Thirty years later and people are still talking about this movie. No one ever talks about the remake. There's a reason for that.

Sees Michael Ironside “I think he was the villain in another movie” Michael Ironside is always the villain in every movie

Twice in this movie, Arnold was in 4 on 1 fights. Both of them beautifully choreographed. At no point, was one of the villains standing around, waiting for their turn to get punched. This is the sort of choreography missing in modern cinema.

I can’t help but think that the guy Arnold uses for a shield is thinking “all those acting classes for this!”

“Have you seen your muscles?!! You should not be losing!!” 😂😂

I think Sharon stone does the best kitten to a tiger transformation in this film.

"This is The Thing status!" The rubber faces in this movie were made by Rob Bottin, who made the rubber monsters in The Thing!

I prefer the OG. "No wonder you're having nightmares. You're always watching the news." My daughter tells me the same thing.

This original is light years better than the remake. “What is the work of genius the first time is the work of a tinsmith soon thereafter.” - Tom Clancy

TOTAL RECALL original is by far the superior film. Verhoeven is the king of sharp commentary packaged in blockbuster brutal movies. RoboCop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers are easily dismissed action blockbusters! BUT all have STEEP messaging, commentary and satire. I love this movie on multiple levels of engagement!! I know its not your cup of tea but glad you watched this classic!

Schwarzenegger on set noticed that Michael Ironside (Richter) was talking on his phone a lot. Turns out that Ironside's sister had just been diagnosed with cancer. Schwarzenegger spent an hour on the phone with her giving advice about diet and exercise to help her through treatment.

"I don't know if I can unsee their faces" - I saw this movie back when I was 10. 32 years later and those images have NEVER left my brain

This movie holds up so well that there was absolutely zero reason to remake it

Minority Report was also written by Phillip K Dick. As was Blade Runner. And about 100 other things.

The fact that this movie is still remembered, talked about, and rewatched after more than 30 years later proves it’s the far superior film as the remake was a generic sci-fi action flick that quickly became forgotten. Paul Verhoeven (Robocop & Starship Troopers) is excellent when it comes to social commentary wrapped in ultra-violence. He’s also not afraid to push the envelope. That’s why movies like Robocop and Total Recall are so unforgettable. To answer your questions Cassie, Total Recall is suppose to take place in the year 2084, when humans have developed technology for space travel and colonization of other planets. The mutants were the result of high radiation levels on Mars and poor shielding of a cheap dome that didn’t provide enough adequate protection. As for the briefcase, I don’t think you have to worry about that since it was probably sucked out into the vacuum when Richter shot the dome. As long as Quaid still has his ID’s and the money his was given, he should be just fine.

Michael Ironside loses a limb in every movie he’s in lol 😂

"HAUSER SUCKS!!" I really loved how invested you were in this!

Dark City has that concept. Alien beings looking for understanding by playing with human memories. Placing them into different ppl while they are sleeping. Then restarting the day.

Wow. Never thought Cassie would be so invested in these kinds of movies nor that we'd hear her say that the guy, "...really was an a-hole" or "Have you seen your muscles?! You should not be losing! Get him!" 🤣 Love to see it ❤

The 80s had the best villains.

"Hey man, I got five kids to feed". To this day I still quote that in normal conversation.

Mutation is the side effect of improper shielding when building the domes. The mutants are the result of exposure to radiation

My favorite line: See you at the party Ricktor!

"Think this is the real Quaid? It is!" Well played, Arnie.

Arnold is not a great actor -- he's not a BAD actor, but not a great one either -- but he has loads of charisma and impeccable comedic timing. That's why he's such a legendary movie star.

"i don't think i can unsee their faces like that..." FACTS! it will haunt you for years to come

People always remember Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor, but to be fair Verhoeven and writers from Robocop and Total Recall also give us two great heroines: Louis and Melina.

The nostalgia goggles don't matter: the remake didn't have Arnold's charisma or Verhoeven's gonzo attitude as a filmmaker. There's no replacing the former and they didn't understand that the latter is about far more than action scenes.

"SEE YOU AT THE PARTY RICHTER!"

"Do you ever freaking recover from what happened to their faces??" 😂😂😂

Total Recall is the most bonkers blockbuster Sci-fi action film in the history of Hollywood. Great reaction PIB! 👍🏿

"Come on! Have you seen your muscles you should not be losing, get him!" Greatest Cassie line ever! 😂

"GET YOUR ASS TO MAAAAAAAAHS!"

One theory is that this really IS the secret agent memory. There's a part when he is in Recall where the technician is reviewing the package and says "Huh, Mars with a blue sky", and that is the scenario she's looking at, which happens to be the "end" of the secret agent mission.

My reaction at 15:30: HOLY CRAP! THAT'S GUL DUKAT! Seriously, it had been so long since I last saw this movie that I didn't even realize that Marc Alaimo was in it.

I love that scene News: "And more violence on Mar today....." Doug: "honey, let's move to Mars."

"Copenhagen." Next up: Starship Troopers

Oooh, about time! And yes, Jerry Goldsmith did Star Trek scores. And this is WAY better than the remake.

50 people have probably already mentioned this but Total Recall, Minority Report and BLADE RUNNER are all movies based on Philip K Dick stories. Good job noticing the connection. All 3 stories are written in a similar style but the movie adaptations are all very different from each other (and quit different from the stories).

"41 A Ernie" "I thought that was a bra size" ... Holy shit ROFL... I'm dead

Total Recall would receive a Special Achievement Oscar for its visual effects, which were state of the art at the time. Quite an achievement since its not always easy for the Oscars to recognize sci-fi films.

my dad loved this so much he taped it on vhs, cut out all the gore, overdubbed all the swearing so he could watch it with us children. i think i saw it in that form when i was about 10 years old.

Michael Ironsides sister was suffering from cancer. When Arnold found out he stopped production and had a long phone conversation wirh her.

One of the great things about this movie are how certain everyone I talk to is on whether this was all an implanted experience or whether he was really a sleeper agent. When you see that level of argument on what really happened and it’s intentional from the movie makers then you know it’s a great movie

To this day people talk about this movie and its ending. When a movie, an ACTION MOVIE at that, makes you think and ask questions, it’s special

That poor dude on the escalator. My man was just on his way home. Ronny Cox makes such a great villain. "In thirty seconds you'll be dead, and I'll blow this place up and be home in time for Corn Flakes."

Fun fact: the guy on the train that was a miner in the pyramid, in real life the actor used to be a drummer for guys like Bob Dylan and in the band First Edition w/ Kenny Rogers.

Kwato + the killer without arms + the mutant who helped them escape the bar (Hank from Breaking Bad) ....were all 3 in "Starship Troopers" as a general + a one arm teacher + a recruiting commander Cohagen was in "Robocop"

Philip K. Dick who wrote this original story wrote Blade Runner which you were probably thinking of, and Minority Report. He also wrote The Adjustment Bureau which you’ll definitely enjoy and should invite Cassie for. It’s more your style. He also wrote the novel for A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey jr, and Woody Harrelson.

No need to watch the remake. This one is best.

11:55 the original line was " I'm sure she hated every inch of it " that was dubbed over with EVERY MINUTE OF IT

"Do you ever freakin' recover from what just happened to their faces!?" I love how she always says exactly what I thought when I first saw these movies in the theater as a kid.

Now, watch Arnold Schwarzenegger again in Commando, Eraser & The Running Man.

"You blabed Quade you blabed about mars!" Btw fun fact the guy who played the voice of the Johnny cab (Robert picardo) is a star trek veteran playing the EMH in both star trek voyager series and star trek first contact and yes Jerry goldmesh did do the OST of most of the trek movies

It is actually funny. This film has 2 of 3 Cardassian leaders during the Dominion War in it. Marc Alaimo as the legendary Gul Dukat, and Mel Johnson Jr. as Legate Broca.

The way Cassie scrunched up her face when she first saw Quato 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Jerry Goldsmith once said that he included a not-so-subtle hint that it was a dream at the end of the film, just as they kiss and the screen fades to white (not the usual black, interestingly). It's the little, chirpy musical motif that also appears in connection with Rekall Inc.

I like that you said that you can't unsee the eyeball thing,, trust me, 30 years later and it randomly haunts my dreams and is still the first thing i think of whenever Mars is talked about. Good luck ever sleeping again. Rest of the film = awesome.

10:48 - You hit the nail on the head with The Truman Show and Minority Report these were both stories that were also adapted from Philip K Dick stories. The Truman show was inspired by "Time out of Joint" and Minority Report was a Novella of the same name. Philip K Dick produced 44 novels and 121 short stores, and pretty much every work has served as inspiration for other sci-fi authors. The Screamers series, Paycheck, Imposter, The Adjustment Bureau, Next, The Crystal Crypt, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Radio Free Albemuth, and A Scanner Darkly were all pretty heavy adaptations of his work as well. The Man in the High Castle inspired a very well liked Black Mirror episode and then was re-done again as an entire series for Amazon. Finally you have countless Sci-Fi TV/movie authors, directors, producers, and novel writers who cite a Philip K Dick work as their primary inspiration for some of their works (Including people like Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg). There are also many more works that Amazon has been working on turning into ideas for movies and series...I believe an adaptation of Clans of the Alphane Moon has been moving forward recently.

Extreme violence is a signature of Paul Verhoeven's directing style. It's supposed to be over-the-top. I saw this movie first-run in the theater and have loved it ever since. Arnold puts in a nice effort here as the protagonist, with a great supporting cast including MIchael Ironside as Richter, Sharon Stone as Lori, and Ronny Cox as Cohaagen. The debate rages on as to whether the events post-Recall are reality or implanted. I love uncertainty. Nice reaction!

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These old 80's and 90's movies were great fun 😭 lol No doubt, a lot of it is nostalgia, but I'm guessing i would still love it even if i was watching it the first time 😊

31:55 She was so proud of herself here. All that Star Trek training paid off LOL!

Two weeks!!!

Hello Popcorn, this movie is about Nostrils, eyeballs and Bosoms. With a Taxicab or two thrown in. " The horror. The horror. "

Verhoeven was a master of blending good storytelling with grind-house style schlock!

The guy you’re trying to think of the name is Micheal Ironside. he’s been in quite a few things, including being the voice of Sam Fisher in the splinter cell games, but he was also in the next karate kid as the aggressive teacher, and he was in one of the terminator movies

Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, Blade Runner... all Phillip K Dick stories. He was a great sci-fi writer and lot's of his stories are mind-bending sci-fi. I spent a whole year reading his books.

@Cassie: Useless Trivia: the 3-breasted woman was played by actress Lycia Naff who also appeared as Ensign Sonya Gomez on Star Trek: The Next Generation on two episodes in the 2nd season, one of which you watched for P.I.B. (she was the girl who spilled hot chocolate on Captain Picard's uniform that Q cleaned up).

Nostalgia goggles are important. The most important thing about a movie is how it makes you feel.

total recall: the only film where you can see the CEO of OCP order lieutenant razczak to tell gul dukat to arrest the terminator

I am still stunned that they bothered to remake this movie. Someone sat down and said, you remember that Total Recall with Arnie? Let's remake it.

"I've got 5 kids to feed" I use that line when I'm at the bar.

Great recap. The mutants were the offspring of the first colonists on mars. They are human but because of the cheap domes and not enough air to filter out cosmic rays it caused the mutation. According to one of the producers, he confirmed that the movie is indeed a dream sequence. The only part that’s real is Arnold at the beginning up until he goes to recall that’s where the dream begins.

That sums up what a holiday trip is at the end, nothing else but just a memory of an experience. (That and a bunch of photos no one really cares to look at). And in the grand scheme of it all, it is also our whole life.

Paul Verhoeven the director is well known for having EXTREME violence in his movies and this one is no different! Robocop and Starship Troopers are two other examples of his. But, they are done so well. When I saw this in the theater in 1990, the whole theater cheered and screamed throughout the whole movie. It was awesome! When it was over we all applauded and me and my friend actually watched it for a second time that same day. It was that good. We did the same thing for Robocop a few years earlier.

It's sort of the opposite of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which the characters pay to have certain memories erased.

"NOT TRUE ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS!" - Case and Point 🤣 - exactly what he should have said, and that poor elevator guy 😄, great reaction.

Cassie. In case you haven't notice, this film was directed by Paul Verhoeven. The same director who did the ultra violent, classic sci-fi film "Robocop". The gun blast sound effect in "Total Recall" is the same one used in "Robocop". The actor Ronny Cox, whom the director had worked with in "Robocop" appeared in this film as Vilos Cohaagen. In "Robocop", he played a corrupt OCP executive or #2 OCP guy, who actually hired Clarence Boodicker (Kurtwood Smith) to do his dirty work. He was the very last guy to be shot by Robocop in the high rise office building before free falling to his death. You recognized Jerry Goldsmith, the composer, in the opening credit. Before Hans Zimmer and other current composer, there was John Williams ("Star Wars", "Jaws", "Indiana Jones", "Saving Private Ryan") and Jerry Goldsmith. As you remembered, Jerry composed the theme to "Star Trek". Like John Williams, he has a long list of soundtrack scores as well. Other movie themes done by Jerry Goldsmith that I remember: 1. Star Trek (most or if not all of the films with the Kirk crew and Picard crew) 2. Poltergeist 3. Planet of the Apes 4. Rambo 1 thru 3 5. Patton (classic war film - add it to your bucket list) 6. Tora Tora Tora (probably the most accurate war film about the events leading to the Pearl Harbor attack - add it to your bucket list)

I recently heard they are going to do a remake of The Wizard of Oz from the point of view of Dorthy's dog, they are calling it Toto Recall!

the practical effects of getting shot are so brutal. this movie is so much better than the remake.

Michael Ironside was supposed to play Robocop but his body wasn’t going to work with the suit. But he got be in the other 2 movies in the Verhoeven sci-fi trilogy (including this one)

Benny you traitorous bastard.😅 I remember seeing this with my Dad in the theater. Fun crazy movie. Cassie don't listen to anyone ruining the movie by wrongfully claiming Quaid was dreaming. I refuse to believe it was a dreaming. There are several factors for that. However the most obvious reason it (wasn't a dream) is that the guy who tried to trick Quaid into believing he's just imagining everything wouldn't be scared/nervous and sweating if it was a dream. Also it just feels stupid to have Quaid question his reality at the very end if it actually was a dream. It's just meant to make the audience question things one last time.

The movie ends on his completing the Ego portion of his memory mplant. Remember what the Salesman said "By the end you get the girl, kill the bad guys and save the planet". Remember the male Technician at Recall saying "A blue sky on Mars, that's new".

I was working as a projectionist in a resort town theater when this movie came out. I got to watch it twice a night for 2 weeks straight. It never got old.

The repeated use of "Copenhagen" cracked me up. 😂

This is one of the bloodiest Arnold movies, which is saying something. The Conan flix were pretty brutal as well. :)

Love quotes like "case in point" or "did you forget you have muscles" LOL priceless

all these years later and still think this is one of Arnold’s best…

Watched this when I was 8. One of my fav movies ever.

The eyes poping out of the skulls always freaked me out as a kid. The old bad guy, i forget the actors name, is in a future episode of Star trek tng called "chain of command". Hes good at playing the bad guy.

I find it hilarious that, despite being the most expensive movie ever made up until then, that the "self guiding" apparatus for removing the tracker through Quaid's nose is just a pickle picker 🤣

Another movie which deals with brainwashing is the 1962 “The Manchurian Candidate” which starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh. It was remade in the 2000s with Denzil Washington, Liev Schreiber and Merril Streep. Both are great thrillers

Yes, Jerry Goldsmith worked on many of the "Star Trek" movies, and created the main theme for "Next Generation," which first appeared in the very 1st Trek movie, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." He has done, IMO, most of the best sci-fi scores ever, including "Planet of the Apes" and "Logan's Run" but also worked in every genre possible. He worked again with the director of this movie on "Basic Instinct."

Yeah their faces when they were suffocating gave me nightmares as a kid. LOL

The name kuato comes from the Mexican word cuate, which means friend or comrade since much of the filming of this film took place in Mexico City, at the Churubusco studios.

Classic 1990 movie: in-your-face violence and nudity in what was an adult movie that kids loved. 😆 For 1990, those special effects were incredible: the walking skeleton through a security screening, the (now-obvious) head prosthetics, the wall-screens and video telephone calls - all so out-there at the time. And I don't think anyone's ever topped a 'hidden' leader like Kuato.

The director of Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven, also made Robocop, and Starship Troopers. I call them Verhoeven's Dystopian Trilogy. He also made Showgirls. But we won't talk about that.

"HURRY... Okay guys people can't breath in sector G you gotta run!" If you had told me how ever many years after finding this channel that she would say that one day I would not have believed you haha

The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven also directed "Robocop" which is why Ronny Cox appeared again in a villainous role.as Cohaagen. The guy who played Richter, Michael Ironside, was originally cast as the lead in "Robocop" but that didn't work out so he was brought back for this one. He was often cast in bad guy roles on TV and in the movies through the '80s and '90s. I've always thought that this was still all an implanted memory of Quaid's "vacation" as a secret agent. Even though there were a lot of complicated twists and turns in the program It pretty much played out the way the Recall people described that it would.