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Villain Cohaagen to Schwarzenegger
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Revenge of the Dyna-Movies TIME July 2, 1990
Total RecallYou may have heard that Total Recall is about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to reclaim his memory and save Mars. Wrong. For the makers of many summer films, the storytelling art is passe. These talented fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic, rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets at seeing a villian's body blow up real good. Their impact is the sum of their special effects. Dyna-movies are the cinematic art form for the MTV generation. In a blood ballet like Total Recall, everybody gets killed but nobody gets hurt - because the characters aren't human beings but cyphers, cyborgs, stunt people, no more real than creatures vaporized in Nintendo games. -- Richard Corliss
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