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[Sneeds_Sniggerly]

You sure?

Did you even watch the video or are you just retarded?

I gotta give Rich some credit though. He pointed out the best theory as to why the plot wasn't real: Cohaagen's plot is way too complicated. He could have gotten the same results with less steps.

I mean, all you really need to point out is that they give the whole fucking plot of the movie, even the ending with "blue skies on Mars", when he is getting in the machine. Plus the woman being exactly like what he told them he wants etc. Anything beyond that is just reading into it to so you can huff your own farts. But yea, Rich makes a better point than Mike here.

 

[Product Intervention]

Did you even watch the video or are you just retarded?

Of course I didn't watch it. Thanks for the timestamp, toolbag.

 

[Racist Trash]

Also isn't Gul Dukat in Total Recall?

Yup Gul Dukat is in and Benny's actor plays a Cardassian later on in DS9.

 

[Monster Energy Drink]

Films that end with the main character injured or dying usually fade to white, instead of black. Total Recall not only ends with the line "kiss me before you wake up" but there's also a fade to white in the form of the sun behind Arnie expanding to fill the screen. It's something I'm surprised they didn't mention... I bet Jay would have brought it up though.

God, Total Recall is so fucking good.

 

[Travoltron]

Yup Gul Dukat is in and Benny's actor plays a Cardassian later on in DS9.

There's a lot of TNG people in this,: Dr. Edgemar is Sirna Kolrami , the three-titted chick is Ensign Sonya Gomez, Ronny Cox is Captain Jellico. There's probably even more. I'm sure Mike mentioned all this and it got cut for time.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

There's a lot of TNG people in this,: Dr. Edgemar is Sirna Kolrami , the three-titted chick is Ensign Sonya Gomez, Ronny Cox is Captain Jellico. There's probably even more. I'm sure Mike mentioned all this and it got cut for time.

I was going to say that Mary Jo Slater had to have been the casting director, but then I went to IMDB and she wasn't.

 

[glib]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jHxpFHY1z-A

Mike is curious about how they put an image of Arnold inside the train car in the martian train sequence before CGI was used.

The factual answer as far as I know is there was a tiny projector inside the miniature train that projects a "plate" of Arnold looking out the window.

t. Family worked with Paul Verhoeven on other projects.

 

[Coolio55]

Mike is curious about how they put an image of Arnold inside the train car in the martian train sequence before CGI was used.

The factual answer as far as I know is there was a tiny projector inside the miniature train that projects a "plate" of Arnold looking out the window.

t. Family worked with Paul Verhoeven on other projects.

Ah, so that's why it's got that flickery look.
I saw something similar at the end of The Empire Strikes Back and I thought it was just shitty superimposition technology.

 

[byuu]

$50k/month easily.

Which quickly becomes something like 20k after patreon/paypal fees and taxes

 

[Sneeds_Sniggerly]

Mike is curious about how they put an image of Arnold inside the train car in the martian train sequence before CGI was used.

The factual answer as far as I know is there was a tiny projector inside the miniature train that projects a "plate" of Arnold looking out the window.

t. Family worked with Paul Verhoeven on other projects.

Effects like that look and age better than even modern CGI. They also have a nice charm to them. Just look back at "amazing CGI" from 2015 and get ready to cringe. Even Thanos has a few shots where you can tell he's not real.

 

[Puddleduck]

Total Recall 2012, a movie I don't remember

I see what you did there.

 

[Dubu Kimchi]

...

Fear of COVID?

They stopped long before COVID, I want to say it was a big convention in Chicago that was overly crowded that put them off from attending. Rich mentioned it on a PreRec stream how near impossible it was to get any filming done with all the crowds.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Yeah, I rolled my eyes at the "the science isn't real so it's clearly not real" thing. That felt like such a high schooler/teenager thing to over analyze.

Still a good ReView.

Did you even watch the video or are you just retarded?

I sometimes wonder if people actually pay attention to RLM these days. How could someone miss Mike bringing up Gul Dukat?

 

[alright fine]

They stopped long before COVID, I want to say it was a big convention in Chicago that was overly crowded that put them off from attending. Rich mentioned it on a PreRec stream how near impossible it was to get any filming done with all the crowds.

This. I was working that same convention (nowhere near them, unfortunately) and it was an unholy mess of nerd funk, so when they said afterwards that that show soured them on cons, I was like, well, yeah.

 

[King Dead]

This. I was working that same convention (nowhere near them, unfortunately) and it was an unholy mess of nerd funk, so when they said afterwards that that show soured them on cons, I was like, well, yeah.

Cons in general are usually for a particular kind of person, and not everyone is going to have a good time at one. There's also a lot of differences between smaller cons and the big ones, smell not being the least of these. I could see them having a bad time with trying to film things for a later video when there are so many people around. Plus, now that they're better known, they'd have a harder time just blending into the crowd if they wanted to, and who knows how many spergy fans might show up and act weird? It's a shame, but I understand.

 

[Hazel Motes]

Good episode. I haven't seen Total Recall 2012 and nor will I change that, but I really enjoyed Mike and Rich talking about it.

I sway between either Robocop or Total Recall. I've seen the former more times (even did a presentation on the Jesus stuff for my English Literature uni course), but I think Recall is the greater film. Both brilliant. Good choice of ReView.

You think they will do a ReView on Tales From The Crypt? The dvd is in the intro. Would be cool to hear as I was quite a fan.

 

[Absolutego]

Mike is curious about how they put an image of Arnold inside the train car in the martian train sequence before CGI was used.

The factual answer as far as I know is there was a tiny projector inside the miniature train that projects a "plate" of Arnold looking out the window.

t. Family worked with Paul Verhoeven on other projects.

That's so fucking cool, holy shit. Miniature design really hit its peak by the early 90's, and I hope there's a resurgence of it before the people who came up with wacky solutions like that have all died off.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Was this convention C2E2?

My sister dragged me to one of those forever ago and it was the most annoying thing I've ever had to endure. If it was the same I don't blame them for never going to a convention ever again, it certainly made me avoid them.

 

[stuffandthings]

That's so fucking cool, holy shit. Miniature design really hit its peak by the early 90's, and I hope there's a resurgence of it before the people who came up with wacky solutions like that have all died off.

I would say the absolute peak of miniatures came right before the fall with the MASSIVE miniatures used in the original LOTR. The CG in the Hobbit trilogy looks so dated by comparison.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

By coincidence I rewatched Total Recall a few days before they released this vid. It was the first time I noticed Marc Alaimo was in it. "No way Mike's going to let that one pass" I thought.

There's a lot of TNG people in this,: Dr. Edgemar is Sirna Kolrami , the three-titted chick is Ensign Sonya Gomez, Ronny Cox is Captain Jellico. There's probably even more. I'm sure Mike mentioned all this and it got cut for time.

I missed all those, though.

There were those few points about the plot that I disagreed with:

He pointed out the best theory as to why the plot wasn't real: Cohaagen's plot is way too complicated.

I don't know. The 'if it was real' suggestion of wiping Hauser's memories and sticking him in the Last Resort was kind of stupid. They knew who Hauser was. He'd been boinking Melina! If he turned up at the Last Resort saying "howdy, I'm Douglas Quaid, I'm yaw noo bawtendah", you wouldn't have to be a psychic mutant to guess something was up.

Sticking Hauser on Earth is way more complicated, yes, but that counts in Cohaagens favor. The rebels might still smell a rat, but they could also be so confused about what was in Hausers head that Cohaagen hid him on Earth and apparently later wanted him dead, that they might do exactly what they did - bring him along so Kuato could rifle through his brain. And it's not so far-fetched that Cohaagen underestimated how wound up and trigger happy Richter would be. I think I read it somewhere on the farms recently - the bigger and more overreaching a conspiracy is, the less likely it is to exist or remain a giant secret because someone along the line is going to fuck up.

Plus the woman being exactly like what he told them he wants etc.

But she's real! He dreamed her!

Okay, there are other things that make the situation lean towards being fake, but there's still some ambiguity. Even in the ending, from the point of view of the whole adventure being a Rekall implant. Did Doug suffer a schizoid embolism and get lobotomized? Or did the program successfully run its course and Doug woke up, thanked everyone, and went home? Maybe even Dr. Edgemar was part of the Blue Skies On Mars script, blurring the lines between 'Doug the real person' and 'Doug the overlay on Hausers psyche', compared to having Doug assume a completely different persona for the Rekall experience.