Holograms actually stop bullets, that's literally physics. (but _only_ holograms of Arnie on Mars - it's quite a small and not that widely known subfield of physics but it's _definitely_ real science. No need to google it)
I second this. Starship Troopers is so fun, campy, action packed and horrific all in one. Plus it has Neil Patrick Harris and Denise Richards. It’s one of my favorite movies… too bad the sequels were so bad.
Starting the video with open acknowledgement of Paul's unique style which really shines in several movies made me feel warm and fuzzy. Welcome to the club. No snails were harmed in the making of this film.
Here's instructions on what to do if you get sucked out of an aeroplane: 1- You realize immediately you are going to die no matter what. 2-You then notice that you are literally flying. 3- Make it the best few minutes ever and the perfect way to go out.
Total Recall is based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." I don't want to ruin the story, but it was adapted fairly well for Total Recall, with only a few changes made. Though they did opt to leave out the twist at the end of the story. I recommend reading the story, so I won't spoil the end of it.
YES!! One of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies! Before Paul Verhoven was picked to direct, body horror filmmaker David Cronenberg was going to direct the film as a psychological thriller rather than a Sci Fi Action Adventure film, for producer Dino DeLaurentis. Ronald Shusset and Dan O'Bannon, the writers of ALIEN, along with Gary Goldman, wrote the script and it was rejected by Cronenberg as they wanted "Raiders Of The Lost Ark on Mars." Tensions got so nasty between De Laurentiis and Cronenberg, Cronenberg left the project and sold the script to Carolco, the same independent company that produced Terminator 2, RAMBO, Cliffhanger and Cutthroat Island. It was most expensive film to make, $75 million dollars. It was filmed in Churubsico Studios, Mexico City. William Hurt, Dennis Quaid, Patrick Swayze, Christopher Reeve, Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, James Caan, Tom Selleck, Peter Weller, Michael Douglas, and Matthew Broderick were considered for the hero. The film was a box office success, making $260 million dollars and won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
If you like Sharon Stone, you should watch ‘The Quick and the Dead’ which she produced and directed by Sam Rami. And of course, what Sharon Stone recommendation would be complete without ‘Basic Instinct’.
As others have mentioned, if you want peak Verhoeven experience watch Starship Troopers. It dials the gore and social satire up to 11, even beyond Robocop.
Michael ironside who played Richter in this, always and no matter what other films he's played the part of the villain in, he always plays the villain with absolute excellence. Every bit of total recall is great, but the scene that gets me every time is with his hologram "you think this is the real Quaid, it is" 😆👍.
Verhoeven said that 'technically both outcomes are correct, because clues throughout the film make argument for each and viewer shall come to their own conclusion.'
I've always considered it not a dream, for the simple fact that Recall implants memories, but we're exposed to much more than his memories throughout the story, whereas if it was just his memories, none of the scenes without him would've existed.
@@badatthis1190 You _could_ speculate that we're seeing his delusion as if we're the camera, just like we saw his dream at the start. Though _that_ said, i'm now wondering if people even have delusions - or "scenes" from their delusions - that they're not in (I _think_ i've been in all my dreams for instance but can't say for sure). (personally I mostly land on "it's real" BTW - partly because "And it was _alllll_ a dream" is just so dull and writing wise, something we were taught is basically anti narrative from the age of about 10 :) - but that's how I may argue the opposite. As others mention though the fun part is wondering, thinking about the nature of memory etc. rather than having the "correct" answer)
I think that he got exactly what he paid for - a vacation from himself, with the memory-story of a secret agent following a completely implausible plotline.
You're killing it with the action movie reactions lately, Shan. :) I laughed at your reaction every time the woman with three breasts showed up! "Did he just kill the only woman on all of Mars with three tits?" indeed.
she was Ensign Gomes on Star Trek TNG... she was the cute girl that followed Geordie around for 2 episodes, then nothing. She spilled her drink on Picard.
ANOTHER outstanding reaction, Shanelle! Your next stop should be "Starship Troopers", ANOTHER sci fi epic from Paul Verhoeven. He also did "Basic Instinct" with Sharon Stone, but that's a reality based thriller. Looking forward to your next reaction! Lovin' it!
other movies and one streaming show based on Philip K Dick's work - Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Adjustment Bureau, and The Man in the High Castle are all based on his work, and ALL are worth a watch, and arguably all are great.
I would add Impostor to the mix.It’s not as good as the others,but,in my opinion,it’s still fun and entertaining,and,if you’re going to watch those others you might as well be a completist and see ‘em all.There’s also another series that adapts P.K. Dick’s short stories.
I think this was all a dream. If you remember Bob, the salesman, he laid out everything that would happen. The title of the dream was "Blue Sky on Mars." And at the end you hear the Rekall motif
The best thing about movies based on Philip K. Dick stories is that even after you watch the movie, you can still read the story without having had it spoiled for you because (aside from A Scanner Darkly) the movie and the novel/short story only share a very general basis.
Another Arnold classic! This movie was slammed for violence when it came out, I recall. I love the score of this movie and Ronny Cox steals every scene. His line about being home in time for cornflakes cracks me up every time. Onto “Starship Troopers!”
You can't assume whether it's real of in his head. Because for every bit that says it's real, there is an equally compelling piece that says it's fake. It is what makes this movie so compelling and rewatchable.
Yeah, but people don't like ambiguity. Blade Runner, the Thing, this film. Too many people *have* to know what REALLY happened. Or they just can't live their lives.
@danielallen3454 except all those films are wildly popular. Mostly for their ambiguous nature. We may desire to know the truth, but the speculation is were the entertainment leighs.
Blade Runner and Total Recall are also both adapted from Philip K. Dick stories, so you really have a lot of connections going on in your recent reactions.
I was 14 when this movie came out ... and I must have watched it 50 more times on VHS before I started noticing the clues that Arnie really was dreaming. Years later the DVD commentary from the director confirmed it ... plus what the fade to white at the end of the movie symbolized for Arnie's character.
Did they actually confirm it? I never have listened to the commentary.. but i always love playing choose your own adventure ending depending on my mood. Lol
@@sephjnr that's one of the hints that he isn't. Especially when he's "passed out" and you hear the discussion. But there are other hints that he is dreaming.
Ya gotta love those Rob Botin heads! Fun facts: All the cars were electric vehicles. -All the supposed CGI were either practical models or hand drawn line animation. -"Get yer ass to mars" was inspired by "Follow the yellow brick road". -Originally David Cronenberg was supposed to Direct and he wanted a Bruce Willis (or someone like him) because Quaid is described as an everyman. Not every man is like Arnold. -In the novelization (which I recommend) After killing the Doctor, every time there's a rumble or tremor, Quaid wonders if it's real or is he having a seizure at the recall centre. This is one of my favorite movies and is the best start for action movies going into the 90's.
There are two ways of watching this movie, Quaid really is a secret agent who had his mind erased, or Quaid is actually having a schizoid embolism. There are actually several hints that Quaid is having the embolism. Every option Quaid had chose for his "Ego Trip" came true, including two-headed monsters and alien artifacts. Also, when the technician looks at the implant, he says, "Blue Sky on Mars, that's a new one" and at the end, we see a blue sky on Mars. Then when the president of Recall shows up, he says that if Quaid doesn't take the pill, he says he will end up being bosom buddies with Cohaagen, which later on in the movie, Quaid finds out that Howser and Cohaagen are friends. Finally, as Quaid and Melina are kissing at the end of the movie, the screen fades to white, which represents Quaid getting a lobotomy.
Also, it's the first time noticing Cohaagen saying: "You're nobody, you're a stupid dream." Referencung when Quiad said he wanted to be somebody at the beginning of the movie.
Also, if it's a program, how did his "friend" that he worked with jackhammering things, get inserted into the program by Recall? Was he extracted from Quaid's memory?
The sun didn't come out at the end on Mars. I am pretty sure I read the director said it was Quaid dying in the chair at recall and going "into the light", because the implant went wrong and he lived out the memory/dream of a secret agent, with a sleazy woman and a final blue sky on Mars. One last twist from the director, or you choose to believe it was a heroic action story.
This movie is a personal fave of mine because of not only it being Arnie at his most late 80's, early 90's Schwarzenegger-ist, giving us such iconic one liners as "Geeetchu ass too Mahzzz" and "Effff I'm naht meee den who da hell ammm eye?". But we also get a record number of fake Arnie prosthetic heads ever committed to cinema. When you have a sequence where a fake Arnie head emerges out of another fake prosthetic head, in a single scene, in a movie already strewn with fake Arnold prosthetic heads, the conclusion you can jump to is that Paul Verhoven is a crazy man, a demented authentic whacko, this man must be stopped!!! I also wonder if any of the cast and crew got to bring some of the fake Schwarzenegger prosthetic heads home with them after shooting the movie, I'd take one home, you kidding. I guess the subversive story on identity and the nature of reality with that Verhoven criticism on unregulated capitalism is pretty good, too. But the heads are the selling point, make no mistake
What have you been feeding this thing? BLONDES!!!😂😂 The Remake is AWFUL like super cringe Still looking for my dream three boobed woman 😂 But was it a dream ? Or reality?
This movie was definitely in my top-3 while being a teenager. Shanelle created the very very best reaction-cut of Total Recall, hats off and thanks My most favorite Sharon Stone movie is 1994 "Intersection" - a massively underrated masterpiece (with young Richard Gere) I have zero fear of flying (no idea how come), plus I fall asleep during takeoff and snore for most of the flight.
Shan-Shan cackling away at people being turned into Swiss cheese. Genuinely distressed at the rat being blown up (she’s right, though, rat did not deserve it). 😂
Loved this movie in 1990, forgot about it, loved it again when I saw it again in the 2000s. Did you noticed it was based on a book? I read it, very good!
I'm definitely a "Shan fan" and during another phase of my life I was a film-making student as well. Love the commentary from a film-maker's point of view. You have great observations and are informed enough to really appreciate good film-making, patient enough to understand the limitations of film during preceding eras, and quirky enough to keep me coming back over and over.
There are a lot of Star Trek actors in it: The Johnny cab was voice and modeled after Robert Picardo, the holo doc from Voyager. The three-breasted hooker was played by Lycia Naff, who played engineer Sonya Gomez on TNG in 2 episodes (and voced her later in Lower Decks). The chief uniformed cop on Mars was played by Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9). Ronny Cox played Capt. Edward Jellico in two episodes of TNG. Dr. Edgmar was played by Roy Brocksmith, who appeared as an arrogant strategist specialist in one ep of TNG. Marshall Bell (Kuato's host) had a few guest appearances, IIRC.
I was 10 when this came out but saw it at age 13. The trailer for this movie was everything for my friends and I. Before the internet it was all playground talk and playing make believe of stuff like this. Better times.
The thing about memory is that you forget it. I went to Japan in 2017 for 12 days and I can only remember snippets from it. As years go on I'm sure I'll forget even more.
The other thing about it is, you basically make it up every time (one of the reasons it's unreliable is that it turns out we _reconstruct_ a memory every time we recall it).
Robocop2 is not as good as the original- but I have grown to like it for what it is. However- don’t look at Robocop3 or the 2013 remake! They took rated R material and downgraded it to PG13. Also, no more Peter Weller. The remake feels like a transparent attempt at a Dark Knight formula for success that ended in disaster.
I think the whole reality/dream argument comes down to the fact that we, the viewers, are able to see the scenes of the villains plotting where Quaid is not present. If this was all his dream, we would not have those.
This movie is based on a 1966 Sci-Fi book by Phillip K. Dick called "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." I read it in the early 70s and I remember being really excited that they made a movie out of it. Honestly, I can't remember the book, nor can I remember how the book and the film were different. But I seem to remember that the two were very different. Regardless, I think the movie is great. But I love Arnold Schwarzenegger, so if I was disappointed that the film didn't follow the book, it wouldn't have mattered.
It's a short-story rather than a book (though there _is_ also a volume of his collected short fiction that has "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" as the title story). (and agreed, broadly similar but different - generally true of PKD adaptations IMO, they tend to be a bit looser plot-wise and more adaptations of the "spirit" of the source material)
@@badbiker666 Hah, well it has its moments but actually, by pure coincidence I re-read it about two months ago so I don't think my memory deserves that much credit :).
I always thought what happened in the movie after he got in the chair at Recall was the Recall package he purchased. The Mars has blue sky line is what made me feel this way.
6:48 See: The IT Crowd scene Builder Outside Taking Off His Shirt That's just for context. Schwarzenegger worked construction when he first got to Hollywood to pay for his gym membership and acting classes. Soon, he started and owned a construction company that only hired bodybuilders, which attracted women as clients who enjoyed looking out the window and *not* seeing that guy from the IT Crowd clip taking off _his_ shirt. The company did so well that before anyone in Hollywood knew his name Arnold was already a multi-millionaire.
I've always enjoyed this film... Saw it when it first came out... still a hoot! A few films you will ADORE, Shanelle: "PLEASANTVILLE," "STRANGER THAN FICTION," "GRAVITY," "AMELIE"...and, of course, "THE MARTIAN"... Cheers! (and Happy Holidays!!!)
A classic 80's Paul Verhoeven scifi Arnie movie ! A masterpiece 80's movie ! BTW, Sharon Stone looks so hot ,sexy, and evil in this it makes your day ,if you're a guy that is !
If you want something a little different from Paul Verhoeven, perhaps you might be interested in checking out what I think is his first American theatrical movie, “Flesh+Blood” from 1985. It premiered just before he started shooting Robocop. The cast is lead by Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High).
*_STARSHIP TROOPERS! Watch it! Paul Verhoeven’s third masterpiece and I think you’ll find a lot more that satire and commentary that you longed for in this one_*
WOW I am the total opposite the current 14 comments. I couldn't digest so much corn 🌽 and they threw in the COB! OUCH!!! I liked the second one better probably for the effects and Colin Farrell did pretty good and Kate Beckinsale as the wife. Please watch soon and give us your cinematic expert opinion. I do like this a little more thanks to you. Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
This is the second of Paul Verhoeven's political sci-fi trilogy. Robocop is the first. You should definitely watch the third - Starship Troopers, which is probably the best of the three.
Saw this in the cinema. Unfortunately I went to a midnight showing after a long day and actually fell asleep in the movie (one of only two times that's happened to me as an adult*) until a friend nudged me awake - so there was a 5 ish minute chunk in the middle that I didn't see until the VHS release (I think it's _probably_ to the movie's credit that I could absolutely still follow what was going on :). * for trivia completists, the other one was the Tom Cruise movie "Oblivion"
I love the short story by Phillip K. Dick -- I do think that Dick would like the whole thing to be a dream and that Quaid is lobotomized back at Recall. I like how the movie left it open to your own interpretation. You should check out other movies adapted from PKD stories like Minority Report and Bladerunner.
Kuato to Shanelle: "Take my hands and you will receive total clarity about who you truly are." (half a heartbeat later) Shanelle to Kuato: "Naw, I'm good!" 😀
Is what is happening to Quaid just a fantasy taking place in his head while he is strapped in a chair at Rekall? I was long resistant to the idea myself. But over the years, I've become persuaded that this is almost certainly the case. Even so, the film is sufficiently ambiguous that people can argue back-and-forth about it and never resolve the question absolutely.
The weird thing is that. If he'd have gone through *Total Recall* . He'd have become the original evil friend of Cohagan. So technically, it should've been called *"Partial Recall"* ha ha ha
Me and my Dad went to go see this movie in the theatre's my god boy I tell you this movie they don't make a summer film like this anymore. When I went to middle school even the teachers were talking about how crazy this film was 😀
i think hes realy stuck in this dream. I can give some reasons. 1 The dream is made to be realistic, so it begins excatly where he sat down. In the chair in Total Recalls office. 2 He gets two implants. one is the real implant with the vacation and the other is part of the story where he is a spy who haves an implant. The implants contradict each other and makes him belive that the spy story is real. 3 The Guy with the pill is a real employe. You have seen him before. He is the narrator in Total Recalls comerical, the one shown on the subway in the begining. 4 One thing about the violence, there is no violence before the implant, but a lot when the vacation has begun. Its a great movie i love it.
I first saw this film with my uncle on video. The final scene we saw was a white screen fading to a dot. My uncle told me the old televisions did that when turning off. It glowed and took a minute or two to totally go blank. Maybe he imagined that sweat bead and everything from the moment he visited Recall was a fiction. Maybe it's an untrustworthy narrator and even the opening dream sequence wasn't really in his head but a replayed memory of a lobotamised man. Maybe the narrator didn't really look like Arnie at all and probably worked in the admin department of a quarry. I really should read the 1966 book from which this was based on by Philip K. Dick. "We can remember it for you wholesale." Have you done The Running Man yet? You should do a month of Arnie films. There's great comedies too like Twins and Kindergarten Cop. I've generally preferred the novels over the films as the author doesn't have a special effects budget or editing down for time, as long as they write like Agatha. Check her out. Christie used short sentances, brief paragraphs and chapters where necessary but the story kept moving forward with clues and red herrings and ommisions of fact because that's life. What works in novels translates well on stage (the great books has a verbal rhythm), that allows the story to be spoken aloud. I can't wait to see your first short film. I'm sure you have a 1001 stories to tell.
Great reaction. This movie is an absolute classic. You mentioned something about Sharon Stone and her portrayal of a "quiet evil" character. Maybe you might like Basic Instinct. That's the movie that made her famous. The interrogation scene is also a classic.
@@ShanelleRiccio Hope you do and all I'll say about it so it's not ruined for you is that it's a thriller, not a sci-fi or super hero movie or anything. I think you'd like it.
@@Sunsetjoy lol okay 👍 Magnum P.I.? There's a name I haven't heard in years. That had to have taken some research. Thank God for the internet, right? 😆 Magnum P.I. was a t.v. show and I don't think I've seen that episode so I wouldn't have known about it. Basic Instinct is where I first heard of Sharon Stone. That interrogation scene was memed a million times but thanks for letting me know. 😜👍
This movie shares another thing with Alien: The composer Jerry Goldsmith. I feel like he is often overlooked and even overshadows by guys like John Williams and Alan Silvestri but Goldsmith was a damn fine composer. He might now be mostly recognised from the Star Trek universe. And fun fact, his son the late Joel Goldsmith wrote a lot of music for another sci-fi franchise: Stargate.
"First Blood" is still one of my favourite film soundtracks - nigh perfect blend of kinetic _and_ elegiac. Agreed, Goldsmith isn't _always_ considered in the same pantheon as Williams etc. but he's not that far behind IMO. (that said, my favourite Star Trek soundtrack is probably James Horner's "Wrath of Khan" score)
@@anonymes2884 It's a real shame. Goldsmith is fricking amazing, imho. :) As for Khan, yes, it is great, but the horn solo from Goldsmith's theme to First Contact is one of the best pieces of film music ever written. Again, imho. :)
Woah! How didn't I know the writers also wrote Alien! Now you really need to see Starship Troopers. 😃 RoboCop, Total Recall and Starship Troppers are 3 of my favorite action movies me and my brother rented on VHS waaay back.
This movie was set up so you question whether this was all real, or just the memories of his "fantasy vacation." It isn't until the Dr. on Mars is spotted sweating that we know for sure that it was not a dream after all! If you like commentary, you may also get a kick out of Starship Troopers, which is also by Paul Verhoeven. You may even recognize many of the elements from his other movies as well! Plus, it's a pretty good movie too!
I love how the troops formed a literal circular firing squad around Arnold's hologram but somehow didn't shoot each other.
Not until Melina gets the device which makes it more hilarious.
Also couldn't they see that there was no blood and I've seen ppl get shot they don't stay stood up
They were Storm Troopers
That part has always bugged me.
Holograms actually stop bullets, that's literally physics.
(but _only_ holograms of Arnie on Mars - it's quite a small and not that widely known subfield of physics but it's _definitely_ real science. No need to google it)
If you really want to go down the Paul Verhoeven rabbit hole, you gotta check out Starship Troopers. Blood, guts, campy dialogue, and TONS of satire.
I second this. Starship Troopers is so fun, campy, action packed and horrific all in one. Plus it has Neil Patrick Harris and Denise Richards. It’s one of my favorite movies… too bad the sequels were so bad.
And Clancy Brown! Can't forget that it has The Kurgan/Mr. Crabs :3
"MEDIC!!!"
It's Flesh and Blood.
Do you want to know more?
Starting the video with open acknowledgement of Paul's unique style which really shines in several movies made me feel warm and fuzzy. Welcome to the club.
No snails were harmed in the making of this film.
This movie is the absolute apex when it comes to action movie one liners.
Here's instructions on what to do if you get sucked out of an aeroplane: 1- You realize immediately you are going to die no matter what. 2-You then notice that you are literally flying. 3- Make it the best few minutes ever and the perfect way to go out.
"Blue skies on Mars. That's new."
Total Recall is based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."
I don't want to ruin the story, but it was adapted fairly well for Total Recall, with only a few changes made. Though they did opt to leave out the twist at the end of the story. I recommend reading the story, so I won't spoil the end of it.
YES!!
One of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies!
Before Paul Verhoven was picked to direct, body horror filmmaker David Cronenberg was going to direct the film as a psychological thriller rather than a Sci Fi Action Adventure film, for producer Dino DeLaurentis. Ronald Shusset and Dan O'Bannon, the writers of ALIEN, along with Gary Goldman, wrote the script and it was rejected by Cronenberg as they wanted "Raiders Of The Lost Ark on Mars." Tensions got so nasty between De Laurentiis and Cronenberg, Cronenberg left the project and sold the script to Carolco, the same independent company that produced Terminator 2, RAMBO, Cliffhanger and Cutthroat Island.
It was most expensive film to make, $75 million dollars.
It was filmed in Churubsico Studios, Mexico City.
William Hurt, Dennis Quaid, Patrick Swayze, Christopher Reeve, Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, James Caan, Tom Selleck, Peter Weller, Michael Douglas, and Matthew Broderick were considered for the hero.
The film was a box office success, making $260 million dollars and won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
One of the best over the top auction movies
If you like Sharon Stone, you should watch ‘The Quick and the Dead’ which she produced and directed by Sam Rami. And of course, what Sharon Stone recommendation would be complete without ‘Basic Instinct’.
22:34 - Hehe, you got a good eye Shanelle! However...No, you know what, I'll get into that later. 😉
StarShip Troopers next?
As others have mentioned, if you want peak Verhoeven experience watch Starship Troopers. It dials the gore and social satire up to 11, even beyond Robocop.
Yes, I second that!
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I would like to know more!
Definitely one of the best (action) movies ever made. Nothing says the 90s like this movie. Verhoeven gold.
"Running Man" isn't bad either!
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Michael ironside who played Richter in this, always and no matter what other films he's played the part of the villain in, he always plays the villain with absolute excellence. Every bit of total recall is great, but the scene that gets me every time is with his hologram "you think this is the real Quaid, it is" 😆👍.
Jester.
He's also a method actor. He doesn't stop.
Can’t beat his introduction scene in Scanners 🤯
@@poolhall9632 Yeah but "Jester's _dead_ ! [Ahhhaaa]" and so doesn't count.
Scanners...
Verhoeven said that 'technically both outcomes are correct, because clues throughout the film make argument for each and viewer shall come to their own conclusion.'
I've always considered it not a dream, for the simple fact that Recall implants memories, but we're exposed to much more than his memories throughout the story, whereas if it was just his memories, none of the scenes without him would've existed.
Yep, how do we know things he does not if its in his head. Right off the bat, we know how he ended up in a cab, he does not.
People demanding it be one way or the other overlook the fact it's both or the story wouldn't 'work'.
@@badatthis1190 You _could_ speculate that we're seeing his delusion as if we're the camera, just like we saw his dream at the start. Though _that_ said, i'm now wondering if people even have delusions - or "scenes" from their delusions - that they're not in (I _think_ i've been in all my dreams for instance but can't say for sure).
(personally I mostly land on "it's real" BTW - partly because "And it was _alllll_ a dream" is just so dull and writing wise, something we were taught is basically anti narrative from the age of about 10 :) - but that's how I may argue the opposite. As others mention though the fun part is wondering, thinking about the nature of memory etc. rather than having the "correct" answer)
I think that he got exactly what he paid for - a vacation from himself, with the memory-story of a secret agent following a completely implausible plotline.
You're killing it with the action movie reactions lately, Shan. :) I laughed at your reaction every time the woman with three breasts showed up! "Did he just kill the only woman on all of Mars with three tits?" indeed.
she was Ensign Gomes on Star Trek TNG... she was the cute girl that followed Geordie around for 2 episodes, then nothing. She spilled her drink on Picard.
ANOTHER outstanding reaction, Shanelle! Your next stop should be "Starship Troopers", ANOTHER sci fi epic from Paul Verhoeven. He also did "Basic Instinct" with Sharon Stone, but that's a reality based thriller. Looking forward to your next reaction! Lovin' it!
other movies and one streaming show based on Philip K Dick's work - Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Adjustment Bureau, and The Man in the High Castle are all based on his work, and ALL are worth a watch, and arguably all are great.
I would add Impostor to the mix.It’s not as good as the others,but,in my opinion,it’s still fun and entertaining,and,if you’re going to watch those others you might as well be a completist and see ‘em all.There’s also another series that adapts P.K. Dick’s short stories.
You missed the episode where she swore blood oath on the Bible that she would never do Blade Runner.
@@donovanmedieval I must have definitely missed that episode.I can’t imagine why anybody would be that anti-Blade Runner
Yep, he was one unusual, but highly talented, science fiction writer. Another unusual science fiction writer that is also worth a read: Stanislaw Lem.
Not really any reaction content for A Scanner Darkly. Would love to see some.
I think this was all a dream. If you remember Bob, the salesman, he laid out everything that would happen. The title of the dream was "Blue Sky on Mars." And at the end you hear the Rekall motif
By the end you'll kill the bad guys, save the planet and get the girl.
The best thing about movies based on Philip K. Dick stories is that even after you watch the movie, you can still read the story without having had it spoiled for you because (aside from A Scanner Darkly) the movie and the novel/short story only share a very general basis.
Another Arnold classic! This movie was slammed for violence when it came out, I recall. I love the score of this movie and Ronny Cox steals every scene. His line about being home in time for cornflakes cracks me up every time.
Onto “Starship Troopers!”
I'm glad Shanelle found the secret to some success, only filming herself from the shoulders up.
You can't assume whether it's real of in his head.
Because for every bit that says it's real, there is an equally compelling piece that says it's fake.
It is what makes this movie so compelling and rewatchable.
Yeah, but people don't like ambiguity. Blade Runner, the Thing, this film. Too many people *have* to know what REALLY happened. Or they just can't live their lives.
@danielallen3454 except all those films are wildly popular. Mostly for their ambiguous nature.
We may desire to know the truth, but the speculation is were the entertainment leighs.
@@michaelconnor1542 Oh, I agree with you. But I've seen way too many people who simply can't. They find ambiguity utterly insufferable.
Blade Runner and Total Recall are also both adapted from Philip K. Dick stories, so you really have a lot of connections going on in your recent reactions.
And Minority Report!
The story is not only around 20 pages long but also hilarious,
You could read it while your tea cools enough to drink.
I prefer the way the short story ended, but it was not written to be an 80s action movie, so no diss against this version.
I was 14 when this movie came out ... and I must have watched it 50 more times on VHS before I started noticing the clues that Arnie really was dreaming. Years later the DVD commentary from the director confirmed it ... plus what the fade to white at the end of the movie symbolized for Arnie's character.
Did they actually confirm it? I never have listened to the commentary.. but i always love playing choose your own adventure ending depending on my mood. Lol
if he was dreaming, why were we seeing characters interact when Arnie's not around? dreams are only experienced from one's own perspective.
@@sephjnr How'd you know....if dreaming?
@@sephjnr that's one of the hints that he isn't. Especially when he's "passed out" and you hear the discussion. But there are other hints that he is dreaming.
@@sephjnrI have had dreams of other people interacting without me involved.
0:25 - As Ashleigh always says: "You tried your best, you did good. I'm real proud of you!" 😊
Last action hero, also with Arnold Schwarznegger. A must watch.
Ya gotta love those Rob Botin heads!
Fun facts: All the cars were electric vehicles.
-All the supposed CGI were either practical models or hand drawn line animation.
-"Get yer ass to mars" was inspired by "Follow the yellow brick road".
-Originally David Cronenberg was supposed to Direct and he wanted a Bruce Willis (or someone like him) because Quaid is described as an everyman. Not every man is like Arnold.
-In the novelization (which I recommend) After killing the Doctor, every time there's a rumble or tremor, Quaid wonders if it's real or is he having a seizure at the recall centre.
This is one of my favorite movies and is the best start for action movies going into the 90's.
There are two ways of watching this movie, Quaid really is a secret agent who had his mind erased, or Quaid is actually having a schizoid embolism. There are actually several hints that Quaid is having the embolism. Every option Quaid had chose for his "Ego Trip" came true, including two-headed monsters and alien artifacts. Also, when the technician looks at the implant, he says, "Blue Sky on Mars, that's a new one" and at the end, we see a blue sky on Mars. Then when the president of Recall shows up, he says that if Quaid doesn't take the pill, he says he will end up being bosom buddies with Cohaagen, which later on in the movie, Quaid finds out that Howser and Cohaagen are friends. Finally, as Quaid and Melina are kissing at the end of the movie, the screen fades to white, which represents Quaid getting a lobotomy.
Also, it's the first time noticing Cohaagen saying: "You're nobody, you're a stupid dream." Referencung when Quiad said he wanted to be somebody at the beginning of the movie.
Except things happen in the movie when Arnie is not in the room. So did Arnie see that in his "dream", or just us?
Also, if it's a program, how did his "friend" that he worked with jackhammering things, get inserted into the program by Recall? Was he extracted from Quaid's memory?
The sun didn't come out at the end on Mars. I am pretty sure I read the director said it was Quaid dying in the chair at recall and going "into the light", because the implant went wrong and he lived out the memory/dream of a secret agent, with a sleazy woman and a final blue sky on Mars. One last twist from the director, or you choose to believe it was a heroic action story.
Great movie. Arnie is the best. Please watch The Running Man. Based on a story from Richard Bachman a.k.a. Stephen King.
This movie is a personal fave of mine because of not only it being Arnie at his most late 80's, early 90's Schwarzenegger-ist, giving us such iconic one liners as "Geeetchu ass too Mahzzz" and "Effff I'm naht meee den who da hell ammm eye?". But we also get a record number of fake Arnie prosthetic heads ever committed to cinema. When you have a sequence where a fake Arnie head emerges out of another fake prosthetic head, in a single scene, in a movie already strewn with fake Arnold prosthetic heads, the conclusion you can jump to is that Paul Verhoven is a crazy man, a demented authentic whacko, this man must be stopped!!! I also wonder if any of the cast and crew got to bring some of the fake Schwarzenegger prosthetic heads home with them after shooting the movie, I'd take one home, you kidding. I guess the subversive story on identity and the nature of reality with that Verhoven criticism on unregulated capitalism is pretty good, too. But the heads are the selling point, make no mistake
Starship troopers really pushes the social commentary angle. Its really good.
What have you been feeding this thing?
BLONDES!!!😂😂
The Remake is AWFUL like super cringe
Still looking for my dream three boobed woman 😂
But was it a dream ? Or reality?
This movie is too good, it's not fair to other movies!
This movie was definitely in my top-3 while being a teenager. Shanelle created the very very best reaction-cut of Total Recall, hats off and thanks
My most favorite Sharon Stone movie is 1994 "Intersection" - a massively underrated masterpiece (with young Richard Gere)
I have zero fear of flying (no idea how come), plus I fall asleep during takeoff and snore for most of the flight.
Shan-Shan cackling away at people being turned into Swiss cheese. Genuinely distressed at the rat being blown up (she’s right, though, rat did not deserve it). 😂
I was 15 when this movie came out. It's absolutely peak action blockbuster from that time.
Loved this movie in 1990, forgot about it, loved it again when I saw it again in the 2000s. Did you noticed it was based on a book? I read it, very good!
We can remember it for you wholesale. Phillip K Dick. Great writer.
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I'm definitely a "Shan fan" and during another phase of my life I was a film-making student as well. Love the commentary from a film-maker's point of view. You have great observations and are informed enough to really appreciate good film-making, patient enough to understand the limitations of film during preceding eras, and quirky enough to keep me coming back over and over.
There are a lot of Star Trek actors in it: The Johnny cab was voice and modeled after Robert Picardo, the holo doc from Voyager. The three-breasted hooker was played by Lycia Naff, who played engineer Sonya Gomez on TNG in 2 episodes (and voced her later in Lower Decks). The chief uniformed cop on Mars was played by Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat from Deep Space 9). Ronny Cox played Capt. Edward Jellico in two episodes of TNG. Dr. Edgmar was played by Roy Brocksmith, who appeared as an arrogant strategist specialist in one ep of TNG. Marshall Bell (Kuato's host) had a few guest appearances, IIRC.
I was 10 when this came out but saw it at age 13. The trailer for this movie was everything for my friends and I. Before the internet it was all playground talk and playing make believe of stuff like this. Better times.
Starship Troopers! Would you like to know more?
The thing about memory is that you forget it. I went to Japan in 2017 for 12 days and I can only remember snippets from it. As years go on I'm sure I'll forget even more.
Are you sure...?
The other thing about it is, you basically make it up every time (one of the reasons it's unreliable is that it turns out we _reconstruct_ a memory every time we recall it).
@@anonymes2884 Was there a bit of a 'whoosh' there...?
Robocop2 is not as good as the original- but I have grown to like it for what it is.
However- don’t look at Robocop3 or the 2013 remake! They took rated R material and downgraded it to PG13. Also, no more Peter Weller. The remake feels like a transparent attempt at a Dark Knight formula for success that ended in disaster.
I think the whole reality/dream argument comes down to the fact that we, the viewers, are able to see the scenes of the villains plotting where Quaid is not present. If this was all his dream, we would not have those.
That Danny devito guy!...that was funny😁
This movie is based on a 1966 Sci-Fi book by Phillip K. Dick called "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." I read it in the early 70s and I remember being really excited that they made a movie out of it. Honestly, I can't remember the book, nor can I remember how the book and the film were different. But I seem to remember that the two were very different. Regardless, I think the movie is great. But I love Arnold Schwarzenegger, so if I was disappointed that the film didn't follow the book, it wouldn't have mattered.
It's a short-story rather than a book (though there _is_ also a volume of his collected short fiction that has "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" as the title story).
(and agreed, broadly similar but different - generally true of PKD adaptations IMO, they tend to be a bit looser plot-wise and more adaptations of the "spirit" of the source material)
@@anonymes2884 Ah yes, I think you're right about that. You have a good memory!
@@badbiker666 Hah, well it has its moments but actually, by pure coincidence I re-read it about two months ago so I don't think my memory deserves that much credit :).
I echo others when I say you have to complete the Verhoeven Dystopic Sci-Fi holy trinity! Can't wait for Starship Troopers 😄
'Get your ass to Mars"--and "Consider this the divorce"...My two favorite lines from the movie.
This one competes with being my favorite movie of all time. I did see it in theaters when I was ten. I bet that plays a part.
I always thought what happened in the movie after he got in the chair at Recall was the Recall package he purchased. The Mars has blue sky line is what made me feel this way.
6:48 See: The IT Crowd scene Builder Outside Taking Off His Shirt
That's just for context. Schwarzenegger worked construction when he first got to Hollywood to pay for his gym membership and acting classes.
Soon, he started and owned a construction company that only hired bodybuilders, which attracted women as clients who enjoyed looking out the window and *not* seeing that guy from the IT Crowd clip taking off _his_ shirt.
The company did so well that before anyone in Hollywood knew his name Arnold was already a multi-millionaire.
This movie is so weird and I friggin love it for that
Is this a PKD month? First Blade Runner, now Total Recall... 2 movies inspired by the writing of Philip K Dick... Should try A Scanner Darkly next
Sci fi month!
Scanner Darkly! Also Starship troopers
I'm afraid of getting sucked down by the airplane toilet
You make my day, thanks
Love your insight and commentary
Hello from Pa USA 🇺🇸 💖 💓 ❤❤
"See you at the party Rictor!!" In your best Arnie voice 🤣
I've always enjoyed this film... Saw it when it first came out... still a hoot!
A few films you will ADORE, Shanelle: "PLEASANTVILLE," "STRANGER THAN FICTION," "GRAVITY," "AMELIE"...and, of course, "THE MARTIAN"... Cheers! (and Happy Holidays!!!)
Please do "Amélie", damn I love that film.
Technically he didn't use a human as a shield...he used a corpse.
You seem to have misunderstood every exposition in this film lol.
A classic 80's Paul Verhoeven scifi Arnie movie !
A masterpiece 80's movie !
BTW, Sharon Stone looks so hot ,sexy, and evil in this it makes your day ,if you're a guy that is !
"That's a new one blue sky on Mars" he is still back at Recall
Or was this all just the Recall implant?...
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@28:11 we see your 'seeking bar' at the bottom, what happened? 😁
If you want something a little different from Paul Verhoeven, perhaps you might be interested in checking out what I think is his first American theatrical movie, “Flesh+Blood” from 1985. It premiered just before he started shooting Robocop. The cast is lead by Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High).
*_STARSHIP TROOPERS! Watch it! Paul Verhoeven’s third masterpiece and I think you’ll find a lot more that satire and commentary that you longed for in this one_*
WOW I am the total opposite the current 14 comments. I couldn't digest so much corn 🌽 and they threw in the COB! OUCH!!! I liked the second one better probably for the effects and Colin Farrell did pretty good and Kate Beckinsale as the wife. Please watch soon and give us your cinematic expert opinion. I do like this a little more thanks to you. Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Paul Vernhoven's version of Cap'n Crunch: Oops! All bones!
It is all at Recall...C'mon. His wife is Sharon Stone, hot little people, three-breasted women, aliens, three-breasted women, and mutants.
This is the second of Paul Verhoeven's political sci-fi trilogy. Robocop is the first. You should definitely watch the third - Starship Troopers, which is probably the best of the three.
Saw this in the cinema. Unfortunately I went to a midnight showing after a long day and actually fell asleep in the movie (one of only two times that's happened to me as an adult*) until a friend nudged me awake - so there was a 5 ish minute chunk in the middle that I didn't see until the VHS release (I think it's _probably_ to the movie's credit that I could absolutely still follow what was going on :).
* for trivia completists, the other one was the Tom Cruise movie "Oblivion"
I love the short story by Phillip K. Dick -- I do think that Dick would like the whole thing to be a dream and that Quaid is lobotomized back at Recall. I like how the movie left it open to your own interpretation. You should check out other movies adapted from PKD stories like Minority Report and Bladerunner.
Kuato to Shanelle: "Take my hands and you will receive total clarity about who you truly are." (half a heartbeat later) Shanelle to Kuato: "Naw, I'm good!" 😀
Speaking of sci-fi ladies with 3 and Pauls, check out Simon Pegg & Nick Frost's Paul movie. Fun with a great cast.
Is what is happening to Quaid just a fantasy taking place in his head while he is strapped in a chair at Rekall? I was long resistant to the idea myself. But over the years, I've become persuaded that this is almost certainly the case. Even so, the film is sufficiently ambiguous that people can argue back-and-forth about it and never resolve the question absolutely.
By because you “got” Robocop, I knew you’d get a kick out of this. This is another one based on a Phillip K. Dick story.
The weird thing is that. If he'd have gone through *Total Recall* . He'd have become the original evil friend of Cohagan.
So technically, it should've been called *"Partial Recall"* ha ha ha
jay! one of my favourite arnold schwarzenegger movies, besides T2 & True Lies
Me and my Dad went to go see this movie in the theatre's my god boy I tell you this movie they don't make a summer film like this anymore. When I went to middle school even the teachers were talking about how crazy this film was 😀
Im here for the MILKSHAKE!
This is another movie based on a Philip K. Dick novel (as is Blade Runner and also Minority Report).
That dude was one fantastically durable human shield! I'll be sure to bring that up at his funeral. His family would be proud.
i think hes realy stuck in this dream. I can give some reasons. 1 The dream is made to be realistic, so it begins excatly where he sat down. In the chair in Total Recalls office. 2 He gets two implants. one is the real implant with the vacation and the other is part of the story where he is a spy who haves an implant. The implants contradict each other and makes him belive that the spy story is real. 3 The Guy with the pill is a real employe. You have seen him before. He is the narrator in Total Recalls comerical, the one shown on the subway in the begining. 4 One thing about the violence, there is no violence before the implant, but a lot when the vacation has begun. Its a great movie i love it.
The reveal they haven't implanted him yet and your big shock is the woman being called a bitch 😂😂. This is a great film
I first saw this film with my uncle on video. The final scene we saw was a white screen fading to a dot. My uncle told me the old televisions did that when turning off. It glowed and took a minute or two to totally go blank.
Maybe he imagined that sweat bead and everything from the moment he visited Recall was a fiction. Maybe it's an untrustworthy narrator and even the opening dream sequence wasn't really in his head but a replayed memory of a lobotamised man. Maybe the narrator didn't really look like Arnie at all and probably worked in the admin department of a quarry.
I really should read the 1966 book from which this was based on by Philip K. Dick. "We can remember it for you wholesale."
Have you done The Running Man yet? You should do a month of Arnie films. There's great comedies too like Twins and Kindergarten Cop.
I've generally preferred the novels over the films as the author doesn't have a special effects budget or editing down for time, as long as they write like Agatha. Check her out. Christie used short sentances, brief paragraphs and chapters where necessary but the story kept moving forward with clues and red herrings and ommisions of fact because that's life.
What works in novels translates well on stage (the great books has a verbal rhythm), that allows the story to be spoken aloud.
I can't wait to see your first short film. I'm sure you have a 1001 stories to tell.
Just so you know... anything that looks corny, looked just as corny when this came out, but no one cared. =D
No I’m not afraid of being sucked out of an airplane, that’s ridiculous
I saw it in 1990 when it came out. I have a special edition DVD that comes in a round metal case that looks like Mars.
Since the hierarchy is like it is in _RoboCop_ , it was good of Verhoeven to hire the same actor to play the evil executive.
It's 33 years later - and I still don't know if that was real, or all part of his Recall package holiday...
Great reaction. This movie is an absolute classic. You mentioned something about Sharon Stone and her portrayal of a "quiet evil" character. Maybe you might like Basic Instinct. That's the movie that made her famous. The interrogation scene is also a classic.
Definitely into checking that one out!
@@ShanelleRiccio Hope you do and all I'll say about it so it's not ruined for you is that it's a thriller, not a sci-fi or super hero movie or anything. I think you'd like it.
Sharon Stone already do an "evil" persona before that in Magnum P.I. (1984, S05E01-E02) :)
@@Sunsetjoy lol okay 👍 Magnum P.I.? There's a name I haven't heard in years. That had to have taken some research. Thank God for the internet, right? 😆
Magnum P.I. was a t.v. show and I don't think I've seen that episode so I wouldn't have known about it. Basic Instinct is where I first heard of Sharon Stone. That interrogation scene was memed a million times but thanks for letting me know. 😜👍
This movie shares another thing with Alien: The composer Jerry Goldsmith. I feel like he is often overlooked and even overshadows by guys like John Williams and Alan Silvestri but Goldsmith was a damn fine composer. He might now be mostly recognised from the Star Trek universe. And fun fact, his son the late Joel Goldsmith wrote a lot of music for another sci-fi franchise: Stargate.
"First Blood" is still one of my favourite film soundtracks - nigh perfect blend of kinetic _and_ elegiac. Agreed, Goldsmith isn't _always_ considered in the same pantheon as Williams etc. but he's not that far behind IMO.
(that said, my favourite Star Trek soundtrack is probably James Horner's "Wrath of Khan" score)
@@anonymes2884 It's a real shame. Goldsmith is fricking amazing, imho. :) As for Khan, yes, it is great, but the horn solo from Goldsmith's theme to First Contact is one of the best pieces of film music ever written. Again, imho. :)
Woah! How didn't I know the writers also wrote Alien!
Now you really need to see Starship Troopers. 😃 RoboCop, Total Recall and Starship Troppers are 3 of my favorite action movies me and my brother rented on VHS waaay back.
Wait-a-minute... Total Recall is _not_ Blade Runner 2049!
Can't wait to see you complete the trilogy with “Starship Troopers!”.
Paul Verhoeven has something to say, but sometimes he makes Showgirls while saying it.
This movie was set up so you question whether this was all real, or just the memories of his "fantasy vacation." It isn't until the Dr. on Mars is spotted sweating that we know for sure that it was not a dream after all! If you like commentary, you may also get a kick out of Starship Troopers, which is also by Paul Verhoeven. You may even recognize many of the elements from his other movies as well! Plus, it's a pretty good movie too!