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Summary: Original ending?
Review: I will say that this will always be one of my favorite movies of the 80s. Along with the other John Hughes films, of course. But, what ever happened to the original ending with the Rocky theme? Even the copy I own has the alternate ending with the oingo boingo title track x2. This is my only problem with the new vhs/tv version. It just bugs me when films are edited when they're re-released. What's the point?
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Summary: it's a Mind scramble...............
Review: this movie is so good, i am almost in tears thinking about all the great times i've spent watching it. I can watch this movie a thousand times and never get tired of it. Anthony Michael Hall totally ruled this movie. I am speechless. Buy this movie NOW!!!!! it's a movie party!!!!
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Summary: Check out the shower scene!
Review: Here we have a movie that teaches us that anything is possible if we work at it hard enough and with a little luck. This was my first Kelly LeBrock movie and I can tell you that you do not have to be any certain age to appreciate her. Lots of lessons are learned here by many people from different walks in life. Most people focus in on the scene where Lisa is confronting Gary's parents, [By the way commercial television really hacks this up and sometimes removes parts] others like the run in with Chet Donnelly (Bill Paxton). However I will always carry with me the shower scene as the one I could personally relate to (especially the shot where the camera pulled back to reveal the occupants attire). You can compare this to movies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) ASIN: 6300214753 and "Sixteen Candles" (1984) ASIN: 6300183467, however those films have a more realistic chance of happening. This film is pure fantasy (or some sort of fantasy?) See Kelly LeBrock again in "Wrongfully Accused" (1998) ASIN: 0790738481as Lauren Goodhue.
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Summary: Good Movie, but lousy DVD
Review: I searched forever for this movie. After paying $30 to a lousy vendor, a vendor that took over 3 weeks to send my order, my patience was worn thin.
No special features!
When I see Weird Science on network TV at least they can show the cut scenes and enhanced soundtrack. This DVD didn't have neither.
The important thing that matters is the reason I bought it.
My VHS tape was worn out and I thought DVD could be the answer. This is a great movie and I had to have it after I threw out my tape.
My advice to movie lovers, get the old movies quickly cause they are hard to find!
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Summary: Maybe the Worst John Hughes Film
Review: "Weird Science" is the story of two teenage boys, Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) and Garry Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall), who, tired of getting turned down by the girls they go to school with, decide to create their own. They use their computer to put together Lisa (Kelly LeBrock), an incredibly attractive woman that Wyatt and Garry show off to everyone. In their time with Lisa the boys have many exciting adventures and discover what it means to truly respect one's self. Or something like that. "Weird Science" is really an excercise in inanity. It is so antithetical to other John Hughes' films as to be unrecognizable as one of his. Without Hall there would be no identifiable Hughes' connection. The dialog and acting are not anything to recommend this film either. Too often the characters just stand around and mumble some stupid line about this or that trying to hit on something funny. If you're looking for a good Hughes' film, try "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or any of the "Vacation" movies. This one is a dud.
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Summary: Weird Science with a touch of lust!
Review: Two hopeless romantics, Gary and Wyatt took a page right off Dr. Frankenstein and created a lovable Barbie doll named Lisa. And all it took, was Wyatt's PC. {with some extra powered help by Wyatt hacking his way into this U.S. master computer government center} ,and some jumper cables hooked up to a Barbie like doll. Now for the revealing moment of truth, Gary & Wyatt wore bras on their heads,while Gary was chanting a ceremonial prayer in Islam at the lifeless doll. Wyatt was going to press the magical button on his keyboard to bring the doll to life. As he did, the strong wind currrents caused by this chain reaction, blew away most of his stuff in his bedroom. To stop this, Gary threw away Wyatt's computer adapter ,which was a birthbay present,out the window. Instantly the wind currents stopped! As they both ducked under Wyatt's desk. The passage door in Wyatt's bedroom blew up to pieces! As they got up to see afterwards, they saw their full of life Barbie doll looking straight towards at them with a baby I'm yours,kind of smile. Dr. Frankenstein chanting, It's Alive, It's Alive! They were so shocked that they were able to pull this off. Til this day, I'm still wondering how they did it! I'm still working on it. If this ever happens to me. Cause I'm optimistic, it will! I won't share my made up love barbie doll with no one! I mean no one! But for now, I'll keep watching Weird Science til I find the missing hypothesis to create some Weird Science of my own with a touch of lust!
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Summary: A comedy is a comedy
Review: This is one of John Hughes' classic 80's comedies with the only member of the 80's rat pack involved being Michael Anthony Hall. But most will immediately recognize Lebrock, the older, experienced beauty that comes to take control of two adolescent high school outcasts. The two quickly become the coolest cats in town via the flattering comments by Lebrock about the two and her mere presence wherever they go. And of course mom and dad just happen to be on vacation, it's the eighties remember? Chet, the older brother, has to be the funniest character. Pure silliness and innocent, adolescent humor you don't see in movies any longer. Get a copy of the DVD while you can.
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Summary: FOR GOD'S SAKE, WOULD YOU COVER YOURSELF?!
Review: A completely stupid and childish late 80s film about two DORKS who decide to use their computer to build the perfect woman and somehow they succeed. Kelly LeBrock is the perfect woman who comes to them as if by magic. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell Smith are the dorks. You may have seen Hall recently portraying Bill Gates in a tv movie about the development of the computer and software industry. Smith, though, has not been in anything... although I read somewhere that he is married with kids and either goes to college or is teaching in college? I cannot remember. The film is completely ridiculous, far fetched and crazy, but it is fun because you cannot take it seriously. Bill Paxton is hilarious as the militaristic, crude, and overzealous older brother, Chet.
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Summary: Love the movie, but the soundtrack is mucked up
Review: Who's the cheapskate at Universal Pictures/MCA who wouldn't shell out for the soundtrack music of the John Hughes movies of the 80s? SIXTEEN CANDLES is missing lots of tracks (including David Bowie's "Young Americans" and the Sinatra version of "New York, New York"), and WEIRD SCIENCE suffers the excisions of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" as well as "Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky")." Since Hughes usually selected these songs for the sake of humor, their absence (both are substituted with yet another reprise of Oingo Boingo's nifty theme song) is annoying. That aside, however, WEIRD SCIENCE is an underrated little gem. It has its share of silliness, but there are many memorable lines, and it's arguably Anthony Michael Hall's finest hour as an adolescent schtick-master. Maltin may not get this movie, but look up Roger Ebert's review on the web, he's one of this flick's few defenders. And once you see it, perhaps you will be too.
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Summary: How about a greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
Review: I've seen all of the John Hughes- directed80's-teens-living-in-a-quaint-Chicago-suburb movies, and I'd have tosay that "Weird Science" is my top favorite out of all ofthem, even though it's yet another entry into the 'losers who showeverybody up in the end' genre. I find it to be more hilarious than"Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and much more fun to watch than"The Breakfast Club". WS is also a neat showcase of 80'sstyles & fashion.The two teen losers Gary (Anthony MichaelHall) & Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) have some great lines. BillPaxton's portrayal of nasty big-brother Chet was definitely aspringboard for his career of playing whiny scumbag-type characters(remember Hudson from "Aliens"? Or the scummy car salesmanfrom "True Lies"?).Robert Downey Jr. even makes a strongappearance, looking very much the epitome of 80's suburban new-wavefashion as one of our heroes' many tormentors. .... And then there'sKelly LeBrock as Lisa, a new take on'Frankenstein'... oh-oho-oh. Whoa, I need to hose myself down... okay,hormonal balance re-established. Whew.My favorite part is whereLisa takes the pair to a bar with a predominantly black clientele. AsGary gets drunker, he becomes "pimp-daddy", doing theshuckin'-and-jivin' routine to perfection. Amos 'n' Andy move over!Another great scene is Lisa letting Gary's parents know just what kindof party Gary's going to. Their overwrought reaction to their brutalhonesty ("You know- your basic High School orgy type ofthing") is priceless. Take a look!'Late
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