Chaplin
Better off silent
Didn't get to do a full 7 movies this week, but wanted to slip in at least one more for the week...
Amazon.com Synopsis/Review:
Memorable one-liners, gratuitous violence, 3-breasted women and Arnold Scwarzenegger costarring with Sharon Stone: Does it get much better than that?
This film marked Schwarzenegger's renaissance, his opportunity to get away from ho-hum cliched action movies and move into something that has a better story and a chance to show some acting chops--leading to movies like Terminator 2, True Lies and the horribly-received Last Action Hero.
But hidden behind the violence--stabbings, tearing off arms, bodies being torn apart by a giant stone driller--there is a very strong and sometimes complicated story about the nature of reality and the ability of the human brain to differentiate between that reality and imagination.
This is a rare action/sci-fi movie--one that can be intellectual, or simply just a good time watching Arnold tear the hell out of anyone that gets in his way. Including Sharon Stone.
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Amazon.com Synopsis/Review:
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.
Memorable one-liners, gratuitous violence, 3-breasted women and Arnold Scwarzenegger costarring with Sharon Stone: Does it get much better than that?
This film marked Schwarzenegger's renaissance, his opportunity to get away from ho-hum cliched action movies and move into something that has a better story and a chance to show some acting chops--leading to movies like Terminator 2, True Lies and the horribly-received Last Action Hero.
But hidden behind the violence--stabbings, tearing off arms, bodies being torn apart by a giant stone driller--there is a very strong and sometimes complicated story about the nature of reality and the ability of the human brain to differentiate between that reality and imagination.
This is a rare action/sci-fi movie--one that can be intellectual, or simply just a good time watching Arnold tear the hell out of anyone that gets in his way. Including Sharon Stone.