The Weekly Planet - Total Recall - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Over the next four weeks we're taking a trip through some classic 1990's science fiction films. An interesting era which still encorporated old school film making techniques like model work, stop motion and rear projection plus early computer generated imagery. This week it's the action classic Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone from director Paul Verhoeven not to be confused with the 2012 reboot or the book its based on that has a completely different name and premise. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravanagh Garbage, where over the next four weeks, we're going to take a look at four classic 90s, sci-fi movies. Hell yeah. It's a mystery, though, what's coming up. You have to wait until the end of the video and then we tell you. That's not a mystery, though, is it? It's a mystery here because here are the posters, but they're blurred.

Oh, now it's a mystery. It's a mystery. Okay, all right. This week's not a mystery, though. It's total recall. We're looking at total recall. Tataal recall. From 1990, which is a mystery here.

As classic 90s sci-fi as early classic, good 90s sci-fi as you can get. It's just, it's a good early 90s sci-fi, isn't it? I agree. I mean, sci-fi stretching it. What are you talking about? This is sci-fi for days. Weeks.

It is sci-fi-months. Okay, all right. It's not for months. Multiple concepts, maybe too many. Barely pulls it off. Okay, I don't know I was thinking there. You know what I was thinking? When it's an Arnold movie, it's to me in my mind,

it's always an Arnold movie first and then the genre second. Yeah, okay. There's a moment in this where, to jump ahead slightly, where Arnold sort of regained some of his memories and a bunch of men come to attack him and he just fends them off effortlessly with chops and punches and kicks or whatever. And it took me like 30 seconds into that to be like, oh, he's not normally supposed to be able to do that. Because it's Arnold and it's like, okay, well, you know. Well, you say that, please leave a like.

Well, you say that because David Cronenberg was going to direct this initially before Paul Verhoeven took over. And he was going to have... It's a Paul Verhoven took over. It is. Wow. It is. For Total Recall. God, I love vacationing and Tatar Raqal.

Not of Mars, though. No, it sucks. Yeah, all indoors. But he was going to cast William Hurt, which would have played to that. Absolutely, yeah. Because Arnold was considered for Robocop, which is ridiculous, by the way. You put that suit over a man that big? No, no, no, no, no.

So they wanted to work on something together. Be like putting a turkey, like rapping it. It's a Taduckin. It would be a Tudkin in like a suit of. of medieval armour. Just packing in all sorts of assorted meats, squeezing them out, putting him in a big suit of plate mail. Weird.

Wouldn't work. But the original Dan O'Bannon script, it was darker. And Porvoven asked Gary Goldman to kind of rewrite it, add more violence and humor, more one line, is make it more, like, uh-uh, unlaw to fire it. Yeah. So he is supposed to be in every man. But of course, the story of this is that maybe most of this didn't happen, hasn't happened at all.

It's a repo man situation. I mean, none of it happened. It's a repo man situation. No, it's fictional is what I'm saying. None of it actually happened. I'm telling you, it's a repo man. The movie Repo Man, it came out in like 2005 or something. It didn't happen.

Judea Law was in a coma or something. Nobody's seen Repo Man except us. It's a classic. No, it's not. 2000s. No, it's not. Forest Whitaker. Repo Manning.

Okay, yes. This, of course, is based on the novelette, I suppose you would call it, by Philip K. Dick. Which has none of this shit in it for the most fun. It's a memory vacation. I was going to say also in the original story, the character's name is Douglas Quail. But I guess in this they're like... Like a Taduckin.

Well, exactly. I'm like, I imagine they went, there is no way we're going to name a character play by Arnold Schwarzenegger after, you know, the littlest bird there is. Yeah, true. He's a Taduckin, as we've established. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, the story of this, so the year is, it's never explicitly said, but it's 2084. Oh, yeah.

And Arnold, he's a regular working man. Why is he so big? Because he's a working man He's on the tools Yeah, he's on the tools He lives as Sharon Stone Yep, absolutely They're looking very sexy together

Sure In their 80s workout outfits They're 2080s Workout outfits I should say And he's wanting for a better life More experiences You know Sure

And so one of the options in this universe Is to put some memories In your brain Where you can have a holiday You've got a recall incorporated Yep They fiddle around in your brain With a thing

That Doctor Who looking machine You stick your head in it Great, great idea. Microwave. Absolutely. And they, like, they suggest some holiday destinations. They can suggest a sexy scenario you'll be in. A sex scenario.

A sex scenario. That's right, is what they call them in the future. Yep. And then you, you leave. And I guess they erase your memory of going to recall. And then, but then you have these beautiful memories of this beautiful, sexy vacation. But then are you like, I cheated on my wife? That's what I'm saying.

First note I have, might be the entire video. then what happens? Because first of all, you tell your workmates, hey, I'm going to recall to get a memory of a vacation. They're going to microwave a memory into my brain

with a Doctor Who machine. And then you come back and they're like, how was your trip to recall? And you're like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a secret agent. And they go,

no, you said yesterday that you wanted to go, you go to recall and get a fake memory. And then you're like, oh, oh.

And you're not a. secret agent either. Yeah, you're going to go back to work. You're going to go back to work. This whole thing's going to unravel. This is like LASIC James. Oh, okay. Why? Because with LASIC, they do the quality. Do they wipe your memory in LASIC? I think they might do. They microwave your brain.

All the quality satisfaction surveys are at the six month mark, but it's after six months that all the weird stuff starts to happen. That's what I'm saying. What weird stuff? Here's a list. is a list of symptoms Just says perfect vision for the rest of your life Is this libelous?

I don't know We can cut it out We'll check with the lawyers So this sets him off After he does the recall machine Yeah The recall microwave I'll save the world

I save the whole world No you didn't Get back on the jackhammer You didn't Sorry carry on Where it's then revealed That we actually had some other memories This isn't his real personality

He is this international spy Who's uncognombo interstellar spy. That's right. Uncovering corporation secrets. Doing good work. Doing action karate and whatever. Hell yeah. All sorts of spy gadgets. Doing action karate on your wife. Yeah, that's true. Kill your wife. Kill your wife. Or in real life. Maybe.

But the whole thing, whether or not it is a dream, this world is... Mate, you're obsessed. But you're obsessed with whether it's a dream or not. Well, that's a part of the movie. It's a huge part of this movie. A talking point. God, this guy's obsessed. But it is... The whole world is... this fever dream. Like everybody's FaceTiming like their grandparents, you know, just like right out close. Dead center.

Like all the, all the cabs are like this horrible mannequin shattering at you. That's Robert Picato. It is. He's the doctor from Star Trek Voyager. He is, yeah. And you know who else is in this? Who? Dean Norris from Breaking Bad.

He is in this. He's one of the freaks. Yes. The Johnny Cab has shaving rash. You don't need to put that on there. It's grotesque is what it is. It is. But that's what Verhoven's known for.

Grotesquery's. But I guess Kronenberg is as well. well. Yeah, totally. Kronenberg probably left detailed notes. He's like, make the cab driver grotesque. There's a moment where he's going through some of his secret agent gear and he just sweeps away some real rats.

You see that, but the no sequence, you know, like, there's a lot of, you know what this is? There's so many. It's the movie total recall. It is. It's 991. There's so many, 1990? I don't know.

There's so many Arnold fake heads in this movie and also in other movies. Does he have the record for the actor with the most prosthetic heads in movies? Maybe. Because there's. There's a fake head where he pulls the thing out of his nose in this. There's the two weeks lady where it's a head in that. We've got to talk about the two weeks lady. Oh, we're talking about the two weeks lady.

And then at the end they used four different puppets for the bulging eyes. Yeah, and they want a bit at the start as well. Yeah, exactly. He might have the record for the most prosthetic heads. Someone will do some research and get back to us. This movie might also hold the record for the ratio of Arnold Schwarzenegger doing real dialogue versus just going, uh-uh, uh-uh. Isn't it weird?

The two biggest action stars of this era, you can break them down. One is, and the other's, and we all know who it is. You know exactly what it is, yeah. Do that now. Do a Chris Pratt. What's Glenn Powell's signature vocal stim? We don't know. Putting on a pair of wayfarers.

It probably is. Not even a sound. It's not a sound. Wait, here is. Yeah, that's a Kronenberg holdover. Yeah. So, it's also a very gory film. I mean, it's a Paul Verhoeven movie, so yeah.

There's a moment on an... It's the escalator, right? The moment on the escalator, just an innocent bystander absolutely cops it. It's not quite up to robocop standards, but it's close. You know what's interesting? Because I watched that twice, and at first I thought, oh, did he grab like... A bad guy? No, he doesn't.

He's just a guy. But Paul Verhoven explains that scene as, like, they wanted him to cut it shorter. And he goes, no, if I cut it short, it's mean and it's tragic. If he just gets shot twice and he throws him. away. But if he holds him for a full 40 seconds. It's a valiant sacrifice for the greater good, isn't it? But it's funny. Yeah, it is also funny.

Also, this is an amazing looking movie that uses the pinnacle of old school Hollywood model making and techniques like that. There's minimal CGI. You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm happy to do it. I was going to say that. No, I've already said it. You weren't going to say it. But well, I wrote it down and I put it

in an envelope and I posted it to myself and the postmark will say that I thought of it first. So there's a train minors a moment in this where you see Arnold on Mars and it pulls back and then there's the landscape and it goes over and you see the cities of Mars. That's a rear projection inside a model train. So that's all done in camera and then it's again multiple different scaled models that are also moving with the camera so that they give you the depth and then there's a mat painting

like behind that. It's phenomenal. And then you know what they did with all the models of Mars at the end of this? Cut them in the bin. They dropped them from a forklift. as a joke or just to get rid of them just be like let's smash all these up okay cool you can't now you can put these in a museum right belong in a museum they do belong in a museum they do belong in a museum Indiana Jones yeah he could have made he could have been there is one CGI moment in this or effect

you probably know what it is it's the x-ray scanner yes they were originally going to use motion capture and they did they filmed it for that but they realized that wasn't going to work so they ended up just doing rotoscope technique and that that all looks amazing and the CGI director on this film, Tim McGovern, he wasn't credited or his team for the theatrical release. So he's not on the credits. That was changed for the home release. But then in 2021... And they gave him too much credit. They said he made the whole movie. But then in 2021, they re-released it for the 30-year anniversary. Along with the 2012 remake? Back-to-back double feature? You'd hope so. Yeah. Remake first.

Yeah, oh yeah. Just to set your expectations. Well, it's also closer to the book. Yeah. And they took him out again because they used the original scan. Anyways, freaks. Oh, yes. Would you want to talk about the two weeks lady first? Of course I do. Priscilla Allen? I think I got her name.

Hang on, let's find out. Her name is... Priscilla Allen. That's her name on the ID as well. Oh, yeah. But she's credited as Fat Lady. Yeah. And look, this has been pointed out before,

but obviously in Hollywood, they bring out casting notices. You know, they're like, we're looking for a person of this age, this height, with this, you know, particular skill or whatever is that we need to cast, you know, send your resume in. And people have to be prospective actors in movies and TV shows.

They have to be okay with that. You know what I mean? If it's like, well, this person's not the most handsome man in the world, but he's okay. You know what I mean? And they're like, that's me. But presumably somebody had to put out a casting notice for this movie that said, we need a woman so large that Arnold Schwarzenegger could fit inside her. Which also, he can't.

This is a camera trick. The head inside. Again, it's a fake head and that's smaller than his actual head. She's not actually bigger than him. This is Hollywood magic and movie making. God. And that was all inside. a little train as well. It was. That split apart. Yeah. Oh my God. Has there been anything better than

that ever in the history of the world? Also, it's a disguise. It's also a bomb. It also doesn't work. It doesn't work at all. I think maybe like, you know, she's called the two weeks later because obviously, you know, the customs officer asks her, how long are you going to be in town? She says two weeks. And then he asked her another question, but she doesn't have any more, she doesn't have any more vocal recordings to use. I think she might have had, that head might have had more vocal recordings available to use if Arnold didn't program it to say get ready for a surprise

before it exploded Yeah, maybe Maybe yes and no could have put those in there Yeah, that could work, yeah Even just nodding Yeah Just like that

Yeah yeah yeah Would you wear a fake Halloween mask That could potentially explode At any moment? Oh, I would Yeah, as a joke, right? Yeah So Rob Boutin did all the practical stuff

He did the thing when he was like 22 or whatever We talked about it I did the thing way before that I don't think you did No, I did the thing You write it down An envelope about it to yourself Or whatever

No, I did the thing Pretty sad He was 22 before he did the thing You know what I mean Sure I did it ages before that I did all the different ways I mean that's good too

Thanks man I'm proud of you But the freak work in this is incredible Like the weird faces The weird arm Sticky arm Guys stuck in other guys Three boobs lady

I want to talk about her No you course you do So he worked on Robocop But they had a huge falling out Sorry, him and Paul Verhoven. And they were never going to work together again. After Robocop. After Robocop.

But then they were at the premiere and they were like, no, this is pretty good, actually. I think we both worked pretty hard and this had turned out really well. And that guy sloshed all over the car. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good sloshing. Yeah. That was a team sloshing.

It really was. So he came back for this and thank God he did. Just incredible. When the cab driver reveals, he's got that. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about, man. That's what I'm talking about, man. It's good stuff.

God. So the three boobered lady. Go on. That's Lisch. Naf. Uh-huh. And she took on the role as a goof, but then in a lead-up,

she was nervous about being naked, even though she obviously wasn't naked. The whole thing was a prosthesis, and she was kind of freaking out that she kind of took part in this movie, but Paul Verhoeven made her feel really comfortable about it. And he also said that, I'm going to put you in my next film in a bigger role.

That never happened. Oh, never falling out. Well, I guess, maybe. But in the end, she apparently found a thing like really degrading and she refused to do any publicity. Yeah, I found the thing really degrading as well.

Sure. When I didn't. Well, you're bad at it though, that's why. But then, of course, that character I forgot and she does get shot

in the back. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, everybody gets shot in this movie. Yeah. So she turned down, even appearing on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,

she was like, I want nothing to do with this. So, yeah, iconic role, this wasn't good for her specifically. Understandable. Anyway,

at one point during the movie, Arnold's in his hotel and a man goes, knock, knock, I'm here to tell you you're in a dream. Oh, sure. This is a dream scenario,

Nicholas Cage. Sure. And he's like... No one saw that. Nobody gets that reference. Okay, cool. No, you can buy it with a double feature with Repo Man. They come together.

It's not true. Because they're both about being a dream or whatever. Oh, I see. It's the both about being a dream box set. Who's the other guy in Repo Man with Jude Law? It's Forrest Whitaker. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty confident.

Good on them. Yeah. And he basically lays out not only what has been happening, but what's going to happen in the movie. Yeah. Which is how it plays out. But that's also what he programmed in at the recall. corporation.

Well, exactly. He requested a sexy super spy story. So if that guy is telling the truth, which I think there's a very good chance that he is. Arnold shot an innocent man. But I, but he didn't. He didn't actually kill him. But he's still sweating.

So what is, what is that even? I mean, it's the ambiguity, isn't it? It's the ambiguity of it all. James, you've spotted it. You've spotted what no other critic has, or a YouTuber has ever discovered, which is, it's the ambiguity.

A YouTuber's never discovered anything. That's what I'm saying. They're getting you a news special. Plark. And then, of course, that leads into the Arnold twist that actually, sure, he's had his memories replaced. But guess what, Mason? What?

He wasn't a good guy. He was a bad guy. That's right. Which also, like, he should have realized that something he was up because he explains to himself in an up close recorded FaceTime message. Where he's shaking hands with Ronnie Cox. Yeah, that's right. Before that, this is when he's in the rat, in the rat place.

Sure. That he's in the rat place wearing a rap on his face. He is. He is. That a few weeks ago, I met. a girl and that changed my mind. And I feel like a guy who would either, you know, that would happen to or think that that's a scenario that other people would believe.

He's like, he's lying. Like, I don't think anybody could talk you out of that is what I'm saying. Also, you've seen this movie before. I've seen the movie before and I know. Douglas Quaid hasn't seen the movie before. He's simply living it. Yeah. He didn't even read the book with Douglas Quayle.

I also love, there's some just great weird tech in this. There's a hologram machine. which could have been a whole movie in itself. The terrifying hologram machine. That could have been a Philip K. Dick short story. The terrible hologram machine, but you're the hologram twist. Oh, no, I don't like that. And it's also a great moment for Arnold to just walk in

and just machine gun guys in the back. Yeah, yeah. Also, the thing that removes the bug, it's just one of those like assistance grippy floor machines. Absolutely it is, yeah. God, Michael Ironside's death in this as well. Michael Ironsight's hairline in this. That's what he looks like.

But they won't let a man be that anymore in Hollywood. They would do it as a joke. With it, with it, as a goof. He's bald, but he's got a comb over, but it's only really a half coma. Hell yeah. Like, it's not even pretending to work. Like, you can still tell he's bald with a comb over.

He's very bald. He is very bald. That's what I like about him. So, yeah, his death is incredible, like the removal of the arms. When I say death, like, he didn't die instantly. Yes. He fell for a bit, and then he would have died probably. But my God.

And this, of course, ends with they, turn on the oxygen machine on Mars and whatever, and they reclaim the planet. And then it's just a big bulging head finale. Ah, you know what is? It's not only the bulging heads and tongues and eyes. It's the,

like it's that sound effect. For sure, yeah. God, it's awful. I also don't reckon you'd be okay after that. Just having all your skin and veins, like, stretched out. You'd be loose forever. You'd be aching all the time.

You'd be aching in the morning. You'd be ached before you went to bed. Oh, yeah, absolutely. You'd have to have a nice hot shower. to shake out all the Martian decompression. No, good man. Anyway, I guess this comes down to, and I know you want me to talk about it.

Yes. Was it a dream? Was it not a dream? Go on. Let's go over some evidence. Oh, the evidence is here. Wow. We've got our silly little grey justice wigs on. We're going to review all the evidence,

and we're going to stamp our gavel, and we're going to determine whether this was a dream or not a dream. Definitively, it's going to be on the Blu-ray. Mine's just my regular hair also. Interesting. Okay. I don't need a grey wig. So for it not being a dream

Oh also there was very nearly a definitive answer For this not being a dream which I'll get to But for it not being a dream You could be like well he's very big But you mentioned he's a construction worker So that could play into that He's also the only guy that does look like that though Let's be realistic

Yeah I mean he does have some workmates in there And they're just like that Whatever we're regular yeah We're regular we have normal muscles from working You have fake muscles for fake movie Also If it is a dream there's things happening that he's not seeing.

Oh, it's true. So does this scenario just kind of play out? But it's also a special dream from a dream machine. Yeah. Does the dream machine have to play out everything else happening? I also think dreams now are more cinematic than they've ever been, you know what I mean? Like back in the older days before cinema. Yeah.

I imagine dreams were just like... Imagining a train. You just walked out of your house and you stubbed your toe and you died in a dream. But like nowadays, there's quick cuts and probably... There's probably TikTok dreams. now? Yeah, where you're watching a running game underneath whatever your dream is? You're just dreaming looking at your phone?

I don't know. Yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, but I think there's more arguments to be made that it is a dream. So the salesman, as you mentioned at the start, he just outlines what's going to happen. He talks about being a blue sky on Mars. He sees Molina on the screen before he meets her.

That's true. Yeah. He also, he's effortly dispatching bad guys. Like, that's a very Arnold trope. But if it's a dream, if you're having the best time. That's how you take care of business. Yeah. But I think also,

this movie, as you mentioned, it kind of covers of that. Because it's Arnold, you just expect him to do that. But he shouldn't be able to do that. Correct. It's my point. Yeah. Anyway, what do you think? Is it a dream?

No, it's real. Yeah. Apparently, if it is a dream, he got lobotomized at the end. Like, that is true. Oh, do you. Anyways, it's time for Total Trivia Recall, not the reboot with Colin Farrell, which does actually adhere closer to the book.

Interesting. But also, what I think is interesting... They don't go to Mars on that movie. They don't go to Mars because that's in the original story. What I think is interesting is that neither the original movie nor the remake adapts the actual ending of the original story. You familiar with this, James? No, I don't think I am.

So in the original story, spoiler alert for We Can Remember It for you wholesale. It's like 20 pages long. Yeah, yeah. So it's written by Philip K. Dick, you know, in the 1960s. Did he write Moby Dick? No. Oh. You did. Did I?

Yeah, that's right. Cool. So, you know, in this era and this author in particular, you know, fond of, you know, a little science fiction story with a little twist in the tail, what he would call his signature dick move at the same. at the end So at the end of the His dick twist

That's right At the end of the The original story Quail is on the run From the authorities And he agrees to get brought in Provided that they can Give him a new memory

A new set of memories That his subconscious won't reject So that he can Go back to living a normal life So they bring him in and they He's doing the Matrix Put me back in the Matrix Exactly

So they He talks to a psychiatrist And they put him under hypnosis and they go, oh, when you were a little boy, you had this daydream, and the daydream was that you met some aliens. They arrived on Earth in a tiny little spaceship. They're these tiny little rat aliens. And they say to him, they were going to destroy the world with their superior weapons and technology.

But because he showed them kindness and friendship, they've decided not to destroy the world as long as he lives. Right. And so they're like, this is a funny little daydream you had. and in this daydream in a way you're the most important person in the world

but you don't have to do anything so we'll put that memory in your brain and you'll just feel like the most important person who ever lived just all throughout your daily life you won't really remember it but you'd be like

I'm so important kind of thing and then they go to implant the memory in his brain and guess what it's already in there it actually happened to it was real he's the Soviet of humanity when he dies

we're all going to die signature dick move dick twist dick twist there it is. Would you put that in this? Would you put that in either of these? Yes.

I think you put it at the end of the 2012 one. Just this grim movie about interstellar coal miners or whatever. Going through the middle of a planet with Brian Cranston chasing you. It's all grey and sad and at the end you're like, you're the saviour of the universe because the rat people made you their friend. Colin Farrell. Thanks. Thanks.

Well, bye. Yeah. Don't die. Don't even accidentally die. Yeah. There were 15 puppeteers controlling quatu. Quatu, what's his name? Douglas Quaid.

Douglas Quaid, yeah. Paul Verhoeven said the special effects behind that was so convincing that people would go up to Marshall Bell and say like, oh, is this real? It happened to him a couple times. Imagine your lunch hour as one of the mutants and you're like, you just go into your... Yeah. But it's wholly weird, isn't it? You wouldn't even be the weirdest person in the cafe. Also, that guy's not really attached to him.

That whole thing's animatronic. Sure. So, you know. I don't know, man. Christopher Reeve turned down the role of Quaid. He's more of a. He would have looked more every man in this, I feel. Yeah, especially if they put those stupid little glasses on him.

Yeah, man. Everyone got sick in this movie filming in Mexico, except Arnold. And I think maybe one other guy... Because he would have got his special food flown in or whatever. Paul Verhoeven got so sick that he would direct from a stretcher on top of a minivan because he was unable to stand. And he said the crew, unless the doctor says that I'm actually dying, we're just going to continue shooting. All right, dude. Yeah.

Paul Vovin also said on the DVD commentary that for the love scene at the beginning, he wanted Sharon Stone to show more skin, but she refused to do so. And he settled for shooting the scene the way that she wanted it done, but he mentions that he got her back while filming Basic Instinct. Oh.

Yeah. I don't like it. I don't like it. Let's leave it alone. It's between those two, probably the police. I don't know. And this is fascinating to me.

Approximately three weeks before the movie's scheduled theatrical release, it only had a 43% public awareness. Swartz and Nessonetka, could describe this as absolutely... That's only a partial recall. Thank you. You're welcome. That's good.

Are you going to do that? Were you going to say that? I can. No, don't. I said it. Okay. The more you're asking if I want to say it. I don't know.

You could have given it to me. Nah. Arnold described this as being absolute disastrous, only a partial recall. But he was able to convince producer Mario Kazza and the rest of Carol Coe, the production company to put more money in and as a result by the time this movie came out, it had 99% public awareness. Can you imagine that a movie coming out now with 43% public awareness? awareness. That's as good as you've got to do. Absolutely. Yeah. Different era.

Anyways, it all paid off because on a budget of maybe $65 million, probably more, it made 261.4. Okay, well, if the movie costs more, $265 million, then it made it lost, isn't it? Yeah, maybe, maybe you're right. You got to pin those numbers down, brother. Yeah. But the reason I say that this might not have been a dream is because there was a sequel in the works for a time. Yeah, right. But it was called Total Recall, Douglas Quaid has another dream. So, second dream. Second dream.

Douglas Quaid. Screenwriter Gary Goldman, he optioned the Philip K. Dick short story minority report to make a low-budget feature. Even though that is not a sequel book to Total Recall, Arnold was going to return. And the idea in this one was the mutants were going to be clairvoyant. So that was going to be the idea behind pre-crime, and Arnold would be a cop in charge of that unit. That's genius. Right. It was said that it was going to be a high wire act that would either confirm or deny what happened in the first movie on Mars.

And they were going to use like the narrative device with the recall chair and whatever and then use a way to put Arnold back on Mars and all this other stuff. In the end, Arnold was like, this is too complicated. And Carol Co. went bankrupt. And of course, this movie just became the movie Minority Report. Absolutely. It did, yeah. Which is better. It makes more sense than what they were doing here. Not a dream. Not a dream.

But those predictions are a dream, maybe. Some of the predictions are a dream. Because the prediction at the end wasn't a dream. It wasn't a dream. Because he did, Tom Cruise did kill that person. Yeah, but dreams were open to interpretation. That was the point of that movie. And maybe the sequel TV series, which nobody watched.

Somebody watched it. Total Recur. We only got one of those guys back or whatever from the pit, the woman or whatever. The bald woman. Minority report. Minority report. TV show. All right.

There was also a total recall TV series. When? Like 99? Get out of you. I'm pretty sure. Let's look it up. It might have been one of those shows. shows where they made 10 episodes, but they only aired two or something.

Oh my God, you were absolutely right. Well, Michael Easton was in it. Michael Easton, a guy I've never heard of. He was in it. Wow. Total Recall, 2070. Which is before this one? Oh, it had rogue asteroids in it. Oh, I love him.

I love the work of the act of rogue androids. He's good, isn't he? Yeah. Oh, no, it's a pre-70, you're right. It's a prequel. Yeah. Total prequel. Total prequel.

Total prequel. 22 episodes. Apparently. I don't believe. I'd never heard of this. I'm throwing this in the pile with harsh realm. Not real. Oh, and they're almost human with Carl Urban.

And it's a dream. Harsh realm. It's a computer dream. It's a computer dream. Yeah. It received mixed reviews regarding its pace and forgettable moments. The review said, 22 episodes too long. Just make a movie.

Reboat it into a movie with a Coln Farrell. Just make a movie. Put the rat alien stuff in. Yes. This review just says 22 episodes of rat aliens. No memory stuff, just rat aliens Doing rat stuff On the hunt for cheese

Future cheese Future cheese 2070 cheese Yeah virtual cheese That's why they can never get it Oh really Because it's hands just go through it It would go through it

They brought back the hologram machine It's the best machine Anyways here's a hint towards next week What is it? Fuck me, I don't know Is this Starship Troopers It might be It's for Hovin again

No it's not It's something else actually I can't remember what it is It's Demolition Man Demolition Man Wow Wow. I had the novelisation. Did you?

And I saw the movie. Yeah. And something about Pete's Hart and Taco Bell? Yeah. That's a bit of trivia. It's going to be in there. We'll talk about it next week. Yeah.

Yeah. Three seashells? Three seashells. How they, what was it for? Probably rubbed him on their butts. We'll talk about it. They probably rubbed it on their butts. Stallone has an answer.

What? He shouldn't. He shouldn't. Well, he does. All right. If you don't want to say that early, we actually have a service called big sandwich.com or Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movies. It's the same thing.

Yes. Different platforms. Not confusing. Not confusing. But it's just depending on where you want to go. We do video game let's plays there as well. We do movie commentaries. We do bonus podcasts.

We do a comic book club. We do good clean fun. We absolutely do. There is six years of bonus content that is there, which is completely exclusive. Also, we have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. That's not exclusive. It's on YouTube channel, Spotify, Apple. We talk movie news and news of the week, movie week.

It's free for the people. It really is. Or it's a dream? Or it's a dream. I was like, how do I tie it together? How do I tie this video together seamlessly? Yep. All the stuff you said was a dream.

None of it's real. Don't even bother. I don't care. That's good for me, actually. Oh, yeah? It means nothing matters. That's the spirit. Not even your kids?

Are they real? 50, 50. Oh, God. Where do they be hanging? And by that, I mean, either they're real or not real, or one of them's real and one of them's not real. It's up to you. Anyways, thank you so much to Ben for the edit

Thank you, Ben. Anyways, thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Lawrence. Lawrence and Ben leave both of those in or take one out, wherever this goes to. And we'll see you on the next one. Grabbed out jammy guys, we'll see it next week. Demolition, man. Unless it's a dream.

Three seashells. Maybe they put them up their butt and then it just absorbs everything. I think it's for pinching the poo. Oh, the poo pitch. Okay. Yeah. Hashtake pinching the poo. No.

Save that for next week. No. Save for next week. Remember it for next week.