10 reasons we still love Total Recall 20 years later

SciFi Wire ^ | 06/01/10

[KevinDavis]

The year was 1990. The first President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev were ending the Cold War, while South Africa was ending apartheid. It was the year of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This," and in the theaters, Home Alone was the top-grossing film of the year.

[KevinDavis]

Good movie.. Wasn't there some controversy about this film??

[KevinDavis]

A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[Xenalyte]

Not that I recall, and I was 22 then, so I probably would have.

[Perdogg]

I remember a woman with the three boobs freaked me out. Sharon Stone was still hot then.

[max americana]

Unless you were offended by the hooker with 3 tits..

[Red in Blue PA]

Does anyone still watch this movie? Who is “we”?????

I didn’t like it when it came out.

[Clemenza]

It was the year of Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This," and in the theaters, Home Alone was the top-grossing film of the year.

The George HW Bush era was a cultural low point in the United States, after some great music and films produced in the Reagan-era.

[GOPJ]

Total Recall is still one of the best mindfraks ever.

Mindfraks? Please add me to your ping list - I'm so out of touch with SF now - I've never heard the term mindfraks...

[nolongerademocrat]

You’ll love this but it is not fiction.

Mind Upload, Body- Independent Life, Consciousness Backup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OHnmF_nx8

Quantum Informatics on a Chip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvApKB6fHQ8

[EGPWS]

I remember that movie in great detail!

I still think it wasn't produced however.

[Xenalyte]

Just to go on record here ... I HATE THE NON-WORD “FRAK.”

Be a man and say the real cuss word, or say “freak” with all its letters.

[GSP.FAN]

Another great PKD short story butchered by Hollywood..

[EGPWS]

Unless you were offended by the hooker with 3 tits..

The movie director milked that scene to the extreme IMO.

[Caipirabob]

Wasn't there some controversy about this film??

Most people killed in a single movie or something like that.

[Flag_This]

"I didn’t like it when it came out."

It didn't do much for me either. I don't care much for paul verhoeven's flicks.

[Rebelbase]

On the other hand that gawd awful 80’s music was replaced by rock resurrected in the alternative genre of the 90’s.

[andyk]

Great movie. Interesting bits from wiki:

A script was written for a sequel, which after modification became Minority Report.

The movie was novelized by Piers Anthony, which I also did not know.

[mtnmar]

This is one movie I will always remember. We saw it between second and third phase of boot-camp on Paris Island. Can still remember the drill instructors stopping the movie half way through just to mess with us. Those were the days.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

How could you disagree that scenes like this aren’t a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rziE39JWfs

[Incorrigible]

What about the guy you lobotomized? Did he get a refund?