PATREON EXCLUSIVE UNCUT REACTION - Total Recall (1990)
It is Alex's pick for Audience Cut and he chooses Total Recall (1990)! He has seen the film, but has wanted Josh to watch it for years, and
It is Alex's pick for Audience Cut and he chooses Total Recall (1990)! He has seen the film, but has wanted Josh to watch it for years, and now Josh is finally seeing it!
If you don’t own the movie, it is streaming in the US on MGM+
If you are in another country and have info of where the movie is available to stream, comment and let other Patrons know!
Comments (26)
One of Arnolds best.
the actor who played Cohagen will be popping up in TNG in season 6.
Awwww hell yeah! I'm here for cinema masterpieces like this! Eager to see the Robocop and Starship Troopers reactions when/if they happen.
Try watching 'Junior'. Very funny comedy with Arnold, Danny and Emma Thompson. 'TRUE LIES' with Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton is another great Arnold comedy action film. But I have to say his 'CONAN THE BARBARIAN' films are my favorites because of the saga/legend way they made them.
Watching this movie for the hundredth time I start to notice the films flaws if Lori and Richter weren’t so bad at their jobs everything would have worked out fine. Quaid remembered nothing when discount Devito tried to kill him they should have just continued with the plan. Lori should have played wifey Pooh for longer he would’ve brought her along for the ride. She must’ve been sick of that assignment so she truly loved Richter. 😆 also the whole point of the Hauser/Quaid switcheroo was to slip him in past the physics, but Benny just waltzed right into their rebel base. I was thinking in the final act Richter should’ve helped Quaid escape he lost his wife, his bespectacled pal. Cohaggen treated him like an errand boy the entire time. And then a scape goat. If he’d known the plan he could have adjusted accordingly maybe his wife wouldn’t have been killed. But then again Quaid did cap her..
Cheesy? Sure. Riotous good fun and all action? Hell yeah. It is hard not to enjoy Arnie from this era, so much fun. Great watching you guys enjoy it so much.
I love that you guys are watching this at just the perfect time. And that's all I'll say about that.
It's streamable on Crave in Canada, in case that helps anyone
10/10 Movie 8/10 Reaction (minus 2pts for no Fireball) Awesome rewatch. Always a favorite. I love the details that make you question whether it was all the Recall dream or not. Melina's face in the screen at Recall and "blue skies on Mars" the Recall tech mentions being the standout moments that makes you go Hmmmm.
The original cut was slapped with an X rating for the violence. So the gore was actually cut down from what you saw here. The human shield scene and Benny's death was heavily trimmed as well as the scene of the dwarf prostitute running one of the henchmen through.
Many more fun memes and lines had they picked Uranus instead of Mars.. "Get your ass to Uranus!"
According to Verhoven in interviews, he intentionally made the movie with the idea that what we are watching is both real AND a dream. To make it as vague as possible by not having "true" interpretation. As such there are lots of things that suggest it is a dream, but also things that make more sense if it's really happening.
Thanks for that comment. I've gone back and forth on this issue. Nice to know I'm not really supposed to come to a definite conclusion, because it's too much of a head-wrecker to explain away the contradictions.
As much as I also like this movie, it really could have done without a lot of the blood and gore.
No way!
Sorry guys, it didn't show up for me on Paramount+, unless it's only available for people who pay for the upper tier. Good movie, though. I haven't seen it in quite a few years.
Looks like it must’ve just come off Paramount+ unfortunately
It is interesting that Sharon Stone's movie career is sort of an accident. When the 1985 movie King Solomon's Mines was being cast, the producer said that he wanted Kathleen Turner, who was coming off the hit similar action-adventure film Romancing the Stone from the year earlier in 1984. He said, "I want that Stone woman," and Sharon Stone was hired by mistake. Sharon Stone was really something for a few years.
Yeah, and she wore out the casting couch.
It sounds like you guys actually analyzed the plot. I just remember being blown away by the visuals and the basic story. I probably expected even more back then, but I remember it as being quite a rewatchable movie that can really draw you in. I remember some of visuals being sort of ahead of its time.
Glad to hear you could replace that TV through Patreon support. Nice to be able to see how this support comes through for you.
Scoring a movie.....Hollywood often gave composers amphetamines to get them through several weeks of intense work. Since the 1990's too many movies allow composers not enough time to do themselves justice. Look up Goldsmith for scoring 'Chinatown' in 10 days and the temporary music fiasco he experienced on 'Alien'.
I live on Mars. There are no streaming services that have the movie. Ironic if you think about it
Y- you haven't seen Robocop?! Oh, you sweet sheltered child! I saw it when I was eight years old. *twitch* And I turned out perfectly fine.
Title of the story this is based on is "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale."
Oh, my aching nose…