Total Recall 1990

     Doug Quaid is a construction worker, he’s happy with his life and his marriage of eight years.  He’s very fascinated by Mars and he would like to travel to a colony there with his wife.  She doesn’t want to go, he learns about a company that can give you a dream vacation of your choice.  The dream doesn’t go as planned and his entire world changes.

     Some of the details about Quaid’s life are the same as in Total Recall 2012 but everything else is very different except for the same large amount of broken glass.  He was married seven years in Recall 2012.  I’m surprised this movie was remade since the original is so laughable.  It’s really a comedy now with hokey special effects and dialogue.  Some of the scenes, car and spaceship models and ideas are ridiculous.  

113 min, SciFi directed by Paul Verhoeven with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mel Johnson.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 ½*, imdb 7.5 out of 10, 84% critic 71% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.  

Special Notes:  At least Schwarzenegger is much younger and you're able to get it out of your mind that he was the Governor of California for two terms.  Sharon Stone looks very young also.  Her clothes and all the women’s hairstyles are funny.  Interesting that he’s called Doug in 1990 and Douglas in 2012?