Total Recall(1990): dream or not?

[revoltub]

And does it really matter?

Personally I like the vagueness of it although I lean toward it being a dream. But I also dont think it really matters anyway.

Even if it wasnt a dream...it's still fake because it's a movie. And if it was a dream, then it's still fake because it's a movie. Either way the adventure of it all remains the same.

Thoughts?

 

[Texan6533]

Dream in my opinion. Too many coincidences with the plot of the initial programming. Plus, the screen fades to white in the end I believe signaling Arnold to wake up.

 

[Rob Battisti]

Dream IMO

 

[revoltub]

Dream in my opinion. Too many coincidences with the plot of the initial programming. Plus, the screen fades to white in the end I believe signaling Arnold to wake up.

That's true yeah. Also the movie plays out exactly like recall promised.

Watching it again it seemed like it could possibly be both. So bear with me if I sound retarded.

Spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

Quaid's adventure in the film as we see see it IS a dream. However its a based on a real memory from himself, as hauser, with some differences. If that makes sense.

 

[dc007]

I think it was a dream but either way, that movie is awesome.

 

[mb23100]

Dream. Great flick though. I saw it for the first time about a year ago. Somehow despite being a 90s kid and a huge action fan back then I had missed that one.

 

[BisexualMMA]

The evidence in the movie points to dream but it's left open enough to be real that you walk away feeling good about saving Mars instead of depressed that this guy will spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed with a feeding tube.

 

[revoltub]

Dream. Great flick though. I saw it for the first time about a year ago. Somehow despite being a 90s kid and a huge action fan back then I had missed that one.

One of the best paced films I can think of

 

[Blandnuts]

Be honest, who dreams about three tits?

 

[dc007]

I worked as an usher in a movie theater when this came out and me and my co-worker had seen it so many times, we could walk in and say the lines before the actors said them. And we did and pissed people off.

 

[revoltub]

The evidence in the movie points to dream but it's left open enough to be real that you walk away feeling good about saving Mars instead of depressed that this guy will spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed with a feeding tube.

Yeah I'd say its satisfying despite the fact that you arent supposed to take it seriously. But even if you do, it still works and is still satisfying. I feel the same about robocop.

 

[moreorless87]

The evidence in the movie points to dream but it's left open enough to be real that you walk away feeling good about saving Mars instead of depressed that this guy will spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed with a feeding tube.

Really as well I would argue the way the film is made it doesnt care THAT much whether its a dream or not, it builds a few set peices and gives a little question at the end but you don't really get the sense Arnie is questioning his reality the same way say Deckard is lost in ennui for much of Blade Runner were the reveal at the end feeds into it.

Beyond just being a fun action film I think Total Recall is much more interested in its setting being a capitalist dystopia with Cohagen being a brutal colonial dictator only interested in resource extraction.

 

[revoltub]

I worked as an usher in a movie theater when this came out and me and my co-worker had seen it so many times, we could walk in and say the lines before the actors said them. And we did and pissed people off.

 

[dc007]

It is.

 

[the ambush]

And does it really matter?

Personally I like the vagueness of it although I lean toward it being a dream. But I also dont think it really matters anyway.

Even if it wasnt a dream...it's still fake because it's a movie. And if it was a dream, then it's still fake because it's a movie. Either way the adventure of it all remains the same.

Thoughts?

Everything leads to him being in a dream/program.

 

[HARRISON_3]

“Use your head you dumb bitch.”

 

[Losfer Words]

100% totes for real

 

[eddymotto]

It involves a construction worker who is banging prime Sharon Stone & then spending most of his time thinking about Mars. Forget the dream question. The protagonist is insane

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Arnolds Wet dream.
Btw remake should be banned for covering up them triple tiddies.

 

[revoltub]

Arnolds Wet dream.
Btw remake should be banned for covering up them triple tiddies.

Still havent seen it. Cant bring myself