Local eccentric, eclectic, electric musician Dan Deacon is hosting a 35mm screening of the epic sci-fi masterpiece Total Recall as part of this year's Maryland Film Festival.
As an old friend of mine would say: Oh sniggity oh snaps!
My colleague Mike Sragow has all the info over at his bliggity blog, Sragow Gets Reel.
I'm going to talk to Dan Deacon in TWO WEEKS tomorrow about the screening. But I already know it's going to be epic. E.P.I.C.
Why? I'll tell you why ...
"Total Recall" is the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever, which pretty much makes it the best movie in the history of movies.
Schwarzenegger plays Douglas Quaid, a mild-mannered man who has his memory swiped on Mars or something like that. The plot comes secondary to the awesomeness.
Read (and relive) these memorable moments with me:
Melina: Hello, Hauser. Still bulging, I see.
[rubs his deltoid, then grabs his crotch]
Melina: What you been feeding this thing?
Douglas Quaid: Blondes.
Melina: I think it's still hungry.
and
Johnnycab: Please state the street and number.
Douglas Quaid: Drive! drive!
Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination?
Douglas Quaid: Anywhere just go! Go!
Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination?
Douglas Quaid: S**t! s**t!
Johnnycab: Would you please repeat the destination?
Douglas Quaid: [Quaid rips the Johnnycab out and starts to drive himself] Aaahhh!
and
Lori: Doug, honey... you wouldn't hurt me, would you, sweetheart? Sweetheart, be reasonable. After all, we're married!
[Lori goes for her gun, Quaid shoots her in the head, killing her]
Douglas Quaid: Consider that a divorce!
(Baltimore Sun archive illustration. Use of the phrase "awesomesauce" is by permission of City That Breeds)