We saw Eighties movies at the Brattle

[xiphias]

So, we screwed up on meeting teddywolf to see movies, but other than that, it was good.

The Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square does $8 double-features. Tonight, it was an Eighties Dada fairy-godmother-of-sex story followed by the best geek film ever.

Weird Science was enjoyable enough, I guess, but I think it would have been better had it had a plot, characters, or coherence. Or maybe even several of the above. It had some good lines: best line, as a post-holocaust mutant biker leaves a party after terrorizing the party-goers: "Could we just keep this between us? I don't want to lose my teaching job. . . ." The "perfect woman" character was moderately sexy, I guess. And it does have a fantastic theme song by Oingo Boingo. I'd never seen it before, and I doubt I'll go out of my way to see it again.

Real Genius, on the other hand, is one of my favorite movies of all time. This is the second time I've seen it on the big screen, and it works even better big than it does on video. And it's got JORDAN!!!! Yaaay!

After the movie, we chatted with some of the people who'd been sitting around us, and I made the comment that, growing up, I had the hugest crush on Jordan, and I promised myself I'd marry her when I grew up.

So I did.

One person made the comment that he'd never realized that Alyssa Hannigan was just a second-rate knock-off. . . .

Let's face it. Jordan is about a quadrillion times sexier than the character "Lisa" from Weird Science.

Comments

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

Awwww ... I love "Real Genius". I'm not even sure how many times I've seen it. Certainly over a dozen.

Did you realize that the sex-pot "Can you hammer a whatever-inch spike through a board with your penis?" girl *and* the actress who played Jordan were both also in the movie "Valley Girl"? I'm just a font of 80's trivia. ;-)

[goljerp]

Real Genius is, indeed, a great geek film.

growing up, I had the hugest crush on Jordan, and I promised myself I'd marry her when I grew up.

So I did.

:-)

Although I have to say that I think of your wife as being slightly less hyper than Jordan. And, even as a freshchunk, more social. But I see what you mean...

[gingicat]

I caught that too. :) Now I definitely have to see the movie again.

[cheshyre]

Well, we have it on video, but it really needs to be seen on the big screen. I understand a DVD has just been released, and hopefully they letterboxed it.

[gingicat]

Actually, we screwed up; I finished my exam in 45 minutes and would have just barely missed the beginning of the 7:30 movie, so consulted with Wolf, who said he was feeling really tired. We would have called you, except you don't have cellphones. :b

[cheshyre]

And we didn't have your celphone numbers so couldn't call you. I'll confess, Ian wasn't feeling 100% yesterday evening, and we almost bailed, but didn't want you guys left in the lurch looking for us.

At any rate, we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly -- would've been more fun to have you there, but we still had a great time.

Incidentally, though the spring calendar isn't yet up on their website, in January they're doing a weekend double-feature of Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man if you'd be interested in seeing that. [And I'm still trolling for a group outing to see Singin in the rain this week in one of the Arlington theaters.]

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that - I should have asked more questions about meeting and such Monday. As it is I was quite tired so it's probably not a bad thing that I stayed home and read.

New Brust book, Paths of the Dead. Mmmm... Brust books...

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

_Real Genius_ was definitely my favorite 80's movie. I really liked Mitch. Chris was cuter, of course, but Mitch had GeekChic. This movie also has one of the most quotable dialogue scenes of all time...

"Did you know there's a guy living in our closet?"

et al.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

From memory:

"You've seen him too?"

"Who is he?"

"Hollyfeld. He was a student here in the Seventies."

"Why does he keep going into our closet?"

"Why do YOU keep going into our closet?"

"To get my clothes. But that's not why HE keeps going into our closet."

"Of course not. He's twice your size. Your clothes would never fit him. Twenty points higher than me? Thinks a big guy like that could wear his clothes? Honestly, Mitch. Think before you ask these questions."