Had an MRI a couple of years ago, when I got pulled out of the machine I stared at the tech and said angrily “My name is not Quaid!” He didn’t get it lol
I have blood labs drawn regularly and one of the lab booths is room 1138. Whenever I'm in that one I walk in and say, "Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138." The techs never get the reference - even after I explain. Kids these days, I tells ya!
😂😁😂😁 would be even funnier if the tech guy was an Indian with a thick Indian accent wondering like Apu what you were talking about! Thank you, come again.
@@Quantum-1157 "Mr. Simpson. If I have told you once, I have told you a million times; please do not be eating food off the floor." - Apu to Homer after he found a hot dog under a cabinet. 😂
Goldsmith did produce some classic scores in the nineties. Basic Instinct, Medicine Man, First Knight, Air Force One (written in two weeks), Mulan and The Mummy. Goldsmith's music for TR was so complex the original orchestra musicians couldn't play it well so they relocated to London and employed the masterful National Philharmonic Orchestra to complete the recordings.
Still parts I do not understand or quite make sense, but this movie had everything- Sci-fi, thought provoking story, action, one liners and a host of great characters. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
The "short" story, as usual, is only the opening scene in this movie. It is no more "based" on Dick's story than Time Chasers is based on H.G. Wells. Great job as always.
@@bigkmoviesandgames Absolutely. My revelation was not meant to demand the film, it is the fun "based on" label we see so often. Most of the time it is only the title that is similar to the original story.
Something you left out, and I would like to know how it came about, is Piers Anthony novel of this movie. (Especially because Anthony isn't known for rewriting stuff.) For the most part, Anthony's novel is almost a word for word book following the movie. But with one "huge" chapter missing. That chapter goes on to explain that the aliens created the device on Mars so that if someone who was inherently evil placed their hand in the device to start it up, it would blow up the planet. Meanwhile, if the person was inherently good, it would create a breathable atmosphere for Mars. Assuming this is true, which it appears to be, it explains a lot that was missing from the movie and why they were so against Quaid from putting his hand in the device.
That was fun...I forgot that every single person around me was talking about this film when it came out, and am totally recalling that now (decades later).
I love your channel. I've recently discovered it, and I love all these videos about movies I love and that remind me of childhood. My favorites are the ones about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Keep 'em coming!
Y'know, maybe I'm just that old, but I've always thought that Philip K. Dick lifted a lot of this story from Robert A. Heinlein's "the Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
They made a game of Total Recall for the Commodore Amiga as well as Nintendo....When my dad bought our Amiga in 1990, TR was one of the first games I played on it :-)
#6 Addendum: It is quite true that Jerry's Goldsmith's scores saved a lot of movies. Very few remember the 1977, ultra-low-budget, post-apocalyptic movie, "Damnation Alley". Those that do remember it, immediately recall Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack. It was that soundtrack, more than anything else, that made "Damnation Alley" a cult classic.
I’m convinced that Arnie was strapped to that seat the from the moment he sat down in it. Everything we see after that scene was in his head. The movie got wilder and more violent as he slowly went insane.
Dolph Lundgren and Christopher Reeve were also both considered for the role of Quaid. As great as Arnold is, I kinda wish Lundgren got the part, as a major lead role like that would have done wonders for his career.
im not even sure why I haven't seen this movie yet. but have listened to the main theme to this movie and loved it.the main theme to the movie has that sci fi movie theme all through it.
Sadly the director came forward recently and said this movie was all a dream ☹🤯😱 Personally that kinda bums me out cause I love to think it's really happening lol still LOVE this movie
I think it all happened. Verhoeven is a great director but he didn't write the movie plus there's a scene in the film that basically confirms he's awake.
So the memory of his wife was an implant? I wonder how did recall know exactly how to replicate her in his memory when they didn't know about her in real movie life.
@@DialloMoore503 The scene where the recall scientists are saying that they didn't put in the spy programming when Quaid remembers he's a spy. This scene confirms he is awake and is an undercover spy because Quaid isn't even concious or aware of the conversation the scientists have so the information we get in that scene can't be a product of his creation.
His best performance in a film yes but i wouldnt say its the best movie he was in..that would be terminator 2.. im not biased...total recall is my favourite arnie movie by far and my 3rd fav movie of all time.
A little bit more research was needed in the comic point. The signatures weren't confirming that the comic was a limited edition run. There were two versions. One was the normal version that you could buy wherever comics were sold. And the other one was a limited edition signed version.
That NES game was brutally difficult. Like Batman 89, it succeeded solely on brand recognition, which helped us look past the horrible controls and meh graphics
It’s funny how Arnold objectively had NO muscles compared to his bodybuilding days, or even compared to an average person at this point, but his legend was so strong that he always seemed like a muscle god 🤣🤣
MEXICO was a thing before hte movie big shots figured out Canada as the ideal place for film productions.The Glorious Seven and Seven Years in Tibet had been also done in Mexico
Arnold Schwarzenegger was on a strict diet most likely salmon he probably had eaten salmon all day long and the salmon has to be from a certain place and that’s all that’s why didn’t probably get sick
I asked for a copy of True Lies for Christmas one year. Mom thought Jamie Lee’s striptease was too risqué, so I was instead gifted Total Recall! We all sat down to watch as a family when all of a sudden, BOOM! Three tits. Best Christmas ever!
I wasn't allowed to watch Total Recall until I was 18 years old. I remember my first R Rated movie experience I was 12 years old and my Dad went out and bought Air Force One. Which really PISSED my Mom off because even though she said it was a good movie it had to much violence after that I graduated to Predator, The Terminator movies and The Alien movies. but My Mom still wouldn't let me watch Total Recall until I was 18
So I Went to see this movie when it first opened and my experience was mind blowing. So much that when I exited the Theatre I stopped turned around and looked at the poster for a good five seconds and said to myself, “I have to see it again.” I bought another ticket and I walked right back into the theater.
I did that kinda with the first transformers. I worked at a movie theater at the time so I didn’t have to pay but I watched it a total of 4 times after shifts.
About once a summer we would make a Saturday day trip at the movies, where we payed for the first movie, but stayed and jumped into another theater once one movie ended.
I like that his movies NEVER address this. Unlike The Rock whose back story is ALWAYS former military based to explain his physique (not that i'm complaining 😎).
I don’t know if you joking 🙃 or not. I learn in school all the way back to 3rd grade that Mars did at one point have breathable air because scientists from NASA have discovered on Mars outflow channels carved by huge outburst floods, ancient river valley networks, deltas & lakebeds. The mystery scientists are trying to figure out is what happened to all that water? How did it vanish?
@Great White Jerry was friends with Basil. I had Cigs and Beer with Basil at his studio in Venice the day after he had flown back from meeting with Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings.
1990 was quite an eventful year for Arnold Schwarzenegger considering that he was in Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, and was filming for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
tru but don't throw out the new version , watch it again but forget the other movie , , if the 2 version was a new movie it would have been awesome , i hold the same biased until i watched it again , the old one is better , the new one is awesome , if the movie went line for line then yeah i would think it was shit ,
One of those movies you'll never get tired of watching. Great cast, great story, badass soundtrack. Easily one of the best Sci-fi thrillers of all time.
Couldn't agree more" But then again, someone who chooses his username from James Bond's alter ego in the masterpiece "A view to a kill" would have pretty good taste :-P
This is Arnold's best movie. I've have had many deep conversations about whether he was dreaming or not. The actor who played Benny, and actor who played the blonde guy with glasses deserve credit for perfect supporting roles.
He's dreaming. I know Verhoven claims he wanted to leave it open but the construction of the package in the Recall lab had exact features, not just the exact image of the love interest (who could have sold her image or have been recorded while Recall did resource gathering on site) but specifically, images of the terraforming machine - a closely guarded secret. There is no way for those images to be present at Recall if the events are real. They are in the system and the tech states... 'air on Mars?' During the process. Quaid is a lobotomised vegetable, and his wife, Sharon Stone, not only gets to mourn him but know he CHOSE the reality where he dumps her for some sleazy Martian sex worker. That's gotta sting.
That's your opinion, and not a fact. Our choices are subjective. In my, also subjective, opinion, TR is beaten by CTB, T1, and T2. I rate TR as equal to Predator.
Here's some bonus trivia; Nintendo Power Magazine held a Total Recall Contest where the winner would meet Arnold. Apperantly this turned into a complete nightmare where the winner wouldn't meet Arnie until a full year after the movies release and then only for a quick handshake, no movie set, no cool movie set memorabilia, nothing else promised in the contest.
@@konstantinkoverchenko9587 oh its actually much worse sadly. I can't link it directly but look up Nintendo Power contest online and look at all the stuff the promised. Not a single thing was given to the 'winner'.
@@TjMetalHead94 I was a kid back then and didn't know any better. None of us did. As an adult, definitely could be a scam. None of that stuff even exists now a days. It's all electronic.
@Derv FinnYes, she was such a nice woman. I was sorry to hear of her passing back in 2008. :( She was very active in the acting community in San Diego.
@@Seele2015au well apart from two digital effects, the nails of the secretary changing colour and the full CG skeleton X-Ray machine. Also apart from the CG used in the Rekall adverts on the train, which you can barely see anyway.
I love this movie. One of my all time favorites. I love that the ending is left up to you to decide what ending you want it to be as its left totally open to interpretation. You can go either way. And thats cool.
@@thecheese4960 But that's what it means, being down to interpretation. You see that as evidence the story was a plot injected into Quaid, others may see that particular part as Kehogan and Hauser knowing what the alien machine would do to the atmosphere that's why Quaid subconsciously incorporated into his spy storyline. Open to interpretation.
The movie actually still has the connection to the Alien xenomorph, the shape of the hand that activates the oxygen generator is the same as the xenomorph's hand from the first Alien movie.
This is my second favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger film! Total Recall is a MASSIVE CLASSIC! You CAN'T forget it after watching it! It's mind blowing! One of my favorite films of all time! GREAT MOVIE!
One of the special effects that blew me away as a kid and was worthy of overall Academy win was the Rekall receptionist doing her digital nails ...still holds up well as an effect..plus all the other effects
That was actually one of only two digital effects in the movie (the other being the CGI X-Ray machine), since most of the effects were either prosthetics, animatronics, optical effects or miniature models.
I saw this when I was a kid and the only thing I remember is the woman with 3 boobs. 😹 It’s awesome that it’s based off of a Phillip K. Dick story and that Jerry Goldsmith did the music!
@@corssecurity You mean Basic Instinct? That’s a classic! I think I wasn’t aloud to see that until a couple years later but I rewatched it tons of times on VHS! 😹
I worked on a pinball machine at Rob Bottin’s house and I got to see the foam prop for the mutant Kuato. Rob also told me he was very unhappy with Johnny Cab. He told me he was up for an Academy Award, which he did win.
I’m glad that you stated in the beginning that you had already done this movie. I’m just glad that it’s a movie that will always be one of my favorites.
I love this movie, and the ending was purposely left open to interpretation, just to make us guess for eternity if Quid was dreaming all this or not. I chose to believe he really experienced it 😉
As a composer myself, Jerry Goldsmith is a truly superb composer. After his best works, a new composer appeared on the scene; the equally brilliant Danny Elfman!
I love them both and also John Williams and James Horner! Movie soundtracks are my favorite. My dad teaches a course on film music so I grew up listening to so many scores and making up my own movies in my mind. Fun times. 🎶
*i'm equally fond of his score for The Shadow...and who could ever doubt the absolute brilliance of any score composed by Vanjelis...also think the soundtrack for Brazil that was composed by Michael Kamen was also pretty amazing*
Bonus fact: The novelization was written by sci-fi legend Piers Anthony. It wasn't originally marketed as a novelization, but as an original novel, and published in hardcover with completely different artwork. It was published at least a year prior to the movie's release. When I saw the original trailer for "Total Recall", I was excited to think a Piers Anthony novel was being made into a movie. When the paperback version was published, it was marketed as a movie tie-in, with artwork from the movie's poster on the cover, and with some of the details in the novel changed updated to match the movie (like changing Quail's name to Quaid).
It doesent exist..there is a mind bending version but its not the original one with the violence intact..that version waa shown on a few tv stations but it cannot be purchased..believe me i have tried for many years to get the original version but have had no luck.
I frickin love this movie to the point where I made a gif of the airport scene of him lifting off the mask as my "ALWAYS on display" on my Galaxy Note 🤘🏾💯🖤♥️😆 I lie NOT 😁🥰
The woman with the 3 boobs was also Dixie in the 1st Leathal Weapon movie and she was in a couple of Star Trek TNG shows. Most notably the one where Starfleet first meets the Borg.
Recently read that Arnold helped out Michael Ironside. during filming Michael was often alone between scenes. Arnold went up to him to see why. Turns out his sister, I believe, was battling cancer. In between takes and such Arnold would join him to call his sister to check on her and recommend dietary suggestions to help her in the fight
When I watched this film it literally helped mold my critical thinking. I was 17/18, and the discussions and concepts introduced changed my black and white thinking. VHS in the 90s in the nurses home.
Total Recall to this day is still not completely uncut. The original work print was going to be given an X-Rating, so they edited it down to an R-rating in America. In Australia we got two versions an M rated theatrical cut with almost no gore whatsoever and the R version which is the same as the R version in America. So what was trimmed in the X-rated worprint? More Shooting victims and Two death scenes in particular were cut, Benny’s death is optically cropped apparently we got to see the drill exiting his stomach and his innards were spinning on the blade. Also the guy who gets stabbed at the bar by the little hooker is also bloodier. So who knows if we’ll ever see that version.
To add to this. When Arnold is getting the first implant, they show pre-production art of the alien center. And after describing his girl, they show a photo of Rachel Ticotin, who played Melinda. To add to the question if it was reality, or all an implant. And there was a novelization by Piers Anthony, based on the movie. A rare case where a book was turned into a movie, which had yet another book based on it.
Had an MRI a couple of years ago, when I got pulled out of the machine I stared at the tech and said angrily “My name is not Quaid!” He didn’t get it lol
I have blood labs drawn regularly and one of the lab booths is room 1138.
Whenever I'm in that one I walk in and say, "Prisoner transfer from cell block 1138."
The techs never get the reference - even after I explain.
Kids these days, I tells ya!
@@NarwahlGaming lol I got it for TWO separate reasons…👍🤙👍
lol
😂😁😂😁 would be even funnier if the tech guy was an Indian with a thick Indian accent wondering like Apu what you were talking about! Thank you, come again.
@@Quantum-1157
"Mr. Simpson. If I have told you once, I have told you a million times; please do not be eating food off the floor." - Apu to Homer after he found a hot dog under a cabinet.
😂
Still one of my all time favourite films. "You make me wish I had three hands!"
Goldsmith did produce some classic scores in the nineties. Basic Instinct, Medicine Man, First Knight, Air Force One (written in two weeks), Mulan and The Mummy. Goldsmith's music for TR was so complex the original orchestra musicians couldn't play it well so they relocated to London and employed the masterful National Philharmonic Orchestra to complete the recordings.
Still parts I do not understand or quite make sense, but this movie had everything- Sci-fi, thought provoking story, action, one liners and a host of great characters. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
The "short" story, as usual, is only the opening scene in this movie. It is no more "based" on Dick's story than Time Chasers is based on H.G. Wells.
Great job as always.
Still a great film though.
@@bigkmoviesandgames Absolutely. My revelation was not meant to demand the film, it is the fun "based on" label we see so often. Most of the time it is only the title that is similar to the original story.
@@Laceykat66
I understand what you mean and yeah it's barely even a loose adaptation. Lol.
Same with both Running Man and Minority Report
@@bigkmoviesandgames Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Something you left out, and I would like to know how it came about, is Piers Anthony novel of this movie. (Especially because Anthony isn't known for rewriting stuff.) For the most part, Anthony's novel is almost a word for word book following the movie. But with one "huge" chapter missing.
That chapter goes on to explain that the aliens created the device on Mars so that if someone who was inherently evil placed their hand in the device to start it up, it would blow up the planet. Meanwhile, if the person was inherently good, it would create a breathable atmosphere for Mars.
Assuming this is true, which it appears to be, it explains a lot that was missing from the movie and why they were so against Quaid from putting his hand in the device.
Man, I miss those times of creative movies with cool stories…
I want to peer into the alternate timeline where Swayze played Quaid.
How about were Dennis Quaid plays Douglas Quaid? Just a thought.
@@jeffreyherda9684 Don't forget about Randy Quaid !
@@thebluestig2654 oh I didn't forget him, just left him out on purpose since Dennis is closer to Douglas than Randy is. Still love the guy though.
That was fun...I forgot that every single person around me was talking about this film when it came out, and am totally recalling that now (decades later).
Its on my Top 3. Never gets old imo.
Arnold was smart enough to meal prep his food from U.S. since he got food poisoning in Mexico shooting Predator.
I love your channel. I've recently discovered it, and I love all these videos about movies I love and that remind me of childhood. My favorites are the ones about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. Keep 'em coming!
Y'know, maybe I'm just that old, but I've always thought that Philip K. Dick lifted a lot of this story from Robert A. Heinlein's "the Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
They made a game of Total Recall for the Commodore Amiga as well as Nintendo....When my dad bought our Amiga in 1990, TR was one of the first games I played on it :-)
This one of my husbands favorite movies. I'm sharing this with him cause I know that he will enjoy it! 😊
Minty could you have a look into the two Davey Crockett movies, the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie, and the Swiss Family Robinson movie?
#6 Addendum: It is quite true that Jerry's Goldsmith's scores saved a lot of movies. Very few remember the 1977, ultra-low-budget, post-apocalyptic movie, "Damnation Alley". Those that do remember it, immediately recall Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack. It was that soundtrack, more than anything else, that made "Damnation Alley" a cult classic.
I’m convinced that Arnie was strapped to that seat the from the moment he sat down in it. Everything we see after that scene was in his head. The movie got wilder and more violent as he slowly went insane.
Dolph Lundgren and Christopher Reeve were also both considered for the role of Quaid. As great as Arnold is, I kinda wish Lundgren got the part, as a major lead role like that would have done wonders for his career.
im not even sure why I haven't seen this movie yet. but have listened to the main theme to this movie and loved it.the main theme to the movie has that sci fi movie theme all through it.
As the wise Arnold Schwarzenegger once said:
*"YaaaArrrrrrrGrrrrrUuuuuhAeeeeaaaaahhhh!"*
😥 Brings tears to your eyes, don't it? 😥
I love total recall ! What a classic
I like the score for 13th warrior. I found it matched the robust cinematography of the movie.
There was a novelization of the movie as well. Written by Piers Anthony.
Sadly the director came forward recently and said this movie was all a dream ☹🤯😱 Personally that kinda bums me out cause I love to think it's really happening lol still LOVE this movie
I think it all happened. Verhoeven is a great director but he didn't write the movie plus there's a scene in the film that basically confirms he's awake.
So the memory of his wife was an implant? I wonder how did recall know exactly how to replicate her in his memory when they didn't know about her in real movie life.
@@bigkmoviesandgames
What scene is that exactly?
@@DialloMoore503
The scene where the recall scientists are saying that they didn't put in the spy programming when Quaid remembers he's a spy. This scene confirms he is awake and is an undercover spy because Quaid isn't even concious or aware of the conversation the scientists have so the information we get in that scene can't be a product of his creation.
The Johnny cab was the best!
Total Recall is Schwarzenegger's best film IMO.
His best performance in a film yes but i wouldnt say its the best movie he was in..that would be terminator 2.. im not biased...total recall is my favourite arnie movie by far and my 3rd fav movie of all time.
One of my favourite movies. Thanks for this one. You've earned a sub. +
A little bit more research was needed in the comic point.
The signatures weren't confirming that the comic was a limited edition run. There were two versions.
One was the normal version that you could buy wherever comics were sold.
And the other one was a limited edition signed version.
Food poisoning? ...... You mean Moctezuma's revenge
Sharon Stone is unbelievably gorgeous in this. Yowzers
Space Adventure Cobra Animated series episode 1 is just like Total Recall and released 8 years before the P Dick book in 1982.
That NES game was brutally difficult. Like Batman 89, it succeeded solely on brand recognition, which helped us look past the horrible controls and meh graphics
Superb film.
Boy, Arnold , et al, sure looked young.
13th warrior soundtrack was a masterpiece.
Sorry Minty but Goldsmith’s score for Rudy was awesome among others 👍
I love this movie so I regret having to tell you the his name was Quaid in the movie and not Quail.
@@GarretGrayCamera yep, you are correct and I rescind my comment. Stupid not listening me lol
Well, I mean...there is a signed special edition cover of Death of Superman
I watched this movie in my mind while watching this RUclips!! 🤣
No shenanigans again??
It’s funny how Arnold objectively had NO muscles compared to his bodybuilding days, or even compared to an average person at this point, but his legend was so strong that he always seemed like a muscle god 🤣🤣
To paraphrase Sunset Boulevard, "Jerry Goldsmith didn't get worse, the movies did."
MEXICO was a thing before hte movie big shots figured out Canada as the ideal place for film productions.The Glorious Seven and Seven Years in Tibet had been also done in Mexico
I thought this was actually filmed on Mars. It looks just like it.
#11 the main character is a secret communist that says “screw your freedom”.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was on a strict diet most likely salmon he probably had eaten salmon all day long and the salmon has to be from a certain place and that’s all that’s why didn’t probably get sick
I asked for a copy of True Lies for Christmas one year. Mom thought Jamie Lee’s striptease was too risqué, so I was instead gifted Total Recall! We all sat down to watch as a family when all of a sudden, BOOM! Three tits. Best Christmas ever!
I wasn't allowed to watch Total Recall until I was 18 years old. I remember my first R Rated movie experience I was 12 years old and my Dad went out and bought Air Force One. Which really PISSED my Mom off because even though she said it was a good movie it had to much violence after that I graduated to Predator, The Terminator movies and The Alien movies. but My Mom still wouldn't let me watch Total Recall until I was 18
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Hilarious story!! Thanks, you made my day :D
"Makes me wish I had three hands" 😂
So I Went to see this movie when it first opened and my experience was mind blowing. So much that when I exited the Theatre I stopped turned around and looked at the poster for a good five seconds and said to myself, “I have to see it again.” I bought another ticket and I walked right back into the theater.
Nice!
Badass lol
I did that kinda with the first transformers. I worked at a movie theater at the time so I didn’t have to pay but I watched it a total of 4 times after shifts.
I did that with Highlander . I love that movie
About once a summer we would make a Saturday day trip at the movies, where we payed for the first movie, but stayed and jumped into another theater once one movie ended.
"Doug, you wouldn't kill me, I'm your wife"
(Shoots her in the head)
"Consider it a divorce" 😁😁
He wasted a fine piece of (*).
Fastest divorce ever.
@Nuby It was Sharon Stone!
He actually says, "Consididididididididididivorce!"
@@chindleymuffin you're actually spot on.😁
Arnold has a knack for playing every day guy, but with really big muscles.
And a really thick accent. It's wild. Maybe because his first huge movie was a documentary? 😂
@@liloreoinya terminator was a documentary? 😉😉😉
I like that his movies NEVER address this. Unlike The Rock whose back story is ALWAYS former military based to explain his physique (not that i'm complaining 😎).
@@Boots_Alexander true, but maybe one day he play a insurance sells man, that spends a lot of time on a boflex
@@christopherluman5555 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I would pay good money to see that!!!
Any time I give someone a ride in my car and they get out, I always say: "Thank you for taking Johnny Cab"
This movie still has one of the best twists in any film. I mean seriously... who thought Mars really didn't have breathable air??? lol
Philip K. Dick. Cause drugs.
I had no idea, until my eyeballs popped out like one of those funny stressball toys!!
@Moon Puppy
Who are you ranting about?
@Moon Puppy Especially since no one knows where the hell the country of Amreica is!!
I don’t know if you joking 🙃 or not. I learn in school all the way back to 3rd grade that Mars did at one point have breathable air because scientists from NASA have discovered on Mars outflow channels carved by huge outburst floods, ancient river valley networks, deltas & lakebeds. The mystery scientists are trying to figure out is what happened to all that water? How did it vanish?
I dunno, a life with Sharon Stone seems pretty exciting enough already imo! 😅
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Theme song is under appreciated. It's like a sci-fi version of the Conan theme
Same composer (Jerry Goldsmith).
@Great White
Its because Minty didn't use the music from the movie.
Basil Poledouris ripped off another Goldsmith score from the movie Capricorn One
One of my favs. It’s absolutely timeless. It never leaves your psyche.
@Great White Jerry was friends with Basil. I had Cigs and Beer with Basil at his studio in Venice the day after he had flown back from meeting with Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings.
A hard R-rating, Paul Verhoeven at the top of his game, Arnold at his peak and Sharon Stone in her Basic Instinct era. This thing is a CLASSIC.
1990 was quite an eventful year for Arnold Schwarzenegger considering that he was in Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, and was filming for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
1990 was also a sad year because that was when we lost Jim Henson 😭
@@nsasupporter7557 Yup during the production of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Secret Of The Ooze.
Yeah id love to know how many millions he earned that year,,lol..
I really wanted to see Kindergarten Terminator.
@@946towguy2 You missed the big one,
*Total Terminator Cop 2!*
Small correction. It's electric sheep not electronic. Love the show. Keep them coming
Easily in my top ten favourite film's, along with predator and the running man.
Total recall was a work of art. A true masterpiece of sci-fi cinema.
With a REALLLY stupid ending.
@@ethelredhardrede1838 and editing
it totally was. pun intended, and i LOVED the ending. the reboot was utter trash. thanks colin, you suck.
@@Heydaja
What was bad about how it was edited?
@@VinceAndRosGetCancelled yup i hate the remake but then i basically hate all remakes,,lol..just a pointless money grapping exercise if you as me..
The original is still brilliant. 😀👍
Amen. I like the remake, but the original was amazing on every level. They don't make good movies anymore.
@@lordallenbookworm4811 I agree with you on that. 😀👍
tru but don't throw out the new version , watch it again but forget the other movie , , if the 2 version was a new movie it would have been awesome , i hold the same biased until i watched it again , the old one is better , the new one is awesome , if the movie went line for line then yeah i would think it was shit ,
@@lordallenbookworm4811
The aesthetic of films today just doesn’t give you the same feeling.
@@DialloMoore503 Not to mention all the heavy handed messages and politics that override a good story.
One of those movies you'll never get tired of watching. Great cast, great story, badass soundtrack. Easily one of the best Sci-fi thrillers of all time.
So true. I put it on once in a while if I can't choose anything else.
Couldn't agree more" But then again, someone who chooses his username from James Bond's alter ego in the masterpiece "A view to a kill" would have pretty good taste :-P
This is Arnold's best movie. I've have had many deep conversations about whether he was dreaming or not. The actor who played Benny, and actor who played the blonde guy with glasses deserve credit for perfect supporting roles.
I love this movie and have gone back and forth if he was just dreaming or if it was all real. Never did come to a solid conclusion.
He's dreaming. I know Verhoven claims he wanted to leave it open but the construction of the package in the Recall lab had exact features, not just the exact image of the love interest (who could have sold her image or have been recorded while Recall did resource gathering on site) but specifically, images of the terraforming machine - a closely guarded secret. There is no way for those images to be present at Recall if the events are real. They are in the system and the tech states... 'air on Mars?' During the process.
Quaid is a lobotomised vegetable, and his wife, Sharon Stone, not only gets to mourn him but know he CHOSE the reality where he dumps her for some sleazy Martian sex worker. That's gotta sting.
That's your opinion, and not a fact. Our choices are subjective. In my, also subjective, opinion, TR is beaten by CTB, T1, and T2. I rate TR as equal to Predator.
Here's some bonus trivia; Nintendo Power Magazine held a Total Recall Contest where the winner would meet Arnold. Apperantly this turned into a complete nightmare where the winner wouldn't meet Arnie until a full year after the movies release and then only for a quick handshake, no movie set, no cool movie set memorabilia, nothing else promised in the contest.
Wow, that’s just as horrible as the official nes game. >_
@@konstantinkoverchenko9587 oh its actually much worse sadly. I can't link it directly but look up Nintendo Power contest online and look at all the stuff the promised. Not a single thing was given to the 'winner'.
I looked the game when I got a little older, was kind of tough
@@InkWarrior I had always figured those things were scams.
@@TjMetalHead94 I was a kid back then and didn't know any better. None of us did. As an adult, definitely could be a scam. None of that stuff even exists now a days. It's all electronic.
"open your mind Quaid, open your mind"......still gives me chills. best flashback scene!
I love all of Rob Botin's prosthetics in this movie. The mutant in the chest and the lady head were my favorites.
Open your miiiiiiiiiiiinnnndd
3 boobs was mine lol
@@teammidge9716 haha..lol
I had kept rewinding the VHS to the scene where the robotic woman's had fails then opens up
I didn’t know Cronenberg was once involved, but it makes sense now!
To this day I still cannot hear or say “two weeks” without mouthing “Twooo Weeeks….”
The Red Headed lady in the Spaceport scene was my High School Drama Teacher when I went to Point Loma High School in the Nineties.
So.. how long was your winter vacation?
@Derv FinnYes, she was such a nice woman. I was sorry to hear of her passing back in 2008. :( She was very active in the acting community in San Diego.
@@TheRealNormanBates never long enough. lol
@@Nightscream452 well I was thinking of _TWOOO WEEEEKSSS!_
How long will you be staying?
TWO WEEKS!
Such a cool film
Remember when films could be cool without being ironic, self aware or tongue in cheek?
Happy times 😔
I won't stop asking for "10 things you didn't know about o brother where art thou"
Total recall is one of the best sci-fi action movies ever made total recall absolutely !
Michael Ironside and Ronnie Cox were great villains in this movie. Even though some of the FX were dim, it still stands up today ❤
At work I used to copy Ronnies’s comment at the end when he says…I’ll be home in time for cornflakes!
You saying she enjoyed it? No, I'm sure she hated every minute of it 😆
“And you’re fucking making it happen!”
LOL!!
"Total Recall" was the last film relying on practical effects before computer graphics became mainstream.
@@Seele2015au well apart from two digital effects, the nails of the secretary changing colour and the full CG skeleton X-Ray machine. Also apart from the CG used in the Rekall adverts on the train, which you can barely see anyway.
Get yuh ass tuh mahs! 😆 This is one of my favorite movies along with The Running Man
I love this movie. One of my all time favorites. I love that the ending is left up to you to decide what ending you want it to be as its left totally open to interpretation. You can go either way. And thats cool.
@@thecheese4960 But that's what it means, being down to interpretation. You see that as evidence the story was a plot injected into Quaid, others may see that particular part as Kehogan and Hauser knowing what the alien machine would do to the atmosphere that's why Quaid subconsciously incorporated into his spy storyline.
Open to interpretation.
How is it possible the girl was on the computer screen before he went under? Good proof it's all a dream.
There is an old joke where Arnie said: Apparently, i've been to Mars, but i can't recall. Still love that one
lol
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Hmm, Sharon Stone in that workout outfit. Yummy!
"See you at the party, Minty!"
Makes me wish i had 3 hands
To be fair, Phillip K. Dick did not go into Aliens territory. Aliens walked into Phillip's universe.
you got that right! he was either totally out there or TOTALLY OUT THERE.
The movie actually still has the connection to the Alien xenomorph, the shape of the hand that activates the oxygen generator is the same as the xenomorph's hand from the first Alien movie.
Dan O Bannon
This is my second favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger film! Total Recall is a MASSIVE CLASSIC! You CAN'T forget it after watching it! It's mind blowing! One of my favorite films of all time! GREAT MOVIE!
Let me guess Jingle all the way is #1?
@@oriondx72 Nah its kindergarten cop right ? 😁
One of the special effects that blew me away as a kid and was worthy of overall Academy win was the Rekall receptionist doing her digital nails ...still holds up well as an effect..plus all the other effects
Omg yes, I watched this movie as a preteen and wanted that nail colour changer!
That was actually one of only two digital effects in the movie (the other being the CGI X-Ray machine), since most of the effects were either prosthetics, animatronics, optical effects or miniature models.
I like the johnny cab scene
"the fare is 18 credits, please"
"Sue me, dickhead"
"aaaaAAAAAAHHHHH" murder-suicide mode
I wish there was more of Sharon Stone in this, she was the real deal back then.
Stone in her prime.
I saw this when I was a kid and the only thing I remember is the woman with 3 boobs. 😹 It’s awesome that it’s based off of a Phillip K. Dick story and that Jerry Goldsmith did the music!
Yeah the woman with the boobs is funny
You folks would love Sharon Stones next movie staring Michael Douglas. Alas you were too young.
@@corssecurity You mean Basic Instinct? That’s a classic! I think I wasn’t aloud to see that until a couple years later but I rewatched it tons of times on VHS! 😹
"Ha ha ha ha. You think this is the real Quaid"?
(Awkward silence)
"It is".
🤣
I worked on a pinball machine at Rob Bottin’s house and I got to see the foam prop for the mutant Kuato. Rob also told me he was very unhappy with Johnny Cab. He told me he was up for an Academy Award, which he did win.
I’m glad that you stated in the beginning that you had already done this movie. I’m just glad that it’s a movie that will always be one of my favorites.
I love this movie, and the ending was purposely left open to interpretation, just to make us guess for eternity if Quid was dreaming all this or not. I chose to believe he really experienced it 😉
As a composer myself, Jerry Goldsmith is a truly superb composer. After his best works, a new composer appeared on the scene; the equally brilliant Danny Elfman!
I love them both and also John Williams and James Horner! Movie soundtracks are my favorite. My dad teaches a course on film music so I grew up listening to so many scores and making up my own movies in my mind. Fun times. 🎶
*i'm equally fond of his score for The Shadow...and who could ever doubt the absolute brilliance of any score composed by Vanjelis...also think the soundtrack for Brazil that was composed by Michael Kamen was also pretty amazing*
@@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat don't forget Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer
@@jesseswarbrick7895 Absolutely! They are legendary!
Hanz Zimmer became the new Goldsmith.
Total Recall is such a classic movie. Arnold has some of the best action /sci fi movies of all time!
Yesss sir! Watched this so much as a little kid back in the 90s. Such a classic.
Minty, I think you should tackle "The 13th Warrior." LOTS of things to know about with that one (can you say controversies?).
I remember this movie. Great suggestion!
A masterpiece of sci fi action cinema
Bonus fact: The novelization was written by sci-fi legend Piers Anthony. It wasn't originally marketed as a novelization, but as an original novel, and published in hardcover with completely different artwork. It was published at least a year prior to the movie's release. When I saw the original trailer for "Total Recall", I was excited to think a Piers Anthony novel was being made into a movie. When the paperback version was published, it was marketed as a movie tie-in, with artwork from the movie's poster on the cover, and with some of the details in the novel changed updated to match the movie (like changing Quail's name to Quaid).
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I thought the original story was written by Philip K. Dick.
@@REDPUMPERNICKEL Yes, “We Can Remember it for you Wholesale”
Damn, they did the same thing to Stephen King and The Running Man
I didn't know that a directors cut existed for this. OMW to find and watch! Thanks for the pro-tip, Minty!
It doesent exist..there is a mind bending version but its not the original one with the violence intact..that version waa shown on a few tv stations but it cannot be purchased..believe me i have tried for many years to get the original version but have had no luck.
I frickin love this movie to the point where I made a gif of the airport scene of him lifting off the mask as my "ALWAYS on display" on my Galaxy Note 🤘🏾💯🖤♥️😆 I lie NOT 😁🥰
I’ve always heard the script changed quaid into a construction worker because nobody would believe Arnold worked in an office
Makes sense!
He says that several times in the video.
He would have looked like Bob Parr in The Incredibles!
TWO WEEKS.
The woman with the 3 boobs was also Dixie in the 1st Leathal Weapon movie and she was in a couple of Star Trek TNG shows. Most notably the one where Starfleet first meets the Borg.
Ensign Sonya Gomez, and she spilled her hot chocolate all over Captain Picard. 🖖😀
Recently read that Arnold helped out Michael Ironside. during filming Michael was often alone between scenes. Arnold went up to him to see why. Turns out his sister, I believe, was battling cancer. In between takes and such Arnold would join him to call his sister to check on her and recommend dietary suggestions to help her in the fight
When I watched this film it literally helped mold my critical thinking. I was 17/18, and the discussions and concepts introduced changed my black and white thinking. VHS in the 90s in the nurses home.
Total Recall to this day is still not completely uncut. The original work print was going to be given an X-Rating, so they edited it down to an R-rating in America. In Australia we got two versions an M rated theatrical cut with almost no gore whatsoever and the R version which is the same as the R version in America. So what was trimmed in the X-rated worprint? More
Shooting victims and Two death scenes in particular were cut, Benny’s death is optically cropped apparently we got to see the drill exiting his stomach and his innards were spinning on the blade. Also the guy who gets stabbed at the bar by the little hooker is also bloodier. So who knows if we’ll ever see that version.
If sharon didnt get her biff out I'm not interested lol
To add to this.
When Arnold is getting the first implant, they show pre-production art of the alien center. And after describing his girl, they show a photo of Rachel Ticotin, who played Melinda. To add to the question if it was reality, or all an implant.
And there was a novelization by Piers Anthony, based on the movie. A rare case where a book was turned into a movie, which had yet another book based on it.