If you have a "Mitch" in your life feel blessed. They are the ones who are truly your best friends and who only want the best for you. Never discount your Mitch.
There needs to be more movies like this to inspire kids in the future. It made science and being intelligent FEEL cool when I was young. I've seen nothing like this before or after.
I owned this on VHS and now on Prime and have watched this movie no less than 100 times and somehow NEVER noticed that. Great observation! I love little details like that.
Kilmer spins the wrench and quarters through his fingers in this movie .. but uses the same skill set in Top Gun spinning a pen through his fingers years later! Got to love those shirts and slippers he wears!
"Take a step forward, take a step back. Now we're doing the cha-cha." Man, I adore this movie! When I saw Val's charisma in this and humor and wit I knew he was going to be a huge star. I also love the other song "Falling" on the soundtrack.
@@mitch6160 No but I just watched the trailer and it looks like that's on the agenda for tonight for me and my ill parents. 😁 I'm also looking forward to watching Val Kilmers Documentary. That's happening Asap. 🤩
It was a while back. About 10 years to be exact. According to G4, Kilmer was going to reprise his role a Knight. Set place years later, Knight is Dean of the college.
That's awesome! I feel the same way! I still remember the day I saw "Real Genius" with my friends. We had just graduated high school and we about to go off to College. That was such a happy time in my life. :)
17 in 85 remember seeing this movie for the first time like it was yesterday.. sigh.. blessed to have grown up in the 80s.. but man wish we could go back.. peace ✌️
This scene reminds me of my 2nd year in med school. 1st year was not bad, but 2nd year kicked my ass with all the pharmacology and pathophysiology we had to learn in such a short time. I literally had to stay in the library until 10 PM every single day studying. At the time I thought it was soul crushing but looking back 20 years later I miss it in some ways.
@@nightfurmoonfang3391 No. I've been there, and the thought process is, "I'm close to that breakdown myself and I'm not wasting any of my mental energy trying to help that guy cope with his.
Whatever problems anyone had in the 80s (including me, i had a lot between being teased at school and then an abusive mother at home), TODAY’S world and issues make them seem like a childhood book. Sometimes, i think if i could go back to that time knowing what i know now about how things would be, i would live through all that pain and unpleasantness again JUST to get away from the crazy world of today.
I have a PhD in molecular biophysics and I've seen the "crackup" scene first hand. Pretty much had to talk good ol Steve off the roof. He works for the NSA now. Great movie.
I so love this movie! That scene when their friend has a nervous breakdown while studying and leaves the room screaming. They just take it in their stride and keep on studying. :) Wonderful movie! :)
it hard to watch Val Kilmer nowadays. the man had waited so damn long to get the damn cancer out of his throat that he had his vocal cord ruined due to getting it done.
This movie changed me. Being too serious in your studies. You can have fun studying. I loved the part when Val Kilmer says to William Atherton, " There are many brands of decaffeinated coffee, but they all taste the same."
that taste as good as the real thing. Implying that Dr Hathaway (W Atherton) was unnecessarily nearvous.. 1970s/1980s decaf coffee commecials used a similar line - "Tastes just as good as the real thing"
I identified with Mitch Taylor since I remember how military wanted first dibs and how mainland China used my solid fueled jet engine for a cruise missile.
I wish you had played this when you came to knoxville tn Valley fair. I bought tickets. It was the best night of my life..because I was a fan since Jesse's girl.
I saw a video about the director, Martha Coolidge. She originally declined an offer to direct real genius, because the script was just another dumb frat boy movie. Given freedom to change it, she went to cal-tech , i believe and interviewed A bunch of students, to find out what really went on there. Years later , At a showing of RG, real scientists said they chose their careers because of this movie. There are some videos on YT about the popcorn finale. It took months to pop all that popcorn. Nerds are cool, Hmm, who knew?
I love Val Kilmer in this movie along with his roll as Doc holiday. Let's NOT forgot ICE MAN ( top gun). Legendary performance to stand toe to toe with Tom Cruise. Truly iconic. The soundtrack was brilliant also.
@@ziv0 no. When dr. Hathaway tells Mitch that he will be on his research team, he says "this is the second time I've given such an honor to a freshman".
@@jamesturner6861 he probably means a freshman graduate since most graduate students begin doing research on their second year . also could be that his research team is considered one of the best on campus making it even more selective then most.
@@xealit , the best military laser is about 100 kilowatt. It's been estimated that a 1 MW laser turns air into plasma and explodes. As of 2020 there is no solution to the limit. If Chris and Mitch had hired a 4 MW laser in that lab the very air would have turned into high energy plasma with the resulting explosion demolishing the building.
Jordan and Ick were two very underrated characters. It's scary to think that between four students (and occasionally Kent) there was enough brainpower in one room to defeat every military on the planet if they so wished. And yet, they didn't. Thus the movie. :)
Mitch: for no other reason then just to see a 5 megawatt lazer fired just once! Chris: that would be nice. 5 megawatts just think how small that is compared to now?!
@@HimboVegan I agree. Milliwatt lasers, yes... but multi-megawatt laser would set everything around it on fire. :) I think the original poster was thinking about megabytes vs the gigabyte/terabyte capacity when it comes to computers.
Real Genius was on OTA TV in s hospital, as I came out of a 3-4 day induced coma after freaking brain surgery. I was laughing so hard, a doctor came in to check that I was okay. He laughed when he saw what I was laughing about. Val Kilmer - you are a treasure. I hope you're hanging in here. 🌎 👍😎❤
This is like a Rocky montage for Nerds.
great point
'thats a good point'
I was just thinking I need a Rocky-like motivational video for my exam. Then I find this video and I see your comment :D
Can confirm. In college I played this and the “Falling” montage to pump myself up.
Will power boost!
This movie never gets old. First time I watched it, I was 12, and now I’m almost 50. And to this day, I still enjoy watching it. God I miss the 80s.
55 now. same pal this was year graduated high school.. such a great time to be a kid
51 and still love it too!
yeah, i feel sorry for the kids that missed the 80's.
i was just something about that time.
54 here and I miss the 80’s too
I was 9 and now i am 43 .😂😂😂😂
If you have a "Mitch" in your life feel blessed. They are the ones who are truly your best friends and who only want the best for you. Never discount your Mitch.
Besides them being naive too
My Mitch passed in 2014. RIP Brian. Miss you, you fucker.
Wolfram at JPL. lol True.
indeed
If you have a “Mitch” in your life now, he probably has pronouns😂🤣
There needs to be more movies like this to inspire kids in the future. It made science and being intelligent FEEL cool when I was young. I've seen nothing like this before or after.
Damn straight
Should give Weird Science a go, another good 80s movie, not on this level but still lots of fun
80s movies are definitely the reason. I believe me and four people can solve any problem in the world
I still want to see a 5MW laser, fire.
I want to be a good distance to one side, with considerable eye protection, but that would be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@prophetzarquonI think the point of the movie is that maybe the world doesn’t ultimately want or need to see that.
Love this movie. So underrated.
I love it too :) Such a classic :)
Such an underrated movie!!!!
Love this movie! I told my 15 year old son to watch it together with me. Trip down memory lane....
By who? It's a classic. Always has been.
Oi vey
Notice how Jordan has to study in a rocking chair to burn off nervous energy.
I think she had her invention there with her. The page turner.
We need more Jordan's in the world.
I owned this on VHS and now on Prime and have watched this movie no less than 100 times and somehow NEVER noticed that. Great observation! I love little details like that.
You have to wonder what innovative birth control methods she devised with Mitch.
None, they got married and had 2 kids.
Kilmer spins the wrench and quarters through his fingers in this movie .. but uses the same skill set in Top Gun spinning a pen through his fingers years later! Got to love those shirts and slippers he wears!
Also in Tombstone. Nice catch.
In Willow he spins a sword :)
Years later? Try the next year. Real Genius was 1985. Top Gun was 1986.
He's known for doing stuff like that in many of his movies.
A drum stick in The Doors.
"Take a step forward, take a step back. Now we're doing the cha-cha." Man, I adore this movie! When I saw Val's charisma in this and humor and wit I knew he was going to be a huge star. I also love the other song "Falling" on the soundtrack.
Have you watched Top Secret?
@@mitch6160 No but I just watched the trailer and it looks like that's on the agenda for tonight for me and my ill parents. 😁 I'm also looking forward to watching Val Kilmers Documentary. That's happening Asap. 🤩
lol
loved this when I was 17.. nothings changed... 80s 4ever
Same here. Thanks for getting the name of the other song (Falling) as I like that one too.
Watching this movie on HBO as a kid in the 80s, ohh the memories.
HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime. Sitting in the living all day watching movies. Life was good. Lol
FACTS
Yessss constantly . I still remember the trailers for it in between movies.
This is one of the best Val Kilmer movies
Top Secret ! Too
Real Genius is one of the few movies about college students and college that feels authentic despite some of its shenanigans
They were working on a sequel to this.
@@mrcscrn0 First I have heard of that.
It was a while back. About 10 years to be exact. According to G4, Kilmer was going to reprise his role a Knight. Set place years later, Knight is Dean of the college.
this doesn't need a sequel
@@moatrboat I agree.
This is a better geek movie than Revenge of the Nerds. This is the hill I will die on.
Better still, it's the hill you don't have to rape a sorority girl on.
Revenge of the Nerds is rapy crap.
I'll be there as well :3
I'm reminded of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?"
I will drink this when the ice machine is fixed and ice is available for my glass. Socrates
That look that William Atherton gives Chris when he sees his slippers
I loved Val Kilmer in this .. 😍
Love how the guys screaming looks @ everybody in the room, then they all where like oh well
one of my favorite cult classics from the 80's. Sadly I am nowhere NEAR as smart as these guys.
No reason to be sad. Very high intelligence tends to be more of a curse than a blessing. Focus on happiness, instead. Just my 2 cents.
Can we appreciate the fact we have a time machine? Just not the one we thought we would have? YT is amazing
TH-cam IS AMAZING! I wholeheartedly second that!!
I've been giving myself shock treatments!.....Up the voltage!
Stop playing with yourself Kent lmmfao!!!!😂🤣😂
it is God lol
Funny 😆
I recently found a copy of this movie on DVD for $6.00.
Lucky you
Win!
You found a Dvd?
Got the blu ray myself.
I used to listen to this song thinking i was val kilmer in real genius getting pumped up for exams 😂
A timeless classic. Not only will I always be inspired by this, but also remembering the friends I watched the movie with! God bless you all!
God bless you too!
That's awesome! I feel the same way! I still remember the day I saw "Real Genius" with my friends. We had just graduated high school and we about to go off to College. That was such a happy time in my life. :)
17 in 85 remember seeing this movie for the first time like it was yesterday.. sigh.. blessed to have grown up in the 80s.. but man wish we could go back.. peace ✌️
The guy wigs out!
The others shifting seats taking over his spot
Good timing
For those of you who are interested, it IS in fact possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix.
Its a chemical laser in solid not gaseous form.
@@RJ_MacReady it's like lasing a stick of dynamite
@@jturner7771 Nice 😂🤣
…but that’s hotter than the sun!!!
All you need is a giant spinning mirror😅
This scene reminds me of my 2nd year in med school. 1st year was not bad, but 2nd year kicked my ass with all the pharmacology and pathophysiology we had to learn in such a short time. I literally had to stay in the library until 10 PM every single day studying. At the time I thought it was soul crushing but looking back 20 years later I miss it in some ways.
3:41 Just your typical hell week pyschotic breakdown during college midterms/finals. Awesome slice of campus life in an awesome movie!
Had a feeling it was something like that... plus the thought, "so... what, they're just gonna make like, "oh, he's fine" "?
@@nightfurmoonfang3391 No. I've been there, and the thought process is, "I'm close to that breakdown myself and I'm not wasting any of my mental energy trying to help that guy cope with his.
I came for the song and the scene, was not disappointed. 🤘
Looking back on this film, I didn’t realize it then, but this movie 🎥 made being smart cool 😎
3:38
I have seen this in real life. Lol.
Thanks for posting. This movie was a profound influence on my life.
This movie, breakfast club and Point break were my favorites. Never gets old. Watched them so many times.
I am studying for Grad School while I listen to this movie. Perfection
Love how this movie keeps you interested throughout, a true classic I still enjoy watching it over and over again 2021
Whatever problems anyone had in the 80s (including me, i had a lot between being teased at school and then an abusive mother at home), TODAY’S world and issues make them seem like a childhood book. Sometimes, i think if i could go back to that time knowing what i know now about how things would be, i would live through all that pain and unpleasantness again JUST to get away from the crazy world of today.
It does make one contemplate such an idea....
5 mega watts....Hmm?..In my world.. That's A LOT of solar panels...lol
I have a PhD in molecular biophysics and I've seen the "crackup" scene first hand. Pretty much had to talk good ol Steve off the roof. He works for the NSA now. Great movie.
The guy at 3:44 that's the same way I act when I find out in the morning I've run out of coffee.
I so love this movie! That scene when their friend has a nervous breakdown while studying and leaves the room screaming. They just take it in their stride and keep on studying. :) Wonderful movie! :)
That scene always reminds me of my engineering days. 🤯🤪🤓😂😂
favorite movie growing up, and this montage lives in my mind rent free
Love the guy freaking out in the study area 😂
I used to watch this back when it came out , loved it alot , i sucked in school but i felt i could relate....miss the 80s..
it hard to watch Val Kilmer nowadays. the man had waited so damn long to get the damn cancer out of his throat that he had his vocal cord ruined due to getting it done.
God I live 80’s movies. And always with the great soundtracks
Remember seeing this movie at a Drive-In when it was originally released! 👍😀
Damn,now that was cool.
One of the best school movies out there
This film has great montages
Chris knight was my hero growing up
Always strive even if you feel lost.
3:52 me all pandemic 😷 😫
😂❤️
Brilliant casting in this movie.
This movie changed me.
Being too serious in your studies.
You can have fun studying.
I loved the part when
Val Kilmer says to William Atherton, " There are many brands of decaffeinated coffee, but they all taste the same."
that taste as good as the real thing. Implying that Dr Hathaway (W Atherton) was unnecessarily nearvous.. 1970s/1980s decaf coffee commecials used a similar line - "Tastes just as good as the real thing"
I identified with Mitch Taylor since I remember how military wanted first dibs and how mainland China used my solid fueled jet engine for a cruise missile.
You gotta love this song its a mortal imperative lol
This film is so damn good, it has 3 epic montages! Falling, number one and then near the end with Thomas Newman's unreleased score!
Love this Movie 🍿🎥. I wish that I the DVD 📀. Movies That Rock !
Val is talented with his hands and fingers....😍😍😍
I grew up in 80’s.. I dig this! 👍
Ive been onsessed with this movie since i was 5. Been in love with val kilmer since. This movie never gets old.
I wish you had played this when you came to knoxville tn Valley fair. I bought tickets. It was the best night of my life..because I was a fan since Jesse's girl.
I want to start seeing more of you around the lab.
Fine, I'll gain weight
My favorite nerds film, great b.s.o, its a great movie. Very underrated.
Classic Film...Dam 80's was a Great Time. Classic Movies....Classic Music and Miami Vice.
thank you for putting these up. a terrific film.
I saw a video about the director, Martha Coolidge. She originally declined an offer to direct real genius, because the script was just another dumb frat boy movie. Given freedom to change it, she went to cal-tech , i believe and interviewed A bunch of students, to find out what really went on there. Years later , At a showing of RG, real scientists said they chose their careers because of this movie. There are some videos on YT about the popcorn finale. It took months to pop all that popcorn. Nerds are cool, Hmm, who knew?
I love Val Kilmer in this movie along with his roll as Doc holiday. Let's NOT forgot ICE MAN ( top gun). Legendary performance to stand toe to toe with Tom Cruise.
Truly iconic.
The soundtrack was brilliant also.
@3:45 This is my reaction when another incompetent forman, that never did any work, tells me how to do my job.
This is the widest TH-cam video I've ever seen.
this song is about a sixteen years old physics graduate student at caltech . reminds me of someone .
I think he is an undergraduate freshman
@@jamesturner6861 he seems to be doing research from the start . it means that he is a graduate student .
@@ziv0 no. When dr. Hathaway tells Mitch that he will be on his research team, he says "this is the second time I've given such an honor to a freshman".
@@jamesturner6861 he probably means a freshman graduate since most graduate students begin doing research on their second year . also could be that his research team is considered one of the best on campus making it even more selective then most.
@@ziv0 You can't be a graduate student without graduating.
Great flick! Great soundtrack!
3:20 I learned that wrench flip :)
This is one of the best movies ever!
this and better off dead got me through high school
I love this movie so much
5 mw laser. Funny (I love the 80s). We’re experimenting with petawatt lasers now.
yeah, but what's the duration and the size/cross-section of the laser beam?
@@xealit , the best military laser is about 100 kilowatt. It's been estimated that a 1 MW laser turns air into plasma and explodes. As of 2020 there is no solution to the limit.
If Chris and Mitch had hired a 4 MW laser in that lab the very air would have turned into high energy plasma with the resulting explosion demolishing the building.
@@Easy-Eight is that similar 1.21 gigawatts
@@JasonNoto A Meg is 1/1000th of a Gig. The best military laser is 1/100,000 of a Gig
Val had no business being that hot.....
Number one is a hard time in the making.
THE 80s montage that outdoes them all
Shawn from psych is based off this wonderful character and movie. Pretty neat homage.
Saw this movie so long ago but haven’t forgotten about it
Much simpler times and fun times
Just good fun movies
This and the ski montage from Better Off Dead are the two best montages of ALL time.
This was a great jam. And Jordan is hot
Jordan and Ick were two very underrated characters. It's scary to think that between four students (and occasionally Kent) there was enough brainpower in one room to defeat every military on the planet if they so wished. And yet, they didn't. Thus the movie. :)
Mitch: for no other reason then just to see a 5 megawatt lazer fired just once!
Chris: that would be nice.
5 megawatts just think how small that is compared to now?!
Theres never been a 5 megawatt laser to this day. Not even close.
@@HimboVegan I agree. Milliwatt lasers, yes... but multi-megawatt laser would set everything around it on fire. :) I think the original poster was thinking about megabytes vs the gigabyte/terabyte capacity when it comes to computers.
3:40. When your brain is full. 😆😆😆
Real Genius.
No shit genius
@@joesmith389 this is _science genius_
"I drank what?" is the greatest movie line of all times.
Love it never gets old.even tho it's old lol
this movie wants to make me study, when I'm lazy and dumb
The original Ryan Reynolds but more wholesome
LOVE this song and movie
3:38 it's hard to read book thru sunglasses
True story: This scene was my introduction to Socrates. 📚
This was my second. My first was Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
3:39 A startup 😁
Ladies and gentlemen, Junk Chizzle!
The monkees shirt for 5 seconds ❤❤
Love this song! Fires me up!
@3:40 - I sure hope that only took one take.
This film had great songs!
It's 2020 and there is still no operation long duration 1 megawatt military laser. The best they have is about 1/10th of that.
please search for the MIRACL laser. It produced more than 1MW for 70+ seconds in 1980.
You know this is a movie right?
Imagine if they could.... to quote chris... "this is not good"
Omgosh i love this movie.
Real Genius was on OTA TV in s hospital, as I came out of a 3-4 day induced coma after freaking brain surgery.
I was laughing so hard, a doctor came in to check that I was okay. He laughed when he saw what I was laughing about.
Val Kilmer - you are a treasure. I hope you're hanging in here. 🌎
👍😎❤
Mega inspiring
The best