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Binding: Blu-ray EAN: 0057373172766 Format: NTSC Release Date: January 09, 2007 Sales Rank: 69 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Additional Features: Director Paul Verhoeven and star Arnold Schwarzenegger have their own ideas about what's really going on in Total Recall, and offer an entertaining commentary track on Artisan's special limited edition. They make their case, to the glee of conspiracy buffs, by pointing out every clue and discussing every twist in perspective. The original documentary featurette "Imagining Total Recall" crams dozens of interviews into a tight, if brief, 30-minute program covering the entire production history, and "Visions of Mars" is a too-brief six-minute piece on the real red planet. Along with the galleries of storyboards and conceptual art and production stills are the complete "Rekall Virtual Vacation" clips glimpsed early in the film. The collector's metal "Mars" case is a fancy tobacco tin with a cratered surface, not particularly practical but a great display piece. --Sean Axmaker Amazon.com Essential Video: This science fiction blockbuster from 1990 began its production life as a very different movie than the one that was released. An adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Total Recall was originally conceived of with Richard Dreyfuss starring as a Walter Mitty-like character who experiences a variety of artificially induced fantasies. The movie we know is a mega-budget action epic set on Mars. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a normal working man who discovers that his entire reality has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Oscar-winning special effects and violent action propel the twisting plot, in which Arnold manipulates his manipulators in a world of dazzling high technology. Director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop) indulges his usual penchant for gratuitous bloodshed, but the movie has enough cleverness to rise above its excesses. --Jeff Shannon Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Would be lousy as a DVDI'm glad I picked this up for under $10. If I got this as a DVD I'd be disappointed but not surprised. I've seen a lot of garbage film-to-DVD transfers. You know, the ones with the film grain and scratches? Well, now we have it on Blu-ray. The BR version of this movie offers no video quality improvements over DVD. It's like watching a movie film, but with lots of dithering. If you have this on DVD, don't waste your money on this version. Having said all that, I still like this movie. I'd like to see a remaster of it eventually. Rating:  - This isn't a Blu-Ray, it's an upconverted DVD!Fine movie, don't get me wrong. But as Blu-Ray movies go, the picture quality is horrid. It would be above average as a DVD ... but that's not what you're paying for. Rating:  - Total RecallThis is one of Arnold's best. Take a great lineup of actors. Throw in a good story by Philip K. Dick (screen play by Ronald Shussett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman). Add a well designed set that make you feel you are there. And you have the makings for a pretty good movie. With a few exceptions it is hard to tell the good guys format the bad and with several plot twists it is hard to know if you should root for the good guy or the bad. A hint stick with Arnold and you can not go wrong (Maybe). Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a mild mannered construction worker, who is happily married to Lori (Sharon Stone), and seems extraordinarily attracted to life on Mars. Now Mars is settled and basically ran by a mining consortium. ... Read More: Rating: - ETMR - Total Recall1. Humanity: What problems do you see in the Mars colony in the film? Is the colony a feasible idea for today? 2. Implications: The movie is centered around the question of what is reality, and how to discern truth from fiction. What dangers does the film speak of for today, in terms of distinguishing reality from a created world? 3. Evolution: It could be said that the technology expressed in the film is very basic, compared to technological innovation today. Concepts like terraforming using a combustion of air, planetary colonies with glass windows, and cheap, robotic androids are all scientific anomolies in that they seem to belong to a past age. How has the technology in the movie changed in our world? Read More: Rating: - Verhooven to subtle for his own good...I used to hate this film. Which is odd, because I like Philip Dick, I like Verhooven and, then, I liked Schwatzenegger. The film was actually good up to the end. I just thought the end was too soapy and stuid even by Hollywood standards. Then I read the book "Dead Air" by Iain Banks. There the film is explained, and suddenly it all made sense to me. Verhooven's films are full of action and gore, which tend to overshadow that they also tend to have a quite strong message. That's why Total Recall always bothered me: where is the message? But it is there, quite obvious really: it all takes place in Schwartzenegger's head; he is still in the reality simulator! That would explain why things start happening shortly after his visit there. It would ... Read More: |
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