Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
justinprather-65935
This movies was made when movies were actually good and didn't have an underlying message but to entertain. Awesome comedy for any age brilliant story filled with tons of laughs.
Pezo3178
I love this movie! I watch it every time it's on cable. The song "Everybody wants to rule world" by Tears for Fears has become one of my all time songs.
freerider101
I was born mid 1980's. I remember seeing this film early 90's. I loved it when I first saw it. It basically inspired me to pursue knowledge. It was after this film that I began disassembling my toys and making bigger cooler toys. It sparked my imagination. It's the film that made me pursue Physics up to now. :) It's a classic film that's underrated by most. The soundtrack is awesome. The last scene when Everybody wants to rule the world by Tears for fears starts playing is very Nostalgic. It makes me remember all my memories as a child growing up. It actually makes me wonder that in this fantasy world of Real Genius what's going to happen to these guys (C. Knight and gang). Do they start their own company? Do they get rich? Anything is possible. Sometimes I really hope they made a series out of this with the same actors because their chemistry is really awesome. It would have been more fun to see more of them working on something. :)
Richard Scott
In the late 60's-early 70's I was a math and physics geek dreaming and working at getting a scholarship to Caltech, the real university fictionalized in the film. The Vietnam War and a draft lottery number of 5 intervened so I wound up joining the Navy and actually working on WMDs as I hunted the Great Steel Whales. I must have seen this film 50 times over the years and it's always funny and fresh each time.Contrary to the opinions of many, The plot IS based on the true story of a Caltech grad student who invented the X-ray laser for eye surgery; only to have Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Labs try to turn it into a space-based particle beam weapon for Reagan's Star Wars project. Many of the incidents depicted are taken directly from the hijinks Caltech students engage in during the annual Ditch Day celebrations.I won't rehash the plot since so many have already done so on these pages. Suffice to say that a great, funny, literate script, journeyman direction by Martha Coolidge and believable performances by Jarret, Kilmer, Atherton, Meyrink, et all put this film a cut above virtually all the other 80's school and nerd comedies. The only reason I didn't give it a 10 was due to the somewhat cheesy special effects of the B1-B bomber used in the weapon's test.Ironically enough, I lived in Pasadena in the late 90's/early 00's and drove past Caltech every day on my way home from work. There I would periodically see busloads of Chinese tourists from the People's Republic taking each other's pictures in front of the Caltech administration building. I always wondered how many of THEM had seen this film and if seeing it would have changed their enthusiasm for the place.
