3 things I recall about this teen flick when it first came out. Someone had bunny slippers, someone had a houseful of popcorn & Tears For Fears had the end credit song. Seen it years later, loved it because it ALL finally made sense.
A prodigy Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarret) has been accepted for the mid-winter term at Pacific Tech. Mitch meets a hyperkinetic student named Jordan (Michelle Meyrink) & his roommate named Chris Knight (Val Kilmer). He encounters the mysterious Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jonathan "Jon" Gries) appears/disappears in Chris' closet. Two Teen geniuses (Chris & Mitch) develop their abilities about a laser for their class project when they found out Professor Hathaway uses a laser as a weapon who works for Government according to Lazlo.
"OK GOD LEMME HAVE IT!!"
You gotta Love the Jiffy Pop Scene! LOL! XD
"Mitch Taylor: Something strange happened to me this morning.
Chris Knight: Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Mitch Taylor: No.
Chris Knight: Why am I the only person that has that dream?"
Real Genius, is a very funny movie that has college teens. dealing with Life. Chris Knight. is this big man on campus. with a high IQ. but when Mitch comes to college Chris finds out that Mitch has a higher IQ then him. if you like Val Kilmer in willow. you will like this movie. it will give you a charge! this is one movie to add to your List!
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
had to watch this in 3 parts and to tell you the truth wasn't realy feeling it... but then the credits rolled. im giving this an extra star due to the fact tears for fears sing you out and give it the soundtrack that it was asking for.
this is a movie i watched alot when i was a kid and still watch alot as an adult. great 80s soundtrack. this movie is alot of fun. plus val kilmer as chris knight is just fun as hell
the upside of living with someone who has never seen most movies is that I have an excuse to watch them all again. This is a classic, lots of fun. Watch for the silent cameo from one of the asian drag racers from "Better Off Dead"
This is very 80's and borderline gay but it works. Val Kilmer and ensamble make it witty and smart. Robert Prescott, who also played the jealous cornhole in Bachelor Party, is brilliant as the harmless kiss-ass who comes around in the end. John Gries is "The Genius Who Went Into The Closet". Hilarious. William Atherton, "Dick" from Diehard, is equally efficient in portraying the colossal prick know-it-all professor. I always watch it any time I catch flippin' thru cable channels.
OK let's set the way back machine for 1984. The era of bad clothes, bad perms, movie montages, bad jokes and movies about geeks.
This movie was recommended to me as a must see from my physicist sister-in-law. This already gave me an inkling that this was going to be a nerdy movie before I even saw the cover.
Once I saw a young Val Kilmer on the cover with bolts of lightening around his head, it was a certainty.
The movie follows a young genius (15 years old) as he goes to college to work on a laser project with another college genius called Chris Knight (a very young Val Kilmer). Chris, who turns out to be as eccentric as he is smart, is more interested in having parties and Marie Curie look-alike contests than doing any actual work.
The movie follows the students attempting to stop their project from being turned into a weapon by their professor who is working for the military.
Along the way, we have the usual expected practical jokes that you are bound to see in any 80's movie along with the definitive science montage. What 80's movie would be without a montage or five?
The movie feel more like a high school coming of age film than a college pic. However has some incredibly funny one liners and is definitely a good watch for any science geek out there.
Arguably the greatest 80's teen comedy of all time. The only reason this isnt my favorite film is probably because I have seen it so many times(around the neighborhood of 200)and even though I burn myself out on it, I have to watch it every time it is shown. It follows the same science driven formula of other films that same year like Weird Science and My Science Project but this film has the cast and the quotes. You have to see this film, it's a moral imperative.
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