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REAL GENIUS
"Number One" | 1985
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Valley Girl (1983)
#valley girl#valley girl 1983#martha coolidge#nicolas cage#deborah foreman#cameron dye#colleen camp#frederic forrest#elizabeth daily#heidi holicker#michelle meyrink#tina theberge#1980s#1983#filmedit#film#cinema#movies
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Valley Girl (1983)
#slumber party#Heidi Holicker#Michelle Meyrink#Elizabeth Guttman#Deborah Foreman#valley girls#dancing#Julie Richman#gif#1980s
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#REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984)#Robert Carradine#Anthony Edwards#Ted McGinley#Julie Montgomery#Timothy Busfield#Andrew Cassese#Curtis Armstrong#Larry B. Scott#Brian Tochi#Michelle Meyrink#Matt Salinger#Donald Gibb#Bernie Casey#John Goodman#WATCHING#80s comedy#comedy#fraternity
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#valley girl#nicolas cage#deborah foreman#elizabeth daily#cameron dye#michelle meyrink#lee purcell#richard sanders#colleen camp#frederic forrest#martha coolidge#1983
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DVD review: “Real Genius” (1985)
“Real Genius” (1985)
Comedy
Running Time: 106 minutes
Written by: Neal Israel, Pat Proft and PJ Torokvei
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Featuring: Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink and William Atherton
Mitch: “You know, um, 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…
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#dvd#dvd comedy#dvd review#Gabe Jarret#Martha Coolidge#Michelle Meyrink#Real Genius dvd#Real Genius dvd review#Val Kilmer
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Val Kilmer, Michelle Meyrink, Jon Gries, Gabriel Jarret, and Mark Kamiyama in Real Genius (1985)
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JOY OF SEX - Very non-PC Martha Coolidge high school sex comedy from 84. I heard that she didn't have full control of it and disowns it now. Underneath all the sleaze, it's a lighthearted look at sex and death from a girl's perspective. Michelle Meyrink and Cameron Dye are really solid in it as kids going through uncomfortable shit.
SHREDDER ORPHEUS - This reminded me of BUCKAROO BANZAI, BRAZIL, REPO MAN, and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE. It has a good post-punk soundtrack too. It falls somewhere between Faith No More, INXS, & Bauhaus. It was really original and unique. It has that shoddy creepozoid labor of love feel. Wears its aesthetics on its sleeve and is really cool despite being dated. A very likeable movie.
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY - I happened to watch RYAN'S DAUGHTER (David Lean movie about a woman having an affair set in Ireland during WWI) because it was on TCM, and it got me interested in seeing more about the history of the fight for Irish independence. This was good but the tone is really dark and sad, which makes it kind of a tough watch. It shows how Irish people in the 1920s were split and turned against each other because of the English occupation and subsequent "independence" treaty, which was accepted by some and rejected by others.
MONOLITH - This had an intriguing idea about an unsolved mysteries kind of podcaster investigating the appearance of enigmatic dark bricks. While decently made, this ultimately feels more like a radio play as there isn't much in the way of action or visuals. It's all scenes of a woman on the phone or on her computer. Considering this, it's pretty impressive how engaging it is.
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS - Liam Neeson as a hitman in rural Ireland who becomes the target of a small IRA group. This was a surprisingly good little action movie. I was very surprised to see the return of Jack "Joffrey Baratheon" Gleeson, who I'd heard had retired from acting. His role as the brazen and reckless successor to Neeson's aging assassin seems like it was written to help him slough off the Joffrey typecasting. Kerry Condon is also great as the IRA group leader who will stop at nothing to avenge her brother.
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Movie ranting with Tomcat
One thing about me I LOVE Real Genius it’s a great movie and I recommend it!!
But If i had a nickel for any Real Genius actor being in the karate kid franchise i would have 2 nickels which isnt alot but its weird it happened twice.
Yuji Okumoto was one (Fenton being a background character in Real Genius, and later main anti hero of Karate Kid part 2 as Chozen)
BUT I JUST REALIZED THAT GABRIEL JARRET AKA MITCH TAYLOR WAS ALSO IN FHE KARATE KID FRANCHISE!! Very minor role but he was in Karate Kid part 3 as a dude named Rudy that Daniel punched while at a Club.
Absolutely wild right?? But oh wait there’s moreeee Michelle Meyrink aka Jordan in Real Genius, was casted in The Outsiders as Marcia (A Soc girl that went to the movies with Cherry)
And who else was The Outsiders?? None other than Ralph Macchio who is our main character Daniel Larusso in the Karte Kid franchise!!
And even better, along with Ralph Macchio there was also another notable actor in The Outsiders, the one and only Tom Cruise (playing Steve) who goes on to Star with Val Kilmer our other main character in Real Genius in of the most iconic films of the 80s Top Gun.
What is this all mean??
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Just that all of my favorite 80s films feature the same actors. I just thought it was neat!
#real genius#karate kid#karate kid 2#karate kid 3#the outsiders#movie crossovers#80s films#little rant#I love movie lore#tomcat rant over#like and/or reblog!#okay now bye
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Happy anniversary to Real Genius! It was released this day in 1985 and it remains one of my favorite movies of all time. It stars Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarrett, Michelle Meyrink, Jon Gries, William Atherton and Robert Prescott. Those crazy college kids, nobody needs that much popcorn! Happy anniversary!
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Robot Chicken #56 “Boo Cocky” | September 7, 2008 - 11:30PM | S03E16
I just realized what the title means. That’s cute.
Man, do I hate this show. I swear to god, I don’t set out to hate this show; I will watch it with an open mind and hope that something in it will be of value and/or make me laugh. A few things get me here and there, but this episode? (spoken quickly, quoting a commercial I vaguely remember from my childhood) I-don’t-think-so.
First sketch of substance starts off with some recreations of scenes from the motion picture Revenge of the Nerds. The joke is that after a montage of mostly-faithful adaptations of key scenes of the nerds committing various crimes (notably the main nerd raping the cheerleader by posing as her boyfriend in a Darth Vader costume) it smash-cuts to them in a court room. They are sentenced to half-a-lifetime of hard time in a federal prison. They get brutalized in there. The show makes a joke that the gay nerd is happy to be in prison because he’s gay. Huh! What an interesting joke for me to talk about humorlessly for two paragraphs:
Hey I JUST JOKEEENG. I am instead going to say opinions about those movies, because I think I’ve seen all of them? I don’t remember the third one almost at all. The first one is the best, but it’s not that good. I have a soft spot for it because it was one of the first R-rated movies I was allowed to see, along with Animal House. At the time I preferred it over Animal House, which is insane to me now.
Michelle Meyrink is in Nerds, va-va-va-voom! The second one is boring and bad, and rated PG instead of R. Ogre becomes their friend in that one, which is usually the domain of animated series adaptations (such as: Murph in the Problem Child movie/cartoon). Parts 3 & 4 are television movies, I think? The fourth one has one or some of the nerds getting married as a pretense for them reuniting. I remember they showed it in 3D that didn’t really work at all. You had to get the glasses from your local Safeway or something like that?
I remember turning the fourth one off early because it was lame, and then the next day at school my friend chided me for missing the much-ballyhooed bachelor party scene, where female strippers came out with like calculators on their bras (as seen in the promos). I watched the movie when the box set came out on DVD, and it was hilarious how gay it was. Literally, I mean, I’m not doing a thing where I am using schoolboy language to take you back to my 1990s Northern California grade school experience of being small and insensitive. What I mean is: the gay nerd gets so excited by the music and sensuality that he jumps on the strippers' stage and steals focus, and his friends all cheer him on instead of getting horny for girls. Honestly, those are some good-ass friends and I’m glad he found them.
I’m not talking about the next sketch yet. First I’d like to acknowledge that I’m doing a thing that I think I swore I would not do, which is use Robot Chicken sketches as a jumping off point to riff on popular culture in a self-indulgent way. I simply don’t care anymore. I like rehashing things I know about movies. It’s the only thing keeping me alive at this point.
Okay the next thing is: Conan of “The Barbarian” fame answers the question “what is best in life”, and instead of delivering what I’m guessing are very iconic lines (I don’t like the Conan movies! I am sorry! I do not retain things from them!) he sings a song that is ironically flowery. He name-checks gumdrops, which seems like very low-hanging fruit when you’re trying to write a song where the joke is that it’s saccharine. Does anyone actually ever refer to gumdrops in any other non-ironic context? Anyway, I REALLY hated this one. The song wasn’t even fun. It felt like a song written by bad comedy writers who don’t normally write songs. Not the worst song to be on Adult Swim, that honor probably goes to the one in Casinko.
Another bad bit: a channel change gag where a big monster carrot eats a rabbit and then says, “did that blow your mind?” at the camera. No. It did not. There’s an unfunny sketch about the Borg infiltrating the Star Trek experience in Las Vegas. My father-in-law is Walter Koenig, so I get to have that over dinner. There’s an okay sketch where a fart outbreak in a mental ward is interrupted by a TiVo menu and off-screen characters arguing about Robot Chicken that results in bloodshed (shout out to Moral Orel, a show Robot Chicken is friends with). There’s a sketch where two sound engineers are oblivious to the fact that the guy in the soundproof booth is being mauled by various fantastical things (zombies, aliens, finally a werewolf).
The last “main” sketch is Saved by the Bell, but it’s Saw. You can tell right away that Jigsaw is Mr. Belding, because they got the real guy to do it. Lotta real guys in this. Dustin Diamond, fresh (not really) off his stint on Tom Goes to the Mayor, is in this as well! Get you a guy who can do both. Anyway, this sucks too, but I guess it’s sorta impressive that they got 80% of the cast to lend their voices to this. I guess. Wait, no, it’s not.
MAIL BAG
Bradley Needlehead rocks
HE DOES. Thank you for bringing him up. I read somewhere, and I also vaguely remembered it on the previously-mentioned AdultSwim.com video commentary that they told DLH that he was his replacement, and asked him to coach the actor to help capture him better. I think I characterized it a little differently. I could probably use a little clarification on that. It is remarkable that Needlehead went on to create China, IL.
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Movie Review | Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (Roth, 1987)
This review contains mild spoilers.
With most movies about characters in high school or college, it’s sort of a given that the actors will look a lot older than the characters they’re supposed to be playing. Movies like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club stand out all the more for having actual teenagers in Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall playing the part of teenage characters. I’m not entirely complaining, as a lot of the horseplay (in the general unruly behaviour sense, not the Emmanuelle in America sense) are not things you’d want to see actual teenagers partaking in. And that age-inappropriate casting can work well in some cases. In this movie, Donald Gibb’s Ogre is obviously not the brightest bulb and is probably taking longer to get through his credits than the average student, so Gibb’s age works in his character’s favour. And Robert Carradine’s age nicely accents his character’s fundamental dorkiness. But then you have the head of the evil Alpha Beta fraternity played by Bradley Whitford, who is supposed to be this hunky, clean-cut all-American type, but let’s just say that age has not been kind to him. (I assume he would have voted for Reagan a third time if he could.) His hairline compares unfavourably to the magnificent coiffure sported by Ted McGinley in the original Revenge of the Nerds, and it’s hard to believe that the other Alpha Betas, who are characterized by their cruelty, actually look up to him and aren’t instead cracking jokes about his overdue midlife crisis.
The plot here restages the age-old snobs vs. slobs conflict of the original, but on a national scale. The boys from Lambda Lambda Lambda (but sadly not the ladies from Omega Mu) are invited to a national fraternity convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I have never been in a fraternity, but what I’ve learned from movies is that it’s just a bunch of guys getting together to paddle each others’ asses, so I assume a national fraternity convention offers an opportunity to paddle asses across state lines. Hey, I have nothing against ass-paddling, but I’d appreciate if those doing the paddling would be nicer about it. And this is a kindler, gentler Revenge of the Nerds, saddled with a PG-13 rating instead of an R, meaning that while it gets in a few racy jokes and ogling gazes, it thankfully avoids the outright sex crimes of the original movie. (The raunchiest this gets is in the name of the motel the boys stay at, the Hotel Corral Essex, which with a few malfunctioning letters in the neon sign gets a lot more enticing.) Miraculously, the boys learn to see the hot blonde here as an actual person. She’s played here by Courtney Thorne-Smith, a few years before her appearance in the Carrot Top vehicle Box Office Poison (R.I.P. Norm Macdonald), and is generally an agreeable presence although I wish the movie gave her more to do aside from the occasional flashes that she might secretly be a nerd deep down. She compares unfavourably to the sweet female nerd played by Michelle Meyrink in the original movie. The movie seems unsure whether to position her as a love interest or one of the nerds, seemingly forgetting that Carradine’s character had a girlfriend at the end of the first movie (the less said about the circumstances under which they met, the better).
Aside from that, you get the returning cast doing weaker versions of the shtick they did in the original. Anthony Edwards only appears for a few minutes (apparently he wasn’t excited about appearing in this and used his paycheque to buy a new pool), although his sincerity is sorely missed, as the movie lacks the heart he was able to give the original (when it wasn’t busy celebrating sex crimes). Curtis Armstrong’s Booger gets to be unhygienic and obnoxious, although he finds a new mentor in a wise old bum played by the great James Hong, who teaches him the art of hocking a loogie. Timothy Busfield’s Poindexter says smart things and walks into stuff. Andrew Cassese is no longer four feet tall, so the movie doesn’t know how to handle him. Larry B. Scott’s Lamar Latrell’s flamboyant homosexuality is toned down (you get a quick shot of a magazine in his luggage and some fashion choices, but that’s about it), although he steps up in other ways, including taking the lead again in the musical number. (Apparently Scott also choreographed the scene as well.) To be honest, it lacks the pure joyousness of the performance in the original (switching the synth pop and electric violin for generic late ‘80s hip hop), and is also less pleasurable to watch (opting for closer low angle shots that don’t let you savour the proceedings the same way), although you do get Carradine channeling David Byrne on the poster of True Stories with his gaudy cowboy outfit.
This is one case where the movie isn’t exactly hitting the same beats as the original. The song and dance in the original was the climax, but it comes earlier in this movie. The real climax involves the boys, Gibb and Thorne-Smith getting stranded on a desert island. Their rescue comes at the hands of munitions hidden by anti-Castro Cubans ahead of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and our heroes make their gallant return to the convention decked out in full military gear. Do they violently execute the Alpha Betas and install a new nerd junta to control all the fraternities in the free world? I won’t reveal the answer, but like I said, this is a kindler, gentler Revenge of the Nerds.
I dunno, this is obviously not very good, but if you like hanging out with the boys enough, this isn’t unpleasant to sit through.
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Streghe (witches)
Virgil Finlay (1914-1971, USA)
Trois femmes et trois lupus | Eugene Grasset (1845-1917, France)
La sorcière, 1882 | Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896, España)
Metamorphosis - black cats transforming themselves into witches, late 19th century | Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923, Switzerland)
The night of wicked fairies | Michel Simonidy (1870-1933, Romania)
Demon | Franciszek Żmurko (1859-1910, Poland)
Walpurgis Sabbath- cover from 'Jugend' magazine, 1909 | Adolf Münzer (1870-1953, Poland)
Linda maestra (pretty teacher), from the ‘Caprichos’ series, 1797-99 | Goya (1746-1828, España)
Valpurgis morgen, 1908 | Louis Moe (1857-1945, Norway)
Sorcières, 1888 | Joseph Apoux (1846-1910, France)
Streghe moderne (Sorcières modernes) | Jean Veber (1864-1928, France)
Evohé, 1888 ca. | Joseph Apoux (1846-1910, France)
Intimite, 1888 ca. | Joseph Apoux (1846-1910, France)
La strega sul caprone (La sorcière renversée sur la chèvre), 1500-05 | Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, Germany)
The magic circle | John William Waterhouse (1849-1917, England)
Trumpf (carta vincente) - from 'Die muskete' magazine, 1926 (december) | Karl Alexander Wilke (1879-1954, Germany-Austria)
La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat-Woman), 1890 | Albert Joseph Pénot (1862-1930, France)
Départ pour le Sabbat, 1910 | Albert Joseph Pénot (1862-1930, France)
L'amour libre | Georges De Feure (1868-1943, France)
Aradia dea delle streghe, 1900-10
Rito di Benedizione al parto (birth blessing rite), Roma, 2021 | ph., Valeria Gradizzi (1979, Italia)
Magia nera, XVIII-XIX secolo (18th-19th century) | Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762-1844, Italia)
Walpurgis Night Scene (from Goethe Faust), 1910 | Fritz Roeber (1851-1924, Germany)
Gentile Budrioli (she died at the stake in Bologna accused of witchcraft) | Charles Frederick Naegele (1857-1944, USA)
Anniosette | ph. Mogens Berger (1933-1993, Denmark)
The Walpurgisnacht Portfolio (one of six etchings after Gustav Meyrinks), 1922 | Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969, Austria)
The Walpurgisnacht Portfolio (three of six etchings after Gustav Meyrinks), 1922 | Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969, Austria)
The Walpurgisnacht Portfolio (four of six etchings after Gustav Meyrinks), 1922 | Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969, Austria)
The Walpurgisnacht Portfolio (five of six etchings after Gustav Meyrinks), 1922 | Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969, Austria)
Untitled (witches) | Stefan Eggeler (1894-1969, Austria)
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her actress’ last name is “meyrink”. michelle meyrink is her actress, who is apparently now a teacher. AND SHE’S CANADIAN! anyways, should we give her actress’ last name, or brainstorm a new one?
Marcia Meyrink has a pretty ring to it, but i was just gonna let the universe decide 🤷🏻♀️ but if you wanna make a last name for her, go ahead.
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Real Genius (1985)… Chris (#valkilmer), Mitch (Gabriel Jarret) & Jordan (Michelle Meyrink) watch as Professor Hathaway’s house explodes with popcorn. #screenshot from the movie and #googlemaps. Haven’t seen this movie in I don’t know how long. Definitely worth rewatching. The area is located on Saddleback road in #santaclarita,#california. #80s #80smovie #80smovies #the80s #80scomedy #realgenius #1985 #movielocations #movielocation #filmscout #filmscouting #locationscouting #locationscout https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZrbMyrdIe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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