Total Recall

We watched Total Recall again last night.

Watching Michael Ironside and the Mars cops blowing away all those innocent people on the tube makes us wonder if they were trained by the Met Police?

The whole issue of the implanted memories brings to mind an episode of DS9 where O Brien is captured by the Cardassians and sentenced to 20 years. However he doesn't literally serve 20 years, just has an implant to make him think he has. So there he is, back at DS9, not a day older, and hasn't lost anything. Now, in this situation you would think the memories were real, that you had lived through them. But you wouldn't actually live through them in real time. So would this really be a punishment? It' a lot better than serving the 20 years at any rate.

If they remade this film now, or were making it for the first time now, Kaley Cuoco would be great in the Sharon Stone role.
(see her in 8 Simple Rules, last series of Charmed, and Big Bang Theory).

Having said that, we could also picture playing the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct...