Total Recall (1990)

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Wikidata Q222018, film, IMDb tt0100802, TMDB 861: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Ronny Cox as actor (‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan); 2 more episodes agree.

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

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Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Paul Verhoeven: 3 lines people ×1 craft ×1 industry ×1

  1. craft (craft): Total Recall → Paul Verhoeven. The film walks the line between schlock and incisive satire.
    “really walks this very delicate line between schlock and incisive satire”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

RoboCop: 3 lines career ×1 lineage ×1 theme ×1

  1. career (career): RoboCop → Total Recall. RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct let him have cake and eat it: deconstructions that also work as straight entertainment.
    “What I've called before, movies where he gets to have his cake needed too.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:25 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

Basic Instinct: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Total Recall → Basic Instinct. Total Recall predates Sharon Stone's appearance in Basic Instinct (a question about Verhoeven's intent).
    “The predates her appearance and basic instinct?”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Die Hard 2: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (shared that-guy): Die Hard 2 → Total Recall. Robert Costanzo is in both Die Hard 2 and Total Recall.
    “He's in total recall, too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Champion: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Michael Champion → Total Recall. Champion was in Total Recall and everything in the 80s as the slimy sidekick to the heavy.
    “he's in like total recall, history blues.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ronny Cox: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Ronny Cox → Total Recall. Ronny Cox's 83 to 90 run playing guys in charge makes him a Rooney candidate, tied to a past Total Recall episode.
    “You guys just talked about him on Total Recall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sean Fennessey: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Total Recall. Pick 3 (round 1), category blockbuster: Verhoeven masterpiece, sci-fi satire, Schwarzenegger's best.
    “In Blockbuster, I'm gonna go with Total Recall”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Sharon Stone: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Total Recall → Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone plays a wife who is not to be trusted, before Basic Instinct.
    “very funny performance from Sharon Stone as a wife who is not to be trusted”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Game: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (structure): The Game → Total Recall. The test-then-start gag is like Total Recall's malfunction.
    “It's it's the total recall thing where they tell you exactly what's going to happen right at the moment where the thing is supposed to start.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:16:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Terminator: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Total Recall → The Terminator. The pick makes a case that Total Recall is Schwarzenegger's best movie, neck and neck with the Terminator films.
    “strong case for it being Arnold Schwarzenegger's best movie, kind of neck and neck, I think, with the Terminator films”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The War of the Roses: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): The War of the Roses → Total Recall. One 'that guy' in the dinner scene is the sweating man from Total Recall.
    “One is the guy from Total Recall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): RoboCop → Total Recall. RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct let him have cake and eat it: deconstructions that also work as straight entertainment.
    “What I've called before, movies where he gets to have his cake needed too.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:25 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): The War of the Roses → Total Recall. One 'that guy' in the dinner scene is the sweating man from Total Recall.
    “One is the guy from Total Recall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Michael Champion → Total Recall. Champion was in Total Recall and everything in the 80s as the slimy sidekick to the heavy.
    “he's in like total recall, history blues.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Total Recall → Basic Instinct. Total Recall predates Sharon Stone's appearance in Basic Instinct (a question about Verhoeven's intent).
    “The predates her appearance and basic instinct?”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Total Recall → The Terminator. The pick makes a case that Total Recall is Schwarzenegger's best movie, neck and neck with the Terminator films.
    “strong case for it being Arnold Schwarzenegger's best movie, kind of neck and neck, I think, with the Terminator films”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Total Recall → Paul Verhoeven. The film walks the line between schlock and incisive satire.
    “really walks this very delicate line between schlock and incisive satire”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (structure): The Game → Total Recall. The test-then-start gag is like Total Recall's malfunction.
    “It's it's the total recall thing where they tell you exactly what's going to happen right at the moment where the thing is supposed to start.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 1:16:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Paul Verhoeven → Total Recall. Almost every Verhoeven Hollywood film got a remake or sequel, including Total Recall and RoboCop.
    “almost every one of his Hollywood films was either sequelized or remade.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:06:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): RoboCop → Total Recall. The Wiseman remake of Total Recall is cited as an equally boring office-building finale, a remake sibling to this film.
    “This is so similar to the Wiseman Total Recall.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:43:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Total Recall → Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven's Total Recall is called one of his masterpieces.
    “one of Paul Verhoven's masterpieces”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Total Recall → Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone plays a wife who is not to be trusted, before Basic Instinct.
    “very funny performance from Sharon Stone as a wife who is not to be trusted”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Total Recall. Pick 3 (round 1), category blockbuster: Verhoeven masterpiece, sci-fi satire, Schwarzenegger's best.
    “In Blockbuster, I'm gonna go with Total Recall”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): RoboCop → Total Recall. The RoboCop remake and Total Recall remake are emblematic of peak shitty 2010 remakes.
    “That era kind of total recall robocop.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (shared that-guy): Die Hard 2 → Total Recall. Robert Costanzo is in both Die Hard 2 and Total Recall.
    “He's in total recall, too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Ronny Cox → Total Recall. Ronny Cox's 83 to 90 run playing guys in charge makes him a Rooney candidate, tied to a past Total Recall episode.
    “You guys just talked about him on Total Recall.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Total Recall: Sean notes the three-breasted woman and Sharon Stone as the unreliable wife.
    “Not one, not two, but 3 breasted woman.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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