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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 429032" data-attributes="member: 8">TOTAL RECALL (1990)[ATTACH=full]57071[/ATTACH]Which I always confuse with The Terminator which I always confuse with RoboCop. This is basically the plot of Total Recall, and just to be clear this is also the film without&nbsp; Linda Hamilton&#039;s problematic eighties hair.It&#039;s my first rewatch since it came out on rental VHS in the early 90s, and my only reason to pick this film was because I couldn&#039;t decide which one of the DVDs of previously unseen films I was going to watch.The fun starts with Jerry Goldsmith&#039;s fabulous main theme, and combined with images that made me think of big red curtains it almost feels like being &quot;at the movies&quot;.The film opens with a bedroom scene featuring the beautiful and sexy Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger who sports a little bit of buttcrack (hence the nudity warning<img src="http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/rolleye/rolleye0010.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":re:" title="RE&nbsp; &nbsp; :re:" data-shortname=":re:" /> and yet no one has ever noticed how politically incorrect Arnold&#039;s family name sounds).He currently stars in an add for a product sold by Lidl.In Total Recall he has recurring dreams of Mars to the extent that it becomes a bit of an obsession, which leads him to Rekall Company that sells holiday memories.There&#039;s even an option to become a different person, to take a vacation from yourself, which reminded me of John Frankenheimer&#039;s Seconds (1966).The memory implant goes wrong, very wrong, and from that moment on it becomes a non-stop action-packed sci-fi adventure.Quite a few surprises this time, I must say. To begin with, the violence looks particularly brutal for what I assumed to be a popcorn flick.At some point, a woman screams at Arnold &quot;f**k you, *ssh*le!&quot; It doesn&#039;t sound edgy of funny, the line is delivered with genuine malice and anger.I also love the way they&#039;ve twisted the trope of the black, comic relief sidekick, the character that usually gets to say things like &quot;oh maaaaan&quot; or &quot;ssshhhiiiiiit&quot;.&quot;Five kids to feed&quot;, because even though he&#039;s dirt poor he just keeps making babies - just to hammer home the stereotype. Except that it was lie. Ha!Regardless of how you feel about the sci-fi part of the story, it sure looks like the template for more (overly) ambitious projects like The Matrix and Inception.Production-wise it&#039;s rather garish and cartoonish, and the grotesque special effects that had become de rigueur in the 1980s horror and fantasy genre hadn&#039;t improved a lot in 1990. Well, technically speaking the film was made in 1989.Can&#039;t say it bothered me and I&#039;m sure that the film&#039;s pulpy feel has contributed to its current cult status.Overall it looks very well made especially the staging and filming of the crowded action scenes.The use of scale models looks obvious in some parts and yes, it&#039;s a far cry from 2001 Space <s>Oddity</s> Odyssey but it never took me out of the story.The cast is unknown to me except for Schwarzenegger, Stone and also Michael Ironside who makes the most of his role as the villain&#039;s henchman.It was a pleasant distraction from my indecisiveness so all&#039;s well that ends well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 429032, member: 8"] TOTAL RECALL (1990) [ATTACH type="full"]57071[/ATTACH] Which I always confuse with The Terminator which I always confuse with RoboCop. This is basically the plot of Total Recall, and just to be clear this is also the film [I]without[/I] Linda Hamilton's problematic eighties hair. It's my first rewatch since it came out on rental VHS in the early 90s, and my only reason to pick this film was because I couldn't decide which one of the DVDs of previously unseen films I was going to watch. The fun starts with Jerry Goldsmith's fabulous main theme, and combined with images that made me think of big red curtains it almost feels like being "at the movies". The film opens with a bedroom scene featuring the beautiful and sexy Sharon Stone and Arnold Schwarzenegger who sports a little bit of buttcrack (hence the nudity warning:re: and yet no one has ever noticed how politically incorrect Arnold's family name sounds). He currently stars in an add for a product sold by Lidl. In Total Recall he has recurring dreams of Mars to the extent that it becomes a bit of an obsession, which leads him to Rekall Company that sells holiday memories. There's even an option to become a different person, to take a vacation from yourself, which reminded me of John Frankenheimer's [I]Seconds[/I] (1966). The memory implant goes wrong, very wrong, and from that moment on it becomes a non-stop action-packed sci-fi adventure. Quite a few surprises this time, I must say. To begin with, the violence looks particularly brutal for what I assumed to be a popcorn flick. At some point, a woman screams at Arnold "f**k you, *ssh*le!" It doesn't sound edgy of funny, the line is delivered with genuine malice and anger. I also love the way they've twisted the trope of the black, comic relief sidekick, the character that usually gets to say things like "oh maaaaan" or "ssshhhiiiiiit". "Five kids to feed", because even though he's dirt poor he just keeps making babies - just to hammer home the stereotype. Except that it was lie. Ha! Regardless of how you feel about the sci-fi part of the story, it sure looks like the template for more (overly) ambitious projects like [I]The Matrix[/I] and [I]Inception[/I]. Production-wise it's rather garish and cartoonish, and the grotesque special effects that had become de rigueur in the 1980s horror and fantasy genre hadn't improved a lot in 1990. Well, technically speaking the film was made in 1989. Can't say it bothered me and I'm sure that the film's pulpy feel has contributed to its current cult status. Overall it looks very well made especially the staging and filming of the crowded action scenes. The use of scale models looks obvious in some parts and yes, it's a far cry from 2001 Space [S]Oddity[/S] Odyssey but it never took me out of the story. The cast is unknown to me except for Schwarzenegger, Stone and also Michael Ironside who makes the most of his role as the villain's henchman. It was a pleasant distraction from my indecisiveness so all's well that ends well. [/QUOTE]

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