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Screamers (1995) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies and it's more or less The Secondary Variety in film form. Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustr

Screamers (1995) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies and it's more or less The Secondary Variety in film form. Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustrating close to being great."

justsomehnguy 1y ago
Ah, this one. Yes, it's close to be great, but lacks to be it. Mostly because it's not another Hollywood sugar story about the good guys killing all the bad ones. But I would recommend it to anyone who like a serious SF.
thijson 1y ago
I liked the idea of Screamers, how the robots started self replicating and took over. Also liked Total Recall, I was never sure if the whole second part of the movie was real or in his head.
- WCSTombs 1y ago
  I think the confusion about Total Recall's reality is intentional. My view: there are scenes in the movie that are not from Quaid's point of view and that Quaid could not have direct knowledge of. That seems to imply that it's real.
  - ljf 1y ago
    Maybe, but when I'm dreaming I don't always see things from my point of view and I'm often an observer without me clearly being in the dream at all.
  - Hard_Space 1y ago
    In the TR commentary, Verhoeven says the second half is a brain-damaged dream of Quaid’s.
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- MattPalmer1086 1y ago
  Quite a lot of Philip K Dick's stories mess with your sense of what's real, quite intentionally. The short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", on which Total Recall is based, is a fun read - it's not quite the same as the movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_W...
dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Electric Dreams (2017-2018). A series of pure gems based on PKD's legacy.
- atombender 1y ago
  I really, really disliked that show. They completely mangled the plots, for one; Autofac is a great story, but the adaptation bears little resemblance to it. They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?

Screamers (1995) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies and it's more or less The Secondary Variety in film form. Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustrating close to being great."

justsomehnguy 1y ago

Ah, this one. Yes, it's close to be great, but lacks to be it. Mostly because it's not another Hollywood sugar story about the good guys killing all the bad ones. But I would recommend it to anyone who like a serious SF.

thijson 1y ago

I liked the idea of Screamers, how the robots started self replicating and took over. Also liked Total Recall, I was never sure if the whole second part of the movie was real or in his head.

WCSTombs 1y ago
I think the confusion about Total Recall's reality is intentional. My view: there are scenes in the movie that are not from Quaid's point of view and that Quaid could not have direct knowledge of. That seems to imply that it's real.
- ljf 1y ago
  Maybe, but when I'm dreaming I don't always see things from my point of view and I'm often an observer without me clearly being in the dream at all.
- Hard_Space 1y ago
  In the TR commentary, Verhoeven says the second half is a brain-damaged dream of Quaid’s.
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MattPalmer1086 1y ago
Quite a lot of Philip K Dick's stories mess with your sense of what's real, quite intentionally. The short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", on which Total Recall is based, is a fun read - it's not quite the same as the movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_W...

dvfjsdhgfv 1y ago

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Electric Dreams (2017-2018). A series of pure gems based on PKD's legacy.

atombender 1y ago
I really, really disliked that show. They completely mangled the plots, for one; Autofac is a great story, but the adaptation bears little resemblance to it. They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?