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Total Recall (1990) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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This was the winner of the Sci-Fi Dystopia Vibes poll. Thanks again for voting!

A heckin' good time and very Black Mirror feeling too. Looking forward to your comments! Thanks for watching. [Direct link here.]

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Total Recall (1990) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction

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Nathan Jasper

The reimagining with Colin Farrel is worth a watch too. Arnie's will always be a classic though even though it developed a case of the cheese by the end lol but that was also just the 80s/90s trend 😆 the idea of it though is so interesting. Definitely feeds into the Simulation Theory. I wonder if this is where it really started and The Matrix just magnified it? Def would recommend Johnny Mnemonic, Replicas, The 6th Day, Minority Report, and Vanilla Sky for similar vibes/style/tech

Tyler Foster

It's no wonder you didn't recognize him, given not just his age but also the extensive makeup effects by Rob Bottin (who did indeed do The Thing), but Tony, who you singled out, was played by none other than Hank Schrader himself, Dean Norris. Another nice touch re: the ending is that, not only is the whole story pretty much exactly what Quaid orders at the beginning, everything "Dr. Edgemar" says in the middle of the movie when he tells Quaid he's actually at Rekall living out his vacation fantasy comes true in the rest of the movie, just adding to the ambiguity of whether or not what happens to him is real or if he's actually dreaming. (My opinion is that this is not really the kind of movie where the difference would reveal much, unlike say, Inception -- I think it's just fun that the movie plays around with the possibility.) In addition to Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven's other two most famous movies...or perhaps, most famous and most infamous, are Basic Instinct (1992), and Showgirls (1995). I would definitely put Basic Instinct on your watchlist. Showgirls...well, it's a camp classic anyway. You didn't comment on it, but this was adapted from a short story by the landmark sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, whose ideas inspired Blade Runner (1982), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and "The Man in the High Castle" (2015-2019). Michael Ironside also popped up in your off-channel viewing of Nobody as Bob Odenkirk's father-in-law, and Ronny Cox was the kindly Beverly Hills police chief in Beverly Hills Cop.

Steve Mercier

This is quintessential 90's action cheese done well, and quintessential Paul Verhoeven. The scientific accuracy of the eye-bulging finale is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay the fuck off the charts; but, I just don't care. I love the ambiguity of the ending here--for this movie, I think it really just doesn't matter if it's real or not; either choice is cool. They took the short novel "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick, a mindbender that deals with some of the same ideas here, and turned into one of the greatest action sci-fi movies ever. "Get your ass to MarsGet your ass to MarsGet your ass to Mars..." And if RoboCop taught us anything, it's that Paul Verhoeven loves his blood squibs.

Christian Rennie

Predestination (2014) or Primer (2004) are more mind bending (time travel) movies I think you'll enjoy. This movie kinda glosses over the whole world war on earth and the Northern Block's need for the mineral to fight, this is why he can get away with it. I bet it really is just a dream. He got what he wanted either way. I would definitely not do the whole Rekall thing for a vacation. Trauma memories intruding on the present are bad enough but losing your sense of what really happened vs what was implanted seems like a gamble that would not end well for anyone. Do people use this tech to learn trades or to be proficient in a task? Can you replace actual experience with implanted memories. I think not. "Muscle memory" I think can't be implanted and learning to play tennis (like in the movie) needs the actual physical training. Even flying a helicopter (The Matrix) needs some tactile experience of how far or how it feels to hold the stick. Imagine having the memory of completing a task and then irl trying to do the same thing and failing. Now turn that into something like skydiving, sailing, or flying a helicopter. When you fail at those because you had false memories of learning to do them and not actually building the physical strength, subtle feel, or actual experience in responding to weather conditions... I think you see my point. Definitely Starship Troopers is a must watch. It is great that some of these books by excellent authors were made into movies. It is too bad that some of them didn't do so well in the 2000s. Christopher Stasheff, Isaac Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein are all authors i was introduced to in the 80s and we got a whole bunch of fun movie/tv adaptations for their works. I think we are lucky that great sci-fi is still being adapted for us to enjoy.

Cliff Adams

Imagining the future is near impossible... Pepsi, sure, but Fuji Film? (No idea digital imaging would erase film.) Mars Today newspaper? (No idea of the internet becoming the daily/hourly news source.) No decent reason why the "aliens" never turned on the air making machine. Cohaagen's reason is disproven when the machine works. Action film is less than the Phil Dick story, which leaves the ending even more ambiguous.