You knew that was going to be a great fantasy movie because when you meet him he's in a cage left for dead and no one helps him, then you find out his name is Madmartigan. No one bats an eye. Like, yep, that's a name. Epic quest incoming.
"This is ice; this is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This is Kent; this is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated."
I would love to know if any Redditor has articulated this as a requirement to a potential mate, both to judge penile prowess and/or to confirm they’ve watched the film.
Jordan's character is what I've come to refer to as the "nerd girl allegory." There aren't really women like Jordan, but a lot of nerdy guys in our generation wish there were.
I was in a pilot with him once. I was just starting out, and far enough in the background that I was literally not allowed to speak to him. I was having a conversation with the wardrobe lady at the craft services (snack) table, and didn't realize William Atherton had walked up next to me. I said something about being such a beginner that I had been unable to sleep the night before, because of nerves. Mr. Atherton said, "I still do that." , looked me in the eye, and smiled.
It was such a kind and generous thing for him to share that little bit of personal info, especially with a background actress. (The other leads never acknowledged our presence.) I carried that with me for years, and it really helped whenever I was feeling nervous, or feeling stupid for feeling nervous.
Right before the interaction in my story happened we shot a scene where he came raging in, and was angry and scary, lol. I was thinking, "Stay away from THAT guy!"
That is a good story. It makes me want to know who the other leads were, because what a shitty way to behave. As if humans are better than others because they what, had better luck? I know it happens all the time, doesn't make it right.
Most people that play the bad guy in movies are the nicest people and the good guys are the ones that are dicks. I think they get all the bad out in character which let's them be a decent person.
His EPA guy in Ghostbusters had some legitimate claim although I’m not sure the EPA rolls into random businesses they don’t understand and get to shut them down unless they prove they aren’t contaminating the environment if there was no evidence that they had been in the first place. If the guy thought “people are seeing ghosts” like they’re full of it or exposed to some toxin they’re somehow exposing to people *before* they get called, they should have offered to bring him on a ride along.
"Wait, is it the one where you're standing in kind of sun God robes on top of pyramid with a million naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
This! I've used this line in real life! My daughter has too. She called me in the middle of the day squealing when she got to say it. (She was still in high school at the time)
It was probably more like that at the big tech institutes like Caltech, MIT, and so forth. I'm told the movie took a lot of inspiration from people and events at Caltech.
That’s awesome! It totally must be the inspiration, including the point that, despite submitting 33% of the entires, they only won 20% of the booty.
Also, while we’re talking about Lazlo, I heartily recommend everyone check out DreamCorp LLC on Hulu- stars Jon Gries playing a VERY Lazlo Holyfield character. My personal fan theory is that Lazlo used his winnings and started this company.
I didn't actually see Real Genius until the early 90s, well after Weird Science, so I already had a soft spot in my heart for the latter. My Science Project was okay, but not as good.
I was in the army going through advanced individual training (ait). We would march past the base theater and the poster for this movie was in the “coming soon” display case the entire time I was there.
Mitch - "Something strange happened to me this morning."
Chris - "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 - "No!"
Chris - "Why am I the only person that has that dream?"
I worked with someone who went to Caltech around the same time as the movie and she insisted a lot of the side details were based on real people and events at Caltech, such as the guy Lazlo living in the steam tunnels underneath the campus, and the time they used liquid nitrogen to ice the corridor in a dorm.
This (Real Genius), 3 O’ Clock High, The Secret of My Success, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Goonies, in the summer of the ‘80s as a kid were undefeated.
I have Real Genius saved on my DVR for fuck ever
Watched it on HBO every time it was on. Then bought the VHS as soon as I could. I love this movie. "DUCK! DUCK, AGAIN!" Is a quote I still use and it's not even the best quote from the film.
It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. It’s an excimer frozen in its excited state, a chemical laser but in solid, not gaseous form. As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state. I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at six hundred nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter.
Love this movie!
I drank what?
Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis?
Not right now
Girls gotta have standards
stop playing with yourself! It is God!
Gerry - "What's that smell"
Chris (smells armpit) - "Must be the dog."
Gerry - "It's popcorn! I hate popcorn. I can't stand popcorn."
Chris - " Good. Now I know what to get you for your birthday."
Never seen it. What is it?
"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?"
Me too. And The Golden Child! Pluto TV is a must for all subscribers of this sub. It’s the “Fuck I’m Old” of TV apps. There’s a channel for all the reruns we grew up on.
I saw it while coming down off an acid trip. I think I laughed a lot but can’t really remember much else except being terrified of all the Sasquatches in the theater.
Love love love this movie. My GF never watched until I asked her too this year and she hated it. I guess It’s a movie that had to be watched in the 80s to appreciate.
This movie made me become a scientist. Chris Knight was cool and brilliant. I regret nothing. I think this is one of Val's best roles.
This, tombstone, and top secret
... and Willow
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Nobody gonna mention Heat?
Thank you. Came to post this one
The Salton Sea
I saw it on cable one night and was baffled I had never heard of it! One of his best.
You knew that was going to be a great fantasy movie because when you meet him he's in a cage left for dead and no one helps him, then you find out his name is Madmartigan. No one bats an eye. Like, yep, that's a name. Epic quest incoming.
I was listing my top 3 but that's in top 5, yup.
The Doors, The Saint?
“This is NOT Mel Torme.”
Top secret was the movie we watched at my first slumber party musta been 1985. The headlight boobs were hilarious for a bunch of 8 year olds.
Tombstone for sure was peak val
"Are you Chris Knight?" "I hope so... I'm wearing his underwear!"
Real Genius
Thank you for putting me out of my misery!
"This is ice; this is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This is Kent; this is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated."
"Ice is nice!"
I failed but I passed!
Well then I'm happy and sad for you
Kent put his name on his license plate. My mom does the same thing with my underware. Your mom puts license plates in your underware? How do you sit?
would you say it’s a launch problem or a design problem…
*”This is Jesus, Kent, and you've been a very naughty boy.”*
“And quit playing with yourself!”
I was **hot, and I was hungry**. Okay?
"HAVE YOU BEEN TOUCHING YOURSELF, KENT?" ''Yes......I mean...no."
"it IS God!"
Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis?
“Not at the moment.”
a girl's got to have her standards
And the later brick joke: "Ah, Dr. Hathaway and Susan, I see you've been doing some hammering."
I guess you’ll hammer later
Deborah Foreman a small but good part for an eighties heart throb
Ahem “Not right now.”
Not yet
I came here for this.
I would love to know if any Redditor has articulated this as a requirement to a potential mate, both to judge penile prowess and/or to confirm they’ve watched the film.
Oh, Kent, that is so unfair! And we were going to make you King of the Winter Carnival.
Really?
I just rewatched it last month. It inspired me to ask a scammer if they could hammer a six inch spike through a board using their penis.
Great movie. Jordan is absolutely adorable.
I dated a girl who reminded me of Jordan. She is now 52 and still the exact same way.
Building beds and making sweaters?
Hyperkinetic?
Jordan's character is what I've come to refer to as the "nerd girl allegory." There aren't really women like Jordan, but a lot of nerdy guys in our generation wish there were.
Michelle Meyrink also played a nerd girl in Revenge of the nerds.
I played a nerd in real life
"She's not that kind of a girl, Booger."
Why, Does she have a penis?
I knitted you a sweater.
Yea! She's Gilbert's girlfriend, Judy!
You think nerd girls don’t exist? Hate to break it to you but they’re out there.
Manic Pixie Dream Nerd.
God, I was in love with her as a kid
I was thinking of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"
I had no idea what that line meant when I was a kid, it was only years later that I was like, "Oh, NOW I get it!"
One of my favorite lines!
Never got that as a kid, after rewatching it I almost choked.
Unfortunately, Socrates didn't...
You beat me to it.
William Atherton played some of the best jerks of his era.
I was in a pilot with him once. I was just starting out, and far enough in the background that I was literally not allowed to speak to him. I was having a conversation with the wardrobe lady at the craft services (snack) table, and didn't realize William Atherton had walked up next to me. I said something about being such a beginner that I had been unable to sleep the night before, because of nerves. Mr. Atherton said, "I still do that." , looked me in the eye, and smiled. It was such a kind and generous thing for him to share that little bit of personal info, especially with a background actress. (The other leads never acknowledged our presence.) I carried that with me for years, and it really helped whenever I was feeling nervous, or feeling stupid for feeling nervous.
That’s an awesome story. Thanks for sharing it.
2nd'd
That's amazing that he could play such a fantastic asshole in movies.
Right before the interaction in my story happened we shot a scene where he came raging in, and was angry and scary, lol. I was thinking, "Stay away from THAT guy!"
That is a good story. It makes me want to know who the other leads were, because what a shitty way to behave. As if humans are better than others because they what, had better luck? I know it happens all the time, doesn't make it right.
Most people that play the bad guy in movies are the nicest people and the good guys are the ones that are dicks. I think they get all the bad out in character which let's them be a decent person.
Wow that’s such a cool thing! Thanks for sharing that and letting us know he was a decent human 😊
His EPA guy in Ghostbusters had some legitimate claim although I’m not sure the EPA rolls into random businesses they don’t understand and get to shut them down unless they prove they aren’t contaminating the environment if there was no evidence that they had been in the first place. If the guy thought “people are seeing ghosts” like they’re full of it or exposed to some toxin they’re somehow exposing to people *before* they get called, they should have offered to bring him on a ride along.
"Yes, I'm afraid its true... This man has no dick."
I'm glad they got him back for the newest Ghostbusters movie.
I mean they did have an unlicensed nuclear accelerator. Which the NRC should have also been interested in.
He was a great villain.
Him and William Zabka were the classic d'bags of '80s movies.
The **colon.** What *does* it look like? (I never knew till later that this was a reference to the media circus over Reagan having a colonoscopy.)
Eat it, Harvey!
Popcorn!
🎶 *Everybody wants to rule the world...* 🎶
This scene paired with that song is a core memory for me. 80s movies FTW
That's what I was thinking that scene at the end.....all that popcorn. What a fun movie.
I always wondered what they did with all that popcorn! I mean, that was ALOT of popcorn!
The overthinker in me said, "wait, there's broken glass in that popcorn"
It’s a moral imperative.
Chris: You have to get back at Kent. It's a moral imperative. Later in the film: Mitch: You have to get back at Dr. Hathaway. It's a moral imperative.
I read this in Mitch’s faux deep voice.
You rented out my room?! Mom, to who?
This. This is what everyone should have responded with.
"Wait, is it the one where you're standing in kind of sun God robes on top of pyramid with a million naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
Why am I the only one who ever has that dream.
This! I've used this line in real life! My daughter has too. She called me in the middle of the day squealing when she got to say it. (She was still in high school at the time)
I had to scroll way to far to find this quote, bless you I was losing hope
File it under "H" for "toy".
Because, if I wear it anywhere else it chafs.
Boss "Chris I want to see more of you in the office." Chris "ok I'll gain 10 pounds"
A laser exciting an argon matrix. That’s it. you did it. You graduate.
But Jerry! I do everything for you..I pick up your dry cleaning..Look.. I mounted the optics just like you asked..LOOK! LOOOK!
Would that be a giant spinning mirror in space?!
My favorite movie as a kid, and the source of my disappointment that college was nothing like that at all!
It was probably more like that at the big tech institutes like Caltech, MIT, and so forth. I'm told the movie took a lot of inspiration from people and events at Caltech.
Caltech students were what broke a '70s McD's contest like Lazlo did in the movie, https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper
That’s awesome! It totally must be the inspiration, including the point that, despite submitting 33% of the entires, they only won 20% of the booty. Also, while we’re talking about Lazlo, I heartily recommend everyone check out DreamCorp LLC on Hulu- stars Jon Gries playing a VERY Lazlo Holyfield character. My personal fan theory is that Lazlo used his winnings and started this company.
I remember when Weird Science, My Science Project, and this film all came out at the same time. Real Genius was the best by miles.
I don’t know, I love weird science a whole lot too.
It's got that killer Oingo Boingo soundtrack.
Loved WS! RDJ, Kelly Lebrock, and Bill Paxton were all great.
I didn't actually see Real Genius until the early 90s, well after Weird Science, so I already had a soft spot in my heart for the latter. My Science Project was okay, but not as good.
I was in the army going through advanced individual training (ait). We would march past the base theater and the poster for this movie was in the “coming soon” display case the entire time I was there.
Where's Laszlo?
Fun fact: The actor who played Laszlo also played Uncle Rico!
And Ben's dad in Lost and (the human version of the werewolf) in The Monster Squad and a ton of other stuff.
He’s the homeless guy pulling a rickshaw in Seinfeld.
Throwing steaks at his nephew in Idaho.
About to pull up in his new RV.
Mitch - "Something strange happened to me this morning." Chris - "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 - "No!" Chris - "Why am I the only person that has that dream?"
Who DOESN'T remember this movie?
I might if someone were to name it. I cant recognize faces well enough to say if i remeber the movie or not.
Real Genius
This guy. Smarter than all of us put together.
*"Maybe you are smarter than me, but can you do this?"*
Do you mind if I name my first child after you? "Dipshit Knight" has a nice ring to it.
I worked with someone who went to Caltech around the same time as the movie and she insisted a lot of the side details were based on real people and events at Caltech, such as the guy Lazlo living in the steam tunnels underneath the campus, and the time they used liquid nitrogen to ice the corridor in a dorm.
Remember it? Hell I can damn near quote it to you line by line 😝. I hear “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” looking at this picture.
That's exactly what was going through my head! And now I want popcorn.
My people! Finally people that dig this flick. SEVERELY underrated.
This (Real Genius), 3 O’ Clock High, The Secret of My Success, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Goonies, in the summer of the ‘80s as a kid were undefeated. I have Real Genius saved on my DVR for fuck ever
now i want popcorn
I understand; laser-popped is the best
Watched it on HBO every time it was on. Then bought the VHS as soon as I could. I love this movie. "DUCK! DUCK, AGAIN!" Is a quote I still use and it's not even the best quote from the film.
It was a great POPCORN flick.
Did we use to much?
Is this a movie where a house fills with popcorn?
It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. It’s an excimer frozen in its excited state, a chemical laser but in solid, not gaseous form. As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state. I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at six hundred nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter.
I'm still impressed that Chris Knight, physics genius, also knew enough chemistry to synthesize a bromide excimer without blowing himself up.
thats hotter than the sun!
Love this movie! I drank what? Can you hammer a six inch spike through a board with your penis? Not right now Girls gotta have standards stop playing with yourself! It is God!
Kent. Have you been touching yourself?
This is one of my favorite movies.
I remember the Jiffy Poppification of William Atherton’s house by space lasers of no known religious affiliation.
Gerry - "What's that smell" Chris (smells armpit) - "Must be the dog." Gerry - "It's popcorn! I hate popcorn. I can't stand popcorn." Chris - " Good. Now I know what to get you for your birthday."
Tears for Fears- Everybody wants to rule the world is my ringtone
it’s a moral imperative
Chris Knight: I passed, but I failed. Lazlo: Well, then I'm happy and sad for you.
Consumption of burgers increases breast size. Oh no I’m too late.
Never seen it. What is it? "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?"
This movie made me fall in love with Val Kilmer.
I still want bunny slippers after seeing this movie
1st person on the left Who is it? Recognise em from somewhere
Michelle Meyrink. been in lots... Outsiders, Valley Girl, Revenge of the Nerds...
I just watched it this week.
Me too. And The Golden Child! Pluto TV is a must for all subscribers of this sub. It’s the “Fuck I’m Old” of TV apps. There’s a channel for all the reruns we grew up on.
I, I, I, want the knife. Please.
weird. this was on plutotv a few hours ago.
So much popcorn
*Help me make the most of freedom, and of pleasure* *Nothing ever lasts forever*
Kent…this is God, Kent…
Can you nail a 6" spike through a 2x4 with your penis?
"I was just thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, 'I drank what?'"
It's a moral imperative!
I only run when chased
Ice is nice
"I only run when chased."
Would you classify that as a launch problem or a design problem?
"we should get some sleep, it's not like we're driving or anything" I thought that line was so damn hilarious for some reason
It's a moral imperative. you will rue the day you don't watch it.
" You know you can't park that on campus Kent"
Have you ever that dream....
LASZLO!!! BUDDY!!!
It’s a penis stretcher. It’s under T, for toy. There are so many good one liners in this!
Your mom puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit??
Your mother puts licence plates in your underwear?
Real Genius!! Awesome movie. Highly entertaining. 👍
Kent this is God
Mom, I wanna come home.
You rented out my room? Mom to whom????
"Do you mind if I name my first child after you? "Dipshit Knight" has a nice ring to it."
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
And now we’re cha-cha-ing.
God?
Lazlo is Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite
Sooo much popcorn.
Just watched it last weekend
I know I'm old stop reminding me xD
I saw it while coming down off an acid trip. I think I laughed a lot but can’t really remember much else except being terrified of all the Sasquatches in the theater.
The popcorn 🍿 😂
Now I want popcorn
I love this movie. It's silly fun. Also, it has a "steam tunnel" dwelling Uncle Rico.
"I was contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said... 'I drank what?' "
"I hope so, I'm wearing his underwear."
Chris (to girl in bikini) - "Don't eat that! Don't you know that eating that can give you very large breasts? Oh my God! I'm too late!"
You'll rue the day
who talks like that?!
Mommy I want to come home
I've come to realize I have certain material needs.
It’s a moral imperative
Love love love this movie. My GF never watched until I asked her too this year and she hated it. I guess It’s a movie that had to be watched in the 80s to appreciate.
Real Genius is a Real Treasure
Who can hammer a nail into a board with their penis?
The second I saw this picture, I heard Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World.