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[Nymphae]

I am very curious about the ending of the novelization and cannot find a copy online, and book reviews I'm finding refuse to spoil it. Could be informative.

 

[Tesseract]

i have a copy somewhere, is it really not online anywhere?

 

[Nymphae]

i have a copy somewhere, is it really not online anywhere?

Not free, I couldn't find it after some mild googling.

 

[Caffeine]

Not free, I couldn't find it after some mild googling.

 

[Nymphae]

Nice find! I don't have the patience to listen to the ending in audio form today, maybe someone here can give it a listen and spoil how it ends.

 

[cryptoadam]

Part of the Mars sequence is featured in the Rekall commercial on the Subway train.

The whole thing is a dream. Including Rekall.

Inception.

hmmm

What if its Hauser who was lobotomized when Cophagen tried to set up this plan? And going to earth as Quaid and all of that is just a fake memory ?

 

[Space Runaway]

If it was a recall, why was his wife in it? Why make her a bad guy and then kill her off?

That one part makes no sense if it was supposed to all be a dream vacation. So he wakes up and mourns his wife? Or what?

#TeamReal

If it's a dream, I believe all the real people from his life he encounters in said dream are due to the schizoid embolism and wouldn't be there otherwise. To quote the movie:

"What you're experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes...but you're inventing it yourself as you go along."

So while he's following the preset events of the rekall trip, he's mentally adding elements like Harry and his wife to the events he's dreaming. At least that's how it appears to me, as being able to murder friends and family in an experience as real as any memory would create some serious issues. =P

 

[jason10mm]

I seem to recall.....heh heh, a scene where the brunette mentions that she did modeling for rekall at one point, which would explain why her face shows up in the beginning. That may have been from the novelization though. But it always put me on team real.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I watched it last night, while ripped.

I am on team, IDFK.

 

[natjjohn]

Good Lord Sharon Stone was hot in this

Sharon Stone in this movie could be a whole thread on its own.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Sharon Stone in this movie could be a whole thread on its own.

 

[natjjohn]

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

I never realized how deep this rabbit hole went

 

[Slings and Arrows]

Sweaty Stone is best Stone

 

[michaelius]

TeamReal but to be honest it comes from watching all movies and reading Philip K. Dick novel so I can't ehm recall if it was shown clearly in the movie.

 

[Mihos]

Richter being cucked for years makes me think it should be a dream.

 

[Kazza]

God, 90's Sharon Stone was so hot!

 

[MetalAlien]

I hate all of you that think it's a recall. The movie sucks balls if it's a recall.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

#TeamRecall

I hate all of you that think it's a recall

 

[cryptoadam]

#TeamRecall

Consider it a divorce.

 

[Ivory Blood]

It's real, all of it. You can tell after that scene with the red pill doctor and his bead of sweat, and don't start with a "just a glitch in the simulation" nonsense.

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's real, all of it. You can tell after that scene with the red pill doctor and his bead of sweat, and don't start with a "just a glitch in the simulation" nonsense.

What if the sweat was supposed to happen, to make one think it were real? A part of the programming.

 

[Ivory Blood]

What if the sweat was supposed to happen, to make one think it were real? A part of the programming.

But if the doctor was inserted into the simulation by the programmers, wasn't he "outside the Matrix" so to say? He shouldn't sweat then, he shouldn't even be able to die.

 

[DeepEnigma]

But if the doctor was inserted into the simulation by the programmers, wasn't he "outside the Matrix" so to say? He shouldn't sweat then, he shouldn't even be able to die.

But what if the "insert" line was part of the lie?

 

[cryptoadam]

Why would cophagen send the doctor with the pill? Lets say Quaid takes it then what? He goes back to earth to start over again?

Or Cophagen knew Quaid would say no and shoot the doctor?

If its all a memory it makes sense that everything worked out. If its real then Cophagen basically is screwing his plan over and over again.

 

[Ivory Blood]

But what if the "insert" line was part of the lie?

I'm still #TeamReal. But it's something to think about. They don't make movies like this anymore, smh.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Why would cophagen send the doctor with the pill? Lets say Quaid takes it then what? He goes back to earth to start over again?

Or Cophagen knew Quaid would say no and shoot the doctor?

If its all a memory it makes sense that everything worked out. If its real then Cophagen basically is screwing his plan over and over again.

and he cannot lie

 

[cryptoadam]

If Recall was real I would fuck with my customers and insert memories of them banging purple haired SJW fatties.

 

[MetalAlien]

Why would cophagen send the doctor with the pill? Lets say Quaid takes it then what? He goes back to earth to start over again?

Or Cophagen knew Quaid would say no and shoot the doctor?

If its all a memory it makes sense that everything worked out. If its real then Cophagen basically is screwing his plan over and over again.

Well he said he wasn't supposed to be activated yet. Going to Recall moved all the plans ahead before they were ready.

If Recall was real I would fuck with my customers and insert memories of them banging purple haired SJW fatties.

Get on your knees thank God Recall is not a real thing. Black market memories where there are no victims. Imagine the darkest nastiness porn you've ever tried to forget seeing... and now you just lived it.

 

[Robot Carnival]

only part I always find I can't deal with is that Quaid would fantasize about someone who look like Rachel Ticotin when he has someone like Sharon Stone at home banging him.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

only part I always find I can't deal with is that Quaid would fantasize about someone who look like Rachel Ticotin when he has someone like Sharon Stone at home banging him.

Variety is the spice of life.

 

[Nymphae]

only part I always find I can't deal with is that Quaid would fantasize about someone who look like Rachel Ticotin when he has someone like Sharon Stone at home banging him.

Remember when Arnie was fucking a haggard old nanny instead of Maria Schriver? Sometimes it's about getting some strange (but not this strange Arnold- wow)

 

[Tesseract]

#TeamRecall

 

[Space Runaway]

Well he said he wasn't supposed to be activated yet. Going to Recall moved all the plans ahead before they were ready.

Yeah but at that point Cohaagen had put the plan in motion anyway, having the guy give him the briefcase which then led him to Mars. Not to mention he already spoke to Mileena and gave her the whole "I'm Quaid now" spiel as well. Why try and capture him to restart the plan when he was already that deep into it. =P

It's real, all of it. You can tell after that scene with the red pill doctor and his bead of sweat, and don't start with a "just a glitch in the simulation" nonsense.

The explanation usually given for that aspect is Quaid basically "dreamed" it in there. From earlier in that same scene the Rekall guy says:

"What you're experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes...but you're inventing it yourself as you go along."

So if that is true, then Quaid seeing the sweat drop would fall under that.

 

[Ornlu]

I'd side with it being real, as that's the option that makes it more fun.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

only part I always find I can't deal with is that Quaid would fantasize about someone who look like Rachel Ticotin when he has someone like Sharon Stone at home banging him.

ironic considering the real life Quaid's extra curricular sexual dalliances.