This is to be the first movie review installment of movies you can find for $6 or less in stores. For those of you who have never looked for cheap DVD movies you can find them in most stores that sell movies in large metal bins or shelves. These movies make up movies the stores are trying to get rid of. You never know what will be in the bins.

Did I for get to mention the bargain bins do not necessarily have recent or even good movies? At the end of each installment an attempt will be made to determine if the movie is worthy of a price tag of $6.00 or less or if the DVD should really be filling a land fill and stores should be prevented from being able to legally sell the movie. Each movie will either receive a rating of keeper or dumpster. A keeper movie is a movie that might actually be worth buying for $6.00. A dumpster movie, you guessed it, is a movie that should be filling a landfill instead of taking up space in a store or an individual’s movie collection.

For the first installment, we are going to review Total Recall not just Total Recall but Total Recall Special Edition. Total Recall stars Arnold Schwarzenegger who plays a character named Quaid. Quaid makes the decision to visit Rekall Incorporated, which makes it possible to implant false memories into the brains of their vict customers. Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) selects to have a memory implanted which makes him believe he visited Mars and while there, he saves the planed and does the typical secret agent/super hero stuff. The twist of the movie is right after the false memories begin to be implanted into his brain, he wakes up and we learn he might actually be a real secret agent and might not be dream.

That is until you turn of the commentary by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the director Paul Verhoeven. While watching the movie the viewer is engaged to determine if Quaid is really a secret agent or everything is really a dream being implanted into his brain by Rekall Incorporated. You could even use the movie to help explain what Plato was saying in the simile of the cave in Plato’s The Republic, which attempts to explain what is reality for reality can be nothing more than what people believe it to be. Total Recall begins to show that reality is what you want it to be, that is until you listen to the commentary where they say everything we see after the 18:13 minute mark is a dream. Thanks for ruining the entire movie for me. I will grant you that there are many clues to let the viewer know it is a dream but did they have to completely spoil the movie by telling you nope, it was all a dream.

It is conceivable to forgive them for spoiling that part of the movie but then what comes at the end is completely unnecessary. At the end of the movie, Quaid saves Mars by activating an Alien reactor, which in a matter of minutes creates, and atmosphere and breathable air for every one of Mars. (Oops, I spoiled the ending. Do not worry the movies tells you exactly what will happen within the first 15 minutes.) At the very end of the movie a white light engulfs the screen and credits begin. Before listening to commentary a viewer could perceive the white light as a way of ending the movie and Quaid really did save Mars or it could be perceived it was dream and now Quaid is coming out of the dream and waking in the real world. Again, the director has to spoil the entire movie and tell everyone that nope, it was a dream but Quaid does not come out of the dream so Rekall Incorporated decide to lobotomize him. The End.

The only redeeming part of listening to the commentary is to hear some of the comments Arnold makes throughout the movie. In one scene as Quaid being chased and shot at, he becomes trapped on an escalator packed with innocent people while they are shot at by two people with machine gun at the top of the escalator. Quaid grabs one of the innocent people and uses them as a body shield. The scene is very bloody and almost every one on the escalator dies. What makes this scene funny is on the commentary as Quaid is using an innocent person as a body shield Arnold says "Ja what would you do in that situation?". When I heard Arnold say that, I could not believe the governator would actually use an innocent person as a body shield. Another comment from Arnold was describing how enjoyed practicing the scene over and over again where he and Sharon Stone are in bed together and she jumps on top of him and starts grinding on him.

What more can be said other than this movie is a typical summer blockbuster movie. Despite the commentary ruining how I view the movie and how it completely spoiled the duality of reality vs. the dream state, it is still good to watch when you want to see many people be killed wholesale. You will notice that I have not spent much time explaining what happens in the movie or what the movie is about. The movie is an action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you really want to know what happens then think Terminator goes SCI-FI and you can figure out what happens.

PervertedGeek gives Total Recall a rating of “Keeper�