Total Recall
Movie: Total Recall (1990)
Watched with: Angelo and John
Man, Paul Verhoeven continues to basically be my hero.
If I were going to adapt a Phillip K. Dick story to a movie, I'd try to stay faithful to it in tone at least if not in content, but no one can fill it with absurd violence and rampant explosions better than ole Paul.
Total Recall is thematically similar to Verhoeven's later Starship Troopers (the real one, not Roughnecks) in that it's an incredibly dumb action movie that's also a critique of incredibly dumb action movies, but it's more explicitly meta-referential than the later film, with characters arguing with each other about the movie's u nreality based on the absurdity of events.
It's probably for the better that most movies aren't like this, but I'm glad they're a couple.
Watched with: Angelo and John
Man, Paul Verhoeven continues to basically be my hero.
If I were going to adapt a Phillip K. Dick story to a movie, I'd try to stay faithful to it in tone at least if not in content, but no one can fill it with absurd violence and rampant explosions better than ole Paul.
Total Recall is thematically similar to Verhoeven's later Starship Troopers (the real one, not Roughnecks) in that it's an incredibly dumb action movie that's also a critique of incredibly dumb action movies, but it's more explicitly meta-referential than the later film, with characters arguing with each other about the movie's u nreality based on the absurdity of events.
It's probably for the better that most movies aren't like this, but I'm glad they're a couple.
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