Total Recall (Extended) - Caravan Of Garbage

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravana Garbage where over the next four weeks we're going to take a look at four classic 90s sci-fi movies.

[00:00:10]>> Hell yeah.

[00:00:11]>> It's a mystery though. What's coming up?

[00:00:12]You have to um >> Yes.

[00:00:14]>> You have to wait >> till the end of the video and then we tell you like the >> It's not a mystery though.

[00:00:18]>> It's a mystery here because here are the here are the posters but they're blurred.

[00:00:21]>> Oh, now it's a mystery.

[00:00:22]>> It's a mystery.

[00:00:22]>> Okay. All right.

[00:00:23]>> This week's not a mystery though.

[00:00:25]>> It's total recall.

[00:00:25]>> We're looking at Tatal Recall. to car >> from 1990 which is as classic 90s sci-fi as you as early classic good ' 90s sci-fi as you can get. It's just it's a good early 90s sci-fi isn't it?

[00:00:37]>> I agreed. I mean sci-fi stretching it.

[00:00:39]>> What are you talking about?

[00:00:40]>> This is sci-fi for days.

[00:00:41]>> It I know you're right. It's It is sci-fi. Okay. All right. It's not for months.

[00:00:45]>> Multiple concepts maybe too many. Barely pulls it off.

[00:00:48]>> Okay. I don't know what I was thinking there. You know what I was thinking?

[00:00:50]When it's an Arnold movie, it's to me in my mind it's always an Arnold movie first and then the genre second. There's a moment in this where, to jump ahead slightly, where Arnold sort of regains some of his memories and a bunch of men come to attack him and he just fends them off effortlessly with chops and punches and kicks or whatever. And it took me like 30 seconds into that to be like, oh, he's not normally supposed to be able to do that, >> you know, cuz it's Arnold and it's like, okay, well, you know, >> well, you say that, please leave a like.

[00:01:18]Well, you say that because David Croninberg was going to direct this initially before Paul Vhovven took over and he was going to have Paul Vhovven took over.

[00:01:26]>> It is.

[00:01:27]>> Wow.

[00:01:27]>> It is for Tatal Raal.

[00:01:29]>> Tatal Raal. God, I love vacationing in Tatal Raal. Not of Mars though.

[00:01:33]>> No. Yeah. All indoors. But uh he was going to cast William Hurt which would have played to that makes sense. Yeah.

[00:01:41]>> Cuz Arnold was considered for Robocop which is ridiculous by the way. You put that suit over a man that big.

[00:01:47]>> No. No. So they wanted to work on something together. be like putting a turkey like wrapping it putting a putting a >> it's a toducken it would be to ducking in like a like a like a suit of medieval armor you know >> just packing in all sorts of assorted meats squeezing them out putting them in a big suit of plate mail weird wouldn't work >> but the original Dan Oannon script it was darker and Paul Vovven asked Gary Goldman to kind of rewrite it add more violence and humor more oneliners make it more likeify it yeah so he is supposed to be an every man but of course The story of this is that maybe most of this didn't happen. Hasn't happened at all. It's a repo man situation.

[00:02:26]>> I mean, none of it happened.

[00:02:27]>> It's a repo man is what I'm saying. None of it actually happened.

[00:02:30]>> Yeah, but it's a I'm telling you it's a repo man.

[00:02:32]>> The movie repo man that came out in like 2005 or something.

[00:02:35]>> It didn't happen. Judon was in a coma or something.

[00:02:38]>> Nobody's seen repo man except us.

[00:02:40]>> It's a classic.

[00:02:41]>> No, it's not.

[00:02:42]>> 2000s.

[00:02:42]>> No, it's not.

[00:02:45]>> Forest Whitaker.

[00:02:46]>> Repo manic.

[00:02:47]>> Okay. Yes. This, of course, is based on the uh the novellet, I I suppose you would call it, by Philip K. Dick, >> which has none of this [ __ ] in it for the most part. It's a memory vacation.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah, I was going to say also in the original story, the character's name is Douglas Quail, but I guess in this they're like >> like a Tuckan.

[00:03:05]>> Well, exactly. I'm like I I I imagine they went there is no way we're going to name a character played by Arnold Schwarzenegger after, you know, the littlest bird there is.

[00:03:14]>> Yeah, true.

[00:03:15]>> He's a Tuckan as we've established. So, >> absolutely. Anyway, the story of this, so the year is, it's never explicitly said, but it's 2084.

[00:03:22]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:03:22]>> And Arnold, he's a regular working man.

[00:03:25]>> Why Why is he so big? He liv >> Because he's a working man. He's on the He's on the tools.

[00:03:29]>> Yeah, he's on the tools. He lives with Sharon Stone.

[00:03:32]>> Yep. Absolutely.

[00:03:32]>> They're looking very sexy together.

[00:03:34]Sure.

[00:03:34]>> In their 80s workout outfits, their 2080s workout outfits, I should say. And he's he's he's wanting for a better life, more experiences, you know. Sure.

[00:03:43]And so one of the options in this universe is to put some memories in your brain where you're going to have a holiday.

[00:03:48]>> You got a recall incorporated. They fiddle around in your brain with a thing that Doctor Who looking machine. You stick your head in it. Great. Great idea.

[00:03:57]>> Microwave.

[00:03:58]>> Absolutely. And they like they suggest some holiday destinations. They can suggest a sexy scenario you'll be in.

[00:04:05]>> The sex scenario.

[00:04:06]>> A sex scenario. That's right. Is what they call them in the future. And then you you leave and they I guess they erase your memory of going to recall. Uh and then but then you have these beautiful memories of this beautiful sexy vacation.

[00:04:19]>> But then are you like I cheated on my wife?

[00:04:21]>> That's what I'm saying. That's the f first note I have. It might be the entire video. Then what happens? Because first of all, you tell your workmates, hey, I'm going to recall to get a memory of a vacation.

[00:04:32]>> They're going to microwave a memory.

[00:04:33]>> They're going to microwave my me a memory into my brain with a Doctor Who machine. And then you come back and they're like, "How was your vac?"

[00:04:40]They're like, "How was your trip to recall?" And you're like, "I don't know what you're talking about." And I'm a secret agent.

[00:04:45]>> And they go, "No, you said yesterday that you went you wanted to go you go to recall and get a fake memory." And then you're like, "Oh." Oh. And you're not a secret agent either.

[00:04:56]>> Yeah. You got to go back to work.

[00:04:58]>> You got to go back to go back to work.

[00:05:01]This the whole thing's going to unravel.

[00:05:03]This is like Lasic, James.

[00:05:04]>> Oh, okay. Because because with LASIK they do this. They do the quality.

[00:05:08]>> Do they wipe your memory?

[00:05:10]>> I think they might do. They microwave your brain. All the all the quality satisfaction surveys are at the six month mark. But it's after 6 months that all the all the weird stuff starts to happen.

[00:05:20]>> That's what I'm saying.

[00:05:21]>> What? What weird stuff? Here's a list.

[00:05:24]It's a list of symptoms.

[00:05:26]>> Just says perfect vision for the rest of your life.

[00:05:28]>> Is this lielist? I don't know. We can cut it out. We'll check with the lawyers. So, this sets him off after he does the recall machine. Yeah, the recall microwave.

[00:05:36]>> I s I saved the world. I saved the whole world. No, you didn't. Get back on the jackhammer.

[00:05:42]>> You didn't.

[00:05:44]Sorry. Carry on.

[00:05:45]>> Where it's then revealed that, oh, we actually had some other memories. This isn't his real personality. He is this international spy who's unc >> interstellar spy.

[00:05:54]>> Interstellar spy. That's right.

[00:05:55]Uncovering corporation secrets. uh doing good work, doing action karate and whatever on people. All sorts of spy gadgets.

[00:06:03]>> Doing action karate on your wife.

[00:06:05]>> Yeah, that's true. Kill your wife in a dream >> or in real life, >> maybe.

[00:06:10]>> But the whole thing, whether or not it is a dream, this world is >> But you're obsessed. But you're obsessed with whether it's a dream or not.

[00:06:17]>> WELL, THAT'S A BIG IT'S A PART OF THE MOVIE. IT'S A HUGE PART OF THIS MOVIE. A TALKING POINT.

[00:06:21]>> GOD, this guy's obsessed.

[00:06:22]>> But it is the whole world is this fever dream. Like everybody's facetiming like their grandparents, you know, just like right up close, >> dead center.

[00:06:30]>> Like all the all the cabs are like this horrible mannequin shattering.

[00:06:34]>> That's Robert Picardo. It is.

[00:06:35]>> He's the doctor from Star Trek Voyager.

[00:06:37]>> He is. Yeah.

[00:06:38]>> And you know who else is in this? Who?

[00:06:39]>> Dean Norris from Breaking Bad.

[00:06:41]>> He is in this. He's one of the freaks.

[00:06:44]>> The Johnny Cab has shaving rash. You don't need to put that on there.

[00:06:47]>> It's grotesque is what it is. But that's what Vhovven's known for. Grotesceries.

[00:06:52]But Cron I guess Croninberg is as well.

[00:06:54]Yeah, probably Croninberg probably left detailed notes. He's like, "Make the cab driver grotesque."

[00:06:59]>> There's a moment where he's going through some of his secret agent gear and he just sweeps away some real rats.

[00:07:04]>> You see that? But the nose sequence, you know, like there's a lot of You know what this is? There's so many.

[00:07:09]>> It's the movie Total Record 1991.

[00:07:10]>> There's so many 1990.

[00:07:12]>> I don't know.

[00:07:13]>> There's so many Arnold fake heads in this movie and also in other movies.

[00:07:18]Does he have the record for the actor with the most prosthetic heads in movies? Maybe >> because there's there's a fake head where he pulls a thing out of his nose in this. There's the two weeks lady where it's a head in that.

[00:07:30]>> We got to talk about the two weeks lady.

[00:07:31]>> Oh, we're talking about the two weeks lady. And then at the end they used four different papets for the bulging eyes.

[00:07:37]>> Yeah. And the one bit at the start as well. Yeah.

[00:07:38]>> Yeah. Exactly.

[00:07:39]>> He might have the record for the most prosthetic heads. Someone will do some research and get back to us. This movie might also hold the record for the ratio of Arnold Schwarzenegger doing real dialogue versus JUST GOING ISN'T IT weird that the two biggest action stars of this era, you can break them down. One is and the other's and we all know who it is.

[00:08:02]>> We know exactly what it is. Yeah. Do that now. Do a Chris Pratt.

[00:08:06]>> Who's What's What's Glenn Powell's signature vocal stem? We don't know.

[00:08:10]>> Putting on a pair of wayfairers.

[00:08:12]>> Probably is.

[00:08:12]>> It's not even a sound.

[00:08:13]>> It's not a sound. Wait, here he is.

[00:08:17]>> Yeah. That's a Croninberg holdover.

[00:08:20]>> Yeah. So, it's also a very gory film. I mean, it's a Paul Behovven movie. So, yeah, >> there's a moment on an escalator.

[00:08:26]>> There's a moment on the escalator just a just an innocent bystander absolutely cops it.

[00:08:31]>> It's not quite up to Robocop standards, but it's close.

[00:08:34]>> You know what's interesting cuz I watched that twice and at first I thought, "Oh, did he grab like >> a bad guy?"

[00:08:39]>> A bad No, he doesn't.

[00:08:41]>> He's just a guy. But Paul Vovven explains that scene as like they wanted him to cut it shorter and he goes, "No, if I cut it short, it's mean and it's tragic. If he just gets shot twice and he throws him away, but if he holds him for a full like 40 seconds, >> it's a valiant sacrifice for the greater good, isn't it?"

[00:08:58]>> But it's funny.

[00:08:59]>> Yeah, it is funny. You know, also this is an amazing looking movie that uses the pinnacle of old school Hollywood model making and techniques like that.

[00:09:07]There's minimal CGI.

[00:09:08]>> You took the words right out of my mouth.

[00:09:10]>> I'm happy to do it.

[00:09:10]>> I was going to say that. No, I I've already said it. You weren't gonna say it. Uh, but >> well, I wrote it down. I put it in an envelope and I posted it to myself and the postmark will say that I thought of it first.

[00:09:20]>> So, there's a train miniature moment in this where you see Arnold on Mars and it pulls back and then there's the landscape and it goes over and you see the the cities of Mars. That's a rear projection inside a model train. So that's all that's all done in camera and then it's again multiple different scaled models that are also moving with the camera so that they give you the depth and then there's a matte painting like behind that. It's it's phenomenal.

[00:09:47]And then do you know what they did with all the the models of Mars at the end of this?

[00:09:50]>> Chuck them in the bin.

[00:09:51]>> They dropped them from a forklift >> as a joke or >> just to get rid of them. Just be like let's smash all these up.

[00:09:56]>> Okay, cool.

[00:09:57]>> You can put these in a m We can't now.

[00:09:58]You can put these in a museum, right?

[00:10:00]>> They belong in a museum.

[00:10:01]>> They do belong in a museum. They belong in a museum. He was Indiana Jones.

[00:10:04]>> Yeah, he could have.

[00:10:05]>> He could have been.

[00:10:06]>> There is one CGI moment in this or effect. You probably know what it is.

[00:10:10]It's the X-ray scanner.

[00:10:12]>> Yes, >> they were originally going to use motion capture and they did they filmed it for that, but they realized that wasn't going to work. So, they ended up just doing rotoscope technique and that that all looks amazing. And the CGI director on this film, Tim McGovern, he wasn't credited or his team for the theatrical release and this. So, he's not in the credits. That was changed for the home release. But then in 2021, >> and they gave him too much credit. They said he made the whole movie.

[00:10:35]>> But then in 2021, they re-released it for the 30-year anniversary >> along with the 2012 remake. Back to back double feature.

[00:10:42]>> You'd hope so.

[00:10:43]>> Yeah. Remake first.

[00:10:45]>> Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[00:10:45]>> Just to set your expectations.

[00:10:46]>> Well, it's also closer to the book.

[00:10:48]>> Yeah.

[00:10:48]>> And they took him out again cuz they usually scammed. Anyways, freaks.

[00:10:53]>> Oh, yes.

[00:10:53]>> Would you want to talk about the two weeks lady first?

[00:10:55]>> Of course I do.

[00:10:56]>> Yeah.

[00:10:57]>> Priscilla Allen. I think I got her name.

[00:10:58]Hang on. Let's find out. Her name is >> well that's also >> Priscilla Allen.

[00:11:02]>> That's her name on the ID as well.

[00:11:04]>> Ah but she's credited as Fat Lady. Yeah.

[00:11:07]>> And look this this has been pointed out before but obviously in Hollywood they bring out casting notices. You know they're like we're looking for a person of this age, this height with this, you know, particular skill or whatever it is that we need to cast, you know, send your resume in. And people have to be prospective actors in movies and TV shows. They have to be okay with that.

[00:11:24]Yeah. You know what I mean? If it's like, well, this person's not the most handsome man in the world, but he's okay. You know what I mean? And they're like, "That's me." But presumably somebody had to put out a casting notice for this movie that said, "We need a woman so large that Arnold Schwarzenegger could fit inside her."

[00:11:38]Which also he can't. No, >> this is a camera trick. The head inside, again, it's a fake head and that's smaller than his actual head. She's not actually bigger than him. This is Hollywood magic and movie making.

[00:11:49]>> God. And that was all inside a little train as well.

[00:11:51]>> It was that split apart.

[00:11:54]>> Yeah.

[00:11:54]>> Oh my god. Has there been anything better than that ever in the history of the world?

[00:11:58]>> Also, it's a disguise. It's also a bomb.

[00:12:00]>> It also doesn't work.

[00:12:01]>> It doesn't work at all. I think maybe like, you know, she's called the two weeks later because obviously, you know, the customs officer asks her, "How long are you going to be in town?" She says, "Two weeks." And then he asks her another question, but she doesn't have any more.

[00:12:13]>> She doesn't have any more vocal recordings to use. I think she might have had that that head might have had more vocal recordings available to use if Arnold didn't program it to say, "Get ready for a surprise." before it exploded.

[00:12:26]>> Yeah, maybe.

[00:12:27]>> Maybe yes and no could have put those in.

[00:12:29]>> Yeah, that could work. Yeah, even just nodding.

[00:12:32]>> Yeah, >> just like that.

[00:12:33]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Would you wear a fake Halloween mask that could could potentially explode at any moment?

[00:12:38]>> Oh, I would.

[00:12:38]>> Yeah. As a joke, right?

[00:12:39]>> Yeah.

[00:12:40]>> Yeah.

[00:12:40]>> So, Rob Boutine did all the practical stuff.

[00:12:43]>> He did the thing when he was like 22 or whatever. We >> I've done I did the thing way before that.

[00:12:48]>> I don't think you did.

[00:12:49]>> No, I did the thing.

[00:12:50]>> Yeah. You write it down in an envelope and mailed it to yourself or whatever.

[00:12:52]No, I did the thing. Pretty sad. He was 22 before he did the thing. You know what I mean?

[00:12:56]>> Sure.

[00:12:57]>> I did it ages before that. I did it all the different ways.

[00:12:59]>> I mean, that's good, too. I guess.

[00:13:01]>> Thanks, man.

[00:13:02]>> I'm proud of you.

[00:13:03]>> But the freak work in this is incredible. Like the weird faces, the weird arm, sticky arm, >> guys stuck in other guys. Three boobs lady. I want to talk about her.

[00:13:13]>> Of course you do.

[00:13:14]>> So, he worked on Robocop, >> but they had a huge falling out. Sorry, him and Paul the Hovind. And they were like, we're never going to work together again after Robocop. after Rubber Cop.

[00:13:21]But then they were at the premiere and they're like, "No, this is pretty good actually. I think we both worked pretty hard on this and it turned out really well." And that guy sloshed all over the car.

[00:13:29]>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Good sloshing, brother.

[00:13:30]>> Yeah.

[00:13:30]>> Good work. That was a team sloshing.

[00:13:32]>> It really was. So he came back for this and thank God he did.

[00:13:36]>> Just incredible.

[00:13:37]>> When the cab driver reveals he's got that >> Yeah.

[00:13:39]>> That uh that ET looking arm.

[00:13:42]>> That's what you're talking about, man.

[00:13:43]>> Good stuff.

[00:13:43]>> God. So the three boobed lady >> go on. That's Lisha Naf and she took on the role as a goof, but then in a leadup she was nervous about being naked even though she obviously wasn't naked. The whole thing was a prostesis and she was kind of freaking out that she kind of took part in this movie. But Paul Vhovven made her feel really comfortable about it. And he also said that I'm going to put you in my next film in a in a bigger role. That never happened.

[00:14:07]>> Oh, they have a falling out.

[00:14:08]>> Well, I guess they maybe. But in the end, she apparently found the thing like really degrading and she refused to do any publicity. found the thing really degrading as well.

[00:14:18]>> Sure.

[00:14:18]>> When I did it.

[00:14:19]>> Well, you're bad at it though. That's why.

[00:14:23]>> But then of course that character I'd forgotten. She does get shot in the back.

[00:14:26]>> Absolutely. Yeah.

[00:14:26]>> I mean, everybody gets shot in this movie.

[00:14:28]>> Yeah. So, she turned down uh even appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She was like, I want nothing to do with this. So, yeah, iconic role. This wasn't good for her specifically.

[00:14:37]>> Understandable. Uh anyway, at one point during the movie, Arnold's in his hotel and a man goes, "Knock knock. I'm here to tell you you're in a dream." Yeah, sure.

[00:14:44]>> This is a dream scenario. Nicholas Cage.

[00:14:47]>> Sure.

[00:14:47]>> Uh, and he's like, >> "No one saw that. Nobody gets that right."

[00:14:50]>> Okay, cool. No, you can buy it with a double feature with Repo Man. They come together.

[00:14:54]>> It's not true.

[00:14:55]>> Because they're both about being a dream or whatever.

[00:14:57]>> Oh, I see.

[00:14:58]>> It's the both about being a dream box set.

[00:15:00]>> Who's the other guy in Repo Man with Jude Law?

[00:15:02]>> It's Forest Whitaker.

[00:15:03]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:15:04]>> I'm pretty confident.

[00:15:05]>> Good on them.

[00:15:06]>> Yeah. And he basically lays out not only what has been happening, but what's going to happen in the movie.

[00:15:11]>> Yeah.

[00:15:11]>> Which is how it plays out. But that's also that's also what he he programmed in at the uh at the recall corporation.

[00:15:17]Yeah. Well, exactly.

[00:15:18]>> He requested a sexy super spy story.

[00:15:21]>> So, if that guy is telling the truth.

[00:15:23]>> Yes.

[00:15:24]>> Which I think there's a very good chance that he is.

[00:15:25]>> Arnold shot an innocent man.

[00:15:27]>> But I but >> Oh, no. But he didn't actually kill him, but he's still sweating. So, I What is What is that even? I mean, it's the ambiguity, isn't it?

[00:15:34]>> It's the ambiguity of it all.

[00:15:36]>> James, you've spotted it. You've spotted what no other critic has or YouTuber has ever discovered, which is You've never discovered anything.

[00:15:43]>> That's what I'm saying.

[00:15:45]>> They're getting you a new special plaque.

[00:15:48]>> And then of course that leads into the Arnold twist that actually sure he's had his memories replaced, but guess what Mason? He wasn't a good guy. He was a bad guy.

[00:15:56]>> That's right.

[00:15:56]>> Which also like he should have realized that something was up because he explains to himself in an uplose recorded FaceTime message >> where he's shaking hands with Ronny Cox.

[00:16:07]>> Yeah, that's right. Oh, before that, this is when he's in the in the rat at the rat place. Sure.

[00:16:12]>> That >> he's in the rat place wearing a wrap.

[00:16:14]>> He is. He is. That a few weeks ago I met a girl and that changed my mind. And I feel like a guy who would either, you know, that would happen to or think that that's a scenario that other people would believe is like he's lying. Like I don't think anybody could talk you out of >> that is what I'm saying.

[00:16:31]>> Also, you've seen this movie before.

[00:16:33]>> I've seen the movie before and I know >> Douglas Quaid hasn't seen the movie before. He's simply living it.

[00:16:38]>> Yeah. He didn't even read the book with Douglas Quail. I also love there's some just great weird tech in this. There's a hologram machine which could have been a whole movie in itself.

[00:16:48]>> The terrifying hologram machine. That could have been a Philip K. Dick short story.

[00:16:52]>> The terrible hologram machine, but you're the hologram twist.

[00:16:55]>> Oh no, I don't like that. And it it's also a great moment for Arnold to just walk in and just machine gun guys in the back.

[00:17:03]>> Also the the the thing that removes the bug, it's just one of those like assistant grippy claw machines.

[00:17:10]>> Absolutely. theaters. Yeah. God, Michael Einsteid's death in this as well.

[00:17:14]>> Michael Einsteid's hairline in this.

[00:17:15]>> That's what he looks like.

[00:17:16]>> But they won't let a man be that anymore in Hollywood.

[00:17:19]>> They would do it as a joke.

[00:17:20]>> With it with He's bald, but he's got a comb over, but it's only really a half comb over. It doesn't like it's not even pretending to work. Like, you can still tell he's bald with a comb over.

[00:17:30]>> He's very bald.

[00:17:31]>> He is very bald.

[00:17:32]>> That's what I like about him. So, yeah, his death is incredible. Like, the removal of the arms. When I say death, like he didn't die instantly. He he fell for a bit and then he would have died probably. But my god. And this of course ends with they turn on the oxygen machine on on Mars and whatever and they they reclaim the planet and then it's just a big bulging HEAD FINALE.

[00:17:52]>> YEAH. You know what it is? It's not only the bulging heads and tongues and eyes.

[00:17:55]It's the >> like it's that sound effect.

[00:17:58]>> God, it's awful. I also don't reckon you'd be okay after that. Just having all your skin and veins like stretched out. You'd be loose forever.

[00:18:07]>> You'd be aching all the time. You'd be aching in the morning. You'd be aching before you went to bed.

[00:18:11]>> Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

[00:18:12]>> Have to have a nice hot shower to shake out all the Martian decompression, you know.

[00:18:17]>> No good, man. Anyway, I guess this comes down to and I know you want me to talk about it. Yes.

[00:18:21]>> Was it a dream? Was it not a dream?

[00:18:23]>> Go on.

[00:18:23]>> Let's Let's go over some some uh just some evidence for >> Oh, the evidence is here. Wow. We've got our silly little gray justice wigs on.

[00:18:31]>> We're going to review all the evidence and we're going to stamp our gavl and we're going to determine whether this was a dream or not. A dream.

[00:18:37]Definitively, it's going to be on the Blu-ray.

[00:18:39]>> Mhm. Mine's just my regular hair, also.

[00:18:41]>> Interesting. Okay.

[00:18:42]>> I don't need a gray wig.

[00:18:45]>> So, for it not being a dream. Oh, also there was very nearly a definitive answer for this not being a dream, which I'll get to. But for it not being a dream, you could be like, well, he's very big, but you mentioned he's a construction worker, so that that could play into that. He's also the only guy that does look like that, though. Let's be let's be realistic.

[00:19:02]>> Yeah. I mean, he does have some work mates and they're like regular whatever.

[00:19:05]We're regular. Yeah. We're regular. We have normal muscles from working. You have fake muscles for fake movie.

[00:19:11]>> Also, if it is a dream, there's things happening that he's not seeing.

[00:19:15]>> Oh, it's true.

[00:19:16]>> So, does this scenario just kind of play out?

[00:19:19]>> But it's also a special dream from a dream machine. So, you know, >> that's what does it does the dream machine have to play out everything else happening?

[00:19:27]>> I also think dreams now are more cinematic than they've ever been. You know what I mean? Like back in the olden days before cinema, I imagine dreams were just like >> imagining a train. you just walked out of your house and you stubbed your toe and you died in a dream. But like nowadays there's quick cuts and probably there's probably tick tock dreams now.

[00:19:43]>> Yeah. Where you're watching a running game underneath whatever your dream is.

[00:19:46]>> You're just dreaming looking at your phone. I don't know.

[00:19:48]>> Yeah, man.

[00:19:49]>> Yeah.

[00:19:50]>> Yeah. So, yeah. But I think there's more arguments to be made that it is a dream.

[00:19:53]So, the salesman, as you mentioned at the start, he just outlines what's going to happen. He talks about being a blue sky on Mars. He sees Molina on the screen before he meets her.

[00:20:02]>> That's true.

[00:20:03]>> Yeah. You're also ineffortlessly dispatching bad guys. Like that's a very Arnold trope. But if it's a dream, if you're having the best time >> and that's how you take care of business.

[00:20:11]>> Yeah. But I think also this movie, as you mentioned, it kind of covers for that because it's Arnold, you just expect him to do that. But he shouldn't be able to do that. Correct. Is my point. Yeah. Anyway, what do you think?

[00:20:21]Is it a dream?

[00:20:23]>> No, it's real.

[00:20:23]>> Yeah. Apparently, if it is a dream, he got lobotomized at the end. Like that is true. Oh dear.

[00:20:28]>> Anyways, it's time for Total Trivia Recall. Well, not the reboot with Colin Farrell, which does actually adhere closer to the book.

[00:20:34]>> Interesting. But also, what I think is interesting, >> they don't go to Mars on that movie.

[00:20:38]>> They don't go to Mars because that's in the original story. What I think is interesting is that neither the original movie nor the remake adapts the actual ending of the original story. Are you familiar with this, James? No, I don't think I am.

[00:20:49]>> So, in the original story, spoiler alert for We Can Remember It For You >> 20 pages long.

[00:20:53]>> Yeah. Yeah. So, it's it's uh you know, written by Philip K. Dick, you know, in the in the 1960s.

[00:20:58]>> Did he write Moby Dick?

[00:20:59]>> No.

[00:20:59]>> Oh. Uh, you did. Did I? Yeah, that's right.

[00:21:02]>> Cool.

[00:21:03]>> So, you know, in this era and this this author in particular, you know, fond of, you know, a little a science fiction story with a little twist in the tail.

[00:21:10]What he would call his signature dick move at the end.

[00:21:13]>> So, at the end of the his dick twist.

[00:21:16]That's right. At the end of this the original story, Quail is on the run from the authorities and he agrees to get brought in uh provided that they can give him a new memory, a new set of memories that his subconscious won't reject so that he can go back to living a normal life. So they bring him in and they >> he's he's doing the Matrix, put me back in the matrix.

[00:21:38]>> Exactly. So they he talks to a psychiatrist and they put him under hypnosis and they go, "Oh, when you were a little boy, you had this daydream."

[00:21:46]And the daydream was that you met some aliens. They arrived on Earth in a tiny little spaceship. They're these tiny little rat aliens. And they say to him they were going to destroy the world with their superior weapons and technology, but because he showed them kindness and friendship, they've decided not to destroy the world as long as he lives.

[00:22:05]>> Right. And so they they're like, "This is a funny little daydream you had." Uh, and in this daydream, in a way, you're the most important person in the world, but you don't have to do anything.

[00:22:17]>> So, we'll put that memory in your brain and you'll just have a you'll just feel like the most important person who ever lived, you know, just all throughout your daily life. You won't really remember it, but you'll be like, "I'm so important kind of thing." And then they go to implant the memory in his brain, and guess what? It's already in there.

[00:22:31]It actually happened to him. He's the savior of humanity. When he dies, we're all going to die. Signature dick move.

[00:22:37]>> Dick twist.

[00:22:38]>> Dick twist. There it is.

[00:22:40]>> Would you put that in this? Would you put that in either of these? Yes. I think you put it at the end of the 2012 one. Just this grim movie about interstellar coal miners or whatever.

[00:22:48]>> Through the middle of a planet with Brian Cranston.

[00:22:51]>> Gray and sad. And at the end you're like, you're the savior of the universe cuz the rat people made you their friend.

[00:22:57]>> Colin Farrell.

[00:22:59]>> Thanks.

[00:23:00]>> Thanks.

[00:23:00]>> Well, bye.

[00:23:01]>> Yeah. Don't die.

[00:23:03]>> Don't die. Don't even accidentally die.

[00:23:04]>> Yeah.

[00:23:05]>> There were 15 puppeteers controlling Quatu. Quatu. Quatu. What's his name?

[00:23:10]>> Douglas Quaid.

[00:23:11]>> Douglas Quaid. Yeah. Paul Vovven said the special effects behind that was so convincing that people would go up to Marshall Bell and say like, "Oh, is this real? Is there happened to him a couple times.

[00:23:21]>> Imagine Imagine your lunch hour as one of the mutants and you're like you're just going to your >> Yeah.

[00:23:28]>> But in but it's Hollywood weird, isn't it? You wouldn't even be the weirdest person in the cafe. Also, that guy's not really attached to him. That the whole thing's animatronic.

[00:23:36]>> Sure.

[00:23:36]>> So, you know, I don't know, man.

[00:23:39]>> Yeah.

[00:23:39]>> Uh Christopher Reeve turned down the role of Quaid.

[00:23:42]>> Oh, >> he's more of He would have looked more every man in this, I feel.

[00:23:45]>> Yeah. Especially if they put those stupid little glasses on him.

[00:23:48]>> Yeah, man. Everyone got sick in this movie filming in Mexico except Arnold.

[00:23:52]And I think maybe >> he would have got his special food.

[00:23:54]>> He did. He got his special food flown in or whatever. Paul Vovven got so sick that he would direct from a stretcher on top of a minivan because he was unable to stand. And he said the crew, unless the doctor says that I'm actually dying, we're just going to continue shooting.

[00:24:07]>> All right then.

[00:24:08]>> Yeah. Paul Vovven also said on the DVD commentary that for the love scene at the beginning, he wanted Sharon Stone to show more skin, but she refused to do so. And he settled for shooting the scene the way that she wanted it done, but he mentions that he got her back while filming Basic Instinct.

[00:24:24]>> Oh, >> yeah. I don't like it.

[00:24:25]>> I don't like it. Let's just leave it alone. It's between those two. Probably the police. I don't know.

[00:24:30]>> Yeah. Yeah. And this is fascinating to me. Approximately 3 weeks before the movie scheduled theatrical release, it only had a 43% public awareness.

[00:24:37]Schwarzenegger described this as absolutely >> That's only a partial recall.

[00:24:41]>> Thank you.

[00:24:41]>> You're welcome.

[00:24:42]>> That's good.

[00:24:42]>> Were you going to do that? Were you going to say that?

[00:24:44]>> I can.

[00:24:44]>> No, don't. I said it.

[00:24:46]>> Okay.

[00:24:47]>> I said it.

[00:24:47]>> The more you asking if I want to say it.

[00:24:49]>> I don't know.

[00:24:49]>> You could have given it to me.

[00:24:51]>> Arnold described this as being absolute disastrous. only a partial recall. But he was able to he was able to convince producer Mario Kazer and the rest of Carol Co, the production company to put more money in. And as a result, by the time this movie came out, it had 99% public awareness. Can you imagine a movie coming out now with 43% public awareness? That's that's >> it's as good as you got to do.

[00:25:11]>> Absolutely.

[00:25:12]>> Yeah. Different era. Anyways, it all paid off because on a budget of maybe $65 million, probably more, it made 261.4.

[00:25:21]>> Okay. If the movie cost more >> $265 million.

[00:25:26]>> Sure.

[00:25:26]>> Then it made a loss, didn't it?

[00:25:27]>> Yeah. Maybe. Maybe indeed.

[00:25:29]>> You got to pin those numbers down, brother.

[00:25:31]>> Yeah. But >> yes, >> the reason I say that this might not have been a dream is because there was a sequel in the works for a time.

[00:25:38]>> Yeah. Right. But it was called Total Recall. Douglas Quaid has another dream.

[00:25:42]So, >> second dream.

[00:25:43]>> Second dream.

[00:25:44]>> Douglas Quaid. Screenwriter Gary Goldman. He optioned the Philip K. Dick short story Minority Report to make a low-budget feature even though that is not a sequel book correct >> to Total Recall. Arnold was going to return and the idea in this one was the mutants were going to be clairvoyant. So that was going to be the idea behind pre- crime and Arnold would be a cop in charge of that unit.

[00:26:07]>> That's genius, >> right? It was said that it was going to be a highwire act that would either confirm or or deny what happened in the first movie on Mars. And they were going to use like the narrative device with with the recall chair and whatever and then use a way to put Arnold back on Mars and all this other stuff. In the end, Arnold was like, "This is too complicated." And Carol Co went bankrupt. And of course, this movie just became the movie Minority Report.

[00:26:30]>> Absolutely it did.

[00:26:32]>> Is better and makes more sense than what they were doing here.

[00:26:34]>> Not a dream.

[00:26:34]>> Not a dream.

[00:26:35]>> But those predictions are a dream. Maybe >> some of the predictions are a dream >> cuz the prediction at the end wasn't a dream. It wasn't a dream >> cuz he did. Tom Cruz did kill that person.

[00:26:44]>> Yeah, but dreams were open to interpretation. That was the point of that movie. And maybe the sequel TV series, which nobody watched.

[00:26:50]>> Nobody watched it.

[00:26:50]>> Total Recall. We only got one of those guys back or whatever from the the pit, the woman or whatever. The bald woman.

[00:26:56]>> Minority Report.

[00:26:56]>> Minority Report TV show.

[00:26:59]>> All right.

[00:27:00]>> There was also a a Total Recall TV series >> when like 99. Get out.

[00:27:04]>> I'm pretty sure. Let's look it up. It might have been one of those shows where it like they made 10 episodes, but they only aired two or something.

[00:27:10]>> Oh my god. God, you are absolutely right.

[00:27:12]>> Well, >> Michael Eastston was in it.

[00:27:14]>> Michael Eastston, a guy I've never heard of.

[00:27:16]>> He was in it.

[00:27:17]>> Wow. Total Recall 2070, >> which is before this one. Oh, it had Rogue and Androids in it.

[00:27:23]>> Oh, I love him. I love his I love the work of the actor Rogue.

[00:27:27]>> He's good, isn't he?

[00:27:28]>> Yeah. Oh, no. It's a pre It's 2070.

[00:27:30]You're right. It's a prequel.

[00:27:32]>> Prequel.

[00:27:32]>> Yeah.

[00:27:33]>> Total prequel.

[00:27:34]>> Total prequel. 22 episodes, >> apparently. I don't believe it.

[00:27:37]>> I'd never heard of it. I'm throwing this in the pile with Harsh Realm.

[00:27:42]>> Not real.

[00:27:42]>> Oh, and Almost Human with Carl Urban.

[00:27:45]>> And it's a dream. Harsh Realm. It's a computer dream. It's a computer dream.

[00:27:48]>> Yeah. Uh, it received mixed reviews regarding its pace and forgettable moments.

[00:27:52]>> The review said 22 episodes too long.

[00:27:54]Just make a movie.

[00:27:57]>> Reboot it into a movie with Col.

[00:27:59]>> Just make a movie.

[00:28:00]>> Put the rat alien stuff in.

[00:28:01]>> Yes. This this this review just says 22 episodes of Rat Aliens.

[00:28:09]No memory stuff, just rat aliens doing rat stuff on the hunt for cheese. Future cheese.

[00:28:15]>> Future cheese. 2070 cheese.

[00:28:16]>> Yeah, virtual cheese. That's why they can never get it.

[00:28:19]>> Oh, really?

[00:28:19]>> Cuz it's hands just go through it.

[00:28:21]>> It would go through.

[00:28:21]>> I brought back the hologram machine.

[00:28:23]>> It's the best machete. Anyways, here's a hint towards next week.

[00:28:25]>> What is it?

[00:28:27]>> [ __ ] me. I don't know.

[00:28:28]>> Is this Starship Troopers?

[00:28:29]>> It might be.

[00:28:30]>> It's Move again.

[00:28:31]>> No, it's not. It's something else, actually. I can't remember what it is.

[00:28:33]It's Demolition Man.

[00:28:35]>> Demolition Man. Wow.

[00:28:37]>> Wow.

[00:28:37]>> I had the novelization.

[00:28:39]>> Did you?

[00:28:39]>> And I saw the movie.

[00:28:41]>> Yeah.

[00:28:41]>> Something about Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

[00:28:43]That's a bit of trivia. It's going to be in there.

[00:28:45]>> We'll talk about it next week. Yeah. Uh, >> three seashells.

[00:28:49]>> Three seashells.

[00:28:50]>> How they What was it for? Probably rubbed them on their butts.

[00:28:52]>> We'll talk about it.

[00:28:53]>> They probably rubbed it on their butts.

[00:28:55]>> Stallone has an answer.

[00:28:56]>> What?

[00:28:56]>> We'll talk about it next week.

[00:28:58]>> Well, he does.

[00:28:59]>> All right.

[00:29:00]>> If you don't want to see that early, we actually have a service called big sandwich.co or >> patreon.com/mrs Sundaymov. It's the same thing.

[00:29:08]>> Yes, >> different platforms.

[00:29:10]>> Not confusing.

[00:29:10]>> Not confusing. But it's just depending on where you want to go. We do video game let's plays there as well. We do movie commentaries. We do bonus podcasts. We do a comic book club.

[00:29:20]>> We do good clean fun.

[00:29:22]>> We absolutely do. There is six years of bonus content that is there which is completely exclusive. Also, we have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.

[00:29:30]That's not exclusive. it own YouTube channel, Spotify, Apple, we talk movie news and news of the week, movie week.

[00:29:36]>> It's free for the people.

[00:29:37]>> It really is.

[00:29:38]>> Or, >> yep, >> it's a dream.

[00:29:40]>> Or it's a dream.

[00:29:40]>> Like, how do I tie it together? How do I tie this this video together seamlessly?

[00:29:44]>> All the stuff you said was a dream. None of it's real. Don't even bother.

[00:29:47]>> I don't care.

[00:29:49]>> That's good for me, actually.

[00:29:50]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:29:50]>> Means nothing matters.

[00:29:52]>> That's the spirit.

[00:29:54]>> Not even your kids.

[00:29:55]>> Are they real?

[00:29:56]>> 50/50.

[00:29:57]>> A god. Way to live. And by that I mean either they're real or not real or one of them's real and one of them is not real.

[00:30:05]>> It's up to you.

[00:30:06]>> Anyways, thank you so much to Ben for the edit.

[00:30:07]>> Thank you, Ben.

[00:30:08]>> Anyways, thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit.

[00:30:10]>> Thank you, Lawrence.

[00:30:11]>> Lawrence and Ben, leave both of those in or take one out, whoever this goes to.

[00:30:14]And we'll see you on the next one.

[00:30:15]>> Grab that jam, guys. We'll see you next week.

[00:30:17]>> Demolition.

[00:30:18]>> Unless it's a dream.

[00:30:19]>> Three seashells.

[00:30:20]>> Three seashells.

[00:30:20]>> Maybe they put them up their butt and then it just absorbs everything.

[00:30:23]>> I think it's for pinching the poo.

[00:30:25]>> Do it a poo pinch.

[00:30:26]>> Okay.

[00:30:26]>> Yeah.

[00:30:27]>> # pinching the poo. Save that for next week. Save for next week.