Just sat down to watch this on 4K UHD, and just before the menu kicks in, a disclaimer announces the following:
"PLEASE NOTE THIS MOVIE REFLECTS HISTORICAL ATTITUDES WHICH AUDIENCES MAY FIND OUTDATED OR OFFENSIVE"
Outdated?....Dafuq! The movie is set in 2084?
For a movie about freaks, oxygen thieves, identity politics and shit government... I'd say it's (worryingly) relevant?
I bet the disclaimer is about Arnie's toxic masculinity (so to speak) towards Stone and Ticotin, the two female leads.
This whole thing is getting rather silly and annoying now, I have to agree. First they're giving warnings, next they'll be withholding sale on physical media or streaming altogether as they set out to make the world their woke way - it's disgusting.
It’s not just that. It’s some woke content police bureaucrat who’s never created anything in their life trying to shut down unclean thoughts. They hope the negative label applied to someone else’s artistic expression will deter “wrong think” by other artists in the future. It stems from fear and it’s designed to chill forms of expression by artists of influence and get them to toe the line
shareWhat did he do? my memory is hazy.
He got a good ass kicking from Stone - very 21C
"What did he do? my memory is hazy."
Rescue the girl, kill the bad guys, save the world. I have no problem with that, but you're right, the two women were no pushovers, neither. Nor were the other females, like that dwarf girl who stabs that goon in the dick at the bar.
I'm surprised they didn't remove the Stone and Ticotin scenes with them fighting along with Arnold's toxic masculinity which no woman was offended by back in that Era??
shareWokeness strikes again! What attitudes in particular were they referring to I wonder?
shareI'm sure it has something to do with the woman with three tits.
shareThis is so dumb... of course any movie is a product of its time, so anyone with half a brain will not expect 2023-like writing from an 1990 movie.
But wait, it gets dumber. Yes, the movie came out in 1990, but... it is a satirical take on action movies in general. So "historical attitudes" don't even make sense in any way when it comes to this movie.
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But let's say this was an 1990 movie which is set in 1990 and not a satire. It would be still dumb to include such disclaimer about "historical attitudes" (sorry, I'm hung up on this, because it's so stupid), because whatever is depicted in the movie, doesn't automatically mean that life in 1990 was just like that. As anyone with half a brain already knows - movies are fictional.
" it is a satirical take on action movies in general."
yeah? how so?
While perhaps calling it a satire isn't quite right, if Quaid's body is still at the Rekall company and everything that's happening is merely implanted in his head, it makes sense that he was given a stereotypical "badass action hero" plot, which is what Quaid signed up for.
Of course, if one interprets the movie as Quaid really experiencing what's going on, then this doesn't apply.
good point
shareThis was partly what I meant, yes. But it goes deeper than that.
Total Recall is wonderfully meta.
This is a movie, so right out of the gate, saying something is "real" in it, doesn't make sense. Realistic, maybe. But of course terraforming Mars in 2 minutes (before our main characters run out of air) is not realistic. Even if we accept that part, Quaid & Melina having those bulged out eyes (great prosthetic work BTW!) for a whole minute would cause many many long term problems, it would not just "reset" without problems - the human body does not work like that. Their mucous membranes would be absolutely DESTROYED in their mouth, throat, nose, etc. and they would be bleeding excessively, most likely they would lose consciousness, and would not survive without immediate medical attention.
But of course, it's a movie, so you shouldn't think about mucous membranes - and that is the sheer genius of it. A movie is like an implanted memory in the universe of the movie. But you have to consider the in-universe "real" layer as well... and you can find explanations from either layer to this.
And this triple-layered storytelling is the brilliance of Verhoeven, that enables him to go a bit over the top in certain scenes, satirizing action movies in a way - the human shield scene, the eyes popping out scene, the mutants, etc. Maybe satire is not the best word, but I think I got my point across.
Everyone will be offended about something within the entire spectrum from nothing to everything, everywhere, at any point in time.
Once this country gets that through its thick collective skull, no disclaimers or apologies are necessary.
'what you been feeding this thing?' 'Blondes'
'Brunette, athletic, sleazy and demure just as you specified'
'Consider that a divorce'
'i got 5 kids to feed'
'Uh-uh, Princess. We're having you fixed. You're gonna be respectful, compliant, and appreciative... the way a woman should be.'
Sex workers
Ultra violence (not normal action movie violence but Verhoeven violence!)
lots for the current woke gen to get upset about :)
I'm guessing they have to put these warnings on purely because twitter trolls , or 4chan or other attention seekers will pretend to be offended
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