, what about V and Starship Troopers?
Not completely true but he’s a tough guy in everything he’s in
@@nathanielmcdanel7227and captain of the seaQuest in season 3 seaQuest 2032.
Very memorable villains also in Scanners (making people's heads explode) and Space Hunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (as lead villain Overdog)
He's not a bad guy in _Top Gun_ either. He's tough on the naval aviators because he has to make them the best pilots in the sky.
Yeah, fair enough re Starship Troopers, but he is a villain-turned-good in V is he not?
Schwarzenegger on set noticed that Michael Ironside (Richter) was talking on his phone a lot. Turns out that Ironside's sister had just been diagnosed with cancer. Schwarzenegger spent an hour on the phone with her giving advice about diet and exercise to help her through treatment.
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Is this true about Ironsides sister?
@@neilkesler9778 Yeah, it was in an Ironside's interview. Arnold is by no means a perfect person, but he's very kind person to person.
@@AuspexAO yeah but he is sure better than maga crowd, im glad he put his clear views across about fascism and how it affects countries and people if t is not stopped, I think he helped his own people understand and go off trump a bit.
@@alastairwallace6153lol fascism!!! You can't even define it Alastair. Please give an example of when Trump or MAGA crowds were fascist? Cause I can give several examples of democratic or left leaning groups being fascist.
Twice in this movie, Arnold was in 4 on 1 fights. Both of them beautifully choreographed. At no point, was one of the villains standing around, waiting for their turn to get punched.
This is the sort of choreography missing in modern cinema.
@robbob5302 - Also, all based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick! - the guy behind stories that were later make into the movies/TV series, such as: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers (the ones with Peter Weller, the same actor from the Robocop and more!), Next (the one with Nicolas Cage), Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, Paycheck, Impostor, or even series such as "The Man in the High Castle".
But also in this case, we had Paul Verhoeven doing it (the guy behind Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct, RoboCop, and so on) but also at that point Carolco Pictures, with Mario Kassar (the producer behind Rambo, Terminator 2, The Doors, Angels Heart, Basic Instinct, Universtal Soldier, or Stargate).
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And also the speed of the fight sequences - there's very little time spent on each movement, so the action is FAST!
Never generalize. It always depended on the movie. Lots of villains waited around for Bruce Lee, while John Wick is known to show simultaneous attacks.
“Have you seen your muscles?!! You should not be losing!!” 😂😂
This might be an all time great Cassie quote.
Along with her Predator reaction where she was like, "Oh no, he damaged his Buzz Lightyear arm thingie!" 😂
Yeah same, same in the final fight of Commando.
Watched Total Recall hundreds of times.
That, is not a line from the movie as far as i know.
Edit: ok lol. I shoulda considered Cassie saying it
@@mickmack1409 Nah, Commando was more unbelievable as a "boss fight". I remember watching it as a kid and still finding it ridiculous.
To be fair in Commando both were green berets muscles mean jack crap if you know how to counter and dodge.
I think Sharon stone does the best kitten to a tiger transformation in this film.
you haven't met my wife.
Saron Stone is sooooo hot.
@@mikef2811 she was a model before getting into acting
@@NecramoniumVideo Lol! You Sir have won the internet today.
He really seemed to hate her in his fantasy trip. Curious why that was. Or if it was just an excuse to be with another chick for a while.
I prefer the OG.
"No wonder you're having nightmares. You're always watching the news." My daughter tells me the same thing.
I love your daughter already!
😂
@@robbob5302that sounds suspicious you perv!
"I don't know if I can unsee their faces" - I saw this movie back when I was 10. 32 years later and those images have NEVER left my brain
Me too.
This original is light years better than the remake.
“What is the work of genius the first time is the work of a tinsmith soon thereafter.” - Tom
Clancy
Colin can't compete as an action hero against Arnold!
@@elessartelcontar9415 Arnold can't act for shit
Minority Report was also written by Phillip K Dick. As was Blade Runner. And about 100 other things.
The Adjustment Bureau (2011) is based on one of his short stories also. Stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, I've watched it numerous times.
really thought this comment would be higher up.
Paycheck was another film based on a short story by PKD. Screamers is based on the story Second Variety.
Do robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
Screamers is a totally underrated flick!
I can’t help but think that the guy Arnold uses for a shield is thinking “all those acting classes for this!”
LOLOL 😂😂🤣🤣
Problably not exactly in this case... as Arnold definitely wanted to be a "movie star", but not necessary to be a good "actor" as such, and he was aware of his own limitations regarding acting (think along the lines of "action hero" > yes, "classic acting" > probably not). He took classes, also ballet ones, but nothing like a professional school.
But there are some funny stories from other actors attending something "Juilliard School", such as Alan Tudyk ("Firefly", or recent "Resident Alien") who was commenting about voicing the Chicken in one of the animated movies (famous line > "I went to Juilliard for this") - all in a good way, with a bit of funny sarcasm, as he was getting paid for it anyway :)
Getting to be in the same frame as Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Paul Verhoeven movie? Absolutely worth it!
The fact that this movie is still remembered, talked about, and rewatched after more than 30 years later proves it’s the far superior film as the remake was a generic sci-fi action flick that quickly became forgotten. Paul Verhoeven (Robocop & Starship Troopers) is excellent when it comes to social commentary wrapped in ultra-violence. He’s also not afraid to push the envelope. That’s why movies like Robocop and Total Recall are so unforgettable.
To answer your questions Cassie, Total Recall is suppose to take place in the year 2084, when humans have developed technology for space travel and colonization of other planets. The mutants were the result of high radiation levels on Mars and poor shielding of a cheap dome that didn’t provide enough adequate protection. As for the briefcase, I don’t think you have to worry about that since it was probably sucked out into the vacuum when Richter shot the dome. As long as Quaid still has his ID’s and the money his was given, he should be just fine.
Read the book it is based on by Philip K. Dick. It has nothing to do with Mars. The 2nd Recall movie is the true adaptation of the book.
I always remember the year this movie is supposed to take place, because of my favorite video game back in the day. Robotron 2084.
@@bonnyolweny5817 Similar to Blade Runner. "Inspired by" would be a better phrae.
"This is The Thing status!"
The rubber faces in this movie were made by Rob Bottin, who made the rubber monsters in The Thing!
This movie holds up so well that there was absolutely zero reason to remake it
I never understood why people get upset about a remake. It doesn't hurt you. It doesn't make the original worse.
@@aaronrichards9313 Hollywood remakes are invariably cynical cash-grabs by clueless hacks who think audiences are dumb and will happily waste money to watch inferior versions of films we've already seen. The money squandered on inferior remakes would be better spent on original films.
Good point however questioning why might be appropriate in some cases.
I already knew it couldn't reach it before I saw it. I was right.
[Edited for clarity] This entire remake era is incredibly disappointing and stupid. Movies, TV shows, music. It's weird.
I was listening to the group that covered Toto's song, "Africa." Why did they bother? They sang it Exactly the same way. What's the point of remaking it with almost no difference?
And Beyonce trying to sing "At Last" was Painful, and honestly, disrespectful.
Then again, I suppose we can't know which will work and which will suck until it's done...
Unfortunately
But, Alien Ant Farm's cover of "Smooth Criminal" and Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence" are rare because they equal or surpass the originals, which are great to begin with.
"Come on! Have you seen your muscles you should not be losing, get him!" Greatest Cassie line ever! 😂
People always remember Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor, but to be fair Verhoeven and writers from Robocop and Total Recall also give us two great heroines: Louis and Melina.
And Diz from Starship Troopers! She's not only a badass soldier, but she's also on Rico's "football" team in the beginning of the movie.
TOTAL RECALL original is by far the superior film. Verhoeven is the king of sharp commentary packaged in blockbuster brutal movies. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers are easily dismissed action blockbusters! BUT all have STEEP messaging, commentary and satire. I love this movie on multiple levels of engagement!! I know its not your cup of tea but glad you watched this classic!
Almost all of Verhoeven's movies were underrated at the time but grew on to be timeless classics. How all of his movies only won 2 golden globes, 2 cesars, 1 oscar and 0 BAFTA's is a mystery to me.
Total Recall is the only Verhoeven sci-fi movie with a happy ending, where the revolution happens and the system is overthrown, but it was all a dream!
Except he failed in his commentary with starship troopers. He forgot to put any fascism in his commentary on fascism.
Don’t even bother with the remake. It suuuuuucks. The only good thing about it is the 3 breasted girl is better.
And to think he almost didn't do Robocop or Starship Troopers
Mutation is the side effect of improper shielding when building the domes. The mutants are the result of exposure to radiation
The luckiest of all the mutants was the chick who grew a third tit... A pity she had to die like she did. What a waste! lol
The driver mentioned the air being the problem, so i'm guessing they didn't turn the oxygen (02) to ozone (O3) which can deflect the ultra violet / high radiation rays that can cause mutations.
@@hughtube5154 No. Oxygen/Ozone is not the issue. (Spoiler alert) Before the event at the end of the movie the Martian atmosphere is as now - thin, mostly C02 and virtually no protection from solar and cosmic radiation plus there is little or no magnetic field on Mars. Earth's magnetic field deflects most solar radiation. The mutations among the humans on Mars are due to radiation exposure from space. Sorry Elon. Colonizing Mars is not just a matter of getting there.
Makes sense, since Mars doesn’t have the atmosphere or magnetic core to shield the planet from solar radiation.
I never got that, thanks for explaining :)
The nostalgia goggles don't matter: the remake didn't have Arnold's charisma or Verhoeven's gonzo attitude as a filmmaker. There's no replacing the former and they didn't understand that the latter is about far more than action scenes.
The remake is as generic and forgettable an action movie as they come.
The remake follows the original story more closely. It was never about Mars.
@@RobGamesOn The original story was never brought up as a reason why the original movie is better.
@Eidlones I like both versions for different reasons. Doesn't make the remake bad like so many people claim it to be. Watching it without thinking of it as a remake actually makes the new movie way better.
@@RobGamesOn It's still incredibly generic and forgettable.
Wow. Never thought Cassie would be so invested in these kinds of movies nor that we'd hear her say that the guy, "...really was an a-hole" or "Have you seen your muscles?! You should not be losing! Get him!" 🤣 Love to see it ❤
Or when she watched Terminator Arnold shooting up people and she: "How could anyone vote for him after seeing this?" LOL😅😂
Dark City has that concept. Alien beings looking for understanding by playing with human memories. Placing them into different ppl while they are sleeping. Then restarting the day.
That's a great film to react to. However, Proyas should have mentioned that he got the idea from the novel Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - famous Russian sci-fi writers.
Probably, ok first a reaction to Dark City, then a reaction to Stalker 😆
"HAUSER SUCKS!!"
I really loved how invested you were in this!
The 80s had the best villains.
Michael Ironside loses a limb in every movie he’s in lol 😂
One theory is that this really IS the secret agent memory. There's a part when he is in Recall where the technician is reviewing the package and says "Huh, Mars with a blue sky", and that is the scenario she's looking at, which happens to be the "end" of the secret agent mission.
Yeah I've heard that one too and it's a common thing with PKD stories, where he questions what exactly is reality. See also the likes of Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, etc.
It's not really a "theory". The movie itself brings up that possibility at least twice.
I think it is a schizoid embolism personally, every time I watch it there's something else, like this time I noticed the guy say at 21:38 warn him that "one minute you'll be leader of the rebel cause and the next you'll be Cohaagen's bosom buddy" it was bad enough already, as we know for a fact that guy works for Recall as he's in the advert on the train at 4:13, so what's the most likely possibility, that Recall has a fail-safe mechanism including the guy from the advert (who would function as a familiar face to customers), or that the leadership of Mars found the dude from the Recall advert, flew him to mars and had him try to trick a dangerous man with a gun, why would the Recall actor agree to that to begin with?
All of this is added to the fact that Quad buys the "blue skies on Mars" package, the package includes him being a secret agent, describes Melina and has him saving the planet.
@@RetroSanctuary Then why did the guy sweat.
Also when the doctors said "we haven't implanted it yet" I am all for theories but this time a lot point to it actualy happening.
"i don't think i can unsee their faces like that..." FACTS! it will haunt you for years to come
Watched the movie as a kid back in the day, and those scenes at the beginning and the end haunted my dreams for so many years 😂
The only "face" that haunted me for longer was the face of that poor Nazi schmuck who gets melted by the Ark's wrath, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark!"
Compared to that, the faces in this flick are preschool-caliber effects. lol
true😅
It's not that bad. Y'all are weak.
@@jacob4920agreed
"Think this is the real Quaid? It is!"
Well played, Arnie.
Total Recall is the most bonkers blockbuster Sci-fi action film in the history of Hollywood. Great reaction PIB! 👍🏿
"Do you ever freaking recover from what happened to their faces??" 😂😂😂
I had the same thought.
@@jedijones I'm pretty sure everybody did 😁😁😁😁
You recover. You don't forget.
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👄 lol
The instant recovery reminds me of the space with no suit scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy. They instantly look fresh from the hair and makeup trailer.
"Hey man, I got five kids to feed". To this day I still quote that in normal conversation.
And my avatar (at least at work) is always an NES Mega Man!
Damn you, Benny!
Me too (even though I only have one!)
I try to incorporate 'Get your ass to Mars' into general conversation as well, even if there's never actually an opportunity to use it with any sort of context.
Same. I say it all the time. I actually do have five kids, my daughter passed away 10 years ago so actually I've got four kids now. So it makes that line even more appropriate is in the movie Benny f**** up and says he's got four kids to feed and then Arnold Lassen what happened to number 5?
My favorite line: See you at the party Ricktor!
My reaction at 15:30:
HOLY CRAP! THAT'S GUL DUKAT!
Seriously, it had been so long since I last saw this movie that I didn't even realize that Marc Alaimo was in it.
I just screenshotted that part. I haven't seen this movie in two decades so I didn't know he was in here.
And The Doctor is the Johnny Cab.
@@jkhoover - Yup! Robert Picardo.
18:50 Dean Norris
And 6:33 for Elizabeth Dennehy (Commander Shelby)
my dad loved this so much he taped it on vhs, cut out all the gore, overdubbed all the swearing so he could watch it with us children. i think i saw it in that form when i was about 10 years old.
rediculous... my parents (mom and step dad) just rolled the damn movies as they were, i was about 11 when Total Recall came out , but the first really graphic and nudity rich movie i saw , was Return of the Living Dead when i was 6 or 7 . and i saw it with my mom and step dad.
@@DenverStarkey Some parents are different and dont want their kids exposed to adult stuff early on until they believe they can handle it. Also, different generation too as a lot of us as kids grew up on R rated action flicks that were ironically turned into Saturday morning cartoons complete with a toy line no less. Good times.
Wow! That's dedication!
@@alucard624 Truly, those were the good old days... And they are never coming back. Alas.
@@alucard624 yep i had every robocop toy i could my little hands on .
Total Recall would receive a Special Achievement Oscar for its visual effects, which were state of the art at the time. Quite an achievement since its not always easy for the Oscars to recognize sci-fi films.
What do you talking about? 2001, Star Wars, Alien, E.T., Cocoon, Aliens, Innerspace, and The Abyss won Oscars for Visual Effects in previous years. Total Recall won without competition, and that was the "special" thing like Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
@@cafeabasedecinemaSorry about that. I stand corrected on that assumption. 😊
@@suebob16 all films are sci fi. And the Oscars always loved to nominated scifi films in sound,m sound effects and visual effects. Several won before Total Recall
This was one of the last major blockbusters to come out before CGI effects took over. Even then, CGI was starting to creep in...such as in the animation of the x-ray skeletons in this movie.
50 people have probably already mentioned this but Total Recall, Minority Report and BLADE RUNNER are all movies based on Philip K Dick stories. Good job noticing the connection. All 3 stories are written in a similar style but the movie adaptations are all very different from each other (and quit different from the stories).
The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly and Impostor are also remarkable adaptations of Dick's works IMO. Screamers and Paycheck are not bad either, and then, Nicolas Cage's Next is... well it has its funny moments, haha.
I haven't seen any of these. I will have to check them out. I don't really like PKD's writing style but I love the concepts that he came up with. And I love to see what movie-makers do with his material.
"41 A Ernie"
"I thought that was a bra size" ...
Holy shit ROFL... I'm dead
Weirdly, until TODAY, I thought this referred to bra size too... I know nothing about bra sizes.
"SEE YOU AT THE PARTY RICHTER!"
If I had a friend named Richter I would tell him that all the time. In Arnold voice. 😅
"GET YOUR ASS TO MAAAAAAAAHS!"
WHAT ABOUT DA CHAPAAA???
Beat me to it...
First thought every time this film comes up lol.
Twooooooo weeeeeerks
😄Do you think this is the real Quaid? It is!
U BLEW MAH COVAAAAHHHHH
Michael Ironsides sister was suffering from cancer. When Arnold found out he stopped production and had a long phone conversation wirh her.
I love that scene
News: "And more violence on Mar today....."
Doug: "honey, let's move to Mars."
Arnold is not a great actor -- he's not a BAD actor, but not a great one either -- but he has loads of charisma and impeccable comedic timing. That's why he's such a legendary movie star.
True, but in context, he's pretty incredible. English is not his native language. Imagine if De Niro or Brando tried to act in Austrian for example... They probably wouldn't be as convincing as Arnie is in English. :) Even after becoming fluent, that's going to have an impact on one's performance.
He's got loads of charm. But no, he's not a traditional actor at all. See Hercules in NY. Lol
He also attached himself to a lot of good projects. Films like "Terminator", "Total Recall", and "The Running Man" had solid scripts and competent directors. They weren't just star vehicles.
A good film can elevate an average actor. But a great actor can rarely save a terrible film.
@@AMortalDefiant In the earlier years, for sure, but he moved to the US in 1968 when he was still only 21. I think DeNiro & Brando would be fine if they were fluent in a 2nd language. DeNiro seemingly had limited or no Italian/Sicilian language skills before doing some scenes in the language in the Godfather II.
There are (mostly European, unsurprisingly considering how geographically close so many different languages are) actors that regularly act in multiple languages, including academy award winners. Sometimes in ridiculous numbers, such as Max von Sydow who made movies in at least 7 languages.
And of course a bunch of other German, Spanish, French, etc actors who had lauded performances in Hollywood movies, albeit many probably spoke English as a 2nd language earlier than Arnie.
Arnie's success is certainly impressive, and the fact that his acting may be quite limited perhaps only makes his success *more* impressive.
Personally I think his differences are what made him unique, & sometimes definitely helped with comedy. Likewise Jackie Chan, despite poor english skills throughout his career.
He's an action star. It pays the bills...and then some.
Philip K. Dick who wrote this original story wrote Blade Runner which you were probably thinking of, and Minority Report. He also wrote The Adjustment Bureau which you’ll definitely enjoy and should invite Cassie for. It’s more your style. He also wrote the novel for A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey jr, and Woody Harrelson.
Do you mean invite Carly for? Cassie is watching this.
Paycheck is another PKD story involving mind wiping. As part of an NDA, the protagonist had the previous 2 years of memories removed.
Second this. I know she’s seen both Blade Runners so I imagine she’s remembering the memory implant stuff from those movies.
He also wrote The Man in the High Castle, which has featured 4 seasons on Amazon Prime. It is a shame that PKD never experienced how appreciated he went to be.
Yoooooooo they would LOVE The Adjustment Bureau this is a great call
Fun fact: the guy on the train that was a miner in the pyramid, in real life the actor used to be a drummer for guys like Bob Dylan and in the band First Edition w/ Kenny Rogers.
Miner, not minor. Unless the radiation on Mars causes extreme aging.
Sir Alexander Dane : Could they be the miners?
Fred Kwan : Sure, they're like 3 years old.
Sir Alexander Dane : MINERS not MINORS.
Fred Kwan : You lost me.
Sorry, couldn't help myself and had to do it 🖖
@uncoolmartin460 thx must of been spellchecker. I didn't even notice till you pointed it out. 😆 🤣 I fixed it
@@imthewolf1 No worries, I thought it looked like a spellchecker type thing but it was just too good to pass up. :)
I always liked that he was Michael ironsides partner in V.
Oooh, about time! And yes, Jerry Goldsmith did Star Trek scores.
And this is WAY better than the remake.
@Cassie: Useless Trivia: the 3-breasted woman was played by actress Lycia Naff who also appeared as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek: The Next Generation on two episodes in the 2nd season, one of which you watched for P.I.B. (she was the girl who spilled hot chocolate on Captain Picard's uniform that Q cleaned up).
Lycia Naff also played another notable hooker... Dixie in the original Lethal Weapon.
also, a Gul Dukat cameo at 15:35, although she wouldn't know who that is
@@michael_carmichael Not yet, but she will. 🙂
And The Doctor actor from voyager, Robert Picardo as the voice of the Johnny Cab
She was also Dixie, the prostitute in Lethal Weapon whose house is exploded by Mr. Joshua.
"You blabed Quade you blabed about mars!"
Btw fun fact the guy who played the voice of the Johnny cab (Robert picardo) is a star trek veteran playing the EMH in both star trek voyager series and star trek first contact and yes Jerry goldmesh did do the OST of most of the trek movies
11:55
the original line was
" I'm sure she hated
every inch of it "
that was dubbed over with
EVERY MINUTE OF IT
Paul Verhoeven the director is well known for having EXTREME violence in his movies and this one is no different! Robocop and Starship Troopers are two other examples of his. But, they are done so well. When I saw this in the theater in 1990, the whole theater cheered and screamed throughout the whole movie. It was awesome! When it was over we all applauded and me and my friend actually watched it for a second time that same day. It was that good. We did the same thing for Robocop a few years earlier.
Extreme violence is a signature of Paul Verhoeven's directing style. It's supposed to be over-the-top. I saw this movie first-run in the theater and have loved it ever since. Arnold puts in a nice effort here as the protagonist, with a great supporting cast including MIchael Ironside as Richter, Sharon Stone as Lori, and Ronny Cox as Cohaagen. The debate rages on as to whether the events post-Recall are reality or implanted. I love uncertainty. Nice reaction!
One of the great things about this movie are how certain everyone I talk to is on whether this was all an implanted experience or whether he was really a sleeper agent. When you see that level of argument on what really happened and it’s intentional from the movie makers then you know it’s a great movie
It's all implanted. Every single thing that happens is exactly what he wanted from his implanted memory. Him waking up during the memory implant and shouting "YOU BLU MY CAVAUH!!!!" is the start of the memory, and the blue skies on Mars is the end.
@@Aethelhald sure, but I've also seen the argument he wanted that implanted memory because he subconsciously remembered that life. There are strong arguments in both directions and that's what I love about this
it was real. the recall place didn't know anything about his wife, but she was in it, proving it was real. the fact that it all happened like he paid for was part of the irony/coincidence.
I like that you said that you can't unsee the eyeball thing,, trust me, 30 years later and it randomly haunts my dreams and is still the first thing i think of whenever Mars is talked about. Good luck ever sleeping again. Rest of the film = awesome.
"I've got 5 kids to feed"
I use that line when I'm at the bar.
The way Cassie scrunched up her face when she first saw Quato 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Oh my heavens." Which is nicer than "Damn he's fn ugly" lol
10:48 - You hit the nail on the head with The Truman Show and Minority Report these were both stories that were also adapted from Philip K Dick stories. The Truman show was inspired by "Time out of Joint" and Minority Report was a Novella of the same name.
Philip K Dick produced 44 novels and 121 short stores, and pretty much every work has served as inspiration for other sci-fi authors. The Screamers series, Paycheck, Imposter, The Adjustment Bureau, Next, The Crystal Crypt, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Radio Free Albemuth, and A Scanner Darkly were all pretty heavy adaptations of his work as well. The Man in the High Castle inspired a very well liked Black Mirror episode and then was re-done again as an entire series for Amazon.
Finally you have countless Sci-Fi TV/movie authors, directors, producers, and novel writers who cite a Philip K Dick work as their primary inspiration for some of their works (Including people like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg). There are also many more works that Amazon has been working on turning into ideas for movies and series...I believe an adaptation of Clans of the Alphane Moon has been moving forward recently.
Great recap.
The mutants were the offspring of the first colonists on mars. They are human but because of the cheap domes and not enough air to filter out cosmic rays it caused the mutation.
According to one of the producers, he confirmed that the movie is indeed a dream sequence. The only part that’s real is Arnold at the beginning up until he goes to recall that’s where the dream begins.
That poor dude on the escalator. My man was just on his way home. Ronny Cox makes such a great villain.
"In thirty seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes."
My favorite line in the movie, though I would love to know what time is, in fact, too late for corn flakes.
Whatever you do, don't miss out on the Corn Flakes.
Funny, I always imagined that he was on his way to the starport to finally live his lifelong dream of going on a vacation to Mars…
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WHY cornflakes???? That selection of food choice always bothered me as a kid, when I first heard it! I remember being like, up for hours afterward, unable to fall asleep, trying to think about all the food that I would RATHER EAT than stupid cornflakes (which I despised as a kid, lol)!
"Who told you to THINK?! I don't give you enough information to THINK! You do what you're told, THAT'S what you do!"
I had that line on one of those little recorder pens they had back in the day. Always good for a chuckle if someone was having a bad day :)
Jerry Goldsmith once said that he included a not-so-subtle hint that it was a dream at the end of the film, just as they kiss and the screen fades to white (not the usual black, interestingly). It's the little, chirpy musical motif that also appears in connection with Rekall Inc.
Come to think of it, the background in the end must be hacky on purpose too. Those hints could still be for creating ambiguity, though. I still prefer to think it was real.
Imagine waking up and all the heroics and good you did was just imagination: The bad people still in charge and no air on Mars, you remember having killed your wife and friends because they were in on it. Hell of a recruiting tool for the underground.
If he said that he lied. There are multiple scenes without Douglas Quade. How does someone's dream include events where the dreamer is not even present?
@@andrewburch1671 If it is a dream, we are shown the world of the dream, not the dream itself. It's not a FPV movie either.
It could be JG's own interpretation he just went with and it doesn't really matter that much. Also, the effect might not be part of the written score but added in editing for atmosphere, ambiguity, mindlovemakery or something - not that I even ever noticed it myself, I think. If you want to raise questions in people's minds, a little ambiguity goes a long way. If it's too neatly wrapped up, you're losing a lot of that.
@@andrewburch1671It doesn't necessarily have to be a lie. JG is the music composer, so what he thinks may be a little different than what the writer(s), director, and/or producer(s) have in mind.
And the those who are crafting the movie aren't always aware of the minute details the composer adds because they're not musicians; so they're mostly focused on overall and individual themes than "Easter eggs" the composer creates
it's not a dream. there are scenes played out where Quaid is unconscious and other characters are talking. If he was dreaming the film would follow him entirely without those scenes existing.
These old 80's and 90's movies were great fun 😭 lol No doubt, a lot of it is nostalgia, but I'm guessing i would still love it even if i was watching it the first time 😊
The answer is always Practical Effects… it’s not nostalgia, it’s just better… when it comes to sci-fi, at least.
No need to watch the remake. This one is best.
or almost any of the trash remakes being made these days
I liked the flying cars in the remake but the rest was rubbish.
Arnold Schwarzenegger staring in a Paul Verhoeven movie.
You can't remake that.
Agreed, it's eminently forgettable
I'm a big Arnold fan. Buuut...I honestly haven't watch the remake. So I'm just curious. Wanna see where it excel and ultimately where t fell short.
I am still stunned that they bothered to remake this movie. Someone sat down and said, you remember that Total Recall with Arnie? Let's remake it.
The director of this movie is Paul Verhoeven who also directed RoboCop another very graphically violent movie. After this movie he took the blonde, Sharon Stone, from this one and put her is a very cool, sexy, police mystery film called Basic Instinct. If you haven't seen that one you should. It has one of the most talked about scenes in any movie, ever.
Ah, yes. The scene that made every guy I knew practically break the rewind and pause buttons on their VCR remotes, lol!
31:55 She was so proud of herself here. All that Star Trek training paid off LOL!
Hello Popcorn, this movie is about Nostrils, eyeballs and Bosoms. With a Taxicab or two thrown in. " The horror. The horror. "
Bosoms are important...
I love bosoms I hope you’re serious 😊this movie sounds cool
@@TheFioda Yes, they are important and are worthy of much consideration and respect.
@@TheFioda Certainly to Paul Verhoeven. He turned down Linda Fiorentino for "Basic Instinct" because hers were too small.
And large families.
I was working as a projectionist in a resort town theater when this movie came out. I got to watch it twice a night for 2 weeks straight. It never got old.
"People cant breathe in sector G!"
"Who's the safety inspector in that sector?"
"Homer Simpson, sir."
"Simpson, eh?"
It is actually funny. This film has 2 of 3 Cardassian leaders during the Dominion War in it. Marc Alaimo as the legendary Gul Dukat, and Mel Johnson Jr. as Legate Broca.
You're right!
the practical effects of getting shot are so brutal.
this movie is so much better than the remake.
To this day people talk about this movie and its ending. When a movie, an ACTION MOVIE at that, makes you think and ask questions, it’s special
That's because it's based on a Philip K. Dick story.
it was real. the recall place didn't know anything about his wife, but she was in it, proving it was real. the face that it all happened like he paid for was part of the irony/coincidence.
I'm always amused by how scared you are of all kinds of scary scenes)) It's cute and funny at the same time)
"and I'll be home in time for corn flakes." XD Villains get some of the weirdest lines.
“GET READY FOR A SURPRISE!”
2 weeks!
What I say on a first day just before I take it out in the parking lot.
Now, watch Arnold Schwarzenegger again in Commando, Eraser & The Running Man.
Eraser is such an under-rated, and almost forgotten, Arnie film.
Twins should also be added to the list.
Eraser is such a great movie yet no one ever talks about it….dont know why
@@Heller103085do you remember the cgi 🐊
And End Of Days.
Nostalgia goggles are important. The most important thing about a movie is how it makes you feel.
I can see that, based on Cassie's facial expressions, it's not one of her favorite movies... and there's nothing wrong with that. It's an honest reaction and a fun one at that. Thank you for your reaction, Cassie!
"idk if i can unsee their faces like that" hahaha. Exactly how i thought at about 10 years old watching this with my older siblings. That baby thing on the stomach haunted me lmao
The name kuato comes from the Mexican word cuate, which means friend or comrade since much of the filming of this film took place in Mexico City, at the Churubusco studios.
total recall: the only film where you can see the CEO of OCP order lieutenant razczak to tell gul dukat to arrest the terminator
The repeated use of "Copenhagen" cracked me up. 😂
"Copenhagen."
Next up: Starship Troopers
Medic!!!
I always knew some day the city of Copenhagen would play the baddie in a movie.
Paul Verhoeven movies; would you like to know more?
It's sort of the opposite of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which the characters pay to have certain memories erased.
That sums up what a holiday trip is at the end, nothing else but just a memory of an experience. (That and a bunch of photos no one really cares to look at). And in the grand scheme of it all, it is also our whole life.
I guess one could say the same for National Lampoons Vacation!
@@anzaeria LOL.
When you see the end scene you have to recall the earlier clerk saying, "Hey, Blue sky on Mars, that's a new one" Makes you wonder, was it a dream or was it all happening for real?
Another movie which deals with brainwashing is the 1962 “The Manchurian Candidate” which starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. It was remade in the 2000s with Denzil Washington, Liev Schreiber and Merril Streep.
Both are great thrillers
I recently heard they are going to do a remake of The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of Dorthy's dog, they are calling it Toto Recall!
Puns like that give me Total Recoil.
*Badum tsssss*
I see what you did there.
Watched this when I was 8. One of my fav movies ever.
The guy you’re trying to think of the name is Micheal Ironside. he’s been in quite a few things, including being the voice of Sam Fisher in the splinter cell games, but he was also in the next karate kid as the aggressive teacher, and he was in one of the terminator movies
Love quotes like "case in point" or "did you forget you have muscles" LOL priceless
Having not watched this reaction, I'm going to assume she isn't ready for this movie 🤣
This movie blew my 13 year old mind back in 1990. Still holds up wonderfully.
Cassie. In case you haven't notice, this film was directed by Paul Verhoeven. The same director who did the ultra violent, classic sci-fi film "Robocop". The gun blast sound effect in "Total Recall" is the same one used in "Robocop".
The actor Ronny Cox, whom the director had worked with in "Robocop" appeared in this film as Vilos Cohaagen. In "Robocop", he played a corrupt OCP executive or #2 OCP guy, who actually hired Clarence Boodicker (Kurtwood Smith) to do his dirty work. He was the very last guy to be shot by Robocop in the high rise office building before free falling to his death.
You recognized Jerry Goldsmith, the composer, in the opening credit. Before Hans Zimmer and other current composer, there was John Williams ("Star Wars", "Jaws", "Indiana Jones", "Saving Private Ryan") and Jerry Goldsmith. As you remembered, Jerry composed the theme to "Star Trek". Like John Williams, he has a long list of soundtrack scores as well. Other movie themes done by Jerry Goldsmith that I remember:
1. Star Trek (most or if not all of the films with the Kirk crew and Picard crew)
2. Poltergeist
3. Planet of the Apes
4. Rambo 1 thru 3
5. Patton (classic war film - add it to your bucket list)
6. Tora Tora Tora (probably the most accurate war film about the events leading to the Pearl Harbor attack - add it to your bucket list)
The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven also directed "Robocop" which is why Ronny Cox appeared again in a villainous role.as Cohaagen. The guy who played Richter, Michael Ironside, was originally cast as the lead in "Robocop" but that didn't work out so he was brought back for this one. He was often cast in bad guy roles on TV and in the movies through the '80s and '90s.
I've always thought that this was still all an implanted memory of Quaid's "vacation" as a secret agent. Even though there were a lot of complicated twists and turns in the program It pretty much played out the way the Recall people described that it would.
Only problem if was memory how come we see scenes that don't have Quade in it?
@@berlinkozyreva My understanding is: the film was constructed in such a way that it's equally plausible for Quaid's adventure to be real, or a fantasy. The film doesn't ••compel•• you to accept that Quaid's adventure is a fantasy, but the closing shot, with a bright light of perfect whiteness growing in intensity to fill the screen as the last thing we see, was a deliberate choice and seems very 'fantasy-like.'
...My understanding also, is that the Director had the personal bias that Quaid's adventure IS in fact a fantasy, but constructed the film so as to give the audience the option to interpret it either way. The film DOES have point-of-view shots where Quaid isn't around (where other characters take action). Many (but not all of them) occur before Quaid makes the trip to the Recall memory-implanting service. So an additional point of ambiguity, is we don't know if events up to that point in the story are real, and if a fantasy begins only when Quaid is strapped to the chair at Recall.
@@tranya327 no it's not plausible you dream of crap that that you aren't in like cohaggen giving the order to finally kill Quaid or if Quaid dreamed Lori called Rictor why was he surprised when she tried to kill him minutes later?
I agree. It begins subtle and Zany after "A-41" then overt and ludicrous by the end.
Two weeks!!!
The thing i like on this movie is, that it can be real but also a dream.
Yeah their faces when they were suffocating gave me nightmares as a kid. LOL
The mutant in the bar, Tony, (you got a lot of nerve showing your face around here) is Dean Norris, most well known as Hank on Breaking Bad. Total Recall was one of his earliest movies.
He also pops up in another Schwarzenegger movie - Terminator 2 - as the leader of the SWAT team.
I find it hilarious that, despite being the most expensive movie ever made up until then, that the "self guiding" apparatus for removing the tracker through Quaid's nose is just a pickle picker 🤣
"Do you ever freakin' recover from what just happened to their faces!?" I love how she always says exactly what I thought when I first saw these movies in the theater as a kid.
i would have never been able to see it in theatres as a kid, i was 7 when it came out and it has an 18 rating in the UK
@@synaesthesia2010 Well, it doesn't even have to be in the theater but she still says whatever I was thinking when I first saw it. It's just that she also picks so many of the movies I happened to see in the theater. :)
Cassy : " Tell me which one you like better, this one or the remake ? Take off your nostalgia goggles ! "
My nostalgia ears hearing Ahnold :
" Aaaaagggghhhhhggghhhaaaaaghggaagggaaahhh ..." 😅
"uhhh those are necks" had me laughing more than i care to admit.....
and i really love how u keep calling him Copenhagen ...haha