Total Recall Vs. Minority Report (Ep. 0017)
Phillip K. Dick wrote two incredibly prophetic stories of technophobia with The Minority Report(1956) and We Can Remember it For You Wholesale(1966). It doesn’t hurt that they also led to two Sci-Fi classics carried by leading men Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise. Get paranoid and get weird with the Movie Wars crew as we discuss Total Recall and Minority Report.
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Film Summaries:
Total Recall
Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a company that plants false memories into people's brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.
Rating:
R
Genre:
Sci-Fi, Action
Original Language:
English
Director:
Paul Verhoeven
Producer:
Buzz Feitshans, Ronald Shusett
Writer:
Philip K. Dick, Jon Povill, Gary Goldman
Release Date (Streaming):
May 21, 2002
Box Office (Gross USA):
$117.8M
Runtime:
1h 49m
(Info courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/total_recall)
Minority Report
Based on a story by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, "Minority Report" is an action-detective thriller set in Washington D.C. in 2054, where police utilize a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crime. Tom Cruise plays the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.
Rating:
PG-13 (Drug Content|Brief Language|Some Sexuality|Violence)
Genre:
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language:
English
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Producer:
Gerald R. Molen, Bonnie Curtis, Walter F. Parkes, Jan de Bont
Writer:
Philip K. Dick, Scott Frank, Jon Cohen
Release Date (Theaters):
Jun 21, 2002 Wide
Release Date (Streaming):
Dec 17, 2002
Box Office (Gross USA):
$132.0M
Runtime:
2h 24m