I figured that the main character was just kind of a dick and became an assassin because he knew that if he died it wouldn't matter since the world would be destroyed anyway. He was full of the arrogance of a man that *knew* the world revolved around him.
I wonder how many people in the universe of this book with legit memories who never went to this organization panicked and became convinced that their memories were fake upon finding out that it existed
Philip K Dick stories are generally pretty weird, like a story where a man gets into a traffic accident and discovers he's actually an android without knowing. In the world of the story, this is apparently not that uncommon, since while androids are legal citizens, they don't have the same rights as humans, so they figure he erased his memories after creating a false identity. The rest of the story is about the android protagonist, screwing around with a punch-tape drive in his chest that apparently controls his perceptions of reality
My first book of his was Time Out of Joint. I need not say any more xD I adore his stories and recommend them, highly. The film adaptation of 'A Scanner Darkly' was/is fantastic, also.
@@K31R616 Film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly was a total hack-job. It's been a long time so I forget the specifics, but all the wonderful prose was gone, the ending gone. Waste of film stock.
It's no excuse, but the author wrote at a breakneck speed - often while high on the drug of the same name - so the little details not quite holding up? Yeah, that's something of an unfortunate trademark. Read enough, and you'll get used to it. PKD was a pure ideas man, and his imagination was both boundless and feverish. Also, like the equally prolific Stephen King, he didn't plot in advance. He'd get the inspiration, and just... pound that fucker out. In the sixties alone, he published twenty four novels, had several rejected, and wrote others he shelved for later use or didn't submit at all. This is full length novels. The short stories and novellas are too numerous to mention. As I said, it's not an excuse for the flaws. Just context. He's absolutely, one hundred percent worth sticking with though. There are faults in the execution of the majority of his works, but you'll rarely find a story without at least one fantastic concept or idea. He will fuck your mind, and while you smoke your post-coital cigarette, you'll offer thanks to whatever Gods sent this crazy man to our planet . Edited: Dodgy spelling and formatting. If only I could blame amphetamines.
Both great authors that I truly admire but it’s like they submitted the rough draft as their finished work. Though they are spectacular rough drafts though
@@weldonwin dick was a pretty good writer when he took longer than an hour per scene. Most of the scenes where reality actually break s apart are well written as well as the books he wrote sober and his non sci fi novels where he didnt have a deadline. That said the good bits appear out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly.
Don't worry about it The Dom, stuff like this happens to internet reviewers all the time. If it starts to become a recurring thing, get into contact with Linkara, he has experience in this area of internet reviewer life and should be able to give you some pointers for possible weaponry, lair/secret base upkeep/defences or just to talk about this stuff without sounding crazy.
True and it could be worse. At least neither is an evil version of your robot buddy from another dimension who now inhabits a mechanical duplicate of your body.
And that was one of the more tame villians on the show. Though, to think that all of the events of the Linkara plot started because the Ultimate Warrior broke space-time.
Ugh. I enjoy Linkara's reviews, but his plotlines annoy me. The Dom, you're at just about the right level of meta-fiction - please don't expand it more.
I got the impression that the entire thing-from the first word of the story to the last- was the implanted memory. The Memory is that he was a secret agent who was set up with a fake life as a clerk with a wife until he discovered his past of being a Martian assassin and savior of the world through Total Recall. That’s why we don’t see him wake up again because it would be the first time he woke up “for real” as every word so far has been The Memory.
You know, with the right director, a true adaptation of this book could be entertaining as hell and that weird-ass final twist could be amazing. Like something with the visual and storytelling absurdities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim or Joseph Kahn's Detention. I would LOVE that movie.
In the book the receptionist at Recall paints her breasts a different color everyday? Hmmm the receptionist in the Arnold movie constantly changed the color of her nails with this cool "future pen" I wonder if the filmmakers were referencing the receptionist in the book?
This was one of the first episodes I ever watched. Away at college (and flunking) and super homesick, I got on youtube. This showed up in my feed and I got to relax a bit. I put this three-pack on whenever I'm having a rough time.
Hmmm, if I could alter my memories so that I could remember having once read the Harry Potter books, but had the whole plot removed so I could read them again for the first time. Now that would be something.
If only, but hypnotism does not work on me. It's a family trait. We always have that little voice at the back of our heads that tell us that it's stupid to listen to others in situations like that. haha
I own the eponymous collection of short stories and many of them feature topless women in social or corporate situations. They pretty much hold the highest positions of "power" of any female characters in the book. If I remember correctly, the stories in this particular collection were some of PKD's earliest and I'm not surprised; it definitely reads like at this point in his life at least, women are just as alien to the author as any extra-terrestrial character he created.
Hey, Dom. No worries about not seeing the 6th Sense twist coming. Anyone that did not have it spoiled for them is for the MOST part lying if they say they saw it coming. That movie was done brilliantly... And I like this book review. Hope you are acclimating well! Wish you weren't on the opposite side of the country so I might stand a chance in bumping into you LOL. Take care!!!
@@mirjanbouma That the real genius of it, the setup and foreshadowing are all there, but placed in such a way that you simply ascribe most of it to standard film narrative devices until a rewatch.
Have you considered the possibility that doing both reviews will completely obliterate the world in the future as no version of The Dom from that timeline has appeared?
Then again, The Dom from that timeline not appearing could _also_ be an indication that everything's fine and thus he has no reason to go back in time. 50/50 chance, I guess
You know, as someone with depression, I can kinda understand the guy's desire to have the knowledge that he exists is saving everyone. Yeah, it ended up true in the book, but I can understand why that thought would help his life feel more meaningful, even if it was depressing and unfulfilling.
Aahhhh hearing you go over the synopsis just reminded me of why Philip K. Dick has been my favorite author most of my life. I just love his details and stories and world building. Mmmmm.
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is really a fun short story with an hilariously wicked twist ending that could make a great short film if someone ever decided to adapt it for real.
Part of me likes to think that this story and Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep takes place in the same universe. (Both iconic sci-fi stories with amazing adaptations)
Can I just say, your beginning sketch was amazingly done. Every other youtube video I have seem where a person is doubled is not convincing at all. Either the copies talk over each other or one of the copies suddenly start going in slow motion to give the other copy time to finish their line. I Don't know how you did it, But you were able to pull off A 3 way conversation Fluently and believably WHILE being funny! Bravo my good man.
I remember reading this story on my phone in a cafe and actually cackling out loud when I realized what was happening at the end. It's too silly for a longer story, but when it's so short you don't take it as seriously.
Re: not seeing the ending of the Sixth Sense coming From what I can tell, 90% or so of the people who claim they saw it coming are full of shit. There's a reason why the movie was so big and Shyamalan got super popular (at least until he crawled too far up his own butt). I remember when that film came out, and most people were absolutely blown away by the ending...until it became cool to say you saw it coming.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 That’s different though. It’s actually kinda surprising it didn’t get spoilered all that much. I mean, granted people weren’t nearly so online back then, but it’s not like the internet wasn’t a thing. Nowadays it would be almost impossible to not be spoiled.
@nicholasfarrell5981 i had the misfortune of being born far too late to not hear about the twist before i was old enough to appreciate the movie, but if i had gone in blind or just knowing it was about a kid who can see ghosts, im pretty confident i wouldn't have seen it coming. i was lucky enough to go into fight club without any idea there would be a twist and didn't see it coming at all, whereas with unbreakable i was told there was a twist and figured it out just by asking myself "what would make an interesting plot twist?". even if you don't know the ending, it makes a big difference just knowing there's something to look for.
I actually read this story years ago. It was weird and awesome. The ending was like "WTF? Keep this punk locked up in a padded cell. We need to keep this guy locked up for OUR OWN GOOD"
This review made me realize I would be content watching the DOM do a play by play of interesting books I'd never actually take the time to read. Like super long chapter by chapter play by play, with commentary.
can we get another total recall adaptation that goes directly off the book, but have it more of a comedy than an action flick. the ending of the story is just straight up hilarious on a cosmic sense.
Not really “in name only”, because they changed the name, but whatever. This is why many people don’t know that total recall and blade runner are based off of books, because they change the names when they make the movies. All my annoyances aside, this review was a pleasant surprise in my subscriptions box!
Philip K Dick is one of my favourite authors. His drug-fueled, fantastical imagination is incredibly fun to experience, even if he struggles with continuity. With his novels, it's not about making sense, it's about the journey.
I read this story long ago. The way I remembered it was that the protagonist had the ability to rewrite reality on the fly but didn't know it, so when Recall was about to do their thing he would change reality to fit his desires with only the Recall boss realizing. So I guess either my memories altered over time or my original reading of it wasn't the best.
You may be thinking of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin. It's centered on a man whose dreams alter reality and a psychiatrist who learns this and uses hypnosis to guide his dreams in an attempt to make a better world.
I still remember reading this for the first time and being so floored by how much of a batsh^* crazy ending it had that the movie (at the time there was only one) suddenly seemed a whole lot less... good. Then again, how COULD you successfully adapt a short story ending like that into a film?
Lol the original story sounds wonderfully trippy and far out. Also love the movie (My favorite Schwarzenegger movie.) and interested to see your thoughts on that as well. Seems like some of the changes was definitely for the better.
I have been waiting for a long time for a Lost in Adaptation episode of Total Recall vs. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. It's great that you will be doing both the Schwarzenegger and the Reboot versions.
I'd like to point out that the collection being the name of the sixth story isn't as weird as you'd expect. If the story is popular, putting it in the middle or back would lead to people who don't read anthology books like that out-of-order to read through five other stories they might have otherwise ignored if the title story was the first chapter. It's kinda like how on albums the single that people might've heard already is often not Track 1.
Correction: the Interplan cops don’t decide to kill him immediately; they inexplicably announce that they are going to kill him, which they say needs to happen immediately despite continuing to debate, then keep delaying killing him and allowing him to escape because they never actually got around to doing it.
I was confused by this stories conclusion because, having known several US Navy Seals, our government has a policy of requiring our most experienced soldiers to retire to a small town and stay out of trouble or face life imprisonment.
Hi long time viewer first time commenter I was wondering if you would consider if you would do a Lost in Adaptation of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Book was released in 2005 Movie was released in 2013. I would really like to hear your thoughts on the book and movie. please let me know as soon as you can (sorry if that sounds pushy I don't mean to be). I look forward to hear from you thanks. PS hope living in the US go's well.
2:15 Captain Bible, running down hallways, Captain Bible, running down hallways... I know it's royalty free music, but I still remember it. For some reason...
huh....because, and I've only seen the Arnold version, I thought the story worked better being ambiguous on whether or not it was real or if Arnold was just doing his faces in the chair as it zapped his brain hallucinating the whole thing
And that understandable. I've seen the original film and read the story, and they both work well, but it being INO it's kinda like comparing apples and oranges. The subtle themes of whether something is real or not work great in the movie, but I'd argue that books that try that are hampered by their medium.
Given that he's going to die eventually anyway, being an assassin only risks speeding up the inevitable. Whether now or in 50 years, the mice are coming.
Bookplot is simple explained. The world we see, is only in his own mind. Which directly explains, why every memory implanted in his head directly apears to be true. In his mind his memories are the reallity.
Well, there's the ambiguity which was present a little bit. That being said, that's not a given either. Dick was a writer who liked you to question reality because he himself struggled with what reality was.
i find it rather funny, that they made a book out of a movie that was a (seemingly loose) adaption of a book already, and yes i am talking about total recall , and YES i am aware there are more examples of that, and it kinda drives me mad
As an author, I have discovered the problem with giving books a massive title with too many big words. It's no wonder soooo many people know the title Total Recall but barely anybody knows the title We Can Remember it for you Wholesale
If you're reeeaaalllyyy so impatient you want to skip to the review proper it starts at 2:25
The Dom never! I love your skits
Just out of curiosity, when are you getting back to Game of Thrones?
The Dom hi why Hitler book or it come on dom from furtue have you done lost in aptantanin yet
DOM! How do you always know what I have wasted my money on? This is getting creepy.
Sorry. I only have 10 minutes in my break.
Can we stop to appreciate the fact that the Dom used his greenscreen studio to project the image of... a greenscreen studio?
Yes. Yes we can.
Greenception.
BWAAAAAAA!
Brilliant.
Using a green screen to show a green screen? I can't tell if that's just needlessly complicated or just plain meta
Yes
Can we just stop and appreciate for a second how much work had to go into having 3 Doms interacting with each other so smoothly in a single shot?
Much appreciated!
He does that better than anyone else. It is weird.
It was a beautiful display of Dom's skills and talents.
Indeed
Meh, I see three Doms every time I close my eyes :)
I figured that the main character was just kind of a dick and became an assassin because he knew that if he died it wouldn't matter since the world would be destroyed anyway. He was full of the arrogance of a man that *knew* the world revolved around him.
I wonder how many people in the universe of this book with legit memories who never went to this organization panicked and became convinced that their memories were fake upon finding out that it existed
So the Schwarzenegger version is *less* weird than its source material. Okay. Didn't expect that.
Philip K Dick stories are generally pretty weird, like a story where a man gets into a traffic accident and discovers he's actually an android without knowing. In the world of the story, this is apparently not that uncommon, since while androids are legal citizens, they don't have the same rights as humans, so they figure he erased his memories after creating a false identity. The rest of the story is about the android protagonist, screwing around with a punch-tape drive in his chest that apparently controls his perceptions of reality
My first book of his was Time Out of Joint. I need not say any more xD
I adore his stories and recommend them, highly.
The film adaptation of 'A Scanner Darkly' was/is fantastic, also.
@@K31R616 Film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly was a total hack-job. It's been a long time so I forget the specifics, but all the wonderful prose was gone, the ending gone. Waste of film stock.
*Dom gets told that the faith of the world rests on him* "Im going back to bed"
Honestly the most relatable thing
You know, the original story feels like a small part of a Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy chapter and type of humor.
When you describe the aliens being no bigger than door mice I can’t help but imagining them AS mice
Utopian future The Dom is really rocking that shiny purple waistcoat.
It's no excuse, but the author wrote at a breakneck speed - often while high on the drug of the same name - so the little details not quite holding up? Yeah, that's something of an unfortunate trademark. Read enough, and you'll get used to it. PKD was a pure ideas man, and his imagination was both boundless and feverish.
Also, like the equally prolific Stephen King, he didn't plot in advance. He'd get the inspiration, and just... pound that fucker out. In the sixties alone, he published twenty four novels, had several rejected, and wrote others he shelved for later use or didn't submit at all. This is full length novels. The short stories and novellas are too numerous to mention.
As I said, it's not an excuse for the flaws. Just context. He's absolutely, one hundred percent worth sticking with though. There are faults in the execution of the majority of his works, but you'll rarely find a story without at least one fantastic concept or idea. He will fuck your mind, and while you smoke your post-coital cigarette, you'll offer thanks to whatever Gods sent this crazy man to our planet .
Edited: Dodgy spelling and formatting. If only I could blame amphetamines.
Weirdly enought, after you hearing this context I can almost imagine the train of thought that would have led the plot like this.
Happy to help.... or to destroy your cognitive process. Either one. ;-)
I feel Dick wasn't that good of a writer, but he was one hell of and ideas man, who was great at coming up with interesting concepts for his stories
Both great authors that I truly admire but it’s like they submitted the rough draft as their finished work. Though they are spectacular rough drafts though
@@weldonwin dick was a pretty good writer when he took longer than an hour per scene. Most of the scenes where reality actually break s apart are well written as well as the books he wrote sober and his non sci fi novels where he didnt have a deadline. That said the good bits appear out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly.
Don't worry about it The Dom, stuff like this happens to internet reviewers all the time. If it starts to become a recurring thing, get into contact with Linkara, he has experience in this area of internet reviewer life and should be able to give you some pointers for possible weaponry, lair/secret base upkeep/defences or just to talk about this stuff without sounding crazy.
True and it could be worse. At least neither is an evil version of your robot buddy from another dimension who now inhabits a mechanical duplicate of your body.
And that was one of the more tame villians on the show. Though, to think that all of the events of the Linkara plot started because the Ultimate Warrior broke space-time.
Ugh. I enjoy Linkara's reviews, but his plotlines annoy me. The Dom, you're at just about the right level of meta-fiction - please don't expand it more.
Or your evil doppelganger wishes to take your magical sword, for his shady evil pimp boss
(KrimsonRouge)
+leotamer5 People really followed and remember that pre-review fanfiction crap from Linkara ?
I got the impression that the entire thing-from the first word of the story to the last- was the implanted memory. The Memory is that he was a secret agent who was set up with a fake life as a clerk with a wife until he discovered his past of being a Martian assassin and savior of the world through Total Recall. That’s why we don’t see him wake up again because it would be the first time he woke up “for real” as every word so far has been The Memory.
You know, with the right director, a true adaptation of this book could be entertaining as hell and that weird-ass final twist could be amazing. Like something with the visual and storytelling absurdities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim or Joseph Kahn's Detention. I would LOVE that movie.
In the book the receptionist at Recall paints her breasts a different color everyday? Hmmm the receptionist in the Arnold movie constantly changed the color of her nails with this cool "future pen" I wonder if the filmmakers were referencing the receptionist in the book?
You just know Paul Verhoeven would've had that if he could :D
My question is why would someone have the need or want to paint their breasts
@@eiffiedarkness649 🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
This was one of the first episodes I ever watched. Away at college (and flunking) and super homesick, I got on youtube. This showed up in my feed and I got to relax a bit. I put this three-pack on whenever I'm having a rough time.
I need a reason to wear wacky suits. I know alternate time versions of me. Brilliant!
Aw I miss Terrance
Hmmm, if I could alter my memories so that I could remember having once read the Harry Potter books, but had the whole plot removed so I could read them again for the first time. Now that would be something.
If only, but hypnotism does not work on me. It's a family trait. We always have that little voice at the back of our heads that tell us that it's stupid to listen to others in situations like that. haha
So, like Holly from Red Dwarf, then?
Trippiest comment section ever
I'm like that for a few things, mostly games, for example Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3.
I would...but then Harry Potter looses being the series that got me into chapter books at age 6 and my grandma's last gift being book 7
I own the eponymous collection of short stories and many of them feature topless women in social or corporate situations. They pretty much hold the highest positions of "power" of any female characters in the book. If I remember correctly, the stories in this particular collection were some of PKD's earliest and I'm not surprised; it definitely reads like at this point in his life at least, women are just as alien to the author as any extra-terrestrial character he created.
Hey, Dom. No worries about not seeing the 6th Sense twist coming. Anyone that did not have it spoiled for them is for the MOST part lying if they say they saw it coming. That movie was done brilliantly... And I like this book review. Hope you are acclimating well! Wish you weren't on the opposite side of the country so I might stand a chance in bumping into you LOL. Take care!!!
Yeah, when I watched it I knew something was up with the color red and death, but for some reason didn't completely connect the dots.
Can confirm. By the time the climax was shown I had completely forgotten the in hindsight very clear set-up to it.
@@mirjanbouma That the real genius of it, the setup and foreshadowing are all there, but placed in such a way that you simply ascribe most of it to standard film narrative devices until a rewatch.
That final plot twist is my fave thing ever holy cow also I didn't see the 6th sense ending coming either
“It’s going to be One of those kind of days…“ 😂
Hey any day with the Dom reviewing something is a good day.
Have you considered the possibility that doing both reviews will completely obliterate the world in the future as no version of The Dom from that timeline has appeared?
Then again, The Dom from that timeline not appearing could _also_ be an indication that everything's fine and thus he has no reason to go back in time. 50/50 chance, I guess
Or everything is so horrible they can't even timetravel
You know, as someone with depression, I can kinda understand the guy's desire to have the knowledge that he exists is saving everyone. Yeah, it ended up true in the book, but I can understand why that thought would help his life feel more meaningful, even if it was depressing and unfulfilling.
Aahhhh hearing you go over the synopsis just reminded me of why Philip K. Dick has been my favorite author most of my life. I just love his details and stories and world building. Mmmmm.
I remember the ending to the story being particularly humorous. I was surprised, considering what I had seen from Total Recall.
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is really a fun short story with an hilariously wicked twist ending that could make a great short film if someone ever decided to adapt it for real.
Part of me likes to think that this story and Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep takes place in the same universe. (Both iconic sci-fi stories with amazing adaptations)
Can you do Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar children?
Can I just say, your beginning sketch was amazingly done. Every other youtube video I have seem where a person is doubled is not convincing at all. Either the copies talk over each other or one of the copies suddenly start going in slow motion to give the other copy time to finish their line. I Don't know how you did it, But you were able to pull off A 3 way conversation Fluently and believably WHILE being funny! Bravo my good man.
I’ve successfully guessed where the introduction of dystopian and utopian Dom originated. Yay.
I remember reading this story on my phone in a cafe and actually cackling out loud when I realized what was happening at the end. It's too silly for a longer story, but when it's so short you don't take it as seriously.
Re: not seeing the ending of the Sixth Sense coming
From what I can tell, 90% or so of the people who claim they saw it coming are full of shit. There's a reason why the movie was so big and Shyamalan got super popular (at least until he crawled too far up his own butt). I remember when that film came out, and most people were absolutely blown away by the ending...until it became cool to say you saw it coming.
Matrim42 I'm not ashamed to admit that when I saw the movie in theaters I didn't see the ending coming.
I totally saw it coming . . . because it had been spoiled for me before I saw the film.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 That’s different though. It’s actually kinda surprising it didn’t get spoilered all that much. I mean, granted people weren’t nearly so online back then, but it’s not like the internet wasn’t a thing. Nowadays it would be almost impossible to not be spoiled.
@nicholasfarrell5981 i had the misfortune of being born far too late to not hear about the twist before i was old enough to appreciate the movie, but if i had gone in blind or just knowing it was about a kid who can see ghosts, im pretty confident i wouldn't have seen it coming. i was lucky enough to go into fight club without any idea there would be a twist and didn't see it coming at all, whereas with unbreakable i was told there was a twist and figured it out just by asking myself "what would make an interesting plot twist?". even if you don't know the ending, it makes a big difference just knowing there's something to look for.
I actually read this story years ago. It was weird and awesome. The ending was like "WTF? Keep this punk locked up in a padded cell. We need to keep this guy locked up for OUR OWN GOOD"
This review made me realize I would be content watching the DOM do a play by play of interesting books I'd never actually take the time to read. Like super long chapter by chapter play by play, with commentary.
can we get another total recall adaptation that goes directly off the book, but have it more of a comedy than an action flick. the ending of the story is just straight up hilarious on a cosmic sense.
We need Terence again
Gingerstorm101 there is a new movie soon so we can hope
No we don't
*cue all the "WEN TERRY" comments
Could you please do an adaptation review on any of the following:
-How to Train Your Dragon
-Holes
-Hoot
-Alex Rider
Okay, this setup was just genius. Props to you Dom.
Not really “in name only”, because they changed the name, but whatever. This is why many people don’t know that total recall and blade runner are based off of books, because they change the names when they make the movies. All my annoyances aside, this review was a pleasant surprise in my subscriptions box!
I love this channel. I only recently found it, but every Dom review seriously makes my day better.
Philip K Dick is one of my favourite authors. His drug-fueled, fantastical imagination is incredibly fun to experience, even if he struggles with continuity. With his novels, it's not about making sense, it's about the journey.
I read this story long ago. The way I remembered it was that the protagonist had the ability to rewrite reality on the fly but didn't know it, so when Recall was about to do their thing he would change reality to fit his desires with only the Recall boss realizing. So I guess either my memories altered over time or my original reading of it wasn't the best.
You may be thinking of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin. It's centered on a man whose dreams alter reality and a psychiatrist who learns this and uses hypnosis to guide his dreams in an attempt to make a better world.
I love this opening!! It’s one of the best ones I have seen 😆!!
I still remember reading this for the first time and being so floored by how much of a batsh^* crazy ending it had that the movie (at the time there was only one) suddenly seemed a whole lot less... good. Then again, how COULD you successfully adapt a short story ending like that into a film?
PKD is simply a fun mindf#ck read every time.
Good job as ever reviewing this jumble.
the movie adaptations have one purpose, and that is to protect the original story's final twist.
Lol the original story sounds wonderfully trippy and far out. Also love the movie (My favorite Schwarzenegger movie.) and interested to see your thoughts on that as well. Seems like some of the changes was definitely for the better.
This might be my favourite book title ever
Me: hears the line about using an epi pen as a weapon, immediately goes to the comments looking for Letterkenny references.
Holy shit, that connection didn't occur to me until you said it.
The first part is 12 minutes and two more are coming. Yeah, we're stretching the definition of "nano" a bit here.
KiramidHead Thats why there's an explosion before he's done saying it
I have been waiting for a long time for a Lost in Adaptation episode of Total Recall vs. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. It's great that you will be doing both the Schwarzenegger and the Reboot versions.
I'd like to point out that the collection being the name of the sixth story isn't as weird as you'd expect. If the story is popular, putting it in the middle or back would lead to people who don't read anthology books like that out-of-order to read through five other stories they might have otherwise ignored if the title story was the first chapter.
It's kinda like how on albums the single that people might've heard already is often not Track 1.
Didn't the aliens suppress his memory of them in the book? I thought that was how it ended.
I'd like to see Future Terrence someday now.
Terrence team up with Galen and becomes a technomancer?
It must have been a Thursday. You never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Fun review!! I'm almost sad November is ending now :(
The Dom: beautiful watchers
Me: 😍😍😍😍😍
Too be fair, the story was basically just a gag. PKD just riffing on something he found amusing.
Correction: the Interplan cops don’t decide to kill him immediately; they inexplicably announce that they are going to kill him, which they say needs to happen immediately despite continuing to debate, then keep delaying killing him and allowing him to escape because they never actually got around to doing it.
I was confused by this stories conclusion because, having known several US Navy Seals, our government has a policy of requiring our most experienced soldiers to retire to a small town and stay out of trouble or face life imprisonment.
Waaaaait. That’s a very weirdly specific deepest subconscious desire.....
Hi long time viewer first time commenter I was wondering if you would consider if you would do a Lost in Adaptation of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Book was released in 2005 Movie was released in 2013. I would really like to hear your thoughts on the book and movie. please let me know as soon as you can (sorry if that sounds pushy I don't mean to be). I look forward to hear from you thanks. PS hope living in the US go's well.
So future Dom pulls off a Resident Evil Barry Burton Cosplay?
AnonJl1 you were almost a dom sandwich
And thus The Dom mythos keeps expanding
strangely that's exactly how I imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger sneezing
I love the punk rock attitude that post apocalyptic Dominic has,
“Fuck you lemony fresh.”
Personally, I dearly miss the "I must save the world by reviewing this lamp" story lines of yesteryear.
Captain Biiiible running down haaaalways!
i didn't know that was the same melody as total recall
Love the skits :) makes the videos diffrent and more fun :)
2:15 Captain Bible, running down hallways, Captain Bible, running down hallways...
I know it's royalty free music, but I still remember it. For some reason...
A green room used to make a room look like a green room
"kind of like using your EpiPen as a projectile weapon"
3 seconds in and I'm already questioning what is up with the thumbnail it's the same imagine.
Edit *oh that's why!*
Goat And Dog Because it's In Name Only.
Already established
I kind a like the original story. Hope that some arthouse director will eventually try his hand on it.
Sorry, not sorry---this is the best channel on UA-cam.
You are amazing sir.
yo not many people remember the Squiddles! glad theres another fan of the show out here
Yes!!! YES - Total Recall
Oooh, three parter. Very nice. 👌
I wish someone would implant a memory of me liking this video.
huh....because, and I've only seen the Arnold version, I thought the story worked better being ambiguous on whether or not it was real or if Arnold was just doing his faces in the chair as it zapped his brain hallucinating the whole thing
And that understandable. I've seen the original film and read the story, and they both work well, but it being INO it's kinda like comparing apples and oranges. The subtle themes of whether something is real or not work great in the movie, but I'd argue that books that try that are hampered by their medium.
Wow. The book is trippy!
I did not see that last plot twist coming.
1:57 Yes, I do want to know.
Present son is under a darker light than the other to
Given that he's going to die eventually anyway, being an assassin only risks speeding up the inevitable. Whether now or in 50 years, the mice are coming.
Bookplot is simple explained.
The world we see, is only in his own mind. Which directly explains, why every memory implanted in his head directly apears to be true.
In his mind his memories are the reallity.
Well, there's the ambiguity which was present a little bit. That being said, that's not a given either. Dick was a writer who liked you to question reality because he himself struggled with what reality was.
I definitely want to read the book now.
Dominic Noble predicts 2020
Men this video has some serious back to the future meets doctor who time traveling pradoxs problems
i find it rather funny, that they made a book out of a movie that was a (seemingly loose) adaption of a book already, and yes i am talking about total recall , and YES i am aware there are more examples of that, and it kinda drives me mad
I watched these out of order, now the fabric of space time is doomed.
Good work dom! Hope you all have a great day and night!
awesome episode
As an author, I have discovered the problem with giving books a massive title with too many big words. It's no wonder soooo many people know the title Total Recall but barely anybody knows the title We Can Remember it for you Wholesale
Love the starting skit and ive been looking forward to some total recal love. I love me the book but i watched the movie first and loved it.
00:12
Oh great, now I have another crush. Could you cut it out, Dom?