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Total Recall
Film
FilmPG-132012
Total Recall
Directed by Len Wiseman
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen. From TMDB
234 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| TMDB reviews * | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Total Recall is a 2012 action science fiction thriller film, directed by Len Wiseman, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale.
- 208 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Dec 24, 2013 to Nov 5, 2026
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60 of 234 · most liked firstAny fans of the 1990 film Total Recall?
neutral · AI labelView post →HOW have I never seen Total Recall until now? Instantly my favourite Verhoeven film!
positive · AI labelView post →Credit where it’s due: Elon Musk wanted the Cybertruck to have a futuristic, movie-based-on-Philip-K.-Dick-story vibe. And sure, it’s no Blade Runner. But what we’re looking at *is* a Total Recall.
neutral · AI labelView post →TOTAL RECALL was released 36 years ago. The second-most expensive film ever made at the time, and among the most popular films of both Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the story behind the scenes is as bonkers as what we see on the screen… 1/47
neutral · AI labelView post →My spouse & I have known each other for 14 years. For almost the entirety of that time he has found reason to quote TOTAL RECALL (1990) to me on the order of once a month. Tonight, I watch the film for the first time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film: Total Recall The original.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had the same experience watching Total Recall the other day. 'Oh this'll be a nice nostalgic reminder of a film I adored as a kid,' I thought. It's about the neoliberal colonisation of Mars, resulting in an oligarch class turning off the oxygen for low-income sectors.
positive · AI labelView post →Total Recall is supposed to be a cool movie, not a description of the US food supply
neutral · AI labelView post →This exactly what the movie Total Recall was about.
neutral · AI labelView post →Total Recall is my favorite movie about cybertrucks
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently in Total Recall (1990) the very end of the film was meant to be a clue as to the fate of the protagonist. First the frame flooded with white light and then faded to black.. This was meant to be a visual representation of an electronic lobotomy.. 😯
neutral · AI labelView post →Total Recall? What is this? A movie about the US Food Supply? 😂 #darkhumor #youhavetolaugh
neutral · AI labelView post →TOTAL RECALL was released 35 years ago today. The second-most expensive film ever made at the time, and among the most popular films of both Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the story behind the scenes is as bonkers as what we see on the screen… 1/47
neutral · AI labelView post →Total Recall is really funny with this where they get a real wiseguy sidekick in the early part of the movie to smack Arnie in the shoulder and go “yeah we’re just a couple a working Joes aren’t we” and if the movie wasn’t good you’d go sir you are not acknowledging you work with mighty Gilgamesh
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Total Recall” (1990), directed by Paul Verhoeven
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (146/365) #NowShowing TOTAL RECALL (1990) Just crossing another one off of my ‘I Really Should Have Watched This 30 Years Ago’ list... Better late than never, I suppose. 🧡🤘 #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Released on this day--1 June--in 1990, Paul Verhoeven's TOTAL RECALL, which, in its time, was a major anomaly and, these days, looks like a movie from a bygone era whose passing every lover of movies should lament. #filmsky #moviesky #scifi #TotalRecall #PaulVerhoeven #ArnoldSchwarzenegger
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight we're watching Total Recall (1990) and once again marvelling at early 90s practical effects. I can't bear nineties nostalgia for the most part but in terms of film it was a golden era of inexplicably weird magic.
positive · AI labelView post →Little Star Trek fun fact for you is that Marc Alaimo who played Gul Dukat was the secondary bad guy in Total Recall and also the boob hat trucker in the third Naked Gun movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is Wife Appreciation Day 💍 Post a favorite wife! (From TV or Film) My choice… Lori from ‘Total Recall’ 😈🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Nothing proves that this movie doesn't take place in the same cinematic universe as RoboCop and Total Recall. #NowWatching Showgirls (1995) #filmsky #Verhoevenverse
neutral · AI labelView post →watched Total Recall this week (it takes multiple days to watch a movie now) and realized it was the first time I had seen it.
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked Total Recall better when it was a movie and not a food distribution strategy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who is the most attractive villain in Movie or TV history? IMO… Lori (Sharon Stone) in ‘Total Recall’ 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Remake Total Recall but Arnie is a woman forced into a het relationship with a generically handsome man and is able to break out of the pathetic farce of a Hallmark movie after going for a mental vacation where she admits her ideal partner would be a sleazy brunette lady~
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Dead & Buried, a 1981 #horror film directed by Gary Sherman, written by Ronald Shusett (Alien, Total Recall), with some excellent special effects by the legendary Stan Winston (The Thing, Terminator, Aliens, Predator, etc). As for actors, check 2/2 below... 1/2 #Filmsky #Moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Total Recall, fav Arnold Schwarzenegger Film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching “Total Recall”, my third Arnold movie of the day! On my only day off this week, I can’t think of a better way to “waste” the day than with Schwarzenegger!
positive · AI labelView post →The FDA’s favorite movie is Total Recall.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've just watched Total Recall again for the first time in at least twenty years. What a fantastic movie. Mental and stupid and so much fun, just about the perfect Arnie vehicle. The view of the future is amazing.
positive · AI labelView post →Total Recall, which is both a meta-B-movie and a B-movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →From top left clockwise: -Nazi who dies screaming in an Indiana Jones movie -Sonic the Hedgehog’s nemesis Dr Eggman -Cursed Ventriloquist doll from a Blumhouse horror movie -Guy whose head is about to explode from going outside the Mars Colony from Total Recall
neutral · AI labelView post →Total Recall is not a great movie, but it really captured the mindfucking weirdness of a PKD novel
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★ review of Total Recall (2012) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/agKMnt
negative · AI labelView post →Still, the worst of these remakes is still gotta be Colin Farrell's Total Recall, a movie that consistently asked 'what did the original movie do?' and did the opposite.
negative · AI labelView post →Started getting my movie themed commissions again (my FAV to do) so I thought I’d get back to doing studies alongside watching them. I watched Total Recall 1990 the other day and loved it!!
positive · AI labelView post →36 years ago today, Paul Verhoeven took us to Mars. Total Recall remains one of the smartest, wildest, and most influential sci-fi action films ever made. Celebrate the anniversary with our deep dive: cinephiliabeyond.org/total-recall/ #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Total Recall for the first time in a while. Remember when every actor in a movie had a face?
neutral · AI labelView post →massive than the original ocean, again because of atmospheric loss and crustal sequestration. Even the movie Total Recall had to come up with aliens as the source of the water on Mars. 2/6
neutral · AI labelView post →You know what's a good fucking movie? Total Recall is a good fucking movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Cyber Trucks look like the cop cars on Mars in the movie "Total Recall" (1990). Elon would've been a teen at the time. Just ⚖️ sayin' 🤨
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so. I'm one of those weirdos who digs the first Terminator more than T2 because of how T1 goes harder and darker than T2, pulling absolutely no punches, functioning as a slasher film just as much as a sci-fi film. That said, out of these? Total Recall. Out of all his works? THE RUNNING MAN
positive · AI labelView post →God Total Recall is such a great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →You guys aren't gonna believe this, but the 1993 Super Mario Bros Movie.... is good? Cyberpunk madness with Robocop and Total Recall in its DNA. Lot of fun.
positive · AI labelView post →And since i posted the Total Recall one, here’s some of my boards from the Robocop remake too #storyboards #storyboardartist #film #filmart #robocop
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying Last Action Hero, fav Arnold Schwarzenegger film? 🎥 My brain says Total Recall, but my goofball dad heart says Jingle All The Way
positive · AI labelView post →On this night (20th April) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Total Recall (1990), Robocop (1987), The Terminator (1984), Robocop 2 (1990) and Trancers (1984) as a Metal Machine Men all-nighter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quaid!!!!!!! Tonight’s screening: TOTAL RECALL in 70mm at the Egyptian Theater, thanks to @amcinematheque.bsky.social. My first time seeing this on film with a crowd.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cheese with wine ... Mrs H and I watching the restored ‘Total Recall’ (1990, 2020 blu-ray). It’s certainly dated, and very much of its time, but its cartoon like relentless action leaves you breathless. Lack of CGI actually makes me like it more too. The big sets, like the film, are imposing
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Day #126 "Total Recall" (Paul Verhoeven/1990) Get your ass to Mars! Yet another Paul Verhoeven sci-fi belter. So many great moments and quotable lines. If you haven't already seen it, check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →TOTAL RECALL wants you to think it's not smart, but it's actually brilliant. And that's why it's the superior film.
positive · AI labelView post →Total Recall Episode, up now! #totalrecall #mutantfam #moviesky Link below: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Verhoeven had worked with Rob Bottin previously on RoboCop, where Bottin created the iconic suit. They had not got on on that film but, when they saw the results, agreed to work together again on Total Recall. Verhoeven gave Bottin full freedom to make the mutants. 26/47
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #MarchMovieChallenge Mar-10 Movie or TV character played by Sharon Stone that is NOT Basic Instinct Total Recall (1990)
neutral · AI labelView post →Starship Troopers. 1997. 35mm scan. Director Paul Verhoeven grew up in Nazi occupied Holland which explains much of his film making, most evident in ST — a future vision of a Federation Army “filled with fascists without libido”; a continuation from his earlier films like Robocop & Total Recall.
neutral · AI labelView post →Great! My favorite movie is Total Recall. I'm sure this will be like a fun little vacation. Oo can they give me a new name while I watch it? Call me... Douglas Quaid!
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie: Total Recall (1990) #FilmSky #JulyMovieChallenge #Day30
positive · AI labelView post →San Fransisco has self driving taxis. No thanks, I've seen the movie Total Recall. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →If Terminator and Predator got a dozen spin-offs, Total Recall and Conan too, surely Commando is worth a revival of some sort? Either way, the original 1984 film is a fun slice of action + comedy, one of the first X/18 movies saw. Let off some steam! 4 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/04/21/c...
neutral · AI labelView post →Total Recall. Not a big action movie guy or Verhoeven guy generally but I think that movie is *perfect*
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