1990 Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Sharon Stone Rachel Ticotin Ronny Cox Michael Ironside Marshall Bell Roy Brocksmith Ray Baker Rosemary Dunsmore Dean Norris Debbie Lee Carrington Lycia Naff Robert Costanzo Marc Alaimo Michael Gregory Mickey Jones Robert Picardo Michael Champion Mel Johnson Jr. David Knell Alexia Robinson
El Vengador del Futuro, 魔鬼总动员, 宇宙威龙
I used to have Total Recall only rated 4-stars but after watching it last night I realized the error of my ways. This is a 5-star movie.
This fucking movie, this movie right here, has some insane re-watchability. In the 4 years Richard and I have been together we've watched it at least 3 times and somehow, that doesn't seem like it's enough. I used to watch it pretty regularly in the U.S. as well, it was on TV often and Total Recall is not a movie you just flip past while channel surfing. You land on it, you say "FUCK YES, SEE YOU AT THE PARTY, RICHTER" and you watch it. It's just, culturally, what Americans do.
Total Recall…
"See you at the party, Richter!"
For those of you who haven't seen this film, I have only one thing to say; "Get your ass to Mars!"
95
Love as memory - a harrowing action spectacle of unwavering totality. Verhoeven is in complete control of every movement, hue, and excessive, explosive burst. Simply a jaw-dropping analog entity. Total Recall confronts the illusion of homely spaces, the physical trek to and from the workplace, and the prodded designation of our society - each separating a larger threat of capitalistic complacency, and it kicks ass while doing it.
reality and fantasy are equally shitty except in one of them you are important.
I just love everything about this film: the practical effects; the over the top violence; Ronny Cox chewing the scenery like a man possessed, Michael Ironside’s sulky and snarling performance; Sharon Stone looking better than she ever has; Arnie’s super camp run after killing the gang lead by “Harry from verk”; the security guard who doesn’t even wait until he’s out of shot before giving up the chase after Doug Quaid smashes through the X-ray scanner, with a gun. There are a million other things but I’ll stop there as I could be at it all night otherwise.
Then at the centre of it all is the big man himself, playing an everyman as only a gigantic genetic freak like him can. Many people say it would be a better film without Arnold Schwarzenegger, but for me he’s the pumped up cherry atop a gloriously over filled cake.
Everyone should watch this film and relax, they’d live longer.
When it comes to Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi films, many will agree that RoboCop is the best amongst all of those. While the former is for the most part a great movie, I'd have to give the upper hand to the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Total Recall. Along with a bunch of other action and sci-fi films from the period, this is one of those films that helped shaped my love of cinema as I know it. I know that sounds overdramatic, but this is one of those films so timelessly entertaining that I can't help myself. To put it short, Total Recall fucking rocks.
Set in the year 2084, Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) is having recurring dreams about Mars. Wanting to take…
La paranoia y derroche de imaginación made in Dick encajan perfecto con el sentido del espectáculo, violencia y desborde de Verhoeven (con quien además comparte el sentido de la sátira), que maneja el género como Ortega (Ariel Arnaldo, no Palito ni sus hijos) manejaba la pelota: con precisión, y como si nada les importara. El loop neurótico está dentro y fuera de la cabeza de Arnold que a fuerza de piñas y tiros trata de desmarcarse de su propio Truman Show futurista asesino.
Overly bizarre for my liking, but it packs no shortage in fast paced entertaining action sequences and violence, while telling a very creative and interesting sci-fi fantasy story with a good performance from Arnold Schwarzenegger. I think it will grow on me more over time, but I certainly still had a good time watching it.
Not the best PKD adaptation, but certainly the most PKD adaptation. This unfortunately extends to his treatment of women and his frequent affinity for the workmanlike over the lyrical, but hey, the good stuff is there too.
Watched outside projected onto a bedsheet at a friends. Sort of lost me near the end. Very arnie though.
Let’s try this letterboxd thing.
I cannot say that I was surprised by how much this movie entertained me. It is directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the special effects are by Bob Bottin and the screenplay is co-written by Dan O’Bannon based on a Philip K. Dick short story.
Paul Verhoeven is often touted as a director making smart movies masquerading as dumb ones. I see no reason to disagree. Total Recall is a movie filled with guns, explosions, tits (one particular mutant has three of them), and gratuitous violence. All presented using state-of-the-art special effects per 1990. Special effects that still hold up today. Yet, Total Recall still manages to pose questions about the nature of identity,…
Political satire and dark humor expressed through messy, gory violence and mind-bending spectacle. The right kind of action movie and satire, one that ages spectacularly well in spite of any and all elements that could possibly counteract that being a possibility.
If you put this ludicrous script in the hands of any other filmmaker and attach any other leading man besides Verhoeven and Schwarzenegger, and the finished product would be nowhere near as iconic and memorable as what we got.
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