Total Recall (1990)

Join me for what is not my favorite movie but nevertheless a classic part of the Schwarzenegger oeuvre. I compare it to The 6th Day and other films and explain where it goes off the rails regardless of which story you believe: the dream story, the reality story, or the alternate reality story, or even the alternate-alternate reality story. I pity the poor rats. I try to find the point the movie may stray from reality. I say "If this is reality..." too many times and get distracted by Sharon Stone. And I get carried away with saying that Paul Verhoeven got carried away with the head games. I don't bother much with the "science", but I do make fun of Cohaagen's henchmen being the worst secret agents ever. And, at some point, I believe I may have suffered a schizoid embolism.