Total Recall

DonDaddyD

So I was watching Total Recall and thought to myself, what a great film.

Then I got all existential so I ask....

Was it a dream as part of the memory implant?

Or was it real and Douglas Quaid was the product of a previous memory implant?

Then I got to thinking, do/did I actually ride my bike from work to home or was it me passed out on the tube dreaming that I was riding?

Obviously there's the walk home - this is the point where you have to suspend belief.

Greg T

DonDaddyD wrote:

So I was watching Total Recall and thought to myself, what a great film.

Then I got all existential so I ask....

Was it a dream as part of the memory implant?

Or was it real and Douglas Quaid was the product of a previous memory implant?

I watched it too thinking how rubbish animatronics was (even at it's peak) and also how hot Sharon Stone was when she was younger...

As for your implant idea - isn't Sharon Stone hot.

Zachariah

It's whatever you want it to be. Though listening to the commentary (yes, I am that sad), it's clear that Verhoeven intended it to be a dream.

Agent57

Get to the chopper!

Oh, no, wait... As you were.

DonDaddyD

Greg, I thought the animatronics was good. I prefer animatronics to CGI. StarWars old, classic and fuzzy to the new digitalised versions being a great example.

Zach, I have always wondered if I would ever meet a person who has sat through DVD commentry, Thank you. Now I'm going to find out if dogs can look up.

prawny

DonDaddyD wrote:

So I was watching Total Recall and thought to myself, what a great film.

Then I got all existential so I ask....

Was it a dream as part of the memory implant? - This one I'm sure of it!

Or was it real and Douglas Quaid was the product of a previous memory implant?

Then I got to thinking, do/did I actually ride my bike from work to home or was it me passed out on the tube dreaming that I was riding? - Have a couple of pints and watch the truman show. :twisted:

Obviously there's the walk home - this is the point where you have to suspend belief.

DonDaddyD

Do you think they ever filmed Truman... do it.

In fact what if Truman had been a mass murder, do you think they'd have carried on with the show? I mean the rating would have gone through the roof!

Clever Pun

Agent57 wrote:

Get to the chopper!

Oh, no, wait... As you were.

tsk. What's the matter? The CIA have got you pushing too many pencils?

dondare

DonDaddyD wrote:

So I was watching Total Recall and thought to myself, what a great film.

Then I got all existential so I ask....

Was it a dream as part of the memory implant?

Or was it real and Douglas Quaid was the product of a previous memory implant?

Then I got to thinking, do/did I actually ride my bike from work to home or was it me passed out on the tube dreaming that I was riding?

Obviously there's the walk home - this is the point where you have to suspend belief.

The clue is when he goes for his "holiday" it's called "Blue Sky on Mars".
So everything after that is the holiday. (Since that's how it ends.)
Only problem now is that when it's over he's going to hate his wife.

Your ride home was probably real. Total Recall is ficton, after all.

Headhuunter

I was watching Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and thinking that is the worst and least realistic depiction of life in Japan I have ever seen... Ever.

Greg T

Headhuunter wrote:

I was watching Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and thinking that is the worst and least realistic depiction of life in Japan I have ever seen... Ever.

Imagine my surprise when having studied "Emmanuel in Paris" diligently I was at no point, during my recent visit to the French Capital, invited to "ave' a good time" by two attractive and very enthusiastic young ladies.

I hope to have better luck with "Prague Delights"

Headhuunter

Greg T wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

I was watching Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and thinking that is the worst and least realistic depiction of life in Japan I have ever seen... Ever.

Imagine my surprise when having studied "Emmanuel in Paris" diligently I was at no point, during my recent visit to the French Capital, invited to "ave' a good time" by two attractive and very enthusiastic young ladies.

I hope to have better luck with "Prague Delights"

Fair point! I suppose American tourists arriving in London having seen Mary Poppins might expect chimney sweeps dancing on every corner...

lost_in_thought

Imagine my surprise when I changed my name to Debbie and visited Dallas.

SimonAH

That was you LiT :shock: Sorry.

hisoka

LIT don't forget you have to visit Des Moines and Dusseldorf too before changing your name back, at least I seem to think they are the right names from My Stepmother is an Alien.

I had such a bad holiday in america, I saw these people abducted by local residents and went in trying to help. I even had my chainsaw to cut their bonds but just because I like wearing a leather mask they kept running away or attacking me!

Bunneh

When he starts his experience he is asked what type of woman he would like and he picks 'sleazy' - if you look at the woman in the video monitor it's the woman he fights along side on Mars. He's in a dream, sure of it.

DonDaddyD

Bunneh wrote:

When he starts his experience he is asked what type of woman he would like and he picks 'sleazy' - if you look at the woman in the video monitor it's the woman he fights along side on Mars. He's in a dream, sure of it.

Is it exactly the same woman because I distinctly recall (no pun) a computer generated image of a brown haired woman, athletic and sleezy.

It could have been Howser's memories influencing his ideal woman.

I did wonder why if that was his ideal woman why was his wife blonde..... Then again I'm always trying to get Ms DDD to dye her hair red and put on Vulcan ears....