Total Recall (1990) A TOTAL MIND !@#$ | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review
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Fun Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed that Michael Ironside (Ritchter) 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. So excited to see this movie with you, Dasha! You're the best!🌹❤️
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@@solvingpolitics3172 Thank you for sharing this👍
@@shanemcconnell358 I really underestimated Schwarzenegger. The corny lines, the silly plots. It was only when I saw his video that the immense amount of talent pieced together in my mind. We could live another 500 years. We probably will never find a person who: A -list actor, number one in the world in his sport & governor of California as far as any immigrant could go in American politics. What did you think of the video?
@@solvingpolitics3172 His speech is so inspiring. I want to go on a ten mile run in the morning now. I hope Dasha and her subscribers will have the chance to see his amazing speech and be inspired by his words.
@@shanemcconnell358 Delighted that it helped you. I hope her viewers do as well.
This movie will forever be a Sci-fi action classic 😁 Definitely never get tired of rewatching this 🤙🏼
The bug-removal scene keeps me from COVID testing.
Nothing allowed in my nostrils except MY fingers!
@Amir Hanton I feel that way about Serenity.
Same story, just SDRAWKCAB
Kuato...does he get in the movie theater for free?
It's a shame that there was never a decent video game version of this film. Total Recall on NES was awful!
03:45 "You Bitch!" LOL. Your best reaction ever! 😂
Hahahahaha. That was indeed hilarious. Had to watch it 2-3 times to get over it.
I was eating cereal and almost choked. Milk through the nose and all that.
His wife was played by Sharon Stone, who was a pretty high-profile actress at the time. The main bad guy chasing him was played by Michael Ironside who has practically made a career out of playing bad guys.
About the guy from Recall showing up in Doug's hotel room - If the whole thing really is in Doug's mind, wouldn't he imagine the guy sweating and getting angry? If it's all in his mind, how can anything he sees be trusted?
If only the Recall guy had thought to offer Quaide a red pill or a blue pill.
Philip K Dick, the author of the work this is based on, struggled with mental illness his whole life including paranoia and delusions. His work is a beautiful and tragic result of that struggle.
@@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle As well as Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Screamers, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, The Man in the High Castle, Radio Free Albemuth and others.
But were they delusions? He claimed that his story ideas were beamed into his brain by a satellite. Maybe they were? I've read most of his books and some of them do make one wonder how he gained the information he has.
@@mehim2893 He once called his daughter hysterical because his home had been broken into a robbed including a safe which had been opened and valuable papers taken. His daughter arrived just after the police. Everything was normal. Nothing was missing. There had been no break in or robbery.
He used a lot of drugs. Mostly amphetamines.
I hope he got better🙏
"Total Recall" is based on Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
"Blade Runner" is based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Philip K. Dick wrote many mind bending and alternative history stories like "A Scanner Darkly" and "The Man In The High Castle".
he also admitted that while being great at storytelling, he sucked at titles
More films with Russian in them please. "Red heat" has Arnold as a Soviet policeman. Can't wait to hear your response to Arnolds Russian. Lol
good recommendation, always forget about that one.
Cocanium!
@@StinkyGreenBud Ironically enough that line was gramatically correct, it's just that the context was lost on the cutting room floor.
Red Heat is fantastic!
@@StinkyGreenBud I was looking for this
Dasha, you perfectly described the uncertainty that was lost in the remake, Total Recall 2012, where they lost all the magic of this original.
I didnt even know there was a remake. i guess that speaks volumes about how good it was.
@@ravenmasters2467 It flopped hard. I didn't see it, but I hear a lot of bad things.
There was also a 1 season TV series back in 1999 called, "Total Recall 2070" which also had no magic from the original.
Movies that make you wonder what is real give interesting twists to movies. Life sometimesis like that. Strange things happen sometimes.
I recall the case of an elder gamer youtuber who was mourning a loss of a loved one, and she entered a literature contest making a review and got the prize. She thought the Playstation was useless for her so she put the box under the bed. After a couple of years she decided to get rid of it. She was given the prize by mail, but it had no invoice so she could not sell online or in a reseller store, and to sell it she had to open it and show the content so she installed the rig and after it was impossible for her to get rid of it, because people thought it was a stolen device, she decided to give it a try and she rented some games and she ended up liking one of them. And since then she became a gamer. And that helped her to overcome her loneliness and made friends among viewers.
This is the most “Aaaargh! Aaaaargh!” of Arnold’s movies.
Subtitle: "Random Ah-Nold Grunting."
Dude couldn't help it though. You see how many times women in that movie landed hits on his private area?
“In 30 seconds you’ll be dead, I’ll blow this place, and be home in time for corn flakes!” My favorite lines from the movie! I love the dialogue from the 70s-90s movies!😂👍🏾
From "aww, poor Benny" to cheering Benny's demise. It's awesome the movie still has the same impact after all this time. That's what puts it into the classic tier of action flicks.
he had five kids to feed
@@Kolbeck64 Milk and Diapers cost allot. So Benny needed to be a trator, even to his own kind. Ha
"Robot can roll his eyes? This is very mean robot." 😝🤣
Supposedly, in an early draft of the script, it was explained that the long-dead Martians were psychic, like the mutated humans, except they could see centuries into the future. They saw the eventual, unavoidable demise of their race, as well as the oxygen-breathing creatures who would eventually settle on their world. So they devoted the final century of their existence into building the oxygen-creating machine.
This extreme violence is typical in director Paul Verhoeven's work. In fact, this is toned down compared to RoboCop (1987) and Starship Troopers, both awesome sci-fi/action movies well worth watching!
Hey, Dasha! This is based on the short story by Philip K. Dick entitled "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". Dick's stories are all about identity and have been adapted into many popular movies including "Minority Report", "Paycheck", "A Scanner Darkly", "The Man in the High Castle" and "Blade Runner".
I legitimately had to stop this reaction video when you got to the Arnold at work part. 'Arnold. Stop it.' I burst out laughing and could not stop. Thank you for that. I haven't laughed like that in a very, very long time. Thank you for that. Great reaction as well! This has been one of my favourite movies since childhood.
"I still did not get if it was a dream or wasnt a dream.... ".... Lol.... We all felt that way after seeing this movie back in the day... Thats why its a classic... 👍🏼
When I was a little kid, in the former USSR, I watched a bootleg version of this movie. To those who have no idea what bootleg movies were like in Russia, I will paint a picture: The movie is filmed with a camcorder in a movie theater, so the screen is tilted sideways and once in a while there are shadows who stand up and walk out or come back in. The sound is boomy and hard to discern. But the B-E-S-T part is the dubbing. Every character, both male and female, is dubbed by the same guy, who has his nose pinched, so his voice cannot be recognized. For female roles or kids, he makes his voice higher. Pinch your nose and try to say "Get Ready For A Surprise," and you will get some idea. I saw this, The Teminator, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and other classics like that. Those are some fond memories.
About 20 years ago I watched an....adult entertainment movie which was dubbed like this. I was not expecting it as I had no idea how things were done in Russia. I don't think the movie was old enough to be Soviet, but whatever. The point is, who ever thought it was a good idea to dub an adult movie with just one guy doing all the voices? It was...unique and definitely couldn't watch it without muting it.
Funny though.
how we in
AMERICA
bootlegged movies
we would rent
VHS TAPES
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and
copy them onto blank tapes
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we put
FRIDAY the 13th parts
1 & 2 & 3 & 4
all onto 1 tape
then parts
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onto another tape
we would sell them at school
to the other kids
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their parents wouldn't
let them watch those movies
Great movie. The idea of the movie to keep you confused if it is a dream or not :) .You should see other great Arnold Schwarzenegger action movies The Running Man 1987 (A great underrated movie Came out same time as Predator) , Conan The Barbarian 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger breakout role. End of Days 1999 and The Sixth day. You should also watch Robocop and Starship trooper from the same director.
And commando :)
total recall and the terminator are my favorite 2 arnold movies by far. never understood why so many people think t2 is better, 2 tries to add in too much comedy imo, i prefer the more serious tone of the original.
@@HistoritorJimaldus Yes and Commando
Yes, I was going to suggest The Running Man, too! Also, Commando and Conan the Barbarian then Conan the Destroyer.
I was going to make the same recommendations as well, especially Running Man & Starship Troopers
13:01 "They killed the mouse!" Dasha's sad face when Michael Ironside shoots the mouse is adorable.
That's Michael Ironside.
I Love this movie it's another one of my favourite Schwarzenegger movies , this one is much better than the remake which i did not like. Ah Total Recall with a touch of Dasha cuteness, perfect. ❤️🌹
Agreed it's like the classic film robocop from 1987 they did a terrible remake in 2014💛
The remake really felt like they were basically done making a completely different movie, and then someone aquired the rights to Total Recall. Then they had to do a few Total-Recall-Scenes after the fact, and edited them in at the last minute.
In wouldn't be the first time such a thing happened. "I, Robot" had something similar going on.
I don't know of any remake I have actually more off the top of my head. True Grit is the only one I've actually enjoyed.
the remake didnt dabble in the fact that "total recall" didnt actually happen, where as this movie, drops several hints, that EVERYTHING that happened is just the company implanting a fake memory. in the arnie version, the universe doesnt have arnold's character being the "secret agent" to save mars. thats just the package he picked for 899. in that universe, everything didnt really happen. the illusion/fake memory starts with Quade waking up in the chair screaming, and the lady saying "we didnt implant the secret agent memories/personalities, yet" the reboot completely missed the mark on the subject of "WHAT IS REALITY"
Dasha asking, "What is voluptuous?" is like Michael Jordan asking who a good basketball player was.
Especially in that top ;)
"ooh, they killed the mouse!" lol great reaction
My favorite part of this is the Arnie one-liners, specifically when his fake wife is trying to convince him not to shoot her and is all "But honey, we're married!" and then Arnold shoots her RIGHT in the face and is like "Consider that a divorce" LOLOL
If you want some more of Anrold shirtless, Conan the Barbarian is excellent lol
Voluptuous is adapted from a French word, meaning "curvaceous and sexually appealing"
Additionally, Mars' atmospheric pressure is .09 psi. Comparatively, Earth's is 14.7 psi. An extremely low-pressure atmosphere would cause any unprotected human's body to explode after only 1-2 minutes of exposure, because the pressure inside of you is greater than the pressure without. So their eyeballs and tongues and skins all blowing up like that is a real consequence :P
"Buy a memory?"
Remember, the story this movie was adapted (very loosely) from is entitled "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
13:04 ...."They killed the mouse".....Goodbye Mr. Jingles.....XDXDXD
You’re correct about the eye bulging thing not being anatomically accurate. They were going from 1 atmosphere down to around 0.001 atmosphere in pressure, not even to a full vacuum like in space. An incident happened on a semi-submersible oil drilling rig, called the Byford Dolphin Incident, that involved the explosive decompression of four divers that went from 9 atmospheres to 1 instantly. Three of the men’s eyes were still intact, in their heads, their bodies had just swollen and stiffened because all the lipids that was dissolved in the blood/tissues came out of suspension and solidified, especially in their livers. Their bodies were essentially full of lard. The fourth diver was at the airlock hatch when the explosive decompression forced him through a narrow opening causing his body to explode. It’s an interesting story if anyone wants to explore some morbid history, and look up some vids on it.
It's really up to the viewer whether Quaid was in Recall or not. The beauty of this movie is its ambiguous ending; it could go either way.
...Actually the beauty of this movie is how fucking over-the-top and trippy it is, but that's just classic Paul Verhoeven at work.
Considering the existence of Rekall memory implant technology, we don't even know when the memory implant begins. Let's say you go to Rekall to get a memory implant of being a secret agent. Maybe you're a real-life bartender who gets a memory implant of being a construction worker (to explain the Arnold physique) with a Mars obsession who himself is a brain-wiped secret agent. So the entire movie from the opening scene is the memory implant. Because, in a sense, movie are memory implants that, as the Rekall salesman says, are more real than the real thing. Which is why you remember the details of a good movie long after you've forgotten what you did the day the day before you saw it.
So yeah, there's like 6 or more possible interpretations you could put on this movie. Was Doug having a schizoid reaction? Am I "Doug" and if so, did I have a schizoid reaction to the implant? Does the movie fade to white because Doug's brain is getting fried? Or it is because he's waking up in a Rekall implant chair in a brightly lit room? Or is the whole thing real (for Doug)?
Arnold has done a lot of movies with some pretty interesting philosophical ramifications. Total Recall is one of the more complicated ones.
Except the movie isn't really that ambiguous. If I understand the Recall technology correctly, it would only provide memories from a first person point of view. There are too many scenes where Quaid isn't even present, and so would have no memory to access. If the director had really wanted us to keep guessing, he would have told the entire story strictly from Quaid's point of view.
@Darkstar (sigh) The task of Recall is to implant memories. *Memories*. Do you remember what your parents did before you were born? Do you remember what your friends did when you weren't around? I don't know about you, but all of my memories are in first person point of view; I am not psychically present when my company's CEO discusses with his hirelings his master plan to corner the market on breathable air. The comparison to MMOs is ridiculous; yes, they continue to run without your presence, but you have no idea what's happening while you're not there, and consequently cannot form memories around events that you were not present for.
4:49 Okay. Consider these options for a moment. Millionaire playboy, sports hero, industrial tycoon and secret agent. Douglas has _each_ of these options. Now, consider, _why_ in the world would you rather travel somewhere as a secret agent than as a millionaire _playboy?_ I mean, consider, if you're a secret agent, you can't _trust_ anyone. If you're a millionaire _playboy,_ on the other hand, well then you're visiting as the _ultimate tourist._ You're staying in _all the nicest accommodations._ You're showing up _whenever you want_ to. You're leaving _whenever you want_ to. You probably have an _entourage_ accompanying you everywhere. Why would you rather be a secret agent?
It’s up to the viewer to decide if it’s real or not. I saw it in the theater and that theme music is epic. You need to see “The Running Man” and “True Lies” if you haven’t already. Two other good flicks by the same director are “Starship Troopers” and “Robocop.”
Need to put "True Lies" on your movie watch list! 😁
This girl is way too innocent and sweet for this world 💔👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm gonna go with Verhoeven's take on the movie. It's both dream and reality. Very abstract, post-modern and all that jazz!
It's can't be both at the same time. Verhoeven is just giving the safe political answer if he ever did say that.
The movie can be read both ways.
(It's all a dream vacation)
@@Harkness78 No he himself posited the possibility it's both, and called it "post-modern" in nature. Not sure you're thinking is abstract enough.
You may notice that most movies fade to black at the end. This one faded to white. This has been interpreted that he was indeed trapped in his fantasy at Recall. All of the adventures took place in his own mind The flash of white was when he was lobotomized and essentially stopped having any conscious thought. Some vacation, huh?
Another interpretation is that it fades to white because it is the happy true ending and the white light is actually coming from the sun which now shines through the new atmosphere.
Lol!!! At 23:40, she said "I wouldn't open anything to him". 😜🤣
I recommend the ,, Starship troopers" from the same director( Paul Verhoeven). That is also a very special movie, that is much more than what it looks like.
It is intentionally left open to interpretation. There are numerous clues throughout that it could all be the memory implants (Milena appearing on the monitor at recall, the description of the "ego trip" being exactly the plot of the movie including killing all the bad guys, getting the girl, and saving the whole planet, and the doctor who visits him who was in the Rekall commercial also describing what would happen if he didn't take the pill). There are also clues that it is all real (the doctor sweating when he is trying to get him to take the pill, characters interacting outside of Quaid's perception, the fact that he dreamed about Milena before he went to Rekall, etc.)
Total Recall is based on a story by Philip K Dick, perhaps the master of writing stories that mess with your brain, which is why there are so many movies based on his stories. Some of his other stories turned movies you might want to consider if you like having your mind messed with are: Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, and Paycheck.
and "The Man in the High Castle"
Isn't that Stephen King's fake name - he used that for sci fi books or something... or I'm thinking of something else
Impostor (2001)
@@deegee6863 "Richard Bachman"
King wrote "The Running Man" under that name
@@deegee6863 You're definitely thinking of something else. Philip K. Dick was a writer from the 50's-70's. King was likely reading Philip K. Dick's novels when he was just a boy.
This is one of the best sci-fi out there. Also Sharon Stone became a bigger name after this movie, so doing one of her biggest hits Basic Instinct someday would be relevant.
16:38 we saw her in the dream at the beginning of the film, when Quaid was walking with someone on Mars, that someone was the woman we see here, Malina. I think this story was no dream, this is happening to Quaid. We see other scenes, other people, the baddies and so on....if this was a game or dream, Quaid would know what to expect from them. My conclusion, this was no dream, no computer game, this was actually happening, Quaid remembering what he was before, and righting wrongs he did as his former self.
Technically there is 3 different Total Recall movies. Total Recall was filmed in 1987 starring Patrick Swayze. Swarzenegger wanted to be in that movie but the director thought Arnold was a terrible actor and said no. Halfway through product they went bankrupt. So Swarzenegger bought the movie and got the director Robocop and that became the definitive 1990's TOTAL RECALL.
I strongly urge you watch "Red Heat", this another Schwarzenegger movie in which he plays a Soviet cop that travels to the U.S., the opening scenes were filmed in the actual Soviet Moscow which was a first for a Hollywood movie.
At 5:48 when Douglas Quaid woke up from the anesthetics and struggled with the technicians, it could well be the beginning the story of his implanted memory, as the rest of the film followed exactly what the salesman told him at 4:46. There again, if Quaid had fragments of memory of Mars before he went to Rekall, could it be possible that everything was already part of the memory implant? What makes reality real? That is one of the recurring themes of Philip K Dick's stories.
By the way this is also the last major film relying almost entirely on practical special effects, although computer-generated effects were starting to show up.
I'm not sure why people continue to think it's open to interpretation? It's all a dream. The writer, director and Arnold all said on the DVD commentary that it's a dream. They even tell you that the film's last shot is a white light clueing you in that he's waking up from the dream.
“What is voluptuous?” LOL!
You are voluptuous, Dasha!
A couple of the mutant martians are actual human conditions that are taken to the ultimate extreme: the three breasted hooker: Supernumerary nipple; Kuato: Human Chimera
I think George & kuato are Siamese twins, Kuato living almost like a parasite having not developed like his brother George, due to the mutations on Mars.
The moment the secretary at Recall came on the screen and how she's doing her fingernails, _I knew_ Dasha would say: "I need that technology!" haha 😂 🤣
This movie is based off a book written by Phillip K. Dick, one of the great Sci-Fi authors. Blade Runner, Minority Report, Screamers, Paycheck, The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly... all movies based on Phillip Dick stories.
The magic of this movie is that it really left the outcome ambiguous. It might have been a dream, or it might have been real; there is no solid basis to decide one way or another. That's a neat hat trick for a movie to pull off, and they nailed it. In the end the only person who can decide whether it was real is ... you.
Exactamundo!
I can't think of another example that has this dual paradox loop of interpretations going for it. It's so polished and well done.
I enjoy watching your expressions while watching movies its like your there with the actors going through the life their acting!
New T-shirt: “OK … This is not anatomically correct, but ….” 😂😂😂
I'm firmly in the camp that yes, this was ALL a dream - starting from the initial moment at Recall - but people have been arguing over that for 30 years...
And in keeping with Paul Verhoeven's vision, we'll never know for sure one way or another.
0:59 ....That was Arnie face when he read the script for Terminator Genisys....XDXDXD
Watch "Red Heat" next. Arnie plays a Russian (Soviet) police officer who chases a Russian gangster to Chicago and has to team up with an American cop (James Belushi). It's an action comedy just what you like.
The more I see this movie, the more in sure that everything after the freakout in the chair is implanted.
There's no reasonable way for them to have predicted that he'd ACTUALLY be a secret agent, kill the bad guys, get the girl of his dreams send save the planet. It's exactly the memory they advertised and implanted, but a part of the service is that he'd believe that he was actually there and the only reasonable way to convince someone they are a secret agent is to tell them that they already are but had the memory erased.
PS: the plot of sending Arnold to Earth without memories to eventually stop mutant rebels on Mars also makes no sense other than plot convenience, like what a generated plot line for a dream would do.
Another Ahnold classic - "The Running Man" - should be on your to-watch list.
Verhoeven the director stated that Quaid was dreaming. The proof is that Melina was on the display before the implant (well spotted Dasha) and the assistant states "blue skies on Mars, that's a new one !"
The original short story was written by my favorite author, Philip K. Dick, who wrote the stories behind Blade Runner, Minority Report, Adjustment Bureau, and my personal favorite A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr, and Woodey Harrelson. All great movies you should add to your list.
Love the way you rolled your "r"'s. Used to be able to do that when I was a kid, no longer can now that I'm an adult, so I'm really jealous of people who can do so.
Nice reaction to a great science fiction action classic!
That's the interesting part of the movie. No one agrees on what it means. And challenging the audience. The director is known for using movies like this as social commentary. I agree it wasn't a memory, because as you pointed out. Why would the doctor be so angry if he was helping.
"From horrible to comedy in a second" That is Paul Verhoeven in a nutshell.
Who else almost lost it when Dasha asked "what is voluptuous"? The textbook definitions -curvaceous and sexually attractive. Typically a woman.-That would be you dear. lol
Great reaction! It doesn't really matter if the story was real or not. Just remember what Quato said, that you are what you do!
13:45 "Was it even safe to wear it🤯?!?!?" You make me laugh so hard sometimes little sister😂.
Exactly Dasha. It was not a dream. Glad you got it and enjoyed it. If you like another Arnold movie you could try Commando
Love your reaction to this Arnold sci fi classic that takes me back to my childhood.
Movies are themselves a kind of memory implant. We experience the actions of the protagonist vicariously, much like a Rekall memory implant. Some movies are even shot from the protagonist's' point of view, like Hardcore Henry.
The thing about memories is, each time we "remember" a memory, we "remember" it differently from the last time we "remembered" it, so most of our older memories, probably are complete fantasy.
Iirc in the audio commentary the writer wrote the story straight as in everything was real. His mind was blown when he saw the movie and it was ambiguous. He didnt think of making it a dream but he likes it better letting the viewer decide.
Man's arms get chopped off. Dasha: "No Comment" For me, the best moment of the reaction.
This movie confuses you right up to the final scene. I was in doubt on so many instances that I wasn't sure what was real or what could be a false memory implant. The visual effects were awesome! Watch it again a second time! It will make more sense.
One of my all time favorite movies. I can watch it again and again. I have, for decades lol.
As far as if it's real or not, of course it's real. If it wasn't we would only see Arnold's perspective. Plus of course the doctor in the company said that she hadn't started the implant procedure yet.
Great movie, no, GREAT movie.
Enjoyed your reaction, thank you for sharing.
Another dystopian sci-fi movie from Arnold Schwarzenegger is The Running Man. It is about a game show where people try to kill the contestants. It is very funny with Arnold’s one liners and a ton of action.
Dasha falling in love over Arnold’s muscles is so adorable ahaha
This movie is amazing and on a different level. That and movies like the 5th element. The 80s were a fun time lol
The Fifth Element and Total Recall were both released in the 1990s. Both good movies.
It is based upon a story by Philip K Dick who often wrote mind-bending stories. His drug usage often made him have doubts about reality.
Paul Verhoeven directed this movie. He grew up in my homeland the Netherlands during WW2 and he has seen a lot of bizarre things in his childhood. His movies often reflect that. He started his career with Dutch movies and he was very successful until his movies became too repulsive for our little country. Then he went to Hollywood. His movies often are a bit gross and surreal, exactly like he felt during the war as a child.
the way Dasha reacts to seeing arnold jackhammering is the way i react to seeing her in various low cut shirts. "dasha..." *blushes and breathes heavy*"...stahp it, omg." XD
Theory: This is connected with 'Minority Report.'
When that came out I remember hearing the psychics that see crime were supposed to be or were like the mutants from Mars.
Don't remember where I heard it, if it was officially stated or just fan speculation. It's the same author but did he have a connected universe going or were they all separate works.
I agree with you that this was not a dream - but that was a part of the idea of the story - to never give us anything that makes it definite so we can believe whichever way we want to.
You should try Red Heat, then you can tell us if Arnie makes a convincing Russian.
A "Hollywood Russians" movie you might find interesting is 1986's "Red King, White Knight." Tom Skerritt plays a former CIA agent who is sent to the Soviet Union to investigate rumors of a plot by rogue KGB agents to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary. While there, he encounters Max Von Sydow as his former KGB adversary and Helen Mirren as his former lover.
1:17 "I can't believe you're jealous of a dream."
"Well, okay. I actually can."
Yeah. So can I. Remember, it's not a _dream,_ so much as a woman who has popped up in more than _one_ dream. Jealousy is justified. So is suspicion. One is probably _also_ justified in predicting that he's going to dream about her _again._
Anyone else noticed that "MARS TODAY" paper stand?? It's a parody of "USA TODAY" paper stands... remember those?
One of Arnolds best comedy/action movies is 'True Lies'. His chemistry with Jamie Leigh Curtis is fantastic. James Cameron directed... need I say more?
If I recall the short story correctly, the main character keeps having implanted memories of doing greater and greater deeds until he alone is the reason the aliens have not come back to destroy Earth, and everyone else wants to knock this former nobody back down fence he came, but now they are so confused that they don't know if that memory is real or not.
10:31
what he really said was :
" I'm sure she hated
every inch of it "
they badly dubbed over
the original line
I miss movies as fun as this one. The closest I've seen recently is "Lockout" with Guy Pierce. Get ahead of the curve and watch that one.
Lockout is underrated movie!
I've seen this movie over 100 times, and I JUST realized what happened in the beginning of the movie. That was Houser coming out for that minute. Damn lol
I was a teen when I seen this... mind fuck then, mind fuck now :P One of my favorite scifi movies, arnold movies, and action/comedy movies. Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun watching you react
0:14 - It's not action comedy, it's sci-fi action.
One important detail that a lot of people miss is that, at the end after they kiss, the screen flares to white rather than fading to black. 🤔
4:48 Okay, now. Just take a moment to consider these options he was given. He could've chosen to go to Mars as a millionaire playboy, a sports hero or an industrial tycoon. Instead, he opted to go as a _secret agent._ Somehow, he found _that_ more appealing. I can't be the _only_ one who thinks that's baffling.
This one of the best Arnold movies ever made!
Arguments pro Dream:
- The salesman at Rekall spoils the whole plot of the movie, the monitors show the reactor concept art and Melina.
- The guy with the pill is from the Rekall advert, he also spoils the next scene. ("The walls of reality breaking down - no, just the room's walls…)
- The overall convoluted plot of the bad guys sucks and the action is over the top like it would be when scripted.
Arguments pro Reality:
- Quaid dreamt of Melina at the beginning, and the news reel shows Cohaagen and the rebellion on Mars sctually exist.
- We see the reactions of the Rekall staff on the failed implant, which Quaid later has no semblance of.
- Quaid kills his coworkers, his wife and the CEO of Mars colony, hard to explain why they are still alive after the dream is over and a case of the money-back-guarantee.
That the movie ends on the line "kiss me before you wake up" leaves it ultimately ambiguous. And that's the charme of it.
Dasha, I know you probably don't read all of these comments, but you HAVE to watch Last Action Hero, now that you've mad eit through most of Arnold's really big movies, I think you would absolutely love it.
"How they filmed it ?" No, it was not CGI (not existed), it was animation made in Taiwan by a famous company in Taiwan.
That moment when the "beautiful exotic woman" reacts to the movie where the guy says "you meet a beautiful exotic woman". I lol'd
I remember watching this as a kid on VHS cassette. The three boobs stuck with me forever haha. Great reaction as always.
The author who wrote the original short story for Total Recall also wrote the book that Blade Runner is based on, so part of me likes to think that they take place in the same universe.
They did that on purpose so you wouldn't be sure if it was real or not. Makes for a more fun experience. Great reaction. Noticed you didn't miss when Arnold was showing off those arm muscles. ;)
16:30 Yes, same girl as in the program. This is definitely the program implanted into Quaid. His previous dreams about her were also implanted memories.
That's my opinion at least.