Lazlo is also known as Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. Thank you so much for covering "Real Genius." I love all 80s movies and all 80s culture, but this will always be my favorite. It transports me and allows me to escape to a place that doesn't exist anymore but I wish did.

My favorite movie quote of all time is Jordan saying "Oh! Because I’m 19, and I’m brilliant, and I’m hyper kinetic. So guys are a little afraid. Probably if I stopped to think about it I’d be upset."

One of my favorite movies ever.

I really appreciate that this movie basically has Sports Montages, but with science. Also, I always love your commentary on secret cast/crew connections-- I picked up on the two Valley Girl girls (I didn't initially realize they shared a director) and D'Arbanville (who to me will always be Amber from Wiseguy), but would never have noticed Stacey Peralta or Dean Devlin!!

Let's talk about the soundtrack

@tommym321

3 жыл бұрын

jonsellas the song “number one” is the ultimate montage song

It’s so wild to be older and look back on all the movie connections you had no idea about. Jon Gries was not just in Napoleon Dynamite he was in TerrorVision, a year after Real Genius. He was the rocker boyfriend (“this dude’s into metal!”) to 80s mainstay Diane Franklin. The movie also starred Mary Woronov, as seen in Night of the Comet and Chopping Mall.

Another GREAT 80s movie!!!

Speaking as a lifelong engineer, parts of which were inspired by this movie, it’s not that hard to believe they didn’t think about the laser being a weapon research project. We tend to get so hung up on something, to an unhealthy level of obsession, that we are blinded to what a real world application could be. First hand experience. Also, Real Genius is approaching a documentary for modern software companies.

I was in my early twenties when this played in after-run theatres. Enjoyed it much. There is a very nice feel-good chemistry, yet with a very serious underlying subject. Surely there are various other subtle clues.

Great work on this!

Reminds me more of grad school than college.

Now, that is a Fun Fact. I never knew that was Stacy Peralta. .... thank you

10 years later in 1995 Gabriel Jarrett who played mitch in this movie played one of the NASA workers in Tom Hanks 1995 movie Apollo 13

Thanks Morgan. 🌞

Love your review!!! Amazing! A++ 😊

Love Val Kilmer on this movie and Top Secret Will look to see if you also did Top Secret

8:56 Except it will be Jordan (who is 19) who will be committing the felony instead.

Great video

Good Work

Gran película!!

Big Bangs of Real Genius, a Really Fun Movie with Applied Physics everywhere you turn, another cautionary Tale of Cold War Hijinks would be released the Next Year in The Manhattan Project, and Laszlo is still Collecting off those Unlimited Prize Entry's

As a teen in the Reagan era, I had no problem with a death ray from space. Some 35 years later, we may have dodged a laser blast by not having one across the decades ... But I still dont have a problem with it.

@comic4relief

Жыл бұрын

This comment seems nebulous.

FWIW I don't think that was Tom Hanks, either

Ok, we have to talk...

Cuz Susan is whoring herself out to a college professor-Chris doesn’t respect people who don’t respect themselves. And he doesn’t respect women who F Jerry. A bit gainsaying on his part, but personality flaws are real. It’s only today that people are both simultaneously obnoxious rude and narcissistic in film, yet we expect them to be saintly and respectful through a certain woke prism. It doesn’t work and just makes characters seem unrealistic, foolish, and dumb. Characters are supposed to be flawed and relatable. 60 - Early 2000s film and late 90s - about five years ago cable and streaming shows understood this. No longer.

People in their 20s in the 80s aren't genX 🤣

@MorganRichter

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. This series looks at films that appealed to viewers born between 1965 and 1980, not films featuring Gen-X characters.

@alexbaum2204

2 жыл бұрын

Not arguing, but what are they then?

@IngridRichter

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexbaum2204 Sounds like Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) to me...

@ElectroDFW

Жыл бұрын

@@IngridRichter Mitch, the youngest at PacTec, is 15 in 85, which puts him born in 1970, after the Boomers. I doubt any students (other than former student Lazlo) are older than 20, (given that genii don't usually take 5 years to graduate) which would put the oldest born in 65, still past the Boomer era. Just my two shavings of liquid nitrogen.

7:42 I agree that the scene is a bit cringe, but he doesn't suggest she is dumb (as he states to Jerry right after that "she's a smart girl".) Also, she shows she can give back as good as he can. Though, the whole sleeping with Jerry doesn't make sense to me either.

I can't stand this indecision, married we with a lack of vison

@thenerddirector

3 жыл бұрын

everybody wants to rule the world

I don't find the scene with Chris and Susan offensive so much as her character just makes zero sense. They just met and have this overly sexual exchange (in which she's no victim, she's as equally aggressive as Chris), then there's no significant relationship between the characters beyond that. Fnding out she's banging Hathaway is supposed to be some big payoff moment but it's totally dispensable to the characters and plot and just confusing. What's the point, to humiliate her? Why, and why should we care either way? To humiliate Chris, as in "Hathaway got the girl, not you?" Why does she get so angry when Chris catches them? The movie makes these half hearted attempts to make Knight some kind of ladies man, which I think was just something they used to help make him look like the Ultimate Cool Dude on Campus, but it just doesn't work with the Susan character. To quote Josh Baskin, I don't get it. Other than that, this movie has such a special place in my heart. I heard "Everybody Want to Rule The World" in the store earlier today, it's probably the main reason I'm watching videos about the movie. I love these late Cold War movies, Real Genius is part of that Holy Trinity of 80s nerd/science/tech movies along with Wargames and The Manhattan Project. They were movies that made those nerdy things cool. Though that was kind of exaggerated in 80s movies, I remember pretty much everybody being excited when they got to use a computer back then, it wasn't just about guys with pocket protectors and big glasses. But computers were clunky as hell in the 80s, so you needed a good computer nerd if you actually wanted to do anything cool with them. Real Genius and Wargames also made me dream of the possibilities of the internet, along with Ferris Beuller's hacking into the school computers and changing his number of absences. It made you want to learn about these things and imagine possibilities. Of course when that became a reality 10-20 years later we just wound up stealing music, movies, identities, and porn instead of changing our grades, but Wargames did predict people would pirate video games one day. It was probably that darker, illicit side of the internet that actually fueled the development of the internet more than anything. Like how VHS porn rentals in the 80s basically won the VHS vs Beta format war. We all just wanted A's on our report cards and free Metallica cd's. And porn of course. Only thing I'd debate about this review is Jon Gries...his most famous role is Uncle Rico, all day in my book!

@D-Fens_1632

2 жыл бұрын

Oh and yeah the whole Sherry Nugel thing is definitely the one that didn't age well. It would probably be edited out entirely on television reruns today if the genders were reversed. I always found it interesting that the movie was written by a woman and that she chose to put that in there. I guess it was her idea of the teenage male fantasy. And she was kind of right, when did the song "Hot For Teacher" come out?

Man you hit the nail on the head with regard to that scene with the general’s daughter. It’s not funny, it makes Chris look like a total jerk and does nothing worthwhile for his character. I’ve always been put off by that scene in what is otherwise a great movie.

@jongordon7914

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the scene was hilarious and was absolutely in line with his character. He basically acted the same way in the scene with Patty D'Arbanville.

This is not a gen-x movie. This is a late stage baby boomer level movie.

That's $100,000.oo / 5 -7 tons. Of popcorn.