>Was it real? >So if you’ve been thinking that Total Recall was just a dream, you’re right. And if you’ve been thinking that it was all really happening, you’re right too. It’s not that the film doesn’t tell you whether it’s a dream or not, it’s that the film works both ways simultaneously, to give you two experiences at the same time.
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actually, its masterfully executed. it needs to be ambiguous to work. its LITERALLY part of the narrative, so the viewer, (You) feels exactly like Arnie does.
Solely because it's a philip k. dick plot, everything was the furthest fricking thing from real.
He experienced a cute VR video game adventure, woke up, paid for the service and then went home to rub one out.
Or not. I think these assumptions are honestly moronic.
If you went back in time and told people that they can play ''video games'' and hang out in fake worlds, some times with other people and have adventures, some fricks would have exactly the same idea as you. We would adapt.
its not even close to the shitty vidya we have now, our puny human brains have already been fricked by social media imagine if we had virtual reality
indistinguishable from reality
I imagine it and I'm not that impressed. It's entirely possible you're in a VR experience right now and when you die, you leave the simulation. I don't care. What then, homosexual
It’s possible that as he was dozing off high on drugs he imagined her face on the screen. It does go out of focus which is a trick implying that the camera view is subjective. If, however, you choose to be an absolutist about what was recorded on camera you actually probably are right because the people at recall could not have made an exact version of melena based on that short description of being brunette, sleazy and athletic but the machine could be extracting the images from his subconscious his head was near the machine and we don’t know what sort of tech this is.
It only looked real because it was Arnold as the main character so everything was believable. In the novel, it was just an average Joe officer worker who wasn't in shape so obviously none of it happened.
But it did happen. He was a secret agent who just got back from a trip to Mars. That's why he wanted to go to Mars and why they wouldn't implant false memories of it, the false memories of not going couldn't override his true desire to do it. Total Recall is about the immutability of desire and how desire can emerge from fulfillment
If they had kept the Mars plot in the remake, it may have had a chance to be kino. It was so dumb for them to change it to the UK traveling through the center of the earth to Australia.
the most interesting thing is the actual last shot, which is just a white screen, then cut to black screen and credit roll. to me its an indicator of blinding light after waking up
Why is Hollywood incapable of doing a Dick adaptation that isn't generic pew pew action shlock?(except Scanner Darkly) His stories are all weird and introspective but I guess that's not allowed in movies. Especially Total Recall, fricking stupid movie
There's no reason to make it play into your normal life so much so that you can't trust anyone and kill your family and friends. Like even having a successful trip, the guy would never be able to live a normal life ever again. It's not like the other vacations were going to do that and make sure he was super confused if he was actually a playboy millionaire or if this was just a dream. The trip would be just as interesting and far more enjoyable if he knew it was just part of the dream. And the technicians even say, when Arnold isn't around, that they never implanted it.
No it's just a movie.
>Was it real?
>So if you’ve been thinking that Total Recall was just a dream, you’re right. And if you’ve been thinking that it was all really happening, you’re right too. It’s not that the film doesn’t tell you whether it’s a dream or not, it’s that the film works both ways simultaneously, to give you two experiences at the same time.
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also FPBP
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actually, its masterfully executed. it needs to be ambiguous to work. its LITERALLY part of the narrative, so the viewer, (You) feels exactly like Arnie does.
It was real. All of it.
There will never be a director like Paul Verhoeven again who could combine art, satire and senseless violence like an artist.
Kino.
i just he wouldve stayed with the scifi future dystopia masterpieces instead of going coomer-core
He’s still alive isn’t he? Why hasn’t he made more action movies?
He went total recall and got lobotomised
Solely because it's a philip k. dick plot, everything was the furthest fricking thing from real.
He experienced a cute VR video game adventure, woke up, paid for the service and then went home to rub one out.
Next day wake up early again for work.
If it was fake, then he is lobotomized and never goes home nor lives normally again.
Yours is the pleb netflix ending. Dick would opt for meaningless continuation of an empty existence.
this technology would be a total mess, imagine waking up from your dream life to go wage slave the next day, suicides would skyrocket
First time I’ve thought of it like that..
Or not. I think these assumptions are honestly moronic.
If you went back in time and told people that they can play ''video games'' and hang out in fake worlds, some times with other people and have adventures, some fricks would have exactly the same idea as you. We would adapt.
its not even close to the shitty vidya we have now, our puny human brains have already been fricked by social media imagine if we had virtual reality
indistinguishable from reality
I imagine it and I'm not that impressed. It's entirely possible you're in a VR experience right now and when you die, you leave the simulation. I don't care. What then, homosexual
not so fast freethinker, in the future people will have chips that influence thoughts, that will shut down the need to suicide. Thanks to Elog Mux
Yeah it really happened, it couldn't have been a memory implant if there was multiple scenes happening without him being present to witness them
There is no possible way to explain the image of the prostitute on the machine's screen before Quaid goes into it other than that everything is fake.
He was dreaming about her before though, even says it in the movie
No you fricking moron
It’s possible that as he was dozing off high on drugs he imagined her face on the screen. It does go out of focus which is a trick implying that the camera view is subjective. If, however, you choose to be an absolutist about what was recorded on camera you actually probably are right because the people at recall could not have made an exact version of melena based on that short description of being brunette, sleazy and athletic but the machine could be extracting the images from his subconscious his head was near the machine and we don’t know what sort of tech this is.
Yes Paul Verhoeven did direct a movie called Total Recall and it was even released in theaters
It was not real. The scenes shown where Quaid is not present is just for the benefit of the viewer.
Mars. What a shithole.
This part scared THE SHIT out of me when I was a kid.
I ran back to my room and refused to watch the rest of the movie, lol
It's whatever you want it to be. Needing an exact response is low-IQ thinking.
Be honest, would you have feel for it?
Consider that a divorce.
id buy that
for a dollar
It was real. The whole dream scenario at Rekall was set up by Cohaagen.
this has been debunked
I rebunked it
It only looked real because it was Arnold as the main character so everything was believable. In the novel, it was just an average Joe officer worker who wasn't in shape so obviously none of it happened.
But it did happen. He was a secret agent who just got back from a trip to Mars. That's why he wanted to go to Mars and why they wouldn't implant false memories of it, the false memories of not going couldn't override his true desire to do it. Total Recall is about the immutability of desire and how desire can emerge from fulfillment
SEE YOU AT THE PARTY RICHTER
Pick your top 5 Arnold kinos
1. Commando
2. Predator
3. Jingle all the way
4. True Lies
5. Terminator 2
>tfw true lies 4k next year
IMAGINE
his name was john matrix because his rocket launcher was a 2x2 matrix
In no real order
Terminator 2
Commando
Total Recall
Conan
True Lies
T2
predator
eraser
commando
sixth sense
i like most of his movies though, but these are my favourite
>Sixth Sense
i had a brain fart, i meant the sixth day
#1: The Terminator
#2: Conan The Barbarian
#3: Total Recall
#4: Commando
#5: End Of Days
Will we ever get another actor like Arnold?
No, its oger
>https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/08/13/arnold-schwarzenegger-screw-your-freedom-anti-vax-mask-orig-kj.cnn
Arnold's most honest portrayal yet.
It was real just like Repo Men good ending was real. I only watch happy movies
Does anyone have the Macbeth Arnold parody trailer? Please share
Of course it was real
Is anything real? Maybe you should stop asking questions.
There's no way to know for sure, that's the whole appeal of an unreliable narrator as a plot device.
>HAHAHA! You think Total Recall is real?! It is.
heh.
He had so much charm when he was younger. Dare I say, young Arnold had more charm than John Cena.
Just delusional fantasies of a wagie
I'll be right back
I shall return
that artwork is kino af
of course not, the fanciful tale alone is evidence of this, but also you do not explode in a vacuum
Mars isn’t a vacuum moron
It has lower pressure than earth
If they had kept the Mars plot in the remake, it may have had a chance to be kino. It was so dumb for them to change it to the UK traveling through the center of the earth to Australia.
There were some parts I liked about the 2012 film.
That plot doesn't make any sense, like any part of it. Tunneling through the Earth, somehow western europe being livable but rural canada isn't, lmao.
Yes
no, it was a movie, stupid
blue skies on mars
the most interesting thing is the actual last shot, which is just a white screen, then cut to black screen and credit roll. to me its an indicator of blinding light after waking up
Why is Hollywood incapable of doing a Dick adaptation that isn't generic pew pew action shlock?(except Scanner Darkly) His stories are all weird and introspective but I guess that's not allowed in movies. Especially Total Recall, fricking stupid movie
Do you think the life you're living is real?
It is only real that which never changes.
>Was it real
Was it kino?
2 weeks.
/misc/ has never recovered
The Running Man was set in "2020"
I would take this future over the gay one we got now
There's no reason to make it play into your normal life so much so that you can't trust anyone and kill your family and friends. Like even having a successful trip, the guy would never be able to live a normal life ever again. It's not like the other vacations were going to do that and make sure he was super confused if he was actually a playboy millionaire or if this was just a dream. The trip would be just as interesting and far more enjoyable if he knew it was just part of the dream. And the technicians even say, when Arnold isn't around, that they never implanted it.
>It's Payne!