Weird ScienceIn 1985, teenagers could only use computers for menial tasks like hacking into military missile silos.Also, according to this comedy, they could be used to create babes.Socially awkward high school students Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) use their home computer to download the woman of their dreams, Lisa (Kelly LeBrock).Determined to bring her creators out of their shells, the hypersexual avatar throws the boys a house party and invents their crushes, their tormentor (Robert Downey, Jr.) and a post-apocalyptic biker gang to the shindig. However, Wyatt's older brother (Bill Paxton) threatens the fun.An adaptation of EC Comics' popular science fiction title from the 1950s that has been run-through the John Hughes' adolescent pathos machine, this out-there cult classic remains a touchstone of eighties comedies thanks to the aforementioned writer/director. Incidentally, if computers could create woman then men wouldn't need computers to lure them.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

From John Hughes, the director/producer/writer of 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Pretty In Pink, comes this steaming mound of elephant excrement.Two nerds plug electric wires into a Barbie doll, hack into a Pentagon supercomputer using a Memotech MTX512 (64KB of RAM) and use this extra computing power OVER DIALUP to create a 3D digital hardlight woman who also happens to have magic powers. If they had used NASA's computer, it would be a remake of 'I Dream Of Jeannie'.The 25 year old computer genie then gets the two 15 year old guys drunk, offers to have sex with them and then throws a party for them to get laid. Typical hijinks for an 80s teen movie, sure. But the director wanted to film his sequel, which would see the sex roles reversed. A 25 year old guy gets two 15 year old girls drunk, offers to have sex with them... yeah, I don't think that's in the same genre.Meanwhile, the nerds are too nerdy for sex, so she throws them a party instead, where the house gets trashed, she magically conjures up other people, and they stage a home invasion in order to trick two girls to fall for them.Bill Paxton does his best as an army gungho brother who is a typical movie bully, but his part falls flat, as does the rest of this movie.The movie ends with a Genius Ex Machina, where the house is completely restored, there are no repercussions, and the two girls are supposedly in love now after having dumped their previous boyfriends a few hours ago.It somehow spawned a TV series that ran for 5 years.Demi Moore (Ghost, A Few Good Men, GI Jane) and Robin Wright (Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, House of Cards, Blade Runner 2049) auditioned for the part of Lisa The Genie.Starring: Robert Minkoff, 71 bit parts over 17 years. Wow. (A bit part is where you have some small dialogue with a supporting or lead character). He was never a lead or support, but averaged over 4 movies a year.Kevin Thompson, one of the dwarfs who operates the suit (when Paxton gets turned into a blob), also played the bear toy in Bladerunner, and an ewok in Star Wars (including the god-awful TV movies).Mikul Robins, random dancer at the party, will appear in another movie with Paxton, Commando.Wallace Langham, from nobody in this movie, to David Hodges on CSI (only took 8 years to get on the opening credits).Chino 'Fats' Willams, drove the front loader in Terminator, now a bar patron getting drunk with some very white 15 year olds trying to talk black. Cringeworthy.Vernon Wells, bikie in Mad Max 2, then bikie leader here. Lead antagonist in Commando (Bennett).Robert Downey Jr, as a pretentious jerk who is only concerned with his looks and getting the girl. So, he hasn't changed much.Ilan Mitchell-Smith, lead nerd, now a professor of medieval literature, getting a cameo on The Goldbergs (Weird Science homage episode).Kelly LeBrock, fashion model, starred in Woman In Red, her then-husband was the producer, divorced 2 years later. Starred in Hard To Kill, her then-husband was the other co-star, Steven Seagal. Divorced six years later.Anthony Michael Hall (The Dead Zone, Warehouse 13, The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles), one of the most annoying movie nerds, definitely the worst hairstyle (which he kept for like, a decade. Even through his 2 years where he became a unemployed drunk).

Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. I never thought that 2017 would start in such a way but overall since we lost a great actor and person today here's my review for "Weird Science" starring Bill Paxton, Kelly LeBrock, Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Robert Downey Jr and the reason why i loved this film it was easy. It was made in the 80's and there were some great references to movies such as "Road Warrior" or "Dirty Harry" plus it's an insane and funny comedy with some really great performances by some really talented people and fans of that time won't be disappointed.

Gary and Wyatt are a couple of geeky fifteen year old high school students and they have no chance of getting girlfriends; especially the two they really fancy who are currently dating a couple of more popular boys. Then, while watching Frankenstein on television, Gary gets an idea… if they can't get girls the normal way why don't they just make one! After loading the computer with details of their perfect woman they find themselves looking at a beautiful woman, which they later name Lisa; and she is all theirs. They may now have this beauty but they still don't really know what to do. She however is determined to give them a good time whether they like it or not. She takes them out for a night on the town. Later she throws a party at Wyatt's house, inviting just about everybody… inevitably things get out of hand and Gary and Wyatt are forced to make a stand.This is something different to John Hughes usual films; we have the usual teen protagonists trying to fit in in '80s America but we also have some rather wacky elements. The way they create Lisa was funny in a ridiculous way… a way that some viewers may find embarrassingly silly. The characters lacked the depth of those in most of Hughes's films making them less sympathetic. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith are good enough as Gary and Wyatt but it is Kelly LeBrock's performance as Lisa that hold the film together; she manages to be seductive, with just a hint of danger and a wicked sense of humour. She also has one of the best introductions of any film character with her line 'So, what would you little maniacs like to do first?'. The special effects are a bit ropey by today's standards and things do get a little over the top towards then end but that doesn't matter as it is still funny. The ending is a bit cliché but again it manages to be fun and even manages to include a nice little car chase. Overall I found this film to be quite a lot better than I expected and recommend it to fans of the '80s.