I was waiting tables in Seattle and Benny the cab driver came in. I didn't say anything the whole time I waited on him, but couldn't resist as he was leaving. I said I had 5 kids to feed. He lowered his head but looked up with a smile. We shook hands and took a picture. Nice guy.
"Get your ass to Mars." Fun Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed that Michael Ironside was constantly on the phone between takes. When he broached the subject with Ironside, he was told that he was phoning his sister and that she was currently suffering from cancer. Arnold immediately brought Michael to his trailer and they had an hour-long, three-way conversation with Ironside's sister about what exercises she should do and what kinds of foods she should be eating. Ironside has never forgotten Schwarzenegger's kindness and neither has his sister. Also, after seeing Sharon Stone's performance as Lori in this movie, director Paul Verhoeven would cast her in the movie Basic Instinct (1992) due to her ability to play a character that could change from a timid charming sweetheart to a diabolical person and back again at a moment's notice. He also stated that this is the way Sharon Stone is in real life.
I'd heard a lot about Sharon in this period from various biographies where she got mentioned but bottom line was she's a very intelligent woman but because she was blessed with great beauty in the 80's in particular she attracted every type of sleaze ball in the business and it looks like it turned her from someone innocent and sweet when she started out to someone cynical and suspicious of everyone's motives in regards to her. She didn't want to play the dumb blonde and it took until Basic Instinct for a part she could get her teeth into and even then because of that she only got offered overly sexualised roles until Casino came along and then after that her looks started to fade and younger actresses got the roles she would normally get. She was born at the wrong time as nowadays actresses are starting to work as long as male actors do even though there's still a long way to go on that as I grew up with actresses like Sharon, Rene Russo, Nancy Travis etc who all seemed to get very little work once producers thought their looks were fading
YES!!! ARNOLD'S ONE LINERS ARE AWESOME AND HILARIOUS! David Cronenberg was hired to direct the film but had a huge falling out with Dino De Laurentiis as Cronenberg wanted to turn the movie into a psychological thriller rather than an action film. Ronald Shusset wanted to make this movie "Raiders Of The Lost Ark on Mars." Gary Goldman along with Dan O'Bannon wrote the script as close to the original story as possible, but tensions between Cronenberg and Laurentiis got so nasty, Cronenberg left the project and Laurentiis sold the rights to Carolco. This was the most expensive film for Carolco, $75 million dollars. They filmed the movie in Chirubiscu Studios in Mexico City. Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast as Douglas Quaid, James Caan, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Douglas, Peter Weller, Christopher Reeve, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Swayze, William Hurt, and Dennis Quaid were considered. The film was a box office and critical success making $260 million dollars. It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
The original story is a sci-fi novel named "We can remember it for you wholesale", if anyone is interested. As far as I recall (haha) there is an alternative ending to the movie where it shows Quaid sitting in the Rekall chair, line of drool coming from his mouth, to suggest that the guy that showed up in the middle was telling the truth; he WAS having a psychosis. It was eventually scrapped for the current ending where you can really still not quite tell whether or not this was all real. It IS quite a far out ending for something real, isn't it?
@@TarossBlackburn Especially since he picked the girl, the setting and a spy story. And the technician said the program was called, "Blue Sky on Mars". Also the doc said the walls would come crashing in (which they did) and that next minute he'd be the villain's best friend. Just some things to trip out about ;)
There's so much great stuff about this movie that's impossible to get over. Sharon Stone is legit one of the hottest women of all time. Michael Ironside is legit one of the coolest villains of all time, along with the guy who plays the main guy (proven by his role in Robocop). The pacing, the editing, all of it. Dear Jesus this is the baddest of badass.
I love this movie so much, it has it all! It's a hyperviolent schlockfest with interesting psychological and philosophical undertones, great cast, fantastic practical effects, hilarious dark humor and too many memorable one-liners to count.
How many actors in this film appeared in the Star Trek universe? I count six. 1. 6:05 The hologram gangster (TNG - The Man Hunt) 2. 8:44 - The EMH Doctor (Voyager) 3. 13:31 - Captain Jellico (TNG Chain of Command) 4. 16:15 Dukat (DS9) 5. 20:11 Sirna Kolrami (TNG - Peak Performance) & Razka Karn (DS9 - Indiscretion) 6. 23:05 Sonya Gomez (TNG - Q Who and Samaritan Snare)
The guy who played benny the cab driver was the leader of cardassia (broca) in the last few episodes of ds9, the one they executed incase he betrayed them
Really appreciate that you guys took note of the opening credits, with Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic theme! This was the age when films could give you just the names that made the film & you were still hyped & entertained.
The ending fades out to white to leave it as an ambiguous ending - was it all real or was it all a dream. The director, Paul Verhoven, said the fade out to white was done as if Quaid was actually still at the chair in Total Recall and was just lobotomised. Everything after the visit to Total Recall in the movie is as described or mentioned in that scene - the woman on the screen was Melina, the option to assimilate some alien things which are actually production drawings of the machine at the end, the guy in the background mentioned when picking out the batch number ‘Blue sky on mars…’. Lot of possibilities that it’s all in his head from after going to Recall or is it real…? Love this movie. The remake is actually not bed in its own right, but is still not a touch on this one.
I like to believe since Paul Verhoeven directed all of them and his unique tone and style that Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers all take place in the same universe at different points in the timeline.
Arnold has done a LOT of sci fi/fantasy movies. And as it’s Arnold, there’s a lot of goofy, over the top stuff here. But it’s also pretty inventive and interesting, leaving you with more questions than answers by the end. I think he’s still dreaming and at Recall, but your take is as good as mine.
I e always loved the way this movie makes you think if it was all a recall memory or actually real. The movie never explains if it was actual reality or not. One of the Easter eggs that point to this, is when Quaid goes to recall and just before they tried to run his recall program, the needy guy said "Oh !!. Blue skies over Mars, that's a new one !!" Then, at the end of the movie, yep there is a blue sky over Mars.
Or was it just a memory from Recall.....he got the girl, killed the bad guys and saved the planet.....and the young tech at Recall, when he was walking away and looking at the program for the memory, says" blue sky on mars, that's a new one"
Based on a Philip K Dick book. Dude produced some great works that make you question reality, and he was able to do so very effectively because he wrote from the perspective of having struggled with mental illness his whole life.
I like and have watched The Adjustment Bureau multiple times as well as Total Recall (1990). There was a remake/reboot of Total Recall which sucked. Nothing compared to the original.
@@richellegill8442 Piers Anthony wrote a novelization of the movie (after the movie came out). Philip K Dick wrote the original short story, other people wrote the screenplay, then Piers Anthony wrote the novelization.
Director of Robocop (1987), writers of Alien (1979) and based on the short story by the author of Blade Runner & Minority Report. First summer blockbuster of the 1990s. I can't tell you how much excitement there was in this extravaganza. Arnold at his best. Supreme action and suspense. Not just bang, boom and pow. But there is a story to be had with identity and all the things that come with it. There was a remake in 2012. More closer to the original material (not set on Mars) and it wasn't liked as much. But other than that, enjoy the ride.
Given the miraculus eye repair at the end, the sudden 'greening' of Mars, and other things, it is quite possible that Arnie was still sitting mind-blown at the Recall center. You guys are good loud fun - I was laughing along with you. Totally suggest 'True Lies' when you are ready for another fun action flick.
The really great part of this movie that the boys didn't even touch on is that it's never actually established whether the entire "trip to Mars" wasn't just a figment of Hauser/Quaid's imagination. Everything we see in the movie after the trip to Recall is exactly what Hauser/Quaid asks for as part of his 'ego trip' package. We even get to see a blue sky on Mars at the end. It's entirely possible that everything after the point that he gets kicked out of Recall is just happening in his head as part of the memories he's been implanted with; which might even explain the fade to white at the end.
I can't believe you're watching another Arnold's film. You are killing it this week. This movie is funtastic. Great cast. Great script. Great villains (specially Ronny Cox, he already was in "Robocop"). Although some practical effects or sets don't look good, even at the time, other's are still top notch. And the story is left open, was it all just an implanted memory? Was it real? Did you notice the guy from the Rekall center ad in the underground is the same Dr Edgemar that travels to Mars with Sharon Stone and meets Arnold at the hotel to give him the delusional speech.
I always forget that Total Recall has some sweet lines -- I don't know if you guys ever saw The Running Man, now that was an Arnold film with some lines!!
It's kind of interesting that everything that happened was mentioned when Arnold first went to the Recall: being a secret agent, meeting a brunette love interest, alien artefacts, etc. Almost like everything after that actually was a fake memory being lived through.
That's one of the theories of the movie... that all the adventures was actually the total recall secret agent vacation memory he paid for. The white light at the end is almost like him waking up in the original lab room where they put him in the chair to give him the memories.
Fun Fact: In the original book "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (Published 1966) that this movie is based on, the main character Quaid was a small slim guy who worked a boring office job. But, when the movie producers cast Arnold, the script writers had to justify Arnold's physique, so suddenly Quaid became a construction worker.
That was only a short story, and it only featured the main premise of implanted memories. Maybe the book you mention was a later anthology containing this one. But there is another novel, which features a colony on mars and mutant psychics. This movie took more inspiration from PKD's works than the story alone.
@@Cau_No Well, it's been a long time since I read the story, but I sort of remember rodent creatures from Mars, some kind of psychic implant in Quaid's mind, and Quaid having some kind of powers. But the one thing I am positive about, which I mentioned in my original comment, was that Quaid wasn't a muscle bound heroic type and worked a boring office job.
At the end of the movie you are left with the question "Was this just his implanted Secret Agent Fantasy playing to its conclusion". He gets the girl, defeats the bad guys and saves the planet. Remember when the young Technician mentions a Blue Sky on Mars?
This is probably Schwarzenegger best "story" in one of his movies, as it's got some classic Hitchcock vibes. And while some of the special effects were top notch, some are kinda of cheesy, but I guess that's part of the movies charm. Predator & True Lies are probably his best two films from a overall quality stand point, but Total Recall is still a top shelf effort, and was way better than it had any right to be.
I went to high school with the woman who plays the news anchor. Her name was Paula McClure. She was Homecoming Queen in 1980. Sadly she passed away about 20 years ago.
No, he didn't have a 2nd tracker, they found Quatto because the cab driver disappeared 'to look for his grandfather' but actually left to contact them.
I grew up with Arnold's movies. They were basically my childhood, BUT for me this is one of those ultra rare cases when the remake is better than the original. Arnie's movie is bonified classic, but the 2012 is really REALLY well done. The modern cinematography, the acting and the production quality are on a whole another level. Yes the practical effects aren't as many as they are in the original, but the atmosphere is awesome. And it also doesn't hurt having Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel as the two main females.
The only thing about the sequence where Quaid uses the holographic watch projector to fool the bad guys that has always bothered me is wouldn't the soldiers end up shooting each other if there is nothing real between them and they are shooting towards each other?
Fun fact: The train scenes were filmed in Mexico City's Metro, the big shootout happens at Chabacano Station, I walked that very same station for three years of high school and four years of college.
This movie was so great. No way the remake they did a few years ago could ever match up. The one liners though were probably the best in this movie. Infinitely quote-able. BENNY! SCREEEEEEW YOOOOOU! And the "See you at the party, Richter" was such a good call back to what Richter told him before, so it was a better one-liner. And at the time, the special effects on this movie were pretty groundbreaking. There is a shot of that monorail train on Mars where the camera pulls away from the train, but you see Arnold in the window on the train. That was all a miniature train, and they used a tiny display screen for the window instead, and it was like the smallest display screen the prop-makers could find.
I like the way you guys just go along for a ride when watching movies than trying to predict them. That's the proper way to do reactions👍. This was a shallow fun movie that is even deeper than most movies today. We all have a Houser vs Quaid battle inside all of us. It's us vs our ego. BTW, Mr. Cohagen is no different than our politicians, if we plant more trees we can help our earth but politicians couldn't profit off it.
Total Recall is in my top 5 Arnold movies of all time. The story was so well written and original you get hit by some good one liners and surprises. You must check out 'Running Man' & 'Commando' two more Arnold movies that I love and I hope you will too. 🤘🤘
Great reaction again, guys. Thank you for making me laugh, I really needed it today. There is one thing that most people seem to miss, I did the first time I watched it, however I caught it the second time and it throws the whole thing into question. If you rewatch the part where he's at the Total Recall Centre, just after the point where the lady asks about aliens, she throws Ernie the device with the memories to be implanted at which point you hear him say something along the lines of 'That's a new one, blue sky on Mars '. Makes you wonder now which one was reality.
It was a dream. The beginning tells it all. The program was called blue sky on mars, Melina was the photo of the girl and the alien artifacts showed a picture of the reactor that made air.
I haven't seen this movie in so long I forgot how good Arnold's one liners were .great reaction guys and happy new year. Miracles and blessings to you and yours ✌️ and 💜.
The interesting thing is: When the supposed "guy from the company" tells Quaid what will happen if he kills him, neither Quaid nor the audience believe that character. But everything he says actually comes true.
When did his "trip" really begin? Right there in the chair at Rekall when he fell asleep... Everything was part of the fantasy. What did Quaid get? Everything in the package including the "Blue sky on Mars" which the tech said was new... --- The white light dissolve at the end was Doug waking up. -- Now how depressing is that? You wake up in your chair at Rekall, and you went from being a hero, back to being a construction worker who now has doubts about his wife / married life..
Dam! your channel is blowing up. Congrats. Its amazing people can now make money watching movies. Its very enjoyable for the audience because we feel like we are watching our favorite movies for the first time again. Thats so cool!
One of the most unique approaches when the writers wrote the screenplay was that, this movie quite literally spoils the entire film without you knowing it in fact it does it twice every scene where the main character is given a very important choice they quite literally tell you how the movie is going to end. When duck Hauser goes into recall the sales guy the one who orchestrating his ego trip literally tells him the entire movie the entire plot. The second time is when he's on Mars and the guy comes to him with the proverbial red pill 🔴 quite literally spoils the ending of the movie....
Now for that moment when you realize that after Arnold went into Rekall for the memory implant, the rest of the movie could have been his implanted memories. It's exactly what he asked for.
@@lich109 Maybe, but not necessarily. He might have imagined those conversations, or maybe Rekall was so good at what they did that they could implant those conversations and make it seem like he imagined them. It is still ambiguous and open to many possibilities.
@@hellohi821 How did he imagine those conversations when he wasn't present for them and has no knowledge they happened? For him to imagine something, he needs to have some sort of memory of it. For those conversations, he does not. He isn't present, and has no clue they're happening.
OMG! I haven’t seen this movie since it came out originally! I forgot all about it till I watched it again with you guys it all came back. I think this was Arnold’s first big speaking role. He did Conan but hadn’t spoken much.
Great movie. You should see other great Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies The Running Man 1987 (A great underrated movie Came out same time as Predator ) , End of Days 1999 and The Sixth day.Don't watch the 2011 remake it is complete trash. You should also watch Robocop and Starship Troppers from the same director. See you in the party Victor :)
10:19 Thats legendary actor Michael Ironside you neanderthal. He was also in Starship Troopers (another Paul Verhoeven movie) and many more. He was also the voice of Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell game series.
‘The Running Man’ is the closest Arnie film to this, similar one liners fun premise, another sci if dystopian future, you’ll love it. Plus the only time ‘I’ll be back” gets a retort.
I have never watched the remake of this movie because why mess with perfection? It's so weird and quirky and wonderful. It's unique and I love it. Fun fact: the same guy who wrote the book Blade Runner is based off of wrote the book this is based off of. There was a lot more to the atmosphere / terraforming to make it self-sustainable in the book, but it also had less twists. Solid book though. It was titled "We Can Dream It For You Wholesale". He has weird titles; the Blade Runner book was called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Watching this through y'all's eyes has made me realize that as kids, my brother and I watched movies that were incredibly violent at probably way too young an age. As a parent now, I'm like ohmyGod we were left to our own devices way too often! But I guess we turned out alright.
commando, total recall, and the running man were my go to's when i was growing up. My grandma had all 3 recorded on a single VHS tape and i practically wore that tape out when i was younger. All movies i should not have been watching when i was that young lol
Michael Ironside (the baddie in this one), played Jester in the original Top Gun and is also the voice of Sam Fisher, the NSA super spy protagonist in the Splinter Cell game franchise. He has such a alpha male voice that I have adored since as a kid since seeing Top Gun with my cousin. Lego jet fighters went on a rampage that day.
I was waiting tables in Seattle and Benny the cab driver came in. I didn't say anything the whole time I waited on him, but couldn't resist as he was leaving. I said I had 5 kids to feed. He lowered his head but looked up with a smile. We shook hands and took a picture. Nice guy.
That's awesome.
At least you didn't yell, "Benny! SCREW YOOOOOU!"
Today in things that didn’t happen
@@zatoichi1 😂😂lol 😂dude he should have
I'm Benny & this didn't happen. Nice story though. Screw you!
I'm all for the Arnold binge series now, The Running Man, Commando, True Lies! Do them all!
Twins and Junior are good too.
The running man is epic ! Predator also
DO IT, DO IT NOW!!
Commando, Remeber when I said I'd watch you last?
... I lied.
Last Action Hero
"Get your ass to Mars."
Fun Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed that Michael Ironside was constantly on the phone between takes. When he broached the subject with Ironside, he was told that he was phoning his sister and that she was currently suffering from cancer. Arnold immediately brought Michael to his trailer and they had an hour-long, three-way conversation with Ironside's sister about what exercises she should do and what kinds of foods she should be eating. Ironside has never forgotten Schwarzenegger's kindness and neither has his sister.
Also, after seeing Sharon Stone's performance as Lori in this movie, director Paul Verhoeven would cast her in the movie Basic Instinct (1992) due to her ability to play a character that could change from a timid charming sweetheart to a diabolical person and back again at a moment's notice. He also stated that this is the way Sharon Stone is in real life.
Damn thanks for the info I never knew this and I'm a big fan of this movie.
Awesome info!🤗
I'd heard a lot about Sharon in this period from various biographies where she got mentioned but bottom line was she's a very intelligent woman but because she was blessed with great beauty in the 80's in particular she attracted every type of sleaze ball in the business and it looks like it turned her from someone innocent and sweet when she started out to someone cynical and suspicious of everyone's motives in regards to her.
She didn't want to play the dumb blonde and it took until Basic Instinct for a part she could get her teeth into and even then because of that she only got offered overly sexualised roles until Casino came along and then after that her looks started to fade and younger actresses got the roles she would normally get.
She was born at the wrong time as nowadays actresses are starting to work as long as male actors do even though there's still a long way to go on that as I grew up with actresses like Sharon, Rene Russo, Nancy Travis etc who all seemed to get very little work once producers thought their looks were fading
@@A-small-amount-of-peas Sharon Stones looks never started to fade. She is beautiful no matter what age.
If she switches like that in real life as her personality, then she's not acting.
YES!!!
ARNOLD'S ONE LINERS ARE AWESOME AND HILARIOUS!
David Cronenberg was hired to direct the film but had a huge falling out with Dino De Laurentiis as Cronenberg wanted to turn the movie into a psychological thriller rather than an action film.
Ronald Shusset wanted to make this movie "Raiders Of The Lost Ark on Mars." Gary Goldman along with Dan O'Bannon wrote the script as close to the original story as possible, but tensions between Cronenberg and Laurentiis got so nasty, Cronenberg left the project and Laurentiis sold the rights to Carolco.
This was the most expensive film for Carolco, $75 million dollars.
They filmed the movie in Chirubiscu Studios in Mexico City.
Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast as Douglas Quaid, James Caan, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Douglas, Peter Weller, Christopher Reeve, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Swayze, William Hurt, and Dennis Quaid were considered.
The film was a box office and critical success making $260 million dollars.
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
The original story is a sci-fi novel named "We can remember it for you wholesale", if anyone is interested.
As far as I recall (haha) there is an alternative ending to the movie where it shows Quaid sitting in the Rekall chair, line of drool coming from his mouth, to suggest that the guy that showed up in the middle was telling the truth; he WAS having a psychosis. It was eventually scrapped for the current ending where you can really still not quite tell whether or not this was all real. It IS quite a far out ending for something real, isn't it?
@@TarossBlackburn Especially since he picked the girl, the setting and a spy story. And the technician said the program was called, "Blue Sky on Mars". Also the doc said the walls would come crashing in (which they did) and that next minute he'd be the villain's best friend. Just some things to trip out about ;)
It wasn't a critical success.
Wow reeve
Best sci-fi action movie of the late 80's , Arnold with his action and one liners
was awesome.
A modern action classic !
This is one of the most “Aaaraarrargh!!” of the Arnold movies.
This is one of the Paul Verhoeven's three science fiction films that everybody should check out, the other two are Robocop and Starship Troopers.
I was just about to say, a trio of brilliant sci fi movies
I wish he'd made 10 more, but Starship Troopers was a marked step down from RoboCop and Total Recall IMO. Still good, but a step down.
I liked "Hollowman" too.
They've reacted to Starship Troopers.
It’s painful to watch the youngin’s react to these movies. I don’t know what happened but it’s like Satire escaped them entirely.
There's so much great stuff about this movie that's impossible to get over. Sharon Stone is legit one of the hottest women of all time. Michael Ironside is legit one of the coolest villains of all time, along with the guy who plays the main guy (proven by his role in Robocop). The pacing, the editing, all of it. Dear Jesus this is the baddest of badass.
Late 80s/early 90s Sharon Stone? Doesn't get much better than that!
@@williammatthews693 I remember watching Basic Instinct at the theatre and damn that was a good movie:)
Seeing Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers, or even Top Gun, always throws me off because he’s playing a good guy.
@@williammatthews693 Jennifer Connelly
Kirkwood Smith played Clarence Boddickor in RoboCop. Pops from that 70’s show
"U think THIS is the REAL Quaid? It IS!" 😂 Arnold's delivery made it sound so funny & badass at the same time!
“I’ll never forget her.”
Buddy, having seen this in theaters as a teen, you have no idea just how right you are.
Can confirm..
She 150 percent didn't deserve to die .
9:00 "I would just kill this robot."
"I would just rip him off his circuits."
**Epic foreshadowing**
Lmao 🤣
Arnie was just in the zone in the 80's and 90's. Classic after Classic after Classic. And then he made Junior
I love this movie so much, it has it all! It's a hyperviolent schlockfest with interesting psychological and philosophical undertones, great cast, fantastic practical effects, hilarious dark humor and too many memorable one-liners to count.
ME TOO!!!
"As long as he doesn't look like Tony I'll be fine."
Kuato: "Hold my mutant baby formula."
How many actors in this film appeared in the Star Trek universe?
I count six.
1. 6:05 The hologram gangster (TNG - The Man Hunt)
2. 8:44 - The EMH Doctor (Voyager)
3. 13:31 - Captain Jellico (TNG Chain of Command)
4. 16:15 Dukat (DS9)
5. 20:11 Sirna Kolrami (TNG - Peak Performance) & Razka Karn (DS9 - Indiscretion)
6. 23:05 Sonya Gomez (TNG - Q Who and Samaritan Snare)
Legend you are!
The guy who played benny the cab driver was the leader of cardassia (broca) in the last few episodes of ds9, the one they executed incase he betrayed them
Fun! I regularly play this game when watching stuff from the 80s & 90s.
Wow i only realised it was voyagers doctor recently
In all the years I known this movie never realise the evil bad guy was also the evil bad captain guy from tng well he wasn’t evil but he’s hated
This is probably one of my top 3 favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. "Consider that a divorce" is my favorite line
" Get your ass to Mass"
Really appreciate that you guys took note of the opening credits, with Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic theme! This was the age when films could give you just the names that made the film & you were still hyped & entertained.
"CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE " that was the same reaction that happened at the theater when it came out.
“See you at the party Richter” may be one of the best one-liners ever. Me and my friends still quote it all the time and laugh about it.
My fave Arnie 1 liner
Hell yeah, love this movie. Need to watch Eraser, True Lies, Commando, The Running Man. Just watch every Arnold movie, they’re all good!
The ending fades out to white to leave it as an ambiguous ending - was it all real or was it all a dream. The director, Paul Verhoven, said the fade out to white was done as if Quaid was actually still at the chair in Total Recall and was just lobotomised.
Everything after the visit to Total Recall in the movie is as described or mentioned in that scene - the woman on the screen was Melina, the option to assimilate some alien things which are actually production drawings of the machine at the end, the guy in the background mentioned when picking out the batch number ‘Blue sky on mars…’. Lot of possibilities that it’s all in his head from after going to Recall or is it real…? Love this movie. The remake is actually not bed in its own right, but is still not a touch on this one.
This movie is such a classic. It's such a joy to watch a couple of dudes burst out laughing at the same scenes we all do.
I like to believe since Paul Verhoeven directed all of them and his unique tone and style that Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers all take place in the same universe at different points in the timeline.
Not only that, but Ronny Cox did a great job as the three Dicks in history.
The actor who played Tony also played Hank in “Breaking Bad”
Arnold has done a LOT of sci fi/fantasy movies. And as it’s Arnold, there’s a lot of goofy, over the top stuff here. But it’s also pretty inventive and interesting, leaving you with more questions than answers by the end. I think he’s still dreaming and at Recall, but your take is as good as mine.
I read that the white light at the end means it was a dream/delusion.
“Screw you!” Every Schwarzenegger movie needs at least one bad pun 😆
I e always loved the way this movie makes you think if it was all a recall memory or actually real. The movie never explains if it was actual reality or not.
One of the Easter eggs that point to this, is when Quaid goes to recall and just before they tried to run his recall program, the needy guy said "Oh !!. Blue skies over Mars, that's a new one !!"
Then, at the end of the movie, yep there is a blue sky over Mars.
I think seeing conversation Quaid is unaware of kills that theory, personally.
Michael ironside. One of the greatest 80s actor of all time.
Or of the 80s, at least.
80's and 90's
Or was it just a memory from Recall.....he got the girl, killed the bad guys and saved the planet.....and the young tech at Recall, when he was walking away and looking at the program for the memory, says" blue sky on mars, that's a new one"
"Benny, screw you!" is by far my favorite Arnold pun.
My favorite is "You want to be a farmer? Well, here's a couple of acres."
Based on a Philip K Dick book. Dude produced some great works that make you question reality, and he was able to do so very effectively because he wrote from the perspective of having struggled with mental illness his whole life.
I like and have watched The Adjustment Bureau multiple times as well as Total Recall (1990). There was a remake/reboot of Total Recall which sucked. Nothing compared to the original.
Piers Anthony book
@@richellegill8442 no, it was a short story by Philip K Dick - we can remember it for you wholesale
@@richellegill8442 Piers Anthony wrote a novelization of the movie (after the movie came out). Philip K Dick wrote the original short story, other people wrote the screenplay, then Piers Anthony wrote the novelization.
Director of Robocop (1987), writers of Alien (1979) and based on the short story by the author of Blade Runner & Minority Report.
First summer blockbuster of the 1990s.
I can't tell you how much excitement there was in this extravaganza.
Arnold at his best.
Supreme action and suspense.
Not just bang, boom and pow.
But there is a story to be had with identity and all the things that come with it.
There was a remake in 2012.
More closer to the original material (not set on Mars) and it wasn't liked as much.
But other than that, enjoy the ride.
Alien was written by Dan O'Bannon and this movie is from the 80s. What are you talking about?
The remake is unwatchable.
@@Gurra88 apparently you have wrong.
This was 1990.
O' Bannon & Shusett were working on this long after Alien.
Given the miraculus eye repair at the end, the sudden 'greening' of Mars, and other things, it is quite possible that Arnie was still sitting mind-blown at the Recall center. You guys are good loud fun - I was laughing along with you. Totally suggest 'True Lies' when you are ready for another fun action flick.
Or maybe the whole thing was his secret agent recall vacation.
If I had sons, I would want them to be like you two. You guys are nuts and I want to adopt you 🤣
I just love watching your reactions!
Surprised that you guys didn't talk about the ambiguous ending. Everything that the sweating doctor predicted actually happened after Quaid shot him.
This is one of my favorite movie. I couldn't remember how many times Ive seen it.
The really great part of this movie that the boys didn't even touch on is that it's never actually established whether the entire "trip to Mars" wasn't just a figment of Hauser/Quaid's imagination. Everything we see in the movie after the trip to Recall is exactly what Hauser/Quaid asks for as part of his 'ego trip' package. We even get to see a blue sky on Mars at the end. It's entirely possible that everything after the point that he gets kicked out of Recall is just happening in his head as part of the memories he's been implanted with; which might even explain the fade to white at the end.
And you both made Arnold faces. 🤣
"They don't have a chance, they're science guys!"
Killed me...😁
I can't believe you're watching another Arnold's film. You are killing it this week. This movie is funtastic. Great cast. Great script. Great villains (specially Ronny Cox, he already was in "Robocop"). Although some practical effects or sets don't look good, even at the time, other's are still top notch. And the story is left open, was it all just an implanted memory? Was it real? Did you notice the guy from the Rekall center ad in the underground is the same Dr Edgemar that travels to Mars with Sharon Stone and meets Arnold at the hotel to give him the delusional speech.
I always forget that Total Recall has some sweet lines -- I don't know if you guys ever saw The Running Man, now that was an Arnold film with some lines!!
Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun. I can’t even begin to count how many times I watched this movie. Wore out my VHS tape. 😮
VHS what’s that 😂😂
Only joking remember Betamax 😂
Total Recall and the twins?
I’m in.
It's kind of interesting that everything that happened was mentioned when Arnold first went to the Recall: being a secret agent, meeting a brunette love interest, alien artefacts, etc.
Almost like everything after that actually was a fake memory being lived through.
That’s what makes it so great
That's one of the theories of the movie... that all the adventures was actually the total recall secret agent vacation memory he paid for. The white light at the end is almost like him waking up in the original lab room where they put him in the chair to give him the memories.
You can even see the alien reactor flash on the screen.
It definitely was all a psychotic episode.
Except we saw conversations he was not present for.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot How did we see the conversations he was not present for an was unaware of then, if it's all in his mind?
Lmao your faces when Kuato appeared. I can understand I was 8 when this movie came out, and when he appeared, I thought he was a deformed chucky
Fun Fact: In the original book "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (Published 1966) that this movie is based on, the main character Quaid was a small slim guy who worked a boring office job. But, when the movie producers cast Arnold, the script writers had to justify Arnold's physique, so suddenly Quaid became a construction worker.
That was only a short story, and it only featured the main premise of implanted memories. Maybe the book you mention was a later anthology containing this one.
But there is another novel, which features a colony on mars and mutant psychics. This movie took more inspiration from PKD's works than the story alone.
@@Cau_No Well, it's been a long time since I read the story, but I sort of remember rodent creatures from Mars, some kind of psychic implant in Quaid's mind, and Quaid having some kind of powers. But the one thing I am positive about, which I mentioned in my original comment, was that Quaid wasn't a muscle bound heroic type and worked a boring office job.
At the end of the movie you are left with the question "Was this just his implanted Secret Agent Fantasy playing to its conclusion". He gets the girl, defeats the bad guys and saves the planet. Remember when the young Technician mentions a Blue Sky on Mars?
The fact we see stuff he's not present for and is unaware of puts a hole in that theory.
This is probably Schwarzenegger best "story" in one of his movies, as it's got some classic Hitchcock vibes. And while some of the special effects were top notch, some are kinda of cheesy, but I guess that's part of the movies charm. Predator & True Lies are probably his best two films from a overall quality stand point, but Total Recall is still a top shelf effort, and was way better than it had any right to be.
Terminator 2 = his best
Terminator 1
I went to high school with the woman who plays the news anchor. Her name was Paula McClure. She was Homecoming Queen in 1980. Sadly she passed away about 20 years ago.
No, he didn't have a 2nd tracker, they found Quatto because the cab driver disappeared 'to look for his grandfather' but actually left to contact them.
I grew up with Arnold's movies. They were basically my childhood, BUT for me this is one of those ultra rare cases when the remake is better than the original. Arnie's movie is bonified classic, but the 2012 is really REALLY well done. The modern cinematography, the acting and the production quality are on a whole another level. Yes the practical effects aren't as many as they are in the original, but the atmosphere is awesome. And it also doesn't hurt having Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel as the two main females.
The only thing about the sequence where Quaid uses the holographic watch projector to fool the bad guys that has always bothered me is wouldn't the soldiers end up shooting each other if there is nothing real between them and they are shooting towards each other?
There's nothing like a Paul Verhoeven movie. So much violence, so much hilarious social commentary. Love it.
Fun fact: The train scenes were filmed in Mexico City's Metro, the big shootout happens at Chabacano Station, I walked that very same station for three years of high school and four years of college.
This movie was so great. No way the remake they did a few years ago could ever match up.
The one liners though were probably the best in this movie. Infinitely quote-able. BENNY! SCREEEEEEW YOOOOOU!
And the "See you at the party, Richter" was such a good call back to what Richter told him before, so it was a better one-liner.
And at the time, the special effects on this movie were pretty groundbreaking. There is a shot of that monorail train on Mars where the camera pulls away from the train, but you see Arnold in the window on the train. That was all a miniature train, and they used a tiny display screen for the window instead, and it was like the smallest display screen the prop-makers could find.
4:45 -- Maximum use of force... Grenades, flamethrowers.... Mini-gun...
I watched this as a kid with my father and told him I was going to marry Sharon Stone one day because she was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. 😍😛
I saw the title and thought “”They haven’t watched it?!?!?!they haven’t seen anything!… NICE that mean more videos to come””
One of the best movies ever made. Dan O Bannon(Alien, Return of the Living dead) is an amazing writer. Great choice! Arnie!!!!
I like the way you guys just go along for a ride when watching movies than trying to predict them. That's the proper way to do reactions👍. This was a shallow fun movie that is even deeper than most movies today. We all have a Houser vs Quaid battle inside all of us. It's us vs our ego. BTW, Mr. Cohagen is no different than our politicians, if we plant more trees we can help our earth but politicians couldn't profit off it.
"EWWWW that mutant is fugly!"
20 minutes later
"Okay, don't be mean to him. It's not his fault."
This is one of my favorite channels.
Total Recall is in my top 5 Arnold movies of all time.
The story was so well written and original you get hit by some good one liners and surprises.
You must check out 'Running Man' & 'Commando' two more Arnold movies that I love and I hope you will too.
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Great reaction again, guys. Thank you for making me laugh, I really needed it today. There is one thing that most people seem to miss, I did the first time I watched it, however I caught it the second time and it throws the whole thing into question. If you rewatch the part where he's at the Total Recall Centre, just after the point where the lady asks about aliens, she throws Ernie the device with the memories to be implanted at which point you hear him say something along the lines of 'That's a new one, blue sky on Mars '. Makes you wonder now which one was reality.
I've come to the conclusion that it IS all in his head. He truly is stuck in the machine and brain damaged at this point.
It was the trip he paid for.
In the book that its based off of its apparently all real. But the movies do change a lot of the story.
@@SirBroadcast I didn't know that. Thank you.
If it wasn't reality, how could we see conversations he was unaware of?
I love Arnold movies as well. They're classics in my opinion. I definitely recommend watching Kindergarten Cop. Its one of my Arnold movies.
JohnnyCab was voiced by Robert Picardo, aka Voyagers EMH ;D
It was a dream. The beginning tells it all. The program was called blue sky on mars, Melina was the photo of the girl and the alien artifacts showed a picture of the reactor that made air.
If it was a dream the audience would not see conversations Quaid is unaware of.
Saw this as a kid. Still to this day one of my favourite movies
I haven't seen this movie in so long I forgot how good Arnold's one liners were .great reaction guys and happy new year. Miracles and blessings to you and yours ✌️ and 💜.
The interesting thing is: When the supposed "guy from the company" tells Quaid what will happen if he kills him, neither Quaid nor the audience believe that character. But everything he says actually comes true.
When did his "trip" really begin? Right there in the chair at Rekall when he fell asleep... Everything was part of the fantasy. What did Quaid get? Everything in the package including the "Blue sky on Mars" which the tech said was new... --- The white light dissolve at the end was Doug waking up. -- Now how depressing is that? You wake up in your chair at Rekall, and you went from being a hero, back to being a construction worker who now has doubts about his wife / married life..
Dam! your channel is blowing up. Congrats. Its amazing people can now make money watching movies. Its very enjoyable for the audience because we feel like we are watching our favorite movies for the first time again. Thats so cool!
One of the most unique approaches when the writers wrote the screenplay was that, this movie quite literally spoils the entire film without you knowing it in fact it does it twice every scene where the main character is given a very important choice they quite literally tell you how the movie is going to end. When duck Hauser goes into recall the sales guy the one who orchestrating his ego trip literally tells him the entire movie the entire plot. The second time is when he's on Mars and the guy comes to him with the proverbial red pill 🔴 quite literally spoils the ending of the movie....
Now for that moment when you realize that after Arnold went into Rekall for the memory implant, the rest of the movie could have been his implanted memories. It's exactly what he asked for.
I consider the line “blue sky on Mars, that’s a new one” to be the key to the whole movie. The whole thing is a fantasy….
Except for the part where we see conversations he is unaware of, that kind of breaks this theory in half.
@@matthewbookler4136 How do we see conversations he is unaware of if it's in his head?
@@lich109 Maybe, but not necessarily. He might have imagined those conversations, or maybe Rekall was so good at what they did that they could implant those conversations and make it seem like he imagined them. It is still ambiguous and open to many possibilities.
@@hellohi821 How did he imagine those conversations when he wasn't present for them and has no knowledge they happened?
For him to imagine something, he needs to have some sort of memory of it. For those conversations, he does not. He isn't present, and has no clue they're happening.
22:00 Arnold has the best lines in all of movies.
OMG! I haven’t seen this movie since it came out originally! I forgot all about it till I watched it again with you guys it all came back. I think this was Arnold’s first big speaking role. He did Conan but hadn’t spoken much.
Great movie. You should see other great Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies The Running Man 1987 (A great underrated movie Came out same time as Predator ) , End of Days 1999 and The Sixth day.Don't watch the 2011 remake it is complete trash. You should also watch Robocop and Starship Troppers from the same director. See you in the party Victor :)
Yes! Running Man is amazing 👏
Commando, True Lies & The Running man are a must! The king of one liners
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Thats legendary actor Michael Ironside you neanderthal. He was also in Starship Troopers (another Paul Verhoeven movie) and many more. He was also the voice of Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell game series.
One of my favorite movies Arnold has been in. Y’all should do Book Of Eli sometime you’d like it
Book of Eli is definitely good.
Should also do The Equalizer as well.
one of my fav movies the soundtrack to it is amazing too, jerry goldsmith said it was one of his best and he did a lot of movies.
I love that you guys find all the same stuff just as funny as I do 😅🤣🤣 Arnold always has the best one liners.
OMG I oh so agree with 100% of the things you said about the movie and your analyses overall !!
You guys nailed that !
Legolambs also has a total recall musical, can you believe it? Pretty good.
I've considered this my favourite movie for the longest time and that won't be changing any time soon.
@@Aladato respectable favorite movie
@@OctoKrool it's pretty annoying that you often don't show the best bits.
Yo you gotta add in Kindergarten Cop, Junior, Last Action Hero, Commando and Running Man into your Arnold reaction bandwagon!
"Consider that a divorce" is my favorite Arnie one-liner
‘The Running Man’ is the closest Arnie film to this, similar one liners fun premise, another sci if dystopian future, you’ll love it. Plus the only time ‘I’ll be back” gets a retort.
I have never watched the remake of this movie because why mess with perfection? It's so weird and quirky and wonderful. It's unique and I love it. Fun fact: the same guy who wrote the book Blade Runner is based off of wrote the book this is based off of. There was a lot more to the atmosphere / terraforming to make it self-sustainable in the book, but it also had less twists. Solid book though. It was titled "We Can Dream It For You Wholesale". He has weird titles; the Blade Runner book was called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Watching this through y'all's eyes has made me realize that as kids, my brother and I watched movies that were incredibly violent at probably way too young an age. As a parent now, I'm like ohmyGod we were left to our own devices way too often! But I guess we turned out alright.
commando, total recall, and the running man were my go to's when i was growing up. My grandma had all 3 recorded on a single VHS tape and i practically wore that tape out when i was younger. All movies i should not have been watching when i was that young lol
Never expect just one Asaaarrnold movie. As always: He’ll be back (sooner than you think)! 😂👍
31:51 I still think it would have been better if he said, "Need a hand Riktor!?"
Make it an Arnold month. True Lies, Conan II, Running Man, Commando, Terminator, Terminator II, Red Sonja, (there are plenty)....
Love how much the future looks like 1990 😹
robocop, total recall and starship troopers is one of the best film anthologies, The Verhoeven Trilogy
The head attached to my torso wants to say "start the react-ion".
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤️
Quado's Host: Quado is a mutant, so don't be upset when you see him.
Twins: Upset is a huge understatement. 😂
Michael Ironside (the baddie in this one), played Jester in the original Top Gun and is also the voice of Sam Fisher, the NSA super spy protagonist in the Splinter Cell game franchise. He has such a alpha male voice that I have adored since as a kid since seeing Top Gun with my cousin. Lego jet fighters went on a rampage that day.
Recommendation for you to react: Planet Terror (2007), this movie is great and hilarious!
If it's Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's not double Arnold week/weak. It's double Arnold STRONG!
totally recommend watching The running man sometime in the future. Awesome Arnold Flix
Don’t get much better than this
End of an era type movie