Film Total Recall

[His Name Is Frank]

Thoughts and opinions?

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Here's Arnold's take on the movie

 

[AmorRoark]

BEST MOVIE EVAR!!!!!

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[psood0nym]

I never get tired of Total Recall. I think it's one of the funniest movies ever. I re-watched it on TV years ago after reading that it was adapted from "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick (the movie is a pretty big departure actually). I noticed a lot of the author's themes survived in the movie (relationship of memories to identity, distortions and masks of identity, etc.)

 

[LapDawg]

Total Recall will always have a special place in my heart.

 

[Feste]

Awesome film.

Part of the Verhoeven "trilogy" along with Robocop & Starship Troopers.

 

[psood0nym]

Funniest scene

 

[MistaJeff]

This is probably my favorite Schwarzenegger movie. My governator is a BAMF.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I thought this was an awesome scene and great effects for 1989. It was released in 1990, but technically it is an 80s movie.

It is one of the best Philip K. Dick adaptations. I didn't care for Blade Runner, Minority Report or Next. A Scanner Darkly was interesting. Anyway. Amy's movie is awesome. Carry on.

 

[L2R]

love it.

i regularly quote "get your ass to mars". shit i think i quoted it twice just last week on completely separate occasions.

 

[AmorRoark]

^ I say that a lot too.

 

[AmorRoark]

I didn't care for Blade Runner

I feel like I hardly know you.

 

[tribal girl]

BEST MOVIE EVAR!!!!!

I thought your favourite was Commando?. :D

I thought this was an awesome scene and great effects for 1989. It was released in 1990, but technically it is an 80s movie.

YES!, that still looks great today.

Personally, I love a lot of Arnie films, even though I don't particularly like him. The Running Man + Terminator 1 and 2 were also great.

*Waits for Amy to chime in and mention Jingle All The Way or Kindergarten Cop*

 

[His Name Is Frank]

You just threw a ton of awesome in this thread, Beautiful Tulip©! I love you for that! Let's have no mention of Jingle All The Way, Kindergarten Cop or Junior. Love Arnold. Hate his attempts at full-on comedy.

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I feel like I hardly know you.

Oh come now. In my defense, I've never actually watched the movie in it's entirety. Just for you, I will seek it out and watch the entire movie.

 

[pucko]

aye, defo a quality movie...one of his better efforts.

 

[ninjadanslarbretabar]

i should rewatch this one, i too have good memory of this

 

[JoeTheStoner]

watched this tonight, saw it as a child but barely remembered it. i love the sci-fi stuff that involves the possibility of simulated reality so i loved it. thought the effects were pretty damn awesome and some funny lines from arnold. oh and it reminded me of eXistenZ, especially the ending, cronenberg had to of been thinking the same.

*okay just browsing the wiki for it as i do after any movie i watch, peep this.

David Cronenberg was attached to direct but wanted to cast William Hurt in the lead role.[2] Cronenberg described his work on the project and eventual falling out with Shusett: "I worked on it for a year and did about 12 drafts. Eventually we got to a point where Ron Shusett said, 'You know what you've done? You've done the Philip K. Dick version.' I said, 'Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing?' He said, 'No, no, we want to do Raiders of the Lost Ark Go to Mars.'"[2]

interesting... /me strokes goatee

 

[AmorRoark]

^ That is interesting.

 

[NoOnesHome]

Awesome film.

Part of the Verhoeven "trilogy" along with Robocop & Starship Troopers.

Heinlein was a master. Too bad they wrecked Starship Troopers when they made it a movie.

 

[Feste]

Verhoeven never even finished the book, it's not really got anything to do with it.

A lot of people don't seem to get that Starship Troopers (the film) is heavy satire. Not quite sure how they miss that.