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. Want access to bonus content, interviews with legendary filmmakers, and Host Q and A's? Click here to become a Movie Wars Patreon Supporter!  This helps keep the show ad-free, and gets you access to Kyle's show "Filmosophy", Interviews with legendary filmmakers, Q and A, a private Facebook group, and outtakes! Film Summaries: Total RecallDouglas 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:RGenre:Sci-Fi, ActionDirector:Paul VerhoevenProducer:Buzz Feitshans, Ronald ShusettWriter:Philip K. Dick, Jon Povill, Gary GoldmanRelease Date (Streaming):May 21, 2002Box Office (Gross USA):$117.8MRuntime:1h 49m(Info courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/total_recall)Minority ReportBased 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, ActionOriginal Language:EnglishDirector:Steven SpielbergProducer:Gerald R. Molen, Bonnie Curtis, Walter F. Parkes, Jan de BontWriter:Philip K. Dick, Scott Frank, Jon CohenRelease Date (Theaters):Jun 21, 2002  WideRelease Date (Streaming):Dec 17, 2002Box Office (Gross USA):$132.0MRuntime:2h 24m