Sci-Fi Classic Review: TOTAL RECALL (1990)

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Sci-Fi Classic Review: TOTAL RECALL (1990)

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The Unapologetic Geek

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@ConsciousMigration Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget what my friend hollered when we walked out the theater after seeing this movie: "I am...ENTERTAINED!"

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome!

@architecturecodex9818 Жыл бұрын

I think the best part of the movie is the conversation between Quaid and the mole sent in to get him out of the illusion, or was he just an agent of the government trying to stop Quaid? This ambiguity is what permits the extreme cartoon violence, what some people call plot-holes, the deviations from physical possibilities, the bombastically ludicrous blow-them-up finale, and cliche ending of the kiss in front of the sunset. This could be unbelievable, or it could be what Quaid's implanted memory allows him to believe.

@adambusenlehner3689 Жыл бұрын

The Matrix lifted a couple plot points from this film. The "swallow the red pill" scene to bring you out of your dream state was one of them.

@caldodge Жыл бұрын

Your mention of Schwarzenegger pushing for stronger advertising reminded me of a radio ad from that time, with a Schwarzenegger mimic calling it "a real headbanger of a movie".

@EpwnaExeter Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100!

@jasonblalock4429 Жыл бұрын

Regarding the ending, there's one little thing I wish they hadn't done. During the lead-up to Quaid's first session, you can hear one of the techs say "Blue skies on Mars? This guy's in for a wild ride!" or something close to that. It's buried in the mix, but it's quite audible. And I feel like that tips the scales too much towards confirming it's a dream, since it happens before the procedure.

@renaissancewoman3770 Жыл бұрын

I love this movie, see you at the party Richter! is my favourite line. Thank you for including it.

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын

Happy to see you covered the true origin of the Red Pill meme - you left it to the text roll at the end, but you did it!

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

It was one of those things that I had put in my notes to make sure I talked about it, but it somehow didn’t make it into the script. Then, when I was editing, I realized I’d missed it, so I had to put it in the text roll. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын

@@TheUnapologeticGeek I was waiting for it all through the video as i knew it would be the kind of detail you would include. Funny that you originally intended to put it in the main section, i could just tell it was supposed to be there. Anyway, I really enjoyed the video, I hope there are many more to come...

@thrashpondopons8348 Жыл бұрын

Great retrospect TUG! & YES... I always thought he in-fact WAS dreaming at the end! (See Under: 'Brazil'!)

@larrydavis3645 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for reviewing this film. Of course, it is full of plot holes but the action makes up for it. I am going to shoot a gun where I have fragile class windows keeping out the lack of an atmosphere.

@etsequentia6765 Жыл бұрын

Should have used the shoulder-mounted bazooka from Commando.

@stevepugh3759 Жыл бұрын

I was 20 when this came out and ever since its been one of my faves .. Blue Sky On Mars ? .. I think so. .. thanks for the Review .. I know what I'm watching tonight

@ELEKTROSKANSEN Жыл бұрын

Congrats on your 100th video! I truly admire you for sticking with it despite relatively low YT stats - you, sir, seem to be really passionate about this. I wish you to 100k subs in the future. Or more! Total Recall is one of my favorite 1) movies 2) P.K. Dick adaptations 3) Arnold movies of all time; I watch it every year and hope to do so until I die :) I remember seeing it for the first time when I was maybe 14 or 15, my parents were really strict about me and my brother watching R rated movies so it was one of the first times we were allowed to see something "for adults". I was in shock, I mean, I read lots of comics and books and of course played tons of video games, so it's not that blood and gore was unknown to me - however, in my naive mind, it was somewhat "restricted" to these media, like, "yeah, they can draw blood in comics, or show pixelated guts in video games, but - duh! no-one would dare to make a MOVIE with such extreme stuff, the censoring board wouldn't allow it!"... Please also mind that I live in Poland, which was just coming out from its communist era, so the idea of "censorship" influencing art was... kinda a given, to my young self. So, you might have guessed, it totally blew my mind to see all the blood and violence on screen. Ironically, come to think of it, it's not that graphic compared to some other 80's gems like Robocop or The Fly or Re-Animator... But back then I was just amazed that someone "could do something like this" :D

@robertmagillold Жыл бұрын

100 awesome reviews! 🎉 So much fun to “rewatch” many of these movies with you. So proud of you. Looking forward to the next 100. Keep up the amazing work!

@rsacchi100 Жыл бұрын

I watched Total Recall when it first came out. Somebody I watched it with said, sarcastically, "the problem with the movie was not enough violence". The real or imagined is an interesting question. I consider it real based on the scences showed that Houser/Quaid would not see. The counter is these are just continuity errors that often happen in movies. Such a premise would make guessing useless, and that would apply to every who-done-it. I like the original more than the remake. The remake does have a good line. After the initial fight between spouses the man says "but you tried to kill me", the woman retored "I haven't begun trying to kill you." Then the fight resumes.

@graemewilson7975 Жыл бұрын

TR was and remains one of paul verhoevens trilogy of science fantasy RoboCop and starship troopers top and tail it. Even after 30years it's still phenomenal with Schwarzenegger becoming a brutal but vulnerable (by the Austrian oaks standards). PV has like spielberg, cronenberg, the late Ivan reitman and Harold ramis an understanding of fantasy on screen and how to shoot it and edit. TR is not particularly subtle, but it's story(dream?) Within the movies central conceit. A superb cast whom understood the tone Micheal Ironside-often TV hardman & V mini series mercenary/redeemed guy along with his right hand man from V as the guy in the train who tells quaid about the mines. Sharon stone looking it's gotta be said incredibly entertaining and sexy. Rachel tictotin equally important to the movie her character is considerably more charming then stones. Cox enjoying underplaying the villain for his second verhoeven movie. As for the violence-its a verhoeven movie, I personally don't know if he does it to wind up the critics' or genuinely Dosent register it on the same level as other people, PV has claimed he saw a lot of shootings by the Nazis in his native Netherlands as a child during the nazi occupation. It gets the violence and humour just right. Great review again. Incidentally there's a series called Citadel which attempts to be total recall meets James bond and fails on both levels and conceits starting with a massacre played for laughs but Peckinpah violence a queasy mix that Dosent gel.

@gorgin1017 Жыл бұрын

"Get your ass to Mars". Classic line.

@markoragnos6757 Жыл бұрын

Paul Verhoeven is the best Sci fi director that ever lived. His films have so many layers. He is more relevant then James Cameron.

@Insightfill Жыл бұрын

In my youth, I loved Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," and disliked the movie for its changes. It wasn't until much later that I learned that Verhoeven hated the book, and disagreed with the premises and philosophy. I realized he was doing parody and THEN the movie made sense. The man's a genius.

@papabearlives9995 Жыл бұрын

It's a movie that years later still makes you think was it real or just an fantasy. The audio commentary of the film does not help much the director is pointing out that it was the implant and Arnold is arguing that it's for real .

@DystopianJoe Жыл бұрын

I see my dude has a copy of Richard Stanley's Hardware in the background. Hope we're getting a Sci-Fi classic review on this bad boy.

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

All in good time. 😎

@morgangallowglass8668 Жыл бұрын

Many congrats!

@racookster Жыл бұрын

This is a good review, but personally, I'm not a fan of Total Recall. My ability to suspend disbelief vanished with what many people cite as their favorite effect in the film: the splitting Big Lady mask. Everything about that effect was physically impossible, and it knocked me right out of the film. From that moment on, I was solidly in the "Onwy a Dweam" camp, and I strongly dislike "Onwy a Dweam." That's putting it mildly. I can't even forgive its use in The Wizard of Oz.

@racookster Жыл бұрын

@Baked Biehn- I like it a lot more, but the reason is that I was VERY familiar with the work of Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and his style jumped right off the screen at me. I didn't even know it was his work going in, but I sure knew it within the first five minutes. Because of that, I expected nothing more than a French comic book, and that's exactly what I got.

@1kylecurry Жыл бұрын

A damn entertaining action movie...one of the best ever! great soundtrack. A wild & fun ride. Enjoy the decadence of the late 80s into the early 90S. Congratulations 100 episodes...& many, many more to come!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

@adambusenlehner3689 Жыл бұрын

Jerry Goldsmith's score has been released four times on CD. 1990 & 2000 by Varese Sarabande. 2015 (25th anniversary edition) & 2020 (30th anniversary edition) by Quartet Records. The Quartet editions have the complete score. Well worth owning.

@mikesilva3868 Жыл бұрын

Great movie congrats on your channel 😊

@nefariousgremlin7554 Жыл бұрын

holy shit, gul dukat is in this movie. Awesome!

@CaminoAir Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

Aw, shucks. Thank YOU!

@mikesilva3868 Жыл бұрын

@@TheUnapologeticGeek He tampered in God’s domain.” mst3k joke 🤣

@volvo480 Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your 100th review, greetings from The Netherlands. By the way, Verhoeven is pronounced "ver-whoven", not "verhough-ven". 😉

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

I do my best, but alas, I’m still an American. 😂

@darrensmith6999 Жыл бұрын

Well don Sir (:

@craigleach8473 Жыл бұрын

Love the reviews, can I ask why the mention of Ronny Cox might get this video demonetized though? Hope this isn't a stupid question...

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

If spelled differently, it’s a naughty word that KZbin very much dislikes.

@caldodge Жыл бұрын

Of course it was real! My favorite trivia bit is the fact that Schwarzenegger had all of his food and water flown in from the US, a long with his personal chef. Others robbed him about this, until they discovered what he discovered while filming "Predator" - Mexican cuisine does not agree with gringo stomachs.

@TheUnapologeticGeek Жыл бұрын

Apparently, he and Shusett, who also brought his own food and water, were the only major crew members who didn’t get sick!

@CaminoAir Жыл бұрын

Hi! Please let me know if you received my euro 5 donation via 'Thanks' option. I hope to be back on PayPal & Patreon before long, now that I've upped the security on my computer (e.g. VPN for one aspect). I saw this at an 11pm preview with the cinema sound system turned up to the maximum possible., which wasn't exactly pleasant. Unfortunately I have to agree with a British film magazine of that time ('Film Review'). Their reviewer described 'Total Recall' as 20 minute chunks of extreme violence interrupted by 5 minute segments of plot twists. Furthermore, that unlike 'Robocop', the violence had no emotional resonance. I like Arnold's performance, although his casting meant that I never questioned if anything more than the surface level story was happening (unlike Dreyfuss for example). Goldsmith's score, the casting and all the technical aspects are splendid.

@indyspotes3310 Жыл бұрын

So... my choices are Doug Quaid saving Mars and living happily ever after or Carl Hauser comatose in a Rekall machine drooling on his shoes? Hmmm... one of those seems a lot more fun. Ultimately, it's irrelevant, but I choose to believe it was real, if only because I've been burned before. ( I'm looking at you, St. Elsewhere...) I never understood the complaints about the violence in this movie. He's trying to make a planet sized omelet. That's going to require a few broken eggs, folks...