Two movies about the nuance of humanity and what separates us from the machines — it's Robocop vs Chopping Mall.
Working Girl: La La Land vs Showgirls
This is the 200th official episode of Tasteless, so I’m bringing it back to where the show began. I’ve done a brand new episode on the comparison that inspired me to start a podcast, with all the care and dedication required for a supposedly tasteless film that looms so large.
Two movies about following your dreams and the ripple effect that has on who you become — it’s La La Land vs Showgirls.
I delve into the brilliant physicality of Elizabeth Berkley’s performance as Nomi Malone and why Showgirls deserves a reappraisal.
Getaway: Total Recall vs The Net
Two people decide to take a little vacation that kicks off a fight for their lives as their identities are called into question — it’s Total Recall vs The Net.
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Every episode of Tasteless, I take a critically acclaimed film and compare it to one that shares the same themes but didn't get the attention it deserves — and explain why that second movie is my pick. This week: two people who decide to take a little vacation, but that vacation kicks off a fight for their lives as their identities are called into question. It's Total Recall versus The Net.
Total Recall
When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
This movie came out in 1990, has an 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, won the Oscar for Visual Effects. It was also nominated for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing. Total Recall is based on the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale."
This movie is cool. The plot is cool. It's interesting. I personally would not go to Mars if given the chance. I would say no thank you. And if they said, do you want some free memories of Mars? I would say no, I'm good. But Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on this virtual vacation — they implant memories so you feel like you've gone somewhere, indistinguishable from real vacation memories. And while he's under having these memories implanted, he starts flipping out. The vacation people at Rekall are like, his brain is already very full of false memories we didn't put there. Someone else put these in. It turns out he's not who he thought he was. His memories, his mind — they've been tampered with.
Paul Verhoeven directed this film and I have a real love-hate relationship with Paul. I love his films — Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers. He has a really interesting point of view and he picks stars like Sharon Stone that are just so perfect. But I'm always brought back to the Basic Instinct controversy with the leg-uncrossing scene and that he lied to Sharon about what could actually be seen on the film. That is such an uncool move. Even though he's made movies I love, that doesn't excuse cruddy creep behavior.
This movie did lead to Sharon Stone being in Basic Instinct because she played Lori in this, worked with Paul. He saw her being able to change from this timid, charming sweetheart — Arnold's wife Lori — to a diabolical person and back again at a moment's notice. That is what's so brilliant about her.
But we have to talk about Arnold. Arnold Schwarzenegger in this movie is named Doug Quaid. That's insane. Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger in a t-shirt, guns out, arms out, tight t-shirt, short sleeves, just like: hi, I'm Doug. I'm Doug. My name is Doug.
I can't get a good read on Arnold. I think he might be a really wonderful guy, other than the cheating. But he's a little old school in the way he talks about people, especially women. If there was a Mount Rushmore of action stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be on it. He was the original Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. Where is the Schwarzenegger tequila? I would buy that.
I went on Wikipedia to see if he owns any alcohol brands and no, he has various investments. Had a restaurant that I'm devastated I did not visit. Wrote an autobiography and called it “Total Recall,” which is genius. But the best part of his Wikipedia is that there is an entire section dedicated to a battle over what height Arnold Schwarzenegger is. It says his official height of 6’2” has been brought into question by several articles. In his bodybuilding days he was measured at 6’1.5”. In 1988 both the Daily Mail and Time Out mentioned he appeared noticeably shorter. Prior to running for governor, his height was questioned in the Chicago Reader. As governor, he engaged in a lighthearted exchange with assemblyman Herb Wesson over their heights. Wesson made an unsuccessful attempt to settle this once and for all with a tailor's tape measure. Schwarzenegger retaliated by placing a pillow stitched with the words "need a lift" on the five-foot-five-inch Wesson's chair. In 1999, Men's Health stated his height was five foot ten. And that's the end of the section. I don't know where we fall. Next person that sees Arnold Schwarzenegger, let me know how tall he is.
Arnold is great at what he is great at. And luckily Paul Verhoeven knew that. There was a falling out between writer Dan O'Bannon and Verhoeven when Verhoeven replaced the satirical humor with extreme violence. In the original screenplay, dark humor was much more prevalent. But when Arnold came aboard, Verhoeven recognized the necessity to tailor the script to Schwarzenegger's talents. This is not a knock on Arnold at all. He is great at certain things. You're not going to also give him dark humor. He does incredulous, he does angry, he does surprise. That's what he does and he does it well.
Now someone who can do everything is of course Sharon Stone as Lori — a breakout role that led to Basic Instinct. She plays Arnold's wife Lori, who as it turns out was never his wife and is actually just an agent there to keep an eye on him after his memories were replaced. Arnold believes they've been married for eight years. When he realizes she isn't who she says she is, she's like, yeah, okay, I'm not your wife, but do you want to bone for old time's sake? And he's like, oh, good try, clever girl — because obviously she was just stalling so the bad guys could come get him.
Sharon Stone can take all my memories if she wants to and live in my house with me. Go for it. I don't care. I would love a remake of this movie from Lori's point of view, where she has to go live with this guy undercover — this weird giant man who thinks he's a construction worker. And you're just keeping an eye on him and acting like everything's normal. There's something very creepy Truman Show fascinating about it that I love.
The tennis outfit she wears with the swoop bangs rivals Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2 for level of cool outfit that I desperately want to pull off. I was really mad that when she's shooting at Arnold and he doesn't know yet that she's against him, she misses him so many times. I was offended that they would make Sharon Stone such a bad shot.
I'm currently reading her new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice.” I'm trying to space it out and savor it and not just finish it all in one weekend, because this is a woman who has lived and she is so smart and interesting and funny. In her memoir, Sharon talks about the work she put into being believable as someone who could beat up Arnold Schwarzenegger. And it paid off. She physically fights him. She kicks him in his head — whether he's five-ten or six-two, that is insane. And I buy it fully. You buy her physicality. She was pumping iron. She put so much prep into this movie and it works. You see their fight and you don't think he could just flick her away like a fly. No — there is weight to her actions.
The big bad guy is Cohaagen, played by Ronnie Cox of RoboCop and Beverly Hills Cop. He's best friends with the Schwarzenegger from the past, Hauser. Hauser was an agent who worked for him, and Hauser came up with the plan to have his own memories wiped, have himself replaced with this mild-mannered construction worker Douglas Quaid, to enact their evil plans.
Cohaagen has an employee named Richter, played by Michael Ironside — and Sharon Stone is his girlfriend. He's so mad that Arnold is fake-married to her. He has such a vendetta. His boss is like, stop, I don't want Arnold Schwarzenegger dead. And Michael Ironside is basically just constantly saying, are you sure? Because I could kill him any moment if you want.
Michael Ironside did a Reddit AMA and said one of his favorite memories of Arnold at the studios in Mexico City was that while shooting, his sister back in Canada had a cancerous growth in her abdomen. She was in intensive care. He'd been calling her on a daily basis. Arnold noticed him calling every day at lunch. He said, who is it you're calling? And Michael told him about his sister. Arnold said, come on, let's go to my trailer. He had one of those conference phones set up and called Michael's sister and they talked for an hour. Arnold went through a whole diet thing with her, told her the healthiest diet for surgery recovery. He called her two or three more times to check on her. Michael said Arnold changed the course of his sister's recovery. She seemed lighter, had more sense of humor, felt less isolated. And she recovered. Isn't that so sweet?
We also have Benny — Mel Johnson Jr. — this lovable taxi driver who drives Arnold around on Mars. Then we discover he's a mutant and his arm is foldable and also bones. I felt so betrayed. Rachel Ticotin plays Melina, Arnold's ex-partner and girlfriend who has been wiped from his memory, but he has these dreams about her as Doug. In real life, Rachel was in Con Air. More importantly, most importantly, she was Carmen's mom in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The power of Melina is that you see her and you're just like, of course, she's the perfect match for Arnold. They work so well together. I love their chemistry.
But Arnold is very rude to her because when he reunites with her and doesn't have his memories, he says, Melina, Melina, I don't remember you. I don't remember us. I don't even remember me. Start with the last one, buddy. Don't start with "I don't remember you" because she doesn't know you've had your memories wiped. She just thinks you're mean. Start with like, hey, my memory has been wiped, I'm so sorry.
But the cool thing about Rachel and Lori is they have this fight scene. I wrote the following note verbatim while watching: Women fighting women with skill. This is not a cat fight. This is two people with abilities grappling. In the IMDB trivia, it says Paul Verhoeven asked second unit director Vic Armstrong to choreograph the fight not as a cat fight but more like a martial arts fight, to give the feel of two warriors fighting each other and not simply two women. Verhoeven remarks in the DVD commentary that this is probably the first time in a feature film where we see two women fighting each other normally. This fight scene is fantastic.
Spoilers — this movie is from 1990, it's older than me, not to brag. Arnold and Sharon are fighting, and Sharon has this great delivery. She's looking at Arnold: sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married, as she's slowly reaching for the gun she thinks he doesn't know about. And then he shoots her in her forehead. She drops over dead and he goes, consider that a divorce. It's so cold-blooded. It's so rude.
The Net
When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.
Came out in 1995, has a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes. Offensive. Rotten Tomatoes has done Sandy B so dirty. It's rude. It's unacceptable.
I own The Net on DVD. I popped it in. There's a great DVD menu recreating her computer. God, it's so fun to pop in a movie and it has a clever menu or a cute montage or a great song over the DVD menu. We lose that with streaming services.
Sandra Bullock — very clearly an all-time favorite actress of mine. I love her movies. Yes, I love The Net. Rewatching it, I bumped it up a few slots on my ranked list of Sandra Bullock movies, because this is a good one. I love a dumb computer movie, even if all the computer stuff could be totally wrong. Who cares? Stop asking questions. It's computers and they do things. What does it matter to you? Are you the computer police? No. I didn't think so. So shut up. That's not how a virus works. I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Steve Wozniak.
One Mr. Roger Ebert in his review of The Net said: this stuff is so concocted. I had no business caring about it, but I did because of Bullock. How does she do that? She's very low key. She's so natural. She seems to be remembering a scene rather than playing it. She has a warm smile. She never overacts. She creates a sensation that although a scene may seem absurd to us, it seems perfectly real to her and we buy it. I think me and Roger would have had a good time. We could have hung out.
So she is a computer person. We see her at a computer, wearing flannel, ordering an online pizza, talking to some guy named CyberBob. It's my dream life. She is a homebody to the extreme. She fixes computer viruses — well, she isolates them and figures out what's wrong. At one point in this movie she has poofed bangs to rival While You Were Sleeping. And she's just so good.
She goes on vacation to Mexico and can't help but bring her laptop and her work with her, including this virus she's been working on, this floppy disk. While there she is attacked. Her things are stolen, thrown on the ground. Her identity is taken. She has no ID, no wallet. Her social security number is associated with a woman named Ruth Marx who has her exact picture. She is given the identity of Ruth Marx against her will. She's at the embassy trying to figure out how to get back home from Mexico, and the woman working there is just screaming her social security number out to her, which is so inappropriate.
To get back into America she has to agree that she's Ruth Marx and not Angela Bennett. Angela Bennett is now on the run. She goes back home, goes to her apartment — all her stuff has been sold. They're like, yeah, Angela Bennett sold this place, she moved out a week ago. And Sandra Bullock's like, what are you talking about? I'm Angela Bennett. And everyone's like, well, no one can vouch for you because you're always in here ordering online pizzas, so none of us know what you look like. You could be a crazy lady.
So much of this movie is Sandra Bullock running up to a computer, doing something on it, then running away. It's perfect. It's fantastic. She runs somewhere, whoever she runs with dies. She runs off again, puts a floppy disk into a thing. It is fantastic.
Here's how it happens to her. She's on the beach and a nice good-looking man starts talking to her — Jack Devlin, played by Jeremy Northam from Gosford Park, Emma, The Crown, being British. He's a real jerk who works for the Praetorians, the entities in charge of the Gatekeeper conspiracy. Basically, cyber terrorists enacted attacks on various facets of infrastructure and government and then sold the people who got attacked protective software called the Gatekeeper program. The secretary of defense is like, no, we shouldn't use this weird software. So these bad guys give him a fake HIV diagnosis via computer hacking and he's very homophobic and kills himself. Then they're like, okay, so do you guys want to buy our Gatekeeper program?
Sandra uncovers this by mistake. She's been sent a floppy disk from a friend who's like, check out this weird virus. It's a backdoor into what the Praetorians are doing. And they trick her in the meanest way. She's in her little chat room eating her pizza. CyberBob is like, so what do you want in a man? And Sandy says, butch, beautiful, brilliant. Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer. And CyberBob says, settle for a guy who puts the seat down.
Jack Devlin pretends to be all those things. And he is so cruel — he turns those words on her when she realizes something's wrong. She's like, why do you have a gun on this boat? It's very weird. And he's like, oh, I use it for shooting sharks. And she's like, why do you have a silencer on it, you freak? And he's like, oh, you — I got you. You wanted someone butch, beautiful, brilliant, Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer, dummy. And she's like, oh my God, you're so mean.
Dennis Miller is Sandra's ex-boyfriend who she turns to when trying to regain her identity. Dennis Miller was in a very weird array of movies. This and Disclosure are such a one-two punch of my favorite things that don't need Dennis Miller in them. He is not one of her better movie companions. The honors for best of course go to Keanu and Hugh Grant, or even Benjamin Bratt joining the two-time Sandra Bullock co-star club alongside Keanu — Speed and The Lake House — with Miss Congeniality and Demolition Man.
Should I just do a separate podcast about Sandra Bullock's co-stars?
Dennis Miller is clearly still very indecisive. She just needs someone who knows who she is so she doesn't go fully crazy. And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's get into the vodka in the mini fridge at this hotel, huh? She's like, I am kind of on the run, I don't know if that's a great idea.
Her mother is played by Diane Baker, aka Senator Ruth Martin from The Silence of the Lambs. The relationship between Sandra Bullock and her mom who has Alzheimer's is such a core of this film and it's so heartbreaking. When no one knows who she is, when documents, computers, the government all say she is someone else, she calls her mother and it's like, it's Angela, Mom. And her mom doesn't know who that is. And she's like, I just need you to tell these people at the police station that I'm me. And her mom can't do it because her mom doesn't know who she is.
It is so upsetting. I cried a lot while I watched this. I cried like I was watching an episode of This Is Us, the government-created television show meant to suck the tears from our bodies.
Her mother doesn't know her. Sandra is going through it and she needs to keep her mom safe and she needs to keep herself safe. And that's hard to do when her mom doesn't even know what's going on. The Net is something you just have to watch because it unfolds. It's fun action, it's thriller-y, it's cool. She's funny. She's charming. There is some real heart to it.
Shared Themes
Both movies share the distinction of being non-Jurassic Park films where someone says "clever girl." More importantly in Total Recall and The Net, our heroes book a little holiday getaway to escape their humdrum lives, to relax. But in a turn of events, each discovers they have had a new identity created for them against their will, and they must make the best of it.
In Total Recall, Arnold finds out the life he thinks he has built was created only in his mind. His memories of an eight-year marriage to Sharon Stone, a boring life as a construction worker with giant, giant arms — these things are a lie. His beloved wife only came into his life six weeks ago and in fact is in love with a different man. Arnold discovers the dreams he has of a brunette woman on Mars may be the most real thing in his brain, pulled from his past life. When he meets that woman, Melina, he starts to realize what has been missing.
It's like if someone told me my cat Gracie was in my head and my life wasn't real — I don't know that I'd dive into a new life. I think I'd just go to sleep for a few days. Instead, Arnold follows the path laid out for him by his past self because he wants answers. He wants to see where this thing leads. Once he's in it, he's not going to take the easy way out. He wants to regain what he had — his relationship with Melina and some sort of control over his life and his choices.
Sandra Bullock has her identity brutally ripped away from her in The Net. On the internet, scrubbed from existence and replaced with a woman she doesn't know. We exist legally in computers, in the cloud. Imagine right now that you lost your driver's license, your passport, your credit cards. And when you go to the DMV to tell them your name, they say, no, that's not who you are. Here you are, here's a picture of you with a different name.
Think about how tough it is to prove who you are even when you do have all the pieces you need. Logging into your bank needs a password and a code sent to your phone. You better have access to both. To check your email, you need to get onto your computer or your phone with face ID. When the power goes out or a computer crashes, you're lost, bereft.
Sandra has no access to her past and no way to build a future. But she refuses to accept the life of Ruth Marx, the identity assigned to her when Angela Bennett is ripped away. She sets out to figure out what has happened and why, knowing it has something to do with the disk Devlin tried to take from her. The friend who sent the disk dies, by the way. I feel like sending someone a floppy disk in the mail is never going to turn out great. If I were to get a floppy disk in the mail, I'd know my days were numbered, like the Ring tape.
The core of these two films is finding out what you're capable of. Arnold discovers he is capable of goodness and Sandra of making tough decisions and of intrigue.
I love Douglas Quaid. I love the man Arnold becomes after having his mind wiped. They implant memories of this ordinary life with a cool wife, and past mean Arnold — Hauser — scoffs at Doug. Cohaagen is so mad to lose Hauser, his friend and confidant. Doug is an embarrassment to these men. But Arnold embraces being Doug. He likes who he is — that he's trusted by Melina, that he's helping the mutants. Doug cares about people. He cares about the greater good. He thinks air should be free. And although it turns out he was set up to go on the journey he did, even when he knows the truth, he still works to beat Cohaagen. He doesn't embrace the man he was before.
He's very cool with killing his ex-wife, but otherwise Doug is a kinder man. You see this version of Arnold that could have existed without the greed. Knowing that he has that capacity — he doesn't have to be who he was. He doesn't have to go back to being Cohaagen's lapdog. He makes the choice to be a good man and to work for others.
In The Net, Sandra has been a homebody. She's asked to meet up with people and she's like, nah, I have a standing Friday night arrangement — which we discover is ordering pizza online and joining a chat room with weird dudes. She brushes off going out into the real world with people. She's been incredibly stuck in her routines. The craziest thing she's decided to do is go on this vacation, and even then she brings her computer. She only lets Devlin hijack her plans after a lot of hesitation and him knowing exactly what to say.
Once she gets back home and realizes her home is no longer hers and nobody knows who Angela Bennett is, she focuses on regaining her life. She has always been a problem solver, but of other people's problems, in a way that is removed from herself. This time it affects her and it affects the rest of the world. She steps up in a way that the FBI couldn't. She's commended at the end of the day by the news for what she does.
She also has been in this weird spot with her mom where she doesn't know how to interact with her. You see that change over the course of this movie. You see how she becomes more confident with her mother, accepting what her mother knows and doesn't know, while also making herself part of her mother's life. Instead of sitting around feeling upset about what has happened to her mother, she realizes she needs to take advantage of any time they have left.
Arnold and Sandra both don't know who to trust, but they find companionship and help in the form of rediscovering a loved one.
Arnold had been dreaming about the brunette that we learn is Melina. When he sees her for the first time as Doug, he finally feels like things are falling into place. He doesn't remember her, but there's a connection. When she realizes he isn't out to get her, she's excited to see him. I can only imagine how maddening it must have been as Melina to have this history with Arnold that he doesn't remember. But it also means they can start fresh somewhat, without the lies and deceit that Arnold as Hauser was enacting. They're a team and treated as such. They finish the movie with a kiss, glad to be together in any reality, unconcerned with the truth of the situation so much as they are just happy to be reunited.
In tough times, Sandra calls up the one person she's been close to besides her mother — her ex-boyfriend Dennis Miller. While he doesn't necessarily believe or understand what's happening to her, he wants to be there for her. But more importantly, after what has clearly been a long experience with her mother's Alzheimer's, feeling abandoned by her, unable to connect with her, Sandra is imbued with a new vigor for their relationship and works to escape her predicament to reunite with her mom, who has been hidden in a sanitarium by the now-dead Dennis Miller.
It's her mother that keeps her going. Her mother is her tether to reality, to who she is and who she wants to be, even if her mother doesn't know that.
What The Net Does Better
Total Recall is an incredible sci-fi movie with innovative visual effects, fantastic action sequences, a cool plot. But there isn't humanity — not in the way The Net explores the true impact of finding out your life is disposable.
In Total Recall, Arnold is never really emotionally distressed. Imagine discovering your wife isn't your wife. You're not who you think you are. What a spiral that would send you into. But instead Arnold is just like, okay cool, well, I'm Doug, what's up? Even the shooting of Sharon is like — consider that a divorce. In your mind you were together eight years. That has no weight? He's not at all conflicted by her death.
I think the best sci-fi makes us consider humanity as much as it makes us marvel at what could be possible in our future or in an alternate world. It also makes us take a deeper look at ourselves. Doug could have really had a crisis over the fact that he used to be a man like Hauser — the man we see via computer screens wearing his face. But instead the two are painted as completely different people with no relation to one another. Arnold is angry with other Arnold instead of horrified that he has this capacity for evil within himself.
In The Net, the relationship Sandra tries to maintain with her mother is such an important and heartbreaking thread. Her only living relative, a mother she adores, doesn't know who she is. Sandra visits her bringing her favorite candy, playing the piano, and her mother has no concept of their relationship. Her mother looks her in the eye and sees a stranger. So it's all the more frightening when the rest of the world stops seeing her as well. Her mother can't even vouch for her, can't support her, can't tell the police that Sandra is her daughter.
To have this access to her mother, to be so close yet so far, because her mother doesn't understand the world in the same way — it really is upsetting. It gives weight to Sandra's quest to regain her identity. She was easily targeted to be wiped off the face of the earth because she had no other living family and existed in relative isolation. The Praetorians believed her to be disposable. To overcome that, to prove she matters to people, that her mother has a connection with her — it's incredibly important for Sandra's development and for herself.
When she's with her mother at the end, there's an easiness in their relationship that wasn't there before. Sandra has embraced that her mother may not know her exactly, but does know who she is in some sense — that she's someone who can be trusted, someone she wants to spend time with. They are planting flowers together at the end.
My big problem with these movies and sci-fi movies where things that couldn't happen happen: I don't pick a movie apart unless I hate it. I told you to ignore any computer inaccuracies in The Net and I stand by that. But man, does it make me frustrated when a movie's like, this shouldn't have worked, it was such a tenuous plan. That's what they do in Total Recall. Among all the craziness, instead of leaning into it, they have the characters question it while also brushing it under the rug.
In the world of The Net, we see Sandra as Angela Bennett doing her computer things and she's confident in them. So the viewer is confident as well. It's not called into question in the world we're existing in. She speaks with such confidence on the subject that I don't question it. I'm along for the ride. She's the expert. She clicks the little pie symbol in the corner. She knows — that's a nasty one. I buy it because the movie is trusting me to buy it. The movie's like, here, you're here for 90 minutes to enjoy this with us? Enjoy.
As opposed to Total Recall being like, we know all this was crazy, so our characters are going to say it was crazy. That makes me mad. It's a cop-out. If you go into The Net knowing what you're doing, you're going to have a great time.
Please watch The Net. I love Sandra Bullock. I love Total Recall. Watch both. Total Recall is on Netflix. The Net is rentable, very cheap.
Hit me up at @tastelesspod on social media. We can talk about Sandra Bullock on the beach with a little portable computer in 1995. We can talk about Sharon Stone as Lori and her tennis outfit that honestly everyone should be wearing now in modern day. And why Quato is such a gross little freak.
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