There was more to this dream than I can remember now, it took place over the course of several days or more, and the dream involved me coming to & from a fictional multi-story apartment where I lived.
I lived on an upper floor of this apartment, the apartment was in the style of a hotel where you had to go inside the building to get to your apartment room, and one day or even or night I had a party at my apartment.
What is it?
The 2012 American science fiction action film Total Recall.
What is it about?
This is how Metacritic describes this movie:
“Total Recall” is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick.
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For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he’s got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs.
But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen.
The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate. (Columbia Pictures)
My Thoughts
I think that I saw this movie in a movie theater back when it came out in 2012, and maybe my brother GC and/or one or more of my brothers watched it with me.
I have not seen the original Total Recall yet unfortunately, and so I had nothing to compare this movie to.
Critics did not like it, but I did not hate it and I thought that this movie was okay.
Colin Farrell did an okay job, I liked Kate Beckinsale’s performance and her character, and this movie had a lot of action.
The end,
-John Jr
What is it?
The 2003 action horror film Underworld.
What is it about?
This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:
A young man who has pledged his life to helping others finds himself in a pitched battle between two gangs of supernatural villains in this blend of horror story and action thriller.
Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) is a medical student who is heading home after a long day of school and work when he unexpectedly finds himself in the middle of what appears to be a rumble between two well turned-out street gangs.
What Michael doesn’t know is he has witnessed a skirmish between two deadly underground communities, unknown to the mortal world, who are battling for supremacy — the Death Dealers, a tribe of vampires, and the Lycans, a band of werewolves.
Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is a leading member of the Death Dealers who hears through the grapevine that the Lycans have plans to capture the aspiring doctor who witnessed their battle.
Certain something is in the air, Selene begins following Michael around the city, and she finds herself growing emotionally attached to him.
As Selene becomes more attracted to Michael, she becomes more convinced that the Lycans are planning a major attack against the Death Dealers, although vampire kingpin Kraven (Shane Brolly) is certain she’s crediting the Lycans with more intelligence than they can muster.
As Selene shadows Michael, she finds herself wanting to protect him, but her longing becomes a handicap when he’s attacked by Lucian (Michael Sheen), the leader of the werewolf community, and the man she wants to save has now become a sworn enemy.
Underworld was the first feature film from music video director Len Wiseman.
~ Mark Deming, Rovi
My Thoughts
This is probably my favorite Underworld movie so far, the Underworld movies are a guilty pleasure of mine I guess, it was my former male classmate DH who first got me watching this franchise years ago back when it first started.
Back when this movie came out we went to watch this movie in a movie theater, and we both watched the second (Underworld: Evolution) and third (Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans) movies in the franchise at movie theaters when they came out.
So going to watch Underworld movies in a movie theater is a tradition now I guess, and I have seen all of the Underworld movies in a movie theater so far.
I like the visuals of the Underworld movies with the color palette et cetera that just works, I like some of the acting and accents, I like Kate Beckinsale’s performances, and I like how vampires and lycans are portrayed compared to many other movies et cetera.
The end,
-John Jr
Last night I barely remember the end of my last dream, which took place inside of a maze-like apartment-like building that was somewhat similar to a few other buildings that have been in a few of my past dreams, and something happened that caused a panic inside of the building; and everyone ran and/or hid, as there appeared to be an outbreak or something in the building that infected/affected/effected certain people.
I remember running and hiding until the building was quiet, and I did not see any one for a while; but then I found a woman who might have looked a bit like Kate Beckinsale, and we searched for weapons while quietly talking about what we thought was happening.
I remember that we were very cautious and quiet, and we slowly sneaked around the building; and it was strangely quiet in the building, and we were a bit afraid.
I remember that the building did not seem to have windows and the floors were brownish colored carpet, and the building was a multi-story/floor building with many hallways & stairways with many doors leading to various apartments/rooms.
I think that earlier in the dream during the chaos, some of the infected/affected/effect people were running around acting crazy/strange and/or mentally handicapped in an aggressive way, I think; but it was not clear what was causing it and/or if or how it spread.
At some point the woman and I were searching a stairway that led to another floor, and we found a pocket knife and a expandable baton; the woman took the knife, and I took the expandable baton.
Then we saw a male police officer near the bottom of the stairway and we cautiously greeted him, and I remember asking him if he had any weapons; and the police officer said yes, he had a baton and a pistol.
We walked down the stairway to talk with him about what was going on, he seemed to not know what was happening exactly either, but then we heard voices from down the hallway near the stairway; and so the woman and I ran to hide on the stairway, while the police officer hid at the bottom of the stairway.
The woman had her knife ready to attack, I extended my expandable baton & I practiced swinging it, but the police officer seemed too afraid to ready his weapons; and so I remember whispering to him, telling him to get ready if we needed to defend ourselves, but he seemed to be in shock.
The woman and I started mentally preparing ourselves for a fight, as the voices got closer, and then several people came from the hallway near the stairway; and they were surprised to see the police officer, and so they stopped to greet the police officer cautiously.
Suddenly a slightly obese woman who looked mentally handicapped with whitish colored & black colored hair, came running from the hallway screaming/making strange sounds and acting crazy/aggressive, and she ran swinging her arms toward the police officer and the other people; and there was a panic as two of the people claimed that the woman was their daughter, and they asked the police officer not to hurt her.
The police officer was still in shock and he could not draw his weapons, and so the woman with me and I went to help him as they dodged the attacks of the woman who was out-of-control.
Something happened and I ended up attacking the wild woman with my expandable baton, but it seemed to not have much of an effect/affect on her; and the woman with me might have used her knife, which might have broken when she attacked the wild woman with it, and it might not have effected/affected the wild woman either.
The woman with me and I lost our courage after seeing our attacks not stop the wild woman and I yelled for the police officer to shoot the wild woman with his pistol, but he was still in shock; and so the woman with me and I ran up the stairway in fear, and to prepare to attack again and/or run.
Everyone was running around dodging as the wild woman ran around screaming/making strange sounds trying to attack us, it was scary, the wild woman seemed to be infected/affected/effected/possessed in way that made her crazy/aggressive & super tough; imagine someone mentally handicapped+possessed+infected with a type of rabies that makes humans super aggressive instead of just dying+super toughness.
The woman with me and I were like scared kids now, so we made one last attempt to stop the wild woman and get the police officer to run away with us, but we failed; and so we ran for our lives up the stairway, as the other people and the police officer ran around from the wild woman, who might have killed a few of the people, but I am not sure.
The situation was hopeless and I think that both of our weapons broke, and so we went back to running away & hiding; but I woke up.
The end,
-John Jr 🙂
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