Total Recall Remake

Yeah, I think it looks great. A lot of talented folks involved, particularly the cast, and the aesthetic looks like it's a nice blend of Blade Runner (the cars), the original Recall (the costumes), and Minority Report (the environment). I'm all over it.

I'll either jump to go see that movie ... or have the memory of having seen it implanted into me and then jump from a levitating cop car with Jessica Biel and fall thirty storeys, yeah!

The one thing I never understood, and still don't, is that Dick is unclear as to the nature of the memory experience. Are the people JUST given the memory or are they given a memory AND the experience? And by 'experience' I mean something like a vivid hallucinogenic real time story-type-thingy. In the latter case, the person actually experiences the memory, rather than merely remembering it.

Honestly, if it's the former, I can't imagine that being too enjoyable. I'd rather had the experience and the memory, rather than merely a false memory. Who knows how Dick thought of it. As I said, he isn't very clear on this point. Damn you Dick!

The one thing I never understood, and still don't, is that Dick is unclear as to the nature of the memory experience. Are the people JUST given the memory or are they given a memory AND the experience? And by 'experience' I mean something like a vivid hallucinogenic real time story-type-thingy. In the latter case, the person actually experiences the memory, rather than merely remembering it.

Honestly, if it's the former, I can't imagine that being too enjoyable. I'd rather had the experience and the memory, rather than merely a false memory. Who knows how Dick thought of it. As I said, he isn't very clear on this point. Damn you Dick!

I think Dick would probably side with the research that argues memories are "experiences" in themselves, like dreams. That each time we recall a memory, we "live" it all over again -- and our brain can't tell the difference.

That certainly accords with his metaphysics. Parallel universes, and all that jazz.

Still not quite sold on this one. I saw a lot of action, but very little evidence of brains. But hey... it looks cool. If I have time to kill, I might pull the trigger on this. And the Ahnuld version is seriously dated when you watch it now. Those bulging eyes are straight out a bad cartoon...