{"id":40020,"date":"2013-12-12T07:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-total-recall-1990.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T14:54:18","slug":"movie-review-total-recall-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-total-recall-1990.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Total Recall" (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Arnold Schwarzenegger + Paul Verhoeven + Philip K Dick = automatic weapons + buckets o' blood + three-breasted women + intriguing questions about the meaning of personal identity. \u00a0Oh, and some R-rated\u00a0language. But also a lot of fun.\ufeff<\/div>\n

\n

\n \n <\/div>\n

A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Total Recall (1990)<\/a>
\n Here’s a film that combines Arnold Schwarzenegger action, Paul Verhoeven violence and profanity, some pretty nice practical effects work (in this pre-CG era), and a soupcon of mind-blowingness from Philip K Dick. The result is lots of gunplay and sex jokes and F-bombs, wrapped up in a tale of a working joe who discovers that he’s really a mind-erased super-spy who holds the key to a conspiracy that can change the fate of the humans living on Mars…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arnold Schwarzenegger + Paul Verhoeven + Philip K Dick = automatic weapons + buckets o' blood + three-breasted women + intriguing questions about the meaning of personal identity. \u00a0Oh, and some R-rated\u00a0language. But also a lot of fun.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Total Recall (1990) Here’s a film that combines Arnold Schwarzenegger action, Paul Verhoeven … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Total Recall" (1990)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/movie-review-the-matrix-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "The Matrix" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Dec-13 9:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night of this month's father-daughter movie week, so I thought I'd roll back to a film from juuuuuust before she was born. The good stuff is still good, but the annoying stuff is even more annoying than it used to be.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Matrix (1999) \"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49265,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/movie-review-the-hunt-for-red-october-1990.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "The Hunt for Red October" (1990)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Jan-15 5:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"An end-of-the-Cold-War techno-thriller from Tom Clancy (his first novel, in fact), Red October has a great cast, sufficient twists and turns, superb music, and not much else going for it. Which makes it a great popcorn movie. A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of The Hunt for Red October (1990) For a movie\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38880,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/28\/movie-review-1776.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":2},"title":"Movie Review: "1776"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Sep-13 11:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Still patriotically crazy after all these years. \u00a0Yeah, the translation from stage to film is only half-baked, but it's a great musical, and some great actors (many of them reprising their Broadway role). And when your middle school daughter is studying the American Revolution, it's a great excuse to rewatch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":3},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. So here's what we watched, with links to my Letterboxd reviews.1984 (1984)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33130,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/movie-review-view-to-a-kill-1985.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":4},"title":"Movie Review: "View to a Kill" (1985)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Apr-13 8:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. This Bond flick is worse than I remember. Not quite the worst, but an awful mess.Ironically, it's also the first Bond film I recall seeing in a theater. Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605 review of A View to a Kill (1985) on Letterboxd.com The last of the Roger Moore Bond films\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29997,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/book-review-hidden-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":40020,"position":5},"title":"Book Review: "Hidden Things"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Aug-12 7:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pleased as punch to be able to write a glowing review for +Doyce Testerman's first novel. Well done, sir. Embedded Link a review of Hidden Things: A Novel \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 This is a remarkable book. And, beyond remarkable, it's a good book. I had a big review all written up full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}