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Summary: Real Genius a cult classic
Review: This is my all time favorite movie. I lost count of how many times I've seen it. This movie makes you forget about what's on your mind. It is a cult classic. The lines are unforgetable. Not owning this movie, isn't exceptable. I just hope they bring it out on DVD, real soon.
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Summary: Captures The Essence of College Life
Review: "Real Genius" is a gem among 80s movies and college films. Filled with all the music, intrigue, and uniqueness of the 80s, "Real Genius" is a great 'remember when' film to watch for those of us who grew up in that crazy decade. Beyond that, "Real Genius" is a great portrayal of college life. Take your more recent, contemporary 'school' films - practically all they revolve around is teenagers trying to have sex or going out with the most attractive/popular person in school (with the ultimate objective of having sex with them). "Real Genuis" has an original storyline that doesn't link to a quest for popularity or sex drive. Anyone who's ever gone to college will connect with this film, as it has all the earmarks of undergraduate education - from final exam panic attacks to heartless professors who assign impossible projects. All in all, this is a great film...I just wish it'd be released on DVD!
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Summary: This is the best college movie!!!
Review: I love this movie!! I dont remember when i first saw it, but i watched it all the time in college (around 1996). My roomate at the time had a huge crush on val kilmer, so she was hooked too. This was our hang out and procrastinate movie!!!
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Summary: Even When You Know What's Wrong, You're Still Laughing
Review: This isn't the greatest movie to come down the pike. But it's so cheerfully irreverent, it doesn't matter. Sample: Val Kilmer walks in with a balloon-animal around his head. "Why do you have that on your head?" "Because if I wear it anywhere else, it chafes." Expert performances almost carry a script that limps at the end. Check it out some night when you've had a bad day; it's a spirit lifter.
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Summary: Great College Comedy
Review: Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret) is plagued with being a genius and enters a prestigious college that is geared toward his individualized talents. He meets a wacko older student, Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) who is playing on-high, not taking his own genius-nature too seriously. But, Professor Jerry Hathaway (William Atherton) expects results on a class project involving a lazar. This story is enjoyable in so many avenues. You see Knowledge and Ethics weighed, the hardships of putting a child in an adult environment, and so much more that is masked in a wonderful COMEDY!
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Summary: Excellent movie until the end
Review: This movie is a classic. It's wonderful. Val Kilmer's wise-ass lines are incredibly funny and makes the whole movie worth while. The one problem - at the very end, when the geniuses of this thinly-disguised Cal Tech decide to do something wacky and zany to get back at their professor, it is impossible to forget that this movie was made in the '80s, with schemes and humor straight out of Police Academy or Revenge of the Nerds. i hate the ending - it's so damn silly, moving from the mostly-realistic humor of the movie's initial dialog to the silly escapades at the end. But despite the dumb ending, the movie is wonderful, and i wish i could find this on DVD (any day now, right?)
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Summary: just read the stinking review about Real Genius
Review: It is a hilarious comedy.A genius highschool sophmore gets a scholarship to a genius college.There he meets his roomate Chris Knight(Val Kilmer).Chris was one of the top 8 smartest people in the world.He doesnt do the lab work for the Prof. That wants Chris and his roomate Mitch to make alaserbeam that can shoot to any planet, because he's to busy making things so he can avoid responsibilities and play all the time.Finally Chris starts working,and he makes the laser beam.The Prof.takes it for his awful purposes so Chris and Mitch with nerdy peoples help have to stop the laser beam.
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Summary: Thinking-man's "Revenge of the Nerds"
Review: I go to the movies quite frequently, but rarely do I see a title more than once in the theater. "Real Genius" was one of the two dozen or so exceptions. There is a delightful element of intelligent zaniness permeating this movie. It is alternately wacky and thought-provoking, sometimes simultaneously. Boasting immensely likable characters (and a few not-so-likable villains), Martha Coolidge's assured direction and Vilmos Zsigmond's sterling widescreen lensing, "Real Genius" is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. I only wish it was on DVD--and soon, please!!!
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Summary: How does it feel to be frozen?
Review: The three most important things in film making are script, script and script. If everything else is perfect, a bad script can still sink the best-made film, and a great script can overcome indifferent execution. How then do you explain "Real Genius", a film that gives us a plot that is, charitably, predictable, with enough gaps, discontinuities and irredeemably unlikely events to give "straining credulity" a new meaning?Easy. The dialog is brilliant and the set-piece scenes are exquisite. The fact that they are done in the service of a what turns out to be a ridiculous plot is besides the point. Every character is clearly defined, and behaves consistently within their own world view. The fact that the world view is that of 19-year-old science geniuses sequestered together in a shrine to tech-geekdom makes it fun. While much critical approval was rightly directed to Val Kilmer for his role as Chris Knight, the worldly-wise senior who's learned that playing is as important as work, the film's bright star is really Michelle Meyrink's Jordan. She is the only woman in the dorm, and is 19 years old, hyperkenetic, brilliant, and sleepless. I love Jordan, and you will too. The other actors are equally impressive. William Atherton plays another of the smarmy villians he does so well, and Deborah Foreman and Patti D'Arbanville both get small but juicy parts ("can you hammer a 6-inch spike through a board ..."). Martha Coolidge directed this after her success with "Valley Girl," and she does well. It's kind of a fluffy comedy and Coolidge moves things right along. Ponderous direction would have killed it. (If you watch this and "Valley Girl" you'll see Deborah Foreman and Michelle Meyrink in both.) I seem to have failed trying to describe this film. Trust me. Go ahead and buy or rent it. You'll like it too. (The movie has almost as many quotable lines as "Blazing Saddles", but one of my favorites is a quiet scene early in the film. Young Mitch is looking for a reception on the Pacific Tech campus and says to a woman walking by, "I'm looking for the president's freshman tea." She answers, "I'm so glad we have one then" and walks off without telling him where it is. I mean, hey, he didn't actually *ask* for directions, did he?)
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Summary: How funny can one character get?
Review: This early effort by Val Kilmer accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do: amuse teenagers and other young adults with its wit, slapstick, and anti-authoritative message. What saves this movie from getting lost in John Hughes'ville is its intelligent, dry, sarcastic sense of humor. There are more great one-liners in this flick than "Sixteen Candles" and "Weird Science" put together. ("...the immortal words of Socrates who said, 'I drank what?'") A great movie.
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