History Headscratchers / TotalRecall2012

* How in the world can you carry a gadget inside your own hand and not be aware of it?
** Are you constantly aware of all your finger bones?

* Why on Earth would they have soldiers patrolling the Fall without even being tethered? Even ones who aren't fighting get slammed to the ground when the gravity shifts, to say nothing of the soldier who fell to his death.

** I think the implication is that Quaid's workplace injury he shows off to his coworker is actually a coverup for the gadget

* The biggest headscratcher of all has to be, why do I care that the big bad wants to invade the 'colony' in the first place? Nothing is done to make the colony sympathetic in any way, besides the fact the nominal 'hero' of the piece lives there(and even that doesn't help). After this troper watched a lot of fisticuffs, loud car chases and some other stuff I forget, the movie reminded me I was supposed to be rooting for Quaid because of the planned invasion-I still wasn't able to care whether he invaded or not. The colony is oppressed didnt work since it really didn't seem all the different from Britain except they had nicer teeth and perfect hair in the Federation.
** Well, most people automatically think that an armed force marching in and slaughtering a bunch of people because they want their stuff is bad. They don't really need to be given a "reason" to not want to see a bunch of people who didn't do anything mowed down so that other people can move into their apartments. Generally asking an entire country's population "Do you have a particularly good reason we shouldn't herd you all into gas chambers so we can take what you own?" is an indicator of severe mental and moral defect.
*** Nice ad-hom there with no-so-subtle 'Hitler comparison' thrown in for good measure. Well played!. But leaving that tasteless implication aside, In-Universe, the Big-Bad doesnt overtly state hes going to stage a massacre of 10, 100s? of millions of people, and really provides no real justification besides wanting land which is vaguely alluded to, thus we have no reason to 'care' if he does, because he tells us very little. Its even worse when we see during the movie, the Big Damn Hero takes a very short trip to a contaminated area literally within sight of the pristine high-rises of the UFB. Now, since Cohaagen has access to a vast bunch of robo-soliders, would it not have been much cheaper, (and easier) to re-purpose, or build those robots as decontamination-bots instead and reclaim the space? That is a like a several minute ride away? Rather than a risky and expensive invasion of an area on the opposite side of the earth and requires a trip through the Earths core. Either way, the original point still stands. The movies makes zero attempt to create any sort of attachment to the 'colony' nor does the Big Bads strategy make a whole lot of sense either. All we see of the 'Colony' is a VR playground for people wanting to escape reality, a lot of hookers and street thugs, and lots of trash. Not so much as a cute kid to justify Hausers heel-faced turn.
*** Y'know, if you don't want to be called a sociopath, maybe you shouldn't dismiss people's right to live just because you don't find them endearing enough.
** Why does the UFB even need to invade the Colony when they already seem to control it with their soldiers everywhere? Only at the very ending did you see actual Colony goverment employees and soldiers, and before that the UFB already seems to have free reign and thus making any invasion pointless.
*** Because they wanted to level the place, from what I remember. It was 'found' that the colonies where supporting the resistance, and that would mean that they were actively against the UFB, if true. I'm guessing Cohaagen was basically going to declare war, destroy the Colony and everyone in it, then expand the UFB into the space the colony used to be.

*** Still, it would take literally millenia before the investment paid off. It takes an unbelievable amount of energy just in order to bore a twelve-thousand-kilometres long tunnel (it is one hundred times shorter / one thousand times less deep than the longest/deepest we have today), let alone shield it from the heat and pressure of the core. Remember ''TheCore''? Even that movie was optimistic as hell.

** Are you constantly aware of all your finger bones?

* How in the world can you carry a gadget inside your own hand and not be aware of it?

*** Because they wanted to level the place, from what I remember. It was 'found' that the colonies where supporting the resistance, and that would mean that they were actively against the UFB, if true. I'm guessing Cohaagen was basically going to declare war, destroy the Colony and everyone in it, then expand the UFB into the space the colony used to be.

*** Because they wanted to level the place, from what I remember. It was 'found' that the colonies where supporting the resistance, and that would mean that they were actively against the UFB, if true.
I'm guessing Cohaagen was basically going to declare war, destroy the Colony and everyone in it, then expand the UFB into the space the colony used to be.

** Why does the UFB even need to invade the Colony when they already seem to control it with their soldiers everywhere? Only at the very ending did you see actual Colony goverment employees and soldiers, and before that the UFB already seems to have free reign and thus making any invasion pointless.

** Well, most people automatically think that an armed force marching in and slaughtering a bunch of people because they want their stuff is bad. They don't really need to be given a "reason" to not want to see a bunch of people who didn't do anything mowed down so that other people can move into their apartments. Generally asking an entire country's population "Do you have a particularly good reason we shouldn't herd you all into gas chambers so we can take what you own?" is an indicator of severe mental and moral defect.

* The biggest headscratcher of all has to be, why do I care that the big bad wants to invade the 'colony' in the first place? Nothing is done to make the colony sympathetic in any way, besides the fact the nominal 'hero' of the piece lives there(and even that doesn't help). After this troper watched a lot of fisticuffs, loud car chases and some other stuff I forget, the movie reminded me I was supposed to be rooting for Quaid because of the planned invasion-I still wasn't able to care whether he invaded or not. The colony is oppressed didnt work since it really didn't seem all the different from Britain except they had nicer teeth and perfect hair in the Federation.