Screamers (1995) is one of my favourite sci-fi movies and it's more or less The Secondary Variety in film form.
Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustrating close to being great."
Beware: low ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, "frustrating close to being great."
The short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", on which Total Recall is based, is a fun read - it's not quite the same as the movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_W...
They also made some odd choices that didn't really emphasize the qualities that PKD is known for. "Autofac" is the only really classic story here. Why not "The Electric Ant", "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (rights still owned by the Total Recall producers maybe?), "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts", or "Faith of Our Fathers"? Or, indeed, Second Variety?
Yes, it's close to be great, but lacks to be it. Mostly because it's not another Hollywood sugar story about the good guys killing all the bad ones.
But I would recommend it to anyone who like a serious SF.