FIRST TIME WATCHING: Total Recall (Mind-Bending Edition 1990) REACTION (Movie Commentary)
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Modern special effects will never beat giant bullet squibs or practical models. And nothing they make with cgi will ever be creepier than that kuato puppet
Meh. Obviously something that's really there will always look more like it's really there, than any CGI ever will. But there's some stuff you can't do for real. CGI has its place. I just think that place is backgrounds, non-organic shit, and, at a push, creatures with a rigid exoskeleton. Or just for fixing and improving practical effects. Not sure about models though. I mean, if they have to interact with fluids like water or fire, it doesn't work, cus you can't scale water or fire down, so it always destroys the illusion
Kuato and the alien reactor are two of the best special effects ever.
It gets little attention by modern viewer but the scene where Quaide goes through the x-ray weapon detector thing was really ground breaking CGI.
Still holds up.
My sister and I always said open your mind Quaid.
And 2 weeks 2 weeks 2 weeks and we do the fingers in the mouth to add drama. Lol
@@ashscott6068 you can do water at scale, just not miniature scale. But you could do like a larger scale miniature of a building and it would look fine. For example the sinking building at the end of Casino Royale is a model, the van driving off the bridge in True Lies is a model, the movie The Impossible filmed their tsunami with a model in a water tank, and of course the Two Towers used miniatures for the dam breaking, I could go on but you get the idea.
"Bennie" the cab driver with "five kids to feed", used to come in my uncle's video store back in the day.
How were his teeth?
Pretty cool!
He was also on an episode of _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ as a Cardassian.
Was his arm really that jacked up? (Really special effects of the best kind, not CGI.)
Verhoeven's brand of satire played straight has two kinds of fans. Those who get it, and appreciate his scathing take on the matter at hand, and those who don't but enjoy the ultra-violence and one liners anyways.
Definitely check out Starship Troopers.
He is hit or miss, his starship troopers movie is great but he has a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material, You cant just slap grey uniforms on peeps and then cry fascist after all.
@@timothymiller4475 You can if you're making fun of it and not trying to paint it as good
Its almost like he made Starship Troopers fit into the same timeline as Total Recall, and Robocop to an extent. They almost feel connected with his stylistic ques.
Total Recall is one of the most bonkers Sci-fi films ever. And I love it! I was 7 years old when this movie was in theaters. It's been awhile since I've seen this movie from start to finish. Perhaps I need to do so again.
It really carries the paranoid sci-fi style of PKD in it!
Based on what you've seen already, the following films are recommended: Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers (1997), John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988), & James Cameron's True Lies (1994).
A lot of those are on the list!
@@CapedInformer try to see the original true lies.
I love this movie and how ambiguous it is with its ending. On one side you could say it was all real and he did save the day, on the other you could say it was all a recall ego trip.
Personally I feel it’s the latter. The fact at recall he makes a choice of Mars, to be a secret agent who gets the girl and saves the planet, the tech looking at the ego trip and saying “blue sky on Mars”, the Martian art they show him has a picture of the oxygen machine and finally when choosing the girl on the computer the picture of Melina is on the screen. That leads me to believe that once he went under everything from that point was the recall.
That then leaves two more possible endings. One is the happy ending where this all is a normal trip and once it is over the screen fills with white light and he wakes up from his recall. The other is the bad ending, the doc brought in supposedly to trick him was actually legit, that there was a problem with the recall and that was his way out, he doesn’t take the way out that the bright light at the end was him being lobotomized.
In case you are wondering, the director said it was a dream. And the fade to white at the end was him being lobotomized. The sweat from the guy with the pill was a misdirection, dreams can sweat.
Ronny Cox kills it as a bad guy in these films.
Well...the Goldfish anyway.
You gotta add Commando to your Arnie watch list. So many one-liners you’ll love it. It’s kind of the movie where the whole thing started with him and the one-liners. Violent and over the top, too.
Right up my alley lol
Yes, definitely Commando for sure
Arnold got the opportunity to flex his under-appreciated comedic talent in a pretty considerable number of films. He was never going to be performing Othello but he was VERY good at doing what he did.
"What have you been feeding that thing?" Arnold, "Maids"
Starship Troopers is a must see, of course, but don't forget about Basic Instinct either.
Don't forget the Kleenex
Yeah starship troopers is a good film
Yes & yes! 😎
@@devonbonstein6156 no it's not. It's a great thriller. Starship troopers is the one that needs to be skipped. Bad acting, bad script, bad set design.
@@devonbonstein6156 you don't like RoboCop and Flesh+Blood either? Also, Gone Girl is a David Fincher directed movie. But while i can somewhat understand your the for the other mentioned so far, Gone Girl truly is amazing. The craft from Fincher is not only amazing, but the character arcs of Affleck and Pike is insanely creative.
The name of the brain implant that he bought at Total Recall was “Blue Sky on Mars.”
Who besides Verhoeven? Phillip K Dick, who wrote the story this is based on, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"
@Caped Informer So many great Philip K Dick novels and short Stories.. Pull up his wiki and look at all the films that have been created from his works.
@@allisterfiend_2112 Yes, all due to the drugs he took. Gave him vivid, wild hallucinations.
23:44, "Benny, SCREW YOU!" LOL!
Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who also wrote the short story that Blade Runner was based on. That dude had creativity for days, but sadly was crazy and had a difficult life.
Speaking as a fellow creative type, that tends to come with the territory.
Interesting fact, actor Michael Ironsides sister was going through Chemotherapy during the filming of this movie. He would call her to check in, and when Arnold Schwarzenegger found out, he asked if he could speak to her, and Ironside obliged. He spoke to her for an hour or so about how she’s feeling and her diet, and Ironside said that it meant a tremendous amount to his sister and to him.
The Johnny Cab is voiced by Robert Picardo. He played a holographic doctor program on the entire run of Star Trek Voyager, and had a part on Stargate Atlantis as well.
Also, there is a fan theory that because the worker at Recall says "Huh, blue sky on Mars. That's new" that the whole film after is Quaid's Secret Agent vacation package. The main title score is an adaptation of the Mars suite of Gustav Holst's The Planets composition.
The Novelist who wrote the book this is based on, Phillip K. Dick, also wrote the books that the movies Blade Runner, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly were based on.
This was actually right before Basic Instinct. Sharon Stone hadn't become the household name yet. Also, you missed the hint when the guy was up selling the dream. The package was called Blue Skies On Mars.
I love the vague ending that keeps you thinking if it's still a dream.
"Blue sky on Mars"
The fade into the sunlight at the end is Quade waking up... EVERYTHING outlined in the secret agent package came true.. He saved the planet, got the girl, and even the blue sky on Mars which the tech said was new... The ONLY clue that it wasn't all a memory implant, was how he could have dreamed about Marlina before he picked her out on the screen at Rekall......
@@davidr1050 and the guy sweating that made him realize it was not just a dream.
Back in the day, my best friend and I watched this (on VHS) and argued about whether it was real or all a dream. Watched it together again the next day and were still arguing . . . but we had switched sides!
@@mikegoodwin2386 -- well shit.. Now that I'm thinking about it... Do people sweat in a dream?
@@mikegoodwin2386 --- This is exactly what a really GREAT film does.... People still talking about it 30 years after it came out....
You need to watch True Lies, The Running Man, and Commando.
Kindergarten Cop as well.
@@trenchy1990 good call
Commando's a masterpiece!
The Running Man fit right in with these weird sci fi futures.
1:45 My nightmares would be gone waking up next to 30 year old Sharon Stone :)
7:47 That "tie me up" is one of the best parts of the movie.
14:17 "I like this guy.." ;) 18:30 Yeah, he's a hero.... 20:49 Everyone was.
14:51 What does a ghost say to bees? Boo bees! :) 16:29 I give a vote for that :)
23:19 From the favourite to the favourite to die! 23:56 You need to watch Commando (1985)
Its a journey they take you on the ride with them.
No body spoiled the movie for you. It's universal.
For another 80s scifi movie starring Schwarzenegger, you might want to look up The Running Man.
Also "the 6th say" isn't bad...
When it ends you never know whether it happened as shown or it was all in his head after he had an embolism during the memory procedure at total recall as events mirror his choices for his secret agent memory vacation (blue sky on Mars, athletic love interest, etc etc)
The guy who played Arnold’s boss on the construction site went on to voice Detective Harvey Bullock in Batman: The Animated Series. He was one of the best, most nuanced non-villain/non-hero characters on the show. Highly recommended.
He's not Quaid's boss though.
Oh wow that does actually sound like him
@@jp3813 my mistake
80's Verhoeven movies had so much lowtech gore in them, really miss that in movies this day and age
Yep I love this movie and if you liked Arnie's acting here I definitely recommend True Lies, a fantastic film also full of action and comedy and is directed by James Cameron of Aliens and Terminator
'Arnold is a comedic genius, I'm convinced!' agreed. Recently finished his book Total Recall, a thorough deep dive into how he transition from a teenager in Austria to a world famous bodybuilder then actor! A great read... oh and we all got suckered by Benny back in the day! Such an OH NO! moment when he revealed he was on the side of the baddies
The Recall program he chose was "Blue Sky on Mars". Check out that ending. IT WAS ALL A DREAM!!!
Or was it just a coincidence? I love the dichotomy of this movie! The fade to white also makes you think he's still stuck at Rekall, lobotomized...
I disagree. They literally explain that they hit a memory-cap and that's what set him off, and all before they could implant the "ego-trip". With that in mind, everything that happened from the moment Quad woke-up in the Johnny Cab onward was all real. Well, real as far as the movie goes.
And as another comment elsewhere pointed out, Rekall only implants FAKE MEMORIES; they don't dump you in a simulated reality or anything, so with that detail in mind, it's clear that the guy "sent in" to "talk Doug down" was lying.
And another clue that I think gives things away is the look Henry (Doug's buddy at the construction-site) gives him after talking about Rekall. A very suspicious look, and not exactly in a "I'm concerned my friend is going to do something stupid" look either...
@@refurbishedtechpriest9076 I'm not sure I agree. Though I understand your reasoning. The only thing that keeps it open for me is the way it was filmed. You never see them actually performing the procedure that popped that memory cap, it just cuts back to Arnold freaking out on the chair. So if the memory was implanted during that off-screen moment then the explanation by the lady saying she hasn't implanted it yet would have taken place within the memory as part of the story. Then the rest of the movie plays out just like the discretion of the memory.
@@KeoTower But, there are scenes playing out where Quaid isn't involved any form whatsoever. That makes me lean towards it was happening.
If you thought this movie was messing with your head, just think about how every thing worked out exactly like the Recall salesman said it would.
So was it really happening, or was all this just Quaid's Recall trip?! Maybe when we saw him fighting in the Recall chair, that was really the start of the trip, and not reality. Just a thought. :)
It’s definitely Quaid’s recall trip. Cohagen’s plan was to put Hauser in so deep of cover that Kuato couldn’t psychically determine he wasn’t on the mutant’s side. Trying to convince Quaid that he’s still at Recall doesn’t fit in that plan at all, so why would they try to do that? It’s all a dream
The fact that people are still debating to this day whether the whole thing was the recall experience or not is why this movie is so great. The remake version was abysmal compared to this masterpiece.
Johnnycab is played by Robert Picardo who also played the holodoctor on Startrek Voyager.
The "look who's talking" disfigured man is Dean Norris, who also played Hank in Breaking Bad.
Neat fact Arnold was in the Austrian Army in his younger years and he still really love tanks so some combat parts are him as long as they are not deadly stunts.
Two slept on Schwarzenegger one-liner classics Raw Deal and Red Heat you may find enjoyable!💖
Saw this as an 8 year old and I still love it.
"give arnold a script with just one liners and it will be a hit, I promise"
they did, its called Commando!
man, i've seen a lot of reactions from you and i think you're my favorite react channel! keep doin it!
Everyone loves Benny that is until we find out he doesn't have one damn kid.
Hey man, I’ve got FIIIIVVEE kids to feed!!
This was the first and only Sci Fi movie to win Best Visual Effects at the 1991 Academy Awards. The other Sci-fi/ Fantasy movies that got snubbed were:
Ghost
Back To The Future 3
TREMORS
PREDATOR 2.
The funny thing is, some of this movie’s effects look fake, but they are so outrageous you just have to give it a pass. It was an ambitious movie for sure.
The movie makes it purposedly vague, but it's heavily implied that all the story could very much be part of the recall trip he bought. He's actually being a secret agent, he kills the baddies and gets the girl, as promised, the story gets more and more fantastic and less belieavable the more it goes on, and there are a number of hints here and there that suggest a lot of the things in the story are delusions (for example, when choosing his "dream girl", he depicts her exactly as Melina.
When asked about it, Arnold himself said it can be viewed both ways on purpose, but he personally believes it was indeed all a virtual trip in the protagonist's mind.
He actually was dreaming, as was being explained to him at 7:12, even Paul Verhoeven says that the white flash at the end of the film was him being lobotomized
Idk if you notice but when the ReKall guy was saling his "fake memory" he quiet literally TOLD YOU THE ENTIRE PLOT OF THE MOVIE..... He actually said "I don't want to spoil anything, but....."
The soundtrack by the late Jerry Goldsmith is genius.
The author who wrote the original short story for Total Recall also wrote the book that Blade Runner is based on, so part of me likes to think that they take place in the same universe.
One thing I always wondered was Melina calls Quaid "Dear" when he pulls her off the machine - so maybe she was in fact a little "fixed?"
Or maybe she's just kidding.
Always wondered that maybe they fried a little something in there myself.. Still always made me chuckle.
Rachel Ticotin (Melina) is latino Sandra Bullock in her youth.
You know who she looks like. Paula Patton. Robin Thicke’s ex wife
The implanted memories he bought from Recall included:
~ being a secret agent under deep cover
~ traveling to Mars
~ an athletic brunette as a romantic interest
~ defeating an evil overlord to save the planet
So... Was the entire story simply Quaid getting his money's worth?
You need to watch The Last Action Hero. He is able to make fun of the 80s action movie troupes.
16:21 😂 ..always found that question hilarious. Great reaction vid bro. Subbed.
the special light at the end make you doubt about all that story was or wasn't the dream he paid for
for more of that Schwarzenegger action, check out “True Lies” ....
Commando
To me... True Lies and Predator are his best movies.
@@grendelz idk...i really hated true lies...id watch last action hero over that any day. for me, commando, total recall, terminator, predator and the running man are his essentials.
@@foreignmilk5589 Last Action Hero is one of his more disappointing flicks. True Lies is top notch and Eraser is underrated.
@@jp3813 wrong
People sleep on Arnold's comedy chops, but he was in Twins, Jingle All The Way etc.
That Jackie Chan meme slow down baby has got me rollin lol 😂
😂 me and Jackie were on the same page
Sharon Stone said during an interview that in the scene where she elbows him, it was like hitting a brick wall.
I could believe that lol
@ 16:30 Careful, Informer. Rumor has it the middle one talks. 😁
I remember when I first saw this I wanted him to wake up at the end of the movie
Go back to sleep
That Jackie Chan insert was exquisite
Starship Troopers is a MUST WATCH.
"You gotta ice this chick man" 😆😆
The part when Quaid uses the hologram watch for the first time. This is a classic reaction on your part! Totally digging these reaction videos.
I like the ambiguity regarding whether or not he was in the illusion the whole time. Everything he was told was going to happen immediately if he was dreaming did happen. We don't know of if it all happened or whether he's forever trapped in the illusion.
The short story is nothing like the movie, but it's well worth a read. It's got an even crazier twist
Also if you're on an Arnold roll, watch "Red Heat". It's awesome.
I love these reaction videos of old movies. I'm hooked and I'm old, LOL. To see younger generations watch these movies and what I'm finding out is that the movies from my day still hold up. But then again all these old movies had great director, greats actors and usually well written before internet.
Some timeless films in that era. I love the creativity they had. A lot of 90s classics too!
@@CapedInformer I love all movies from all era's. I still believe the film business is still in its infancy? If this style of storytelling is gonna go on forever. In the 80's and 90's was a different time people could use racial and sexual humor and it wouldn't be a big deal like today.
I see John McTiernan in a couple comments. It's not a Schwarzenegger movie but if you haven't seen it, "The Hunt For Red October" is a great film that McTiernan helmed.
Yo! This was a GREAT reaction!
Thanks!
Yup, how hot sharon Stone was....its an incredible action movie, couldn't make it like this today - great commentary
Recurring theme in a lot of Philip Dick's stories is basically "What if the reality you think you live in isn't real? What if you're not who you think you are?" - Unsurprising to learn that he dealt with severe paranoia his entire life.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but "Minority Report" is an excellent movie to pair with this.
Originally was supposed to be a sequel to Total Recall, but it was eventually turned into something else, and is great on its own.
Steven Spielberg movie, with Tom Cruise.
And dude, I watched this movie in theaters, and on tape countless times. And up until this year, I thought the cab driver dude said his name was Vinny..
Lol I heard it like 5 different ways
It was. Sorry about that, I had a little mishap with my time machine when I went back to try and deal the murder hornets.
JohnnyCab is voiced by Robert Picardo.The EMH on Star Trek-Voyager,the Cowboy in Innerspace to name but 2.
"I feel like Benny is going to come in handy" 🤔
25:00, that was a great one liner! Lol!
There is a surprising number of movies adapted from Philip K. Dick's stories and books... considering he was basically schizophrenic and high on LSD and whatnot, it's incomprehensible how and why Hollywood kept using his ideas.
You should check out basically every adaptation of his work on the big screen and a few of the small screen ones as well.
Because he was great? PKD is my favourite sci-fi writer of all times. Ubik is an absolute masterpiece.
24:28 🤣🤣 best part of the hole movie
Great reaction as always. You’re an intelligent dude and you appreciate multiple aspects of films and it makes for an entertaining ride. Thanks again and keep it up bro 💪🏻💪🏻
Thanks man! This was an awesome movie to react to
@@CapedInformer Pleasure..Yeah, it’s one of my favourites. You’re totally right about it being more of a role for Arnold to act and play around with. He really is more then just a generic action hero.
The robot cab going mental and trying to kamikaze Arnold is one of the funniest scenes in a movie full of hilarious moments.
Good riddance to that thing 😂
I'm glad you never said what plot was.. It's deliberately left open. It's mainly regarded that we are watching his 'vacation'
I think it would be really cool to see your reaction to Arnold playing opposite Danny Devito in the movie "Twins" It's actually one of my fav Schwarzenegger movies. I grew up on his films and thought he was his most adorable in that movie, which really is something to see from Arnold Schwarzenegger...LoL... it's a very different role from his typical casting and I think it lets him stretch his comedic chops quite a bit.
"Kindergarten Cop" was an impressive departure for him as well, and unexpectedly touching.
However, one of his most underrated acting performances was in "Last Action Hero". Admittedly it's been a while since I watched it, but that's how I remember it. Strangely enough given the film, it was one of his most emotionally complex and three dimensional characters.
Definitely interesting to see him depart into those kinda roles
i am curius ,what other 4 of the favorite movies of arnold because you wrote this is 1 of my five schwarz movie.
@@leoc5352 LoL, fav, short for favorite, not five... but since you asked.
Terminator 2
Conan the Barbarian
True Lies
Predator... no Terminator... no Predator... hmm...
He, as an actor, gets to do more in Predator than he does in the first Terminator movie, so if I'm picking favorite 'Arnold' movies rather than simply favorite movies, I gotta go with Predator.
I'll also throw out a nostalgic honorable mention to Commando.
@@passenthrualaska3293 moi personellement my five favorites its Predator, Total-recall, RUNNING MAN ( for me no movies from u.s. or any other country had the same je ne sais pas quoi?, i love the énergie of the extras, the dancing, the music, etc...) True lies(but i prefer the original version) Commando ,and if i could choisir a 6 it would be Twins, tehrees some scenes that i am eurk but i still like it a lot.
“Maggie” 2015. Underrated Zombie film w/ Arnold..... 🤙🏽💯😎
8:30 the one thing that always bothered me about this film, even as a little kid, was that during the x-ray scene they didn't use an appropriately sized more bone dense skeleton for Arnold
Now you need to watch running man with Arnold!
15:20 that was Hank Schreder from Breaking Bad
Lmao I love how this starts with him slapping her and dropping her like that Hilarious
6:11 yes, yes, yes...that great apple story! :)
an awesome movie and great fun too, glad you enjoyed it. Good reaction
The movie ended on a cliffhanger ending that will never be resolved! Maybe we'll never know if it was a dream or something else. That's what makes it good. Anyway, thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉
Thanks for watching!
@Shaine White As I recall, the Rekall advertisement in the movie made it perfectly clear that they IMPLANT FAKE MEMORIES, they don't put you in a simulation world like The Matrix or anything like that. It is easy to miss because small details in movies tend to fly over most people's heads. None of it was a dream, but Quaid doesn't know that and he probably never will because Rekall erased his memory of visiting them after they accidentally found out someone erased his identity and memories and created a new identity and memory for him to remember.
@@LightStreak567 Strange that I never entirely put that bit together, but it's a very good point. Though I'm also in the camp of "it wasn't a dream/fake memory". Mostly because the woman at Rekall handling the memory implant procedure flat-out tells us that the memory didn't get implanted yet before they hit the memory-cap that set him off.
@@LightStreak567 another theory is he was actually playing out the secret agent implant (they mention blue sky on Mars at Rekall and Melina is on the screen when he picks the heroine) and he actually suffers a schizoid embolism at the end and the fade to white is him dying.
@@Scotdod24 He knows that theory since his post is about debunking it.
About the Total Recall with Colin Farrell, you should not watch it as a remake of this movie but as a new adaptation of the original book. Paul Verhoeven changed a lot of the story but kept the social commentary intact.
10:50 'He's on the nose' ahahahaa just wait.
Sharon stone is fine AF
Facts
#1 Fav Irish actress
Hank from BB is the mutant Tony.
Epic reaction!
Classic film. As others have suggested, you should do Starship troopers if you haven't seen it.
True lies and Commando and the Running Man are good Arnie ficks.
Thanks!
You are my new favorite reactor.. thanks man. Brandon Likes Movies was hard to beat, but you go deeper and have a sharp intellect, you catch the hints and tricks... good stuff.. thanks
That means a lot man. Hope to only continue to improve!
This movie is trippy since the story they talk about crafting for Arnold in the beginning all came to pass in the movie so it is really a coin toss if it really happened or was in his mind.
Get your ass to Mars...the cool thing is you don’t know which Howser is the real Howser...even at the end
I wish I had 3 hands.....to give this 3 thumbs up!!
Haha much appreciated!
THIS movie was a greatest mind f..k. I didn't understand whether It was the implant or the really Quaid saving MARS until some guy behind me after the movie was over was talking about it. MAN, I felt SO stupid, I still can't figure it out in 40 years.
I found the remake bland and humourless compared to this. It's okay as a standalone movie (nothing special or memorable but watchable); it just compares really poorly to the original.
Ok that’s what I thought
I felt pretty much the same. Had it not been a remake, it would’ve been an ‘Ok, but fairly forgettable’ movie. As a remake, it wasn’t all that great. I don’t hate it, and might even watch it if it was on the Telly when I was channel surfing, but I wouldn’t ever seek it out.
Your being kind, it was bland generic CG overloaded garbage.
They had a remake? lol I'm getting tired of remakes. Goes the same way almost every time. Only good remakes seem to be a Robin Hood every so often or another version of Batman. Other than that I have a hard time thinking of a remake that worked. I guess if you never see the originals there is no way to tell how far it fell short.
Watch The Longest Yard (1974) then do the (2005) version back to back. It's such a weird comparison they should just named it The Longester Yard so you know you getting into some Kung Pow: Enter the Fist territory.
The remake was HORRIBLE 🙄🙄🙄
When you are an 8 year old kid this movie is perfect!
It's perfect for any age.